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"Well," said Pratinas, laughing, for he was a dearly loved favourite of all these gilded youth, "I will see! And now Gabinius is inviting Calatinus also, and we are dispersing for the morning." "Alas," groaned Ahenobarbus, "I must go to the Forum to plead with that wretch Phormio, the broker, to arrange a new loan."
Loudly he cursed his wife's temper, that would have wasted a slave worth a "hundred thousand sesterces" to gratify a mere burst of passion. "Yes, he was willing to sell the boy to accommodate his excellency, Quintus Drusus," said Calatinus, "although he was a valuable slave. Still, in honesty he had to admit that Agias had some mischievous points.
If I were a true one, I would have had the courage to kill myself before this." And in this mental state he continued, till he learned that Pratinas had taken his farewell, and that Calatinus wished him since all the slaves seemed busy, and the poor house philosopher was often sent on menial errands to go to the Forum Boarium, and bring back some ribs of beef for a dinner that evening.
"Dare you hesitate? Do you wish to undo yourselves by defying me?" "Mercy, august lady," cried Alfidius, for the chief executioner was he, with a supplicatory gesture. "If our mistress knows that her commands are unexecuted, it is we, who are but slaves, that must suffer!" "Who is your mistress?" demanded Fabia. "Valeria, wife of Lucius Calatinus." "Livia's precious mother!" whispered Drusus.
You've been my slave, and I've sold you to Calatinus; so don't quarrel with him, but learn to like him quickly. I don't remember what he said or I said next. I was so frightened and grieved that I don't know what I did. I know Pratinas finally whipped me, something he never did before.
But this enlightenment did not make Agias's task any the easier. He knew perfectly well that he could never raise a tithe of the forty thousand sesterces that Pratinas was to receive from Calatinus, and so redeem Artemisia. He had no right to expect the gift of such a sum from Drusus.
Artemisia had practically told all her story in her letter. It was clear that Calatinus had caught sight of her several times, though she had remained in blissful ignorance, and Pratinas had deliberately planned to waylay him as a customer who would pay a good price for the girl, whom it would be manifestly inconvenient for him to take with Valeria on his premeditated flight to Egypt.
He is a very rich man, and if you please him will give you everything you desire. I couldn't understand at all what he meant, and cried out, 'But, uncle, I don't like Calatinus, and you you don't really mean to leave me behind? 'You little donkey, said Pratinas, laughing, oh! so heartlessly, 'I'm not your uncle.
At this instant a young man of faultless toilet, whom we have already recognized as Lucius Ahenobarbus, pushed into the little knot as a peacemaker. "Most excellent Calatinus," said he, half suppressing his laughter at the candidate's fury, the nomenclator's anguish, and Drusus's vexed confusion, "allow me to introduce to you a son of Sextus Drusus, who was an old friend of my father's.
I went to bed feeling so sore, that I could not get really to sleep, but dreadful visions of Calatinus kept frightening me. I don't know which grieves me most, to know I am a slave, to know that Pratinas is not my uncle and does not love me, or to be about to be sold to Calatinus.
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