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Updated: June 10, 2025
It is noteworthy that Luther did not seem to the diet to be a very discreet person and it showed no particular respect for him. Poor Hadrian speedily died, worn out with the vain effort to correct the abuses close at home.
The repose of Mallius was not disturbed by this friendly and gentle admonition; but the cruel vigilance of Hadrian watched the opportunity of revenge, and easily obtained, from the enemies of Stilicho, the trifling sacrifice of an obnoxious poet.
"No, Romola," he said, pausing against the bust of Hadrian, and passing his stick from the right to the left that he might explore the familiar outline with a "seeing hand." "There will be nothing else to preserve my memory and carry down my name as a member of the great republic of letters nothing but my library and my collection of antiquities.
Pollux has done his share of the work very well, and I have already devoted an hour's work to it, which has improved it. The more humble our material, the better I shall be pleased if the work satisfies Caesar; he himself has tried his hand at sculpture." "If only Hadrian could hear that!" cried one of the painters. "He likes to think himself a great artist one of the foremost of our time.
It is of the Egyptian Jews that Hadrian speaks in his letter just quoted; many of them had been already converted to Christianity, and their religion had taken the form of Gnosticism. Gnosticism, or Science, for the name means no more, was not then new in Alexandria, nor were its followers originally Christians.
Hadrian, captivated, led the lad in leash. The facts concerning that episode have been so frequently given that the repetition is needless here. Besides, the point is elsewhere. Presently the lad fell overboard. Hadrian lost a valet, Rome an emperor, and Olympus a god.
The mausoleum of Augustus was on a much more extensive scale, and consisted of four cylindrical stories, one above the other, decreasing in diameter as they ascended, and the topmost of all was crowned with a colossal statue of the Emperor. The tomb of Hadrian, on the banks of the Tiber now known as the Castle of Sant' Angelo was even more magnificent.
"That is very sad," said Hadrian, "and as I am not ignorant of the healing art, I will gladly try to help the poor girl." "I pay a professional leech, who attends me and mine," replied the steward, in a repellant tone, "and I came hither to request or, to be frank with you to require " "What?" "First, that my pardon shall be asked."
He could hope once more, and to the man who sees light shining in the future the present is no longer dark. Hadrian rejoiced in this change in the lad and hastened the preparations for their departure; still, some months passed before he could begin his journey. In the first place he had to provide for newly colonizing Libya, which had been depopulated by a revolt of the Jews.
When, shortly before midnight, Hadrian rose from the table to go up to the watch-tower on the northern side of the palace, Antinous begged to be allowed to carry his instruments for him, and the Emperor, stroking his hair, said kindly: "You are my dear and faithful companion. Youth has a right to go astray now and then so long as it does not entirely forget the path in which it ought to tread."
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