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So he and the clerk counted, even to the bottom of the basket, which was found to contain gold to the value of over eleven hundred sestertia. "So far well," he said, "but that is not enough." The buyer beckoned to the man with her who stood in the corner, his face hidden by the shadow, and he dragged forward the second basket, which he had already unstrapped from his shoulders.
This at least was certain, for he had arranged that the auction should be held that evening and instructed him to buy her at all costs, even for a thousand sestertia. Indeed, who would dare to bid for a slave that the Prince Domitian desired?
A titter of laughter went around the room. "Two thousand sestertia," repeated the matter-of-fact voice with the foreign accent. "Well, well," said the auctioneer, "I suppose that I must accept the bid. Friend Saturius, I have two thousand sestertia, and it is against you." "Against me it must remain, then," replied the little man in a fury. "Do all the kings in the world want this girl?
Somewhere in that great dead-looking house was Miriam, as far off from him as though she were still in Judaea. There was Miriam and who was with her? The new-found lord who had spent two thousand sestertia on her purchase? The thought of it almost turned his brain. Heretofore, the life of Caleb had been ruled by two passions ambition and the love of Miriam.
Sixty sestertia, which Domitius had brought with him and lodged in the public treasury, being brought to Caesar by the magistrates of Corfinium, he gave them back to Domitius, that he might not appear more moderate with respect to the life of men than in money matters, though he knew that it was public money, and had been given by Pompey to pay his army.
Meanwhile, Nehushta, Miriam and the steward Stephanus, disguised as a slave, went on as swiftly as they dared towards the palace of Marcus in the Via Agrippa. The two women held each other by the hand but said nothing; their hearts seemed too full for speech. Only the old steward kept muttering "Two thousand sestertia! The savings of years! Two thousand sestertia for that bit of a girl!
It promises to you that if you give evidence enabling him to arrest that miscreant who dared to bid against him no, do not be alarmed, the lady was not knocked down to you you shall be allowed to take possession of her or to buy her at a reasonable valuation, not to exceed fifteen sestertia. That is as much as she will fetch now in the open market. Are you satisfied with this document?"
All these he swore that he would sacrifice, and moreover that he would exhibit musical and dramatic shows, and expend upon them the sum of three hundred and thirty-three sestertia, and three hundred and thirty-three denarii, and one-third of a denarius. The sum total of this in our Greek money is eighty-three thousand five hundred and eighty-three drachmas and two obols.
"I have lost ten sestertia," said Clodius, between his teeth. "Habet!" The populace, not yet hardened into cruelty, made the signal of mercy: but as the attendants of the arena approached, they found the kindness came too late; the heart of the Gaul had been pierced, and his eyes were set in death, It was his life's blood that flowed so darkly over the sand and sawdust of the arena.
Not so harmless was Lydon's retaliation: he quickly sprung to his feet, and aimed his cestus full on the broad breast of his antagonist. Tetraides reeled the populace shouted. 'You are unlucky to-day, said Lepidus to Clodius: 'you have lost one bet you will lose another. 'By the gods! my bronzes go to the auctioneer if that is the case. I have no less than a hundred sestertia upon Tetraides.
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