Xanthippe, having said this to Polyxena, and having made a cross of wood, went to Paul, but Polyxena remained alone in the bed-chamber, her nurse having gone together with Xanthippe.
2And about the middle of the night, a certain man, powerful in wealth and assistance, finding the doors open and using magical arts, entered within, desiring to carry away Polyxena.
3She discovering this fled into the mill, but the magicians led by the demons found her.
4And she, not finding any door to escape by, said, Alas that I am given over to this destroyer; for she had heard that he was at enmity with her suitor, and he did this to assail and vex him, being a man who was a robber and exceeding cruel.
5Therefore seizing her they went out of the city, dragging her to the sea.
6She looked round this way and that, but there was none to deliver her, and groaning she said, Alas, my sister Xanthippe, you sent seven hundred pieces of gold to Rome and buy books, that through them you might prophesy by me; for this evening you read, I looked to my right hand and beheld, but there was no one that knew me; flight perished from me and there is no one that seeks out my soul.