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"Oh, I'm glad you came. I haven't been entertained like this since I was made Emperor. Go on!" When she uttered the word Fagutal and told of her visit to the rookery he had another fit of laughter and exhausted himself with mirth. When she narrated the repeated failures of the champions she had suborned and Almo's uniform success, Commodus was in ecstasy. "He's the boy for my money," he cried.
Brinnaria was a hot-blooded Latin and the pulses of her heart were earthquakes of fire. The Romans were a ferocious and sanguinary stock. Even among the most delicately nurtured women love turned quickly into hate and solicitude might in a brief time give place to the thirst for vengeance. Brinnaria struggled with herself for some days. Then she bade her coachman drive her to the Fagutal.
According to stipulation the messenger from the tenements on the Fagutal was a decently clad woman of inconspicuously respectable appearance. She came after an interval of about ten days. She was apologetic. Their first champion had perished. Twice more she brought the same message. Then Brinnaria ventured a second visit to the unsavory locality. She was sarcastic. The chief was abashed.
The census showed that the city and suburbs contained eighty-three thousand inhabitants. In earlier times they had been: Palatinus, Cermalus, Velia, Fagutal, Oppius, Cispius, and Coelius. The inhabitants within the walls were divided into four "regions" or districts the Palatine, the Colline, the Esquiline, and the Suburran.
From house-door to house-door the streets were packed with crowds eager to see her pass and loud to acclaim her. Through cheers, good wishes, loud jokes, merry longs and cries of "Talassio! Talassio!" she passed along the upper part of the Fagutal, and past the flank of the Baths of Titus to the Carinae.
What was more, not one of their neighbors would impart any information about them. . Brinnaria's curiosity was aroused. She bethought herself of Truttidius, the sieve-maker, and of his intimate knowledge of all the dens and lairs in the city. She asked him. He laughed. "On the Fagutal?" he made sure, "at the second corner beyond the end of the Subura?" He laughed again.
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