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To begin the spectacle, they were waiting now only for Cæsar, who, unwilling to expose the people to over-long waiting, and wishing to win them by promptness, came soon, in company with the Augusta and Augustians. Petronius arrived among the Augustians, having Vinicius in his litter.
Octavius first laid hold of the bridle of the horse, and, after him, Petronius, one of the tribunes, and then the rest got round the horse of Crassus, endeavouring to stop it, and dragging away those who pressed close upon Crassus on each side.
"Let Him give me some sign that will heal Rufius." Petronius shrugged his shoulders. "I have not come as His envoy; O divinity, I merely say to thee, Be on better terms with all the gods, Roman and foreign." "I will go!" said Poppæa, with a broken voice. Petronius drew a deep breath. "At last I have done something," thought he, and returning to Vinicius he said to him,
"But what is this, Niger?" asked he; "are ye commanded to watch the prison?" "Yes, noble Petronius. The prefect feared lest they might try to rescue the incendiaries." "Have ye the order to admit no one?" inquired Vinicius. "We have not; acquaintances will visit the prisoners, and in that way we shall seize more Christians."
And casting aside his toga, he ran into the atrium. Vinicius was sitting on a stool; his head bent almost to his knees with his hands on his head; but at the sound of steps he raised his stony face, in which the eyes alone had a feverish brightness. "Thou wert late?" asked Petronius. "Yes; they seized her before midday." A moment of silence followed. "Hast thou seen her?" "Yes." "Where is she?"
"All the better for thee and Lygia," answered Petronius; then, shrugging his shoulders, he said, as if to himself, "But it is astonishing how skilled those people are in gaining adherents, and how that sect is extending."
Innumerable great and small movements, internal and external, co-operate with us, for the most part unperceived by us. And I have already said that when one leaves a room there are such and such reasons determining us to put the one foot first, without pausing to reflect. For there is not everywhere a slave, as in Trimalchio's house in Petronius, to cry to us: the right foot first.
"It might be more than interesting, don't you think, to be minister to the pleasures of a modern plutocrat with a large P? Only they say that Manderson's were exclusively of an innocent kind. Certainly Marlowe gives me the impression that he would be weak in the part of Petronius. But to return to the matter in hand." He looked at his notes.
Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in the face of decency in their ideas as well as in the words they used, and they dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy without fault in this respect? Her story-tellers in prose lie open to easy accusation.
She, in a transparent violet robe called "Coa vestis," through which her maiden-like form appeared, was really as beautiful as a goddess. Feeling herself admired meanwhile, and loving him with all her soul, ever eager for his fondling, she blushed with delight as if she had been an innocent maiden. "What wilt thou say to me, Charis?" asked Petronius, stretching his hands to her.
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