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But these benefactions, great and munificent as they seem to be, were not the most important services he performed for the city of Rome. The common-sewers were first made by order of Tarquinius Priscus, not so much with a view to cleanliness, as by way of subterranean drains to the Velabrum, and in order to carry off the stagnant water, which remained in the lower parts, after heavy rains.
Questions for Examination. Who was Lucius Tarquinius Priscus? What occasioned his removal to Rome, and what circumstances attended it? Was this presage fulfilled, and by what means? In what manner did he govern? Was Tarquin a warlike prince? How did he improve his victories? By what act did he insure the obedience of his subjects? What contributed to increase the reputation of the augurs?
Such was the close of this most important investigation; but there is still another bit of public business on hand of some consequence, for Hostilius Firminus, the lieutenant of Marius Priscus, who was implicated in the matter, had received a very rough handling.
They have not chosen the imaginary freedom and security of barbarians, in contempt of the artificial restraints and legal oppressions of a refined state of society, in the way that the Greek did, whom Priscus found in the camp of Attila, declaring that he lived more happily amongst the wild Scythians than ever he did under the Roman government.
Priscus, frequently observed with three rings, sometimes with his left hand bare, lived so irregularly that he would change his robe every hour; from a magnificent edifice, he would on a sudden hide himself in a place, whence a decent freedman could scarcely come out in a decent manner; one while he would choose to lead the life of a rake at Rome, another while that of a teacher at Athens; born under the evil influence of every Vertumnus.
"They have already paid with their lives," answered Maximus. "Are you also a Galilaean?" "No; but I love justice." "Justice and its guardian-goddess Astrasa left the earth when the Iron Age began; now she is a star in heaven." "In the Zodiac," interrupted Priscus; "I believe also, we all live in Zodiacs, and there justice has no place." A sudden murmur of voices was heard from the camp.
It imagines the Emperor transformed, not into a God, but into a gourd one of those "bloated gourds which sun their speckled bellies before the doors of the Roman peasants." As has been the case not unfrequently in history, from the times of Tarquinius Priscus to those of Charles II., the death was concealed until everything had been prepared for the production of a successor.
The debt was both the ground-work and cause of the disturbance: for the purpose of ascertaining which Spurius Servilius Priscus and Quintus Clœlius Siculus, being appointed censors, were prevented by war from proceeding in the business.
Passienus Paulus, a Roman knight, of good family, and a man of peculiar learning and culture besides~ composes elegies, a talent which runs in the family, for Propertius is reckoned by him amongst his ancestors, as well as being his countryman. He was lately reciting a poem which began thus: "Priscus, at thy command"
"You have learnt that in Egypt," Priscus interrupted, "for the Egyptians see the river Nile in the constellation Eridanus. I should like to know under which constellation this Lutetia lies!" "It lies under Andromeda, like Rome," answered Maximus, "but Perseus hangs over the Holy Land, so that Algol stands over Jerusalem."
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