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Updated: June 20, 2025
He was a Cynic philosopher. His remark, however, produced no other effect on his hearers' serenity than to excite their merriment. Vetranio laughed, Camilla laughed, Julia laughed.
'Of the fifth, replied the boy. 'Were you bought, or born in my house? asked Vetranio. 'Neither; but bequeathed to you by Geta's testament, rejoined the gratified Glyco. 'I advance you, continued Vetranio, 'to the privileges and the pay of the first rank of my musicians; and I give you, as a proof of my continued favour, this ring.
Meanwhile a third person was now approaching to join the two occupants of the bedchamber abandoned by its ill-fated mistress. Although in the subterranean retreat to which he had retired on leaving Vetranio, Ulpius had not noticed the silent entrance of the master of the house, he had heard through the open doors the sound, low though it was, of the Christian's voice.
Once more, after an interval, the eyes of Vetranio lazily unclosed, and this time he began to speak; but his thoughts if thoughts they could be called were as yet wholly occupied by the 'table-talk' at the past night's banquet. 'The ancient Egyptians oh, sprightly and enchanting Camilla were a wise nation! murmured the senator drowsily.
Far too well aware, nevertheless, of the necessity of yielding the most implicit obedience to the commands he had received to resign himself any longer to the pleasant temptations of repose, Carrio, after yawning, rubbing his eyes, and indulging for a few moments more in the luxury of complaint, set forth in earnest to follow the corridors leading to the interior of the palace, and to awaken Vetranio without further delay.
Never in my pursuit of pleasure did I commit so fatal an error, as when I entered the doors of your house! In pronouncing these words, Vetranio but gave expression to the sentiments by which they were really inspired. As we have before observed, profligate as he was by thoughtlessness of character and license of social position, he was neither heartless nor criminal by nature.
The precious moments were speeding irrevocably onwards. His impatience was rapidly changing to rage and despair as he strained his eyes for the last time in the direction of the palace gardens, and now at length discerned a white robe among the distant trees. Vetranio was rapidly approaching him.
Here were no singing-boys, no freedmen, no profusion of rich treasures here appeared only the solitary and deformed figure of Ulpius, half hidden among surrounding trees, while he waited at his appointed post. As time wore on, and still Vetranio did not appear, the Pagan's self-possession began to desert him.
Having gained the upper end of the room, she took from the table a flask of wine, and from the wooden stand behind it the bowl of offal disdained by the guests at the fatal banquet, returning immediately to the spot where Vetranio still stood. Here she stopped for a moment, as if about to speak once more; but her emotions overpowered her.
It was an embodiment of a sorcerer's vision an apocalypse of sin triumphing over the world's last relics of mortality in the vaults of death. 'To your task, Reburrus! cried Vetranio, when the tumult was lulled; 'to your questions without delay! Behold the teacher with whom you are to hold commune!
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