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Updated: June 1, 2025
They walked a good while before reaching the Trans-Tiber, and the sun was near rising when the group surrounding Lygia dispersed. The Apostle, an old woman, and a boy went up the river; the old man of lower stature, Ursus, and Lygia entered a narrow vicus, and, advancing still about a hundred yards, went into a house in which were two shops, one for the sale of olives, the other for poultry.
He thought, moreover, that Petronius would not comprehend him in any case, and that something had happened which would remove them from each other. He could not come to an agreement with himself, even. When he returned from the Trans-Tiber to his splendid "insula," he was exhausted, and found for the first days a certain satisfaction in rest and in the comfort and abundance about him.
"And He will bless thee and thy house," concluded the Apostle. Meanwhile they turned into another ravine, at the end of which a faint light was visible. Peter pointed to it and said, "There is the hut of the quarryman who gave us a refuge when, on the way from Ostrianum with the sick Linus, we could not go to the Trans-Tiber." After a while they arrived.
"I have lost, and am ruined," thought Petronius. Meanwhile Cæsar rose, and the consultation was ended. PETRONIUS went home. Nero and Tigellinus went to Poppæa's atrium, where they were expected by people with whom the prefect had spoken already. There were two Trans-Tiber rabbis in long solemn robes and mitred, a young copyist, their assistant, together with Chilo.
But Ursus, who was a simple man, and had heard Vinicius say that the Greek had been with him in Ostrianum, and had seen him with Croton enter the house in which Lygia lived, stopped for a moment and said, "Speak no untruth, old man, for to-day thou wert with Vinicius in Ostrianum and under our gate." "Ah!" said Chilo, "then is your house in the Trans-Tiber?
"Why was the letter given to thee, and not sent by a slave?" "I know not, lord. Perhaps because I was sent in this direction on other duty." "I know, against the Christians?" "Yes, lord." "Is it long since the pursuit was begun?" "Some divisions were sent to the Trans-Tiber before midday."
Hast thou seen Alexandria, Memphis, the Pyramids, the hair which Isis tore from her head in grief for Osiris? Hast thou heard the shout of Memnon? The world is wide; everything does not end at the Trans-Tiber!
But he thought that in the evening he would send Euricius for news to that house in which the thing had happened. Meanwhile he needed refreshment, a bath, and rest. The sleepless night, the journey to Ostrianum, the flight from the Trans-Tiber, had wearied him exceedingly.
"There will be more of them to-day than ever, for other houses of prayer are burnt or are filled with smoke, as is the whole Trans-Tiber." "True!" said Vinicius, "I hear singing." In fact, the voices of people singing reached the hill from the dark opening, and the lanterns vanished in it one after the other.
Besides, for a certain time past Chilo had felt a repulsion for nakedness, for those disgusting and terrible figures lurking about suspected houses in the Subura or in the Trans-Tiber. Measuring everything with his own measure, and not having fathomed sufficiently the Christians or their religion, he judged that among them, too, he could find willing tools.
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