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Of late he hath shunned my steps. I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom. I must teach him that there are two stages of sanctity the first, FAITH the next, DELUSION; the one for the vulgar, the second for the sage. 'I never passed through the first, I said Calenus; 'nor you either, I think, my Arbaces. 'You err, replied the Egyptian, gravely.
Room there for the priest Calenus!" Pale, haggard, fresh from the jaws of famine and of death, his face fallen, his eyes dull as a vulture's, his broad frame gaunt as a skeleton, Calenus was supported into the very row in which Arbaces sat. His releasers had given him sparingly of food; but the chief sustenance that nerved his feeble limbs was revenge! "The priest Calenus Calenus!" cried the mob.
But thou mistakest: his death gives me no other gratification than that it releases me from a rival in the affections of Ione. I entertain no other sentiment of animosity against that unfortunate homicide. 'Homicide! repeated Calenus, slowly and meaningly; and, halting as he spoke, he fixed his eyes upon Arbaces.
'No in the upper apartments. But I must not stay prating here longer. Vale! THE second night of the trial had set in; and it was nearly the time in which Sosia was to brave the dread Unknown, when there entered, at that very garden-gate which the slave had left ajar not, indeed, one of the mysterious spirits of earth or air, but the heavy and most human form of Calenus, the priest of Isis.
'Yes, wise Arbaces I trust my visit is not unseasonable? 'Nay it was but this instant that my freedman Callias sneezed thrice at my right hand; I knew, therefore, some good fortune was in store for me and, lo! the gods have sent me Calenus. 'Shall we within to your chamber, Arbaces?
Calenus, the less bold by nature, but the more griping, recovered first. 'We must to our task, and away! he said, in a low whisper, frightened at his own voice. He stepped to the threshold, paused, crossed over the heated floor and his dead brethren to the sacred chapel, and called to Burbo to follow. But the gladiator quaked, and drew back.
"The blind girl Nydia," answered Sallust; "it is her hand that has raised Calenus from the grave, and delivered Glaucus from the lion." "Of this hereafter," said the prætor. "Calenus, priest of Isis, thou accusest Arbaces of the murder of Apæcides?" "I do!" "Thou didst behold the deed?" "Prætor with these eyes " "Enough at present the details must be reserved for more suiting time and place.
It is true that Cato, who had immediately on the news of the defeat evacuated Dyrrhachium, still held Corcyra, and Rutilius Lupus the Peloponnesus, during a time for the constitutional party. For a moment it seemed also as if the Pompeians would make a stand at Patrae in the Peloponnesus; but the accounts of the advance of Calenus sufficed to frighten them from that quarter.
In the meantime the partisans of Antonius in the city, with Calenus at their head were endeavouring to gain over the rest of the citizens, by representing him as eager for an accommodation and they kept up a correspondence with him, and published such of his letters as they thought favourable for their views.
'Arbaces, answered Calenus, sinking his voice into a whisper, 'I was in the sacred grove, sheltered by the chapel and the surrounding foliage. I overheard I marked the whole. I saw thy weapon pierce the heart of Apaecides. I blame not the deed it destroyed a foe and an apostate. 'Thou sawest the whole! said Arbaces, dryly; 'so I imagined thou wert alone.
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