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Tucked under their arms, they carry portfolios filled with sketches; in their hands are boxes of water-colors, pencils, and, bound together like fasces, a bundle of fine stylets with the sharp and glittering points.
There was a crowd of servants and four Syrian eunuchs, sleek offensive menials in yellow robes; two lictors besides, with fasces and the Roman civic uniform a scandalous abuse of ancient ceremony ready to conduct a progress through the city. But they all yawned. Marcia and her usual companion did not come; there was delay and gossip, naturally.
The matter, truly, was becoming serious, thought the outskirts of the mob all of them who could hear the shout. A brush with the fiercest, the most hated, the most hating aristocrat that had been borne behind the fasces for many a year, would mean punishment with a heavy hand.
It is the same house which stands there to-day on the right of the street at No. 60, apparently astonished to present to the eye, after so many successive changes of government, the consular fasces which may still be seen on the panels of its double oaken doors.
That the magistrates of the Roman people had not then so many fasces as Hannibal could have carried before him, having taken them from generals whom he had slain.
Lictors with their fasces over their shoulders were clearing the broad roadway, which led from the prefect's on the Bruchiom to the Paneum, with their staves and paying no heed to the mocking and witty speeches addressed to them by the mob wherever they appeared.
With rapid steps he ascended a forum constructed for this purpose, and made signs that he wished to recite a poem. The lictors at once brandished their fasces. 'Silence! attention! they shouted loudly, and the crowd was hushed in expectation. 'Friends! Comrades! began Junius, in a loud but not quite steady voice: 'Friends! Comrades! Lovers of the Muse! Ye worshippers of beauty and of grace!
As it was, the only result was his parading about with him everywhere, from town to town, for months after his return, the lictors with laurelled fasces, which betokened that a triumph was claimed a pompous incumbrance, which became, as he confessed, a grand subject for evil-disposed jesters, and a considerable inconvenience to himself.
XX. Having entered upon his office , he introduced a new regulation, that the daily acts both of the senate and people should be committed to writing, and published . He also revived an old custom, that an officer should precede him, and his lictors follow him, on the alternate months when the fasces were not carried before him.
When Cinna had joyfully received his offer, naming him proconsul, and sending him the fasces and other ensigns of authority, he said, that grandeur did not become his present fortune; but wearing an ordinary habit, and still letting his hair grow as it had done, from that very day he first went into banishment, and being now above threescore and ten years old, he came slowly on foot, designing to move people's compassion; which did not prevent, however, his natural fierceness of expression from still predominating, and his humiliation still let it appear that he was not so much dejected as exasperated, by the change of his condition.
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