2.  I should be very glad to know the object which your goodness has in view, in ordering the servants to be conveyed to the spot where they were guilty of their disorderly conduct.  If you come yourself, and exact in person the punishment due for the offence, the slaves shall be there.  What other course is possible if you have made up your mind?  Only that I do not know what further favour I shall have received, if I shall have failed to get the boys off their punishment.  But if business detain you on the way, who is to receive the fellows there?  Who is to punish them in your stead?  But if you have made up your mind to meet them yourself, and this is quite determined on, tell them to halt at Sasima, and there show the extent of your gentleness and magnanimity.  After having your assailants in your own power, and so showing them that your dignity is not to be lightly esteemed, let them go scot free, as I urged you in my former letter.  So you will confer a favour on me, and will receive the requital of your good deed from God.