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Updated: September 12, 2025
Late in the year Antony formed a league with Sext. Pompeius; and while that chief blockaded Thurii and Consentia, Antony assailed Brundusium. Agrippa was preparing to meet this new combination; and a fresh civil war was imminent.
The horrible obsession came upon her now, all the stronger for those moments of forgetfulness: "Clang clang clang!" The little Irish novice had rung the chapel bell for Sext and None. She could hear, from the nuns' end of the big rambling, two-storied house, the rustling habits sweeping along the passage.
The first hour or period of the day; follows after matins and lauds; originally intended to be said at the first hour after sunrise. Tierce, terce. The third hour; half-way between sunrise and noon. Sext. The sixth hour, originally and properly said at midday. None, noon. The ninth hour from sunrise, or the middle hour between midday and sunset that is, about 3 o'clock.
When in his old age he was watching some athletes practising in the course, he is said to have looked at his arms and to have exclaimed with tears in his eyes: "Ah well! these are now as good as dead." Not a bit more so than yourself, you trifler! For at no time were you made famous by your real self, but by chest and biceps. Sext.
The five years for which the triumvirs were originally appointed were now fast expiring; and it was settled that their authority should be renewed by the subservient senate and people for a second period of the same duration. They parted good friends; and Octavian undertook his campaign against Sext. Pompeius without fear from Antony. This was proved by the fate of the fugitive.
It was agreed that Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica should be given up to his absolute rule, and that Achaia should be added to his portion; so that the Roman world was now partitioned among four: Octavian, Antony, Lepidus, and Sext. Pompeius. On their return the triumvirs were received with vociferous applause.
Rise at 3 o'clock, or rather at 3.30. Breakfast at 7 Sext at 11, dinner at 11.30 Nones at 1.30 Vespers at 5.15 Supper at 6, and Compline at 7.25." "There, at least that is clear and easy to remember If only Father Etienne have not noticed my absence from chapel!" He left his room. "Ah, here is the famous rule," he said to himself, on seeing a framed table hung on the landing.
The hopeless state of the republican or rather the senatorial party was such that almost all hastened to make submission to the conquerors: those whose sturdy spirit still disdained submission resorted to Sext. Pompeius in Sicily.
The chapel bell tolled softly for the last service of the day, and the whole household assembled. Every day this was done at Hazelwood, for prime, sext, and compline, at six a.m., noon, and seven p.m. respectively, and any member of the household found missing would have been required to render an exceedingly good reason for it.
It might have been called an immense clear medal, sifting a pale light, straining it through prayers, not allowing them to penetrate to the altar till sanctified and blessed by the Patriarch. And while he was dreaming, the clock struck; the two Trappists regained their stalls, while the others entered. Waiting thus in the chapel, the hour of Sext had struck. The abbot advanced.
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