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Beneath him rose the evil and ominous voices from the street; around him spread the pitiless array of his masters; before him appeared the denouncing vision of the corpse. He would have remained but a short time unmolested in his place of refuge, but for an event which now diverted from him the attention of Vetranio and his guests.
'Write down the advice of each senator on a separate strip of vellum; shake all the strips together in an urn; and then, let the first you take out by chance, be your guide to govern by in the present condition of the city! said Vetranio with a sneer.
The martial countries of Illyricum, from the Danube to the extremity of Greece, had long obeyed the government of Vetranio, an aged general, beloved for the simplicity of his manners, and who had acquired some reputation by his experience and services in war.
Have you not mounted the ramparts and beheld the innumerable multitudes of pitiless Goths surrounding us on all sides, intercepting our supplies of provisions from the country, and menacing us with a speedy famine, unless our hoped-for auxiliaries arrive from Ravenna? 'I have neither mounted the ramparts, nor viewed with any attention the crowds in the streets, replied Vetranio, carelessly.
Meantime Constantius came up from Syria, won over the legions of Illyricum, reduced Vetranio to a peaceful abdication, and pushed on with augmented forces towards the Julian Alps, there to decide the strife between Magnentius and the house of Constantine.
They are never whipped or punished, except when they neglect or disfigure themselves; for Vetranio will allow nothing that is ugly or dirty to come near him. You must visit his banqueting-hall in Rome. It is perfection! 'But why is he here? 'He has come to Ravenna, charged with some secret message from the Senate, and has presented a rare breed of chickens to that foolish
Another health, in gratitude to our departed guest, the instrument of our deliverance, under the auspices of omnipotent Jove! As Vetranio spoke, Marcus alone, out of all the revellers, answered his challenge.
'No cannibals among the mob shall pollute the body of my poor boy! cried Vetranio, rousing himself from his short lethargy of grief. 'Ho! Thascius! Marcus! you who can yet stand! let us bear him to the funeral pile! He has died first his ashes shall be first consumed!
He is almost as provoking as Camilla herself! 'Don't frown so! That man, as you call him, is the senator Vetranio. The lady started. It was evident that Vetranio had a reputation. 'Yes! continued the lively Camilla, 'that is the accomplished Vetranio; but he will be no favourite of yours, for he sometimes swears swears by the ancient gods, too, which is forbidden! 'He is handsome.
'Behold! cried Vetranio, pointing triumphantly to the epitaph 'behold in every line of those eloquent letters at once the seal of my resolute adherence to the engagement that unites us here, and the foundation of my just claim to the reverence of posterity on the most useful of the arts which I exercised for the benefit of my species!
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