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Updated: June 13, 2025
It was the last convulsive effort of paganism in its agony. No particulars of these churches have come down to us. Of that in Nicomedia we know nothing, save that it was splendid. None had, we are inclined to suppose, any fixed style. The style of the original triclinium in which believers first congregated, was, in all likelihood, imitated.
No man could better have exposed the absurdity of the whole flimsy and preposterous fabrication that I had had two confederates, who had, in my interest and at my suggestion, robbed first the triclinium and then the gem-collection, after which last I had myself murdered Falco. But his logic, his lucidity and his eloquence fell on deaf ears. Ravillanus was unmoved.
Brilliant and stately as one of the gods, he went to the triclinium, to cast the eye of a critic on the preparations, and then to the gardens, where youths and Grecian maidens from the islands were weaving wreaths of roses for the evening. Not the least care was visible on his face.
An air of mystery still hung over the magnificent triclinium, its convivial board, its abandoned couches, over the vases of murra and crystal and the fast dying roses. It seemed as if some personality great, majestic, divine had passed through the marble hall and that the sound of sacred feet still echoed softly along its walls.
You have not told me that you love me." "I told all who were at the palace of the great father." "But you have not told me, son of Varro." "I do love you." He was approaching. "Hush! Not now," she answered, taking his hand in hers temporizing. "Come, I will race with you." She ran, leading him, with quick, pattering feet through an inner hall and up the long triclinium.
Ursus stood calmly, but looked at Vinicius so strangely with his blue eyes that the blood stiffened in the veins of the young man; then the giant took his queen on his arm, and walked out of the triclinium with an even, quiet step. Acte in that moment went after him. Vinicius sat for the twinkle of an eye as if petrified; then he sprang up and ran toward the entrance crying, "Lygia! Lygia!"
It seemed to Lygia that she had been rescued from hell, and borne into God's bright world outside. There was something, then, besides that disgusting triclinium. There was the sky, the dawn, light, and peace. Sudden weeping seized the maiden, and, taking shelter on the arm of the giant, she repeated, with sobbing, "Let us go home, Ursus! home, to the house of Aulus." "Let us go!" answered Ursus.
Alorcus the Celtiberian, brutalized by his enthusiasm, walked around the triclinium making a display of his strength by sustaining in his sinewy hands two dancing girls, who screamed with fright, while outside could be noted in the darkness of the peristyle the movement of the slaves, men and women, from the kitchens, creeping near to enjoy from without the spectacle of the bacchanal.
Thus with extreme precaution, when they had traversed several chambers, among which were an indoor triclinium, or dining parlor, and a vast picture gallery, groping their way along in utter darkness, they reached a small square court, surrounded by a peristyle or colonnade, containing a dilapidated fountain.
After a while he shrugged his shoulders at these fears, and decided to go to the triclinium to strengthen himself, and then order the litter to bear him once more to the palace, after that to the Campus Martius, and then to Chrysothemis.
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