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"Now I have said enough and must but add this, that by the special decree of her captor, the Imperator Titus, the beautiful necklace of pearls worn by the maiden goes with her. I asked a jeweller friend of mine to look at it just now, and judging as well as he could without removing it from her neck, which was not allowed, he values it at least at a hundred sestertia.
Berbix raised his buckler to shield himself, and his quick-eyed antagonist, suddenly lowering his weapon, pierced him through the breast. Berbix reeled and fell. 'Nobilior! Nobilior! shouted the populace. 'I have lost ten sestertia, said Clodius, between his teeth. 'Habet! he has it, said Pansa, deliberately.
"Two thousand sestertia are bid for this lot No. 7, the Jewish captive known as Pearl-Maiden, sold by order of Titus Imperator, together with her collar of pearls and the property to which, as a free woman, she would have been entitled. Any advance on two thousand sestertia?" and he looked at Saturius, who shook his head. "No? Then going going gone!
'How much? why, perhaps seven sestertia. 'You are sure it will be as much? 'At least. But out on you! a Greek would have thought of the honour, and not the money. O Italians! everywhere ye are Italians! A blush mantled over the bronzed cheek of the gladiator. 'Do not wrong me, noble Glaucus; I think of both, but I should never have been a gladiator but for the money. 'Base! mayest thou fall!
'Well, continued Sergius, 'months ago I hardly remember how many I wagered with the proconsul Sardesus that I would furnish for the games the superior gladiator of the two. Fifteen purses of a hundred sestertia each; a large sum, but the larger the better, since I had my armor bearer in my mind, and felt certain to win. But since then I have become attached to this Drumo.
"O gods! that Lygian, if he is a man, might make millions of sestertia in the course of one year; for if he choked Croton, like a whelp, who can resist him? They would give for his every appearance in the arena as much gold as he himself weighs. He guards that maiden better than Cerberus does Hades. But may Hades swallow him, for all that! I will have nothing to do with him. He is too bony.
When people, professing to believe that a few sestertia invested in papyri and sent to their barbarian neighbors would be sure to save hundreds or thousands of fellow-creatures from an eternity of inconceivable agony, do, notwithstanding, expend great sums on "snow-white mules and golden harness," to carry them to the Basilica, or on any other selfish gratification whatsoever, we cannot wonder that Julian, or anybody else, is ready to take up the pleasant "creed outworn" which Wordsworth half yearns after in his famous sonnet, as preferable to that base system of psychophagy prevailing in the church of Antioch.
"Oh! if you wish it, if you wish it, for gifts cement the hearts of friends. On account? Well, to a man with many expenses, five sestertia always come in useful. You know what it is in these palaces, so little pay and so much to keep up. Thank you, dear Demetrius, I will give you and the lady a supper out of the money when you get her," he added to himself as he left the office.
'Well, nine sestertia to three be it so! What! again, Lydon? He stops he gasps for breath. By the gods, he is down. No he is again on his legs. Brave Lydon! Tetraides is encouraged he laughs loud he rushes on him. 'Fool success blinds him he should be cautious. Lydon's eye is like the lynx's, said Clodius, between his teeth. 'Ha, Clodius! saw you that? Your man totters!
'Well, Clodius, shall I take compassion on you, and accept your own terms with these Romans? 'An even ten sestertia on Eumolpus, then? 'What! when Nepimus is untried? Nay, nay; that is to bad. 'Well ten to eight? 'Agreed. While the contest in the amphitheatre had thus commenced, there was one in the loftier benches for whom it had assumed, indeed, a poignant a stifling interest.
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