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I canvassed every possible messenger, from my personal servitor here in the Choragium, through all the slaves I knew here or in the Colosseum who are free to run about the city, up to every sort of street-gamin, idler, loafer, sycophant and what not. I could not think of any kind of messenger who would be safe, nor of any letter which would not be dangerous.
Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio
Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Then he would turn to his roaster, and work it violently for a few moments, then be off to the curbstone or crossing, exchanging some, probably not very choice, joke with some other street-gamin, or the conductor or driver of a passing street-car. The children, Allie and Daisy, made their investments while I was taking these observations, and Bessie was purchasing cut-flowers from the old German.
Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews - Uncle Rutherford's Nieces
A Story for Girls
So still that the shrill voice of a street-gamin, a boy from the Via Sacra, was audible throughout the vast enclosure from gallery to gallery. He yelled in his cutting falsetto: "Good for you, Sis!" But his neighbors silenced him at once and not even any other ragamuffin lifted his voice. The audience were startled mute.
Edward Lucas White - The Unwilling Vestal
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