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In half an hour he came out, and, having given command to bring verbena, he inhaled the perfume and rubbed his hands and temples with it. "Thou wilt not believe," said he, "how it enlivens and freshens one. Now I am ready." The litter was waiting long since; hence they took their places, and Petronius gave command to bear them to the Vicus Patricius, to the house of Aulus.
THEY went through the Vicus Patricius, along the Viminal to the former Viminal gate, near the plain on which Diocletian afterward built splendid baths.
ON the evening of that day Vinicius, while returning home through the Forum, saw at the entrance to the Vicus Tuscus the gilded litter of Petronius, carried by eight stalwart Bithynians, and, stopping it with a sign of his hand, he approached the curtains. "Thou hast had a pleasant dream, I trust, and a happy one!" cried he, laughing at sight of the slumbering Petronius.
Hoc enim praelio tot homines genere, factisque clari desiderati sunt, quot vix ullus adversus exteros conflictus per multos annos absumpsisse memoratur. Itaque vicus ante obscurus ex eo ad posteritatem nobilitatus est." Rerum Scotorum Historia, Lib. x. For a more detailed account, the reader is referred to Skene's Celtic Scotland, Robertson's Scotland under her Early Kings, and Mr.
Petronius's "insula" lay on the southern slope of the Palatine, near the so-called Carinæ; their nearest way, therefore, was below the Forum; but since Petronius wished to step in on the way to see the jeweller Idomeneus, he gave the direction to carry them along the Vicus Apollinis and the Forum in the direction of the Vicus Sceleratus, on the corner of which were many tabernæ of every kind.
On down the Vicus Tuscus we went into the meat market, where he bought four plump, young, white hens. As we started on with them, each of us carrying two, he asked his first question. "What building is that?" nodding. "The Temple of Hercules," I told him. "I thought so," he said, "they always build his circular. We'll stop in there on our way back. I never miss a chance to ask his help."
Then recollecting that at his advice Lygia might have gone to the house of Aulus, he inquired, "But the Vicus Patricius?" "On fire!" replied Junius. "The Trans-Tiber?" Junius looked at him with amazement. "Never mind the Trans-Tiber," said he, pressing his aching temples with his palms. "The Trans-Tiber is more important to me than all other parts of Rome," cried Vinicius, with vehemence.
At the south end of it an opening in the pavement shows a part of the Cloaca Maxima, with the sewerage passing through it underneath. The ancient street between the Basilica Julia and the Temple of Castor and Pollux, is undoubtedly the famous Vicus Tuscus, so called after the Etruscan soldiers who belonged to the army of Porsenna, and, being defeated at Ariccia, took refuge in this part of Rome.
The upper course of this stream, between Esquiline and Quirinal, is a densely populated quarter known as the Argiletum, and higher up as the Subura, where artisans and shops abounded. The lower part of its course, where it has become an invisible drain, is also a crowded street, the vicus Tuscus, leading to the Velabrum, and so to our starting-point at the Forum Boarium.
"If you cut one another's throats now," interposed the praefect curtly, "'twill be in the presence of Dea Flavia herself." Even whilst he spoke a litter gorgeously carved and gilded, draped in rose pink and gold, was seen slowly winding its way from the rear of the basilica and along the Vicus Tuscus, towards the Forum.
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