Antipater backed away, threatening with his lance.

He shouted to his trumpeter, his troop being hard by, and quickly a call sounded.

Then spur went to flank, and the followers of the Jew passed in a quick rush and went thundering off, Antipater at the head of their column.

He rode to Athens in ill humor and was at Piraeus three hours in advance of Arria and Appius.
The sun had set and the sea lay calm in a purple dusk.

He went aboard his trireme at once and called his pilot to him.
"Go find the vessel waiting here for one Appius of Rome," he commanded.
"It is she that lies near us," said the other.
"And you know her pilot ?" "Ay, 'tis Tepas the Idumaean.