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I think the result will be a postponement of the elections. The tribunician candidates have taken an oath to conduct their canvass according to the direction of Cato. They have deposited with him 500 sestertia apiece, on condition that whoever Cato condemns should forfeit it, and that it should be paid over to his competitors. I write this the day before the elections are to take place.
'If you give me three to one, I will not take the odds, said Lepidus: 'Lydon will never come to the swords. You are mighty courteous. 'What say you, Glaucus? said Clodius. 'I will take the odds three to one. 'Ten sestertia to thirty. 'Yes. Clodius wrote the bet in his book. 'Pardon me, noble sponsor mine, said Lydon, in a low voice to Glaucus: 'but how much think you the victor will gain?
Therefore the young man's surprise was so much the greater when he saw a man's ugly, pock-marked face thrust out between the curtains, and instantly recognised Ævius, the base parasite, who was ready for half a sestertia to compose a panegyric upon the last gladiator, and had prepared for Carinus Cæsar's greyhound a genealogy, according to which, on the mother's side, it had descended directly from the she-wolf that suckled the twin brothers Romulus and Remus.
"Freedom and ten sestertia to the one who strikes Drusus down," called Dumnorix, feeling that at last the game was in his hands. About $400. But Mamercus had made of his young patron an apt pupil.
"Now, gentlemen, what may I say? A thousand sestertia to begin with? Oh! don't laugh, I expect more than that. What! Fifty? You are joking, my friend. However, the acorn grows into the oak, doesn't it? and I am told that you can stop the sources of the Tiber with your hat; so I'll start with fifty. Fifty a hundred. Come, bid up, gentlemen, or we shall never get home to supper.
Not so harmless was Lydon's retaliation; he quickly sprang to his feet, and aimed his cestus full on the broad chest of his antagonist. Tetraides reeled the populace shouted. "You are unlucky to-day," said Lepidus to Clodius: "you have lost one bet; you will lose another." "By the gods! my bronzes go to the auctioneer if that is the case. I have no less than a hundred sestertia upon Tetraides.
I am told that his factor, Saturius, has orders to go up to a thousand sestertia if need be," and he nodded towards a quiet man dressed in a robe of some rich, dark stuff, who stood in a corner of the place watching the company. "A thousand sestertia! For one slave girl! Ye gods! a thousand sestertia!" "The necklace goes with her, that is worth something, and there is property at Tyre."
'Never fear, we'll fill the purse, my Hector, said Clodius: 'let me see you fight against Niger? Glaucus, a bet I back Niger. 'I told you so, cried Niger exultingly. 'The noble Clodius knows me; count yourself dead already, my Sporus. Clodius took out his tablet. 'A bet ten sestertia. What say you? 'So be it, said Glaucus. 'But whom have we here?
I'll call myself Lælius and you Atticus, but I will use neither my own handwriting nor seal, if the letter happens to be such as I should not wish to fall into the hands of a stranger. Diodotus is dead; he has left me perhaps 1,000 sestertia. Bibulus has postponed the elections to the 18th of October, in an edict expressed in the vein of Archilochus.
Now a more important contest was to come, rousing interest not only in the herd, but in exquisites; during this contest young patricians made enormous bets at times, often losing all they owned. Straightway from hand to hand went tablets on which were written names of favorites, and also the number of sestertia which each man wagered on his favorite.
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