"I don't know."
"To your house?"
"Impossible. I live at Antioch."
"And as for me, I only arrived in this city this morning. What, then, are we to do?"
"Wait a moment; I saw just now in a lane near this the temple of Priapus open. Let us go there!"
Phyllis led him on hastily, laughing. The companions of Agamemnon desired to follow him, but he said to them—
"It is unnecessary—remain here."
"Be careful! At any rate take a weapon, the quarter is dangerous..." and drawing from under his dress a dagger with a jewelled hilt, one of the friends of Agamemnon respectfully tendered it to him.
Groping at every step into thick darkness, Agamemnon and Phyllis made their way up a narrow passage out of the market-place.
"Here! here it is! Fear nothing—go in!"