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Updated: May 7, 2025
With these words the anchorite's final speech was interrupted by Eulaeus, who had come in to the Pastophorium softly and unobserved, and who now bowed respectfully to Publius. "May I be permitted to enquire on what compact one of the noblest of the sons of Rome is joining hands with this singular personage?"
"Was she alone? She was. "By which gate did the epistolographer Eulaeus depart? By the east. "Was he alone? He was. "Did any one here present meet the chariot either of the lady or of Eulaeus?" "I did," cried a car-driver, whose daily duty it was to go to Memphis with his oxen and cart to fetch provisions for the kitchen, and other necessaries. "Speak," said the high-priest.
"But, my lord," replied Eulaeus dryly and with a certain matter-of-fact gravity to King Euergetes for he it was who had come with him into the room adjoining Klea's retreat, "the dry little Egyptian with the thin straight hair is even more trustworthy and tougher and nimbler than his companion, and, so far, more estimable.
You have been talking with Eulaeus to-day; Eulaeus, who fears and hates Publius, and it seems to me that you have hatched some conspiracy against him; but if you dare to cast a single stone in his path, to touch a single hair of his head, I will show you that even a weak woman can be terrible. Nemesis and the Erinnyes from Alecto to Megaera, the most terrible of all the gods, are women!"
At least give him the opportunity of softening your indignation by bringing the water-bearer here without angering Asclepiodorus. Carry out this affair well, Eulaeus, and you will find in me an advocate with Cleopatra." The king pointed to the door, and Eulaeus retired, bowing deeply and finding his way out backwards.
While Klea had been listening to the conversation between Euergetes and Eulaeus, Cleopatra had been sitting in her tent, and allowing herself to be dressed with no less care than on the preceding evening, but in other garments. It would seem that all had not gone so smoothly as she wished during the day, for her two tire-women had red eyes.
Those who were thus dismissed withdrew, only the king's dresser, a Macedonian of rank, paused doubtfully at the door, but Euergetes signed to him to retire immediately, calling after him: "I am very merry and shall not go to bed. At three hours after sunrise I expect Aristarchus and for work too. Put out the manuscripts that I brought. Is the Eunuch Eulaeus waiting in the anteroom?
"Thanks, many thanks!" cried Serapion, beckoning to Irene, and he gave her a golden-yellow cake of wheaten bread, half of the roast bird, already divided by Eulaeus, and two peaches, and whispered to her: "Klea may come for the rest herself when these men are gone. Now thank this kind gentleman and go."
But he had not crossed the room when Eulaeus rushed in, as pale as death, and calling out to his sovereign: "The murderers have betrayed us; Publius Scipio is alive, and insists on being admitted to speak with you."
"And does carry them out," answered Eulaeus with deference, but his eyes twinkled as the forked tongue of a serpent is rapidly put out and still more rapidly withdrawn with a flash first of threatening hatred, and then another of deep suspicion cast at the roll the Roman held in his hand.
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