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I cannot imagine a worse combination. Brr!" "Not with Pomponia eheu!" answered Vinicius. "With whom, then?" "If I knew myself with whom? But I do not know to a certainty her name even, Lygia or Callina? They call her Lygia in the house, for she comes of the Lygian nation; but she has her own barbarian name, Callina. It is a wonderful house, that of those Plautiuses.
Lygia thought for a moment, and answered, "No, I cannot expose those near me to danger. Cæsar does not like the Plautiuses. Should I return thou knowest how every news is spread throughout Rome by slaves my return would be noised about in the city. Nero would hear of it surely through his slaves, and punish Aulus and Pomponia, at least take me from them a second time."
"O thou spring bud on the tree of life," said he, turning to Vinicius, "thou first green shoot of the vine! Instead of taking thee to the Plautiuses, I ought to give command to bear thee to the house of Gelocius, where there is a school for youths unacquainted with life." "What dost thou wish in particular?" "But what did she write on the sand?
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