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There was a convulsive tremor throughout the assembly. A fierce blow from Eumolpus, full on the crest, had brought Lydon to his knee. 'Habet! he has it! cried a shrill female voice; 'he has it! It was the voice of the girl who had so anxiously anticipated the sacrifice of some criminal to the beasts. 'Be silent, child! said the wife of Pansa, haughtily. 'Non habet! he is not wounded!
When I was perhaps seven years old or thereabout I went to school first in Schenectady to a Mistress Lydon; where were a dozen children near my age. And pretty Mistress Lydon taught us A B C and manners and nothing else that I remember now.
'I who have escaped your arms, stout Stratonice, said Lydon, 'might safely, I think, encounter the lion. 'But tell me, said Tetraides, 'where is that pretty young slave of yours the blind girl, with bright eyes? I have not seen her a long time. 'Oh! she is too delicate for you, my son of Neptune, said the hostess, 'and too nice even for us, I think.
Bulwer's pagan gladiator Lydon and his Christian father Medon. Helen discovered the cross on which Christ suffered, and erected a church in Jerusalem, in which it was deposited.
If Nydia were twice the age she is at present, she would be equally fit for Vesta poor girl! 'But, hark ye, Stratonice, said Lydon; 'how didst thou come by so gentle and delicate a slave? She were more meet for the handmaid of some rich matron of Rome than for thee. 'That is true, returned Stratonice; 'and some day or other I shall make my fortune by selling her.
The editor paused, and proclaimed aloud that, as Niger's wound disabled him from again entering the arena, Lydon was to be the successor to the slaughtered Nepimus, and the new combatant of Eumolpus. 'Yet, Lydon, added he, 'if thou wouldst decline the combat with one so brave and tried, thou mayst have full liberty to do so. Eumolpus is not the antagonist that was originally decreed for thee.
The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than as by common consent the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
The aged father of Lydon, despite his Christian horror of the spectacle, in his agonized anxiety for his son, had not been able to resist being the spectator of his fate. One amidst a fierce crowd of strangers the lowest rabble of the populace the old man saw, felt nothing, but the form the presence of his brave son!
So I work for myself, but I shall soon afford from her earnings to buy me a second Staphyla; doubtless, the Thessalian kidnapper had stolen the blind girl from gentle parents. Besides her skill in the garlands, she sings and plays on the cithara, which also brings money, and lately but that is a secret. 'That is a secret! What! cried Lydon, 'art thou turned sphinx? 'Sphinx, no! why sphinx?
The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than, as by common consent, the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus, ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
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