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Our vain human nature hugs itself in the consciousness of superior craft and self-obtained success afterwards comes the horrible reaction of remorse. But remorse was not a feeling which Arbaces was likely ever to experience for the fate of the base Calenus.
There is no profession so lucrative as that which practises on the superstition of the multitude. Calenus had but one surviving relative at Pompeii, and that was Burbo.
And to think, continued Arbaces, slowly, and very deliberately 'to think that a word of thine could save him, and consign Arbaces to his doom! 'That word shall never be spoken, said Calenus. 'Right, my Calenus! it never shall, returned Arbaces, familiarly leaning his arm on the priest's shoulder: 'and now, halt we are at the door.
The less national and less honored deities were usually served by plebeian ministers; and many embraced the profession, as now the Roman Catholic Christians enter the monastic fraternity, less from the impulse of devotion than the suggestions of a calculating poverty. Thus Calenus, the priest of Isis, was of the lowest origin. His relations, though not his parents, were freedmen.
He sought primarily to impress her with his store of unfamiliar knowledge. She, in turn, admired him for his learning, and felt grateful to him for his guardianship. Apaecides, docile and mild, with a soul peculiarly alive to religious fervour, Arbaces placed amongst the priests of Isis, and under the special care of a creature of his own, named Calenus.
XLIII. Cæsar, calling his soldiers together and telling them that Corfinius was close at hand with two legions, and that other cohorts to the number of fifteen under Calenus were encamped near Megara and Athens, asked if they would wait for them or hazard a battle by themselves.
'The gay Glaucus will be lodged to-morrow in apartments not much drier, and far less spacious than this, said Calenus, as they passed by the very spot where, completely wrapped in the shadow of the broad, projecting buttress, cowered the Thessalian. 'Ay, but then he will have dry room, and ample enough, in the arena on the following day.
'And by Isis, Pisis, and Nisis, or whatever other gods there may be in Egypt, my little Nydia is a very Hesperides a garden of gold to me. 'She sings well, and plays like a muse, returned Calenus; 'those are virtues that he who employs me always pays liberally. 'He is a god, cried Burbo, enthusiastically; 'every rich man who is generous deserves to be worshipped.
Room there for the priest Calenus! Pale, haggard, fresh from the jaws of famine and of death, his face fallen, his eyes dull as a vulture's, his broad frame gaunt as a skeleton Calenus was supported into the very row in which Arbaces sat. His releasers had given him sparingly of food; but the chief sustenance that nerved his feeble limbs was revenge! 'The priest Calenus! Calenus! cried the mob.
My first accuser is the noble Sallust the most intimate friend of Glaucus! my second is a priest; I revere his garb and calling but, people of Pompeii! ye know somewhat of the character of Calenus he is griping and gold-thirsty to a proverb; the witness of such men is to be bought! Praetor, I am innocent! 'Sallust, said the magistrate, 'where found you Calenus? 'In the dungeons of Arbaces.
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