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A disturbance begun in the Circus might seize the whole city, and have results incalculable. He looked once more at Subrius Flavius, at Scevinus the centurion, a relative of the senator, at the soldiers; and seeing everywhere frowning brows, excited faces, and eyes fixed on him, he gave the sign for mercy. Then a thunder of applause was heard from the highest seats to the lowest.
"I trust that this is true, and that Apollo will not seem jealous. If I return in triumph, I will offer him such a hecatomb as no god has had so far." Scevinus fell to repeating the lines of Horace: "Sic te diva potens Cypri, Sic fratres Helenæ, lucida sidera, Ventorumque regat Pater-" "The vessel is ready at Naples," said Cæsar. "I should like to go even tomorrow."
He had not given any such orders. The whole story was the fabrication of a vile slave, attempting, by these infamous means, to compass his master's destruction. Scevinus said all this with so bold and intrepid a tone of voice, and with such an air of injured innocence, that Nero and his friends were half disposed to believe that he was unjustly accused, and to dismiss him from custody.
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