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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/44330-0.txt b/44330-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2b4b9e --- /dev/null +++ b/44330-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9534 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Valerius. A Roman Story by John Gibson +Lockhart + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Valerius. A Roman Story + +Author: John Gibson Lockhart + +Release Date: December 1, 2013 [Ebook #44330] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF‐8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERIUS. A ROMAN STORY*** + + + + + + BLACKWOOD’S + + STANDARD NOVELS + + ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ + + VALERIUS + + + + + + VALERIUS + + A ROMAN STORY + + + NEW EDITION + + + WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS + EDINBURGH AND LONDON + + + + + + + VALERIUS. + + + + + + _BOOK I. CHAPTER I._ + + +Since you are desirous, my friends, that I should relate to you, at length +and in order, the things which happened to me during my journey to Rome, +notwithstanding the pain which it must cost me to throw myself back into +some of the feelings of that time, I cannot refuse to comply with your +request. After threescore years spent in this remote province of an +empire, happy, for the most part, in the protection of enlightened, just, +and benevolent princes, I remember, far more accurately than things which +occurred only a few months ago, the minutest particulars of what I saw and +heard while I sojourned, young and a stranger, among the luxuries and +cruelties of the capital of the world, as yet imperfectly recovered from +the effects of the flagitious tyranny of the last of the Flavii. + +My father, as you have heard, came with his legion into this island, and +married a lady of native blood, some years before the first arrival of +Agricola. In the wars of that illustrious commander, during the reigns of +Vespasian and Titus, he had the fortune to find opportunities of +distinguishing himself; but when his general was recalled, by the jealousy +of Domitian, he retired from public life, and determined to spend the +remainder of his days in peace, on the lands which belonged to him in +right of his wife here in Britain. He laid the foundations of the house in +which I have now the pleasure of receiving you; and here, in the +cultivation of his fields, and in the superintendence of my education, he +found sufficient employment for an active, though no longer an ambitious +mind. Early in the reign of Trajan he died. Never did either Roman or +British dwelling lament a more generous master. + +I cannot pretend to regret the accident which immediately afterwards +separated me from a gentle mother—never to see her more upon the earth. +Yet deeply was the happiness of my returning hour stained by that +privation. It is the common rule of nature, that our parents should +precede us to the grave; and it is also her rule, that our grief for them +should not be of such power as to prevent us from entering, after they are +gone, into a zealous participation both of the business and the pleasures +of life. Yet, in after years, the memory of that buried tenderness rises +up ever and anon, and wins rather than warns us to a deliberate +contemplation of our own dissolution. + +Towards the end of the winter following the death of my father, there +arrived letters which engaged anxious consideration. They were from +members of his family, none of whom either my mother or myself had seen. +It was explained, especially by Caius Licinius, the lawyer, (who was near +of kin to our house,) that by the death of a certain Patrician, Cneius +Valerius by name, I had become legally entitled to a very considerable +fortune, to claim and take possession of which, demanded my immediate +presence in the metropolis. My rights, said this jurist, were indeed +called in question by another branch of the family, but were I on the +spot, his professional exertions, with whatever interest he or any of his +friends could command, should be at my service, for the sake of my father +and of my name. + +The love of travel had never before been excited in my bosom; but now that +I knew I was so soon to embark for Italy, the delights which I might there +hope to experience came crowding upon my imagination. The dark and +pine-clad banks of my native Anton, said I, shall now be exchanged for +that golden-waved Tiber, of which so many illustrious poets have sung. +Instead of moving here among the ill-cemented and motley fabric of an +insulated colony, and seeing only the sullen submission of barbarians on +the one hand, or the paltry vanity of provincial deputies on the other, I +shall tread the same ground with the rulers of the earth, and wear, among +native Romans, the gown of my ancestors. I shall behold the Forum, which +has heard the eloquence of Cicero and Hortensius; I shall ascend to the +Capitol, where Cæsar triumphed; I shall wander in the luxurious gardens of +Sallust, or breathe the fresh air in the fields of Cato: I shall gaze upon +the antique majesty of temples and palaces, and open my eyes on all that +art and nature have been able to heap together through eight centuries, +for the ornament of the chosen seat of wisdom and valour. + +A single trusty slave was selected to accompany me. It was not certainly +on account of his accomplishments that Boto had been chosen for this duty; +for although he had lived all his days in the vicinity of the colonists at +Venta, there was scarcely a person within the bounds of the British Belgæ +that spoke worse Latin. He was, however, a man of natural sagacity, +possessing shrewd discernment concerning whatever things had fallen under +his customary observation; and he shewed no symptom either of diffidence +respecting his qualifications for this new office, or of regret at being +separated from those in whose company many years of gentle servitude had +glided over his sun-burnt countenance. It was reported to me, that he +invited several of our rustics to drink with him in one of the out-houses, +where his exultation knew no limits. He was going to Rome, for his young +master very well knew he could never get on in such a journey without the +helping eye and hand of Boto; and he had a brother in Italy already, (he +had gone over with a distinguished legionary some ten years before,) and +from him (for he would of course meet with him as soon as our arrival +should be known) he would receive all requisite information concerning the +doings of the great city. The usefulness which, he doubted not, I should +be constrained to acknowledge in his manifold qualifications, would, +without all question, entitle him to some signal reward—perhaps nothing +less than manumission on his return. + +Two days passed more quickly than any I ever remember to have spent amidst +a strange mixture of mirth, and sorrow, and noisy preparation. + +Where that single tall naked pine now stands buffeted by the wind, then +grew a thick grove, of which that relic alone survives. It was there that +I turned round to gaze once more on the quiet verdure of these paternal +fields, and our small pastoral stream glistening here and there beneath +the shady covert of its margin. + +I had at first intended to cross over to Gaul, and traversing that +province, enter Italy, either by the route of the Alps, in case we could +procure convenient guides and companions, or by some vessel sailing from +Marseilles or Forum Julii to Ostium. But the advice of one of my +neighbours, who had himself been a great traveller, made me alter this +plan, and resolve to commit myself to the care of an experienced mariner +who was just about to sail for Italy, by the way of the pillars of +Hercules, in a vessel laden chiefly with tin; and on reaching the +Clausentum, I found this man, with several passengers, ready for the +voyage. + +For the first three or four days, I was so afflicted by the motion of the +vessel, that I could bestow little attention on any external object; my +eyes were so confused and dazzled, that I saw nothing beyond the corner of +the deck on which I had caused my carpets to be laid; and a few +ejaculations to Castor and Pollux were all the articulate sounds that I +uttered. By degrees, however, the weight of my depression began to be +alleviated; and at intervals, more particularly during the night watches, +if I was not altogether in possession of myself, I was at least well +enough to enjoy a sort of giddy delight in watching the billows as they +rose and retreated from the prow. There were moments, also, in which the +behaviour of Boto, under this new species of calamity, could furnish me, +as it had already done the more hardy of my fellow-voyagers, with store of +mirth. Near us frequently, upon the deck, sat a Captain of the Prætorian +Bands, who, more than any other of these, displayed a florid complexion +and cheerful eye, unalterable by the fluctuation of the waters. This +Sabinus had served in all the wars of Agricola, and accompanied him even +in his perilous circumnavigation of the islands which lie scattered to the +north of Britain. He had also gone back to Rome with his commander, not, +like him, to extenuate imperial jealousy by the affectation of indolence, +but to seek for new occupation on some other disturbed frontier of the +Empire. In Syria and Cappadocia he had spent some years; after which, he +had attended the Emperor himself through Mæsia and Illyricum, and all +those countries he traversed and retraversed, during that shameful contest +in which so many Roman eagles were made the prey of barbarous enemies, and +which terminated at last in that cowardly treaty, by which Domitian +granted a diadem to Decebalus, and condescended to place the Roman Senate +among the tributaries of a Dacian. Our friend had also strutted his part +in that gorgeous triumph, or rather succession of triumphs, by which the +defeated and disgraced Prince, on his return from the Ister, mocked the +eyes and ears of the incredulous and indignant Romans. In a word, he had +partaken in all kinds of fortune, good and evil, and preserved his +rubicundity and equanimity unaltered in them all. Having attained to a +situation of some dignity, he had now been visiting Britain on a special +message from the new Emperor, and was returning in the hope that no future +accident of fortune, or princely caprice, would ever again make it +necessary for him to quit the shows and festivities of the capital. + +This good-natured man sat down beside my suffering peasant, endeavouring +to withdraw his attention from the pangs of his sickness, by pointing out +the different boats which came in view as we held on from the Gobæan +rocks, keeping close to the shore as we went, in order to shun, as well as +we could, the customary fury of the Aquitanic Ocean. “Behold these +fishing-vessels,” he would cry, “which have undoubtedly been upon the +coast of Rutupia for oysters, or it may be about the mouth of yonder +Ligoris for turbot, and are now stretching all their canvass to get home +with their booty to Italy. Smooth be your winds and fair your passage, oh +rare fish!” To which the downcast Boto would reply, “Lavish not, oh +master, your good wishes upon the mute fish, which have been tossed about +all their lives, but reserve them rather for me (unhappy) who am thus +tormented in an unnatural and intolerable manner;” or perhaps, “Speak not, +I beseech you, of oysters, or of turbot, or of any other eatable, for I +believe I shall never again feel hungry, so grievously are all my internal +parts discomposed. Oh, that I had never left my native fields, and +bartered the repose of my whole body for the vain hope of gratification to +my eyes!” + +By degrees, however, custom reconciled all of us to the motion of the +bark, and the weather being calm during the greater part of the voyage, I +enjoyed, at my leisure, the beauties, both of the sea, and of the shores +alongst which we glided. From time to time, we put in for water and other +necessaries, to various sea-ports of the Spanish Peninsula; but our stay +was never so long at any place as to admit of us losing sight of our +vessel. Our chief delight, indeed, consisted in the softness and amenity +of the moonlight nights we spent in sailing along the coasts of +Mauritania,—now the dark mountains of the family of Atlas throwing their +shadows far into the sea—and anon, its margin glittering with the white +towers of Siga, or Gilba, or Cartenna, or some other of the rich cities of +that old Carthaginian region. On such nights it was the custom of all the +passengers to be congregated together upon the deck, where the silent +pleasures of contemplation were, from time to time, interrupted by some +merry song chanted in chorus by the mariners, or perhaps some wild +barbarian ditty, consecrated by the zeal of Boto to the honour of some +ancient indigenous hero of the North. Nor did our jovial Prætorian disdain +to contribute now and then to the amusement of the assembly, by some +boisterous war-song, composed, perhaps, by some light-hearted young +spearman, which our centurion might have learned by heart, without any +regular exertion, from hearing it sung around many a British and Dacian +watch-fire. + +Thus we contrived to pass the time in a cheerful manner, till we reached +the Lilybæan promontory. We tarried there two days to refit some part of +our rigging, and then stretched boldly across the lower sea, towards the +mouth of the Tiber. We were becalmed, however, for a whole day and night, +after we had come within sight of the Pharos of Ostium, where, but for the +small boats that came out to us with fresh fish and fruit, we should have +had some difficulty in preserving our patience; for, by this time, our +stock of wine was run to the last cup, and nothing remained to be eat but +some mouldy biscuit which had survived two voyages between Italy and +Britain. During this unwelcome delay, the Prætorian endeavoured to give me +as much information as he could about the steps necessary to be pursued on +my arrival in the city. But, to say truth, his experience had lain chiefly +among martial expeditions and jovial recreations, so that I could easily +perceive he was no great master of the rules of civil life. From him, +however, I was glad to find, that the reputation of Licinius was really as +great at Rome as it had been represented in our province; and, indeed, he +treated me with a yet greater measure of attention after he was informed +of my relationship to that celebrated jurist. + +Early in the morning, a light breeze sprung up from the west, and with +joyful acclamations the sails were once again uplifted. The number of +mariners on board was insufficient for impelling the heavily laden vessel +altogether by the force of oars, but now they did not refuse to assist the +favouring breeze with strenuous and lively exertion. The Prætorian cheered +and incited them by his merry voice, and even the passengers were not +loath to assist them in this labour. My slave, among the rest, joined in +the toil; but his awkwardness soon relieved him from his seat on the +bench; a disgrace which he would have shared with his master, had I been +equally officious. + +Ere long, we could trace with exactness those enormous structures by which +the munificence of Augustus had guarded and adorned that great avenue of +nations to the imperial city. Those mountains of marble, projected on +either side into the deep, surpassed every notion I had formed of the +extent to which art may carry its rivalry of nature. Their immovable +masses were garnished here and there with towers and battlements, on which +the Prætorian pointed out to me the frame-work of those terrible +catapults, and other engines of warfare, of which no specimens have ever +been seen in Britain. + +No sooner had we stept upon the shore, than we were surrounded by a great +throng of hard-favoured persons, who pulled us by the cloak, with +innumerable interrogations and offers of service. Among these, the +varieties of form, complexion, and accent, were such, that we could not +regard them without especial wonder; for it appeared as if every tribe and +language under heaven had sent some representative to this great seaport +of Rome. The fair hair and blue eye of the Gaul or German, might here be +seen close by the tawny skin of the Numidian or Getulian slave, or the +shining blackness of the Ethiopian visage. The Greek merchant was ready, +with his Thracian bondsman carrying his glittering wares upon his back; +the usurer was there, with his arms folded closely in his mantle; nor was +the Chaldean or Assyrian soothsayer awanting, with his air of abstraction +and his flowing beard. + +Boto, as if alarmed with the prevailing bustle, and fearful lest some +untoward accident should separate us, kept close behind me, grasping my +gown. But our good friend Sabinus did not long leave us in this +perplexity; for, having hastily engaged the master of a small barge to +carry him to Rome, he insisted that I should partake of this easy method +of conveyance. We found the vessel small but convenient, furnished with a +red awning, under which cushions and carpets were already stretched out +for our repose. The oars were soon in motion, and we began to emerge from +among the forest of masts with a rapidity which astonished me; for the +multitude of vessels of all sizes, continually crossing and re-crossing, +was so great, that at first I expected every moment some dangerous +accident might occur. + +By degrees, however, such objects failed to keep alive my attention; the +sleeplessness of the preceding night, and the abundance of an Ostian +repast, conspiring to lull me into a gentle doze, which continued for I +know not what space. I awoke, greatly refreshed, and found we had made +considerable progress; for the continual succession of stately edifices +already indicated the vicinity of the metropolis. The dark green of the +venerable groves, amidst which the buildings were, for the most part, +embosomed, and the livelier beauties of the parterres which here and there +intervened between these and the river, afforded a soft delight to my +eyes, which had so long been fatigued with the uniform flash and dazzle of +the Mediterranean waves, and the roughness of the sea-beaten precipices. +The minute and elaborate cultivation every where visible, the smoothness +of the shorn turf on the margin, the graceful foliage of the ancient +planes and sycamores,—but, above all, the sublimity of the porticos and +arcades, and the air of established and inviolable elegance which pervaded +the whole region, kept my mind in pleasurable wonder. Here and there, a +gentle winding conducted us through some deep and massy shade of oaks and +elms; whose branches, stretching far out from either side, diffused a +sombre and melancholy blackness almost entirely over the face of Tiber. +Loitering carelessly, or couched supinely, beneath some of these hoary +branches, we could see, from time to time, the figure of some stately +Roman, or white-robed lady, with her favourite scroll of parchment in her +hand. The cool and glassy rippling of the water produced a humming music +of stillness in the air, which nothing disturbed, save only the regular +dash of the oars, and, now and then, the deep and strenuous voice of our +cautious helmsman. Anon would ensue some glimpse of the open champaign, +descending with all its wealth of golden sheaves to the very brink of the +river—or, perhaps, the lively courts of a farmyard stretching along the +margin of some tributary streamlet—or some long expanse of level meadow, +with herds of snow-white heifers. I could not gaze upon the rich and +splendid scene without reverting, with a strange mixture of emotions, to +the image of this my native land; its wild forests, shaggy with brushwood +and unprofitable coppice, through which of old the enormous wild deer +stalked undisturbed, except by the adder of the grass, or the obscene fly +of the thicket; its little patches of corn and meadow, laboriously rescued +from the domain of the wild beast, and rudely fortified against his +continual incursions;—the scattered hamlets of this Brigian valley, and my +own humble villa—then humbler than it is now. Trees, and temples, and +gardens, and meadows, and towns, and villages, were, ere long, lost in one +uniform sobriety of twilight; and it was already quite dark, when the +centurion, pointing to the left bank, said, “Behold the Gardens of Cæsar: +beyond, is the Portian Gate, and the street of the Rural Lares. In a few +moments we shall see the lights of the Sublician Bridge, and be in the +city.” At these words I started up, and gazing forward, could penetrate +through the mists of evening into the busy glare of a thousand streets and +lanes, opening upon the river. The old wall was already visible; where, +after having swept round the region towards the Vatican and Janicular +Hills, it brings the last of its turrets close down to the Tiber, over +against the great dock-yards by the Field of Brutus. + +Through a forest of triremes, galleys, and all sorts of craft, we then +shot on to the bridge—beneath the centre arch of which our steersman +conducted us. Beyond, such was the hum of people on the quays, and such +the star-like profusion of lights reflected in the water, that we doubted +not we had already reached the chief seat of the bustle of Rome. On, +however, we still held our course, till the theatre of Marcellus rose like +a mountain on our right. It was there that we ran our bark into the shore, +not far from the little bridge—the third as you ascend the river—which +conducts to the Island and the Temple of Æsculapius. While our friend was +settling matters with the master, and the attendants were bringing out our +baggage, I stood by myself on the elevated quay. Here a long tier of +reflected radiance bespoke, it may be, the vicinity of some splendid +portico—of palace, or temple, or bath, or theatre; there a broad and +steady blaze of burning red, indicated the abode of artizans, resolved, as +it seemed, on carrying their toil into the bosom of the night. +Between—some speck of lustre betrayed, perhaps, the lamp of the solitary +student, or the sober social hour of some peaceful family, assembled +around the hearth of their modest lares. Behold me then, said I, in the +capital of the globe; but were I to be swallowed up this moment in the +waves of Tiber, not one of all these lights would be dimmed. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +Being told that my relation had his residence at no great distance, the +friendly Sabinus insisted upon escorting me thither in safety. We walked, +therefore, along two or three proud streets, which brought us near to the +Pantheon of Agrippa, and there the house was easily pointed out to us; its +porch decorated with recent palm-branches, which the Centurion said must +have been placed there by the joyful hands of some fortunate client. Here +having thanked this kind person, and left honest Boto among the crowd of +slaves in the vestibule, I was speedily conducted into the presence of the +Patrician. + +I found him in a small upper chamber, lighted by a single silver lamp +suspended from the roof, enjoying, as it appeared, repose and relaxation +after the exertions of the day. He was reclining when I entered; and +although supper was long over, some fruits and other trifling things still +remained on the board. At table with him there was no one present, +excepting a Greek of solemn aspect, whom he introduced to me as the +superintendent of his son’s education, and Sextus himself, a modest and +ingenuous youth, who sat at the lower extremity of his father’s couch. He +was indeed a very mild and amiable young man, and I had more pleasure, +after a space, in surveying his features, than the more marked lineaments +of the other two. At first, however, nothing riveted my attention so much +as the energetic physiognomy of the Senator. The forepart of his head was +already quite bald, although the darkness of the short curls behind +testified that age was not the cause of this deformity. His eyes were +black and rapid, and his eyebrows vibrated in a remarkable manner, not +only when he spoke, but even when he was silent; indicating, as it +appeared, by their transitions, every new train of thought and imagination +within his mind. His style of conversation was quick and fervid, and his +gestures vehement as he spake; it being apparent, that, from restlessness +and vanity of disposition, he was continually exercising a needless +measure of mental activity and anxiety. Not satisfied with his own +sufficient richness of ideas, no thought could be expressed which he did +not immediately seize upon, and explain, even to him by whom it had been +first suggested, with much fluency and earnestness of illustration. On the +other hand, the guest, who wore a long beard reaching to his girdle, +preserved in all things an uncommon demureness of manner, restraining +every salient movement of his mind, and watching, with the gravity of a +Numa, the glancing eyes and sharp features of his patron. A roll of yellow +parchment graced his left hand, but the other was employed in selecting +from the table such articles as were most agreeable to his palate. +Licinius, although meagre in person, and at that time parched with +declamation, seemed to live in such a state of intellectual excitement, +that he thought little either of eating or drinking; therefore, the +Athenian, resigning, for the most part, his share of the conversation, +amused himself, in exchange, with the more trivial gratifications +abandoned to him by his host. Nor, if one might draw any conclusion from +his complexion and figure, was this the first occasion on which +Xerophrastes had exercised that species of humility. + +When Licinius had inquired of me concerning my native place, and also +given a few words to the affairs which had brought me to the city, his +conversation was naturally directed to subjects more new to me, if not +more interesting to him. “You would observe,” said he, “the palm branches +at my door. They were won to-day by a five hours’ harangue before the +Centumviri. It is only in contests such as these that men of my order have +now any opportunity to exercise themselves, and preserve some remembrance +of those ancient worthies and great public characters that once adorned +the state. To these things, therefore, young kinsman, I entirely devote +myself; nor aim, like other citizens of rank, at passing the day in +diversion, and ending it with luxuries. At supper my table is furnished +with moderate fare, while in other houses I know not how many roasted +boars and pompous sturgeons have been regaling with the rich perfume of +their sauces and stuffing, guests who love the meat more than the man who +gives it. This learned person knows how laborious is my course of life, +and what an impatient crowd awaits my appearance every morning. His pupil +will, I hope, tread in the same steps, and afford to a future generation +the image of the former Licinius.” With these, and the like discourses, he +occupied our ears till it was time to retire; and then intimated that he +had allotted to me an apartment which he expected I would continually +occupy during my residence in the city. But being informed that I had a +British slave with me, he insisted on having this man sent for, that he +might see him, as he expressed it, before the genuine unsophisticated +barbarian had been corrupted by keeping company with the cunning menials +of the metropolis. Whereupon, it was commanded that Boto should come up, +and he was forthwith ushered in by a certain leering varlet, with rings in +his ears, whose face resembled some comic mask in the habitual archness of +its malicious and inquisitive look. + +Not few were the bows and scrapes with which my Briton entered these +penetralia; nor was the astonishment inconsiderable with which the orator +regarded Boto. “So, friend,” said Licinius,—“and you have ventured to come +to Rome, without so much as shaving your beard?” But the merry and +good-natured tone in which these words were uttered, having somewhat +reassured the bashful rustic, he gave a sly side-look towards the +philosopher, (who, I think, had never once glanced at him,) and replied to +Licinius, “Pardon me, O master, for coming thus into your presence; but I +knew not, till Dromo told me, that beards were worn in Rome only by goats +and the wisest of mankind.” The words of the barbarian amused the +orator—but, turning round to his own slave, “Ah! Dromo,” said he, “do I +already recognize the effects of your teaching?—beware the whip, corrupt +not this good Briton, at your peril.” He then asked of Boto various +questions concerning his recent voyage; to all of which he made answers +after his own fashion, sufficiently sagacious. Great contempt, however, +was depicted on the face of the silent stoic during this conversation; +which he, no doubt, looked upon as a very unworthy condescension on the +part of Licinius; till at last, having, in a leisurely manner, poured out +the last of the flagon, Xerophrastes arose from his couch and departed. As +he withdrew, he unfortunately struck his knee on the corner of the table, +which elicited from his stubborn features a sudden contortion. This, +however, he immediately smoothed of, twisting his involuntary stoop into +an obeisance to the Senator. + +Young Sextus conducted me to my chamber; and we conversed together with +easy juvenile confidence for some time before he left me. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +My sleep was sound and sweet; nevertheless, when the morning began to +dawn, I was awakened by its first glimmerings, and found that my thoughts +became at once too busy to admit of a return to slumber. I therefore +arose, and went to walk in an open gallery, with which my chamber was +connected. This gallery commanded a prospect of a great part of the city, +which at that hour appeared no less tranquil than stately, nothing being +in motion except a few small boats gliding here and there upon the river. +Neither as yet had any smoke begun to darken the atmosphere; so that all +things were seen in a serene and steady light, the shadows falling broadly +westward over streets and squares—but pillars, and obelisks, and arches, +rising up every where with unsullied magnificence into the bright air of +the morning. The numerous poplars and other lofty trees of the gardens, +also, seemed to be rejoicing in the hour of dew and silence; so fresh and +cheerful was the intermixture of their branches among the piles of white +and yellow marble. Near at hand, over the groves of the Philoclean +Mansion, I could see the dome of the Pantheon, all burnished with living +gold, and the proud colonnades of the Flaminian Circus, loaded with armies +of brazen statues. Between these and the river, the theatres of Pompey and +Marcellus, and I know not how many temples, were visible. Across a more +crowded region, to the westward, my eye ascended to the cliffs and towers +of the Capitol; while, still farther removed from me, (although less +elevated in natural situation,) the gorgeous mansion of the Emperor was +seen, lifted up, like some new and separate city, upon its enormous fabric +of arcades. Behind me, the Flavian Amphitheatre, the newest and the most +majestic of all Roman edifices, detained the eye for a space from all that +lay beyond it—the splendid mass of the Esquiline—and those innumerable +aqueducts which lie stretched out, arch after arch, and pillar after +pillar, across the surrounding plain. + +As I stood upon a projecting balcony, I heard some person stepping softly +along the floor, and, being screened by some pillars, looked back into the +gallery without subjecting myself to observation in return. The noise, I +found, was occasioned by one of the slaves of Licinius, (the same I had +remarked over night,) who had an air of anxious vigilance on this +occasion, looking about from side to side as if afraid of being detected +in some impropriety. I heard him tap at one of the apartments adjoining my +own, and young Sextus, opening the door, eagerly asked, “Well, Dromo, good +Dromo, what news?—Have you seen or heard any thing of her?—Speak low, I +beseech you, and remember that my preceptor is near.” “Which preceptor?” +replied Dromo; “count me your best, and I will teach you how to manage all +besides.”—“Hush!” whispered the young man; “he may be astir with these +eternal parchments.”—“Be easy,” returned the slave; “I have found out +facts which will serve to bridle that tongue at any time.”—“Dromo,” said +Sextus, “have a care; remember the thong of sleek leather which hangs at +the foot of the stair-case; and many is the time I have saved you from it; +for which you may, perhaps, have to thank the beauty of her who has +rendered you necessary to me, as much as my own good nature. But no more +idle words at present—what have you to tell me?” + +“I have just been down,” answered he, “to the herb-market. I had made my +bargain, and was coming away, when I met one of old Capito’s men, driving +an ass laden with articles from the country. So I asked if he was carrying +a present to his master’s brother. He said he had brought nothing for +Lucius but a letter; and that he believed its purport was to invite the +two young ladies, to come out to-day and enjoy the beauty of the season. I +no sooner got this information, than I ran hither as swiftly as my legs +would carry me. You can easily go out, as if by chance, to pay your +respects to the Patrician.” + +“Ah, Sempronia!” sighed Sextus, “shall I approach you at last?—What will +she think when she sees me there?—Oh, how will she speak to me?” + +While he was uttering these words, Dromo suddenly started, and came +peeping on tiptoe towards the place where I stood. I stepped from behind +my pillar, and said to the astonished youth, “Fear not, Sextus, that I +shall intermeddle with your secrets, or make any use of what I have +accidentally overheard. But I wish you would satisfy my curiosity, and +inform me who is this lady, and what may be the meaning of all this +concealment?” + +Here Dromo, perceiving that his young master was a good deal confused, +came forward and said, “From observing your looks last night, when I was +making a handle of yon barbarian to torture our friend of the porch, I +think you are a good-natured person, who would not willingly bring any of +us into trouble. The truth is, that Licinius wishes my young master here +to marry a certain lady, who has already had wet eyes over the ashes of a +first husband; but who is of noble birth, and very rich. Now Sextus, being +only eighteen, does not like this great lady so well as she likes him; and +has, in fact, lost his heart elsewhere.”—“Dromo,” answered I, taking young +Sextus by the hand as I spoke, “this is a pretty common sort of story; but +I shall take no side till I have seen both of the ladies; and the sooner +your ingenuity can bring that about, the more shall I be beholden to +you.”—“We shall try,” replied the slave, observing that I had overcome the +reluctance of the lover; “but in the meantime I observe that the clients +are beginning to assemble in the porch, to await the forthcoming of +Licinius. Go, therefore, and get some breakfast, for, by and by, you will +both be expected to accompany the Senator to the Forum, to hear him plead; +which, between ourselves, will be a six hours’ job for you, unless you +manage matters dexterously.” + +This hint produced a visible effect on Sextus; but we went down together +immediately to an apartment, where some bread and grapes were prepared for +us; and there, with much ingenuousness, he opened his heart to me. But +what surprised me most of all, was to hear, that although he had been +enamoured of Sempronia for several months, and was well acquainted with +several of her relations, he had never yet seen her, except at certain +places of public resort, nor enjoyed any opportunity of making known his +passion. + +While I was expressing my astonishment at this circumstance, we were +interrupted by Xerophrastes, who came to inform us that Licinius, having +already descended into the hall, was about to issue forth, and desirous of +my company, if no other occupation detained me. We accordingly followed +the philosopher, and found his patron where he had indicated, pacing to +and fro, in the highest state of excitation, like a generous steed about +to scour the field of battle. The waxen effigies of his ancestors stood at +one end of the hall, some of them defaced with age; and upon these he +frequently fixed his ardent eyes. Seeing me enter, he immediately cried +out, “Come hither, young friend, and I shall presently conduct you to a +scene worthy, above all others, of the curiosity of a stranger.” + +With this, arranging his gown, and putting himself into a dignified +attitude, he ordered the porter, who stood chained by the door, to throw +wide its massy valves; which being done, the litigants and consulters, who +were without, received the orator with acclamations, and surrounded him on +all sides. Some of the poorer ones, I observed kissing the hem of his +garment, and dodging wistfully at his elbows, without ever attracting a +word or look from him; while those of a higher class came forward more +familiarly, seeking to impress particular circumstances upon his memory, +and paying him compliments on the appearance he had made the day before in +the Centumviral Court. Encircled by this motley group, he walked towards +the great Forum, followed at a little distance by Sextus, the preceptor, +myself, and some freedmen of his household. In moving on, we passed, by +accident, the door of another great pleader, by name Bruttianus, who stood +there attended in a similar manner. When he perceived Licinius, this man +took from his door-post a green palm-branch, and waved it towards us in a +vaunting manner; but our friend, saluting him courteously, cried out, with +his sharp and cutting voice, “We shall try it again.” Whereon +Xerophrastes, immediately stepping up to his patron, began thus, “How this +vain-glorious person exposes himself!—he is certainly a weak man; and his +tones, by Hermes, are more detestable than those of an African fowl.”