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"Let us talk calmly," said Petronius. "Steel is stronger, as thou seest, than iron; hence, though out of one of thy arms two as large as mine might be made, I have no need to fear thee. On the contrary, I grieve over thy rudeness, and if the ingratitude of men could astonish me yet, I should be astonished at thy ingratitude." "Where is Lygia?" "In a brothel, that is, in the house of Cæsar."
Vinicius began to walk with quick steps. Petronius looked for some time at him, and said at last, "Tell me sincerely, not as a mad head, who talks something into his brain and excites himself, but as a man of judgment who is answering a friend: Art thou concerned as much as ever about this Lygia?"
"Sir, I did, but between whiles managed to do fairly well in the Tripos, to finish a new and original translation of Quintilian, another of Petronius Arbiter and also a literal rendering into the English of the Memoirs of the Sieur de Brantome." "For none of which you have hitherto found a publisher?" inquired Mr. Grainger.
The society in which the child was thenceforward reared is known to readers of Brantome as well as that of Imperial Rome at its worst is known to readers of Suetonius or Petronius as well as that of papal Rome at its worst is known to readers of the diary kept by the domestic chaplain of Pope Alexander VI. Only in their pages can a parallel be found to the gay and easy record which reveals, without sign of shame or suspicion of offence, the daily life of a court compared to which the court of King Charles II is as the court of Queen Victoria to the society described by Grammont.
Petronius, who understood this, wondered at the passionate resistance of the girl; but he was too deeply versed in human nature not to know that love alone could call forth such resistance. "Dost thou love some one in this house?" asked he. She raised her blue, tearful eyes to him, and answered, in a voice so low that it was hardly possible to hear her, "Yes, lord."
I therefore charge you, that you do not, for the time to come, seek for any occasion of sedition or disturbance, but that every one be allowed to follow their own religious customs." Thus did Petronius take care of this matter, that such a breach of the law might be corrected, and that no such thing might be attempted afterwards against the Jews.
Petronius shows us a state of morals at which a commonplace devil would blush, in the midst of a society more intellectually cultivated than certainly was that which produced Regulus or the Horatii. And the most learned eras in modern Italy were precisely those which brought the vices into the most ghastly refinement."
The arbiter's words produced the usual deep impression on Nero; but Petronius was not deceived as to this, that what he had said was a desperate means which in a fortunate event might save the Christians, it is true, but might still more easily destroy himself. He had not hesitated, however, for it was a question at once of Vinicius whom he loved, and of hazard with which he amused himself.
You think you know something of Fifth Avenue. What do you know of the killing the Girl in Green, or of Colt and the William Street printer, the Suicides of No. But I was growing weary of the voice of the old impostor. "Ever hear of Conan Doyle?" I asked. "Now come to think of it, a drummer from Altoona left a paper copy of one of his books the last trip." A Post-Knickerbocker Petronius
They testify to the powerful impression which the hero of the Huns made on the memory and imagination of the different nations. GENSERIC. Attila did not see Rome; but Genseric, his ally, visited it with fire and sword . The emperor was Petronius Maximus, a senator, who had slain Valentinian III. as the penalty for a mortal offense.
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