velarius

Updated: July 12, 2025

Petronius, who lived with incomparably greater show and elegance, could find nothing which offended his taste; and had just turned to Vinicius with that remark, when a slave, the velarius, pushed aside the curtain separating the atrium from the tablinum, and in the depth of the building appeared Aulus Plautius approaching hurriedly.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero