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I am not a Christian.” The judges looked at each other, as much as to say, “It is the old story; it is that inexplicable, hateful obstinacy, which will neither yield to reason, common sense, expediency, or fear.” The Duumvir only repeated the single word, “Sacrifice.” She stopped awhile; then she came forward with a hurried step. “O my fate!” she cried, “why was I born? why am I in this strait?
In this same colony my father attained to the post of duumvir and became the foremost citizen of the place, after filling all the municipal offices of honour.
Likewise, Caius Licinius Lucullus, being appointed duumvir, dedicated the temple of Youth in the great circus. This temple had been vowed sixteen years before by Marcus Livius, consul, on the day wherein he cut off Hasdrubal and his army; and the same person, when censor, in the consulate of Marcus Cornelius and Publius Sempronius, had contracted for the building of it.
"Sejanus!" they exclaimed, with one voice, closing in to read what the minister had written. "Sejanus to C. Coecilius Rufus, Duumvir. "ROME, XIX. Kal. Sept. "Caesar hath good report of Quintus Arrius, the tribune. In particular he bath heard of his valor, manifested in the western seas, insomuch that it is his will that the said Quintus be transferred instantly to the East.
They had audience with the Emperor himself, and from Ravenna there go to-day a hundred galleys, and from Misenum" he paused as if to pique the curiosity of his friends, and ended with an emphatic "one." "Happy Quintus! We congratulate thee!" "The preferment forerunneth promotion. We salute thee duumvir; nothing less."
His versification is harmonious, and sometimes has an air of novelty, his turns are elegant, and his thoughts have both dignity and propriety to recommend them. There is a little piece amongst his collections called the World, which we shall quote, before we give an account of his works. Epistola de Casparo Scioppio, Amberg. 1638, 8vo. Epist. ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir.
"I am glad with the rest," said the bibulous friend, "very glad; but I must be practical, O my duumvir; and not until I know if promotion will help thee to knowledge of the tesserae will I have an opinion as to whether the gods mean thee ill or good in this this business." "Thanks, many thanks!" Arrius replied, speaking to them collectively. "Had ye but lanterns, I would say ye were augurs.
I am going to the Aegean; and as my departure is so near, I will tell the occasion only keep it under the rose. I would not that you abuse the duumvir when next you meet him. He is my friend. The trade between Greece and Alexandria, as ye may have heard, is hardly inferior to that between Alexandria and Rome.
This year the temple of Mars, vowed in the Gallic war, was dedicated by Titus Quinctius, duumvir for performing religious rites. Four tribes were added from the new citizens, the Stellatine, the Tormentine, the Sabatine, and the Arnian, and they made up the number of twenty-five tribes.
"Quintus Arrius, the duumvir, hath a better sound than Quintus Arrius, the tribune." In such manner they showered him with congratulations.
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