—At +which words, Sextus tipped me the wink; but I did not observe that +Licinius was at all displeased with them. Yet, soon after, Bruttianus +having overtaken us, the processions were joined, and the two pleaders +walked the rest of the way together in a loving manner, exchanging +complimentary speeches; to which Xerophrastes listened with edifying +gravity of visage. + +At length we entered that venerable space, every yard of whose surface is +consecrated to the peculiar memory of some great incident in the history +of Rome. Young Sextus allowed me to contemplate for some time, with silent +wonder, the memorable objects which conspired to the decoration of this +remarkable place; but after the first gaze of astonishment was satisfied, +proceeded to point out, in order, the names and uses of the principal +structures which rose on every side over its porticos—above all, of its +sublime temples—into whose cool and shady recesses the eye could here and +there penetrate through the open valves. Nor did the ancient rostrum from +which Tully had declaimed, escape our observation—nor within its guarding +rail of silver, the rising shoots of the old mysterious fig-tree of +Romulus—nor the rich tesselated pavement which covered the spot that had +once yawned an abyss before the steady eye of Curtius—nor the resplendent +Milliary pillar which marked the centre of the place. In a word, had the +gathering crowds permitted, I could have willingly spent many hours in +listening to the explanation of such magnificent objects; but these, and +the elevated voice of Licinius, who was just beginning his harangue, soon +compelled me to attend to things of another description. + +Within one of the proud ranges of arcade, on the side nearest to the +Capitoline stairs, a majestic Patrician had already taken his seat on an +elevated tribunal—his assessors being arranged on a lower bench by his +side, and the orators and clients congregated beneath. When I heard the +clear and harmonious periods of my kinsman; when I observed with what +apparent simplicity he laid his foundations in a few plain facts and +propositions; with what admirable art he upreared from these a +superstructure of conclusions, equally easy as unexpected; when he had +conducted us to the end of his argument, and closed with a burst of +passionate eloquence, in which he seemed to leave even himself behind him, +I could not but feel as if I had now for the first time contemplated the +practised strength of intellect. Yet I have lived to discover that the +talent which so greatly excited my wonder is often possessed from nature, +or acquired through practice, in a measure which at that time would have +afforded me scarcely inferior delight, by men of no extraordinary rank. + +The keen and lively gestures of the fervid Licinius, whose soul seemed to +speak out of every finger he moved, and who appeared to be altogether +immersed in the cause he pleaded, were succeeded by the solemn and +somewhat pompous stateliness of Bruttianus, who made a brief pause between +every two sentences, as if he were apprehensive that the mind of the judge +could not keep pace with the stream of his illustrations, and looked round +ever and anon upon the spectators with a placid and assured smile, rather, +as it seemed to me, to signify his approbation of their taste in +applauding him, than his own pleasure in their applauses. Nevertheless, he +also was a splendid speaker, and his affectation displeased the more, +because it was evidently unworthy of his understanding. While he was +speaking, I observed that the Stoic preceptor was frequently shifting his +place among the crowd, and muttering every where expressions of high +contempt. But this did not disgust me so much as the fixed attitude of +ecstasy in which he listened to the discourse of his own patron, and the +pretended involuntary exclamations of his delight. “Oh, admirable +cadence!” he would say, “I feel as if I were draining a honey-comb. Oh, +harmonious man, where have I, or any other person here, sucked in such +sweetness!” These absurd phrases, however, were caught up forthwith, and +repeated by the numerous young men who hung upon the skirts of the orator, +and seemed, indeed, to be drinking in nectar from the speech, if one might +judge from their countenances. From their taking notes in their tablets +from time to time, and from the knowing looks they assumed at the +commencement of every new chain of argument, I guessed that these might be +embryo jurisconsults, preparing themselves by their attendance for future +exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I listened to their +conversation at the close of every speech, I thought I could perceive in +their tones and accents, studied mimicry of the natural peculiarities of +Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other orators. Altogether, the scene was as +full of amusement as of novelty, and I could willingly have remained to +the end of the discussion. But my eyes chanced to fall upon young Sextus, +and I could not but see that his mind was occupied in matters remote from +the business of the Forum. He stood with his arms folded in his gown, and +his eyes fixed upon the ground, only lifting them up from time to time +with an impatient air towards a side entrance, or to observe by the +shadows on the porticos what progress the sun was making. + +Perceiving, at length, that Xerophrastes had his back turned to us, and +that his father was engaged with his tablets, he plucked me by the sleeve. +I understood his meaning, and followed him quickly through the crowd; nor +did we look back till we had left the noise of the Forensic assembly +entirely behind us. “I am depriving you,” he said, “of no great +gratification, for that old creature is, indeed, possessed of much natural +shrewdness, but he is bitter from observing that his reputation is rather +eclipsed by younger people, and looks like some worn-out and discarded +cat, grinning from the top of the wall at the dalliance of some sleeker +rival. You could find no delight in the angry sneerings of such an envious +person; and his age would prevent you, at the same time, from willingly +giving way to contemptuous emotions. I will be your guide to the villa. +But if any questions be asked on our return, you can say I was anxious to +shew you something of the other regions of the city.” + +He hurried me through noble streets, and past innumerable edifices, before +each of which I would gladly have paused. Nevertheless, seeing him wrapped +up in anxious thoughts, I did not oppose myself to his inclinations; and +ere long, having passed the Hill of Gardens, I found that we had gained +the eastern limit of the city. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +A sharp walk of about an hour and a half on the Salarean Way, brought us +within sight of the Suburban of Capito. + +A lofty wall protected the fields of this retirement from the intrusive +eyes of passengers. We entered by a small side-door, and found ourselves, +as if by some magical delusion, transported from the glare of a Roman +highway, into the depth and silence of some primeval forest. No nicely +trimmed path conducted our feet. Every thing had at least the appearance +of being left as nature had formed it. The fern rustled beneath us as we +moved; the ivy was seen spreading its careless tresses from tree to tree; +the fawn bounded from the thicket. By degrees, however, the gloom +lessened, till at length, over an open space of lawn, we perceived the +porch of entrance, and a long line of colonnade. We passed under the +porch, and across a paved court where a fountain was playing, into the +great hall, which commanded all the other side of the place—a noble +prospect of elaborate gardens gradually rising into shady hills, and lost +in a distance of impenetrable wood. + +Here a freedman attended us, who informed us that Capito had retired into +a sequestered part of the grounds with some friends from the city; but +that if we chose we could easily join him there. We assented, and, +following his guidance, ere long traversed no narrow space of luxuriant +cultivation. From one perfumed terrace we descended to another; till, +having reached a certain green and mossy walk, darkened by a natural +arching of vines and mulberries, the freedman pointed to a statue at the +farther end, and told us it stood over against the entrance of his +master’s summer-house. When we reached the statue, however, we could +perceive no building. The shaded avenue terminated in face of a +precipitous rock, from which there fell a small stream that was received +in a massive basin, where the waters foamed into spray without +transgressing the margin. A thousand delicious plants and far-sought +flowers clustered around the base of the rock and the brink of the +fountain, and the humming of innumerable bees mingled with the whispers of +the stream. We stood for a moment uncertain whether we should move on or +retire, when we heard one calling to us from beyond; and passing to the +other side of the basin, descried, between the rock and the falling water, +a low entrance into what seemed to be a natural cave or grotto. We +stooped, and found ourselves within one of the most luxurious retirements +ever haunted by the foot of Dryad. A sparry roof hung like a canopy of +gems and crystals over a group of sculptured Nymphs and Fawns, which were +placed on a rustic pedestal within a circular bath shaped out of the +living stone. Around the edge of the waveless waters that slumbered in +this green recess, were spread carpets rich with the dyes of Tyrian art, +whereon Capito was reposing with his friends. He received Sextus with +kindness, and me with politeness, introducing us both to his companions, +who were three in number—all of them, like himself, advanced in years, and +two of them wearing long beards, though their demeanour was destitute of +any thing like the affected stateliness of our friend Xerophrastes. These +two, as our host informed us, were Greeks and Rhetoricians—the third, a +Patrician of the house of the Pontii, devoted, like himself, to the +pursuits of philosophy and the pleasures of a literary retirement. + +They were engaged, when we joined them, in a conversation which had sprung +from the perusal of some new metaphysical treatise. One of the Greeks, the +more serene-looking of the pair, was defending its doctrines with +earnestness of manner, although in a low and measured cadence of voice; +the other espoused the opposite side, with quickness of utterance and +severe animation of look; while the two lordly Romans seemed to be +contenting themselves, for the most part, with listening, although it was +not difficult to perceive from their countenances, that the one sided in +opinion with the Stoic, and Capito himself with the Epicurean. + +They all arose presently, and proceeded to walk together, without +interrupting the conversation, along the same shaded avenue which Sextus +and myself had already traversed. He and I moved along with them, but a +little in their rear—my companion being still too much abstracted to +bestow his attention on what they were saying; while I myself, being but +little an adept in such mysteries, amused myself rather with the exterior +and manners of the men, than with the merits of the opinions they were +severally defending. The Greeks were attired in the graceful costume of +their country, which was worn, however, far more gracefully by the +Epicurean than his brother,—the materials of his robe being delicate, and +its folds arranged with studied elegance, whereas the coarse garment of +the Stoic had apparently engaged less attention. Nevertheless, there was a +more marked difference between the attire of Capito and that of Pontius +Mamurra; for the former was arrayed in a tunic of the whitest cloth, +beneath which appeared fine linen rollers, swathing his thighs and legs, +to protect them, as I supposed, from the heat and the insects, and a pair +of slippers, of dark violet-coloured cloth, embroidered with silver +flowers; while the other held his arms folded in the drapery of an old but +genuine toga, which left his yet strong and sinewy nether limbs exposed to +the weather, all except what was covered by his tall black sandals and +their senatorian crescents. + +As we passed on, our host from time to time directed the attention of his +visiters, more particularly of the two Greeks, to the statues of bronze +and marble, which were placed at convenient intervals along the terraces +of his garden. The symmetry of these figures, and the graceful simplicity +of their attitudes, inspired me with I know not what of calm and soothing +pleasure such as I had never before tasted, so that I thought I could have +lingered for ever amidst these haunts of philosophic luxury. The images +were, for the most part, portraits of illustrious men—Greeks, Romans—sages +and heroes; but beautiful female forms were not wanting, nor majestic +representations of gods and demi-gods, and all the ethereal imaginations +of the Grecian poets. Seeing the name of Jupiter inscribed upon one of the +pedestals, I paused for a moment to contemplate the glorious +personification of might and wisdom, depositing, at the same time, a +handful of roses at the feet of the statue—upon which I could observe that +my behaviour furnished some mirth to the Epicurean Demochares; while, on +the contrary, Euphranor, the disciple of the Porch, approved of what I +did, and rebuked his companion for saying any thing that might even by +possibility disturb the natural piety of an innocent youth. But the Roman +Stoic stood by with a smile of stately scorn; and utter indifference was +painted on the countenance of Capito. At another time, Sextus having staid +behind to examine the beauties of a certain statue of Diana, which +represented the goddess stretched out in careless slumber on the turf, +with a slender grayhound at her feet, the Epicurean began to rally me on +having a taste inferior to that of my friend, whose devotion, he said, +could not be blamed, being paid to an exquisite imitation of what the +great Nature of things had decreed should ever be the most agreeable of +all objects in the eyes of a person of his age.—“Whereas you,” continued +he, “appear to be more occupied with deep-hung eye-brows, ambrosial +beards, and fantastic thunderbolts, and the other exuberances of Homeric +imagination.” + +To this reproach I made no reply, but Capito immediately began to recite +some verses of a Hymn of Calimachus, in which both the Greeks joined him; +nor could any thing be more delightful than the harmonious numbers. A +sudden exclamation of my friend, however, interrupted them, and Capito, +looking up a long straight pathway, said, “Come, Valerius, we shall see +whether you or Sextus is the more gallant to living beauties, for here +come my nieces. I assure you, I know not of which of them I am the more +proud; but Sempronia has more of the Diana about her, so it is probable +she may find a ready slave in our Sextus.” + +We advanced, and the uncle, having tenderly saluted them, soon presented +us to their notice. Sextus blushed deeply when he found himself introduced +to Sempronia, while in her smile, although she looked at him as if to say +she had never seen him before, I thought I could detect a certain +half-suppressed something of half-disdainful archness—the colour in her +cheeks, at the same time, being not entirely unmoved. She was, indeed, a +very lovely girl, and in looking on her light dancing play of features, I +could easily sympathize with the young raptures of my friend. Her dress +was such as to set off her charms to the utmost advantage, for the bright +green of her Byssine robe, although it would have been a severe trial to +any ordinary complexion, served only to heighten the delicious brilliancy +of hers. A veil, of the same substance and colour, richly embroidered with +flowers of silver tissue, fell in flowing drapery well-nigh to her knees. +Her hair was almost entirely concealed by this part of her dress, but a +single braid of the brightest nut-brown was visible low down on her +polished forehead. Her eyes were black as jet, and full of a nymph-like +vivacity. + +The other, Athanasia, was not a dazzling beauty. Taller than her cousin, +and darker-haired, but with eyes rather light than otherwise, of a clear, +somewhat melancholy gray—with a complexion paler than is usual in Italy, a +demeanour hovering between cheerfulness and innocent gravity, and attired +with a vestal simplicity in the old Roman tunic, and cloak of white +cloth—it is possible that most men might have regarded her less than the +other. A single star of diamonds, planted high up among her black hair, +was the only ornament she wore. + +At the request of the younger lady, we all returned to the grotto, in the +neighbourhood of which, as I have already mentioned, our tasteful host had +placed the rarest of his exotic plants, some of which Sempronia was now +desirous of inspecting. As we paced again slowly over those smooth-shaven +alleys of turf, and between those rows of yews and box, clipped into +regular shapes, which abounded in this more artificial region, the +conversation, which the appearance of the cousins had disturbed, was +resumed; although, as out of regard to their presence, the voices of the +disputants preserved a lower and milder tone than before. I must confess, +however, that mild as was the manner of the discourse, I could not help +being somewhat astonished, that a polite Roman could permit such topics to +be discussed in the hearing of females; above all, that he did not +interpose to prevent Demochares from throwing out so many sarcastic +reflections concerning the deities whose statues decorated the garden. A +beautiful Mercury, in particular, which we all paused to admire, elicited +many observations, that I could easily see were far from being agreeable +to the fair cousins. But greatest of all was my wonder at the behaviour of +Capito himself, who, after we had again entered that delightful grotto, +turned himself to me as if peculiarly, and began a deliberate and +ingenious piece of declamation concerning the tenets of his favourite +philosophy;—such as the fortuitous concourse of atoms, the transitory and +fluctuating nature of all things, and the necessity of snatching present +enjoyments, as nothing permanent can be discovered whereon to repose the +mind. With great elegance, indeed, did he enlarge on these golden +theories, nor did he fail to intersperse his discourse with many exquisite +verses from Lucretius and other poetical followers of his sect. Such, +however, was the earnestness of his declamation, that I could not help +believing him to be quite sincere to what he said, and asked him, not +without anxiety, whether he had all his life been an Epicurean, or whether +it was only of late that he had espoused that discipline. + +“Valerius,” said he, “the question is not discreditable to your tender age +and provincial education. To be born wise, Fate or Heaven has denied to +the human race. It is their privilege to win wisdom for themselves; the +fault is their own, if they do not die wise. When the stripling enters +upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes are around him, and he moves +onward in the buoyancy of conscious power. The pride of young existence is +the essence and extract of all his innumerable sensations. Rejoicing in +the feeling of the real might that is, it is his delight to think—to +dream—of might existing and exerted as for ever. New to the material, but +still more to the moral world, he believes in the stability of all things +whose transitory nature has not been exhibited before him. New to the +tricks of mankind, he believes that to be said truly, which, why it should +be said falsely, he is unable to conjecture. For him, superstition has +equal potency to darken the past, and illuminate the future. At that early +period, when ignorance is of itself sufficient to produce a certain +happiness, the ambition is too high to admit such doctrines as I have no +shame in avowing. But time moves on, and every hour some tender plant is +crushed beneath his tread. The spirit clings long to its delusions. The +promise that is destroyed to-day springs into life to-morrow in some new +shape; and Hope, like some warring deity of your poets, bleeds and sickens +only to revive again. But disappointment at length gathers to itself the +vigour of an enduring form. The horizon becomes colder around us—the soul +waxes faint and more faint within. It is then that man begins to recognize +the true state, not of his own nature alone, but of all things that +surround him—that having tasted much of evil, he is taught to feel the +value of good—and weaning himself from vain-glorious dreams, learns the +great lesson of wisdom, to enjoy the moments as they pass—to snatch some +solid pleasure, at least, amidst a world of vision and imagination; so, in +a word, as the poet has expressed it, he may not have reason to complain +in the hour of death that he has never lived. + +“In me,” he continued, “you behold one that has gone through the +experience necessary to produce an entire acquiescence in these doctrines. +I am one of those, Valerius, who have resolved to concentrate, after this +fashion, the whole of my dreams upon the hour that is. There are not +wanting, indeed, here and elsewhere, persons who profess the same +theories, only in the view of finding excuse and shelter for the practice +of vice. But till it be proved that the practice of vice is the best means +of enjoyment, in vain shall it be asserted that our doctrine is +essentially adverse to virtue. The mistakes or the misdeeds of individuals +must be estimated for nothing; for where is the doctrine that may not be +shewn to have been defended by impure livers? The founder of our sect is +acknowledged, by its most virulent enemies, to have been the most +blameless of men, and they, I must take leave to believe, can never be +sincere friends of virtue, who doubt, that he who is a true worshipper of +pleasure, may also be the worshipper of virtue.” + +There was a certain something, as I thought, more like suppressed +melancholy than genuine hilarity, in the expression of the old man’s face, +as well as in the tone of his voice, while he gave utterance to these +sentiments; nor did any of those present appear desirous of protracting +the argument; although I did not imagine from their looks that any of them +had altered their opinion. What, however, I could not help remarking in a +particular manner, was the gentle regret painted in the countenance of the +elder niece, while Capito was speaking. The maiden sate over against him +all the while, her cheek supported on her left hand, with an expression of +tender affection. From time to time, indeed, she cast her eye upward with +a calm smile, but immediately resumed her attitude of pensive abstraction. +Her uncle took her hand in his when he had done speaking, and kissed it +gently, as if to apologize for having said any thing disagreeable to her. +She smiled again upon the sceptic, and walked by herself, (for I could not +help following her with my eye,) down into a dark walk of pines that +branched off at the right hand from the entrance into the grotto. There I +saw her stoop and pluck a pale flower. This she placed in her bosom, and +then rejoined us with a more cheerful aspect; after which, we all walked +towards the villa. Nor did it escape my notice, that, although Sempronia +appeared willing to avoid Sextus as we went, it always happened, by some +accident or other, that he was nearer to her than any other person of the +company. + +They were both at a little distance behind the rest of the party, when +Euphranor addressed himself to me, saying, “Is not this youth, your +companion, the same that is under the guidance of a certain +Xerophrastes?”—“The same,” said I, “and a wary, sage-looking Athenian is +his tutor. I believe he also is of the Porch.”—“No doubt,” interrupted +Demochares; “he has a beard that Zeno might have been proud of, and walks +as if he conceived himself to be the chief pillar of the Porch, if not the +Porch itself.”—“Who shall prevent Demochares from having his jest?” +replied Euphranor. “The man is by birth a Thessalian, and his gutturals +still remind one strongly of his native hills.”—I would gladly have heard +more of it, but he was interrupted by the nearer approach of the rest. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +Before the hour of taking the bath, we exercised ourselves for some time +in the tennis-court, where I could not but admire, especially after having +heard Capito philosophise, the vigour and agility displayed by him as well +as his companions. I was then conducted into the baths, where, after being +washed and perfumed in the most luxurious manner, I was arrayed in an +elegant supper-garment by one of the slaves of our host. At table we were +joined again by the ladies, who both reclined on the same couch with their +uncle. Three comely youths attended us, in short tunics, and girt with +napkins of fine linen; but, during the repast, an ancient female slave +stood in silence behind the couch of the young ladies. A small fountain of +alabaster played between two tall candelabra of the same material, at the +farther end of the apartment; and a young damsel stood beside them, +swinging slowly from time to time a silver censer, from which clouds of +delicate odour rolled up to the mirrored roof. + +In all things the feast was splendid; but there was no appearance of +useless or vain ostentation. Every thing was conducted in a style of great +calmness and order, without the least formality. The repast interrupted +not the conversation, which went on in a manner to me equally instructive +as entertaining; although I must confess the presence of Athanasia +sometimes rendered me inattentive to what was spoken. I could not divest +myself of the idea, that some unknown circumstance was pressing on the +mind of the fair creature, and that when she smiled upon those who +addressed her, it was sometimes to conceal her ignorance of that which had +been said. + +Being asked by Capito, I endeavoured, among other things, to inform him +and his friends, as far as I could, concerning the then condition of this +island, which, more particularly after the exploits of Agricola, had come +to be a subject of some interest. In return, the chief topics which then +occupied the capital were discussed by them, as I perceived, in a great +measure on my account; and I listened with delight to the praises, which +they all agreed on bestowing on the new Emperor. Many anecdotes were +narrated, which tended to strengthen the feelings of admiration, with +which I had already been accustomed to contemplate his character. But +others were told, as the conversation went on, which I could not so easily +reconcile with the idea I had formed of him. + +For example, I was somewhat disturbed with what they told me concerning +his treatment of the Christians, who, as we understood in Britain, had +been suffered to live in tranquillity ever since Nerva acceded to the +empire. But now, from the circumstances related, it appeared that the mild +and humane Trajan had taken up, in regard to this sect, the whole aversion +of Domitian; every day some cruel catastrophe was made known of some +person who had adopted their tenets. Being ignorant of the nature of those +tenets, and having heard only in general terms that they were of Jewish +origin, dark, and mystical, I was at a loss to account for the extreme +hatred of the Prince, or rather for his condescending to give himself so +much trouble concerning a matter so obscure and seemingly trifling. + +Capito, however, assured me, that although I might have good occasion to +wonder at the steps taken by the Emperor, it would no longer be said by +any one, that the progress of the Christian sect deserved to be considered +as a matter either of obscurity, or of no consequence. “On the contrary,” +said he, “from what you have just heard of the numbers and quality of +those that have lately suffered various punishments, you cannot hesitate +to admit that the head of the empire has been justified in considering it +as a subject worthy his attention.” + +“We have adopted the gods of many nations,” said Pontius Mamurra, “nor do +I see why, because the Jews have been unfortunate in a contest with Rome, +we should take it for granted that theirs are unworthy of respect. If, +however, as we have heard asserted, he who embraces this creed becomes an +infidel in regard to the deities of Rome, I say Cæsar does well in +refusing toleration to the intolerant superstition. Domitian was a tyrant, +and a monster of humanity; the late prince was wise and good; and yet it +may be, that, in regard to these Christians, the principle of Domitian’s +conduct was right in the main, and that of Nerva’s wrong. But you, Capito, +regard both sides of the question, I have no doubt, with the same +indifference.” + +“I hope,” replied Capito, “I shall never regard with indifference any +question, in which the interest of the empire and the honour of Trajan are +concerned. But if you mean only that I am indifferent about the nature of +this Syrian superstition, you are in the right. I have no knowledge of its +dogmas, nor desire to have. I presume they have their share of that old +eastern barbarity, in the shady places of which the elder Greeks used to +think they could discover the outlines of something really grand and +majestic.” + +“It may be so,” said Mamurra; “but if the superstition be found dangerous +to the state, the Prince does well in repressing its progress. That is the +only question of which I spake.”—“There is, indeed, no other,” said +Capito; “I thought of none.”—“And how do you answer it, dear uncle?” said +Athanasia, (lifting herself up, for the first time, to take part in the +conversation.)—“Nay, my love,” said the old man, “to answer that is the +business of Cæsar, and of the Senate. I only regret, that blood should be +shed, and citizens exiled; above all, in the reign of a just and merciful +Prince.—Sempronia,” continued he, “what is that strange story your father +was telling about one of the daughters of Serennius?” + +“They only allege,” replied Sempronia, with a smile, “that Tertulla had a +flirtation with a handsome young Greek, and the Greek happened to be a +Christian,—and she was converted by the Greek,—and she was found out in +going with him to some secret assembly of these people, in a vault by the +Vatican Hill,—and her father has been glad to send her to Corsica, partly +to escape the lawyers, and partly, I suppose, in hopes that the quietness +of the island, and the absence of handsome young Christians, may perhaps, +in time, restore poor Tertulla to her right mind—This is all. Do you think +that a strange story, uncle?” “Not, if it be exactly as you have told it, +Sempronia. What says Athanasia?” Athanasia answered gravely, that she was +sorry for Tertulla, and had never heard any thing of the young Greek +before. + +By this time, the increasing darkness of the chamber had warned me that we +ought to be thinking of our return. I had more than once looked towards +Sextus, but he refused to meet my eye. When I was on the point of +speaking, Sempronia, starting from her couch, exclaimed, that she was sure +there was thunder in the skies; and presently flash after flash gleamed +along the horizon. All sat silent, as if awe-struck; but Sempronia was the +only one that seemed to be in terror from the tempest. Nevertheless, my +eyes rested more on Athanasia, who looked paler than she had done, +although her countenance preserved its serenity. “How awful,” said I, “is +the voice of Jupiter!” Athanasia folded her arms upon her bosom, and +lifting her eyes to heaven, said in a whisper,—“How awful is the voice of +God!” She then dropt her hand on the end of her couch, and half +unconsciously taking hold of it in mine, I asked her if she was afraid. +“No,” said she, “I am not afraid, but the heaviness of the air makes me +faint, and I never can listen to thunder without feeling something +extraordinary within me.” + +Capito said, he could not think of our going into the city that evening, +and that we must all make up our minds to remain in the villa. The +countenance of Sextus brightened up, and he looked to me as if to ask my +assent. I was easily persuaded, and our host despatched a messenger to +inform Licinius of the cause of our absence. The old man then led us into +another apartment, which was richly furnished with books and paintings. +Here he read for some time out of one of the poets, to a party, none of +whom, I am afraid, were very attentive in listening to him, till, the hour +of rest being come, we were conducted to our several apartments, Sextus +and myself, indeed, being lodged in the same chamber. + +We were no sooner left alone than I began to rally my friend on the beauty +of his mistress, and the earnest court he had been paying her. The youth +listened with blushes of delight to her praises, but seemed not to have +the least idea that he had been so fortunate as to make any impression on +her mind. On the contrary, he scarcely appeared to be aware of having done +any thing to attract attention from her, and expressed astonishment when I +assured him, that his behaviour had been such as could not possibly admit +of more than one explanation in the eyes of a person so quick and +vivacious as the lovely Sempronia. + +After we had both retired to our beds, and the lights were extinguished, +we still continued for some time to talk over the incidents of our visit, +and the future prospects of Sextus and his love; until at length sleep +overpowered us in easy bonds, and agreeable dreams followed, I doubt not, +in the hearts of us both, the thoughts and sights of a delightful day. +Mine surely were delightful, for they were all of Athanasia. Yet, even in +the visions of the night, I could never gaze on her face without some +strange impression of mystery. I saw her placid smile—I heard the sweet +low cadence of her voice—but I felt, and I could not feel it without a +certain indescribable anxiety, that her deep thoughts were far away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I awoke early, and drew near to the bed of Sextus; but seeing that he was +fast asleep, and that a quiet smile was on his lips, I could not think of +awakening him. The sun shone bright into the apartment, and I resolved to +walk forth and breathe the balmy air of the garden. + +The moisture was still heavy on the green paths, and the birds were +singing among glittering leaves; the god-like statues stood unscathed in +their silent beauty. I walked to and fro, enjoying the enchantment of the +scene;—a new feeling of the beauty of all things seemed to have been +breathed into my soul; and the pensive grace of Athanasia hovered over my +imagination, like some presiding genius of the groves. + +I found myself near the favourite grotto, and had stood over against its +entrance for some space, contemplating the augmented stream as it fell +from the superincumbent rock, and regretting the ravage which the nightly +tempest had made among the delicate flowers round its basin. Twice I +thought I heard the murmurs of a voice, and twice I persuaded myself that +it was only the rippling of the waters; but the third time I was satisfied +that some person must be near. I passed between the water and the rock, +and beheld the fair creature that had been occupying so many of my +thoughts, kneeling far within the grotto, as it seemed, in supplication. +To disturb her by advancing farther, would have been impious; to retire, +without the risk of disturbing her, almost impossible; but I remained +there fixed to the spot, without perhaps considering all these things as I +should have done. The virgin modesty of her attitude was holy in my eyes, +and the thought never occurred to me, that I might be doing wrong in +permitting myself to witness the simple devotions of Athanasia. “Great +God, listen to my prayers,” was all I understood of what she said; but she +whispered for some moments in a lowly and fervent tone, and I saw that she +kissed something with her lips ere she arose from her knees. She then +plunged her hands into the well, by whose brink she had knelt, and turned +round to the light. “Athanasia, forgive me,” was already on my lips; but +on seeing me, she uttered a faint cry and fell prostrate upon the marble. +I rushed forward, lifted up her head, and laved water from the fountain, +till I saw her lips tremble. At last she opened her eyes, and after gazing +on me wildly for a moment, she gathered her strength, and stood quite +upright, supporting herself against the wall of the grotto. “Great +heavens!” cried I, “in what have I offended, that I should be rendered the +cause of affliction to Athanasia? Speak, lady, and say that you forgive +me.” + +“I thought,” said she, with a proud calmness, “that Valerius was of +Roman—of Patrician blood. What brings him to be a spy upon the secret +moments of a Patrician maiden?”—Then bursting into a tone of unutterable +fervour, “Speak,” said she, “young man, what have you heard? How long have +you stood here? Am I betrayed?” + +“Witness, heaven and earth!” cried I, kneeling, “and witness every god, +that I have heard nothing, except to know that you were praying. I have +only seen you kneeling, and been guilty of gazing on your beauty.” “You +heard not the words of my prayer?” said she. “No, not its words, +Athanasia, nor any thing of its purpose.” “Do you swear this to me, young +man?” “Yes, I swear by Jupiter and by Rome—as I am a man and a Roman, I +know not, neither do I desire to know, any thing of what you said. Forgive +me for the fault of my indiscretion—you have no other to forgive.” + +Athanasia paused for a moment, and then resuming more of her usual tone of +voice, (although its accents were still somewhat disturbed and faltering,) +said to me, “Valerius, since the thing is so, I have nothing to forgive. +It is you that must pardon me for my suspicion.” “Distress me not, +Athanasia,” said I, “by speaking such words.” “From this hour, then,” said +she, “what has passed here is forgotten. We blot it from our +memories;”—and with that, as if in token of the paction, she extended to +me her hand. I kissed it as I knelt, and swore that all things were safe +with me; but added, as I arose, “that I was afraid I should be promising +more than I should be able to perform,—did I say I should be able to +forget any hour, or any place, where I had seen Athanasia.” “Nay,” said +she, “no compliment, or I shall begin to suspect you of insincerity.” I +was then about to withdraw from the grotto; but seeing a scroll of +parchment lying at the feet of Athanasia, I stooped, and presented it to +her, saying, “I was afraid she might forget it.” She took it eagerly, and +saying, “Of that there was no danger,” placed it in her bosom, within the +folds of her tunic. She was then gathering up her black tresses, and +fastening them hastily on the back part of her head, when we heard the +sound of footsteps not far off, and beckoning to me to remain where I was, +she darted from me, and in a moment vanished among the trees. I waited for +a few minutes, and then stepping forth, beheld her walking at a distance, +beside her sister, in the direction of the villa. They were soon lost +among the paths, and I returned alone into the grotto. + +I sat down beside the dark well, wherein she had dipt her hands, and mused +in a most disturbed mood on all the particulars of this strange and +unexpected interview. Every motion of her features—every modulation of her +voice, was present with me; I had gathered them all into my heart, and I +felt that I must cherish them there for ever. From the first moment I saw +her, my eyes had been constrained to gaze upon her with an interest quite +novel to me; but now I knew that she could not smile, without making my +heart faint within me, and that the least whisper of her voice was able to +bring tears into mine eyes. Now I thought of my own unworthiness, and +could not help saying to myself, “Why should a poor ignorant provincial, +such as I am, be torturing myself with the thoughts of such a creature as +this?” Then, again, some benign glance of hers would return before me, and +I could not help having some faint hopes, that her innocent heart might be +won to me by faithful unwearied love. But what always threw me back into +despair, was the recollection of the mystery that I knew hung over her +mind, although what it was I could not know. That she had been saying +something in her prayers which could not be overheard without betraying +her, she had herself confessed. What could be this secret, so cherished in +dread, and in darkness?—A crime?—No crime could sully the clear bosom of +her innocence. No consciousness of guilt could be concealed beneath that +heavenly visage. But perhaps she had been made the confidante of some +erring,—some unhappy friend. Perhaps, in her prayer, she had made mention +of another’s name, and implored the pardon of another’s guilt. Last of +all, why might it not be so, that the maiden loved, and was beloved again; +that she might have some reason to regard any casual betrayal of her +affection as a calamity; and that, having uttered the name of her lover in +her secret supplications, her terrors might all have been occasioned by +her apprehensions of my having overheard it? And yet there was something +in the demeanour of Athanasia, that I could not bring myself to reconcile +entirely with any one of these suppositions. Had she feared that I had +overheard any confession of guilt,—even of the guilt of another,—surely +some semblance of shame would have been mingled with her looks of terror. +Had she apprehended only the discovery of an innocent love, surely her +blushes would have been deeper, and her boldness less. Yet the last +solution of the difficulty was that which haunted me the most powerfully. + +When I came forth into the open air, I perceived that the sun was already +high in heaven, and proceeded in haste towards the villa, not doubting +that Sextus and Capito would be astonished by the length of my absence. I +found them and the ladies walking under the northern colonnade, having +returned, as they told me, from a fruitless search after me through almost +the whole of the garden. I looked to Athanasia, as if to signify that she +well knew where I might have been found; but, although I saw that she +understood my meaning, she said nothing in explanation. Sextus drew me +aside shortly after, and told me, that his father had sent to inform him, +that our presence was necessary in the city before supper-time, to attend +a great entertainment which was to be given that evening by the lady whose +cause he had successfully pleaded in the Forum on the preceding day; which +lady, I now for the first time learned, was no other than the same Marcia +Rubellia, to whom his father was very anxious the youth should be married. +The success of this pleading had increased very much the wealth of the +lady, and, of course, as Sextus well knew, the anxiety of Licinius for the +proposed union; and to remain at the villa any longer, was, he said, +entirely impossible, since he already suspected his father had not been +quite pleased with him for leaving the Forum the day before, without +staying to hear out a cause in which his duty, if not his inclination, +ought to have made him feel so greatly interested. + +We bade adieu, therefore, to our kind host and the young ladies, not +without more reluctance than either of us durst express, and ready +promises to return soon again to the villa. We found Dromo and Boto +waiting for us at the gate, the former of whom looked unutterable things, +while the latter appeared to be as joyful in seeing me again, as if we had +been parted for a twelvemonth. The two slaves were mounted on asses, but +they led horses for our conveyance; so we mounted with all speed, and were +soon beyond the beautiful enclosures of Capito. As soon as we were fairly +out of sight of the house, Dromo began to ply Sextus with innumerable +questions about the result of the visit, all of them in bad Greek; that, +as he said, there might be no chance of what passed being understood by +the Druid; for by that venerable designation, he informed us, the +primitive Boto had already come to be best known in the vestibule of +Licinius. “Ah!” quoth he, “there is no need for many words; I am sure my +young master has not been behindhand with himself. If he has, it is no +fault of mine, however. I put Opportunity into his hands, and she, you +know, as the poets say, has only one lock of hair, and that is in front.” + +Sextus being very shy of entering into particulars, I found myself obliged +to take upon me the satisfying of the curiosity of this inquisitive +varlet, which I did in a manner that much astonished Sextus, who by no +means suspected, that in the midst of my own attention to the other +cousin, I had been able to take so much notice of what passed between him +and Sempronia. However, the gentle youth took a little raillery all in +good part, and we laughed loudly in unison at the triumphant capers which +the whip of Dromo made his poor ass exhibit, in testimony of his +satisfaction with the progress which all things appeared to be making. We +reached the city about three hours after noon, and were told by the slaves +in attendance, that Xerophrastes had gone out some time before, and that +Licinius was already busy in arraying himself for the feast of Rubellia. