said to the other, that there had been taken within the city an unknown young man who must have found a gold-hoard of their forefathers, and so brought thither very old money which had been struck in former days, and made use of in the times of the elder Emperors; and then there was gathered a wonderfully great crowd, and all men gazed upon him alone, where he stood bound in their midst, and vociferating on all sides every man said to the others, " This is some foreign man of some other country ; we know nothing of him, and none of us ever saw him before with our [lit. his] eyes." And he, Malchus, heard all these words, and ever was his uneasiness waxing, and he ever endeavoured at least thus zealously to please the people with his humility, that they might pity him for his entire humility; because he knew not, neither could find any argument, nor knew he to whom he should speak a word. Then every man separately beheld him, and no man could recognise him; and as he stood there sad and silent in the great astonishment of his mind; it suddenly occurred to his thoughts that he had very great confidence that his relatives still lived in the city, and his illustrious kindred which he had there within it were very well known by name to all the people; and it seemed to him strange that he was certain of this, that he thus knew every man in the evening and every man knew him, and afterwards in the morning he knew no one, nor no man him. No third thing besides he supposed concerning himself, save that it was as if he were out of his mind; and he then, with that thought, looked on the people on every side, earnestly desiring to recognise some man, either brother or kinsman, or some one of those who formerly were known to him about the city. He was not at all the better for that which he eagerly observed; he could not see any one there
