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Having adjured her several times, the exorcist succeeded in making her repeat some prayers, and then sounded her as to the name and number of the demons in possession, whereupon she said three times that there was one called Achaos. Upon this, Barre dreading more questions from the bystanders, hastily resumed his own catechism by asking who was the sorcerer. "Urbanus," answered the superior.
But in this absorption of the world into a single citizenship, the city itself was ceasing to be a world of its own; and with the self-centred urbs passed away the urbanus sermo, that austere and noble language which was the finest flower of her civilisation.
They endured having the two proconsuls named by the praetor urbanus rather than to have the consuls elected under his direction, because now these proconsular officials would limit their activities to the elections and consequently would appear to have been invested with no powers outlasting them. This was of course done under pressure of arms.
Father Lactantius, the Capuchin with the dark visage and hard look, proceeded with Sister Agnes and Sister Claire; he raised both his hands, looking at them as a serpent would look at two dogs, and cried in a terrible voice, 'Quis to misit, Diabole? and the two sisters answered, as with one voice, 'Urbanus. He was about to continue, when Monsieur du Lude, taking out of his pocket, with an air of veneration, a small gold box, said that he had in it a relic left by his ancestors, and that though not doubting the fact of the possession, he wished to test it.
He himself tells us so; in the midst of his most disreputable performances he aspired to be known for his fashion and wit elegans atque urbanus. Politeness of speech and manners, the courteous mutual deference of the best society such, was the ideal of this budding professor of rhetoric.
'Youths, said the Phoenix, 'sons of misfortune, hear my words. 'My eyes! said Ike. 'Look out, Ike, said Urb, 'you'll throttle the joker and I see at wunst 'e was wuth 'is weight in flimsies.'00 'Hearken, O Eikonoclastes, despiser of sacred images and thou, Urbanus, dweller in the sordid city. Forbear this adventure lest a worse thing befall.
Then we are told how he had the pretended work done by the putting up of a rough crane. No real work is done, no new stones are brought, no money is spent. That is the way in which Verres filled his office as Prætor Urbanus; but it does not seem that any public notice is taken of his iniquities as long as he confined himself to little jobs such as this.
Cæsar was then rising in power, and Cicero was humbled. This impolitic measure of Cato tended to increase an evil that had long been growing in Rome, the existence of a large body of poor who looked to the public treasury for part of their maintenance. The feast of the Bona Dea was celebrated on the first of May, in the house of the Consul or of the Prætor Urbanus.
There had been, previously to this period, two praetors in Rome, the Praetor Urbanus, who adjudged cases between citizens in accordance with civil law, and the Praetor Peregrinus, who presided whenever a foreigner or alien was concerned, and judged according to the principles of natural law.
Having adjured her several times, the exorcist succeeded in making her repeat some prayers, and then sounded her as to the name and number of the demons in possession, whereupon she said three times that there was one called Achaos. Upon this, Barre dreading more questions from the bystanders, hastily resumed his own catechism by asking who was the sorcerer. "Urbanus," answered the superior.
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