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Her mansion was situated about the middle of the Suburra, in a +neighbourhood nowise splendid, and itself distinguished, on the side +fronting to the street, by no uncommon marks of elegance or opulence. A +plain brick wall covered almost the whole of the building from the eye of +the passenger; and what was seen deserved the praise of neatness, rather +than of magnificence. Nevertheless, the moment one had passed the gate, +and entered the court, one could not help perceiving, that taste and +wealth had been alike expended abundantly on the residence; for the broad +terrace and gallery behind were lavishly adorned, the one with sculpture +and the other with paintings; and the gardens, which these overlooked, +appeared to be both extensive and elaborate. + +We were conducted through several pillared halls, and then up a wide +staircase, of somewhat sombre magnificence, into the chamber where the +company were already in part assembled, and busy in offering their +congratulations to the mistress of the feast. She was so much engaged with +their flatteries that she did not at first perceive our entrance; but as +soon as she knew who had come, the chief part of her attention was divided +between her victorious advocate and his blushing son. + +Rapidly as we have been advancing in our imitation of the manners of the +capital, our island, most unquestionably, has never yet displayed any +thing that could sustain the smallest comparison with what then met my +eyes in the stately saloon of this widow. The group around her was gay and +various, and she was worthy of forming its centre; young and handsome, +dressed in a style of the utmost splendour, her deportment equally elegant +and vivacious. Her complexion was of that clear rich brown which lends to +the eye a greater brilliancy than the most exquisite contrast of red and +white; and over which the blood, when it does come into the face, diffuses +at once the warmest and the deepest of blushes. Her hair appeared to be +perfectly black, unless where the light, streaming from behind, gave an +edging of glossy brown to the thick masses of her curls. Her robe of +crimson silk was fastened by a girdle, which seemed to consist of nothing +but rubies and emeralds, strung upon threads of gold. She wore a tiara +that rose high above her tresses, and was all over resplendent with +flowers woven in jewellery; and around her delicate wrists and ankles were +twined broad chains of virgin gold, interspersed with alternate wreaths of +sapphire. Her form was the perfection of luxury; and although I have said +that her deportment was in general lively and brilliant, yet there was a +soft seriousness that every now and then settled in her eyes, which gave +her, for a moment, a look of melancholy that seemed to me more likely to +be in harmony with the secret nature of her disposition. I watched her in +particular when she spoke to Sextus; her full rich-toned voice was then +merry, and her large eyes sparkled; but when she was engaged with any +other person, she could not help gazing on the beautiful youth in silence; +and then it was that her countenance wore its deepest expression of +calmness—I had almost said, of sadness. + +I had been gazing on her, I know not how long, from another part of the +room, when I heard a hearty chuckle from behind me, and thought I could +not be unacquainted with the voice. Looking round, I saw, not without +delight, the stately figure of my Prætorian Captain, Sabinus, whose +cheerful eye soon distinguished me, and who forthwith came up to salute me +in the most friendly manner. I introduced him to Licinius and Sextus, the +former of whom expressed himself as being much gratified with the +attention the centurion had shewn to me during our voyage; so that I felt +myself, as it were, no longer a stranger in the place; and the lutes and +trumpets at that moment announcing that supper was ready to be served up, +I took care to keep close to Sabinus, and to place myself near him on the +couch. + +The room in which the feast was prepared, communicated by a pair of brazen +folding doors, richly sculptured, with that in which the company had +assembled; but from it, although the sun had not yet gone down, all light +was excluded, excepting what streamed from golden candelabra, and broad +lamps of bronze suspended overhead from the high and painted ceiling. The +party might consist of about twenty, who reclined along one demi-circular +couch, the covers of which were of the softest down, and the frame-work +inlaid with ivory;—the part of the room enclosed by its outline being +occupied with the table, and an open space to which the attendants had +free access. We had no sooner taken our seats than a crowd of slaves +entered, carrying large boards upon their heads, which being forthwith +arranged on the table, were seen to be loaded with dishes of gold and +silver, and all manner of drinking vessels, also with vases of rare +flowers, and urns of perfume. But how did the countenance of Sabinus +brighten, when the trumpet sounded a second time as if from below, and the +floor of the chamber was suddenly, as it were, pierced in twain, and the +pealing music ushered up a huge roasted boar, all wreathed with stately +garnishings, and standing erect on his golden platform as on a chariot of +triumph! “Ah! my dear boy,” cries he, “here comes the true king of beasts, +and only legitimate monarch of the woods. What should we not have given +for a slice of him when we were pent up, half-starved and fainting, in +that abominable ship of ours?—All hail, most potent conqueror! but whether +Germanic or Asiatic be thy proper title, I shall soon know, when that +expert Ionian has daintily carved and divided thee.” But why should I +attempt to describe to you the particulars of the feast? Let it suffice, +that whatever idea I had formed of Roman profusion was surpassed, and that +the splendour of the entertainment engaged the attention of all except +Rubellia herself, who, reclining immediately above Sextus, kept her eyes +fixed almost all the time it lasted, upon his luxuriant curls of dark +hair, unless when she caused the young damsel, her cup-bearer, to pour out +to her wine in a goblet of onyx, which she touched with her lips, and then +handed to the indifferent boy. When the supper was half over, the +folding-doors were again thrown open, and there entered a group of maidens +and beautiful youths, who danced before us to the music of the lute, and +scattered crowns of roses at the feet of Rubellia and her guests. She +herself placed one of them on the head of Sextus, and another on that of +his father, who lay on the other side of her, and then caused a large cup +of wine to be carried all around, whereof each of us tasted, and drank to +the health of the orator, in whose honour the entertainment was made. The +ladies that were present imitated the example of the hostess, and crowned +such as were by them; but Sabinus and I, not being near enough to any of +them, received that courtesy from some of the dancing maidens. Libations +were poured out abundantly on the marble floor, and all the gods were +invoked to shower down their blessings on Rubellia, and those that had +been so fortunate as to serve her. Sweet strains of music resounded +through the tall pillars of the banqueting-room, and the lamps burned +heavily in an atmosphere overloaded with perfumes. + +It appeared to me, from the beginning, that my friend Sabinus witnessed, +not without some feelings of displeasure, the excessive attentions which +Rubellia lavished on young Sextus; and I gathered, from the way in which +he every now and then looked towards them during the supper, that, had the +place permitted, he would not have allowed such things to go on without +some comment. But when we had left the banqueting-room, and removed to +another apartment, where, amidst various entertainments of dancing, music, +and recitation, Rubellia still retained close to herself the heir of +Licinius, the centurion made to himself abundant amends for the previous +restraint to which his temper had been subjected. “Confess now,” said he, +“that she is a lovely creature, and that your British beauties are tame +and insipid, when compared with such a specimen of Roman fascination; and +confess, withal, that this curled boy is either the most ignorant, or the +most insusceptible of his sex. Good heavens! in what a different style was +she treated by the old magistrate, whose very bust there, in the corner, +looks quite blank and disconsolate with its great white eyes, while she, +that sate for so many months pale and weeping by his bed-side, is thinking +of nothing but to bestow all the wealth he left her on a beardless +stripling, who appears to regard the bust and the beauty with almost equal +indifference.—Alas! poor old withered Leberinus, little did you imagine +that so small a phial would suffice to hold all her tears. My only wonder +is, that she still permits your marble image to occupy even a corner of +her mansion; but, no doubt, you will soon be sent on your travels. I dare +say, some cold pedestal in the garden will, ere long, be the best birth +you need look for.—Well, well, you see what fools we may be made by the +cunning of these pretty crocodiles. I trust my dotage, when it does come, +will not shew itself in the same shape with that of my good old friend. I +hope the ghost of the worthy Prætor will not frown unseen the night she +takes this Adonis to her arms. If I were in his place, I should give her +curtains a pretty shake. By Hermes! it would not be a pretty monument and +a flowery epitaph that would make me lie still.” + +“How long is it,” said I, “since this venerable magistrate died? Surely +she has allowed him the decency of a tenmonth’s grief, before she began to +give suppers, and perceive the beauty of Sextus?” “Whether it be a +tenmonth ago or not,” replied the Centurion, “is more than I can take upon +me to decide; all I know is, that it appears to me as if it were but +yesterday that I supped here, (it was just before I set off for Britain,) +and saw the young lady reclining, even at table, with those long black +curls of her’s, in the bosom of the emaciated Leberinus. By Jupiter! the +old man would not taste a drop of wine unless she kissed the cup—she +coaxed every morsel he swallowed down his throat, and clasped the garland +round his bald pate with her own fingers; ay, twice before that sleek +physician—that solemn-faced Greek, whom you see at this moment talking +with your kinsman, advised her to have him carried to his bed. For all the +gravity of his looks, I would lay a trifle, that worthy Bœotian has his +own thoughts about what is passing, as well as I. But the worst-pleased +face in the whole room is, I think, that of old Rubellius himself yonder, +who has just come in, without, it is evident, being aware that any feast +was going forward. Without question, the crafty usurer is of opinion he +might have been invited. I promise you, I can interpret the glances of +that gray-headed extortioner; and well I may, for it is not the first time +I have had an opportunity of studying them. Ay, ay, quoth he to himself, +she may do as she will with the bonds of Leberinus; but she might have +remembered, that a codicil can be easily tacked to the end of a living +man’s testament.” + +“But, after all,” said I, “one must admit, that if she married old +Leberinus to please her father, the widow has some right to choose her +second husband according to the pattern of her own fancy.” “Oh! by all +means,” answered he; “let her please herself; let her make a fool of +herself now, if she will. She may perhaps learn, some time or other, that +it is as possible to have too young a husband, as to have too old a one.” +“Come now,” said I, “Sabinus, confess that if she had selected some +well-made, middle-aged man—some respectable man—some man of note and +distinction, you would have judged less harshly of poor Rubellia.” “Ah! +you cunning dog,” said he; “who would have thought that you had brought so +much wickedness from that new world of yours? But do you really think she +will wed Sextus? The boy appears strangely cold. I should not wonder, when +all is done, if the match were more of the orator’s seeking than his own.” +“I can only tell you,” said I, “that I have never heard Licinius mention +any thing about it; and, I dare say, Sextus would be very sorry to think +of losing his liberty for the sake of the wealth of Leberinus—ay, or for +that of old Rubellius to boot.” “Young friend,” quoth he, “you are not +quite acquainted with the way in which these matters are managed at Rome. +If we had you six weeks at the other side of the Viminal, we should teach +you better.” + +I know not how long this sort of talk might have lasted; but Licinius put +an end to it by joining us, and soon engaged the worthy Centurion, and +several more of us, with some lively, but unintelligible discussion on the +merits of some new edict, of which none of us had ever heard, or were +likely ever to hear any thing again. We were glad to escape from the +lawyer into another room, where some Greek slaves were performing a sort +of comic pantomime, that appeared to give more delight to old Rubellius +than any other of the spectators. As for Sextus, I saw plainly that he was +quite weary of the entertainment, and anxious to get away; but we were +obliged to remain till after Licinius was gone, for it was evident that he +wished his son to see out the last. But no sooner had we heard his chariot +drive off, than the young man and I took leave of the lady, and withdrew. +Sabinus lingered a moment behind us, and then joined us in the vestibule, +from which, his course lying so far in the same direction as ours, we all +proceeded homewards on foot. + +We had proceeded along the street of the Suburra for a considerable space, +and were already beneath the shade of the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, (which stands on the northern side of the Esquiline Hill, nigh +over against the Amphitheatre of Vespasian,) when, from the opposite side +of the way, we were hailed by a small party of soldiers, who, as it turned +out, had been sent from the Prætorian camp in search of Sabinus, and one +of whom had now recognized his gait and stature, notwithstanding the +obscurity of the hour. The Centurion went aside with the leader of these +men for some moments, and then informed us that it was very fortunate they +had so easily recognized him, as the business on which they had been sent +was such as did not admit of being negligently dealt with. “To-morrow,” +said he, pointing to the Amphitheatre before us, “that glorious edifice is +to be the scene of one of the grandest shows exhibited by Trajan since his +accession to the empire. It is the anniversary of the day on which he was +adopted by Nerva, and the splendour of the spectacle will be in proportion +to the gratitude and veneration with which he at all times regards the +memory of that excellent benefactor. But there are some parts of the +exhibition that I am afraid old Nerva, could he be present to behold them, +would not regard with the same feelings as his successor.” “Surely,” said +I, “the beneficent Trajan will not stain the expression of his gratitude +by any thing unworthy of himself, or that could give displeasure to +Nerva?” “Nay,” replied the Centurion, “it is not for me to talk about any +thing that Trajan chooses to do being unworthy of Trajan; but you well +know that Nerva would never suffer any of the Christians to be molested +during his reign, and now here are some of these unhappy fanatics, that +are to be compelled either to renounce their faith in the face of the +assembly to-morrow, or to die in the arena. It is to inspect the condition +of these unfortunates, who, I know not for what reason, are confined in a +dungeon below the ramparts in the vicinity of our camp, and to announce to +them the final determination of their fate, that I, as Centurion of the +night, have now been summoned. If you are curious to see the men, you are +at liberty to go with me, and I shall be obliged to you for your company.” + +My curiosity having been excited in regard to the new faith and its +adherents, I was very desirous to accept of this offer. Nor did Sextus any +sooner perceive that such was my inclination, than he advised me to +gratify it, undertaking, at the same time, to satisfy his father, in case +of any inquiry, that I was in a place of safety, and under the protection +of Sabinus. With him, therefore, and with his Prætorians, I proceeded +along various streets which led us by the skirts of the Esquiline and +Viminal Hills, on to the region of the Mounds of Tarquin, over against +which, as you have heard, the great camp of those bands is situated;—if +indeed that ought of right to be called by the name of a camp, which is +itself a city of no slender dimensions, and built with great splendour of +architecture, spread out beyond the limits of Rome, for the accommodation +of that proud soldiery. There my friend took me into his chamber, and +furnished me with a cloak and helmet, that I might excite no suspicion by +accompanying him on his errand. The watch-word of the night also was given +me, _Silent faith_; and proceeding again, we shortly reached the place +where the Christians were lying. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +Entering the guard-room, we found it crowded with spearmen of Sabinus’s +band, some playing at dice, others carousing jovially, many wrapt up in +their mantles, and asleep upon the floor; while a few only were sitting +beneath the porch, with their spears in their hands, and leaning upon +their bucklers. From one of these, the Centurion, having drawn him aside, +made inquiry concerning the names and condition of the prisoners, and +whether as yet they had received any intelligence as to the morrow. The +soldier, who was a grave man, well stricken in years, made answer, “that +the men were free-born and of decent estate, and that he had not heard of +any thing else being laid to their charge, excepting that which concerned +their religion. Since they have been here,” he continued, “I have been +several times set on watch over them, and twice have I lain with one of +them in his dungeon; yet have I heard no complaints from any of them, for +in all things they are patient. One of them only is to suffer +to-morrow—but for him I am especially concerned, for he was known to me of +old, having served often with me when I was a horseman in the army of +Titus, all through the war of Palestine, and at the siege of Jerusalem.” + +“And of what country is he?” said Sabinus. “Is he also a Roman?” “No, +sir,” answered the spearman, “he is no Roman; but he was of a troop of the +allies that was joined often to our legion, and I have seen him bear +himself on the day of battle as well as any Roman. He is by birth a Greek +of the Syrian coast; but his mother was of the nation of the Jews.” “And +yet, although the son of a Jewess, he was with us, say you, at the siege +of Jerusalem?” “Even so,” replied the man; “and not he only, but many +others; for the Jews were divided against themselves; and of all them that +were Christians, not one abode in the city, or gave help to defend it. As +this man himself said, the oracles of the Christians, and their prophets, +had of old given warning that the city must fall into the hands of Cæsar, +by reason of the wickedness of that people; therefore, when we set our +camp against Jerusalem, these all passed out from the city, with their +wives and children, and dwelt safely in the mountainous country until the +fate was fulfilled. But some of their young men fought in our camp, and +did good service, because the place was known to them, and they had +acquaintance with all the secrets of the Rock. Of these, this man was one. +He and all his household had departed from the ancient religion of the +Jews, and were believers in the doctrines of the Christians, for which +cause he is now to suffer; and of that, although I have not spoken to him +this evening, I think he has already received some intelligence, for +certain of his friends passed in to him, and they covered their faces as +they went in, as if weeping.” “Are these friends still with him?” said +Sabinus. “Yes,” answered he, “for I must have seen them had they come +forth again. Without doubt, the two women are still with him in his +dungeon.” “Women?” quoth Sabinus; “and of what condition think you they +may be?” “That I know not,” replied the soldier; “for, as I have said, +they were muffled in their mantles. But one of them, at least, is a Roman, +for I heard her speak to him that is by the door of the dungeon.” “How +long is it,” said the Centurion, “since they went in to the prisoner?” +“More than an hour,” replied the soldier, looking at the water-clock that +stood beneath the porch; “and if they be Christians, they are not yet +about to depart, for they never separate without singing together, which +is said to be their favourite manner of worship.” + +He had scarcely uttered these words, when the soldiers that were carousing +within the guard-room became silent, and we heard the voices of those that +were in the dungeon singing together in a sweet and lowly manner. “Ah, +sir!” said the old soldier, “I thought it would be even so—there is not a +spearman in the band that would not willingly watch here a whole night, +could he be sure of hearing that melody. Well do I know that soft +voice—Hear now, how she sings by herself—and there again, that deep strong +note—that is the voice of the prisoner.” + +“Hush!” quoth the Centurion, “heard you ever any thing half so divine? Are +these words Greek or Syrian?” “What the words are I know not,” said the +soldier; “but I know the tune well.—I have heard it played many a night +with hautboy, clarion, and dulcimer, on the high walls of Jerusalem, while +the city was beleaguered.” “It is some old Jewish tune then,” said +Sabinus; “I knew not those barbarians had had half so much art.” + +“Why, as for that, sir,” replied the man, “I have been all over Greece and +Egypt—to say nothing of Italy—and I never heard any music like that music +of the Jews. When they came down to join the battle, their trumpets +sounded so gloriously, that we wondered how it was possible for them ever +to be driven back; and then, when their gates were closed, and they sent +out to beg their dead, they would play such solemn awful notes of +lamentation, that the plunderers stood still to listen, and their warriors +were delivered to them with all their mail as they had fallen.” “And the +Christians also,” said Sabinus, “had the same tunes?” “Oh yes, sir—why, +for that matter, these very tunes may have been among them, for aught we +know, since the beginning of their nation. I have stood sentinel with this +very man, and seen the tears run down his cheeks by the star-light, when +he heard the music from the city, as the Jewish captains were going their +rounds upon the battlements.” “But this, surely,” said the Centurion, “is +no warlike melody.” “I know not,” quoth the old soldier, “whether it be or +not—but I am sure it sounds not like any music of sorrow,—and yet what +plaintive tones are in the part of that female voice!” “The bass sounds +triumphantly, in good sooth.” “Ay, sir, but that is the old man’s own +voice—I am sure he will keep a good heart to the end, even though they +should be singing their farewell to him. Well, the Emperor loses a good +soldier, the hour Tisias dies. I wish to Jupiter he had not been a +Christian, or had kept his religion to himself. But as for changing +now—you might as well think of persuading the Prince himself to be a Jew.” + +“That last high strain, however,” quoth Sabinus, “has ended their singing. +Let us speak to the women as they come out; and if it be so that the man +is already aware of what is to be done to-morrow, I see not why we should +trouble him with entering his cell. He has but a few hours to live, and I +would not willingly disturb him.” “I hear them coming,” said the soldier. +“Then do you meet them,” said Sabinus, “and tell them that the Centurion +wishes to speak to them ere they go away—we will retire out of hearing of +the guard.” + +With that he and I withdrew to the other side of the way, over against the +door of the prison; and we stood there waiting for the women under a +fig-tree, close by the city wall. In a few minutes two persons, arrayed as +the soldier had described, drew near to us; and one of them, without +uncovering her countenance, said,—“Master, we trust we have done no evil +in visiting the prisoners; had it been so, surely we should not have been +permitted to enter without question.” + +These words were spoken in a voice tremulous, as if with grief rather than +with terror; but I could not help starting when I heard them. However, I +commanded myself, and heard in silence what Sabinus replied.—“Be not +alarmed,” said he; “there is no offence committed, for no orders have been +issued to prevent these men from seeing their friends. I sent for you, not +to find fault with what you have done, but only to ask whether this +prisoner has already been told that the Emperor has announced his +resolution concerning him, and that he must die to-morrow, in the +Amphitheatre of Vespasian, unless he renounce his superstition.”—“He knows +all,” answered the same voice; “and is prepared for all.” + +“By heavens! Valerius,” whispered Sabinus; “it is no mean person that +speaks so—this is the accent and the gesture of a Roman lady.” Then +raising his voice, “In that case there is no need for my going into the +dungeon; and yet, could I hope to say any thing that might tend to make +him change his purpose, I would most gladly do so. The Emperor is as +humane as he is just, and unless when rebellious obstinacy shuts the gates +of mercy, he is the last that would consent to the shedding of any +blood.—For this Tisias, of whose history I have just been hearing +something, I am in a particular manner interested, and to save him, I wish +only I had power equal to my inclination. Is there no chance of convincing +him?”—“He is already convinced.”—“Could his friends do nothing?”—“His +friends have been with him,” said the voice.—This last sentence was spoken +so distinctly, that I knew I could no longer be mistaken; and I was on the +brink of speaking out, without thinking of the consequences that might +occur, when she that had spoken, uttered a faint cry, and dropping on her +knees before Sabinus, said,—“Oh, sir! to us also be merciful, and let us +go hence ere any one behold us!”—“Go in peace, lady,” answered the +Centurion, “and henceforth be prudent as well as kind;” and they went away +from us, and were soon lost to our sight in the windings of the street. + +We stood there for some moments in silence, looking towards the place +where they disappeared. “Strange superstition,” said Sabinus; “what +heroism dwells with this madness!—you see how little these men regard +their lives;—nay, even women, and Roman women too—you see how their nature +is changed by it.”—“It is, indeed, a most strange spectacle,” said I; “but +what is to be the end of it, if this spirit become diffused widely among +the people?”—“In truth I know not,” answered the Centurion; “as yet we +have heard of few who had once embraced this faith, renouncing it out of +fear for their lives.”—“And in the days of Nero and Domitian,” said I, +“were not many hundreds of them punished even here in the capital?”—“You +are within the mark,” said he; “and not a few of those who were sent into +exile, because of their Christianity, were, as you may have heard, of no +ordinary condition. Among these there were Flavius Clemens, the Consular, +and his wife, Domitilla; both of whom I have often seen in my youth—both +relations to the family of Vespasian—whom, notwithstanding, all the +splendour of the imperial blood could not save from the common fate of +their sect. But Nerva suffered all of them to live in peace, and recalled +such as were in exile, excepting only Domitilla, whose fate has been +regretted by all men; but I suppose it was not at first judged safe to +recal her, lest any tumult should have been excited in her name, by those +that regretted (and I am sorry to say these were not a few) the wicked +license of which they had been deprived by the death of her tyrannical +kinsman, and the transition of the imperial dignity into another line. She +also with whom we have been speaking, is, I am sure, a Roman lady of +condition; and you may judge of her zeal, when you see it brings her +hither at midnight, to mingle tears and prayers with those of an obscure +Asiatic. Did you observe, that the other female both walked and stood +behind her.” + +“I observed all this,” answered I. But little did Sabinus suspect that I +had observed so much more than himself had done. Before parting from him, +I said I should still be gratified with being permitted to see the +prisoner; and although he declined entering himself, he accordingly gave +command that the door of his dungeon should be opened for me, requesting +me, at the same time, to refrain from saying any thing more than was +necessary for the explaining the apparent purpose of my visit,—the +communication, namely, of Trajan’s decree. + +The Centurion withdrew to his camp; and the same old spearman with whom we +had conversed at the Porch, carried a torch in his hand, and shewed me the +way into the dungeon. + +Between the first door and the second, which appeared to be almost +entirely formed of iron, there intervened a few broad steps of mason-work; +and upon the lowest of these, I stood waiting till he should open the +inner door. Several keys were applied before he discovered the right one; +but at last the heavy door swung away from before him so speedily, that +the air, rushing out of the vault, extinguished the torch; insomuch, that +we had no light excepting that which streamed from an aperture high up in +the wall of the dungeon itself; a feeble ray of star-light alone—for the +moon had, long ere this time, been gone down—which, nevertheless, sufficed +to shew us to the prisoner, although we at first could see nothing of him. + +“Soldiers,” said the old man, in a voice of perfect calmness, “for what +reason are you come?”—“We come,” said my companion, “by command of the +Centurion, to inform you of things which we would willingly not have to +tell—To-morrow Trajan opens the Amphitheatre of Vespasian.”—“My comrade,” +said the prisoner, “is it your voice I hear? I knew all this already; and +you know of old that I fear not the face of death.”—“I know well, Tisias, +you fear not death; yet why, when there is no need, should you cast away +life? Think well, I beseech you, and reserve yourself for a better +day.”—“The dawn of that better day, Romans, already begins to open upon my +eyes. I see the east red with the promise of its brightness. Would you +have me tarry in darkness, when I am invited to walk forth into the +light?”—“Your words rejoice me,” answered the spearman; “and I am sure all +will rejoice in hearing that you have at length come to think thus—Trajan +himself will rejoice. You have but to say the word, and you are +free,”—“You mean kindly,” said the old man, rising from his pallet, and +walking towards us as far as his fetters permitted; “but you are much +mistaken—I have but to keep silence, and I am free.”—“Alas! what mean you? +Do you know what you say? You must worship the gods in the morning, else +you die.”—“Evening, and morning, and for ever, I must worship the God that +made heaven and earth. If I bow down to the idols of Trajan, I buy the +life of a day at the price of death everlasting. Tempt me not in your +kindness: I fell once. Great God, preserve me from falling! I have bade +farewell to my friends already. Leave me to spend these few hours by +myself.—Leave me to prepare the flesh for that from which the spirit +shrinks not.” So saying, he extended his hand to the spearman, and the two +old men embraced each other before me. + +“Prisoner,” said I, “if there be any thing in which we can serve you, +command our aid. We have already done our duty; if we can also do any +thing that may give ease to your mind now, or comfort to your kindred, you +have but to speak.”—“Sir,” replied he, “I see by the eagle wings on your +helmet, that you are one in authority, and I hear by your voice that you +are young. There is a certain thing, concerning which I had some purpose +to speak to this old brother.”—“Speak with confidence,” said I; “although +I am a Roman, and bear all loyalty to Cæsar, yet this Prætorian helmet is +not mine, and I have but assumed it for the sake of having access to your +prison. I am no soldier of Trajan: Whatever I can do for you without harm +to others, speak, and I will do it. I will swear to you——” “Nay, sir,” +said he, “swear not—mock not the God of heaven, by invoking idol or +demon—I believe your word—but, since you will hear, there is no need why +any other should be witness to my request.”—“I will retire,” said the +other, “and keep watch at the door. I am but a poor spearman, and this +young patrician can do more than I.”—“Be it so,” said the prisoner, a +second time embracing him; “I would not willingly expose you to any +needless danger; and yet I see not what danger there is in all that I have +to ask.” + +With this the spearman withdrew; and being left alone with Tisias, I took +his hand, and sitting down beside him on his pallet, shortly explained to +him the circumstances under which I had come thither. + +“Young sir,” said he, “I know not what is about the sound of your voice, +and the frankness of your demeanour, that makes me feel confidence enough +to intrust you with a certain thing, which concerns not myself, nor any +hope of mine, for that were little—but the interests of one that is far +dearer to me than I can express, and who, I hope, will live many happy +days upon earth, after I shall have sealed my belief in the message of +God, by blood that has of old been exposed a thousand times to all mortal +perils, for the sake of worthless things. But a very short while ago, and +I might have executed this thing for myself; but weakness overcame me at +the moment of parting.” + +“If it be any thing which you would have me convey to any one, say where I +may find the person,” said I, “and be assured I shall deliver it in +safety.” + +“Sir,” he proceeded, “I have here with me certain writings, which I have +carried for these twenty years continually in my bosom. Among these, is +one of the sacred books of the faith for which I am to die, and I would +fain have it placed in the hands of one to whom I know it will be dearest +of all for the sake of that which it contains; but, I hope, dear also for +the sake of him that bequeaths it. Will you seek out a certain Roman lady, +and undertake to give into her own hands, in secret, the scroll which I +shall give you?”—“I will do my endeavour,” said I; “and if I cannot find +means to execute your command, I shall destroy the book with my own hands +before I quit Rome—for my stay here is uncertain.”—“If you cannot find +means to do what I ask safely,” he replied, “I do not bid you destroy the +book—_that_ is yours to do with as it shall seem good to you—but I conjure +you to read it before you throw it away. Nay, even as it is, I conjure you +to read it before you seek to give it to her whose name I shall +mention.”—“Old man,” said I, “almost I believe that I already know her +name, and more besides. If it be so that I have conjectured aright, be +assured that all you ask shall be fulfilled to the letter; be assured +also, that I would die with you to-morrow, rather than live to be the +cause or instrument of any evil thing to her that but now visited you in +your dungeon.”—“Alas!” cried the old man, starting up, “lay not this also, +O Lord! upon my head. Let the old bear witness—but let the young be +spared, to serve thee in happier years upon the earth!”—“Be not afraid,” +said I, “if it was Athanasia, no one suspected it but myself; and I have +already told you that I would die rather than bring evil upon her head.” + +“Yes,” he answered, after a pause—“it was, indeed, Athanasia. Who is it +but she that would have left the halls of nobles, and the couches of +peace, to breathe at midnight the air of a dungeon, that she might solace +the last moments of a poor man, and, save the bond of Christ, a stranger! +But if you have known her before, and spoken with her before, then surely +she must indeed be safe in your hands. You know where she dwells—that I +myself know not. Here is the scroll, from which that noble maiden has +heard my humble voice essay to expound the words of eternal life. I charge +you to approach her with reverence, and give into her own hands my dying +bequest; yet, as I have said, deliver it not to her till you have yourself +read what it contains.”—“Christian,” said I, placing the writing in my +bosom, “have no fear—I will read your book, and ere two nights have gone +over my head, I shall find means to place it in the hands of Athanasia; +and now, farewell.”—“Nay, not yet for the last time. Will you not come in +the morning, and behold the death of a Christian?”—“Alas!” said I, “what +will it avail that I should witness the shedding of your blood? The Prince +may have reason to regard you as an offender against the state; but I have +spoken with you in your solitude, and know that your heart is noble. Would +to Heaven, that by going thither I could avert your fate!”—“Methinks, +sir,” he replied, “it may be weakness—but yet methinks it would give me +some farther comfort in my death, to know that there was at least one +Roman there, who would not see me die without pity; and besides I must +have you constrain yourself, that you may be able to carry the tidings of +my departure. Her prayers will be with me, but not her eyes. You must tell +Athanasia the manner of my death.”—“For that cause,” said I, “I will +constrain myself, and be present in the Amphitheatre.”