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Here centred those busy equites, the capitalists, whose transactions ran out even beyond the lands covered by the eagles, so that while Gaul was yet unconquered, Cicero could boast, "not a sesterce in Gaul changes hands without being entered in a Roman ledger." And here were brokers whose clients were kings, and who by their "influence" almost made peace or war, like modern Rothschilds.
Mother knew the way; and as we she, I mean, and Dada and myself. . ." "Heh! what is this?" interrupted Karnis, now for the first time noticing the dish before him. "A fowl when we are so miserably poor? A whole fowl, and cooked with oil?" He spoke angrily, but his wife, laying her hand on his shoulder, said soothingly: "We shall soon earn it again. Never a sesterce was won by fretting.
The cooks, however, worked on, seemingly heedless of the apparition of Diomed. 'Ho, Euclio, your egg-pan! What, is this the largest? it only holds thirty-three eggs: in the houses I usually serve, the smallest egg-pan holds fifty, if need be! 'The unconscionable rogue! thought Diomed; 'he talks of eggs as if they were a sesterce a hundred!
Gabinius now rose, glanced at the various objects lying on the table and said in a much shorter and more business-like tone than before: "For all these things I can give you wait a minute twenty-seventy-four hundred four hundred and fifty I can give you six hundred and fifty drachmae, not a sesterce more!" "You are joking," cried Keraunus. "Not a sesterce more," answered the other coldly.
'Ay, do, said the surly host; 'and if I press down my thumb to save you, may the Fates cut my thread! 'Your rope, you mean, said Lydon, sneeringly: 'here is a sesterce to buy one. The Titan wine-vender seized the hand extended to him, and griped it in so stern a vice that the blood spirted from the fingers' ends over the garments of the bystanders. They set up a savage laugh.
"Well, well, my dear fellow," said Pratinas, who, having won the stakes, was in a mood to be sympathetic, "we must really see what can be done to remedy matters." "I can see nothing!" was his answer. "Won't your father come to the rescue?" put in Gabinius, between deep pulls on a beaker. "My father!" snapped Ahenobarbus. "Never a sesterce will I get out of him!
No smoke mingled with this clear and genial blaze, but it compelled her to shade her dazzled eyes; and as she lifted her hand she woke to see Medius standing in front of her. He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers.
But when, after waking the priest, she had asked how much a goat might cost for sacrifice, her countenance cleared, for her savings were enough to pay for it and for a young cock as well. All she had she left with the old man, to the last sesterce; but she could only wait to see the cock sacrificed, for she felt she must go home.
"A litter?" said Keraunus, in surprise. "The two thousand drachmae have turned the girl's head." "Only on account of her foot. It was hurting her so much when she went out." "Then why did she not stay at home? As usual she has wasted an hour to save a sesterce, and you, neither of you have any time to spare." "I will go after her at once."
"A litter?" said Keraunus, in surprise. "The two thousand drachmae have turned the girl's head." "Only on account of her foot. It was hurting her so much when she went out." "Then why did she not stay at home? As usual she has wasted an hour to save a sesterce, and you, neither of you have any time to spare." "I will go after her at once."
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