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Updated: June 3, 2025
Furthermore, whoever rented, rather than possessed, escaped more easily from persecution. Galen, like Tyanan Apollonius, reduced his private needs, maintaining that philosophy went hand in hand with medicine, but wealth with neither. It was a pleasant little house, not far away from Cornificia's, within a precinct that was rebuilt after all that part of Rome burned under Nero's fascinated gaze.
The formalities of greeting were observed as elegantly, and with far more evident sincerity, in Cornificia's house than in Caesar's palace. Cornificia, dressed in white and wearing very little jewelry, received her guests more like an old-time patrician matron than a notorious modern concubine. Her notoriety, in fact, was due to Flavia Titiana, rather than to any indiscretions of her own.
And since the words were Cornificia's, and stirred the chords of many memories, they produced a sort of half-way resolution. "It is now or never," Marcia said, goading him. But Pertinax shook his head. "I am not convinced, though I would do my best to save Rome from Severus. Dioscuri! do you realize, this plot to make me emperor is known to not more than a dozen "
"I have been overworked of late. I must see Galen about this jumpiness. When I said I understand you I meant, I realize that you are joking. Naturally you would not receive a highwayman in Cornificia's house, and at the same time accuse me of treason! Pray excuse my outburst set it to the score of ill-health. I will see Galen."
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