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Yet Maecenas, so judicious as a patron, fell as an author into the very faults he blamed. We hear of a treatise called Prometheus, certain dialogues, among them a Symposium, in which Messala, Virgil, and Horace were introduced; and Horace implies that he had planned a prose history of Augustus's wars.
He was presently answered by Valerius Messalinus, who was the son of Messala, and inherited a sparkling of his father's eloquence: "that many rigorous institutions of the ancients were softened and changed for the better: for, neither was Rome now, as of old, beset with wars, nor Italy with hostile provinces; and a few concessions were made to the conveniences of women, who were so far from burdening the provinces, that to their own husbands there they were no burden.
"Ha, ha! thou ass of Antioch! Cease thy bray. Knowest thou not it was Messala betting on himself?" Such the reply. And so ran the controversy, not always good-natured. When at length the march was ended and the Porta Pompae received back the procession, Ben-Hur knew he had his prayer. The eyes of the East were upon his contest with Messala.
When Messala and Piso were consuls, Orgetorix, the most distinguished of the Helvetii, formed a conspiracy among the nobility, persuading them that, since they excelled all in valour, it would be very easy to acquire the supremacy of the whole of Gaul. They made great preparations for the expedition, but suddenly Orgetorix died, nor was suspicion lacking that he committed suicide.
"'MESSALA TO GRATUS!" He paused. A premonition drove the blood to his heart. Ilderim observed his agitation. "Well; I am waiting." Ben-Hur prayed pardon, and recommenced the paper, which, it is sufficient to say, was one of the duplicates of the letter despatched so carefully to Gratus by Messala the morning after the revel in the palace.
Along the home-stretch sixth round Messala leading, next him Ben-Hur, and so close it was the old story: "First flew Eumelus on Pheretian steeds; With those of Tros bold Diomed succeeds; Close on Eumelus' back they puff the wind, And seem just mounting on his car behind; Full on his neck he feels the sultry breeze, And, hovering o'er, their stretching shadow sees."
For a moment, like the others, he was half blinded by the light in the arena; yet he managed to catch sight of his antagonists and divine their purpose. At Messala, who was more than an antagonist to him, he gave one searching look.
By the selection of horses, the magnificence of the chariot, the attitude, and display of person above all, by the expression of the cold, sharp, eagle features, imperialized in his countrymen by sway of the world through so many generations, Ben-Hur knew Messala unchanged, as haughty, confident, and audacious as ever, the same in ambition, cynicism, and mocking insouciance.
Imitate them. Begin now. At hand see Rome, as ready to help you as she was the Idumaean Antipater." The Jewish lad trembled with rage; and, as the garden gate was close by, he quickened his steps, eager to escape. "O Rome, Rome!" he muttered. "Be wise," continued Messala. "Give up the follies of Moses and the traditions; see the situation as it is.
Doubtless this Arrius hath tricks of language; otherwise he could not so confound himself, to-day a Jew, to-morrow a Roman; but of the rich tongue of Athene discourseth he in that as well?" "With such purity, Messala, he might have been a contestant in the Isthmia." "Art thou listening, Caius?" said Messala.
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