[The soldiers force the multitude back towards the houses. Old Publia faints in the arms of the women on the left. All gaze expectantly down the street.

Phocion.

[In a knot of people behind the guard, to the right.] Yes, by the Sun-God, there he comes, the blessed Emperor!

A Soldier.

Do not push so, behind there!

Phocion.

Can you see him? The man with the white fillet round his brow, that is the Emperor.

A Citizen.

The man all in white?

Phocion.