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Since I was not allowed to go yonder, I set out towards Brundisium before the day for carrying the bill had come, both to prevent Sica, in whose house I was staying, from being ruined, and because I was prevented from residing at Malta. So now make haste to catch me up, if only I shall find any welcome there. At present I receive kind invitations. But about the rest of my journey I am nervous.

Here he remembered that he had represented himself to Ursus on the way as a Christian, and stopped. "Were it not for the 'sica, which I brought, he would have slain me," said Vinicius. "I bless the moment in which I advised thee to take a knife even." Vinicius turned an inquiring glance on the Greek, and asked, "What hast thou done to-day?" "How?

Si modò victor eras, ad crastina bella pauebas, If this day thou wert conqueror, the next daies warre thou dredst, Si modò victus eras, in crastina bella parabas, If this day thou wert conquered, to next daies war thou spedst, Cui vestes sudore iugi, cui sica cruore, Whose clothing wet with dailie swet, whose blade with bloudie stainte, Tincta iugi, quantum sit onus regnare probârunt, Do proue how great a burthen tis in roialtie to raine, Non fuit immensi quisquam per climata mundi, There hath not beene in anie part of all the world so wide, Cui tot in aduersis vel respirare liceret, One that was able breath to take, and troubles such abide, Nec tamen aut ferro contritus ponere ferrum, And yet with weapons wearie would not weapons lay aside, Aut gladio potuit vitæ finisse labores: Or with the sword the toilesomnesse of life by death diuide.

"That can never be." Weel, ye'll not be asking me whether what he said has come true or nicht. But I don't mind tellin' ye the man was no sica fool as I thocht him! Eh, noo here's what I'm thinking. Here am I, Harry Lauder. For ane reason or anither, I can do something that others do not do, whether or no they can as to that I ken nothing.

He does not, he says, consult Atticus on that matter, nor on the architecture, for he has already settled on the design of one Cluatius. What he wants Atticus to do for him now is to assist him in buying the spot on which it shall be built. Many gardens near Rome are named. If Drusus makes a difficulty, Atticus must see Damasippus. Then there are those which belong to Sica and to Silius!

A similar connexion of meaning may be found in the Greek word 'belos, which corresponds to our 'telum, and which is derived from 'ballesthai, to throw, as we learn from Xenophon, who writes, 'they carried with them 'belei, namely spears, bows and arrows, slings, and large numbers of stones. 'Sicarius, or assassin, is derived from 'sica, a long steel knife.

He wandered from place to place sheltered by friends whose unselfish loyalty marks their names with honour in that false and evil generation Sica, and Flaccus, and Plancius bemoaning himself like a woman, "too blinded with tears to write", "loathing the light of day". Atticus thought he was going mad.

And yet I, who encourage you, cannot encourage myself. I have sent that faithful fellow Clodius Philhetærus home, because he was hampered with weakness of the eyes. Sallustius seems likely to outdo everybody in his attentions. Pescennius is exceedingly kind to me; and I have hopes that he will always be attentive to you. Sica had said that he would accompany me; but he has left Brundisium.