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Nero will not see her, perhaps, all the more since he left everything to me, to the degree that just now the centurion was here with information that he had conducted the maiden to the palace and committed her to Acte. She is a good soul, that Acte; hence I gave command to deliver Lygia to her. Clearly Pomponia Græcina is of that opinion too, for she wrote to Acte.
I saw how Glaucus killed children, so that the Apostle might have something to sprinkle on the heads of those present; and I saw Lygia, the foster-child of Pomponia Græcina, who boasted that though unable to bring the blood of an infant, she brought the death of an infant, for she bewitched the little Augusta, thy daughter, O Cyrus, and thine, O Isis!" "Dost hear, Cæsar?" asked Poppæa.
In the people, in the trees, in the whole garden there reigned an evening calm. That calm struck Petronius, and it struck him especially in the people. In the faces of Pomponia, old Aulus, their son, and Lygia there was something such as he did not see in the faces which surrounded him every day, or rather every night.
"Then why didst thou go?" She raised her iris-colored eyes to him, and, bending her blushing face, said, "Thou knowest " Vinicius was silent for a moment from excess of happiness, and began again to speak, as his eyes were opened gradually to this, that she was different utterly from Roman women, and resembled Pomponia alone.
But Lygia slept on calmly, as if at home, under the care of Pomponia Græcina. And she slept rather long. Midday had passed when she opened her blue eyes and looked around the cubiculum in astonishment. Evidently she wondered that she was not in the house of Aulus. "That is thou, Acte?" said she at last, seeing in the darkness the face of the Greek. "I, Lygia." "Is it evening?"
We have three letters written when he was thirty-eight, in the year after his Ædileship. In the first he tells his friend of the death of his cousin, Lucius Cicero, who had travelled with him into Sicily, and alludes to the disagreements which had taken place between Pomponia, the sister of Atticus, and her husband, Quintus Cicero our Cicero's brother.
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.
But she stopped for a while, and then said, "Perhaps Petronius only said, in Nero's presence at some supper, that he saw a hostage of the Lygians at Aulus's, and Nero, who is jealous of his own power, demanded thee only because hostages belong to Cæsar. But he does not like Aulus and Pomponia. No! it does not seem to me that if Petronius wished to take thee from Aulus he would use such a method.
Vinicius looked at her, as though what she said passed every measure of human understanding. "And hast thou no wish to return to Pomponia?" "I should like, from my whole soul, to return to her; and shall return, if such be God's will." "I say to thee, therefore, return; and I swear by my lares that I will not raise a hand against thee."
Pomponia had not seen her, it is true, at meetings of confessors of the new faith; but she had heard from them that Acte had never refused them a service, and that she read the letters of Paul of Tarsus eagerly.
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