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She was a sister of Atticus, but she did not share her brother's tact and universal good-will. The two brothers were travelling together, and Pomponia was with them; something had irritated her. When they stopped to lunch at a place belonging to Quintus at Arcanum, he asked his wife to invite the ladies of the party in.

True, she declared that to be impossible at present, because Aulus and Pomponia had gone to Sicily, and because news of her return going from house to house, through slaves, would reach the Palatine, and Cæsar might take her from Aulus again.

But Poppæa began to gaze at Lygia. "What slave is this?" asked she, after a pause. "She is not a slave, divine Augusta, but a foster child of Pomponia Græcina, and a daughter of the Lygian king given by him as hostage to Rome." "And has she come to visit thee?" "No, Augusta. She is dwelling in the palace since the day before yesterday." "Was she at the feast last night?" "She was, Augusta."

She is full of fear where she is, and wishes to return to Pomponia. She would die from alarm and grief were it not for the hope that Petronius and he will intercede for her before Cæsar. Vinicius explained that he learned from Aulus himself that she had been taken. Why she is there, he knows not. Cæsar gives account to no one of his orders and commands. But let her not fear.

There was in his face, therefore, such a power of convincing as truth itself has. And Vinicius, who had been a sceptic, who did not wish to yield to the charm of the old man, yielded, however, to a certain feverish curiosity to know what would flow from the lips of that companion of the mysterious "Christus," and what that teaching was of which Lygia and Pomponia Græcina were followers.

Near the triclinium were heard in the alley, the steps of the old general, Vinicius, Lygia, and little Aulus; but before they arrived, Petronius had put another question "But believest thou in the gods, then, Pomponia?" "I believe in God, who is one, just, and all-powerful," answered the wife of Aulus Plautius.

I gave them an accurate description of the girl, and that giant who bore her from the feast at Cæsar's, for he is the man, beyond doubt, who intercepted her. Listen to me: Perhaps Aulus and Pomponia wish to secrete her in some estate of theirs; in that case we shall learn the direction in which they took her.

On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?" "This is a wonderful house," answered Petronius, in an undertone. "Of course it is known to thee that Pomponia Græcina is suspected of entertaining that Eastern superstition which consists in honoring a certain Chrestos.

Then he turned to Pomponia Græcina, and, pointing to the garden, said, "I understand now, domina, why thou and thy husband prefer this house to the Circus and to feasts on the Palatine." "Yes," answered she, turning her eyes in the direction of little Aulus and Lygia.

But it is not permitted to flee from the house of Cæsar; whoso does that offends Cæsar's majesty. They may go; but in the evening a centurion at the head of soldiers will take a death sentence to Aulus and Pomponia Græcina; they will bring Lygia to the palace again, and then there will be no rescue for her. Should Aulus and his wife receive her under their roof, death awaits them to a certainty.

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