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Verus was inciting the more quiet or slothful of his guests to a freer enjoyment and encouraging the noisiest in their extravagant recklessness to still more unbridled license.
But the perverse curly-haired girl was fully determined, precisely because Verus had forbidden her and forbidden her with mocking words, to carry out her purpose.
All four were in the best spirits, and immediately after the preliminary greetings, were eager to report what they had seen at Lochias; but Sabina waved silence with her hand, and breathed out: "No, no; not at present. I feel quite exhausted. This long waiting, and then my smelling-bottle, Verus. Leukippe, bring me a cup of water with some fruit-syrup but not so sweet as usual."
Nevertheless he calls the Alexandrians a contumacious and good-for-nothing community, with sharp and evil tongues that had spared neither Verus nor Antinous.
The poetess spoke the last words in a rapt tone, as if the form of a god was then and there before her eyes. Verus had listened to her with a smile, but now he interrupted her, and, holding up a warning finger, he said: "Poetess, philosopher, and sweetest maiden, beware of descending from your Olympus for the sake of this boy!
"And you are indispensable to the whole world." "After me another will come. Are you ambitious, boy?" "No, my Lord." "What then can be the meaning of this: that every one wishes me joy of my son Verus excepting you. Do you not like my choice?" Antinous colored and looked at the ground, and Hadrian went on: "Say honestly what you feel." "The praetor is ill."
The slave started, and seeing at once that Verus was right, he asked in alarm: "What then can I do?" "Get off your donkey," said the praetor. "Disguise yourself and make merry to your heart's content with these gold pieces." "And the flowers?" "I will see to that." "You will? I may trust you; and never betray to Antinous what you compelled me to do?" "Positively not."
Then he added pleasantly: "This lovely creature must I should think, delight your fine sense of beauty; or are you afraid that she may seem better suited to the part of Roxana than your own charming daughter? Only listen to the men up there! Let us see what is going on." These words referred to a loud discussion which had arisen close by the couches of the prefect and Verus, the praetor.
"Still we practise indulgence when we have no alternative, and the criminal requires us to make allowance for him in this thing or the other." Verus made his wife a bow and pressed his lips on her arm, then he asked. "And where is dame Julia?" "She is saving the sheep from the wolf," replied Balbilla. "Which means ?"
"It cannot be," said Verus. "Not at present; but in a few weeks, I hope." "Why not sooner?" "Do not ask me." "A mother may surely wish to know why she is separated from her baby in the cradle." "That cradle is at present in your mother's house, and she is taking care of our little ones.
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