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Updated: June 23, 2025
Now, a man of real worth knows that it can be seen in his bearing, even when he treats one of us as an equal. Pontius does so, and Titianus, and you who are his friend, no less. It is a good thing that you should have come but, as I said before, the architect up there can do very well without you."
Hadrian had given him his freedom before he died and had left him a handsome legacy. The prefect gave him a piece of land to farm and continued in friendly relations with his Christian neighbor and his pretty daughter, who grew up among her father's co-religionists. When Titianus had told his wife the melancholy news he added solemnly: "A great sovereign is dead.
With a deep bow Titianus took the Empress's right hand, covered with rings; but she withdrew it quickly from that of her husband's friend and relative, as if she feared that the carefully-cherished limb useless as it was for any practical purpose, a mere toy among hands might suffer some injury, and wrapped it and her arm in her upper-robe.
"By reason of the sacrifices of which we were speaking." "Tinnius Rufus is at present the legate in Palestine. He has a horribly shrill voice but he looks like a man who will stand no trifling, and will know how to quell the venomous brood." "Possibly" replied Titianus. "But I fear that he will never attain his end by mere severity; and if he should he will have depopulated his province."
Titianus had failed to be present at the emperor's arrival, and keen courtier noses smelled a fall, and judged it wise to keep out of the way of a tottering power.
He had only to-day met Balbilla for the first time, but he had heard from Titianus that she was staying at the Caesareum with the Empress, and the prefect had also told him that she was the granddaughter of that same governor, Claudius Balbillus, who had granted freedom to his own grandfather, a learned Greek slave.
Instead of raving and lamenting, he would do better to tell her whither he had been. First, he hastily began, he had gone to the prefect Titianus, who was an elderly man of a noble family, many of whose members had ere now occupied the official residence of the prefect in Alexandria, and in other towns of Egypt.
This venerable man, ever since the transactions which he had conducted with reference to the thanksgiving of the Christians for the safety of the Emperor after the fire, had been one of the most esteemed friends of Titianus and Julia.
"I have already lodged a complaint," replied the man, "but I was told in answer to my report that there were no means to apply to the purpose." "I know nothing of these things," cried Titianus. "When did you forward your petition to the prefect's office?" "Under your predecessor, Haterius Nepos." "Indeed," said the prefect with a drawl. "So long ago.
The gaoler knew men well, and he thought he could safely predict that at the end of his two years' imprisonment this young thief would quit his cell a harmless imbecile. Titianus, Pontius, Balbilla and even Antinous had all attempted to speak of him to the Emperor, but each was sharply repulsed and taught that Hadrian was little inclined to pardon a wound to his artist's vanity.
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