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I shall be duumvir, and thou! I knew thy father, and loved him. He was a prince indeed. He taught me a Jew was not a barbarian. I will take thee with me. I will make thee my son. Give thy God thanks, and call the sailors. Haste! The pursuit must be kept. Not a robber shall escape. Hasten them!"
"You knew Arrius the duumvir." "Quintus Arrius? Yes, he was my patron." "He had a son." "Yes," said Thord, his battered features lighting dully, "I knew the boy; he would have made a king gladiator. Caesar offered him his patronage. I taught him the very trick you played on this one here a trick impossible except to a hand and arm like mine. It has won me many a crown." "I am that son of Arrius."
Two temples were dedicated this year to Jupiter in the Capitol; one of which had been vowed by Lucius Furius Purpureo, when praetor during the Gallic war; the other by the same, when consul. Quintus Marcius Ralla, duumvir, dedicated both. Many severe sentences were passed this year on usurers, who were prosecuted, as private persons, by the curule aediles, Marcus Tuccius and Publius Junius Brutus.
On the latter point, referring to what he had as yet learned, two facts comprehended it all the subject of his investigation was a Jew, and the adopted son of a famous Roman. Another conclusion which might be of importance was beginning to formulate itself in the shrewd mind of the emissary; between Messala and the son of the duumvir there was a connection of some kind.
At a sign from the Duumvir in came two priests, bringing in between them the small altar of Jupiter; the charcoal was ready lighted, the incense at the side, and the judge called to the prisoner to sprinkle it upon the flame for the good fortune of Decius and his son. All eyes were turned upon her. “I am not a Christian,” she said; “I told you so before.
During the same year, on the ides of July, the Temple of Castor was dedicated: it had been vowed during the Latin war in the dictatorship of Postumius: his son, who was elected duumvir for that special purpose, dedicated it. In that year, also, the minds of the people were excited by the allurements of the agrarian law.
To thy question I will make the throw and hold it against mischance. Thus " He turned the box upon the table and held it firmly over the dice. And Drusus asked, "Did you ever see one Quintus Arrius?" "The duumvir?" "No his son?" "I knew not he had a son." "Well, it is nothing," Drusus added, indifferently; "only, my Messala, Pollux was not more like Castor than Arrius is like thee."
The tribune, standing upon the helmsman's deck with the order of the duumvir open in his hand, spoke to the chief of the rowers. Called hortator. "What force hast thou?" "Of oarsmen, two hundred and fifty-two; ten supernumeraries. "Making reliefs of " "Eighty-four." "And thy habit?" "It has been to take off and put on every two hours." The tribune mused a moment.
Presently one of his pupils, as if he were præco to the duumvir, cries out, ‘Hush, gentlemen, hush! the godlike’—no, it is not that. I’ve not got it.
They are taking the track." Ben-Hur listened a moment, then completed the introduction by laying his hand upon the man's arm, and saying, "I am the son of Arrius, the duumvir, and thou?" "I am Malluch, a merchant of Antioch." "Well, good Malluch, the trumpet, and the gride of wheels, and the prospect of diversion excite me. I have some skill in the exercises.
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