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Updated: May 6, 2025
The thongs might well have been said to press his mind as much as his skin. The Privilege of a Vestal Drusus started long before daybreak on his journey to Rome; with him went Cappadox, his ever faithful body-servant, and Pausanias, the amiable and cultivated freedman who had been at his elbow ever since he had visited Athens.
"Bah!" he remarked, "the whole familia will be in fetters if Mamercus has his way much longer. Knock off those chains. Tell the wretches they are to remain unshackled only so long as they behave. Give them three skins to-night from which to drink their master's health. Drive on, Cappadox!" Slave household.
And the veteran had thrust a venerable helmet over his grizzled locks, and was wielding his shield with his handless left arm, while a good Spanish short-sword gleamed in his right hand. The great battle won in 207 B.C. over Hasdrubal. The others had not been idle. Cappadox had barred both doors leading into the front part of the house.
"Barricade the doors to the atrium!" he commanded, "while I can put on my armour. You, Mamercus, are too old for this kind of work; run and call in the field-hands, the clients, and the neighbours. Cappadox, Falto, and I can hold the doors till aid comes."
"What is Master Drusus like?" asked Chloë "Will he be kind, or will he be always whipping like Mamercus?" "He was not in charge of the estate," replied Laïs, the older woman, "when he went away to study at Athens a few years ago. But he was always kind as a lad. Cappadox, his old body-servant, worshipped him. I hope he will take the charge of the farm out of the steward's hands."
Drusus had armed, and Falto, a more loyal soul than whom lived not, burning to retrieve his blunder, had sprung to his patron's side, also in shield and helm. "They will soon force these doors," said Drusus, quietly, growing more composed as closer and closer came the actual danger. "Falto and I will guard the right. Cappadox and you, Mamercus, if you will stay, must guard the left.
The prejudiced rustics mocked at him, and hinted that they cared too much for their patron to believe any tale that such a manifest impostor might tell them. Pausanias, the Mamerci, and Cappadox, the only persons, besides Drusus, who could readily identify him, were away at Lanuvium. The verdict of guilty was so unanimous that it needed little or no discussion; and Falto pronounced sentence.
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