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I passed completely round the lower part of the room and, with Tanno, took my stand near the southeastern door, by which he would pass out if on his way to the Stadium. Few senators passed through that door with the party of which I was one, the invitations being based on horsemanship and good fellowship, not on wealth, social prominence or political importance.
From Tanno also I received a letter warning me to be on guard and to efface myself as much as possible. Falco, who had loathed Commodus, but had been careful to keep a still tongue on all matters except horse-racing, sword-play, social pleasures and gem-collecting, was much relieved at his death, and heartily delighted with his successor.
Tanno also expressed his admiration of her powers. Last I said farewell to my old nurse and foster mother Uturia, who, when I was scarcely a year old, had closed the eyes of my dying mother, and not much later of my father, and who had not merely suckled me, but had been almost as my real mother to me in my childhood.
Have you never seen him, for instance, with Nemestronia's leopard?" "Never that I recall," said Tanno, "and if I had I should have thought nothing of it. Nemestronia's leopard has been tame since it learned to suck milk from Nemestronia's fingers, before its eyes were half open.
Well, that was just the way he looked." "That is the way young Ducconius looks," I rejoined. "He ought to. You have described exactly what he is." "Does he know he looks like the Emperor?" Tanno asked, "and how does it happen?" "Pure coincidence," said I. "The family have been reared in these hills for generations, none of them ever went to Rome. Reate is the end of the world for them."
"Never!" Tanno affirmed. "Can you recall what happened?" queried Muso. Tanno rubbed his chin. "It seems to me," he said, "that every time I saw a snarling cur or an open-mouthed watch-dog rush at Caius, the dog slowed his rush before he reached him, circled about him, sniffing, and trotted back where he came from."
These are my slaves, put at your disposal and enjoined to obey you as they would obey me in person. Keep quiet here till I can arrange for you to take possession of your legacies from Falco. I think he left you all your personal belongings and the slaves who waited on you. As soon as the necessary formalities are completed I'll send them to you. "Do not attempt to communicate with Vedia or Tanno.
If you want to hear what really occurred, call in Agathemer; he was with Hedulio when it happened." "Good idea," said Tanno, "and I want Agathemer here for another reason. May I call him in, Caius?" I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and obsequious as always. "Agathemer," Tanno queried, "have you finished your dinner?" "Long ago," said Agathemer, "and plenty too."
I think I recognize you. Are you not Andivius Hedulio?" "I am," I acknowledged. He saluted me courteously and bade me a polite farewell, without any other word. Tanno and Galen made no comment, nor did Agathemer. They assisted me out to Tanno's waiting litter. In it I was borne off to the lodgings which I had occupied eight days before, between my two trials.
"I have lent it," I explained, "to Marcus Martius, to travel to Rome in with his bride. I wrote you of his wedding. He has just married my uncle's freedwoman Marcia. I wrote you about it." "Pooh!" cried Tanno, "how should I remember the marriage of a freedwoman I never saw with a bumpkin I never heard of?" "No bumpkin," cut in Lisius Naepor.
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