noon
`` A dim speck on the farthest horizon , if mine eyes mistake not . '' `` The speck of a sail that is bound to Sparta , It carries with it a request for thy recall . '' This time the cheek of Pausanias paled , and his voice slightly faltered as he said , `` Art thou sure of this ? '' `` So I hear that the Samian captain , Uliades , has boasted at noon in the public baths . '' `` A Samian ! -- is it only a Samian who hath ventured to address to Sparta a complaint of her General ? '' `` From what I could gather , '' replied Gongylus , `` the complaint is more powerfully backed .