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Asked whether Vigilius had left Rome, Marcian was able to tell something of the Pope's departure, having heard the story just before his own setting forth; whereat the prelate, a man of jovial aspect, laughed unrestrainedly. 'To supper! to supper! he exclaimed with hospitable note. 'Time enough for our business afterwards. But Marcian could not postpone what he had to say.
'So this is the heir of the Senator Maximus, said Bessas, much as he might have spoken of viewing a horse that interested him. 'What is his name? 'Basilius, my lord, replied Marcian, with grave respect. 'And what is he doing? Why does not a limber lad like that serve the Emperor?
Mahomet would have ranked only as a Christian heresiarch or schismatic; such as Nestorius or Marcian at one time, such as Arius or Pelagius at another. In his character of theologian, therefore, Mahomet was simply the most memorable of blunderers, supported in his blunders by the most unlettered of nations.
Not without inner detriment had Marcian accustomed himself for years to wear a double face; though his purpose had been pure, the habit of assiduous perfidy, of elaborate falsehood, could not leave his soul untainted. A traitor now for his own ends, he found himself moving in no unfamiliar element, and, the irrevocable words once uttered, he thrilled with defiance of rebuke.
'I have urged it upon the Holy Father, Leander added. 'But Vigilius is all absorbed in the dogmatics of Byzantium. A frown of the Empress Theodora is more to him than the glory of the Omnipotent and the weal of Christendom. The look which accompanied these words was the first hint to Marcian that he might speak in confidence.
When he looked to the eastern emperor, now become in the eyes of the Church the legitimate sovereign of Rome, by whose commission Odoacer professed to rule, instead of a Marcian, the not unworthy husband of St.
Basil was telling of his journey to Cumae, and of the difficulty he had had in persuading Aurelia to visit her father. 'Does she live alone there? inquired Marcian. There was a pause before the reply, and when Basil spoke his voice fell to a note of half-hesitating confidence.
With a timid smile the maiden advanced to meet him. 'Abroad so early? were his first words, a mere tongue-found phrase. 'I was tempted by the fresh morning. It does not displease you, lord Marcian? 'Nay, I am glad. 'It is so long, continued the gentle voice, 'since I was free to walk under the open sky.
'Should we not do well to hold far from Rome, looking to King Totila, whom men praise, as a deliverer of our land from hateful tyranny? Marcian laid a hand on his friend's shoulder. 'O, brave Basil! he murmured, with a smile. 'O, nobly confident in those you love! Never did man so merit love in return. Do as you will.
No woman ever reigned alone as queen of the Roman Empire until 450 A.D., when Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius II, ascended the throne of the East; but she soon took the senator Marcian in marriage and made him king. Agricola, 16. Germania, 8. Tacitus, Hist., iv, 61, and v, 24. Id., Germania, 8. Ibid., 8. Ibid., 7. Ibid., 17. Ibid. Ibid., 18. Ibid., 18 and 19. Ibid., 19.
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