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Updated: May 31, 2025
I mean to start back for Rome with him as soon after dawn as I can arrange. You other gentlemen can sleep as late as you like, of course." "I'm going with you," Hirnio cut in. "I came prepared, with my servant and led-mule loaded with my outfit. I'm to be up as soon as you two." "Let's all turn in," Tanno proposed.
"Such, from his birth and by the divine might of his birth-stars, is our Hedulio." "After all that," said Tanno, "I should believe anything. I believe the tale of the she-bear. Who has another to tell?"
"Two mornings afterward," Agathemer summed up, "we found the stable was broken into and the young stallion gone. No other horse had been stolen." "Just what might have been expected," said Tanno, "and now, as king of the revels, I pronounce this symposium at an end. I mean to be up by dawn and to get Hedulio up soon after I am awake.
It so happened that Tanno had his litter opened, that I might get all the air possible, and the curtains looped back tightly. Somehow, at the very crest of that rise on the Salarian Road, on a perfect afternoon, about the tenth hour, I came to myself.
"Well," Tanno commented, "he might be Commodus' twin brother, by his looks. He'll be a head shorter, in a hurry, if Commodus ever hears of him. He is the duplicate of him. I stood in the road, staring after him, and forgot to climb into the litter. When I woke up and climbed in, my lads swung up your road at a great pace, and here I am.
Hirnio advised returning to my villa and demanding an apology from Vedius, even instituting legal proceedings at Reate if he did not make an apology and enter a disclaimer. But Tanno, Martius and all my tenants, even the two with cracked heads, were for going on, and, of course, Murmex, who talked as if he had been a member of our company from the first.
The watchword was to be, in memory of that used at my escape from Rome, that whoever came from her or Tanno to me would ask: "Can you direct me to the leopard-tamer who rode the horse with the blue saddle-cloth?" I was to reply: "The blue saddle-cloth was bordered with silver." He was then to respond: "I have silver for the leopard-tamer."
I was surprised and abashed at Tanno's reception of the leopard story and Agathemer seemed similarly affected and more so than I. He tried to start a diversion. "Most marvellous of all Hedulio's exploits," he said, "I account his encounter with the piebald horse." "Tell us about it," said Tanno.
"Hedulio led the bull into the pen, patted him on the neck and then turned his back on him and sauntered out of the pen, shutting the gate without hurry. "Chryseros ran to him, stumbling as he ran, fell on his knees, caught Hedulio's hand, and poured out a torrent of thanks." "Did all that really happen?" Tanno queried. "Precisely as I have told it." Agathemer affirmed.
"Does being his slave inhibit you from telling the truth about him?" Tanno queried. "If it is to his discredit, certainly," Agathemer answered. "Suppose it is to his credit, very much to his credit," Tanno pursued. "Then I am permitted to tell the truth," laughed Agathemer. "Then," said Tanno, "tell us the whole truth about Hedulio and Chryseros Philargyrus and the bull."
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