—“Then, farewell,” +said he; “——and yet go not. In whatsoever faith you live,—in whatsoever +faith you die, the blessing of an old man and a Christian can do you no +harm.” So saying, the old man stood up, and leaning his hand on my head as +I sat, pronounced over me a blessing which I never shall forget. “The Lord +bless thee—the Lord enlighten thy darkness—the Lord plant his seed in thy +kind heart—the Lord give thee also to die the death of a Christian!” + +When he had said so, he sat down again; and I departed greatly oppressed +in spirit, yet feeling, I know not how or why, as I would rather have lost +many merry days, than that dark and sorrowful hour. The soldiers in the +guard-room were so much engaged in their different occupations, that they +heeded me not as, dropping my borrowed habiliments, I stept silently to +the gate; and I was soon out of sight of their flaming watch-fires, and +far from the sounds of their noisy mirth. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +The Roman streets were totally silent and deserted. It was the first time +that I had been in the presence of a human being, foreseeing distinctly, +and quietly waiting, the termination of his mortal existence, and I could +not help asking of myself, how, under similar circumstances of terror, I +should have been able to sustain my spirits?—to what resources I should, +in such a moment, look for the support which seemed to have been +vouchsafed so abundantly to this old man; by what charm, in fine,—by what +tenet of philosophy, or by what hope of religion,—I should, in the midst +of life, be able to reconcile myself to a voluntary embrace of death! To +avoid disgrace, indeed, and dishonour, said I, I think I could be Roman +enough to dare the worst; but this poor man is willing to die, rather than +acknowledge, by one offering on the altar, the deities in whose worship +all his Greek ancestors have been trained; yet who, except perhaps a few +obscure individuals that have adopted the same new superstition, would +think this man dishonoured by returning to the religion of his fathers? +Deep, indeed, must be his conviction of the truth of that which he +professes to believe—serious indeed must be his faith, and high his trust. +What if, after all, his faith should be true, and his trust wise? And the +gentle Athanasia!—She too a Christian! Might not this mystery be hereafter +explained to me by her lips? + +Musing and meditating thus, it was no wonder that I, who knew so little of +Rome, should have soon wandered from the straight way to the home of my +kinsman. But that I at last caught, at the turning of a street, a glimpse +of the Flavian Amphitheatre, which I had before passed on my way from the +feast of Rubellia, I might, perhaps, have wandered long. I had some notion +how that grand edifice was situated with respect to the house of Licinius, +and therefore moved towards it immediately, intending to pass straight +down from thence into the Sacred Way. But when I came close to the +Amphitheatre, I found that, surrounded on all sides by a city of sleep and +silence, that region was already filled with all manner of noise and +tumult, in consequence of the preparations which had begun to be made for +the spectacles. The east hardly yet indicated dawn; but the torches and +lanterns of workmen and artificers were in motion every where. On one +side, the whole way was blocked up with a throng of waggons; the +conductors, almost all Ethiopians and Numidians, lashing each other’s +horses, and exchanging, in their barbarous tongues, outcries of wrath and +execration. The bellowings that resounded from any of the waggons, which +happened to be set in motion amidst the throng, intimated that savage +beasts were confined within them; and when I had discovered this, and then +regarded the prodigious multitude of the vehicles, I cannot say what +horror came over me at thinking what cruel sights, and how lavish in +cruelty, were become the favourite pastimes of the most refined of +nations. I recognized the well-known short deep snort of the wild boar, +and the long hollow bark of the wolf; but a thousand fierce sounds, +mingled with these, were new to my ears. One voice, however, was so grand +in its notes of sullen rage, that I could not help asking a soldier, who +sate on horseback near me, from what monster it proceeded. The man +answered, that it was a lion; but then what laughter arose among some of +the rabble, that had overheard my interrogation; and what contemptuous +looks were thrown upon me by the naked negroes, who sate grinning in the +torch-light, on the tops of their carriages! Then one or two of the +soldiers would be compelled to ride into the midst of the confusion, to +separate some of these wretches, fighting with their whips about +precedence in the approach; and it seemed to me that the horses could not +away with the strong sickly smell of the wild beasts; for they would +prance, and caper, and rear on end, and snort as if panic-struck, and dart +themselves towards the other side; while some of the riders were thrown +off in the midst of the tumult, and others, with fierce and strong bits, +compelled the frightened or infuriated animals to endure the thing they +abhorred—in their wrath and pride forcing them even nearer than was +necessary. In another quarter, this close-mingled pile of carts and horses +was surmounted by the enormous heads of elephants, thrust up into the air, +some of them with their huge lithe trunks lashing and beating (for they, +too, as you have heard, would rather die than snuff in the breath of these +monsters of the woods,) while the tiara’d heads of their riders would be +seen tossed to and fro by their contortions. What a cry of cursing, what +cracking of whips and cords, what blowing of horns, and whistling and +screaming; and all this mixed with what roaring and howling from the +savage creatures caged in darkness! + +I went, however, for a moment, into the Amphitheatre, by a little +side-way, where admission was cheaply obtained. Here, as yet, all things +were in order, for the hour had not yet come for giving the wild beasts +entrance to the huge dens prepared for them. A few carpenters only were +seen in one corner, erecting a sort of low stage, and singing merrily, of +whom, when I made inquiry concerning the purpose of that erection, one of +these fellows also began to jeer; “Whence come you, good sir, that you do +not know a common scaffold when you see it? It is surely not the first +time that a Christian has had his head chopped off in the Flavian?”—“By +Pluto, I am not so sure about that matter,” quoth another. “I don’t know +whether any of the dogs were ever beheaded here or not; if they have been, +I can only say it was better than they deserved.”—“There spoke a true +man,” cries a third. “No, no; keep beheading for Romans—let citizens have +their own. Things are come to a pretty pass, when they shew us nothing but +tigers against tigers. By Jove, I would rather see one of those +misbelieving Atheists set right before the mouth of a true Getulian lion’s +cage, and hear his bones cracked ere all be over,—I say, I would rather +see that, than fifty of your mere beast fights.”—“After all,” rejoined the +first, “it must be allowed that our Cæsar had a fine eye for the +Amphitheatre.”—“Who doubts it?” says the other. “Rome has never seen any +thing that deserved to be called a show, since he was killed by sneaking +traitors. They say, Nero was still better at that sort of work; but ‘let +the skinless Jew believe,’ as the saying is. I desire to see no better +sport than Domitian gave us the very week before his death. We shall never +live to see his like again!”—“Come, boys,” rejoins one of the rest; “no +despairing! I had begun to think that these good princes, as they call +them, would never shew us a bit of real sport again. Here, now, is at +least something. Who can tell what may follow? and, besides, if the worst +come to the worst, we shall still have lions against lions, tigers against +tigers, Dacians against Dacians, and now and then a Jew or a Christian, or +whatever you please to call him, exhibited _solus_ on such a stage as +this. Come, come, don’t make matters worse than they are.” + +The ruffians shewed that they knew well enough I was displeased, and I +half regretted, as I strode away from them, the want of that Prætorian +helmet, which would have preserved me from the insolence of their mirth. +However, I was well pleased to gain a distance at which I could no longer +be troubled with them, and walked with rapid steps along the wide streets, +over which morning was now beginning to shine; while the air, agitated +with a quick breeze, refreshed my cheeks and temples—of which I had need, +being heated with the glare and noise, and, perhaps, faint, too, after the +manner of the young, from want of sleep. + +I was admitted into the house by Dromo, who seemed to have been looking +out for me; for he opened the door almost before I had time to knock at +it. He regarded me as I entered with a very cunning face; insomuch, that I +comprehended without difficulty, he believed me to have spent the night in +some scene of debauch; but he, nevertheless, attended me, without saying a +word, into my chamber. He then assumed a countenance of great reflection, +and advised me, with much appearance of friendly concern, to go to bed, +even although I could not stay long there; “because,” said he, “you will +feel much fresher when you get up; and let me tell you, you must be up +early, for I have already been with Licinius, who intends to send Sextus +with a present to Rubellia immediately after breakfast; and you may be +sure he will insist on your company, for he can do nothing without you. +Ah! had it not been for a certain pretty creature, the young gentleman +would not, I am confident, have permitted you to be going the rounds in +this way by yourself. But I take it something amiss, and shall tell him +so, that he did not depute me (who am not particularly enamoured just at +present) to go with you, and take care of your safety. I only wonder how +you have got home so well as it is.”—“Indeed,” said I, “good Dromo, I +cannot help wondering a little at that myself—for I have been all through +the city, and lost my way half-a-dozen times over, and yet here you see I +am.”—“The more reason,” quoth the slave, “that you should send some little +offering to Mercury’s Temple over the way, in the morning—a few sesterces +will be sufficient—and if you have no objections, I shall willingly take +care of them for you. Mercury is the guardian of all that travel about in +the dark; and besides, he is the special patron of love expeditions. But +to say the truth, you are not the only person that owes a gift to that +shrine; for the worthy sage—Xerophrastes—he, too, has been a +night-wanderer—and he has not yet come in. I have my doubts whether, when +he does so, he will be as sober as you are; but I must take care to be at +my post, and admit him in silence, for the time is not yet come to uncloak +his doings. Trust me, this is not the only vagary I have set down to his +account—all in good time. But what says my master Valerius, touching the +offering to the great God Hermes?” + +I saw, by the knave’s face, that it was necessary the sesterces should be +forthcoming. “Here they are,” said I, “good Dromo; and remember, that +although Mercury, among other things, is the god of thieves also, he will +not be well pleased if you curtail his offering.” “Never mind,” answered +the varlet, as he was shuffling out of the room, “Mercury and I understand +each other of old. Go to bed, and try to get a little of your own old +British red into your cheeks again; for Licinius has a hawk’s eye, and +will be sure to have his suspicions, if he sees you come down with such a +haggard look. Remember you have not a beard to cover half your face, and +all your iniquities.” + +So saying, he left me to my couch, indeed, but not to slumber; for busy +thoughts kept me broad awake, till, after the lapse of perhaps an hour, +young Sextus entered my apartment, already arrayed with more than usual +elegance, to execute, however unwillingly, the message of his father. He +had in his hand a small casket of open ivory-work, which he flung down on +my bed, saying, “Get up, dear Valerius, and save me at least from the pain +of going alone with these gewgaws. Would to Heaven my father would marry +her himself, and then I should have no objection to carry as many caskets +as he pleases. But do you get up and assist me; and as we go along, you +shall tell me what you have seen and heard in company with your jovial +Prætorian.” + +I was soon ready, and ascended, along with my young friend, the chariot +which Licinius had commanded to be ready. I told him, as we glided through +the streets, as much as I judged expedient; and, in particular, when I +perceived that our charioteer was making a circuit, in order to avoid the +neighbourhood of the Amphitheatre, I could not help expressing to him the +effect which had been produced in my mind, by my casual inspection of the +preparations. “I am afraid, then,” said he, “that you will scarcely be +willing to witness the exhibition itself; and yet I would fain have you to +overcome your aversion, both because, whatever you may think of such +things, it is not fitting that you should go from Rome without once, at +least, seeing how they are conducted; and more particularly, because I +much suspect Rubellia intends to be present at the festival—in which case +I should be sorry to be compelled to attend upon her without you; and as +to leaving her at the gate of the Amphitheatre, that, you know, would be +quite impossible, unless I wished openly to contradict the wishes of my +father.” + +I assured him he should not want any comfort my presence could afford him; +although not without, at the same time, expressing my astonishment that he +should consider it at all probable that his dainty Rubellia would choose +to sit among the spectators of an exhibition so abounding in circumstances +of cruelty, and, as I had understood, forbidden to her sex. “Nay,” +answered he, “laws and edicts are made to be broken in such cases; and as +for the cruelty of the scene, there is scarcely a lady in Rome that would +be more scrupulous on that head than my widow. To tell you the truth, one +of the things that makes me most unwilling to go, is the fear that +Sempronia also may be there; and, perhaps, when she sees me with Rubellia, +give credence to some of the reports which have been circulated (not +without my father’s assent, I think, if all were known,) about this odious +marriage, which I swear to you shall never take place, although Licinius +were to drive me from his door, and adopt a stranger.”—“Sextus,” I made +answer, “if Sempronia thinks there is any thing serious between the widow +and you, she must think you a pretty rascal, for the violent love you made +to herself at the Villa. But I am sure she will easily perceive, by your +countenance, that you do not regard Rubellia, handsome as she is, with any +extraordinary admiration; whereas—if you were not conscious of it, I am +sure she must have been so—there was never a face of more passionate love +than yours, all the time you were in _her_ company. And, even now, the +very mention of her name calls a glow into your cheeks,—yes, and even into +your eyes,—that I think would flatter Rubellia, could she excite such +another, more than all the jewels of all the caskets your father will ever +send.”—“Distract me not, O Valerius!” said the youth,—“distract me not +with speaking of that too lovely, and, I fear, too scornful girl. Do you +not perceive that we have at last struck into the Suburra, and are quite +near to Rubellia’s house?”—“It is so,” said I, looking out of the +carriage, “and I suspect you are right in thinking she means to be present +at the Amphitheatre, for there is a crowd of urchins about her gate, and I +perceive a brilliant group of equipages has attracted them. She purposes +to go in all her splendour.”—“Good Heavens!” replied he, “I believe all +the world is to be there. I never passed so many chariots; and as for the +rabble, see what a stream of heads continues pouring down out of every +alley. My only hope is, that Rubellia may arrive too late for the best +situations, and perhaps disdain to witness the spectacle from any inferior +part of the Amphitheatre; and yet she must have interest, no doubt, to +have secured good accommodation beforehand.” + +We were just in time to meet Rubellia stepping from her portico with a gay +cluster of attendants. On seeing us, however, she beckoned with her +finger, and said, “Oh, are you come at last? Well, I must take Valerius +with myself, for I insist upon it that I shall be best able to point out +what is worthy of his notice; and you, Sextus Licinius, come you also into +my chariot; we will not separate you from your Orestes.” She said so with +an air of sprightly ease and indifference, and sprung into the carriage. +An elderly lady, with a broad merry face, went into it also, but there was +still room for Sextus and myself; and the rest of the party followed in +other vehicles that were waiting. + +The crowd by this time had so accumulated, that our horses could not +advance but at leisurely pace; but the noise of the multitude as they +rushed along, and the tumult of expectation visible on every countenance, +prevented us from thinking of any thing but the festival. The variety, +however, and great splendour of the equipages, could not but attract my +attention. Now it was an open chariot, drawn by milk-white Thessalian +horses, in which reclined some gorgeous female, blazing with jewellery, +with a cluster of beautiful boys or girls administering odours to her +nostril; and perhaps some haughty Knight or Senator now and then offering +the refreshment of his flattery. Then, perhaps, would come rumbling along, +a close clumsy waggon, of the old-fashioned matronly sort, stuck full with +some substantial plebeian family—the fat, comfortable-looking citizen, and +his demure spouse, sitting well back on their cushions, and having their +knees loaded with an exulting progeny of lads and lasses, whose faces +would, every now and then, be thrust half out of the window, in spite of +the mother’s tugging at their skirts. And then, again, a cry of “Place, +place,” and a group of lictors, shoving every body aside with their rods, +before the litter of some dignified magistrate, who, from pride or gout, +preferred that species of motion to the jolting of a chariot. Such a +portly person as this would soon be hurried past us, but not before we had +time to observe the richness of the silken cushions on which he lay +extended, or the air of majesty with which he submitted himself to the fan +of the favoured freedman, whose business it was to keep those +authoritative cheeks free from the contamination of common dust and flies. +Anon, a jolly band of young gallants, pushing their steeds along, to not a +few of whom the fair Rubellia would vouchsafe her salutation. But wherever +the carriage was stopped for an instant, it was wonderful to see the +number of old emaciated men, and withered hags, that would make their way +close up to the windows, imploring wherewithal to obtain a morsel. The +widow herself leaned back on these occasions, as if to avoid the sight; +but she pointed to a bag of small coin that hung in a corner of the +chariot, and from it Sextus distributed to the one side, and I to the +other; and yet it was impossible to give to every one; we were surrounded +all the way with a mingled clamour of benedictions from those that had +received, and execrations from those that had got nothing, and noisy +ever-renewed solicitations from that ever-swelling army of mendicants. At +last, however, we arrived in safety at the western gate—the same around +which I had, the night before, witnessed such tumultuous preparation. One +of the officers in waiting there, no sooner descried the equipage, than he +caused a space to be laid open for its approach, and himself advanced to +hand Rubellia into the interior, but she whispered to Sextus and me, by no +means to separate from her in the crowd. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +Behold me, therefore, in the midst of the Flavian Amphitheatre, and +seated, under the wing of the luxurious Rubellia, in a very convenient +situation. There was a general silence in the place, because proclamation +had just been made that the gladiators, with whose combats the exhibition +was to commence, were about to enter upon the arena, and shew themselves +in order to the people. As yet, however, they had not come forth from that +place of concealment to which so many of their number would never return; +so that I had leisure to collect my thoughts, and survey for a moment, +without disturbance, the mighty and most motley multitude, piled above, +below, and on every side around me, from the lordly senators, on their +silken couches, along the parapet of the arena, up to the impenetrable +mass of plebeian heads which skirted the horizon, above the topmost wall +of the Amphitheatre itself. Such was the enormous crowd of human beings, +high and low, that when any motion went through their assembly, the noise +of their rising up or sitting down might be likened to the sullen roaring +of the sea, or the rushing of a great night-wind in a forest. Not less +than eighty thousand human beings, they told me, were here met together. +Such a multitude could no where be regarded, without inspiring a certain +indefinable sense of majesty; least of all, when congregated within the +wide sweep of such a glorious edifice, and surrounded on all sides with +every circumstance of ornament and splendour, befitting an everlasting +monument of Roman victory and imperial munificence. Judge, then, with what +eyes all this was surveyed by me, who had but of yesterday emerged from a +British valley—who had been accustomed all my life to consider as among +the most impressive of spectacles, the casual passage of a few scores of +legionaries through some dark alley of a wood, or awe-struck village of +barbarians. + +Trajan himself was already present—his ivory chair distinguished only by +its canopy from that of the other Consul who sate over against him; tall +and majestic in his demeanour; grave, sedate, and benign in countenance, +as you have seen in his medals and statues. He was arrayed in a plain +gown, and appeared to converse quite familiarly, without affectation of +condescension, with such Patricians as had their places near him; among +whom Sextus and Rubellia pointed out many remarkable personages to my +notice; as Adrian, afterwards emperor; Pliny, the orator, a man of courtly +presence, and lively, agreeable aspect; and, above all, the historian +Tacitus, the worthy son-in-law of our Agricola, in whose pallid +countenance I could easily recognize the depth, but sought in vain to +discover any traces of the sternness of his genius. Of all the then proud +names that were whispered into my ear, could I recollect or repeat them +now, how few would awaken any interest in your minds! Those, indeed, which +I have mentioned, have an interest that will never die. Would that the +greatest and the best of them all were to be remembered only for deeds of +greatness and goodness! + +The proclamation being repeated a second time, a door on the right hand of +the arena was laid open, and a single trumpet sounded, as it seemed to me, +mournfully, while the gladiators marched in with slow steps, each +man—naked, except being girt with a cloth about his loins—bearing on his +left arm a small buckler, and having a short straight sword suspended by a +cord around his neck. They marched, as I have said, slowly and steadily; +so that the whole assembly had full leisure to contemplate the forms of +the men; while those skilled in such business were fixing, in their own +minds, on such as they thought most likely to be victorious, and laying +wagers concerning their chances of success, with as much unconcern as if +they had been contemplating irrational animals, or rather, indeed, I +should say, so many pieces of ingenious mechanism. The diversity of +complexion and feature exhibited among these devoted athletes, afforded at +once a majestic idea of the extent of the empire, and a terrible one of +the purposes to which that wide sway had often been made subservient. The +beautiful Greek, with a countenance of noble serenity, and limbs after +which the sculptors of his country might have modelled their symbols of +graceful power, walked side by side with the yellow-bearded savage, whose +gigantic muscles had been nerved in the freezing waves of the Elbe or +Ister, or whose thick strong hair was congealed and shagged on his brow +with the breath of Scythian or Scandinavian winters. Many fierce Moors and +Arabs, and curled Ethiopians, were there, with the beams of the southern +sun burnt in every various shade of swarthiness upon their skins. Nor did +our own remote island want her representatives in the deadly procession, +for I saw among the armed multitude—not surely without some feelings of +more peculiar interest—two or three gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and +shoulders bore uncouth marks of blue and purple, so vivid in the tints, +that I thought many months could not have elapsed since they must have +been wandering in wild freedom along the native ridges of some Silurian or +Caledonian forest. As they moved around the arena, some of these men were +saluted by the whole multitude with noisy acclamations, in token, I +suppose, of the approbation wherewith the feats of some former festival +had deserved to be remembered. On the appearance of others, groans and +hisses were heard from some parts of the Amphitheatre, mixed with +contending cheers and huzzas from others of the spectators. But by far the +greater part were suffered to pass on in silence;—this being in all +likelihood the first—who could tell whether it might not also be the last +day of their sharing in that fearful exhibition! + +Their masters paired them shortly, and in succession they began to make +proof of their fatal skill. At first, Scythian was matched against +Scythian—Greek against Greek—Ethiopian against Ethiopian—Spaniard against +Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet with blood streaming +from the wounds of kindred hands. But these combats, although abundantly +bloody and terrible, were regarded only as preludes to the serious +business of the day, which consisted of duels between Europeans on the one +side, and Africans on the other; wherein it was the well-nigh +intransgressible law of the Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every +pair of combatants should die. Instead of shrinking from these more +desperate brutalities, the almost certainty of their termination seemed +only to make the assembly gaze on them with a more intense curiosity and +delight. Methinks I feel as if it were but of yesterday, when,—sickened +with the protracted terrors of a conflict, that seemed as if it were never +to have an end, although both the combatants were already covered all over +with hideous gashes,—I at last bowed down my head, and clasped my hands +upon my eyes. I had scarcely done so, when Rubellia laid her hand upon my +elbow, whispering, “Look, look, now look,” in a voice of low, steady +impatience. I did look, but not to the arena: No; it was upon the +beautiful features of that woman’s face that I looked, and truly it seemed +to me as if they presented a spectacle almost as fearful. I saw those rich +lips parted, those dark eyes extended, those smooth cheeks suffused with a +steadfast blush, that lovely bosom swelled and glowing; and I hated +Rubellia, for I knew not before how utterly beauty can be brutalized by +the throbbings of a cruel heart. But I looked round to escape from the +sight of her;—and the hundreds of females that I saw fixed with equal +earnestness on the same horrors, taught me, even at the moment, to think +with more charity of that pitiless gaze of one. + +At that instant all were silent in contemplation of the breathless strife; +insomuch, that a groan, the first that had escaped from either of the +combatants, although low and suppressed, sounded distinctly amidst the +deep hush, and being constrained to turn once more downwards, I beheld +that, at length, one of the two had received the sword of his adversary +quite through his body, and had sunk upon the sand. A beautiful young man +was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, clustered in glossy +ringlets upon his neck and brows; but the sickness of his wound was +already visible on his drooping eye-lids, and his lips were pale, as if +the blood had rushed from them to the untimely outlet. Nevertheless, the +Moorish gladiator who had fought with him had drawn forth again his +weapon, and stood there awaiting in silence the decision, whether at once +to slay the defenceless youth, or to assist in removing him from the +arena, if perchance the blood might be stopped from flowing, and some hope +of recovery even yet extended. There arose, on the instant, a loud voice +of contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man regarded the +multitude with a proud, contemptuous glance, being aware, without +question, that he had executed all things so as to deserve their +compassion, but aware, moreover, that even had that been freely vouchsafed +to him, it was too late. But the cruelty of their faces, it may be, and +the loudness of their cries, were a sorrow to him, and filled his dying +breast with loathing. Whether or not the haughtiness of his countenance +had been observed by them with displeasure, I cannot say; but those who +had cried out to give him a chance of recovery, were speedily silent, and +Cæsar looking round, and seeing all the thumbs turned downwards, was +constrained to give the sign, and forthwith the young man, receiving again +without a struggle the sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, breathed +forth his life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the place of +guilt. With that a joyous clamour was uplifted by many of those that +looked upon it, and the victorious Moor, being crowned with an ivy +garland, was carried in procession around the arena by certain young men, +who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of the assembly. In the +meantime, those that had the care of such things, dragged away, with a +filthy hook, the corpse of him that had been slain; and then, raking up +the sand over the blood that had fallen from him, prepared the place, with +indifferent countenances, for some other tragedy,—while all around me, the +spectators were seen rising from their places, and saluting each other; +and there was a buzz of talking as universal as the silence had been +during the combat; some speaking of this thrust and that ward, and paying +and receiving money lost and won; some already discoursing of other +matters, as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; while others, again, +appeared to be entirely occupied with the martial music which ever struck +up majestically at such pauses, beating time upon the benches before them, +or joining their voices with the proud notes of the trumpets and clarions. +Rubellia talked gaily with Sextus, inviting him to ridicule me with her, +for the strangeness of behaviour I had displayed. + +The sun, by this, had already mounted high in the heavens, and the glare +became so intolerable, that men could no longer fight on equal terms; +which being perceived, Cæsar gave command to look after the wild beasts, +and, in the meantime, (for I heard his voice distinctly,) to give warning +to the Flamens that they should have their altar set forth. + + + + + _CHAPTER XI._ + + +Upon this, Trajan, with those immediately about his person, withdrew; but +Rubellia told me he had only gone to the Palatine by the subterraneous +path, for the purpose of taking some refreshment, and that there was no +doubt he would return in time to witness the rest of the spectacle. This +example, however, was followed in some sort by a great part of the +spectators, for some departed altogether from the Amphitheatre, while many +more were seen moving from place to place, crossing from one vomitory to +another, and paying their respects to different parties of friends, who +had occupied places at a distance from them during the combats. In the +meantime, servants of Trajan’s household were observed giving directions +in the arena to a great number of persons, who afterwards began to +distribute baskets of dried fish, bread, and other eatables, among such as +chose to accept of them; while viands of a more costly description were +introduced among the wealthy, by slaves and freedmen of their own. Neither +were the bearers of water-jars idle, nor the street hawkers of fruit; +least of all, those whose traffic is in snow,—of whom, I believe, hundreds +were scrambling in all quarters over the benches, whistling shrilly, as is +their method, to announce the article in which they dealt. + +The Lady Rubellia was not one of those who would ever leave her friends +destitute of the means of refreshment on such an occasion as this; and +accordingly two or three of her household were soon with us, bearing jars +of sweet-meats, baskets of fruit, flasks of wine, with other appurtenances +of a luxurious collation. We had scarcely begun to taste of these things, +when our attention was attracted by some one striding, with great +activity, from one row of benches to another behind us, and looking round, +I discovered the rosy countenance of Sabinus, whose anxiety to join us +was, as I immediately suspected, the cause of this exertion. An ordinary +person would have sought some circuitous method of approach, rather than +attempt the sheer descent from one of the stone parapets which rose +immediately in our rear; but the brawny limbs of the Centurion shrunk not +from that adventurous leap, and, in a word, I soon found him seated beside +us, bowing and smiling to Rubellia with his usual mixture of boldness and +suavity. He delayed not from participation in her delicacies; but lifting +a goblet of Falernian, drank down, without stopping, till he could see the +foundation of its interior gold. His fingers also soon became acquainted +with the receptacles of fruit and confectionary; and I was half-inclined +to some suspicion, that he might perhaps have remained in his original +situation, had he not chanced to observe the slaves of Rubellia, as they +came up the vomitory, with their comely-looking, napkin-covered baskets +upon their heads. As it was, his arrival was acceptable, except perhaps to +Rubellia, who I thought looked as if she were not overmuch pleased with +the interruption his mirthful talk occasioned to the conversation on which +she had been endeavouring to fix the attention of young Licinius. + +For that, however, another interruption had been already prepared in +another part of the assembly, from which our Xerophrastes also had taken +cognizance of our position. There was such a crowd, however, immediately +below us, that I know not whether the philosopher would ever have been +able to make his way to the region where we sat, had it not been that we +heard his voice in disputation, and entreated those that opposed his +passage, if possible, to make room for him. The first glimpse we had of +his countenance, shewed us that the squeeze had been giving him serious +inconvenience, for the drops of perspiration stood visible on his bald +front. The persons whom he was addressing, however, seemed to listen with +such unconcern, that it was impossible not to feel somewhat displeased +with them, for treating so disrespectfully one whom his venerable aspect +might have entitled to more courtesy. In vain did he represent to them, +(for we heard his strong voice distinctly every now and then,) that it was +not for the sake of any personal ease or convenience he was desirous of +penetrating into an upper part. In vain did he reiterate “My pupil”—“my +disciple”—“my young scholar, Sextus Licinius”—“the son of Caius +Licinius”—“the son of the great orator Caius Licinius is there.” In vain +did he enlarge upon the constancy of attention which philosophers owe to +those who are placed by the hands of parents under their superintendence. +No sooner, however, did Sextus and I begin to shew the interest we took in +his situation, than Sabinus raised himself up on the bench, and called +aloud on those that surrounded the Stoic, with a voice of much sternness +and authority, to let him pass immediately at their peril. + +Many eyes were forthwith turned towards us; and whether it were the +dignity and haughtiness of the Centurion’s voice and attitude, or that his +garb alone gave him much weight in the assembly, the resistance was +relaxed, and Xerophrastes enjoyed an opportunity of almost entirely +recovering his usual serenity of aspect before he reached us. The first +thing he did was to accept of a cup which I held out to him, and then with +much courtesy did he thank us all, but most the Centurion, for the part he +had taken in working out his deliverance from the hands, as he expressed +it, of those inhuman and illiterate persons; “while you,” he continued, +“brave warrior, have shewn that in your breast, as in that of +Epaminondas—of Alexander—and of your own Julius—the reverence of the +muses, and of divine philosophy, does not disdain to inhabit with the +ardour of active patriotism, and the spirit-stirring delights of Mars.” + +“As for that,” said Rubellia, with a smile, “all the world knows that +Sabinus is quite a philosopher—he was just beginning a very learned +harangue when we were attracted by your voice in the crowd; and you have +the more reason to thank him, because he was cut very unseasonably short, +in consequence of the distress in which we perceived you.” + +“Most noble lady!” replied the Stoic, “you know not how much you have +delighted me; from the first moment, indeed, that my eyes rested upon the +countenance of your heroic friend, I suspected that he had subjected +himself to some other discipline besides that of camps. I saw the traces +of thought, lady—and serious contemplation. The mind can never exercise +its faculties, without conveying some symptoms of those internal +operations to the external surface of the visage. The soul can never +energize habitually, without betraying its activity in the delicacy and +acumen, which the more elegant and susceptible parts of the corporeal +frame acquire during those elaborate and mysterious processes of thought. +I saw, therefore, and suspected. But what thanks are not due to you, for +having so agreeably confirmed me in this happy suspicion! Of a surety, the +noise and tumult of the camp is not so well adapted for the theoretic or +contemplative life, as perfect leisure and retirement; yet, who shall +doubt that the soul of great energy can overcome all such disadvantages? +Who shall think that the spirit of Socrates did not eagerly philosophize +during the campaign he served?—Who shall say that the Stagyrite must have +suspended his acute, although imperfect investigations, even although he +had accompanied his royal pupil across the Hellespont, and attended all +the motions of his victorious army, instead of staying at home to teach +the youth of Greece?—Who, finally,” said he, casting his courteous eyes +full on the Prætorian, “shall suspect but that this generous warrior has +been effectually advancing the growth of philosophic science, within his +own mind at least,—if not composing works, in his intervals of leisure, +destined hereafter to benefit and instruct the world, even although he may +have been attending the flight of the Eagle from utmost Britain to the +desert frontiers of the Parthian?”—“Nobody, indeed,” replied the sportive +lady—“nobody, indeed, who has enjoyed any opportunity of being acquainted +with the Centurion, can have any doubt on that head.—Sabinus,” she +continued, turning towards him, “what treatise are you at present engaged +with? Come, now, speak out, and truly;—are you still busy with your peri +tês Phuseôs tou oistrou bakchikou,(1) that you were quoting from the other +night?—or are you deep in ‘_the delight of contemplation_?’—or——”—“Not at +all,” quoth the Centurion, interrupting her; “I am only deep in _love_——” +Saying so, he laid his hand in a very tender fashion upon his breast, and +even, as I thought, began to throw a little sentiment into his eyes; but +he had no opportunity of going on with his speech, for Xerophrastes had no +sooner heard him utter the word _love_, than he immediately began to pour +out a new rhapsody. + +“Love!” quoth he; “Ha! love:—in good sooth, a noble subject, and one +concerning which not a few laudable treatises have been composed. Yet, +without question, much remains to be done in this matter; and I should be +most proud if the illustrious Sabinus would vouchsafe to me a perusal of +his speculations. Without question,” he continued, “you have commenced +with a proper definition and division of the subject. You have +distinguished betwixt what is properly called _love_, and the other more +or less kindred affections, with which hallucinating writers have too +often committed the error of confounding it. You have described, in the +first place, the difference between it and the _Storgé_ or natural +affection which parents have for their offspring—an affection in which not +a few of the irrational tribes appear (if physiologists may be trusted) to +be even superior to the human race.”