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Updated: May 31, 2025
I found the missive a long and loving letter from Vedia: one to soothe and transport any lover. Tanno had said that he would not visit me again except as was absolutely needful, considering it reckless and venturesome to run the risk of some Imperial spy noticing his visits to the Choragium and making investigations.
"I should never have known of Hedulio's horoscope if his uncle had not shown me a copy. Caius has never mentioned it, unless one of us talked of it first." "What's the point of the horoscope?" Tanno queried. "Why you see," Naepor explained. "Hedulio was born in the third watch of the night on the Ides of September.
"I think," spoke Agathemer, "that you are neither wise to speak so of the dead nor justified in speaking so of my former master. He was a just man and a wise man. Though I cannot conjecture his reason, I am sure that what he did was, somehow, for the best." Tanno stared at him with a puzzled expression. He turned to me.
Humor him, do not oppose his worship of his treasures, but entice him away from them all you can by devices he does not suspect. "And let me add, keep away from me, for your own sake. Keep away from Vedia and Tanno and Agathemer. Do not write letters. True, Julianus has put Marcia to death and you are rid of a pertinacious and alert enemy.
Thus Nonius Libo, the wealthy provincial who was to be induced to purchase me, would know nothing of my identity with Festus the Animal Tamer or of my connection with the Choragium. I acclaimed this project, as far more promising than Vedia's plan to seclude me in the dreary wilds of Bruttium. Tanno gave me a letter and went off.
I revelled in it and could not have been happier except that I never heard from Vedia or Tanno, let alone had a letter from either. And I wrote to both and sent off letter after letter to one or the other. For it seemed to me that a letter in this form could not excite any suspicion.
I then told her what Agathemer and I had heard about Marcia while domiciled with Colgius, and of the absence from all talk about her of any mention of or allusion to Marcus Martius; I asked if she knew what had become of him or, indeed, anything about him. "Oh, yes," she said, "all Roman society knew the main facts and dear old Tanno supplied me with many of the intimate details.
If you stand you'll be thinking of your tired legs instead of talking without thinking at all." Agathemer, embarrassed, seated himself in the lowest and simplest chair in the room. "We called you in for something else," said Tanno, "but first of all I want to ask you why you were not with us at dinner?
Agathemer took off his robe, and threw it around me and led me to a postern. In the vaulted corridor we were met by Tanno, who embraced me and congratulated me, and Galen, who also embraced me and felicitated me. Tanno said: "Vedia kept up till Agathemer nabbed the criminals, then she fainted; but she declares the faint relieved her and that she is entirely herself."
"By the way, Caius," Tanno asked, "how are you going to travel?" "On horseback," I replied. "Why not in your carriage?" he queried. "I was hoping to ride with you to the Via Salaria, at least, unless your roads jolt a carriage as badly as bearers on them jolt a litter. What's wrong with the superperfect travelling carriage of your late Uncle?"
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