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Call me 'man of letters' if you will; to-night the dogs tear that soft skin of yours, while my hide is sound. Now off for the Porta Esquilina! Trot along with you!" and he swung his lash over the wretched boy's shoulders. Agias was led out into the street. He was too pained and numbed to groan, resist, or even think and fear.
"Take this wretched boy," cried Valeria, spurning Agias with her foot; "take him away. Make an example of him. Take him out beyond the Porta Esquilina and whip him to death. Let me never see him again." Pisander sprang up in his corner, quivering with righteous wrath. "What is this?" he cried. "The lad is not guilty of any real crime.
And it was with eyes a-sparkle with enthusiasm, and a light heart, that he reached the Porta Esquilina, left the carriage for a litter borne by four stout Syrians sent out from the house of his late uncle, and was carried soon into the hubbub of the city streets.
Let us go to the shop on the Clivus Suburanus; there used to be a good woollen merchant, Lucius Marius, on the way to the Porta Esquilina." Accordingly the two went on in the direction indicated; but at the spot where the Clivus Suburanus was cut by the Vicus Longus, there was so dense a crowd and so loud a hubbub, that their attendants could not clear a way.
I will go to Marcellus the consul, and demand that troops be started to Præneste to-night. But you must go after Phaon." "You will send word to Cornelia?" requested Agias. "Yes," said Fabia, "but not now; it is useless. Here is an order on Gallus, who keeps a livery-stable by the Porta Esquilina. He will give you my new white Numidian, that I keep with him. Ride as you have never ridden before.
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