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Updated: June 15, 2025
And so she continued to finger the hilt of the little dagger, and look at its keen poison-smeared edge. But one day at the end of this dreary period Agias appeared before his mistress with a smiling face. "Don't raise high hopes, my lady, but trust me. I have struck a path that I'm sure Pratinas will wish I'd never travelled."
Pratinas stood back with his imperturbable smile on his face; and if he felt the least pity for his fellow-countryman, he did not show it. "Alfidius awaits the mistress," announced Semiramis, with trembling lips. Into the room came a brutish, hard-featured, shock-headed man, with a large scar, caused by branding, on his forehead.
She had known that Drusus had enemies; but now her whole strong nature was stirred at the sense of her nephew's imminent peril. "If you were a freeman, Agias," were her words, "and could give witness as such, Pratinas and Ahenobarbus high as the latter is should know that my influence at the law outweighs theirs. But they shall be thwarted.
Lucius Ahenobarbus spent that day in frightful anxiety. One moment he was fingering Drusus's money bags; the next haunted by the murdered man's ghost. When he called on Cornelia, her slaves said she had a headache and would receive no one. Pratinas held aloof. No news all day the suspense became unendurable.
If Pratinas had said: "My dear Lucius, you are a thick-headed, old-fashioned, superstitious Roman, whom I, in my superior wisdom, utterly despise," he would have produced about the same effect upon young Ahenobarbus.
The worthy man declared that he had lighted on nothing less than a plot to murder the Romans, one and all, by admitting Achillas's soldiery to the palace enclosure, while all the banqueters were helpless with drugged wine. Pratinas, who had been supposed to be at Pelusium, Cerrinius had caught in retired conference with Pothinus, planning the arrangement of the feast.
Valeria, wife of Calatinus, and Pratinas, the "charming" Epicurean philosopher, had both fled Rome two days before, and rumour had it that they had embarked together at Ostia on a ship leaving direct for Egypt. Of course Calatinus was receiving all the sympathy, and was a much abused man; and so the tongues ran on.
The legacy would be highly desirable, but life would be very pleasant without it. Lucius was almost induced by his inward qualms to tell Pratinas to throw over the whole matter, and inform Dumnorix that his services were not needed. It was at this juncture that Cornelia committed an error, the full consequences of which were, to her, happily veiled.
Only I must have fair return for my work, and an oath that the business shall never be coming to the point of giving my eyes to the crows. I can't risk my life in anything but a square fight." The Gallic sun-god. "Well," said Pratinas, after a few words with his companion, "how will this proposition suit you?
"What shall I do?" said the girl to the Ethiop in a very audible whisper. "Sing," interrupted Agias. "Let me hear the rest of the Theocritus." "I don't like to sing those songs," objected Artemisia. "Pratinas makes me, I don't know why." "Well," said Agias, smiling, "I wouldn't for the-world make you sing against your will. Suppose you tell me about yourself.
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