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"Who art thou?" exclaimed he, with terror. "Paul of Tarsus." "I am accursed! What dost thou wish?" "I wish to save thee," answered the Apostle. Chilo supported himself against a tree. His legs bent under him, and his arms hung parallel with his body. "For me there is no salvation," said he, gloomily. "Hast thou heard how God forgave the thief on the cross who pitied Him?" inquired Paul.
Chilo said something which I could not hear, and blessed the two who were kneeling, as well as others, making in the air signs in the form of a cross, which they honor apparently, for all bent their knees. The desire seized me to go among them, and promise three such purses to him who would deliver to me Lygia; but I feared to spoil Chilo's work, and after hesitating a moment went home.
Here Niloxenus whispered me in the ear: O Diocles, saith he, how many reports fly about and are believed, and how some men delight in lies which they either feign of their own heads or most greedily swallow from the mouths of others. In Egypt I heard it reported how Chilo had renounced all friendship and correspondence with Solon, because he maintained the mutability of laws.
And again came silence, again were heard only the roar of the millstones, the deep song of the millers, and the sound of the river. "Father," asked the laborer at last, "what kind of traitor is that?" Chilo dropped his head. "What kind of traitor?
There he drank wine, bantered with Chilo, and whispered strange words in the ears of the priestesses of Vesta; but on the arena the work was seething, nails were going into the hands and feet of the Christians; shovels moved quickly, filling the holes in which the crosses had been planted. Among the new victims whose turn was to come soon was Crispus.
Petronius, who spoke of the too narrow hips of the girl, might talk what he pleased into Cæsar, but not into the Augusta. Poppæa the critic understood at one cast of the eye that in all Rome Lygia alone could rival and even surpass her. Thenceforth she vowed her ruin. "Lord," said she, "avenge our child." "Hasten!" cried Chilo, "hasten! Otherwise Vinicius will hide her.
Chilo understood in a moment that if Vinicius spoke in this way it must be in virtue of some agreement with the Christians, and in that case he wished people to believe him. He saw this, too, from his face; hence in one moment, without showing doubt or astonishment, he raised his eyes and exclaimed, "That was a faith-breaking ruffian!
When his son began to come to years of discretion, Cato himself would teach him to read, although he had a servant, a very good grammarian, called Chilo, who taught many others; but he thought not fit, as he himself said, to have his son reprimanded by a slave, or pulled, it may be, by the ears when found tardy in his lesson: nor would he have him owe to a servant the obligation of so great a thing as his learning; he himself, therefore, taught him his grammar, his law, and his gymnastic exercises.
But Lygia, lord, who is under the care of Ursus and the Christian elders, will go undoubtedly with other women." Vinicius, who had lived hitherto in a fever, and upheld as it were, by hope alone, now that his hope seemed fulfilled felt all at once the weakness that a man feels after a journey which has proved beyond his strength. Chilo noticed this, and resolved to make use of it.
"Dost thou not recognize me, Cephas?" asked he. In his voice there was something so terrible that a shiver ran through all present. Chilo raised the candle, and dropped it to the earth almost the same instant; then he bent nearly double and began to groan, "I am not he I am not he! Mercy!" Glaucus turned toward the faithful, and said, "This is the man who betrayed who ruined me and my family!"
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