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Wait a minute; we shall soon come to the Annia Faustina." Jeanne made no objection, but smiled softly upon the Cleopatra, the Umbrian 'as', and the fair huntress. Little by little her father's enthusiasm expanded over the vast collection of treasures. He took out his pocketbook and began to make notes.
Besides these, he has some large medals of the greatest rarity; the Marcus Aurelius with his son on the reverse side, Theodora bearing the globe, and above all the Annia Faustina with Heliogabalus on the reverse side, an incomparable treasure, of which there is only one other example, and that an imperfect one, in the world a marvel which I would give a day of my life to see; yes, my dear, a day of my life!"
"There is a later train at ten minutes to eight, father," said Jeanne. "Well, dear, do you care to try your luck again, and return to the assault of that Annia Faustina?" "As you please, father." We left the inn together by the by-road down the hill. I could not believe my eyes. This old man with refined features who walked on my left, leaning on his malacca cane, was M. Charnot.
And yet as a fresh corroboration of what I am trying to say how fearfully has that noble gift to man been abused for the same end as a hundred other vegetable products, ever since those mythic days when Dionusos brought the vine from the far East, amid troops of human Maenads and half-human Satyrs; and the Bacchae tore Pentheus in pieces on Cithaeron, for daring to intrude upon their sacred rites; and since those historic days, too, when, less than two hundred years before the Christian era, the Bacchic rites spread from Southern Italy into Etruria, and thence to the matrons of Rome; and under the guidance of Poenia Annia, a Campanian lady, took at last shapes of which no man must speak, but which had to be put down with terrible but just severity, by the Consuls and the Senate.
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name. He advanced Marcus to equestrian rank when six years of age, and at the age of eight made him a member of the ancient Salian priesthood. The boy's aunt, Annia Galeria Faustina, was married to Antoninus Pius, afterwards emperor.
"There is a later train at ten minutes to eight, father," said Jeanne. "Well, dear, do you care to try your luck again, and return to the assault of that Annia Faustina?" "As you please, father." We left the inn together by the by-road down the hill. I could not believe my eyes. This old man with refined features who walked on my left, leaning on his malacca cane, was M. Charnot.
Wait a minute; we shall soon come to the Annia Faustina." Jeanne made no objection, but smiled softly upon the Cleopatra, the Umbrian 'as', and the fair huntress. Little by little her father's enthusiasm expanded over the vast collection of treasures. He took out his pocketbook and began to make notes.
"There is a later train at ten minutes to eight, father," said Jeanne. "Well, dear, do you care to try your luck again, and return to the assault of that Annia Faustina?" "As you please, father." We left the inn together by the by-road down the hill. I could not believe my eyes. This old man with refined features who walked on my left, leaning on his malacca cane, was M. Charnot.
Wait a minute; we shall soon come to the Annia Faustina." Jeanne made no objection, but smiled softly upon the Cleopatra, the Umbrian 'as', and the fair huntress. Little by little her father's enthusiasm expanded over the vast collection of treasures. He took out his pocketbook and began to make notes.
In this compartment or division, the visitor should also remark several sepulchral urns with figures in relief. Amid other sepulchral monuments are, an altar inscribed by Annia Augustalis, to the manes of M. Clodius, his brother Felix, and to Tyrannus; and a bas-relief discovered near the mausoleum of Augustus, representing a Muse standing before a dramatic poet.
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