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Messala, and the great Gothic captains Fraiut and Generid are ready to fight for the old gods. Our army will not lack leaders. . ." "Our army!" exclaimed Karnis in surprise. "Is the matter so far advanced?" "I mean the army of the future," cried Olympius enthusiastically. "It does not count a man as yet, but is already distributed into several legions.
Instantly there were dissolution of groups, and breaking-up of games, and a general rush towards the centre. Messala took the demonstration indifferently, and proceeded presently to show the ground of his popularity. "A health to thee, Drusus, my friend," he said to the player next at his right; "a health and thy tablets a moment."
As for him, he enrolled among the augurs above the proper number, Valerius Messala, whom he previously in the proscriptions condemned to death, made the people of Utica citizens, and gave orders that no one should wear purple clothing except senators and such as held public office. For it had been already appropriated by ordinary individuals in a few cases.
There might be, he used to say to himself, escape for Gratus, but for Messala never! And to strengthen and harden his resolution, he was accustomed to repeat over and over, Who pointed us out to the persecutors? And when I begged him for help not for myself who mocked me, and went away laughing? And always the dream had the same ending.
Messala, and the great Gothic captains Fraiut and Generid are ready to fight for the old gods. Our army will not lack leaders. . ." "Our army!" exclaimed Karnis in surprise. "Is the matter so far advanced?" "I mean the army of the future," cried Olympius enthusiastically. "It does not count a man as yet, but is already distributed into several legions.
We can only see our own oar. We cannot see that they, too, pull on the oar and feel the lash. Most likely they are looking back at us and envying us. For while we envy others, others are envying us. But look at the chariot race in Antioch. See the thousands in the circus. See Messala, the haughty Roman, and see! Ben Hur from the galleys in the other chariot pitted against him.
Next he brought the horses, and, hitching them to the chariot, drove to the field of exercise, where, hour after hour, he practised them in movement under the yoke. When he came away in the evening, it was with restored spirit, and a fixed purpose to defer action in the matter of Messala until the race was won or lost.
I reported, you will remember, the wager concluded with Messala last night, and stated that I left another which, if taken, was to be delivered to me in writing to-day before the race began. Here it is." Simonides took the tablet and read the memorandum carefully. "Yes," he said, "their emissary came to ask me if you had so much money with me. Keep the tablet close.
At the beginning of the speech Messala listened with polite indifference; as it proceeded, he became more attentive; at the conclusion, he took his hand from the dice-box, and called out, "Ho, my Caius! Dost thou hear?" A youth at his elbow his Myrtilus, or comrade, in the day's chariot practice answered, much pleased with the attention, "Did I not, my Messala, I were not thy friend."
The chief proposed were these: Asinius Gallus moved that "the funeral should pass through the Triumphal Gate:" Lucius Arruntius, "that the titles of all the laws which he had made, and the names of all the nations which he had conquered, should be carried before the corpse:" Valerius Messala added, that "the oath of allegiance to Tiberius should be renewed every year;" and being asked by Tiberius, "whether at his instigation he had made that motion?"
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