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Updated: May 29, 2025
There is neither dignity nor decency in this," he muttered. "Nothing but evil can come of it." "Whose was the star that fell?" asked Galen. There came more noise from the bedroom. Commodus seemed to be trying to get to his feet again. Marcia ran toward the smaller anteroom and dragged the curtains back. "Narcissus!" He came out, carrying Telamonion. The child lay asleep in his arms.
He thrust her away from him and went growling like a bear into his own apartment, where his voice could be heard cursing the attendants whose dangerous duty it was to divine in an instant what clothes he would wear and to help him into them. He came out naked through the door, saw Marcia talking to Narcissus, laughed and disappeared again. Marcia raised her voice: "Telamonion! Oh, Telamonion!"
Whose name do you guess comes first?" Pertinax was playing with Telamonion and did not look at her. "Severus!" he answered, morbid jealousy, amounting to obsession, stirring that cynical hope in him. "Severus isn't mentioned. The first six names are in this order: Galen, Marcia, Cornificia, Pertinax, Narcissus, Sextus alias Maternus. Do you realize what that means? It is now or never!
A curly-headed Greek boy hardly eight years old came running from the outer corridor all laughter one of those spoiled favorites of fortune whom it was the fashion to keep as pets. Their usefulness consisted mainly in retention of their innocence. "Telamonion, go in and play with him. Go in and make him laugh. He is bad tempered."
The great door carved with cupids leading to the emperor's bedchamber opened inch by inch and Telamonion came out, closing it softly behind him. "Caesar sleeps," said the child, "and the wind blew out the lamp. He was very cross. It is dark. It is cold and lonely in there."
The child Telamonion pressed close to him holding his righthand, gazing at Marcia. "Telamonion, go in and play with Narcissus," said Marcia. She pointed at the curtains and the child obeyed. "Go in and kill him, Pertinax!" Marcia shook the list of names, then stood still suddenly, like a woman frozen, ash-white under the carmine on her cheeks.
He will take a cup of wine from my hands, making me taste it first. Then he will go alone into his own room, where only that child Telamonion will dare to follow. Everything depends then on the child. If the child should happen to amuse him he will turn sentimental and I will dare to go in and talk to him. If not " Galen interrupted.
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