—“Hens, for example,” quoth the +Centurion, with a face of infinite gravity.—“Even so—_hens_,” continued +the sage; “an apt illustration.—I perceive, indeed, lady,” whispered he to +Rubellia, “that you have not deceived me concerning the attainments of +this your noble friend.—Hens—a most acute illustration!—See you now, O +Sextus!” he went on, “it is not the characteristic of true philosophy to +despise those illustrations which are drawn from the affairs of ordinary +life, and the common surfaces of things. No: it is rather her part to shew +forth her own intrinsic excellence and splendour, by raising that which is +in itself low and customary, to unexpected dignity, by her methods of +felicitous application. See you, now, with what unexampled skill this +hero—this philosopher, I should rather say—may I presume to add, this +brother philosopher?—has illustrated the nature of love in this treatise +of his, by introducing the domestic habits of your common household fowl. +Such things should not pass unheeded by the young aspirants to learning, +because these, more than any other circumstances, may furnish them with +encouragement to proceed in their course, by shewing how many of the +materials of philosophy lie every where under the eyes of the most common +traveller of the path of life; and how assuredly it is the fault of the +individual himself, if he neglect the means of spiritual advancement, +which are sure to be afforded in whatever situation may chance to have +been assigned to him.” + +“I beg your pardon for interrupting you,” said Rubellia; “but Sabinus has +almost finished the grapes while you have been speaking; and I would only +just beg to suggest, that it is the fault of the individual, Xerophrastes, +if he neglects the means of corporeal refreshment, which may yet be +afforded to him by what remains in the basket.” + +“Most kind lady,” resumed he, “your benevolence is worthy of your +nobility.—But you know not how much the philosophy I have embraced, tends +to lessen the natural desire of man for such things as you allude +to—nevertheless,” he continued, “I will not refuse to partake yet farther +of your bounty; for I have been sorely dealt with in the multitude, as +yourselves witnessed.” + +So saying, he took hold of the basket, and began to feel in the bottom of +it, but found very little to his purpose; for, to say the truth, the rest +of the party had been almost as eager in their attentions to it as the +Centurion. A few slender bunches, notwithstanding, were still there, one +of which the philosopher thrust into his mouth, and the rest he concealed +beneath one of the folds of his huge mantle, until he should have made an +end of his criticism. Meantime, the natural language of the broad, jovial, +unreflective countenance of our worthy Centurion, seemed considerably at +variance from the notion of his attainments and pursuits, which this merry +lady had been instilling into the pedagogue. Rubellia herself, however, +appeared to enjoy the thing far more keenly than either Sextus or I; +insomuch, that I was afraid Xerophrastes would penetrate through the joke +she was playing off upon him, before he had given himself his full swing +in commendation of the Prætorian. But Sabinus, on his side, was, as it +seemed, of opinion, that he had already heard enough of such +disquisitions; for he had scarcely seen out the last cup of Falernian, ere +he began to give hints that he wished very much to descend into the arena, +for the purpose of observing the animals about to be exhibited, while they +were yet in their cages. Xerophrastes, however, even when he had heard him +signify this desire, appeared still to be resolved on considering him as +one of the philosophic order of mankind; for he at once offered to +accompany him, saying, that the visit was of course intended for the +gratification of some scientific curiosity, and that therefore he should +think himself culpable did he neglect the opportunity. + +“Come, then,” quoth the good-natured Sabinus, “by all means prepare +yourself for the descent; but at least allow me to precede you, that there +may be no risk of untimely obstructions.”—“Most assuredly, noble +Centurion,” replied Xerophrastes, “in this, as in all things, I shall be +proud to be enumerated among your followers. My pupil, also,” he added, +“and his friend, will no doubt accompany us, that they may benefit by our +discourse on whatever may be subjected to observation.”—“Venerated +friend,” said Rubellia, “would you leave the ladies by themselves in the +midst of the Amphitheatre? I hope Sextus Licinius, at least, will consider +our weakness, and remain for our protection.” + +She laid her hand on my companion’s arm, with a look which was decisive. +Her ancient crony whispered something about the impropriety of leaving +only one of the party to attend upon two females; but I took advantage of +her low tone to pretend ignorance of that hint, and rose with the +Centurion. + +“Go quickly,” said Sextus, “for the interval must be well-nigh at an end; +and if those that have gone out begin to rush in again, you may have +difficulty in regaining your places.”—“Give fear to the winds,” quoth +Sabinus; “am not I with them, that know every lion-feeder in Rome? No +chance of the exhibition recommencing without my having sufficient +warning. It is not for nothing that I have lost and won so many thousand +sesterces in the Amphitheatre. Would to Hercules as much respect were paid +to experience every where else, as in the Arena to your true old Better. +Already, I perceive that half a dozen of those knowing characters down +below, about the entrances to the dens, have detected me. They must fancy +my purse is in a poor state indeed, when I don’t seem to think it worth +while to take even a single peep at the cages. Come, worthy brother in +philosophy, and you, my fellow-voyager, let us be alert, lest we arrive +after Platæa.” + +We obeyed with due alacrity, and, leaving the reluctant Sextus to his +fate, touched presently the margin of the arena. We had no sooner arrived +there, than an old skin-dried limping Numidian, with a bit of lion’s hide +fastened round his loins—one who, from his leanness and blackness, had +very much the appearance of having been baked to a cinder, drew to the +Centurion, with many nods and significant grins of recognition. Sabinus, +on his part, seemed noways backward to acknowledge this acquaintance; but, +on the contrary, began to talk volubly with him in a strange sort of +broken dialect, chiefly composed, as I afterwards learned, of Punic +vocables. After this had lasted some minutes, he took Xerophrastes and me +by the hand, and seemed to introduce us to the Numidian, who then desired +us all to come down, and he would conduct us to a place where we should +see something not unworthy of being seen. About to follow these +directions, I felt my gown seized from behind, and looking round, observed +that it was my faithful Briton, who, from the heat and confusion of his +aspect, appeared not to have come thither without a considerable struggle. +Sabinus seeing him, said, “Ah! my old friend Boto, how have you come to +this part of the Amphitheatre? We must not leave you behind us, however: +Of a surety, you have never seen a lion—you shall descend along with your +master; and who knows but we may persuade Xerophrastes that you also are a +brother philosopher?”—“Most noble Centurion,” replied the grateful slave, +“I saw you and my master from the very topmost bench, where I have been +sitting for these three hours with Dromo, and I was determined to draw +near to you, if it were possible. To go from this place up to yonder +quarter would perhaps be impossible; but it is never a very difficult +matter to go down in this world; so, saving your reverence, I trundled +myself over the benches, and when heads were in my way, I trundled myself +over them too.”—“It is well, good Briton,” quoth the Centurion—by this +time we had crossed the arena—“and now prepare to exercise your eyes as +well as you already have exercised your limbs; for know, that very near to +you is the abode of nobler animals than even your lord hath ever +observed.” + +With this the African opened one of the iron doors edging the arena, and +having received some money, admitted us to the sight of a long flight of +marble steps, which appeared to descend into the bowels of the earth, far +below the foundation of the Amphitheatre. “Come along, masters,” quoth he; +“we had better go down this way, for we shall have a better view of the +animals so, than on the other side. My master, Sabinus, will tell you all, +that old Aspar knows as much about these things as any Numidian in the +place.”—“Indeed, since friend Bisbal is gone,” quoth the Centurion, “there +is not another of these that is to be compared to you.”—“Ah!” replied +Aspar, “Bisbal was a great man; there is not a feeder in Rome that is +worthy to tie the latchet of his sandals, if he were alive.”—“Why, as to +that,” said the other, “old Bisbal was very seldom worth a pair of sandals +worth the tying, when he was alive; but, come on, we have no great leisure +for talking now, and Aspar shall shew a lion with any Bisbal that ever +wielded whip.—Come on.” + +We soon reached a large vaulted place, apparently below the Amphitheatre, +the sides of which were almost entirely covered with iron-gratings,—while +up and down the open space were strolling many strange groupes of men, +connected in different capacities with the bloody spectacles of the arena. +On one hand, we saw some of the gladiators, who had already been +combating, walking to and fro with restless and agitated steps, as if they +had not yet been able to recover themselves from the excitement into which +their combats had thrown them. Even of such as had been victorious, I +observed that not a few partook in all these symptoms of uneasiness; and +the contrast thus exhibited to the haughty mien of calmness they had so +lately been displaying, affected me with a strange sense of the irrational +and inhuman life these unhappy persons were condemned by folly or +necessity to lead. The blood had forsaken the lips and cheeks of others, +and from the fixed stare of their eyes, it appeared that their minds were +entirely withdrawn from every thing passing around them. Their limbs, so +recently nerved to the utmost show of vigour, were now relaxed and +unstrung, and they trod the marble floor with heavy and straggling feet. +But they that appeared to me to be in the most wretched state, were such +as, they told us, expected to be led forth shortly to contend with the +wild beasts, in whose immediate vicinity they were now walking. The +summons to battle with a human opponent calls into action the fierceness +and the pride of man; but he that has to fight with a beast, how should he +not be weighed down with the sense of mortal degradation; how should the +Reason that is in him not fill him, in such a prospect, with dispiriting +and humbling, rather than with strengthening and stimulating thoughts? +Howbeit, the Centurion, although the most good-natured of mankind, being +rendered from custom quite callous to these things, immediately entered +into conversation with some of those unfortunates, in a tone of coolness +and unconcern that shocked me the more, because it did not seem in the +smallest degree to shock them. Among other topics, he enlarged at much +length to one of them upon the best method of evading the attack of a +tiger. + +“Look ye now,” said he, “there are some that are always for taking things, +as they call it, in good time,—these will be pointing their swords before +the creature makes his spring; but I have seen what comes of that, and so +has old Aspar here, if he would be honest enough to confess it. The true +way is to watch his eye when he is setting; let him fairly fix upon his +mark, and spring; but at the moment when he is taking his leap, then is +the time for the gladiator to start aside, and have at him with a +side-thrust. Your side-thrust is the only one I would lay an _as_ +upon.”—“Yea,” quoth the grinning Aspar,—“it was always on your cool steady +side-thrust, the moment he had sprung, that the great Bisbal used to stake +himself. Ha! ha! I was fond of the side-thrust in my day myself; but I got +a scratch once—witness my poor leg, masters,—and since then I am a poor +feeder.”—“I was always clear for the side-thrust,” quoth Sabinus. “I never +saw it fail but twice, and then, to be sure, the men died; but they could +have had no chance at all with the frontguard; and it is always +something,” continued he, clapping one of the poor expecting gladiators on +the back,—“it is always something to have a chance. Be sure you try him +with the side-thrust, if it come to your turn to-day.” + +The poor creature—he also was an African—lifted up his head on being so +addressed, and shewed all his white teeth in a melancholy attempt at a +smile; but said not a word in reply, and forthwith became as downcast as +before. But the Centurion took little or no heed of the manner in which +his advice had been received. He contemplated the man’s figure for a +moment, as if to form some judgment concerning the measure of his +strength; and after doing the like in regard to some of his companions, +commanded Aspar to shew us where the prime lions of the day were reposing. + +The Numidian seized a long pole that was leaning against one of the +pillars of the vault, and led us to a certain part of the grated wall, +behind which was the den, wherein six monstrous Atlantic lions were kept. +I looked in upon them with wonder, and not without dread, through the iron +net-work of the doors. An imperfect gleam of light descended from above +upon their tawny hides and glaring eyes. They, like the gladiators, seemed +also to be preparing for the combat; but not like them in fear, nor in +cold dewy tremors; for the deprivation of food, which they had been made +to suffer in prospect of the exhibition, had roused all the energies of +their savage natures; insomuch, that a sulky and yearning rage seemed to +spread through every nerve and sinew of their gigantic frames, and to make +them paw their quadrangular prison with long and pliant strides. They +moved, however, as yet in total silence; so that Boto having fixed his +eyes upon them, took courage to approach the grate,—slowly, nevertheless, +and with a face that appeared to lengthen an inch for every inch he +advanced. But when he had almost touched the bars, one of the huge lions +came forward towards him, with something between a growl and a sigh, which +made Boto spring backward with great and surprising agility, and with such +force, that both he and Xerophrastes, who happened unfortunately to have +been standing a little way behind him, were overthrown at all their length +upon the floor. + +The Centurion, and the limping old keeper, burst into laughter; but +Xerophrastes rising, and shaking his garment, said, with some warmth, +“Think not, O Sabinus, that any sudden start of fear has thus ridiculously +stretched me upon the floor; but attribute the mischance only to this rude +offspring of British earth, whose unreclaimed natural feelings are still +shamefully affected by natural causes.”—“Castor and Pollux,” quoth the +Centurion,—“you take every thing too seriously, my friend.”—“I take it not +seriously,” replied he, with admirable gravity. “My philosophy forbids me +to do so; it has steeled me against externals.”—“Has it so, in faith!” +rejoined the Centurion. “I think some of your equanimity is, in fact, +owing to the trifling circumstance, that you have in reality received no +injury whatever from your tumble. And as to steeling, let me tell you, I +think the iron in the grated door there is much better placed, than in the +bosom of a philosopher; for, in the door, it serves the purpose of +preventing all harm; but if these animals were once out, all the mental +steel of which you boast would not save every bone in your body from being +cracked in the twanging of a bow-string.”—“You speak,” replied +Xerophrastes, “as if you had embraced the tenets of a sect not worthy of +the lovers of wisdom—You speak as if the artificial contrivances of human +workmen were all in all. An iron cage may confine wild beasts; but can +cages be made for all those misfortunes to which mankind are liable, and +against which the force of the mind is their only means of defence? Can +you cage the Eumenides, when they come to avenge a life spent in ignoble +indolence and degrading luxury?”—“In truth,” replied the Centurion with a +smile, “I have never seen the Eumenides except once, and that was in the +theatre of Athens. But Boto, perhaps, has been more fortunate. Did you +ever see the Eumenides, good Boto?” “No, master,” replied, stupidly, the +perplexed Boto, “I never was at the theatre.” + +“Ye gods!” exclaimed the Stoic, “of a surety this Britain must have been +the last spot rescued from the dominion of Chaos!” + +But while we were yet contemplating those enormous animals, and amused +with the awkward gestures of Boto, the trumpets were blown in the +Amphitheatre, and no sooner did the sound of them penetrate into the +vaults, than it was evident, from the bustle which ensued, that the +Emperor had returned to his place. With all speed, therefore, did we +reascend to the upper air, leaving the gladiators in the act of mustering +in their respective quarters of the gloomy vault; and the feeders not less +busied in preparing their beasts for the expected combat. Had we not been +under the protection of Sabinus, we should have attempted in vain to +regain our places; but he being an acknowledged and current authority, +known in every department of the Amphitheatre, the door-keepers, and other +functionaries, durst refuse him nothing; room was made for us where no +room appeared; and, in a word, we shortly found ourselves once more seated +by the side of Rubellia and Sextus. + + + + + _CHAPTER XII._ + + +The day was by this time considerably advanced; and, in spite of the +awnings spread all over head, the rays of the sun were so powerful, that +the marble benches felt hot to the touch, wherever they were exposed to +them; and altogether there was such a glare and fervour throughout the +place, that my eyes began to be weary of gazing; and very gladly would I +have retired, rather than remain to see out the rest of the exhibition. +Nevertheless, there was no appearance of any one having gone away in +weariness; but, on the contrary, the seats, and even the passages, seemed +to be more crowded than they had been in the anterior part of the morning. + +The arena was vacant, when I looked down upon it; but in a short time, a +single old man, who, as Rubellia told me, had, without doubt, been found +guilty of some atrocious wickedness, was led forth from a small wicket on +the one side, and presently his fetters being struck off, those that +conducted him retired, leaving him alone upon the sand. The eyes of this +malefactor refused at first to look steadfastly on the objects around him, +and it seemed to me that he had probably been long confined in some dark +place, so grievously did the dazzling splendour, reflected from the floor +and walls, appear to bewilder and confound him. Nevertheless, after a +brief space, he seemed in some measure to recover himself, and assumed a +posture of resignation, leaning with one hand against the parapet, as if +he needed support to uphold himself. Pallid and extenuated were the +outlines of the old man’s visage, and his hair and beard exhibited not a +little of the squalidness attendant on long confinement; yet there was +something in the attitude, and even in the countenance, which made me +harbour the suspicion that he had not, at some former period, been +altogether unacquainted with the luxuries and refinements of social life. +The beauty, indeed, of the mould in which his form had originally been +cast, might, perhaps, have been the sole cause of these casual +demonstrations of elegance; yet it was impossible not to regard the man +with greater interest, by reason of the contrast suggested between what he +once perhaps had been, and what he now was. + +A feeling of the same sort seemed to pervade many more in the assembly; +and I heard a continual whispering among those around me, as if there was +a general anxiety to learn something of the history of the man. No one, +however, appearing to be able to say any thing concerning this, I kept my +eyes fixed upon himself, awaiting the issue in silence. Judge then, what +was my surprise, when one of the heralds of Trajan, having commanded that +there should be silence in the amphitheatre, said, “Let Tisias of Antioch +come forth, and answer to the things that shall be alleged against him.” +To which the old man, that was alone in the arena, immediately made +reply,—“Here am I—my name is Tisias of Antioch.”—In vain, however, even +after hearing the well-remembered voice, did I attempt to persuade myself +that the face was such as I had pictured within myself; for, as to seeing +it, I have already told you that utter darkness prevailed in the dungeon +all the time I was there with him. + +Then arose the Prefect of the city, who had his place immediately under +the chair of Cæsar, and said in a voice, which, although not loud, was +heard distinctly all through the Amphitheatre,—“Tisias of Antioch, being +accused of blasphemy and contempt for the Gods, has been brought hither, +either to refute this charge, by doing homage at the altar of Jupiter Best +and Greatest; or, persisting in his rebellion, to suffer openly the +punishment which the laws have affixed to such perversity. Let him remain +where he is until the Flamens invite all to join in the sacrifice.” + +Tisias, hearing these words, stept forth into the middle of the arena, and +folding his arms upon his breast, stood there composedly, without once +lifting up his eyes, either to the place from which the Prefect had +spoken, or to any other region of the Amphitheatre. The situation in which +he stood was such, that I commanded, where I sate, a full and distinct +view of every movement of the old man’s countenance, and assuredly my eyes +were in no danger of being directed away from him. For a few moments there +was perfect silence throughout the assembly, until at length the same +herald made proclamation for the doors to be thrown open, that the priests +of Jupiter might have access. There was heard forthwith a noise, as of the +turning of some heavy machinery, and a part of the ground-work of the +arena itself appeared to be giving way, right over against that quarter in +which Tisias had his station. But of this the purpose was soon manifested, +when there arose from underneath into the space thus vacated, a wooden +stage, or platform, covered all over with rich carpetings, whereof the +centre was occupied by a marble altar, set forth already with all the +usual appurtenances of sacrifice, and surmounted on one side by a gigantic +statue of bronze, in which it was easy to recognize the features of the +great Phidian Jupiter. Neither had the altar any sooner made its +appearance there, and the sound of the machinery, by which its great +weight had been lifted, ceased to be heard, than even as the herald had +given command, the main gates of the Amphitheatre were expanded, and +thereby a free passage prepared for the procession of the Flamens. With +that, all those that were present in the Amphitheatre, arose from their +seats and stood up, and a sweet symphony of lutes and clarions ushered in +the sacred band to the place appointed for them. And, first of all, there +marched a train of fifty beautiful boys, and then an equal number of very +young maidens, all, both boys and maidens, arrayed in white tunics, and +having their heads crowned with oaken garlands, and bearing in their hands +fresh branches of the oak tree, which, above all the other trees of the +forest, is, as you have heard and well know, held dear and sacred to +Jupiter. Then these youthful bands were separated, and they arranged +themselves, the boys on the right, and the girls on the left hand of the +altar, some of them standing on the arena itself, and others on either +side, upon the steps of the platform whereon the altar was fixed; and +beautiful, indeed, was their array, and comely and guiltless were their +looks; and much modesty was apparent, both in the downcast eyes and closed +lips, with which some of them stood there to await the issue of their +coming, and in the juvenile admiration wherewith others of them were +regarding the wide and splendid assemblage around them; insomuch, that I +could not but feel within myself a certain dread and fearfulness, when I +saw the feet of so many tender and innocent ones placed there upon the +same hot and guilty sand, which had so often drunk the blood of fierce +beasts and cruel malefactors—alas!—which had drunk the blood of the +innocent also—and which was yet to drink thereof abundantly. + +And after them there came in the priests themselves of Jupiter, arrayed in +the white garments of sacrifice, walking two by two, the oldest and +principal of them coming last. And behind them again, were certain younger +assistants, clothed also in white, who led by a cord of silk inwrought +with threads of silver, a milk-white steer, without spot or blemish, whose +horns were already gilt, and his broad brows crowned with oak leaves and +roses. And last of all entered the Vestal Virgins, none of whom had ever +before been seen by me, and they also walked two by two; and no one could +contemplate without veneration the majesty of their demeanour. With broad +fillets were they bound around the forehead, and deep flowing veils hung +down to their feet, entirely covering their faces and their hands; +nevertheless, their dignity was apparent; and it was not the less +impressive, by reason of the great mystery in which all things about them +appeared to be enveloped. + +Imagine, therefore, to yourselves, how magnificent was the appearance of +all things, when youths and damsels, and priests and vestals, had taken +their places, according to the custom of their sacred observances; and all +that innumerable company of spectators yet standing up in the +amphitheatre, the choral-hymn was begun, in which every voice there was +united, except only that of Tisias the Christian. Now, it was the soft low +voices of the young maidens that sounded, and then these would pause, and +give place to the clearer and more piercing notes of the boys that stood +on the other side of the altar; then again the priestesses of Vesta would +break in from afar with their equable harmony; and anon these in their +turn ceasing, the Flamens of Jupiter would lift up their strong deep +chanting, until, at the appointed signal from him that stood on the +highest step of the altar, with the cup of libation in his hand, the whole +people that were present burst in and joined in the rushing stream of the +burden, “Jupiter,—Jupiter, hear us!—hear us, Father of Gods and men!” +while the wine was poured out, gushing red upon the marble, and the +incense flung on high from fifty censers, rolled its waves of smoke all +over the surface of the arena, and quite up to the gorgeous canopy of that +resounding Amphitheatre. Magnificent, indeed, was the spectacle, and +majestic the music; yet in the midst of it, how could I take away my eyes +from the pale and solitary old man, by reason of whose presence alone all +these things were so? With calm eyes did he regard all the pageantry of +those imperial rites,—with closed lips did he stand amidst all the +shouting multitudes. He bowed not his head; he lifted not up his hand; +neither would he bend his knee, when the victim was slain before the horns +of the altar; neither would he in any thing give semblance of being a +partaker in the worship. + +At length the song ceased, and there was a proclamation again for deep +silence; and the Prefect of the city, addressing himself once more to +Tisias, spoke thus:—“Impious and unhappy man, with great clemency have all +things been conducted as concerning thee. When, after long imprisonment, +and innumerable exhortations in private and in public, thou hadst always +rejected every means of safety, and spurned from thee the pardon of those +in whose hands thy being is placed, yet, notwithstanding of all thine +obstinacy and continual rebellion, was it determined, that, in the face of +all the people, thou shouldst once more have free grace offered to thee, +provided only thou shouldst, when all the assembly worshipped, join thy +voice with them, and bow thy head also toward the altar of Jupiter. +Nevertheless all that now hear me shall bear witness, that, with open and +visible contumacy, thou hast rejected this opportunity also of being +reconciled unto the prince and the empire,—that, when every knee bent, and +every voice was lifted up, thou alone hast stood upright, and thy lips +alone have been closed. If it be so, that, from some inflicted, rather +than voluntary perversion of mind, thou hast never yet been able to +understand the danger in which thou art placed, know now, that there +remains no hope at all for thee, except for a moment; and let the strong +fear of death open thine eyes, that thou mayst see where thou art, and for +what purpose thou hast been brought hither. Thou art a born subject of +Rome, and thy life can only be held by thee, in virtue of obedience to the +laws. These are clearer upon nothing, than the necessity that all men +should acknowledge the deities of Rome; and of good reason, since, if they +be despised, and their authority set at nought, by what means shall an +oath be ratified, or a pledge given; or how may the head, which counsels +and protects, be assured that the members shall not be lifted up against +it? Let silence remain in the assembly, and let Tisias of Antioch make his +election, whether he will give obedience, or suffer the penalty of +transgression.” + +Then the Prefect, and all those round about Trajan, sat down, and there +was a deep silence throughout the lower region, where, for the most part, +they of condition were placed; but when the rabble, that sat above, beheld +the stern and resolute countenance with which the old man stood there upon +the arena, it seemed as if they were enraged beyond measure, and there +arose among them a fierce uproar, and a shouting of hatred; and, amidst +groans and hisses, there was a cry from innumerable voices of—“Christian! +Christian!—Blasphemer! Blasphemer!—Atheist! Atheist!—A tiger! A tiger!—Let +loose a tiger upon the Christian!” + +Nevertheless, the old man preserved unmoved the steadfastness of his +demeanour, and lifting up his eyes to the place from whence the tumult +proceeded, regarded the ferocious multitude with a visage, not of anger or +of scornfulness, but rather of pity and calmness; insomuch, that I +perceived the nobles and senators were somewhat ashamed of the outcry, and +the Prefect of the city arose from his place, and beckoned with his hand, +until the people were weary of shouting, and order was, in some measure, +re-established in the Amphitheatre. + +Then Tisias, perceiving that silence once more prevailed, lifted up his +hand, and bowed himself before Trajan, and the great men of authority that +were near to his chair, and said, with a firm clear voice, in the Roman +tongue, “My name, O Trajan, is Tisias—the son of Androboulos. I am a +native of Antioch, in Syria, and have in all things, except only in what +pertains to this cause, observed throughout all the years of my life the +statutes of the empire, as they, by whose accusation I have been led +hither, shall themselves be constrained to bear witness for me this day. +My father was a Greek of Macedonian extraction, being descended from one +of those that came into Syria beneath the banners of the great King +Seleucus; but he took to wife a maiden of the Hebrew nation, and in +process of time became a proselyte to the faith of her fathers. +Nevertheless, he lived in trust and honour beneath the governors appointed +by those that were before you in the empire, and brought up me and all his +children to reverence, in all things that are lawful, the authority of +Cæsar. But as to the faith of the true God, whose worshippers ye blindly +and foolishly call atheists and blasphemers, from that he neither swerved +himself, nor would permit any of those that were in his household to +depart. Now, when he had been a dweller for some time in Jerusalem, the +great city of the Jews, he began to examine into those things which were +reported publicly concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is also called the +Christ, of which things not a few that had been eye-witnesses were then +living in that city. And when he had been satisfied from their testimony, +that those miracles, of which you have all heard, were in truth performed +in the sight of the people by Jesus, and had listened unto the words of +their teachers, and saw how they proved that the old prophets of the +Hebrews had foretold those wonderful works, he perceived that Jesus of +Nazareth was indeed the Christ of God, and the great Deliverer that had +been promised to that people, even from the beginning of their nation. And +he believed on him with all his household; and I also, from a stripling, +have, although unworthy, been a Christian; for by that name were they +first called in Antioch, the city of my birth. + +“But being brought into trouble by reason of his religion, which the +rulers of the Jews abhorred, my father departed, after a time, from +Jerusalem, and dwelt with my mother in one of the villages of Palestine, +until his death. Not long after which time, the Jews rebelled against +Cæsar, and the great war began, which terminated in the overthrow of +Jerusalem, and the utter ruin of their nation. Now, when Vespasian first +came with his army into those regions, I, being without employment in the +place where we had our habitation, and having, moreover, taken up a great, +and perhaps a sinful, wrath against the Jews, on account of the sufferings +which my father had undergone among them, and of the evils which, at their +hands, our whole household had sustained, joined myself to one of the +bands of Syrian auxiliaries; and although my mother entreated me, could +not be persuaded to refrain from following the camp of Cæsar with them. Of +which thing it has often since then repented me, and in which, it may be, +I still hold myself not to have done altogether as was right; for if the +Jews had offended Cæsar, it was, indeed, a reasonable thing that Cæsar +should visit them with his vengeance; but, peradventure, it behoved not +any of them that were descended from the fathers of that people, to take +part in the warfare. Nevertheless, being then young, and, as I have said, +irritated by the sense of domestic injuries, I scrupled not to fulfil in +all things the duty of a soldier, and followed the eagles of Vespasian and +his son, even to the day when the lines were drawn around the Holy City; +and it was manifest, that the war could have no end, but in the eternal +overthrow of the power of the Jews. Neither did the length of the siege +weary me, or produce within me any sort of unwillingness; but, on the +contrary, so long as the city was beleaguered, I remained with the band in +which I had numbered myself, and did in all labours such service as my +strength would permit. Even among the soldiers that have guarded my +prison, since I was led into Rome for the sake of that accusation which +has been brought against me in the matter of my belief,—even among them, I +have seen the faces of some that were my comrades in that fierce war, and +that long beleaguerment, who also, if they be commanded, will not refuse +to bear testimony before you, that all these things are true, even as I +have said, and that I was a faithful soldier, both of Vespasian and of +Titus, unto the last. Neither, indeed, did I lay down arms immediately +when Jerusalem had been sacked, and the Temple burnt, according to the +prediction of Christ, but went with Cæsar along the sea-coast, and was +present with him all through the journeyings he made in Egypt, even to the +day when he made his great festival at Alexandria, and crowned the Ox Apis +with his own hands, in the presence of all that people. On which day it +was, that, for the first time, I also was accused of being a Christian, +and at the command of Titus himself, was interrogated by one of the rulers +of the army. + +“Now with shame and confusion of face must I acknowledge, that on that day +I, from desire of life, forgot myself utterly, and being deserted of all +steadfastness, went up to the altar in presence of my judge, and offered +gifts there, whereon I was declared free of all blame; and even received +honour and commendation thereafter from them, on account of my services in +the war. But, from that day, my spirit sunk within me, and I knew not what +to do; I grew weary of all things, and determined to leave the band in +which I was serving, that I might seek out, if it were possible, the +habitation of my mother, and make atonement in secret for the wickedness +of which I, unhappy and fearful man, had been guilty at Alexandria. Being +absolved, therefore, from my oath of service, on account of the length of +time I had remained with the army, I departed from Egypt, and, after a +time, found out my mother where she was dwelling in the mountainous +country of Palestine, to the north of Jerusalem. In going thither, +however, I was constrained to pass by the place where I had so long lain +in your camp, O Romans! and to look with my own eyes on the sorrowful +desolation of that ancient city, where so many holy prophets of the +Hebrews had ministered, and so many great kings reigned in the days of the +old time, when their nation flourished, and was chosen and favoured of the +Almighty. And it was then, indeed, that I first began to repent me of +having been present in the host of Titus, and of having had a part in that +terrible destruction; to which, when I added the recollection of my own +miserable timorousness at Alexandria, great was my perplexity, and I fled +across the mountains with much speed, seeking in vain to fly from the +stings and unceasing torment of my own meditations, which nevertheless +continued ever more and more to sink into my spirit; insomuch, that when I +came into the place where my mother was dwelling, scarcely could she +recognize me, wasted and worn as I was with that perpetual misery of shame +and repentance. Without reproaches, however, and indeed with great +kindness, did she receive me into her habitation, even although, as I have +said, she had been much offended with me because of my going up to the +beleaguerment of the city of her fathers. But when I, being humbled, made +confession to her and her household, and to all the faithful that were in +that place, of the grievous sin whereof I had been guilty in Egypt, both +she and all the rest of them busied themselves continually to comfort me, +and to assure me that there was yet hope, if my repentance were sincere, +and my resolution immovable never again to yield myself to any similar +temptation. One of them also, that had been set apart to minister in holy +things among the scattered believers that dwelt up and down in that +region, came not many days after to the same place, and having publicly +heard my confession, admitted me once more to be a partaker with them in +the mysteries of the sanctuary. From which day, O Trajan! I have never +again been so far deserted of myself, as to fall back into that miserable +error, or by any cowardly word of mine, to deny the faith that is in me, +which is the faith of the True God that made heaven and earth, and of his +Son Jesus Christ, whom he sent into the world to teach loving-kindness, +and long-suffering, and patience, among all kindreds, and tongues, and +nations of mankind; and to make expiation, by the accursed death of the +cross, for the evil and the wickedness that is in the world. From which +faith, should I now depart, out of terror for that which, by your command, +may befal me in this place, of a surety no comfort could ever again come +to me in my mind, for I should be bowed down, and utterly miserable, out +of grief and shame; which as you yourself, O Cæsar, will admit and +acknowledge, is far worse than death itself, or any evil which the body of +man can sustain. Neither could I have any hope of being reconciled unto +the True God, whom I should have so, once and again, denied; insomuch, +that neither in life nor in death should I be able to have any +happiness;—for in life, what happiness is there to him that is ashamed of +himself?