Do no such thing.... They are listening to the voice and will not perceive her presence, whereas the sight and sound of your arms.... Listen, listen to what he is saying: it is rather singular....
The Voice
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you!...
(At that moment, cries, at first scattered, rise among the invisible crowd behind the hedge. A few words are distinguishable: “It Is the Roman woman! The Roman woman!... The adulteress!... Shame!... Shame! Shame!... Magdalene!... The strumpet!... Drive her away, drive her away!...” Immediately afterwards, these cries are lost in a violent and formidable shout of reprobation, in which only a few resounding words are, with difficulty, perceived: “Shame! Shame!... Stone her! Stone her!... Death! Death!... Stone her!” etc. All this is accompanied by a noise of flight, of hurrying footsteps, of sticks and pebbles clashing, of broken branches, etc.)
Silanus
They have seen her!...
Verus
But what is happening?... Is it she whom they are attacking?...
Silanus
It is what I feared.... We must take care....