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The hot blood mounted fiercely into the cheek of Paullus; and, striking his horse’s flank suddenly with his heel, he made him passage half across the street, and would have seized Aristius by the throat, had not their comrade interposed to hinder him. "You are both mad, I believe; so mad that all the hellebore in both the Anticyras could not cure you.
I do assure you that I almost swore I would go out no more without weapons." "They would have done you no good, man," said Aristius, "if some nineteen or twenty had set upon you. But an they would, I care not; it is against the law, and no good citizen should carry them at all." "Carry arms, I suppose you mean, Aristius," interrupted Paullus boldly. "Ye are talking about me, I fancy—is it not so?"
"There, give him the gold, Davus; he is a regular usurer. Give him three aurei, and then buckle these to my heel. Ha! that is well, my Paullus, here come your fellows with black Aufidus, and our friend Geta on the Numidian. They have made haste, yet not sweated Nanthus either. Aristius, your groom is a good one; I never saw a horse that shewed his keeping or condition better.
"To no one, Cicero. Marcus Aurelius Victor, and Aristius Fuscus were with me, when he recognized it for his work?" "No one else?" "No one, save our slaves, and they," he added in a breath, "could not have heard what passed." "Hath no one else seen it?" "As I was stripping for the contests on the Campus, Catiline saw it in my girdle, and admired its fabric." "Catiline!" "Ay! Consul?"
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