—and, in departing from life, what comfort can be given to him, +that, knowing the truth, hath openly abjured the truth for the sake of a +few, at the utmost, and these most miserable and unhappy years? I am an +old man, and my near kindred and my friends are already dead, so that poor +after all, and not worthy to be mentioned, is the sacrifice on which I +have this day resolved. And as for you, O Romans, should I now make +shipwreck of my faith, and tell a lie to save my life before you, with +what contempt would yourselves be constrained forthwith to look upon me? +Whosoever is wise among you, according to the philosophy of the earth, +would utterly despise me; and whosoever is brave and steadfast of spirit, +would think foul scorn that a soldier of Titus should be so much afraid to +die. Therefore, O Trajan, am I resolved to endure all things rather than +sacrifice to your gods; and if such be your will, I will not refuse to die +for this cause, to which witness has already been borne in Rome by the +blood of holy Apostles, and other noble martyrs of Christ.” + +The old man, having said these words, bowed himself once more reverently +before Trajan, and then folding his arms in his cloak, appeared to await +whatever might be appointed. Steadfastly did I look upon his face at that +moment, to see whether it might exhibit no trace of wavering, or at least, +if pride barred irresolution, whether, nevertheless, there might not +appear some token of natural sorrow, and human unwillingness to die; yet +in vain did I scrutinize and seek for any such symptoms of spiritual +weakness; for although it was visible that, with the exertion of so long +standing and speaking, to say nothing of thought and anxiety, his bodily +strength was much spent, still his eye preserved firmness, and his brow +remained serene; and the parched lips of the old man did not once betray +the least shadow of trembling. Methinks I see him even now, as he then +stood—his deep calm eyes sometimes turned upwards to Trajan, but for the +most part bent to the ground, beneath those gray brows of his, whose dark +shade rested upon his large solemn eyelids. Upon his broad front, as he +stooped, no hair appeared, but long hoary ringlets, clustered down on +either side, mingling with the venerable, although dishevelled beard, that +lay upon his bosom. Heroic meekness was enthroned visibly upon all his +lineaments, and a murmur began to run through the assembly, as if—even in +a Christian—it were not possible to contemplate such things without +admiration. + +But as they afterwards related to me—for I myself was not indeed +sufficiently attentive to it—Trajan, who had as yet, during all the +occurrences of the day, preserved unmoved the majestic serenity of his +countenance, when he observed this last movement in the spirit of the +assembly, began all at once to be very indignant, that such things should +occur in such a place, in consequence of the appearance merely, and the +language, of a culprit and a Christian. I confess it, that I was too much +occupied with gazing on Tisias, to have any leisure for remarking the +particulars of the deportment of any other person present—no, not even of +Cæsar; yet such had been the effect produced on me by the history which +the old man delivered of himself, that I indeed was not prepared at the +moment to find the strong arm of power directed ruthlessly, and +immediately against him. At least, said I to myself, the Prince will +institute an inquiry among all those now present in the capital, who are +likely to be able either to contradict essentially, or to confirm, the +narrative in which this man has thought fit to embody his only defence. +Many years indeed have elapsed since the walls of Jerusalem were shattered +by the engines of Rome, and the golden gate of its antique temple refused +to be any protection against the furious soldiery of Titus. Yet surely not +a few of such as were present in that proud host, must be still in life; +yea, not a few of them must be now present in the capital of the world. +The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, and beside the +ramparts underneath which this Christian was imprisoned, he surely cannot +be the only witness that remains to give testimony. He at least there is, +and we shall forthwith have him at least confronted with Tisias. + +Such were my thoughts within me; judge, therefore, what was my +astonishment when I heard the trumpet sound, and perceived that its note, +without any word being spoken, was at once received as a sufficient +warning by the priests and the vestals, and the youths and the damsels, +and all those that had in any way been connected with the service of the +altar, to retire from the place whereon they stood, and leave the old man +there alone, to await the issue of his destiny. Immediately on the signal +being given by the trumpet, did all these begin to move away; but although +in silence they had at first marched into the Amphitheatre, they did not +retire from it in silence. Another hymn, on the contrary, in which also, +as it seemed, different parts were allotted for each different order of +singers, was begun to be sung by them even before they had moved from the +arena; and after the last of their procession had disappeared behind the +wide folding-doors of the Amphitheatre, we still heard their voices +chanting solemnly until they had entered the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, which, as I have already said, stands over against it, on the +brink of the Esquiline. And while all were yet listening to their singing, +and to the harmony of lutes and other sweet-sounding instruments that +accompanied their voices, the slaves and other attendants removed every +thing from the arena, except only the altar and statue of Jupiter, which +were still left where they had been placed; insomuch, that ere they had +made an end of singing, and we of listening, the old man was left alone +there as at the beginning, when he first came forth. + +But just when deep silence once more prevailed, and expectation was most +intense concerning what should be at length commanded by Trajan, it fell +out so, that a little bald ape escaped through the bars of one of the +grated doors, which were along the boundary-wall of the arena, and leaping +forth upon the sand, began to skip up and down, challenging, by all manner +of foolish gestures, the attention of those that sate over against it, +leaning down from the parapet. And immediately certain painted courtezans, +that were sitting not far from thence, with gilded breasts and +bright-coloured garlands, and all other gorgeous trappings of the +degradation of harlotry, began to throw down apples and nuts to the +obscene creature, and to testify much delight in the grimaces with which +it received them, hopping to and fro, and casting them away, and then +catching them up again, with continual gibbering and prating; and no +sooner did the rabble that were above perceive these things, than they +all, as with one consent, began to applaud; so that the vaulted vomitories +and wide arches of entrance, and all the marble walls, re-echoed with +every wild sound of carelessness and merriment. While, in the meantime, +the African feeders and naked gladiators, and all those hangers-on of the +Amphitheatre, whom we had seen in the dark places below, hearing now the +sounds that had arisen among the assembly, began to shew themselves in +crowds from behind the same grated doors through one of which the monkey +had escaped, and to partake in the mirth of the spectators, and to whistle +upon the creature, and to excite it to new caperings, by their outcries +and jeerings. It seemed as if the minds of all present were entirely +occupied with the pranks of this brute; and that almost it was forgotten +amidst the tumult, not only for what purpose all that solemn and stately +pageantry had just been exhibited before them; but even that Tisias was +still standing there upon the same arena. + +For myself, who had never before looked upon any creature of this +disgusting tribe, and had gathered only some general notion of its +appearance from the treatises of the physiologists and the narratives of +travellers,—I could not, indeed, refuse to contemplate at first its +motions with some curiosity; but I knew not, after the scene had lasted +for a little space, whether to be more humbled within myself by the +monkey’s filthy mimickings of the form and attitudes of mankind, or by the +display of brutish heartlessness, which burst forth from all that +countless multitude, while gazing on that spectacle of humiliation. + +But it was not until my eye fell again on Tisias, who stood all this time +solitary and silent amidst the hub-bub, that my sorrow and indignation +were the greatest. There stood the old man even as before, with his arms +folded in his gown, and his eyes resting on the sand before him, pale, +calm, and unmoved in his meekness, even as if his ears had not once +received any sound of all the shoutings and the joyous laughters of that +unpitying rabble, that had come there to behold him die. Once, indeed—it +was but once—I thought I could perceive that a slight emotion of contempt +wreathed for an instant his thin and bloodless lips; but it seemed as if +that were but the involuntary and momentary passing over him of one proud +thought, which he cast from him immediately, as a thing unworthy of the +resolute mind of his integrity, choosing rather to array himself in the +divine armour of patience, than to oppose, with any weapon of human +passion, the insults heaped upon his head by the cruel callousness of that +degenerate congregation of men. And, whether it were that the sight of all +this did not affect me alone with such reflections, or only that they in +authority were afraid too much of the day might be occupied with what +formed so unseemly an addition to the ordained business of the assembly, +while the uproar of mirth was yet at its height, certain of the lictors +that were about the consular chairs leapt down into the arena, and beat +the monkey back again among the feeders, and other base hirelings, that +stood behind the grated doors of which I have spoken. Whereupon there was +at once an end of the tumult, and the lictors having reascended to their +places, the eyes of all began once more to fix themselves upon the +Christian. + +And he also, when he perceived that it was so, and was sensible of the +silence that once more prevailed, it seemed as if he, too, were aware that +at last his appointed hour had come, and that he must needs prepare +himself in good earnest for the abiding of the issue. For, instead of +continuing steadfast in his place, as he had done during all the time he +had as yet been exposed there, it appeared as if now at length, being +swallowed up in the contemplation of the approaching fate, he had quite +forgotten all the rules he had laid down to himself concerning his +behaviour. Not that he now lost remembrance of the courage which hitherto +he had manifested, or even, that any the least symptom of changeableness +was made visible upon his countenance. But it seemed to me, of a truth, +that of such things as he had determined upon within himself before he +came thither, touching the mere external demeanour of his bodily frame, +the memory now, in this final moment of expectation, had somewhat passed +away; for Tisias stood still no longer on the centre of the arena; but +retaining his arms folded as they had been, and his eyes fixed upon the +sand, he began to pace rapidly to and fro, traversing the open space +whereon he alone now was, from side to side, without once looking up, or +exhibiting any token that he was conscious of the presence of any man. By +and by, nevertheless, in the deeper knittings of his brows, and in the +closer pressure of his extenuated lips, and then again in the quivering of +the nerves and muscles upon the arms and legs of the old man, as he moved +before us, it was testified how keenly the spirit was at work within; the +strong soul wrestling, it may be, with some last stirring temptations of +the flesh, and the mind itself not altogether refusing to betray its +sympathy with the natural shudderings of the body. But the moment that the +herald of Trajan commanded attention in the assembly, and that the Prefect +of the city began again to prepare himself for speaking, that moment did +the old man appear to return at once again entirely to himself; and he +fixed his eyes upon the Prefect with even the same steadfastness as when +he made his oration to Cæsar. + +“By all the gods,” whispered Sabinus at that moment, “this is a true +soldier of Vespasian and Titus. He will die for this superstition with the +constancy of a Roman.”—“With all the constancy of a philosopher, say +rather,” quoth Xerophrastes, who had overheard his whisper—“yea, with all +the constancy of a philosopher. Of a surety, there must be some lessons of +nobility in this faith of the Jews.”—“Now, speak not, but look at the old +man,” interrupted Rubellia; “the signal is given for the executioner.” + +And I looked, and saw that the Prefect was standing up in his place, +immediately below the chair of Trajan, and immediately he began to speak; +and he said, first looking towards the people,—“Let there be silence, and +let no man stir in this place until this matter be ended.” And then +addressing himself, as it seemed, to Tisias,—“With all patience,” +proceeded he, “have the words which this man chose to utter in his +defence, been listened to; but it must be manifest to all men, that they +contain no shadow of apology, but rather afford the strongest confirmation +of all that had before been alleged. Instead of departing from his error, +or offering any extenuation of its magnitude, his words have tended only +to shew what was already well known to all that have had any dealings with +the adherents of this blasphemous sect; that their obstinacy is as great +as their atheism is perverse; and that no clemency can, without blame, be +extended to their wilfulness, and to the scorn wherewith they are resolved +to regard all things sacred. Nevertheless, inquiry has been made, and +confirmation has been given, by those who were present in the wars of the +Divine Titus, as to that which this man hath said concerning his own +service throughout the glorious campaign of Palestine, and the siege of +the city of the Jews. For which service, it hath seemed right unto Cæsar, +Ever-Merciful, that no circumstance of needless shame be added to the +death by which this Christian must now expiate before all them who have +seen his contempt of the sacrifice of Jupiter, and heard his words of +blasphemy against all the gods, the guilt of which, it is manifest to all, +he hath been justly and necessarily accused. Let those, therefore, who had +been commanded to bring forth a tiger, depart now with their beast, and +let this man be beheaded before the Altar of Jupiter; after which, for +this day, the assembly will disperse; for, until the morrow, the spectacle +of the wild animals, which the Prince hath prepared, must be deferred.” + +The Prefect made his obeisance again to Cæsar, and sate down in his place, +and immediately one of the doors of the arena was flung open, and there +entered some slaves, bearing a wooden block upon their shoulders, behind +whom followed also certain ill-favoured blacks, out of the company of +African gladiators, one of whom carried bare in his hand a long and heavy +sword, the surface of which glittered brightly as he moved, as if newly +sharpened and burnished for the occasion. Seeing all which fatal +preparations, Tisias immediately flung aside the long cloak in which +hitherto his arms and all his body had been wrapped; and after regarding +those that had come in for a moment with a steadfast eye, he turned +himself to the place where the Prefect was sitting, as if he had yet one +word to say before he should submit himself to the sword; whereupon the +Prefect said,—“If the prisoner has yet any thing to offer, it is not too +late for mercy—Let him speak.” + +“I have nothing more to offer, O Romans!” answered the old man, “as +concerning that of which I have spoken. But since already some favour has +been extended to me by reason of my services in the army of Cæsar, perhaps +so neither will this be refused, that my body may be given to such as +shall ask for it, that it may be treated without indignity after my soul +is released.” + +“It is granted,” replied the Prefect.—“Is there any thing more?” + +The old man was silent. + +With that, the block being already fixed upon the sand immediately in +front of the Altar of Jupiter, one of the Africans moved towards Tisias, +as if to conduct him to the place where it behoved him to kneel; but he, +observing what was his intention, forthwith prevented him, and walked of +himself steadily close up to him in whose hand the sword was unsheathed. +Being come thither, he immediately took his station over against the +block, and having for a moment placed his hand upon his eyes, and moved +his lips, as it seemed, in fervent supplication, dropped his one knee on +the ground, and stretched forth his neck towards the block; but suddenly, +after he had done so, he sprung again upon his feet, and began to gaze +with a keen eye all around the assembly, as if he were in search of some +one to whom he had something yet to say. In vain, however, as it appeared, +did he make this endeavour; for after a little space, he shook his head +despairingly, and gave over the steadfastness of his look. Nevertheless, +he lifted up his voice, and, surveying once more the whole face of the +Amphitheatre round about, from side to side, said audibly,—“There is one +here who made last night a promise to me in my dungeon. I cannot see him +where he is; but I conjure him to take good heed, and execute, as he is a +man and a Roman, all those things which he said to me he would do.” Now, +when I heard him say so, I well knew within myself that it was for me only +his eye had been searching, and half did I arise from my seat, that he +might see I was there, and observe my resolution to keep the faith I had +plighted voluntarily to him in his prison. But Sabinus, having watched my +earnestness in contemplating Tisias, and comprehending something of that +which was meant, held me firm upon the bench, whispering, “As you regard +me, Valerius, and as you regard your own safety, be still.” + +Being thus constrained, I neither rose up, nor made any attempt to attract +the attention of Tisias—for which forbearance, I confess to you, I have +since that day undergone the visitation of not a few bitter thoughts—but +remained steadily in my place, while the old man once more addressed +himself to kneel down upon the block that was before him. Calmly now at +length did he kneel, and with much composure did he place himself. Yet, +before the gladiator was ready to strike, he lifted his head once again, +and gazed upwards for a moment towards heaven, with such a countenance of +faith and hope, that there went through all the assembly a murmur, as it +were, and a stirring breath of admiration. Then bowed he for the last time +his gray hairs, and almost before he had rested his neck upon the tree, +the strong sword of the African smote with merciful fierceness, and the +headless trunk falling backwards upon the sand, the blood spouted forth in +a gushing stream, and sprinkled all over with red drops the base of the +statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the surface of the marble altar, +whereupon the sacrifice of the Flamens had been offered. + +The executioner having made an end of his duty, wiped his sword from the +blood of the Christian, and advancing towards the seats of the +magistrates, claimed the largess that was due to him,—which when he had +received, as is the custom, he and all his attendants withdrew immediately +from the arena; the Emperor, at the same moment, and the Consulars, and +all they that were about him, departing also from the assembly; and the +whole Amphitheatre speedily being filled with the clamours of an universal +upbreaking and dispersion. + + + + + + _BOOK II. CHAPTER I._ + + +I saw, my friends, that you listened with not less of indignation, than of +astonishment, to the account which I yesterday gave you of a day spent in +the Amphitheatre of Vespasian. Neither did I expect that it should be +otherwise with young persons of ingenuous minds, whose feelings have never +been hardened by any experience of the life of Rome. + +And yet, when you reflect a little more upon the matter, I think you will +abate something of the wonder you manifested on hearing of the fondness of +the Roman people for some of those cruel, ruthful spectacles. You will +admit, at least, that there is a certain natural principle, on an +exaggerated and morbid obedience to which, rather than on any total and +absolute departure from the laws of our mind, much of that which excited +so much of your astonishment and indignation also may be supposed to +depend. In and by myself, I maintain it must always be a most interesting +thing for a man to witness, in whatever shape, the last moments of any +human creature. I mean not those merely corporeal struggles, in which +there must always be every thing to revolt, and nothing to interest, +because in them, it is evident, the nobler part of our nature can have no +share—the soul being already swallowed up, and its divinity absorbed in +the intense convulsions of animal suffering. These are things on which no +eyes can gaze willingly, without indicating degradation of spirit. But +before that curtain falls, beyond which every one must shudder to +penetrate, there is a last terrible act of the real tragedy, which must +ever have power to fix the eyes with an earnestness not the less deep, +because of its being preceded by some struggles of reluctance. We live in +a state in which, however we may clothe ourselves in the armour of levity, +or with the more effectual armour of occupation, it is impossible that the +one fearful idea of dissolution should not ever and anon come to scare us +with its terrors. We feel that we are walking over a soil, on the most +level and the most rugged parts of which it is equally possible we may +meet with the dark pit wherein it is our destiny to stumble. How sudden, +or how gradual soever the inevitable fall may be, we well know we shall +have little enough space to prepare ourselves for the last leap, when we +shall be fairly on the declivity; and I maintain, once more, that it is a +rational, no less than a natural, curiosity, which leads us to seek to +supply, in some measure, this necessary defect, and to gather, if +possible, from witnessing the last moments of others, some hints which may +be of use to us when our own dark hour shall come. We see a being standing +on the edge of a precipice, to which the only thing we know certainly, is, +that we ourselves shall one day be brought; and shall it be possible to +feel no curiosity concerning the manner in which he conducts himself on +that giddy brink? That which is denied to us in our own person, may, in +part, be supplied in his; and the eyes which dwell upon his features, +while they are filled with the overwhelming expectation of near +approaching death, make the closest approximation of which our nature +admits to penetrating the actual mysteries of the unseen region. For +myself, both wiser and better did I come away from all that mournful +spectacle. But perhaps I am joining together things which, after all, had +no necessary connection, when I ascribe to my contemplation of the death +of Tisias, and the other cruel sights which, as it seemed, were regarded +with indifference by the great multitudes around me, so much of the change +which, about this period, my own spirit underwent. + +The slumbers which followed that busy day of novelties and terrors, were +long and heavy; for utterly worn out were both mind and body, and youth +hastened to repair the waste of its energies, by drinking deeply at the +great fountain of natural refreshment. Nevertheless, although the hand of +sleep had lain steadily upon me, when I awoke in the already-confirmed +light of morning, I found myself yet filled with a confused and tremulous +sense of excitation, as if the spirit had disdained to be idle after +having received so much food for activity, and Fancy had still been +garnishing the passive sphere of the night with aerial representations of +all the gorgeous and solemn realities of the by-past day. I lay there +ruminating amidst the dispersing shadows of the mysterious world of +dreams, and scarcely as yet aware that a whole night had passed since I +had returned from the Amphitheatre, when I was at length roused to a +sudden and complete recollection of all things by the entrance of Boto. + +“My dear master,” said he, making a sort of start after he had come in, “I +was afraid you would be angry with me for not coming to you sooner, but +now I perceive you have been as lazy as the rest of us. Why, surely, you +are not aware what time of day it is! What would my dear old lady over the +water say, if she heard of my young master lying in bed till within three +hours of noon? Oh, what a place is this you have brought me to! Why, when +I awake in the morning, the first thought that comes into my head always +is, What, Boto, and is it really possible that all that wide roaring sea +lies between you and the green banks of quiet Anton? Is it truth, good +truth, and neither dream nor witching, that you, _Boto_, are in _Rome_? +But I sometimes have to jump up, and take a look out of the window before +I am quite convinced; and then, to be sure, I know well enough that I, who +used always to dream about driving cattle to Venta, and perhaps kissing a +Brigian lass by the way, could never dream of so many fine things unless I +were really among them. Good heavens! what a heap of stories I shall have +to tell, when we get safe back to Old Britain!”—“Indeed, Boto,” said I, +“you will be quite a travelled man. Be sure you do not give yourself too +many airs on the occasion.”—“Travelled man, in faith,” replied the clown. +“I should like to know, who it is that will be able to hold up his head +with me, when I am once fairly back again? Oh, how the old smith will be +humbled! He thought himself such a mighty person, because my old master, +your father, had taken him with him as far as Camolodunum, and how he used +to brag of what he had seen there; but now, I trow, Master Pernorix will +be fain to talk quietly about his journeys.—O Rome, Rome! what fine things +shall I have to tell them all about Rome,—and the lions, and the monkeys, +and Cæsar, and the elephants, and the fighting men, and the Christian, and +all the wonderful sights we saw yesterday. But the worst of it is, that +nobody will ever be able to believe one half of what I shall tell +them.—And when does my dear Master Valerius think we shall be returning to +my old lady, and all the rest of them in Britain?” + +“Of a truth, good Boto,” said I, “that is more than I can pretend to give +you any notion of; but I dare say, you shall have both time and +opportunity to pick up a few more marvels still before we go. In the +meantime, you are comfortable, I hope, in your quarters, and Dromo takes +good heed of you.”—“Dromo,” quoth he, looking as arch as his massive +features would admit of,—“Dromo, indeed!—If I had nobody to trust to but +him, I should be very ill off. Dromo is a great man; the young lord of the +house has him up in his chamber every day to talk with him by himself; and +when he comes down again, or returns from any of the errands he is sent +out upon, there is no bearing with him in the court-yard, where we are all +huddled together. As for the overseer, old Sarcalus, the freed-man, he has +quite given him up. Nobody dare speak about whipping him; he looks upon +himself as almost as important a person as his master, I believe, if the +truth were known; and yet I should not complain, for, after all, it was +Dromo that carried me yesterday to the Amphitheatre.”—“Ay, that was very +kind of Dromo—I should have thought of it myself. And did he not see that +you got your supper snugly, when you came back?”—“Ah! now, master, don’t +make them whip me—I see they have told you all.”—“All!” said I—“I do +assure you they have told me nothing about you; but come, speak out. It +must be something very bad that would make me think of having you whipt. +You have only been three days in Rome—I shall make allowance for a few +vagaries, provided they be not very extravagant.”—“Well, then, Master +Caius,” quoth he, “since they have told you nothing beforehand, and you +seem inclined to be so good-natured with me, I shall e’en tell you all +myself, and I hope you won’t think me, after all, very much to +blame.”—“Speak out, my honest Boto, and remember there is Dromo also to be +examined, in case you keep any thing back from me.”—“Ah! master, but Dromo +would not be so easily caught as poor Boto. Dromo is a cunning man, and a +close; and besides, they say he was born in a city they call Crete, and +the people of that place can’t speak a word of truth, even although they +were willing. Do not think any thing at all about Dromo; but trust +entirely to your own poor Boto, and he will tell you every thing. Dromo is +a sad dog.” + +I know not what more he might have proceeded to say concerning Dromo, had +not that crafty Cretan, who, without question, had been listening all the +while behind the door, just at that moment glided in on very delicate +tiptoe, and coming close up behind the British slave, as he stood in the +act of haranguing me, smote him a smart fillip upon the cheek with the +back of his fingers, mimicking, at the same time, the outlandish accent of +the man, and repeating after him into his tinkling ears, the words, _Dromo +is a sad dog—Dromo is a cunning man, and a close—Dromo would not be so +easily caught as poor Boto_.—“Ha, ha! Master Valerius,” then said he to +me, “and so you would really take the trouble to ask questions of this +worthy man, when you had it in your power to send for me? I thought it had +not been for nothing that three persons I could name entered upon a +certain alliance—but ’tis all one to the Cretan.—Both Sextus, and you, may +manage your own affairs for yourselves, if such be your pleasure.” + +I knew not on this whether to be more amazed with the impudence of the +Cretan, or the confusion of poor Boto, who stood rubbing his cheek with a +strangely mingled aspect of sheepishness and sulkiness; but Dromo soon put +an end to the affair, by turning round with a face of admirably feigned +astonishment to my Briton, and saying, “Good heavens! Boto, are you still +there? Do you not perceive that your master and I have something to say to +each other in private? Begone, my good man—shall I never be able to render +you susceptible of the smallest polish?” + +These last words being accompanied with a gentle push on the back, soon +expelled poor Boto, who, nevertheless, did not depart without casting +towards me a look of woful appeal over his shoulder. But I perceiving +plainly, in the midst of all his frolicsome behaviour, that Dromo had +really something to say to me; and suspecting, of course, that the +interest of Sextus might be concerned in what he had to say, suffered my +slave to withdraw in good earnest. Dromo, after the door was shut, laid +his finger upon his lip, and stood still for a moment in an attitude of +close attention; but the heavy heels of the reluctant Briton were heard +with great distinctness, lumbering along the marble floor of the gallery; +so, being satisfied that there was no eavesdropping in the case, the +varlet seated himself forthwith in a posture of great familiarity on the +nether end of my couch, and, to judge from the expression of his +countenance, seemed evidently to be preparing himself for a disclosure of +some importance. At length, after not a few winks of much intelligence, it +was thus he began:—“You may hear Boto’s story, sir, at any time you +please, and I dare say it will amuse you; but, in the meantime, I must +really have you attend to me, for, without jesting, things are by no means +in so fair a train as I had thought for my young master; and if something +effectual be not speedily discovered, I am really at a loss to think how +we shall be able to get out of our difficulties, in such a manner as may +be either satisfactory to him, or creditable to my management. But you had +better get up and dress yourself, and while you are doing so, I will tell +you every thing.” + +I did as he bade me, and then the Cretan proceeded:—“As I was coming out +of the Amphitheatre yesterday, I happened to find myself rubbing shoulders +with a certain old fat Calabrian, whom I had seen before about Rubellia’s +house in the Suburra, and thinking that no harm could possibly come of +being civil to him, I began immediately to ask his opinion of the +spectacles. I wish you had been there to see how much he was delighted +with the attention I paid him, and how he plumed himself on being admitted +to talk on such subjects with such a person as me; for the man himself is +but an ignorant fellow, and seems never to have kept company but with the +grooms and hinds. From less to more, we began to be the greatest friends +in the world; and by the time we got to the Arch, it was evident that we +could not possibly part, without having a cup together to cement the +acquaintance. Well, we were just about to dive into one of the +wine-cellars there, below the gate-way, when I saw your friend Boto +standing by himself in the middle of the street, apparently quite a-gaze +and bewildered, and not able to form the smallest guess which way he ought +to take in order to reach home; and being a good-natured fellow, in spite +of all that has been said, I immediately shouted out his name till he was +compelled to hear me, and then beckoned to him to come along with us, +which indeed he did without much coaxing.” + +“Well, Dromo,” said I, “and so all your great news is, that you have been +leading my Briton into one of your debauches? In truth, I think you need +not have made such an affectation of mystery withal.”—“Stop now,” quoth +he, cutting me short; “if the slave be too slow, I am sure the master’s +quickness will make up for it.—Hear me out before you begin commenting; +such interruptions would bring the Stagyrite himself to a stand. We were +soon, all three of us, seated in one of those snug little places, which if +you have not yet seen, you are ignorant of the most comfortable sight +within all the four walls of Rome,—a quiet cleanly little place,—three +good hassocks upon the floor, a handful of sausages, a plate of dried fish +as broad as the shield of Ajax, and a good old fashioned round-bellied +jolly jug of Surrentine in the midst of us. I dare say, there were a +hundred besides employed in the same way in the house; but we shut the +door, and were as private as behind the altar of Vesta.”—“A tempting +scene, Dromo; and what use did you make of your privacy?”—“All in good +time, Master Valerius; you would have the apple before the egg. We had +scarcely emptied our first jug, ere the conversation between the Calabrian +and me took a turn that was not quite unnatural; for slaves, however +little you may trust them, will always be smelling out something of the +truth; and you may be sure, all this visiting, and feasting, and riding +about in chariots, and sitting together at the Amphitheatre, has not been +going on, without causing a good deal of talk both in this house and the +rich widow’s. The courtship was of course the subject of our conversation, +and I, pretending to know nothing of it myself, except from the common +report of the slaves about our house, affected to consider it as highly +probable, that the fat Calabrian might have had much better opportunities +than mine of being informed how the affair really stood.” + +“And did he really seem to have any knowledge about it?” said I.—“Not +much—not much; but still the man did tell me something that I think may +turn out to be well worth the knowing. ‘I am sure,’ said I, (by this time +Boto was fast asleep,)—‘I am sure, if Rubellia won’t have my young master, +it won’t be for want of presents; for we all know he has already given her +a whole casket of rings and bracelets that belonged to his mother, and he +is sitting for his picture, which, they say, he is to give her +besides.’—‘And _I_ am sure,’ quoth the Calabrian in return, ‘that if your +young master don’t have my lady, it won’t be for want of presents neither; +for she is the most generous open-handed lady in the world, and that her +worst enemies will allow, although her father be an old rogue, and an +usurer, as all the town says he is. No, Dromo,’ continued he, ‘nor will it +be for want of philtres, nor of charms, nor of any thing that soothsaying +can procure; for, between ourselves, my lady keeps up a constant traffic +of late with all that sort of gentry; and what the issue of it all may be, +Hecate only knows.’ Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him speak of +philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken up my ears more +keenly than ever.” + +“Dromo!” said I; “you are not serious. You do not mean surely to make me +think that you believe in the efficacy of love-potions, or any such +quackeries?” “Quackeries! do you call philtres quackeries? Why, there was +a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept me raving for six +months.”—“What sort of a looking girl was she, good Dromo?”—“Bah!” quoth +he; “don’t expect to jeer me out of memory as well as judgment. Heavens +and earth! when did any body ever hear of any body denying the efficacy of +philtres? What an atheistical sort of barbarians those Britons must be. I +wonder you are not afraid of some evil coming upon you. Remember Dian’s +handful; remember the fate of Actæon!”—“Good Dromo,” said I, “I suppose +you also suffered from peeping. But talk seriously; are you yourself a +dealer in philtres, that you are so anxious I should believe in their +power? Or what is your meaning?” + +“My meaning is this,” quoth he, with great vehemence,—“it is, that if +Rubellia gives Sextus such another philtre as a certain cunning damsel +gave me, before I left pleasant Crete, to be a drudge and a packhorse here +in Rome, where a man may sweat all his life in another’s service without +being once thanked for his pains, and perhaps be laid out, look ye, for a +supper to the vultures at last, because no body will treat his carcase to +a blaze of old sticks,—I say, that if the Lady Rubellia contrives to give +Sextus such another philtre as that, the game’s up, Master Valerius; and +we may as well set about painting the dead, as try to save him from her +clutches. The man’s gone—he’s as lost as Troy.”—“Well, Dromo,” said I, for +I perceived there was no use in fighting it with him, “and have you not +been able to hit upon any feasible scheme?”—“Ay, have you come to that at +last? that is just what I have been cudgelling my brains about for the +last twelve hours. But if I do hit upon any thing, I shall need +assistance. In such cases, the best judgment can do nothing by +itself.”—“Fear not, Dromo,” quoth I; “if my assistance can do you any +good, you well know you can command it to the utmost.”—“Then prepare,” +replied the Cretan, rising up with an air of much solemnity—“then prepare +in good earnest; for, may Cerberus growl upon me, if I don’t find out some +scheme before another day goes over, and shew you all what stuff I am made +of. To think of entrapping Sextus without consulting Dromo!—No, by Cretan +Jove, she shall not accomplish it—no, not even with a sea of philtres.” + +“And, in the meantime,” said I, “what must Sextus do with himself?”—“He +must not go near the Suburra; he must remain closely at home; and as for +tasting any thing at her house, or any thing that comes from her—by +heavens, if he does not take his oath against that—we may as well leave +him to his destiny. If he will but take good care for this one day, I +think there is every chance something may be hit upon ere the morning. I +have got my cue, and shall not be idle, I promise you; but I undertake +nothing, unless you swear to keep Sextus safe, and at a distance from her, +till night-fall.”