The Roman
“When he had finished, I reprimanded him sternly for his conduct but did not attempt to solve the tortoise riddle for him, For I was not in a mood even to be capable of it. Finally I let him take my luggage on his back, settled my bill at the inn and left Athens without saying farewell to anyone, and in such a hurry that I forgot at the wash two tunics which I never saw again. We left Piraeus in such a state of despondency that it took us three days to do a stretch I could have done alone in a s...ingle day. We stayed overnight in Eleusis and Megara. The men, however, cheered up so much that they were singing noisily when we eventually arrived at Corinth. I left them with the senior centurion at the barracks. Commander Rubrius received me with his gown wet with wine and a vine-leaf wreath crookedly perched on his head. He was not entirely clear who I was, for he kept asking me my name. He explained his absentmindedness away by saying he was an old man and was suffering from the aftereffects of a skull injury received in Pannonia, and was now just waiting to be pensioned off.MoreLess
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