They had to climb up again, and there they fell again.
They experienced terrible fatigue, which made them feel as if all their limbs had been dissolved in the water while swimming.

Their eyes closed; they were in the agonies of death.
Spendius struck his hand against the bars of a grating.

They shook it, it gave way, and they found themselves on the steps of a staircase.

A door of bronze closed it above.

With the point of a dagger they moved the bar, which was opened from without, and suddenly the pure open air surrounded them.
The night was filled with silence, and the sky seemed at an extraordinary height.