—“Good Dromo,” said I, “make yourself easy on that score; +it will be a new circumstance indeed, if we find any difficulty in +persuading Sextus to stay a single day away from the Suburra.” + +“Persuading!” quoth the slave; “who ever heard of such a word as +persuasion at such a crisis as this? I tell you he _must_ be kept away; +and if no other plan can be fallen on, I have a great mind to turn the key +on him and his pedagogue both together. I heard them hammering at their +lessons already as I came along—and that puts me in mind that I have a +very shrewd notion there is more between that bearded goat of ours and +this Rubellia, than any of us had been suspecting. Unless that Calabrian +lies—and I think lying is above his sphere—this old rogue has been oftener +in the Suburra of late than we had any thought of. So help me Hermes! I +believe Licinius has been employing him to go his private messages to +Rubellia—but that is only one insult more, and I shall have my revenge all +in a lump.” + +“I think it very likely,” answered I, quietly, “that Licinius may have +been employing Xerophrastes in some such embassies; and, if I mistake not +the matter, he would feel himself quite as much in his element, trotting +along the Sacred Way, and so forth, on such delicate errands for the +father, as in expounding musty parchments to the son.”—“No matter for all +that,” quoth Dromo, rubbing his hands; “the more enemies the more glory. +Would Miltiades have been pleased had the Spartans arrived?—Leave all to +me—take you care only of Sextus, and I am not afraid for any reinforcement +that rascally rhetorician may bring against me.”—While he was saying so, +the face of the Cretan exhibited symptoms of incipient glee; and he +concluded with snapping his fingers, and uttering a short keen whistle, +such as you have heard from the lips of a hunter, when the dogs begin to +bay around a thicket. + +Seeing his eyes dance with the expectation of some bustling scene, I could +not help participating, in some measure, in the feelings of the Cretan; +and, “Dear Dromo,” said I, “I beseech you, if it be possible, let me have +a share in whatever you resolve upon.”—“Watch well,” replied he, “during +the day, and you shall see what you shall see, when the moon mounts above +the Cœlian, and the hour for grubbing among herbs and bones is come.—But +now I hear some one coming—it is Licinius.”—Dromo, finger on lip, glided +from the room. Nor had his well-practised ears deceived him, for he +scarcely vanished, before my kinsman entered. + +“Valerius,” said he, saluting me affectionately, “I thought you were +probably much fatigued with your spectacles, so I desired that nobody +should call you this morning; but I met Boto in the hall, and hearing that +you were astir, I have come up, for I wish a little private conversation. +Shall we walk in the eastern portico, till Xerophrastes leaves Sextus at +liberty?” + +He led the way along the gallery, and in passing, we also heard the deep +voice of the rhetorician resounding among the pillars, and could even +catch a few of the magniloquent phrases with which he was feeding the ears +of his pupil. “Ay, ay,” says Licinius, “I wish, indeed, it were possible +to inspire the youth with some sense of what is due to the dignity of +principle, and how absurd it is to think of gratifying whims at the +expense of duty. But I fear the boy is incorrigible; and, Caius, I am +sorry to say, I suspect you have been looking on his errors with a +countenance rather of favour and of confirmation, than, as I should have +expected, of rebuke.” + +“Licinius,” said I, “you know not how much you distress me. I could rather +die than encourage Sextus in any thing I thought evil; but, indeed, I have +seen nothing to make me imagine him capable of such conduct.” + +“Come, by Hercules,” returned he, “there is no occasion for so many words. +I thought it very odd that you went away so soon from the Forum the other +day, considering that you had never been there before; but I thought it +doubly and trebly remarkable that Sextus should have accompanied you, when +the case in hand affected the affairs of Rubellia. But I have since found +out that it was not the society of old Capito which attracted him—no, my +friend, nor yet the alarm of a thunder storm that detained you at the +villa. In a word, Valerius, I strongly suspect that Sextus is carrying on +an intrigue with a young lady whom I never saw, but who, I am quite sure, +will never be mistress of a dozen lizards, and that this is the true cause +of his reluctance concerning a match, which, to say nothing of the +pleasure it would give to me, is the only means by which I can see any +prospect of the young man’s fortune being made, and the dignity of his +family kept up, after another effigy shall have been added to our hall. +Infatuated and headstrong boy! if he owes nothing to himself or to me, is +it possible that he can look upon that venerable line of sages and heroes, +without feeling shame in the degradation of his own earth-stooping +desires?” + +“Without question,” said I, “you allude to the Lady Rubellia, whom, as I +have heard from various quarters, you are desirous of seeing wedded to +Sextus.” + +“Yes, Caius Valerius, it is indeed to her I allude; and it is of the +obstacle which—unwittingly, I doubt not—you yourself have been throwing in +the way of that union, that I have now to make my complaint. Not such the +service that I had expected from my kinsman. Rubellia is descended from a +noble family, and, both in possession and expectation, her wealth is +great. Two heavy fines laid upon me by Domitian, and the expense at which +I have maintained my rank among the great patrons of Rome—these things +together have impoverished me, and to an extent not altogether convenient. +In this boy my hopes were placed; and see now how they are all likely to +be blasted for a dimpled cheek and a pair of wanton eyes!—or rather, +indeed, I should say, for the sake of the malignant pleasure that is +derived from thwarting my purposes; for, if beauty were what the boy +wanted, where should he find beauty beyond Rubellia? Perhaps, Caius, I +should, before this time, have made you acquainted with my intentions from +my own lips. But it is my own foolish indulgence which has made my +degenerate boy quite forget, not only what is the duty of a son, but what +is the power of a father.” + +“I trust,” said I, “there is no need for all this seriousness. Sextus has +only laid aside the garb of a stripling; it is too much to be despairing +of his success in life, only because he is unwilling, at a period so +early, to enter upon a permanent connection. Is it possible, that, if he +really dislike Rubellia, you would wish to see him marry her—only to +divorce her, without question, as soon as he should find it possible to do +so without inconvenience?”—“Handsome, rich, noble, and almost as young as +himself, why, in the name of all the gods, for what cause should he +divorce Rubellia?”—“Sir,” said I, “he loves not Rubellia, nor will ever +love her; and if you cause your son to marry this woman, look you well to +it, that the unhappiness of both rest not on your head. Handsome, rich, +noble, and young she may be; but I am sure, she has neither such a heart, +nor such a mind, as should belong to the wife of your Sextus. A luxurious +woman is Rubellia, and I have seen her find luxury in the contemplation of +blood. Wed not Rubellia to your son.”—“Peace, Valerius,” he answered; +“what boyish nonsense is this?—I _will_ wed Rubellia to my son; and let +him see to it, that he tempts me not farther with his disobedience.” + +Licinius said these last words in a voice of so much earnestness, that I +knew not well what answer to make to him; but while I was hesitating, one +of the little boys about the house, (I mean the children of the domestic +slaves,) said, “If it please my lord, the same senator that was here in +the morning is waiting in the hall.”—“Pontius Mamurra!” said the orator, +leaving me. + +I, for my part, when I heard the name of the visiter, began to understand +somewhat of the channel through which my kinsman had been informed about +what had passed at the Suburban. I had no leisure, however, to reflect +long upon this hint; for I found Sextus waiting for me. “Come,” he said, +“I was afraid I must set off without you. My father has been looking on me +this morning with such an aspect of displeasure as I rarely before +witnessed in him, and if I defer going to the painter about this likeness, +he will be altogether enraged at supper-time. I know very well he means +the ring, in which it is to be placed, for another present to Rubellia; +but notwithstanding, what can I do? Any opposition to him in lesser +matters would only tend to bring on some final explanation about the great +affair itself, and that, whether it be weakness in me or not, I as yet +have no courage to encounter. The man must be expecting me; and I am sure +you will accompany me, for I have much need of you to keep up my heart. +Xerophrastes, indeed, has been desired to go with me; but he will be no +comfort, for I see plainly, from the drift of his harangues, that he is +enlisted against me. Dear Caius, I have nobody in the whole world I can +trust to but Dromo and yourself.” + +He had scarcely said so, when we heard Xerophrastes pacing up and down +with solemn strides in the gallery; so I knew not how to excuse myself, +although I was very anxious to have staid at home for another purpose. +Sextus had taken my gown from the nail; he threw it over my shoulders +before I had time to say any thing, and we were soon on our way to his +ungrateful destination. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +We had to traverse a considerable part of the city; for this painter was +one of those who exercise their art during the public hours of the day in +the baths of the Palatine, where, as you have heard, in the wide circuit +of the princely residence, abundant accommodation is set forth for all +such ingenious persons. We proceeded along the edge of the river, and by +the west of the Capitol, following the line of that great Triumphal Way +which has been witness of so many glorious pageants; for so, they told me, +we should most easily ascend into the Cæsarian courts. But when we had +come thither, we found the whole open space, in front of the portico and +stairs of Trajan, occupied by a detachment of the Prætorian cohorts, drawn +up in splendid array to receive some promised donative; while the music, +and the clamours of their mustering, had collected enough of spectators to +render the passage onwards in some measure difficult. We were constrained +to form part of their attendance, and stood gazing among the multitude. +Even Xerophrastes caught some animation from the brilliancy of the +spectacle; and the enamoured and perplexed Sextus himself, beating time on +my shoulder, seemed to have forgotten, for a moment, the anxieties of his +situation. + +Some horsemen, however, riding along to keep the ground open in front of +the soldiery, compelled us to shift to the eastward, where many chariots +were drawn up—and in one of these Rubellia. The lady looked paler than I +had before seen her, and had not the air of being in the smallest degree +occupied with what was passing. I did not think it necessary to take any +notice of her being there to my companions, and was willing, indeed, to +keep myself turned away from the place where she sat, in order to avoid +our being recognized. Yet there was something in her aspect and attitude, +that, as by a sort of fascination, drew my eyes to the spot I wished to +avoid. From time to time, therefore, I felt myself constrained to regard +the melancholy lady; and by and by, Sextus perceived what it was that +attracted my attention:—so I discovered, although he said not a word, from +a fervent pressure upon my arm as I stood before him. At that moment there +drew near a little ugly old woman, with no covering upon her head but long +coarse gray clusters of hair hanging matted and twisted down upon her +shoulders, who lifted up a basket of trinkets, and presented it; but +Rubellia started on her seat, and, looking in the face of the old +creature, manifested signs of no trivial emotion; for her colour returned +with a sudden flush, and her eyes recovered all their animation, and it +was evident she had something to say which could not regard the gaudy +ornaments offered to her view. Whatever it was, however, she did not +occupy much time in saying it; for scarcely a minute elapsed before the +basket was lowered again, and the old woman began to move towards another +part of the crowd; on which Rubellia sunk back in her chariot, and +appeared to relapse into pensive abstraction. + +Presently a low voice croaking out, “Rings, rings—amulets and rings!” +amongst the crowd that stood immediately behind me; and I perceived the +same woman pushing her basket between Xerophrastes and Sextus.—“Noble +youth,” quoth the hag, leering, “lovely young gentleman—sweet Adonis, my +charming lord, do now look into old Pona’s basket—do take a look at +Ponula’s rings and amulets—her amulets and rings. Here is one that I could +have sold a hundred times, but I was determined to keep it till I should +see the prettiest young gentleman in Rome, and I will never go back to +Naples without selling it, after this day; for this little amulet must be +nobody’s but yours. You will break my heart, my prince, if you buy not my +beautiful amulet.” + +“And what,” said Sextus, blushing and laughing, “may be the virtues of +your amulet?” + +Then laying her yellow hand upon his shoulder, till she had made him stoop +down so that she might get close to his ear, she began to pour out, with +much mysterious volubility, all the story of its marvellous potencies; but +what she said even I could not know, only I heard the words, “Æthiopian, +Æthiopian,” and “Memnon, Memnon,” and something about “not a pretty lady +in Rome.” But just as the woman was most earnest in her whisper, and +Sextus, apparently at least, in listening, I found my gown plucked from +behind, and behold, there was Dromo, with a countenance tremulously +agitated, and white as a piece of dead parchment, pointing to his young +master and the old hag, and beseeching me to separate them, by motions in +nowise to be mistaken. How he had come thither, or what was the cause of +this anxiety, I had no time to conjecture, for before I could say a word, +he began to bellow out,—“The horses, the horses—make room for the horses;” +and immediately those that stood near him began to move a little, and +then, the cry being repeated, those that stood farther off mistaking the +noise of their feet for the approach of some new squadron, there arose a +sort of rushing among the crowd; and, in a twinkling, the voice of Pona +was heard grumbling and croaking at a distance from the place to which our +party were borne. Close, nevertheless, did the faithful Cretan stick to +us; and no sooner was quiet in some measure restored, and the false alarm +he had created at an end, than he whispered into my ear, “For the sake of +all that is sacred, let not that foul hag speak another word to my young +master—I will tell you more anon. Meantime, haste ye, haste ye. Make the +best of your speed to the Palatine; it will be much easier for you to push +your way thither, than it was for me to reach you.” + +My friend being already weary of the heat and the pressure, we were ready +to take advantage of an opening pointed out by the Cretan. It so happened, +however, that in the same commotion the chariot of Rubellia also had +changed its situation; for just as we had escaped, as I thought, and were +about to place our feet on the magnificent flight of stairs that leads +from the New Way to the Augustan Towers, there came to us a lad of that +lady’s household, who told us she was near at hand, and desirous, if it so +pleased us, of our company. Aware that we were in sight, how could we +disobey? We found the lady in her chariot, but not such as we had seen her +before. On the contrary, the liveliness of her aspect seemed now to be +restored, and she received us with her usual gaiety of address. “Careless +men,” said she, as we drew near; “I suppose I might have sat here till the +Greek Kalends, before any one of you would have observed me.” + +“Most noble lady,” quoth Xerophrastes, “bear it not indignantly, that +amidst all the confusion of men and horses, and trumpets and shoutings, +our attention was abstracted from that which was most worthy of notice. My +young friends deserve to be excused, since even I, who am not in the habit +of being much troubled by such vanities, was so bewildered that I scarcely +knew my right hand from my left, in this human chaos.—Pardon, noble +Rubellia; we have been unwitting offenders.” + +“And was it so?” said the lady, not looking at the Stoic.—“But I did not +call for you to hear useless apologies. What new sight is it that attracts +you to the Palatine?—or is it only that you are desirous of exhibiting to +Valerius the old-established wonders of the place? In either case, I have +half a mind to accompany you. In spite of all they tell us about the +Golden House, I can scarcely think the Palatine shewed more splendidly +than it does now, even in the days of Nero.” + +“Indeed,” said I, as we began to mount together the broad slabbed steps +which rise up, tier above tier, from the portico on the street, to that +which hangs on the brow—“Indeed, it is not easy for me to doubt that +Rubellia is in the right.”—For now, on one side, were all the pillars and +arches of the Forum stretched out below us, and, on the other, lay the +great Circus, topped with its obelisk; while before rose the gray cliffs +of the Capitoline, with their domes and proud pinnacles in the glow of +noontide—the space between, radiant with arms and banners. Even +Xerophrastes did not refrain from some ejaculations.—“Illustrious Rome! +how great is thy sublimity!” And then, after a pause, he repeated, in a +voice of much majesty, those verses from the Fury of Ajax: + + “Oh! might I be where o’er the living deep + Lies the broad shadow of the Sounian cliff, + Waving with all its glorious garniture, + Of rock-sprung foliage: from old Ocean’s side, + That I might look on Athens once again!” + +Some of the hints which had reached me concerning his nativity recurring +to my recollection, I could not help echoing his quotation with another +from the Æneid, about the wide tracts ploughed by the Thracians; of which +impertinence the sage took no notice. + +Nor was admiration diminished when, having gained the top of that massive +staircase, or rather, as I should say, hill of marble, we passed beneath +the sounding portal, the sole remnant of the original pile of Augustus, +and found ourselves within the first of those great imperial quadrangles, +by which the whole summit of that once so variously and multitudinously +peopled region is now occupied. The light and airy porticoes—the domes—the +princely towers—the universal profusion of marble, brass, ivory, flaming +gold, lavished on arch, metope, and architrave—all conspired to dazzle the +sight, and I stood still to gaze. + +“Observe,” said Sextus, “those two equestrian statues of bronze on the +left hand. I have heard my father say that they mark the sites of two +houses, which, before Augustus began to enclose the whole Palatine in his +walls, were inhabited, the one by Cicero, the other by Clodius; these are +the only traces of their mansions.” + +“What grim-looking figures!” said the lady; “yet, I dare say, they don’t +cast half such fierce looks on each other, as the predecessors you +mention. I should like to have seen the countenance of old Tully, the +morning he went down the hill to deliver his harangue for Milo.” + +“I am glad,” said I, “that Sextus has told me this; for in reading those +famous philippics in time to come, I shall possess a new key to the +bitterness of their phraseology, knowing, as I do, that the two lived just +over the way from each other, and that the orator, when his spirits were +flagging, could derive a new reinforcement of spleen from merely putting +his head out of the window.”—“To hear you,” says Rubellia, “one would +think you were studying the art of making philippics—I am afraid, that if +it be so, my joining your party may prove to have been but an ill-judged +thing; for if any of you be preparing to abuse me, my presence will serve +to sharpen your weapons.”—“In that case, however,” interrupted the smiling +Xerophrastes, “my noble lady will admit, that the converse also will hold +good, and that if praise be in meditation, it will not be the feebler +because the subject of the intended panegyric has passed before our +eyes.”—“Most courteous of men,” replied the lady, “who talks of the +stiffness of the Porch? To-day and yesterday you have paid me as many +compliments as might give a lesson to the gayest trifler about these +baths. If all,” she continued, (gazing as she spoke, with all her eyes +upon Sextus,)—“if all were as profuse, I should be unable to sustain the +weight of their civilities.”—“Nay, Oh! generous lady,” quoth the sage +again, “it must be remembered, that, as the poet has expressed it, there +are two kinds of shame—there is the wicked shame and the good shame. Why +should it be doubted, that a modest Verecundity, not unsuitable to their +age, has laid her finger on the lips of our young friends? I swear by the +Victrix of Ida, that your presence itself is that which occasions their +silence;—bear it not ill—bear it not harshly—the young will learn—not +every one has seen Corinth.”—“No, truly,” answered the laughing lady; “but +I doubt whether they that have been so fortunate, have ever seen any thing +half so fine as what now awaits Valerius.” + +She pointed to the solemn Doric columns which sustain the portico of the +famous Temple of Apollo, whose shade lay far out upon the court before us; +and, passing between those brazen horsemen, we soon began to ascend the +steps that lead up to the shrine. Nor can I tell you how delightful was +the fragrant coolness, which reigned beneath the influence of that massive +canopy of marble, to us whose eyes had been so long supporting the +meridian blaze. We entered with slow steps within the vestibule of the +Temple, and stood there for some space, enjoying in silence the soft +breath of air that played around the flowing fountains. Then passing on, +the airy hall received us; and I saw the statue of Phœbus presiding, like +a pillar of tender light, over the surrounding darkness of the vaulted +place; for, to the lofty shrine of the God of day no light of day had +access, and there lay only a small creeping flame burning thin upon his +altar; but a dim and sweet radiance, like that of the stars in autumn, was +diffused all upon the statue, and the altar, and the warlike trophies +suspended in the inner recesses, from the sacred tree of silver that +stands in the centre; amidst the trembling enamelled leaves and drooping +boughs of which hung many lamps, after the shape and fashion of +pomegranates: and out of every pomegranate flowed a separate gleam of that +soft light, supplied mysteriously through the stem of the silver tree. + +There appeared presently from behind the statue, a majestic woman, arrayed +in long white garments, and having a fillet of laurel leaves twined above +her veil. Venerable and stately was her mien, but haughty, rather than +serene, the aspect of her countenance. Without looking towards us, she +went up to the altar, and began to busy herself in trimming the sacred +fire, which, as I have said, exhibited only a lambent flame. When, with +many kneelings and other ceremonies, she had accomplished this service, +the priestess turned again, as if to depart; and then first, as it seemed, +observing the presence of strangers, she stood still before the altar, and +regarding us attentively, began to recognize the Lady Rubellia; whom, +forthwith advancing, she saluted courteously, and invited to come with the +rest of us into her privacy, behind the shrine of the God. + +She led the way, Rubellia and the rest of us in her train, through several +folding-doors, and along many narrow passages all inlaid, on roof, wall, +and floor, with snow-white alabaster and rich mosaic work; until at length +we came to a little airy chamber, where three young maidens were sitting +with their embroidering cushions, while one, taller than the rest, whose +back was placed towards us, knelt on the floor, touching, with slow +fingers, the strings of a Dorian lyre. Hearing the sound of her music as +we entered, we stood still in the door-way, and the priestess, willing +apparently that our approach should remain unknown, advancing a step or +two before us, said, “Sing on—I have trimmed the flame; but remember, I +pray you, that the precincts of Phœbus are not those of Pluto, and let not +your chant be of such funereal solemnity. We solitaries have little need +of depressing numbers.” + +“Dear friend,” replied she that had been thus addressed, without changing +her attitude, “you must bear with my numbers such as they are; for if you +bid me sing only merry strains, I am afraid neither voice nor fingers may +be able well to obey you.” + +These words were spoken in a low and melancholy voice, which I well +recognized. Sextus, also, perceived who spoke; but when he looked at me to +signify this, I motioned to keep silence. + +“Then please yourself,” said the priestess, laying her hand on Athanasia’s +shoulders; “but do sing, for I should fain have my maidens to hear +something truly of your music.” With that she again applied her fingers to +the lyre, and stooping over it, began to play some notes of prelude, less +sorrowful than what we had at first heard. “Ay, my dear girl,” says the +priestess, “you could not have chosen better. Heavens! how many lordly +choirs have I heard singing to that old Delian air. There are a hundred +hymns that may be sung to it—give us whichsoever of them pleases your +fancy the best.”—“I will try,” replied the maiden, “to sing the words you +have heard before. If I remember, you liked them.” Then boldly at once, +yet gently, did her voice rush into the current of that ancient strain +that you have heard so often; but it was then that I myself for the first +time heard it. + + The moon, the moon is thine, O night, + Not altogether dark art thou; + Her trembling crescent sheds its light, + Trembling and pale, upon thine ancient brow. + + The moon is thine, and round her orb + A thousand sweet stars minister, + Whose twinkling rays dark wells absorb, + And all the wide seas drink them far and near. + + They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles + Of gladness o’er the waters creep; + Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles, + And there is glory on the slumbering deep + + Afar. Along the black hill’s side, + Right blithe of heart the wanderers go, + While that soft radiance, far and wide, + Gleams on the winding streams and woods below. + + And gaily for the fragile bark, + Through the green waves its path is shorn, + When all the murmurs of the dark + Cold sea lie calm’d beneath that gliding horn. + + Yet hail, ye glittering streaks, that lie + The eastern mountain tops upon! + Hail, ye deep blushes of the sky, + That speak the coming of the bridegroom sun! + + Hail to the healing beam of day, + That rouses every living thing! + The forest gulphs confess thy sway, + And upon freshening branches glad birds sing. + + And loathsome forms, that crept unseen + Beneath the star-light faint and wan, + Cower in their brakes the thorns between, + Dreading that fervid eye, and its sure scan + + Triumphant. Welcome life and light! + Sing rocks and mountains, plain and sea; + Fearful though lovely was the night; + Hail to more perfect beauty—hail to THEE! + +“Why stop you, Athanasia?” said the priestess, finding that here she +paused,—“why do you rise up, and take your fingers from the lyre, before +you sing out the chorus?”—“No more, dear aunt—excuse me—no more. I have +already sung all that I can,” replied Athanasia.—“Nay, then,” says she, +“if you be fatigued, sing not; but join me, maidens, in the close—perhaps +it rises too high for Athanasia.” + +And with that the ancient lady herself, joined by the three damsels that +had been embroidering, took up the strain, which, indeed, rose higher +towards its end + + Hail to thee Phœbus, son of Jove, + Glorious Apollo, Lord of Light, + Hail, lovely in thy Delian grove, + And terrible on Delphos’ haunted height! + + Hail to thee here beneath the dome, + Great Phœbus, of thy Latian shrine; + All hail from Cæsar and from Rome; + Hail by thy dearest name, God Palatine! + +But as they were singing the last verse of all, Rubellia also aided their +melody with a rich strong gushing voice, which rose far above all the +others; and the silent Athanasia turning round quickly, perceived, not +without manifestation of alarm, by how many strangers her song had been +overheard. On seeing who we were, she saluted Sextus and myself with +modest courtesy, amidst her confusion; and it may be that my companion, as +well as myself, blushed at the same moment; for he could not see Athanasia +without thinking of Sempronia. + +It seemed as if her confusion were not unconnected with some suspicion of +having been recognized near the Prætorian guard-house; for, after the +first glance, I in vain endeavoured to meet her eye; while on the +contrary, to Sextus she directed both looks and words, enough to provoke +visibly some not altogether benign movements in our Rubellia. Such, at +least, was my interpretation of the fair widow’s aspect, and the tone of +impatience in which she, after a minute or two had passed, began to urge +the propriety of our proceeding to the part of the imperial edifice in +which the painter was expecting us. + +The priestess of Apollo hearing her say so, courteously offered to guide +us beyond the precincts of the temple, and our whole party were again in +motion; but Athanasia remained behind with the three young damsels, and I, +who walked last, saw her, ere the portal received me, preparing again to +handle the lyre, with fingers visibly trembling, and a pale countenance, +not as I thought unstained with some yet more distinct traces of keen +emotion. The sight of her agitation fixed my footstep for a moment, and it +was then that, on her casting a sudden glance round to the place where I +stood, I perceived truly that I had not been mistaken, and that the tears +were gathered within her eyelids. It was no more, however, than one +glance, for immediately she stooped again, and, dashing her fingers along +the chords of the instrument, appeared to bury her thoughts in its +harmony. I stood for a moment, and then ashamed of myself, and troubled +with her troubles and with my own, I followed the rest into the great +library which Augustus placed beneath the protection of the Palatine +Apollo. The priestess parted from us at its entrance, after pointing out a +low and massive door of bronze on the right hand, within which, as she +told me, the remains of the Sybilline prophecies are preserved, unseen by +profane eyes, watched over perpetually by the guardians of the place. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +I had walked by the side of my young friend, and behind the Stoic, (who, I +think, was expressing, in his pompous fashion, much admiration of the +singing of Rubellia,) along one or two of the great halls in which the +library is contained, before the novelty of the objects surrounding me +made any impression even on my eyes; and even after these were in some +measure engaged, my mind still continued to dwell on that troubled aspect, +and on the notes of the uncompleted song. At length, however, the levity +of youth, and natural curiosity revived; and I began to be present, not in +body merely, in a place where there was much that might well interest the +mind. Far-receding rows of columns conducted my eyes into the interminable +recesses of that wide range of chambers, in which the records of the +thought and spirit of all past ages are piled up together; and gazing on +the loaded shelves which every where ascended into the galleries, I could +not but be affected with many new emotions. I perused glorious names on +the busts that seemed to preside over the different compartments. The high +filletted front of Homer detained for the first time my contemplation; the +eyes of the divine old man, even in sculpture, distinctly and visibly +blind, while the serenity and sanctity of the towering forehead, revealed +how the intense perception at once of the lovely and the great could +compensate for visions of earthly beauty shut out. The mild Plato, and the +imperious Stagyrite—Pindar—Simonides—Alcæus—and I know not how many more, +succeeded as we passed along—each in his own sphere, reigning by himself; +yet all connected together by a certain common air of greatness, like so +many successive princes, or contemporary heroes of the same mighty empire. + +From this main range, there diverged many lesser chambers, in which we saw +studious persons engaged, each seated by himself, and having his eyes +fixed on the parchment before him. Of these, some deigned not to intimate +by the smallest movement their perception that any one had approached; but +with others Xerophrastes exchanged, as he walked, lofty salutation, and +one or two even entered, for a moment, into conversation with him. With +one of these, indeed, (an ancient of bitter aspect,) to such a length did +the colloquy extend, that we began to think we should never be able to get +our Stoic away from him; till, as our fortune would have it, it became +necessary for them to have a certain book for the purpose of reference, +and then Xerophrastes began to make inquiries concerning Parmeno, who, as +I gathered, must needs be one of those intrusted with the care of the +library. + +“I am afraid,” said the other, “if we must wait for him, we shall not be +able to get that work either to-day or to-morrow; for his pupil, the son +of Fabricius, is dead, and I suppose he will now change his quarters, and +be no longer seen so often about these haunts of the muses.” + +“Alas!” interrupted Sextus, “I met Fabricius in the Forum a few days ago, +and he told me his son was ill; but little did I imagine my dear companion +was so near his end! Is it indeed so?” + +“Even so,” rejoined the other. “Rapid have been the shears of Atropos! It +is but a few moments since Agaso, the painter passed; and, he told me he +had been receiving orders to take a likeness, as well as he could, from +the corpse.” + +“If Agaso be so engaged,” replied Xerophrastes, “I am afraid we need not +expect to find him neither in his usual place. Perhaps we had better make +inquiry for him at the dwelling of Fabricius.” + +To this Sextus assented; or rather, being lost in reflection concerning +the death of his friend, he suffered himself to be conducted by the Stoic. +Passing, therefore, through one or two more apartments, we issued forth, +and drew near to the vestibule of Fabricius’ house, who, as they told me, +was a noble Roman, having the chief superintendance of the whole library, +and an intimate friend of Licinius—one whose domestic calamity could not +fail to spread much affliction through a wide circle of patrician kindred. + +At the vestibule, we found assembled not a few of the young man’s +relations; but Xerophrastes immediately said, “Behold Parmeno, he is the +most afflicted; and what wonder that it should be so?” + +“Alas!” said Sextus, “the bier is set forth; the last rites are to be +performed this evening.” + +This Parmeno was a striking figure. Seated close by the bier, his head was +involved in his cloak, so that only his eyes and his nose could be seen, +but these of themselves expressed a decorous affliction; and the folds of +the cloak fell down over the rest of his person in great order and +dignity. On the pavement beside him was seen lying, half-unfolded, a book +inscribed with the name of Heraclitus, which he appeared to have been +reading. When Xerophrastes approached, this mourner stretched forth his +hand, and shook his head, but he did not say any thing, nor even look +towards the rest of us; and indeed to have done so, would have disturbed +the attitude in which he had placed himself. Xerophrastes, on his part, +received the proffered hand, and shaking his head in response, said, “Yes, +my Ionian friend, I may still bid thee hail and live; but I must say +farewell to the plant thou wast rearing. Farewell to the youthful promise +of Fabricius!” + +On hearing these words, the sitting philosopher drew his mantle quite over +his face, and leant himself heavily against one of the fluted columns of +the vestibule, for he seemed to be much shaken. In the meantime Sextus +approached the bier, and contemplated his companion as he lay there +wreathed with melancholy garlands; his countenance bearing a natural +mixture of sadness and astonishment. Nor could I, who had never before +seen the young man, behold the spectacle without similar emotions; for his +age, as it seemed, could not have been much different from my own, and the +pale features were interesting, their expression not less amiable than +solemn. + +“Alas!” said Sextus, “the last time I saw him, how differently did he +appear! We rode out together with some others to Tibur, and spent all the +day there; and as we returned by the moonlight, how joyous his +conversation! Methinks I yet hear him laughing and speaking. We parted at +the foot of the Capitoline, and never did I see him again till now.” + +“Oh, fate of man!” quoth Xerophrastes; “how uncertain is life, how certain +death! Without doubt, young Fabricius had as little thought of dying as +any of your company; and yet, see now, he is arrayed for the last time, +and this juvenile gown, which he should so soon have laid aside for the +manly, is destined to be consumed with him.” + +“A fine lad he was,” cries one of the standers by,—“a fine lad, and an +excellent horseman. The Martian Field did not often behold such a rider in +these degenerate days of the Roman youth.” + +But while the rest were still contemplating the bier, Xerophrastes, +turning to his brother philosopher, said, “Tell me now, my learned friend, +do you still, after this mournful event, continue to reside with the elder +Fabricius? Has that excellent man any more sons to be educated, or will he +retain you only for the sake of the library, with which assuredly he will +find few so conversant as yourself?” + +To which Parmeno replied, “Your question, O Xerophrastes, shews that clear +judgment concerning the affairs of men, for which you have always been +celebrated. No, my friend, the gray-haired Fabricius no longer requires my +residence here; for he is about to retire into one of his villas on the +Campanian shore, and to bury for ever his affliction in the privacy of his +woods. We are about to part, not without mutual tears; and several +Patricians have already been applying to him for his influence with me, +whom, although unworthy of so much research, they earnestly covet, and +wish to engage as the instructor of their young men. I have been sitting +here not unseen, beside this my former charge, and each is impatient to +solicit me into his service.” + +“Your reputation I well know is high,” replied Xerophrastes, “and +deservedly so; more particularly, for that fine talent you have for giving +metaphysical interpretations of mythology, and for explaining the obscure +allegories of ancient poets. But for my own part, Parmeno, I find not so +much delight in abstract ideas, or in the passive contemplation of the +universe; but incline rather to study, as heretofore, that part of +philosophy which relates to action, and the morality of duty.” + +“Yes, worthy Xerophrastes,” returned he, with a most languid serenity; +“and so far as I understand, you sort well in this with the stirring +disposition of your friend Licinius.” + +To which Xerophrastes made answer:—“My patron Licinius is fond of action, +and I of the rules of action. He says, it is only in war, or in civil +functions of a public nature, that a person can prove himself a man. The +rest, he says, is visionary, and comes to nothing, or is a slumber of the +mind in sensuality, without thought.” + +“Does he think, then,” quoth Parmeno, his wobegone countenance relaxing +into a smile,—“Does Licinius think, then, there is no sensuality in +perpetual action, and declamation and noise? To me such things appear +almost as trivial as the lazy enjoyments of Epicureans, besides being +harsh and disagreeable, and not unfrequently ridiculous. But observe, O +Xerophrastes! that I speak these things as it were abstractly, and not by +any means in disparagement of Licinius, your excellent patron and friend.” + +To which the stoic replied in astonishment—“What is this you have said? Do +you assert that action is sensual?” + +Then Parmeno, lifting from the pavement the book which he had been +reading, or appearing to read, said, “It is even so, most erudite +Xerophrastes. Indeed, I have always delighted in the most primitive and +remote doctrines handed down from antiquity; and among others, in the +riddles of this obscure Ephesian. Following the scope of his philosophy, I +am led to believe, that, so often as the mind impels, or is impelled by +other causes, it begins to lose sight of pure knowledge, and becomes in +danger of thinking that every thing is vain, light, and evanescent, except +what is perceived by the senses. Heraclitus well says, that Love and +Hatred govern all things. Now, when the principle of Discord prevails, it +subjects all things to the dominion of action, and to the gross +perceptions of sense. But when that of Love is prevalent, it emancipates +the struggling chaos of things from the yearning of compulsion, and from +the darkness of sensual proximity; for, between things that struggle +immediately against each other, light has no room to enter in and shine; +and therefore it is, that, when Love gains the ascendency, a new +arrangement is produced—an arrangement which, if I may so express it, is +more serene, transparent, orderly and divine, and wherein things exist in +safety from the danger of mutual destruction.” + +After a preliminary cough:—“My opinion,” replied Xerophrastes, “coincides +rather with that of Empedocles. The immortal Sicilian thinks that Discord +is the only separating and arranging principle which marks the boundaries +between things, and enables them mutually to act and repel, in such a way +as to preserve order.”