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Some of the Roman senators whose advances he had received coldly enough at first, now took up his whole attention, and described to him the works of art and the paintings in the new baths of Caracalla; they advised him to offer himself as a candidate for the ornamentation of some of the unfinished rooms with frescoes, and led him to expect their support.
It would be a joy to me to show that, though I have been reckless beyond measure, I am nevertheless a grateful man." "Grateful?" repeated Caracalla, with a cruel laugh. Then he rose slowly, and looked keenly at Alexander, exclaiming: "I should almost like to try you." "And I will answer for it that you will never regret it!" Melissa put in. "Greatly as he has erred, he is worthy of your clemency."
It was erected in honor of that emperor and his two sons Caracalla and Geta in A.D. 203, to commemorate victories. It was once surmounted by a brazen chariot with six horses, on which stood Severus, crowned by Victory. The pavement of the Forum, which has been laid bare by recent diggings, lies some twenty feet lower than the level of the street which now passes at the side of the diggings.
I would rather make use of them to praise Mr. Jenkins's general kindness and hospitality to all his country-folks, who find a certain friend in him; and if they please, a very competent instructor. In order however to understand the meaning of some spherical pots observed in the Circus of Caracalla, I chose above all men to consult Mr.
Then the conversation was more serious, and Caracalla said, so loud that Melissa could hear him: "Do not forget to whom you speak. If my word is not enough, you can go back to prison." Then again she trembled for her brother; but some soft word of his mollified the fury of the terrible man, who was never the same for two minutes together.
"Assassination!" interrupted Caracalla with furious joy. "That was the only thing left undone! Bring the murderer! But first" and he addressed himself to Aristides "close the city gates and the harbor. Not a man, not a ship must be let through without being searched. The vessels that have weighed anchor since daybreak must be followed and brought back.
Alexander then begged him to consider how dangerous every excitement would be for him; yet Caracalla exclaimed, eagerly: "It will strengthen me and dome good! Everything that surrounds me is so hollow, so insipid, so contemptible what I hear is so small.
Most of those who were out and about were going in the opposite direction; they meant to await the grand reception of Caracalla at the eastern end of the city, on his way from the Kanopic Gate to the Gate of the Sun. Still, a good many men, women and children were, like themselves, walking westward, for it was known that Caesar would alight at the Serapeum.
As the high-priest ceased speaking, she laid her hand on Caesar's, and, when he looked up at her in surprise, she whispered to him, so low and so quickly that hardly any one observed it "Not Zminis; he is our mortal enemy!" Caracalla scarcely glanced at the face of the daring girl, but he saw how pale she had turned.
In the portico, a colonnade copied from the Stoa at Athens, whither a dozen or so of the philosophers had fled when attacked, he had even stabbed several with his own hand. The blood on the sword which Caracalla had dedicated to Serapis had been shed at the Museum. The Egyptian had himself led the massacre here, and had seen that it was thoroughly effectual.
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