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What may have occurred formerly must not spoil the present and the future which belong to us and to our children." "Nigrinus was the grandfather of those children," cried the Roman mother with flashing eyes. "That is to say that you harbor in your soul the wish to avenge your father's death on Caesar." "I am the daughter of the butchered man."
Magnus,114 nevertheless, whom I mentioned in my last letter to you, persists in his charge, to support which he is incessantly teazing the worthy Nigrinus. This excellent person was counsel for him in his former petition to the consuls, that Varenus might be compelled to produce his accounts. Upon this occasion, as I attended Varenus merely as a fricnd, I determined to be silent.
He lay in silence on his couch till morning began to grow gray, thinking over every evil hour of his life the murders of Nigrinus, of Tatianus and of the senators, by which he had secured the sovereignty and again he vowed to the gods immense sacrifices if only they would protect him from impending disaster.
But before any further speeches were made to the motion, Nigrinus, a tribune of the plebs, read out a learned and weighty remonstrance in which he complained that counsel were bought and sold, that they would sell their clients' cases, that they conspired together to make litigation, and that, instead of being satisfied with fame, they drew large and fixed amounts at the expense of citizens.
She tried to lift it to her lips but he drew it away and went on: "Inform him that we accept him as our son. His wife is the daughter of Nigrinus who had to go, as I desired to stay and stand firm. You do not love Lucilla, but we must both admire her for I do not know another woman in Rome whose virtue a man might vouch for.
So long as Lucian merely furnishes absurdity, as in his "Wishes," in the "Lapithae," in "Jupiter Tragoedus," etc., he is only a humorist, and gratifies us by his sportive humor; but he changes character in many passages in his "Nigrinus," his "Timon," and his "Alexander," when his satire directs its shafts against moral depravity.
What may have occurred formerly must not spoil the present and the future which belong to us and to our children." "Nigrinus was the grandfather of those children," cried the Roman mother with flashing eyes. "That is to say that you harbor in your soul the wish to avenge your father's death on Caesar." "I am the daughter of the butchered man."
She tried to lift it to her lips but he drew it away and went on: "Inform him that we accept him as our son. His wife is the daughter of Nigrinus who had to go, as I desired to stay and stand firm. You do not love Lucilla, but we must both admire her for I do not know another woman in Rome whose virtue a man might vouch for.
However, when Nigrinus had finished his speech, the consuls turning their eyes upon me, I rose up, and, "When you shall hear," I said, "what the real deputies from the province have to object against the motion of Nigrinus, you will see that my silence was not without just reason." Upon this Nigrinus asked me, "To whom are these deputies sent?"
There are, indeed, some rescripts of Domitian to Avidius Nigrinus and Armenhis Brocchus, which ought to be observed; but Bithynia is not comprehended in the provinces therein mentioned.
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