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Updated: May 14, 2025
Galga, the gigantic Thracian doorkeeper, held the old man back, and told him to come the next day. Carinus was asleep. "This is the tenth time I have come here!" shouted the old man. "Once you said he was sleeping, again he was eating, the third time he was bathing, and the fourth he was not at leisure. But I will speak to him."
The throng of slaves shrank back in terror at the sight of his agitated face, and allowed him to reach the open air. His frantic words instantly gathered a crowd around him, and by the time Galga, at the head of a troop of mounted prætorians, went in pursuit of him, the mob had attained threatening proportions. But the Thracian giant dashed recklessly through the masses of people.
Then, with a face that inspired terror, she turned to the slaves, crying in a ringing voice: 'Whoever does not throw himself on the floor, and remain there motionless, will be instantly transformed into a hog. The dolts flung themselves down, and the bold sorceress walked over their heads to the door, where she blinded Galga so that he did not recover his sight for three days.
"May you be accursed!" shouted Mesembrius, with savage fury, and without heeding the Cæsar, his dead daughter, or the danger threatening him, he rushed out of the hall like a madman. This very thing saved him. "Follow him, Galga!" shouted Carinus. "Seize him. This man's head must be laid at my feet." Meanwhile Mesembrius rushed through the palace.
It cost Galga a hard struggle before he could force the aged Senator out of the atrium, and then it needed two or three slaves to push him through the door. Carinus was much pleased with Galga. "Since you know how to guard my door so well, you deserve to be made Chancellor of Rome." "And I? Do I deserve nothing, my lord?" asked Ævius in alarm.
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