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Updated: June 19, 2025
'You say I have been your enemy, said Arbaces, 'I know the cause of that unjust accusation: I have placed you amidst the priests of Isis you are revolted at their trickeries and imposture you think that I too have deceived you the purity of your mind is offended you imagine that I am one of the deceitful...
'Is it indeed so? Then pardon me, great Arbaces, and farewell! 'Stay, said Arbaces, who, despite his passion for Ione, was not unmoved by the beauty of his visitor; and had he been in the flush of a more assured health, might have attempted to console the fair Julia by other means than those of supernatural wisdom.
He sank upon the breast of the nymph who sat beside him, and turning with swimming eyes to seek for Arbaces, whom he had lost in the whirl of his emotions, he beheld him seated beneath a canopy at the upper end of the table, and gazing upon him with a smile that encouraged him to pleasure.
He turned with a restless and curious eye, towards Vesuvius. Beautifully glowed the green vineyards round its breast, and tranquil as eternity lay in the breathless skies the form of the mighty hill. 'We have time yet, if the earthquake be nursing, thought Arbaces; and he turned from the spot. He passed by the table which bore his mystic scrolls and Chaldean calculations.
The feast was over, the music sank into a low and subdued strain, and Arbaces thus addressed his beautiful guest: 'Hast thou never in this dark and uncertain world hast thou never aspired, my pupil, to look beyond hast thou never wished to put aside the veil of futurity, and to behold on the shores of Fate the shadowy images of things to be?
'No, said Sosia, sturdily, 'a slave once disobeyed Arbaces, and he was never more heard of. 'But the law gives a master no power over the life of a slave. 'The law is very obliging, but more polite than efficient. I know that Arbaces always gets the law on his side. Besides, if I am once dead, what law can bring me to life again! Nydia wrung her hands.
'Yes; but the testimony of Arbaces was convincing; he saw the blow given, answered Lepidus. 'What could have been the cause? 'Why, the priest was a gloomy and sullen fellow. He probably rated Glaucus soundly about his gay life and gaming habits, and ultimately swore he would not consent to his marriage with Ione.
Why hast thou waited till the eve of the Athenian's condemnation before thou hast ventured to tell me that Arbaces is a murderer? And having tarried so long, why revealest thou now that knowledge? 'Because because... stammered Calenus, coloring and in confusion. Is it not so?
The dark trees the stately fane the moon full on the corpse of the deceased the torches tossing wildly to and fro in the rear the various faces of the motley audience the insensible form of the Athenian, supported, in the distance, and in the foreground, and above all, the forms of Arbaces and the Christian: the first drawn to its full height, far taller than the herd around; his arms folded, his brow knit, his eyes fixed, his lip slightly curled in defiance and disdain.
She herself was caught again by Arbaces' servant, but she contrived to bribe her keeper to take a message to Glaucus's friend, Sallust; and he, taking his servants to Arbaces' house released the two captives, and reached the arena with them, to accuse Arbaces before the multitude at the very moment when the lion was being goaded to attack the Greek, and Arbaces' victory seemed within his grasp.
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