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"My favour, if she will trust me." "Proculejus and I will continue to strengthen her confidence. And if we succeed ?" "Then, as I have said, she will have my favour a generous abundance of favour." "But her future destiny? What fate will you bestow on her and her children?" "Whatever the degree of her confidence deserves."
A peasant, she told Epaphroditus, who was watching the meal, had given them to her because they were so remarkably fine. Some had already been snatched by the guards. The Queen and her companions ate a little of the fruit, and Proculejus, who had come to greet Cleopatra, was also persuaded to taste one of the finest figs. At the end of the meal Cleopatra wished to rest.
Proculejus had learned that Antony had named him to the Queen as the person most worthy of her confidence, and more keenly felt the wrong which, as the tool and obedient friend of Octavianus, he had inflicted upon the hapless woman.
This proved to be his design; he had been merely waiting for Cornelius Gallus, the commander of the fleet, of whom you have heard. He, too, ranks among the chief men in Rome, and yet he made himself the accomplice of Proculejus. "The latter retired as soon as he had presented the new-comer to the hapless woman. "I remained at my post and now heard Gallus assure Cleopatra of his master's sympathy.
This proved to be his design; he had been merely waiting for Cornelius Gallus, the commander of the fleet, of whom you have heard. He, too, ranks among the chief men in Rome, and yet he made himself the accomplice of Proculejus. "The latter retired as soon as he had presented the new-comer to the hapless woman. "I remained at my post and now heard Gallus assure Cleopatra of his master's sympathy.
But he had scarcely perceived what threatened him, and remembered her words concerning his famous uncle's surrender only to her and to death, when he succeeded in conquering his quickly kindled senses. Blushing at his own weakness, he averted his eyes from the Queen, and when he met those of Proculejus and the other witnesses of the scene, he realized the abyss on whose verge he stood.
The lord to whom he gives his services intrusted him with a difficult task, and Proculejus doubtless considered it his duty to make every effort to perform it and yet If I see aright, a day will come when he will curse this, and the obedience with which he, a free man, aided Caesar But listen. "Erect and haughty in his splendid suit of armour, he knocked at the door of the tomb.
True, the proud blood of the outwitted lioness urged her to resist this profanation, and Proculejus an enviable honour made her feel the superior strength of his arm. I am no prophet, but Dion, I repeat, this shameful struggle and the glances which flashed upon him will be remembered to his dying hour. Had they been darted at me, I should have cursed my life.
Charmian had just sunk on her knees, when some one knocked loudly at the closed door, and the voices of Epaphroditus and Proculejus imperiously demanded admittance. When no answer followed, the lock was hastily burst open.
After Charmian, at the dying man's request, had given him some wine, he found strength to speak coherently, instead of moaning and sighing. He tenderly urged Cleopatra to secure her own safety, if it could be done without dishonour, and mentioned Proculejus as the man most worthy of her confidence among the friends of Octavianus.
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