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And while formerly, when one of the Vestal Virgins died, a substitute could scarcely be found, have all who once worshipped Aphrodite become priestesses of Vesta?" "I did not say so, Mesembrius." "Then it is the other way. Come, don't deny that you have had an interesting adventure.
"How manly you have grown!" said Mesembrius, smiling; and, as if his eyes were not enough, he felt with his hands the youth's face, arms, and shoulders. "You have become a man indeed since you marched away with Probus. So you've come to ask me for my daughter's hand?" Manlius seemed disconcerted by this straightforward question. "I am not so selfish, Mesembrius.
Of course, Mesembrius was not only blind, but deaf, when Glyceria was mentioned in his presence; he himself never permitted her name to cross his lips. His second daughter was Sophronia, who was always by the old man's side at his country estate.
Aper was instantly put in chains by the soldiers on account of this deception; in the afternoon an empty throne was erected in the open fields for the election of a new Imperator. Mesembrius walked through the ranks of the legions, recommending Diocletian, whom the soldiers fairly forced to take his seat upon the throne. Then Aper was brought forward.
Sophronia could not forget her grey-haired father, whom her loss would drive to despair." "Look at the corpse, Senator, and if it is not your daughter, which from my heart I hope, I will have her brought here at once and she can then return with you." Mesembrius was so startled by this unexpected favour that he forgot to express his thanks for it.
"Compare him to the royal panther," Manlius advised. And the poet was content. At this moment Mesembrius arrived, and hearing in the atrium that Manlius had already entered, hastened after him. On the threshold he caught a glimpse of the young soldier and started back. "Is that actor Manlius?" he asked himself, gazing at his silk toga and freckled face. "Have you seen Glyceria?" he whispered.
The eunuch returned, followed by two slaves, who bore on a bier a corpse covered with a large pall. Ævius drew it from the body. Mesembrius pressed his hand upon his heart; the blood rushed to his temples; his breath failed; he could not move; he stood motionless for a time, then, with a wild cry of anguish, flung himself upon the lifeless form. "My child! My dear, dear child!"
Mesembrius, the falcon is not caught with lime-twigs." "Go! go! Why should you be a falcon any more than the rest? As if the doves of Venus had not built their nests in the helmet of Mars! Go! Dissimulation does not suit your face. You flushed crimson and lowered your eyes. Why do you wish to deceive an old man like me? Or have the morals of Rome improved under the shadow of Carinus?
That very hour Manlius returned to Rome to set his house in order, and when he had made all the preparations for the wedding, he again mounted his horse, and late in the evening rode to old Mesembrius' villa. It was already past midnight. The sky was covered with clouds. He could only move at a walk, when, on reaching a bridge, he saw a dark group of people coming from a side path.
"Mesembrius, what has she done to you that you speak of her thus?" "What has she done? She buried me ere I was dead! She dragged my grey beard in the mire! She poisoned my heart, robbed me of my sight and my blood to paint obscene pictures with them upon the walls of the lenocinium." "Fury blinds you, Mesembrius." "Why should it not blind me?
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