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''In Athens. An open place surrounded by colonnades. In the square, statues and a fountain. A narrow street debouches in the left-hand corner. Sunset.''

'', a delicately-built young man, sits reading beside a pillar. and other scholars of the University stroll in scattered groups up and down the colonnades. A larger band runs shouting across the square, and out to the right; noise in the distance.''

[Looks up from his book.] What mean these wild cries?

A ship has come in from Ephesus.

With new scholars?

Yes.

[Rising.] Then we shall have a night of tumult. Come, Gregory; let us not witness all this unseemliness.