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Then came the effeminate Gracus, in head-dress and neckerchief, frilled robe and lady's sandals. He was of great sires who had borne the Roman eagles into Gaul. "Good lady," said he, "I would give my life." "And had I more provocation," said Arria, raising a jewelled bodkin, "I would take it." Now the splendid Antipater, son of Herod the Great, was up and speaking.
Noble ladies, the glory of our sex and of Rome, I will not refuse to comply with your desire, though it recalls to my mind some scenes my heart would wish to forget. There can be only one reason why Minos should have given to my conjugal virtues a preference above yours, which is that the trial assigned to them was harder. Arria. How, madam! harder than to die for your husband! We died for ours.
"Did you not live in Galilee and suffer ill fortune?" "We lived in Galilee, and, by-and-by, were as those hurled into Gehenna." "And have you a sister in Rome?" "I have a sister, but know not where she may be. Cyran the Beloved, so my mother called her." Then Vergilius told his companion how he had won her from the son of Herod and left her in the keeping of Arria. David wept as he listened.
There were memories which bade him to forgive, and of them was the gentle face of Arria, but he turned as one who would say "Begone!" He had not time even to consider what he should do to oppose the will of the emperor. As they rode on, his companion addressed the young commander. "Saw you Manius in the balcony of Herod?" "No."
This first Arria, her husband Caecina Paetus, having been taken prisoner by some of the Emperor Claudius' people, after Scribonianus' defeat, whose party he had embraced in the war, begged of those who were to carry him prisoner to Rome, that they would take her into their ship, where she would be of much less charge and trouble to them than a great many persons they must otherwise have to attend her husband, and that she alone would undertake to serve him in his chamber, his kitchen, and all other offices.
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