He bade his wife farewell, who clung to him as they were about to part with a gloomy presentiment that they should never meet again.

Two centurions who were to accompany Pompey, and two servants, descended into the boat.

Pompey himself followed, and then the boatmen pushed off from the galley and made toward the shore.

The decks of all the vessels in Pompey's little squadron, as well as those of the Egyptian fleet, were crowded with spectators, and lines of soldiery and groups of men, all intently watching the operations of the landing, were scattered along the shore.
[Sidenote: The assassins.] [Sidenote: Gloomy silence.] Among the men whom Achillas had provided to aid him in the assassination was an offieer of the Roman army who had formerly served under Pompey.
As soon as Pompey was seated in the boat, he recognized the countenance of this man, and addressed him, saying, "I think I remember you as having been in former days my fellow-soldier." The man replied merely by a nod of assent.

Feeling somewhat guilty and self-condemned at the thoughts of the treachery which he was about to perpetrate, he was little inclined to renew the recollection of the days when he was Pompey's friend.