midnight
What educated man is there that does ? Perhaps we would , if we led the simple lives our fathers did , and that woman lives . Enough of this ! I must be over letters to Cæsar at Ravenna till midnight : and then at morn off to gallop till our horses are foundered . '' Mamercus Guards the Door Agias left Phaon in the clutches of the landlord and his subordinates and was reasonably certain that since the freedman had not a farthing left with which to bribe his keepers , he was out of harm 's way for the time being . The moon was risen , and guided by its light the young slave flew on toward Præneste without incident .