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Updated: June 12, 2025


He uttered admiring ejaculations as I told of wrestling with the leopard on the terrace at Nemestronia's and of how Agathemer and I crawled through the drain at Villa Andivia, also at my tale of my branding and scourging and of the loyalty of Chryseros Philargyrus. But, when I came to our discovery of the hut in the mountains, he stirred uneasily in the rustling straw and muttered in his throat.

"Then they fight at midnight to-night," Brinnaria deduced. "Yes," Flexinna corroborated. "How did you come here?" her friend queried. "In Nemestronia's litter," the visitor answered. "I b-b-borrowed it." "With her Cappadocian bearers?" queried Brinnaria. "Eighteen, of them," said Flexinna; "two extras." "How on earth did you come to do that?" Brinnaria wondered.

Have you never seen him, for instance, with Nemestronia's leopard?" "Never that I recall," said Tanno, "and if I had I should have thought nothing of it. Nemestronia's leopard has been tame since it learned to suck milk from Nemestronia's fingers, before its eyes were half open.

Partly by sight, even from behind him, partly by the objurgation which he panted out, I recognized Chryseros Philargyrus and realized that he thought that Agathemer had been torturing me in revenge for his flogging at Nemestronia's. I instantly forgot my plight and my natural instincts asserted themselves.

Once he clapped for his pages and had in snow-cooled wine to refresh me and soothe my throat. Upon my account of my wrestle with Nemestronia's leopard he cut in with a series of questions as to my power over animals. When I came to my encounter with Pescennius Niger he was keenly interested, as in my report of his reputation in Marseilles, according to Doris, and uttered one or two remarks.

"Well," he said, "clepsydras always work better when nearly full than when nearly empty. When you feed him have a full clepsydra handy and start it when he begins to eat. Then by it feed him again after two hours. Keep to that interval and to the diet I have enjoined." Next day I spent over three hours in Nemestronia's water-garden, Tanno with me for most of the time.

He then went out into the street which his escort blocked, and departed, accompanied by his coterie of boxers, wrestlers, swordsmen, jockeys and such-like, convoyed by a large and gorgeous retinue of pages, runners, guards nd lictors. Immediately after his departure Brinnaria said her farewells and set out for Nemestronia's.

He took dislikes and likes without any traceable reasons." Similarly, when I told of seeing Marcus Crispinillus peer through the postern door of Nemestronia's water-garden he interjected some remarks.

When they reached the top of the ridge enclosing the Lake, Vocco dismounted and trusted his roan to one of Nemestronia's extra bearers, as horses were not allowed within the Grove or its precincts. Not much before midnight the bearers swung sharply at the brink of the cliff and plunged down the steep narrow road cut along its face. Brinnaria felt the dampness of the lake air on her cheek.

And let me tell you right here, what I have often told Nemestronia, only the dear self-willed old lady will not listen to me at all, there will be trouble yet with that leopard. She has been a parlor and bedroom pet from birth and she is tame, not only to all Nemestronia's household but to all visitors.

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