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She dismissed the Legate Quintillus, who was so anxious to please me I may thank that fool of a woman that he became my enemy but he was older even than I, and she likes young men best. She is like all the rest of them, and I of all men might have known it. It is the way of the world: to-day one gives a blow and to-morrow takes one."
When presently his handsome wife attracted the notice of the legate, he endeavored to gain profit and advancement through her, but Sirona had rebuffed Quintillus with such insulting disrespect, that his superior officer became the centurion's enemy, and contrived to procure his removal to the oasis, which was tantamount to banishment.
It is a marvel, which I myself do not understand, that I did not grow wicked with such a man, a man who why should I conceal it who, when we were at Rome, because he was in debt, and because he hoped to get promotion through his legate Quintillus, sold me me to him.
When presently his handsome wife attracted the notice of the legate, he endeavored to gain profit and advancement through her, but Sirona had rebuffed Quintillus with such insulting disrespect, that his superior officer became the centurion's enemy, and contrived to procure his removal to the oasis, which was tantamount to banishment.
Pleasure became her torment, for the sweetest wine is repulsive when it has been tasted by impure lips. After every feast and spectacle he loaded her with outrageous reproaches, and when at last, weary of such treatment, she refused to quit the house, he obliged her nevertheless to accompany him as often as the Legate Quintillus desired it.
It is a marvel, which I myself do not understand, that I did not grow wicked with such a man, a man who why should I conceal it who, when we were at Rome, because he was in debt, and because he hoped to get promotion through his legate Quintillus, sold me me to him.
It is a marvel, which I myself do not understand, that I did not grow wicked with such a man, a man who why should I conceal it who, when we were at Rome, because he was in debt, and because he hoped to get promotion through his legate Quintillus, sold me me to him.
She dismissed the Legate Quintillus, who was so anxious to please me I may thank that fool of a woman that he became my enemy but he was older even than I, and she likes young men best. She is like all the rest of them, and I of all men might have known it. It is the way of the world: to-day one gives a blow and to-morrow takes one."
Pleasure became her torment, for the sweetest wine is repulsive when it has been tasted by impure lips. After every feast and spectacle he loaded her with outrageous reproaches, and when at last, weary of such treatment, she refused to quit the house, he obliged her nevertheless to accompany him as often as the Legate Quintillus desired it.
She dismissed the Legate Quintillus, who was so anxious to please me I may thank that fool of a woman that he became my enemy but he was older even than I, and she likes young men best. She is like all the rest of them, and I of all men might have known it. It is the way of the world: to-day one gives a blow and to-morrow takes one."
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