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As to form it is a Declamatio, such as he had translated from the Greek of Libanius. As to the spirit, a revival of Lucian, whose Gallus, translated by him three years before, may have suggested the theme. It must have been in the incomparably lucid moments of that brilliant intellect.
"Sir, I am she," answered Miriam. "Then, lady, I, who am named Gallus, have an errand to perform"; and drawing from his robe a letter tied with silk and sealed, and with the letter a package, he handed them to her. "Who sends these?" she asked, hope shining in her eyes, "and whence come they?" "From Rome, lady, as fast as sails could waft them and me.
Appius Claudius C. F. Pulcher, C. Norbanus C. F. Flaccus. M. Vipsanius L. F. Agrippa, L. Caninius L. F. Gallus. The rest also who had shared in the plot against him were all except a very few destroyed, some previously, some at this time, and some subsequently.
"The dame Julia, the wife of Gallus, and two others with her?" he said. "Well, we need fear none whom she brings; lead them hither." Presently the door opened and Julia appeared, followed by two veiled figures. He raised his hands to bless her, then checked himself. "Daughter, who are these?" he said. "Declare yourselves," said Julia, and at her bidding Miriam and Nehushta unveiled.
Such variation doubtless occurs in nature, but not with such luxuriance. The breeds of domestic fowls differ so greatly that Bateson and others refuse to believe that they have all arisen from the single species Gallus bankiva. It seems to me from the evidence that there cannot be any doubt that they have so arisen.
Scarcely able to control myself, I sprang down the remaining steps, and while Iras's shrill cry, 'Poor Cleopatra, they will capture you! still rang in my ears, I saw the betrayed Queen turn from the door through which, resolved on death, she was saying something to Gallus, perceive Proculejus close behind her, thrust her hand into her girdle, and with the speed of lightning you have already heard so throw up her arm with the little dagger to bury the sharp blade in her breast.
Both Fabius Maximus, for example, when he lost a son who had held the consulship, the hero of many a famous exploit; and Lucius Paulus, from whom two were taken in one week; and your own kinsman Gallus; and Marcus Cato, who was deprived of a son of the rarest talents and the rarest virtue all these lived in times when their individual affliction was capable of finding a solace in the distinctions they used to earn from their country.
Beside many other smaller Egyptian works, two of the large obelisks, which even now ornament Rome, were carried away by Augustus, that of Thutmosis IV., which stands in the Piazza del Popolo, and that of Psammetichus, on Monte Citorio. Cornelius Gallus, the prefect of Egypt, seems either to have misunderstood, or soon forgotten, the terms of his appointment.
Ovid is more luxuriant, Gallus harsher, than either. Satire is all our own. In this Lucilius first gained great renown, and even now has many admirers so wedded to him, as to prefer him not only to all other satirists but to all other poets. I disagree with them as much as I disagree with Horace, who thinks Lucilius flows in a muddy stream, and that there is much that one would wish to remove.
Now I remember and understand what Gallus meant." "Then will you still deny me? Must I suffer thus in vain? Think, had it not been for you I could have stayed afar until the thing was forgotten, that is, if I still chose to live; but now, because of you, things are thus, and yet, Miriam you deny me," and he put his arms about her and drew her to his breast.
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