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If only for an hour they could be his subjects, he would make them rue the sufferings by which they spoiled his existence. "He is called Martialis. I will remember that name," he thought, as he cast a last envious look at the centurion. How long Philostratus was gone! Solitude weighed on him, and he looked about him wildly, as though seeking some support.
In the event of her death, she left to Xanthe, the wife of the centurion Martialis, her lawful property the villa at Kanopus, with all it contained, and the gardens appertaining to it, for the free use of herself and her children. The soldier listened speechless with astonishment. This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man.
The praetorians, who had not for many a day seen anything to cause them to forget the motto of the greatest philosopher among their poets never to be astonished at anything repeatedly pushed each other with surprise and admiration; nay, the centurion Julius Martialis, who had just now had a visit in camp from his wife and children, in defiance of orders, while Caesar himself was looking on, struck his fist on his greaves, and, exclaiming loudly, "Look out!" pointed to Seleukus's chariot, for which four runners, in tunics with long sleeves, made of sea-green bombyx, richly embroidered with silver, were making a way through the crowd.
He inflamed the discontents of some inferior officers, and employed the hand of Martialis, a desperate soldier, who had been refused the rank of centurion.
The earliest recorded instance of a priest holding a high political office is in the year B.C. 242 when the Flamen Martialis or special priest of Mars was chosen Consul; but when the gentleman in question started to go to the war, he was forbidden by the Pontifex Maximus.
When they give you the signal, brave Martialis, remember the unfortunate woman in Alexandria whose death you swore to revenge. As soon as the tribunes " But the centurion was suddenly transformed. "If the tribunes command it," he interrupted with decision, his dull eye flashing "if they demand it of me, I do it willingly. Tell them Martialis's sword is ever at their service.
The centurion greeted her respectfully; but it was not till Nernesianus asked him how it was that the troops had been called to arms at this hour, that Martialis plucked up courage and begged the lady of the house to grant him an interview.
The soldier it was the centurion Martialis, who had been banished to the Pontus still accompanied them, but Melissa's aching head pained her so much that she did not think of asking who he was or why he was with them. Once or twice she felt impelled to ask whither they were taking her, but she had not the power to raise her voice.
By no means a poet of the first rank, hardly perhaps a poet at all according to any strict definition, he has yet a genius of his own which for many ages made him the chief and almost the sole model for a particular kind of literature. Marcus Valerius Martialis was born at Augusta Bilbilis in Central Spain towards the end of the reign of Tiberius.
Besides the gemcutter's family, in whom Martialis took no interest, Caesar seemed to have a special grudge against the lady Berenike, whose husband Seleukus had been master to the centurion's father; nay, his own wife was still in the service of the merchant. Not being skilled in any trade, he had entered the army early.
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