Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
Meanwhile the stampeded sheep were making in a cloud of dust back over the road toward the west from which the Romans had come. "What shall I say to the citizens of Pella?" the little shepherd shouted, pursuing the decurion who was making back to his horse as fast as he could go.
He spoke the last words aloud, and then desired one of the senator's slaves to give his mule a good feed and drink, for his own groom, and the superior decurion who during his absence must take his place, were also worshippers of Mithras, and had not yet returned from the mountain.
I would rather be a decurion, nay a simple warrior of his holiness than a centurion in priestly regiments; a pig or a dog may serve them, but not a believing Egyptian!" Eunana uttered the last words with such mad anger that the pharaoh said in Greek to Tutmosis, "Take him to the guard. An officer who does not like the priests may be of use to us."
The decurion in charge of the squad brought up his gray horse with such suddenness that the animal's feet slid in the gravel. "Sheep, by the wings of Mercury!" he shouted. "Dismount, fellows! Here's for a feast this night and an offering to Mars to-morrow!"
Vinicius, seeing a detachment of ten mounted pretorians, going evidently with news from the city to Antium, sprang toward them. "What part of the city is on fire?" inquired he. "Who art thou?" asked the decurion. "Vinicius, a tribune of the army, an Augustian. Answer on thy head!" "The fire broke out in the shops near the Circus Maximus.
"I know nothing of your tribes, but can speak of his family," the speaker continued. "You may have heard of a prince of Jerusalem named Hur Ben-Hur, they called him. He lived in Herod's day." "I have seen him," Joseph said. "Well, this is his son." Exclamations became general, and the decurion hastened to stop them.
"Does the lying Carthaginian seek to terrify Quintus Fabius, the dictator, as he terrified Marcus Decius, the decurion?" "Yes, truly," replied Sergius, gloomily; "and he will succeed even better. No general, and, least of all, ours, would lead out his army in the night against such a spectacle.
"Look!" he cried, pointing toward the east. "There is carrion for the wolves." Both leaders turned at the words. Far out across the plain was what seemed at first sight like a clump of dark foliage, save that it moved and changed shape too much. "Numidians!" exclaimed the decurion, following his finger with his speech, while the veins in Hostilius' forehead began to swell and grow dark.
"Here is a prisoner; come ask the soldiers about him, that we may know who he is, and what he has done, and what they are going to do with him." The rabbi's face remained stolid; he glanced at the prisoner, however, and presently went to the officer. "The peace of the Lord be with you!" he said, with unbending gravity. "And that of the gods with you," the decurion replied.
He spoke the last words aloud, and then desired one of the senator's slaves to give his mule a good feed and drink, for his own groom, and the superior decurion who during his absence must take his place, were also worshippers of Mithras, and had not yet returned from the mountain.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking