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It was already dusk when we came into the market.
We saw a quantity of things for sale, of no great value, though the twilight very
easily cast a veil over their shaky reputations. So for our part we stole a cloak
and carried it off, and seized the opportunity of displaying the extreme edge of it
in one corner of[p. 17] the market, hoping that the bright colour might
attract a purchaser. In a little while a countryman, whom I knew by sight, came up
with a girl, and began to examine the cloak narrowly. Ascyltos in turn cast a glance
at the shoulders of our country customer,1 and was suddenly
struck dumb with astonishment. I could not look upon the man myself without a stir,
for he was the person, I thought, who had found the shirt in the lonely spot where
we lost it. He was certainly the very man. But as Ascyltos was afraid to trust his
eyes for fear of doing something rash, he first came up close as if he were a
purchaser, and pulled the shirt off the countryman's shoulders, and then felt it
carefully.
1 The rustic was carrying a shirt (tunica) hung over his shoulders.
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