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Updated: May 1, 2025
"And now," began Ninius, mildly, when there was a moment's silence, "that we may the better enjoy what is to come, there are baths and attendants; and the red feather will make way for new feastings at the end of two hours."
At the table to the east that of honour reclined Stenius Ninius, in the middle place of the middle couch, with Hannibal himself at his right, the place of honour above all.
The women were but warming to their part, when the summons of Stenius Ninius had proclaimed a truce with Bacchus and Venus a truce with promise of more deadly battle to be joined. She had seen glances hot with wine and lust, claspings of hands, loosened cyclas, and more lascivious reclinings.
Subdued applause from both tables followed these words, but the face of Perolla lost but little of its stubborn hostility. Hannibal turned away, and Calavius and Ninius sought to cover by eager talking the young man's ungracious reception of such signal favour.
With fear on the one side and distrust upon the other, the chances for hilarity and good fellowship looked scanty enough, and yet Stenius Ninius was too much a man of the world to yield readily to untoward social conditions. Clapping his hands, he cried out, as the head butler bowed before him: "Now, my good Cappadox, let us have no more of these native vintages.
The other places, below Pacuvius, between Stenius and the priest, and between the priest and Perolla, were assigned to the women, while the other table, over which Pacuvius Ninius presided, was arranged in similar fashion.
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