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Updated: September 10, 2025
She remained for a few moments lost in thought, and then ordered the centurion to go and find out where her husband was. Martialis obeyed at once, and no sooner was the door closed behind him than she turned to the two brothers, and addressing herself first to one and then to the other with equal vehemence, she cried "Who is right now?
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.
This was the wife of Martialis, who had charge of the villa at Kanopus, and whose acquaintance the artist had made when he was studying the Galatea in the merchant's country-house for the portrait of Korinna.
"Yes, she is able," interrupted Martialis, with a tone of pride, as though it were some credit to himself. "But how many have even more, and keep their purse-strings tight! I have known her since she was a child, and she is the best of all that is good. What does not the town owe to her!
The wife of the centurion Martialis, who had been separated for some time from her husband, had at his entreaty come secretly from Ranopus, where she had charge of Seleukus's villa, to see him, as his services prevented his going so far away. They now stood whispering and making love in the shadow of the temple.
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.
They were not long compelled to remain in exile; a few months after their marriage news was brought to Carthage that Caesar had been murdered by the centurion Martialis, prompted by the tribunes Apollinaris and Nemesianus Aurelius. Immediately on this, Macrinus, the praetorian prefect, was proclaimed emperor by the troops.
Let him remember that, when the time came to plunge the sword in the tyrant's heart. Should this deed, however, cost Martialis his life which he had risked in many a battle for miserable pay her will would enable his widow to bring up their children in happiness and comfort.
Alive, do you hear? not dead! I will have them alive! I give you till midnight! Your head, if you let the jade and her brothers escape!" With drooping head the unhappy officer departed. On the threshold he was met by Martialis, the praetorian centurion. After him, his hands bound behind his back, walked the criminal.
Alive, do you hear? not dead! I will have them alive! I give you till midnight! Your head, if you let the jade and her brothers escape!" With drooping head the unhappy officer departed. On the threshold he was met by Martialis, the praetorian centurion. After him, his hands bound behind his back, walked the criminal.
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