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Opening on this garden was a large dining room with beautiful wall paintings, a tiny kitchen, and some sleeping rooms. This house had stairways and second story rooms over the shops. This seems to us a very comfortable homelike house. Here you see the shallow basin in the floor of the atrium. This basin had two outlets. You can see the round cistern mouth near the pool.
The purse filled with great aurei seemed to him much easier of acquisition through the aid of Croton. Hence he sat down in good spirits at the table to which, after a time, he was called by the chief of the atrium. While eating, he told the slaves that he had obtained for their master a miraculous ointment. The worst horse, if rubbed on the hoofs with it, would leave every other far behind.
The door was opened at once, and he ran forward into the atrium, which was filled with frightened slaves, who burst into cries of terror as, followed by his men, he entered. "Where are you, Cneius?" Beric shouted. "I am here," the scribe replied from his cubicule, "I will be with you in a moment; it is but a minute since we were awoke by the uproar." "Be quick!"
The atrium was tiny, the courtyard was tiny, everything was tiny. But it all had an air which put us at our ease and made us feel at home.
"Most certainly. I shall make a nearer acquaintance with this stoic; meanwhile I must give command to perfume the atrium." But Chilo Chilonides, wrapping his new mantle about him, threw up on his palm, under its folds, the purse received from Vinicius, and admired both its weight and its jingle.
After her death I will confess that I am a Christian and follow her." "Then thou hast no hope?" "On the contrary, I have. Christ will give her to me, and I shall never be separated from her." Petronius began to walk in the atrium; disillusion and impatience were evident on his face. Vinicius smiled sadly, and said, "No, my dear, thou art unwilling to understand." "I am unwilling and unable.
"In the name of Him Who died before mine eyes, take her in Thy keeping, O God!" he murmured fervently. Then without another glance on her, he fled precipitately from the room. "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." Without looking to right or left he strode across the atrium.
While Paullus was yet conversing in an under tone with this strange girl, and becoming every moment more and more fascinated by the whole tone of her remarks, which were free, and even bold, as contrasted with the bashful air and timid glances which accompanied them, the curtains of the Tablinum were drawn apart, and a soft symphony of flutes stealing in from the atrium, announced that the dinner was prepared.
Lutorius, who had a warm personal affection for Brinnaria, had been hovering about her, as it were, for some days, and on this last full day of her service he kept, so to speak, fluttering in and out of the Atrium, repeatedly returning to confer about some trifle or other which he had forgotten. So it happened that he was approaching the portal as she came out for her afternoon airing.
For in addition to my illness and the circumstances I have described, I suffered from the proximity of Talponius Pulto, my only enemy among my acquaintances in the City. I had seen him once already that morning, in the Vedian atrium, where he had stood beside Vedius Vedianus, towering over his diminutive host, for he was a very tall man.
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