Such were the terms of the peace. The wall
was forthwith torn down, and we prisoners-of-war
were surrendered. On our return to the Moon


 



our comrades and Endymion himself came out
to meet us, and embraced us with tears; and he
asked me to stay there and join his colony, promising to give me his own child in marriage. However, I by no means listened to him, but begged
him to convey me down into the sea again; and
when he saw it was impossible to move me he
sent us off after feasting us for seven days.