Toxaris Were they lost, Mnesippos, or were
they saved by some miracle? I am greatly
alarmed about them. Mnesippos Be comforted. They were saved,
and they are in Athens at this moment, pursuing
philosophy. Simylos could only tell me what he
saw that night, that the one fell overboard and
the other leaped after him, and that they were
swimming together as far as they could be seen
in the night. But the sequel I learned from Euthydikos's friends. In the first place, they came
upon some of the corks and supported themselves
on these, swimming with difficulty; and later,
towards daybreak, they saw the companion and
swam to it, and, mounted on this, they swam easily the rest of the way to Zakynthos.