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No, no, if only I can succeed in speaking with him alone all may yet be well," and thus thinking she rose from her seat. As she was about to quit the anteroom the art dealer, Gabinius, of Nicaea, came in, to whom Keraunus had refused to sell the mosaic in the palace, and whose daughter had been deprived by Arsinoe of the part of Roxana.
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters." When Keraunus had closed this letter with his seal he called the slave and said coldly: "Take this to the Roman architect, and then fetch two litters; make haste, and while we are out take good care of the children.
At sunrise he must appear before the Emperor as cheerful as usual, and yet he felt as if he must himself perish miserably as his happiness had done. His heart was bursting with anguish, still he neither groaned nor stirred. The night had been almost as sleepless to Keraunus' daughter Selene as it had been to the hapless slave.
His daughter sprang up and offered him the cup full of wine and water which was standing on the table; but Keraunus pushed it aside with his hands, and panted out, while he struggled for breath: "Supersede me in my place turn me out of this palace!
Mastor as soon he had given his tray to the kitchen slaves who were now busy again in the palace at Lochias returned to his lord and gave him the steward's letter. It was an ill-chosen hour for Keraunus, for the Emperor was in a gloomy mood.
Keraunus was certainly not one of the most cheerful of men, but on the morning when Sabina came to the palace and the gate-keeper was driven from his home, he had worn the aspect of a thoroughly-contented man. Since visiting Selene the day before he had given himself no farther concern about her.
First he spoke of the manifold infirmities which tormented him and endangered his life, and when Pontius, to divert his talk into other channels, was so imprudent as to allude to the Council of Citizens, Keraunus gave full play to his eloquence, and, while he emptied cup after cup of wine, tried to lay down the reasons which had made him and his friends decide on staking everything in order to deprive the members of the extensive community of Jews in the city of their rights as citizens, and to expel them, if possible, from Alexandria.
Your two young damsels know of course that my line of business leads me to admire and value all that is beautiful, but still I must request you to leave me alone with your father for a little while. I want to speak with him about this curious painting." Keraunus signed to his daughters, who immediately left the room.
"Thrown down! by whom?" asked the steward, slowly rising. "By the architect's big dog the architect who came last night from Rome, and to whom we gave that meat and salt in the middle of the night. He slept here, at Lochias." "And he set his clog on my child!" shouted Keraunus, with an angry glare. "The hound was alone in the passage when I went there." "Did it bite you?"
"Whoever comes to visit me," said the steward loftily, "must be satisfied to meet any one whom I permit to enter my house." "Nay, nay," said the slave urgently, "my master is a greater man than you think. Beg this man to leave the room." "I know, I know very well," said Keraunus with a smile. "Your master is an acquaintance of Caesar's.
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