text:  Accompanied by the faithful Satyrus and by Clinias a kinsman and confident of Clitophon who generously volunteers to share their adventures they accordingly set sail for Egypt; and the two gentlemen having struck up an acquaintance with a fellow passenger a young Alexandrian named Menelaus beguile the voyage by discussing with their new friend the all-engrossing subject of love the remarks on which at last take so antiplatonic a tone that we can only hope Leucippe was out of hearing