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Ships were rammed, sunk, overturned, and boarded, and, so far as the men were concerned, the battle might be as grim and bloody as any other kind of gladiatorial contest. We will assume that Silius is a married man, and that his wife is a typical Roman dame worthy of his station in life. Her name shall be Marcia, or, if she possesses more than one, Marcia Sabina.
On the present occasion it appears that Silius himself is to proceed at once to pay his own morning homage to a still higher patron, His Highness Nero, who is at home on the Palatine Hill, and whose levée calls imperatively for the attendance of certain members of the aristocracy.
This, in fact, would naturally be supposed to be the case, since it was Silius rather than Messalina who was their rival. Some of them appear to have hated Messalina on her own account, but with the others there was apparently no wish to harm the empress, if any other way could be found of reaching Silius.
I see joy in your looks when I promise to come; but you will soon change your countenance when I add, only for a few days: for the same business that at present keeps me here will prevent my making a longer stay. Farewell. To CANINIUS RUFUS I HAVE just been informed that Silius Italicus51 has starved himself to death, at his villa near Naples. Ill-health was the cause.
Narcissus's pretended dream. Messalina's confirmation of it. Claudius alarmed. Silanus is executed. Unbounded influence of Messalina. Caius Silius. Messalina's attachment to him. Hesitation of Silius. His decision. Claudius. Public works at Ostia. The obelisk. Immense ship. Messalina continues her wicked career. Silius intoxicated with his elevation.
Her historian says that she was not influenced in this decision by any remaining sentiments of conjugal affection, or by conscientious principle of any kind, but by her distrust of Silius, and her unwillingness to commit herself so entirely into his power. She preferred to keep him dependent upon her, rather than to make herself dependent upon him.
He will not go to bed, but will sleep awhile upon a couch in some quiet and darkened room. If he cannot sleep, or when he wakes, he may perhaps read or be read to. Where he will spend the afternoon till the bath and dinner is a matter of his own choice. We will suppose that Silius is specially inclined for action and society.
There were of course academies of a better class than these schools open to the street, and probably Publius Silius would be taken to one where his "guardian" waits with others in an antechamber, while he is himself being taught in a room where the walls are pictured with historical or mythological scenes, or with charts or maps, and where there stand busts of eminent writers.
She liked the plan, however, of being married to him, she said, and would consent to that, even while the emperor remained alive. And so if Silius would agree to it, she was ready, she added, the next time that the emperor went to Ostia, to have the ceremony performed.
"And if you lose?" asked Silius. "Then you will lose your life." The Emperor knocked with the dice-box on the table. His secretary Narcissus came in. "Give me writing materials, Narcissus. The antidote for snake-bites is yew-tree resin...." "And the antidote to hemlock?" "Against that there is no antidote." "Follow the game, or I shall be angry." "No, you cannot be angry!" answered Silius.
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