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This was the time for which they had so patiently waited! this the moment of supreme interest treasured up in talk and dreams since the proclamation of the games! "He is come there look!" cried Iras, pointing to Messala. "I see him," answered Esther, looking at Ben-Hur. The veil was withdrawn. For an instant the little Jewess was brave.
Messala, and the great Gothic captains Fraiut and Generid are ready to fight for the old gods. Our army will not lack leaders..." "Our army!" exclaimed Karnis in surprise. "Is the matter so far advanced?" "I mean the army of the future," cried Olympius enthusiastically. "It does not count a man as yet, but is already distributed into several legions.
Who is he?" asked Drusus. "A dog of Israel Sanballat by name purveyor for the army; residence, Rome; vastly rich; grown so as a contractor of furnishments which he never furnishes. He spins mischiefs, nevertheless, finer than spiders spin their webs. Come by the girdle of Venus! let us catch him!" Messala arose as he spoke, and, with Drusus, joined the mass crowded about the purveyor.
A chain of mountains runs north and south across the interior plain. Geminus, Berzelius, and Messala are other rings well worth looking at. The remarkable pair called Atlas and Hercules demand more than passing attention. The former is fifty-five and the latter forty-six miles in diameter. Each sinks 11,000 feet below the summit of the loftiest peak on its encircling wall.
She sat up, and in a voice quick and sharp as his own, replied, "I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might have become a proselyte, so much do we all borrow from the influences that ripen our lives; but the years in Rome have been too much for him.
Under the rabbis valor was possible, but not discipline. And then the taunt of Messala in the garden of Herod "All you conquer in the six days, you lose on the seventh." So it happened he never approached the chasm thinking to surmount it, but he was beaten back; and so incessantly had he failed in the object that he had about given it over, except as a thing of chance.
Wherefore it is not speaking too strongly to say that Messala's progress down to the last pause was exquisite torture to his hearer; at that point the latter said, with a forced smile, "There are a few, I have heard, who can afford to make a jest of their future; you convince me, O my Messala, that I am not one of them."
I told you I meant to be a soldier. Why not you also? Why not you step out of the narrow circle which, as I have shown, is all of noble life your laws and customs allow?" Judah made no reply. "Who are the wise men of our day?" Messala continued. "Not they who exhaust their years quarrelling about dead things; about Baals, Joves, and Jehovahs; about philosophies and religions.
After Philippi, without sacrifice of his honor, he and the conqueror became reconciled. Yet later, when Octavius disputed for the empire, Messala supported him. Octavius, as the Emperor Augustus, remembered the service, and showered the family with honors.
And when Cato therefore made a speech in commendation of Pompey, and exhorted him to support the cause of good order in the Commonwealth, he could not for shame but yield to it, and so for the present Domitius and Messala were elected consuls.
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