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Pallus, by which we learn, that in the triremes, or vessels with three banks of oars, there was always a tibicen, or flute-player, not only to mark the time, or cadence for each stroke of the oar, but to sooth and cheer the rowers by the sweetness of the melody.
Claudius also was governed by his favorites, generally men of low birth—freedmen who usurped the place of statesmen. Narcissus and Pallus were the most confidential of the emperor’s advisers, who, in consequence, became enormously rich, for favors flowed through them, and received the great offices of State.
"Say, the swellest folks in New York fall over themselves to get invited here." "Why ain't he on Fi'th Avenyah, then?" demanded the other. "He makes the Fi'th Avenyah bunch come to him," explained the policeman, with obvious pride. "Took a couple of these old houses on long lease, knocked out the walls, built 'em into one, on his own plan, and, say! It's a pallus! I been all through it."
What the barber Olivier le Diable was under Louis XI., what Mesdames du Barri and Pompadour were under Louis XV., what the infamous Earl of Somerset was under James I., what George Villiers became under Charles I., will furnish us with a faint analogy of the far more exaggerated and detestable position held by the freedman Glabrio under Domitian, by the actor Tigellinus under Nero, by Pallus and Narcissus under Claudius, by the obscure knight Sejanus under the iron tyranny of the gloomy Tiberius.
"Crystal Pallus?" "And," pursued Tilda, "I was wonderin' if you'd look after him while I step inside?" She threw back her head, and the man whistled. "You're a trustin' one, I must say!" "You'd never be mean enough to make off with 'im, an' I won't believe it of you," spoke up Tilda boldly. "Eh? I wasn' talkin of the dorg," he explained. "I was meanin' the Orph'nage.
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