—“Nay, nay,” interrupted Parmeno, his hands being by +this quite disentangled from his cloak, and his countenance lighted +up,—“Nay, nay, to such doctrine I never shall assent. From Empedocles—even +from Xerophrastes, I must differ for ever on this head. The order of which +you and the Sicilian speak, is the order of darkness only, and of blind +force,—a kind of order in which fierceness and cruelty always reign.” But +Xerophrastes continued:—“And I farther concur with Empedocles in thinking, +that Love is a principle of which the predominance is more fit to turn +order into a chaos, than to produce the effects you have described.”—“Nay, +speak not against Love,” quoth Parmeno—“Speak not against Love, nor +believe that any respect is due to the dictates of Empedocles, who taught +the worst that can be taught by any man—that is to say, the alternation of +order and confusion succeeding each other throughout all time. To seek for +truth in conceptions like these, is no better than to seek repose in the +bosom of Ætna.”—“In reference to that point,” resumed Xerophrastes, “I +agree with you in your disapprobation of Empedocles. But when you say, +that Love is the source of knowledge, you much astonish me; for I have +always thought rather that its tendency is to bring confusion upon the +mind.” + +“Once more,” said Parmeno—“once more, let me beseech you to say nothing +against love. You are thinking of the love of particular objects. You +speak of Cupid, and not of that heavenly Eros, who, so far from +enchaining, or tyrannizing over the mind, rather enables it to escape into +the tranquil freedom of far extended contemplation. But what is +contemplation without the knowledge of permanent forms, on which the mind +may find repose, and so keep itself from being perplexed by the shifting +aspects of the many-coloured universe? And therefore it is, O +Xerophrastes, that, sometimes laying aside Heraclitus, I study the ancient +verses of the poet, Xenophanes, who shews, by the nature of abstract +forms, that a certain unity pervades all things. Xenophanes mused of old +at Colophon, looking through the blue ether of my native Ionia.—But why +should I speak thus at length? Alas! what is the occasion of our being +here!—I perceive the approach of the poet, who was to compose an +inscription for the urn of my dear Fabricius. Yonder also is the +architect, who comes with a design for the tomb. Oh! day of wo, that I +should sit in judgment concerning the epitaph and tomb of my ingenuous +youth!” + +“It is, indeed, true,” replied Xerophrastes, “that even I, in the +repercussions of our talk, had well-nigh forgotten this unhappy +occurrence; but, perhaps, there is something not after all entirely +excusable in our giving so much superiority to the affairs of +philosophical discussion. Now, however, it is evident, that we must +suspend our colloquy—And who, I beseech you, above all things, is he that +now draws near to the place of this mournful assembly, holding a horse in +his hand. Methinks I have seen his face before.” + +“That you have indeed, Master,” quoth he that had come up,—“that you have; +and no longer ago than yesterday neither, if you will be pleased to give +yourself the trouble of recollecting. My name is Aspar—I am well known. If +but my excellent friend, the noble Centurion Sabinus, were here, poor old +Aspar would have no reason to complain of the want of a good word.” + +“Good morrow to you, Aspar,” said Sextus; “but what is it that brings you +hither just at this moment? And for what purpose have you brought your +horse with you? for people of your sort do not in general ride in the +courts of the Palatine.” + +“Alas!” quoth Aspar, “and is it you, who seem to have been one of the +contemporaries of that peerless youth—is it you that ask such a question +as this? I did not, in truth, imagine that there was any friend of young +Fabricius, who did not know his affection for little Sora. There is not +such another within twenty miles of the Capitol; but I brought her hither +merely out of regard for the family. As for myself, I should never bear to +look on her again with pleasure, after knowing the sudden manner of his +death. I wish to Heaven the filly were fairly lodged in one of the +paddocks of the Lord Fabricius himself.” + +“Lead the animal round into the stables,” says Parmeno, “and I doubt not +care will be taken of her.—Yonder comes one of the buffoons of the +theatre;—he, I doubt not, is here to disgrace, if he be permitted, this +solemn scene, with ranting quotations from the tragic poets. Alas! alas! I +cannot bear all this: There also advance the officiators from the Temple +of Libitina; they have their cypress boughs ready in their hands. Oh, my +learned friend, I cannot sustain these things; let me be gone into the +mansion.” + +The admirer of Heraclitus, picking up his scroll, and gathering together +the folds of his mantle, moved slowly into the house, Xerophrastes +following with similar gestures. Sextus and I also were about to take our +departure; and he, having procured from one of the slaves of the house a +myrtle garland, had already placed it upon the bier of the young +Fabricius, as the last testimonial of his concern; when there drew near +two young men, clad in long mantles of black, who, solemnly embracing my +friend, began to exchange with him many expressions of grief. + +While they were thus engaged, Rubellia, who had been standing all this +while a little apart, sent a boy to inform us that the painter we were in +search of had at last made his appearance, and was anxious to proceed with +his portrait. I drew Sextus away, therefore, and soon joined the lady and +the artist; but as we were moving off thus, one of the bystanding slaves, +an old gray-headed man, came up and whispered to Sextus, “Sir, be not +deceived; these two nephews of my bereaved master are to me the most +disagreeable part of all this preparation. You have heard their +lamentation, and seen their sweeping raiment of mourning; but, be sure, a +principal subject of their reflection is the probability that one or other +of them must be adopted by Fabricius. Alas! alas! so goes all between +Lucina and Libitina. There was never a birth nor a marriage that did not +create some sorrow, nor a funeral procession that did not give rise to +some joy. Your rhetoricians talk, but what avails it all? Slaves and +masters are alike subjected to the evils of the world, and of these death +is both the last and the least.” + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +Agaso, the painter, was a smart dapper little bandy-legged man of Verona, +dressed in a Grecian mantle, and endeavouring to look as much as possible +like a Greek. Had Xerophrastes not gone off with his brother of Ionia, I +have no doubt this man would have made his presence a sufficient excuse +for speaking nothing but Greek to us; but, even as it was, his +conversation was interlarded with an abundant intermixture of that noble +tongue. Nothing could be spoken of which Agaso did not think fit to +illustrate, either by the narration of something he himself had seen or +heard during his residence at Athens, or, at least, by some quotation from +the Grecian poets. To judge from the square, and somewhat ponderous +formation of the man’s features, Nature had not designed him for any of +the most mercurial specimens of her workmanship; but he contrived, +notwithstanding, by perpetual shrugging and grimacing, and, above all, by +keeping his eyes and eyebrows continually in motion, to give himself an +air of no inconsiderable life and vivacity. + +Hopping before us with much alacrity, this artist conducted our steps +through eight or ten galleries, until at length a curtain being withdrawn, +which had covered the space between two pilasters, we found ourselves in a +spacious apartment, which, from the courteousness wherewith he bowed us +into it, there could be no difficulty in perceiving to be the customary +sphere of his own exertions. It was not altogether deserted even when we +entered, but the removal of the curtain attracted more of the loungers of +the baths, and ere Sextus was fairly fixed before the table of the +painter, the modest youth had the mortification to find himself surrounded +with a very crowd of knowing and curious physiognomies. The presence of +these, however, appeared not unwelcome to the master. On the contrary, +there arose between the little man, as he was preparing his brushes, and +those who had come to survey him at his work, such a gabble of +compliments, remarks, and disquisitions, that it seemed to me as if he +would have been disappointed had he not been favoured with their +attendance. + +“How noble,” cries one, “is that portrait you have just been finishing of +Rupilius!—Heavens! with what felicity you have caught the air! Methinks I +see him about to enter the Basilica, when he knows that some great cause +is awaiting his decision. What solemnity in his aspect! what grandeur in +the gown!—How finely the purple of the laticlave is made to harmonize with +the colouring of the cheeks and chin! What beautiful handling about the +fingers with which he grasps his tablets!—As for the head of the stylus, +it is the very eye of the picture.”—“Exquisite indeed,” quoth another; +“but who can look at it, or at any thing else, in the same room with this +little jewel?—Heavens! what a beauty! who can it be? for I never saw her +either at the Circus or the Amphitheatre. What an inimitable modesty!” + +The painter heard this last piece of eulogy with an air of some +embarrassment, and at the same time looked very cunningly towards the +person who had uttered it. But the Lady Rubellia tossed her head, and +whispered to me, “Pretty she may be, though I cannot say that style of +dressing the hair is at all adapted for such features; but for modesty! +hem. I asked Agaso two or three days ago who it was, and he told +me—guess!—it is a little Spanish girl, whom that august-looking person, +with the grand laticlave, and the purple cheeks and chin, and the +glittering stylus, thought fit to bring home with him when he was relieved +from the hard duties of the Pro-prætorship. I dare say, he takes care she +shall not be seen either at Circus or Amphitheatre; and, indeed, I think +it is sufficient impudence to shew her likeness in the company of so many +portraits of respectability.” + +“My dear lady,” quoth the painter, who overheard somewhat, “for the sake +of all that is sacred, no word of this again! Wait, at least, till the +canvass for the Augurship be over. There are always so many to exaggerate +and misrepresent.”—“Exaggerate, indeed! I think Rupilius ought to be +ashamed of himself; and at his time of life too. I think you said he was +just the same age with my uncle?”—“Yes,” says the painter, “he must be of +that standing; and I think he went to Spain just about the period of your +marriage.”—“Filthy old fellow,” quoth she, very quickly; “and this is the +treasure he has brought home with him! I have a great mind to tell his +wife.”—“Hush, hush,” said Agaso, “this is the very day Rupilius spoke of +bringing her to see his own portrait; and, indeed, I am sure that is the +Senator’s cough. I rely on your prudence.” + +And the portly original of the laticlaved portrait walked into the room, +having his gown and every part of his dress arranged as represented in the +picture; although in the living countenance it was easy to discover a few +lines and spots which had been omitted in the copy. By his side moved a +short woman, arrayed in the extremity of costly attire, whose swarthy +complexion did not, in spite of cosmeticism, harmonize very well with the +bright golden ringlets of her Sicambrian peruque; while behind the pair +came a thin damsel, whose lineaments exhibited a sort of faint shadow of +the same visage, the rudiments of which had been so abundantly filled up +in that of the rubicund magistrate. The ex-pro-prætor, after saluting +Agaso, stood still with dignity in the midst of the apartment, while the +fond daughter, rushing close up to his picture, could with difficulty +affix any limits to her expressions of satisfaction:—“O Jupiter! look at +the ring. It is the very ring he wears!—the very images are engraved upon +it; one can see the three Graces. I never saw such a picture—when will it +be brought home?”—“Hush, hush, now, Primula,” quoth the mother. “It is +certainly a likeness; but why will artists, now-a-days, always paint +people older than they are? And besides, it wants something of his +expression. Don’t you think so yourself, sir?” (turning to the painter) +“Rupilius has surely been looking very gloomily when he sat.” + +On this the painter, leaving Sextus, advanced to her side, and after a +pause of some moments, spent in contemplating alternately his own work and +the original, said, with a courteous simper, “How much am I indebted to +you, most noble lady, for this visit, and these judicious remarks! I only +wish you had accompanied the senator, for then, without question, his +countenance would have worn the look you desiderate; and I perhaps might +have more easily succeeded in catching it, being aided by your +suggestions. I hope it may yet be amended.”—“How modest he is!” ejaculated +the spouse. “A single sitting will suffice, I am sure. We shall come some +day when you are quite alone, and I will sit by you, and talk to Rupilius +all the while.”—“Delightful!” replied the artist; “how happy shall I be in +such an opportunity of improving both the picture and myself! We must +positively prevail on the senator to give us this one sitting +more.”—“Never ask his consent,” quoth the matron, smiling upon her lord; +“leave the whole matter to me. The picture is for me. And besides, if he +were to refuse, I know how I should be certain to overcome him; for he has +asked me to sit to you myself, and you know if I were to persist in +sitting with my gloomy face, as he has with his, we should soon bring him +to his right reason.”—“_Your_ gloomy face, noble lady!” replied the +artist, strutting back a pace or two. “I am afraid, if that is the charm +by which alone he is to be softened, we must give up all our hopes.”—“I +protest,” says the lady, “I believe you will keep me laughing all the time +I sit. And pray now, what dress do you think I should wear? Prima says, I +ought certainly to be in green; but I was thinking, that perhaps a yellow +byssine would suit me better. But I shall send over half a dozen robes, +and then we can choose whichever seems to be the best. One thing only I am +quite resolved upon, and that is, that I shall have my golden chain, with +the miniature of the Pro-prætor—the Senator, I mean—at the end of +it.”—“Nothing could be in finer taste,” he made answer; “and if my lady +should think of green, or purple, or any dark colour for the gown, the +rings of the chain and the setting of the miniature would have the richest +effect.”—“And do, my dear mother,” interrupted Prima; “and do have on the +sapphire tiara when you sit to Agaso. Or what would you think of having +your own hair simply like this lady here? What a beauty!”—“A smart little +girl, indeed,” quoth the mother. “I think I should know that face. Is she +Roman, Agaso?”—“No, not a Roman,” answered the artist; “nor do I think my +lady can ever have met with her. But perhaps my Lord Rupilius may, for she +is a Spaniard.” + +Agaso turned with a smile to the Senator; but he, scarcely appearing to +look at the picture, answered, with great gravity, “I think I have seen +the countenance before; and perhaps it was in my province. The face is +certainly a pretty one; but nothing so very extraordinary.”—“They may say +what they like,” observed the spouse, drawing herself up; “but there is no +such thing as a really urbane air to be got out of Rome.” + +Meantime, in another part of the room, some other picture appeared to be +exciting a scarcely inferior measure of curiosity. On approaching the +party, I perceived that this was a sketch, in chalk only, of the head and +shoulders of an old man; and when I had gained an opportunity of more +nearly surveying it, I recognized without difficulty the features of +Tisias of Antioch. The greater number of those who were looking on it, +seemed also to have been present at his death; for I heard pointed out by +them with exactness the parts in which the resemblance had been most +successfully taken. The beauty of the old man’s lineaments, and the +serenity of his aspect, they all admired; and while they were loud in +praising these, Agaso himself also joined them, saying, “Oh, so you have +found out my old Christian! How did you get hold of him? for I meant it +not to be seen till I had lain on a little of the colour. But is it not a +fine study?—is it not a noble head? I think I shall introduce it in the +picture I am painting for Pliny. The subject is the sacrifice of +Iphigenia. I went to the Amphitheatre,” he continued, “rather late, +without expecting any thing particular; but it immediately struck me that +he might be turned to some account. I made several little sketches of him, +for it was a long time ere it was over; and this is from the one I took +just after he had made his oration. His hands and feet were singularly +fine, I thought. Here,” said he, turning over the leaves of his +tablets—“here you have him in a variety of shapes!—the muscles shewed +powerfully when he knelt;—there, again, you have his fingers as they were +folded on his breast—not much flesh, but the lines good—veins well +expressed.” + +But about this time the great bell rung in the tower above the Baths, and +the greater part of the young loungers soon dispersed themselves; some to +fence or wrestle—others to play in the tennis-court—others to ride in the +Hippodrome, in preparation for the bath. So Agaso, being left alone with +Sextus, Rubellia, and myself, had at length leisure to proceed with his +portrait of the youth. + +Much did the lady and the painter discourse, and many merry things were +said by them both; but all they said could not entirely remove the +embarrassment fixed on the countenance of Sextus; nor, of a truth, did he +present himself with much advantage before the artist. Rubellia, +nevertheless, sate over against him with looks of no severe criticism; and +I doubt not she would have remained to the end of the sitting, had not one +of her household come with a message, which, as it seemed, rendered +necessary her departure. It struck me, that the messenger answered very +well to Dromo’s description of the fat Calabrian with whom he and Boto had +been drinking; but of this I said nothing to Sextus. + +It was near the hour of supper before we were dismissed, and we found +Licinius already about to enter his eating chamber. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +The orator received us with less coldness than I could have expected. I +suppose his knowledge that our morning had been spent in Rubellia’s +company, had in some measure softened his feelings of jealousy towards his +son; and perhaps he had given me credit for advice, to the merit of which +I had no claim. But he remained not long at table after supper was +concluded, being summoned to discourse in private with a client:—so that +Sextus and I were left to spend the evening as it might please ourselves; +for as to Xerophrastes, he had not as yet made his appearance, and we took +it for granted he had remained at the mansion of Fabricius, for the +purpose of consoling with philosophical controversies his bereaved brother +of Ionia. + +We retired, therefore, into the apartment of my young friend; but he could +not read a page without coming upon some verse which made him throw down +the scroll to ruminate on the charms of his Sempronia. When he took up his +lute, his fingers seemed to evoke only the most melancholy sounds. It was +only in the exercise of the foil, that he succeeded in banishing from his +thoughts the troubles of his situation; but both of us having contended +till we were breathless, were soon compelled to sit down, and then the +unhappy boy’s exhausted body seemed to communicate a new debility to his +mind. We sat for the most part in silence, (for I soon found that I could +not say any thing capable of interesting him,) until the shades of evening +had quite darkened the chamber, and then we walked together, not less +silently, in the adjoining open gallery, until the moon had arisen from +above the tall poplars around the Pantheon and Baths of Agrippa, and +diffused her radiance over all the beautiful gardens and noble edifices +that lay beneath us down to the brink of the river. Lassitude of spirit +then, if not expectation of sleep, rendered Sextus desirous of retiring to +his couch; so, having exhorted the youth to wrestle with his grief, and to +call hope to his aid, I at length left him to himself. But as for me, I +had as yet no feeling of weariness, and, besides, I remembered the promise +I had made to Dromo in the morning. + +I was very much surprised, indeed, that the Cretan had not as yet come to +me, and made inquiry concerning him of Boto; but hearing that the man was +absent from the house, I thought from this there was the more likelihood +of his being engaged in some scheme, the result of which I should by and +by learn from his own lips. I dismissed my Briton, therefore, and prepared +to read by my watch-light, and while I was considering what I should read, +I remembered the scroll I had received from Tisias, which forthwith I took +from the place in which I had locked it up on the morning of the preceding +day. There fell from out of it, as I unfolded it, a letter sealed, but +without any superscription. This I of course considered as meant only for +the eye of Athanasia; so I kissed the parchment her fingers were destined +to touch, and, before I began to read, restored it to its receptacle. + +More than one of you, my young friends, have already heard me speak, on +another occasion, of the impression which that night’s reading made upon +my mind, and been told, from my own lips, what book it was that was +contained in the scroll of Tisias; the rest of you will judge for +yourselves with what astonishment it was that I, who had at the best +expected to unfold some obscure treatise of Asiatic lore, some +semi-barbarous exposition of mystical riddles, found myself engaged in the +perusal of a plain and perspicuous narrative of facts, written evidently +by a man of accomplishment and learning, and in Greek of which the most +elegant penman of these times could have had no occasion to be ashamed. In +a word, it was the Gospel of the holy physician St Luke which had been put +into my hands; and at this day I am still grateful that this was the first +of the Christian books which I had an opportunity of seeing; for such had +been my education, that I am afraid others, not less worthy of the true +faith, might have repelled me by the peculiarities of their composition, +as well as by the acquaintance with many things, to me then entirely +unknown, which they take for granted in the style of their commencement. +Here, however, there was enough only of mystery, the more effectually to +stimulate my curiosity, while the eagerness with which I engaged myself in +its gratification, was abundantly repaid from the beginning, both by the +beauty of the simple narrative itself, and the sublimity of the +conceptions embodied and evolved in its course. + +Considering the book which I was reading, as one merely of human origin +and invention, I could not help regarding it with such admiration, that it +appeared to me above all things wonderful, I had never seen it mentioned +by any of the writers of the age, or heard it spoken of by any of those +who, in my presence, since I came to Rome, had talked concerning the faith +and doctrines of the persecuted Christians. But this was not all. At +least, said I to myself, there is something here which deserves to be +inquired into and examined. Of things such as these, if told falsely, it +must needs have been—nay, it must still be, easy to prove the falsehood. +It is impossible that, in the days of Tiberius, any such events should +have occurred in Palestine, without being more or less submitted to the +inspection of Roman eyes. This is no wild tale, handed down from the dark +ages of a barbarous race. Here I have a Roman Centurion described as among +the witnesses of this man’s miraculous power, and acknowledging the +divinity of his benevolence. Here, at least, must have been one spectator +without prejudices, otherwise than against this Prophet of Nazareth. Of a +surety, the legends of Rome herself contain many tales which demand a much +greater measure of indulgence; since the wonders they narrate appear to +have been oftentimes attended with no beneficial consequences, either to +individuals or to the state; whereas here the occasion seems always to +have been such as might justify the interference of supernatural might. +The power of this person seems to have been exerted only for good; and his +precepts are full of such godlike loftiness as neither Socrates, nor +Plato, nor any of those Greek sages, who bowed in reverence to the hoary +wisdom of Egypt and India, would have disdained to admire. + +The doubts, suspicions, and distrusts, with which such thoughts were +mingled,—the under-current of reluctance with which I felt myself all +along contending,—were such as you may more easily imagine than I can +describe. + +As the narrative went on, however, you will have no difficulty in +supposing that my attention became more and more rivetted, and that, +occupied with the strange events and sublime scenes it unfolds—and +agitated by turns with the pity, the wonder, the terror, and the +admiration that matchless story must ever awaken,—I had forgotten every +thing beyond the page of the volume on which my finger was fixed. + +It was only the rustling of Dromo’s cloak against the edge of my chair, +that made me aware my privacy was disturbed. His hands seemed to be busied +in tightening his girdle even before he was able to speak, and the first +words he uttered, were—“Come, sir—this is no time for study. I have +acquaintance with some of the soldiers at the Capene Gate, and they will +let us pass through; but they are relieved at the next watch, and then we +shall have no chance.”—“And why,” said I, hastily thrusting the scroll +into my bosom—“why, Dromo, or for what purpose should we desire to pass +through the Capene Gate at the dead hour of night?”—“Come,” said he; +“there is no time for explanation. It is simply because it is the dead +hour of night that we must pass through the gate; for it would do nobody +any good to pass through at any other time. Come—or abandon Sextus to his +fate.” + +Thus adjured, I could not oppose any obstacle to his zeal. The chained +porter was lying asleep across the threshold; but Dromo had already found +means to have the door opened, so he leaped lightly over the man, and I +imitated his agility. The Cretan then locked the gate on the outside, by +means of a key which he carried in his bosom; and I followed his rapid +steps without farther question. + +This cunning varlet, (who seemed, indeed, to move as if he had a natural +aversion to every open place,) threaded one obscure lane after another, +keeping always, where the moonlight had any access, to the dark side of +the way; a person better skilled than myself might well have been somewhat +puzzled; as for me, I had not the least conception whither I was going. +Close, however, did I adhere to him; and we reached the Capene Port, which +is on the south side of the city, not many bow-shots from the Anio, before +I could have imagined it possible to traverse so great a space. + +Here Dromo told me to wait for him a single moment, and stepped down into +a cellar, in which a light was burning; but he staid not long, and when he +returned to me, I observed that his style of walking was more clumsy than +usual, which, indeed, was not to be wondered at, considering that he had +now to carry, not only himself, but two huge skins of wine, intended, as I +at once suspected, for the purpose of facilitating our passage. I told him +my suspicion in a whisper; but he made no answer, except by handing to me +one of his burdens. So laden, we crept on as well as we could to the +portal, beneath the shadow of which two Prætorians were pacing, their +armour ringing audibly upon them amidst the silence of the night.—Silently +did the well-oiled hinges turn, and very silently stooping did we step +beneath the lintel of the Capene Gate, which as silently was again made +fast. + +As we advanced among the funereal monuments which line the Appian Way on +either side, Dromo stood still every now and then for a moment, as if to +listen; but whatever he might have heard, or expected to hear, I perceived +nothing, except here and there the howl of a dog, or the lazy hooting of +the night-owl, from the top of some of the old cypresses that rose between +us and the moon. + +At last he seemed to catch the sound he had been expecting, for he started +suddenly; and laying his finger on his lip, crept to the parapet. + +The ground behind was more desolate of aspect than any part of that which +we had traversed—stoney and hard, with here and there tufts of withered +fern; and immediately below the wall two human figures were visible. The +one was sitting on the ground, wrapped in a dark cloak which entirely +concealed the countenance: the other was a half-naked boy, holding in a +string a little new-shorn lamb, which with one of his hands he continually +caressed. But forthwith the sitter arose, and throwing away the cloak, +displayed the gray tangled tresses of an old woman, and two strong boney +arms, one of which was stretched forth with an impatient gesture towards +the stripling, while the other was pointed upwards to the visible moon. +“Strike,” said she, “strike deeply—beware lest the blood tinge your feet +or your hands;”—and I recognized at once the voice of the same Pona that +had attracted my notice in the morning, at the foot of the Palatine. + +The boy drew forth instantly a knife from his bosom, whose glittering +blade was buried in the throat of the yearling, and it was then first that +I perceived a small ditch dug between the boy and the woman, into which, +the lamb’s throat being held over it, the blood was made to drop from the +wound. So surely had the blow been given, that not one bleat escaped from +the animal, and so deeply, that the blood flowed in a strong stream, +dashing audibly upon the bottom of the trench. And while it was dropping, +the old woman muttering a sort of chant to Hecate, as I gathered, showered +from her girdle I know not what of bones or sticks, mingled with leaves +and roots, which afterwards she seemed to be stirring about in the blood +with one of the tall strong stems of the fern that grew there. The +wildness of her gestures was such, that I could not doubt she had herself +some faith in the efficacy of the foul charms to which she had resorted; +nor could I see her stirring that trench of innocent blood, without +remembering the still more ruthless charms, whose practice the poets of +Italy have ascribed to such hoary enchantresses. The dreariness of the +midnight wind, too, as it whistled along the bare and steril soil around +us, and the perpetual variations in the light, by reason of the careering +of those innumerable clouds, and the remembrance of the funereal purposes +for which, as it seemed, all this region was set apart—the whole of this +together produced, I know not how, a certain pressure upon my spirits, and +I confess to you, I felt, kneeling there by the side of my now trembling +Cretan, as if I owed him no great thanks for having brought me that night +beyond the Capene Gate. + +It seemed as if the goddess, to whom the witch’s song had been addressed, +did not listen to it with favourable ear; for the clouds gathered +themselves more thickly than ever, while the wind howled only more loudly +among the tombs, and the half-scared owl sent up a feebler hooting. +Notwithstanding, the old woman continued fixed in the same attitude of +expectation, and the stripling still held the well-nigh drained throat of +his lamb above the trench. By degrees, however, the patience of both +seemed to be exhausted; and there arose between them an angry altercation. +“Infernal brat of Hades!” quoth the witch, “look ye, if you have not +stained your filthy hands, and if the thirsty shadows be not incensed, +because you have deprived them of some of the sweet blood which they +love!”—“Curse not me, mother,” replied the boy—“Did you think, in truth, +that the blood of a stolen lamb would ever propitiate Hecate?”—“Imp!” +quoth she, “Hold thy peace, or I will try whether no other blood may make +the charm work better!”—“Beware!” quoth the boy, leaping backwards—“beware +what you do! I am no longer so weak that I must bear all your blows.” + +“Stop,” cried I, “for there are eyes that you think not of, to take note +of your wickedness;” and in my vehemence I shook one of the great loose +stones that were on the top of the wall, which rolled down and bounded +into the ditch beside them; and the woman, huddling her cloak over her +head, began to run swiftly away from us, along the wall over which we were +leaning. The boy only stood still for a moment, and looked upwards towards +the place where we were, and then he also fled, but in the opposite +direction; and Dromo said to me in a very piteous whisper, but not till +both were out of sight,—“Heaven and earth! was ever such madness as to +scare the witch from her incantation? Alas! for you and for me, sir—and, +most of all, alas for Sextus—for I fear me after this we shall have no +luck in counteracting the designs of Rubellia.” + +“Rubellia! what? can you possibly imagine Rubellia to have any thing to do +with this madness?” + +“Imagine?” quoth he; “do you need to be told, that if things had gone well +with that woman and her ditch, we should never have been able to preserve +Sextus from her clutches?” + +“By the rod of Hermes, good Dromo!” said I, “this will never do. I shall +believe much on your credit, but not things quite so extravagant as this.” + +He made no reply save a long, incredulous, and, I think, contemptuous +whistle, which seemed to reach the ears of every owl between us and the +Appian; with such a hooting and screeching did they echo its note from +every cypress. And when Dromo heard that doleful concert, his dread +redoubled within him, for he shook from head to foot, while I held his arm +in mine; until, at last, he seemed to make one violent effort, and +springing on his feet, said—“Come, Master Valerius, let us behave after +all like men!”—I smiled when he said so—“The hour has not yet come, if my +Calabrian friend is to be trusted, at which the lady was to visit Pona in +her dwelling. It is but daring a little more. If she has seen and known us +already, then nothing can endanger us farther; and if she hath not, we may +escape again.”—“Well spoken,” said I, “most shrewd Dromo, and like +yourself; but what is it that you would have us to do?”—“The first thing,” +he replied, “is what has already been too long delayed.” + +The Cretan produced from under his cloak a long fictitious beard, which he +immediately proceeded to fix upon his own face with a string. A thin tall +cap of black cloth was next brought forth, which he fastened in like +manner around his brows; and a little piece of chalk, with which he once +or twice rubbed over his black bushy eye-brows, completed a disguise +beneath which I should certainly have sought in vain to discover any trace +of the natural countenance of Dromo. In short, after a few changes in the +folding of his cloak, there stood before me a figure so venerably +mysterious, that had I met it unawares at midnight, in the neighbourhood +of so many tombs, I am not sure, although of no superstitious temper, that +I could have regarded it without awe. + +“Come now, good Master,” quoth he, “you are taller than I, pluck me a +branch from the nearest tree, and I think you shall confess I make a +decent Soothsayer.” In this it was easy to gratify him; for there was an +old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs were so dry with age, that +I soon abstracted a very proper wand for him. After receiving which, he +stood for a moment leaning on it in a dignified fashion, as if to rehearse +an attitude worthy of his new vocation; and then said—“Well, sir, I think +if the Lady Rubellia comes now, we shall be tolerably prepared for her. +But I have no disguise for you; therefore, the moment you hear a footstep, +be sure you wrap your face in your gown, and stand behind me, for so shall +you best consult both your own concealment, and the dignity of this +Assyrian. There is no other way by which she can come from the Suburra, +therefore we might stay very well where we are; but I think it might be +still better to await her coming where there are either tombs or larger +trees to cast a shade over our equipage, in case the moon should take it +into her head to be more kind to us than she was to Pona.”—“By all means,” +said I, “most venerable man—and besides, the wind is rather chilly, +therefore I shall be well pleased to have shelter as well as shade.” + +“You shall have both,” quoth he; “there is a thick grove of pines only a +little way on. I believe there is a very grand tomb in the midst of them, +in case you should prefer to sit under it.—By the bye,” he continued, +after some little pause, “it is odd enough that it should be so; but I +believe it is the very place where all that race of the Sempronii, to +which a certain young damsel belongs, have been burnt and buried ever +since Rome was a city. You cannot see their tomb yet; but that is only +from the thickness of the trees, some of which are, I suppose, even older +than itself. Now I remember me, it was just there that they set up two +winters ago the funeral pile of old Caius—I mean the father of the Lady +Athanasia, whom you saw at Capito’s villa. They are a very noble race, and +although none of the richest now-a-days, there is not a prouder in Rome. I +saw the procession at that old man’s funeral myself, and I think the +images of his ancestors that they carried before him, would have reached +half way from hence to the Great Road. Grim, dusty figures, I trow they +were; but I doubt not there had been many a haughty captain among them +when they were alive.” + +These words were spoken as we were moving onwards towards this same grove +of pines, and before he had made an end of speaking, we could clearly hear +the wind sighing among their branches, and along the dry underground. And +on coming to them I found that he had said truly there was a tomb in the +midst of them, for a very noble, high, circular tower was indeed there, +which, from the grayness of its walls, and luxuriance of ivy, had the +appearance of being at least as ancient as any of the surrounding trees. +The only method of access to the inside, seemed to be by means of a +winding stair, which rose on the exterior from the ground to the summit—a +method not unusual in Roman sepulchres—and it was on one of the steps of +this stair that I seated myself, where, between the shaded wall on the one +side, and the pine branches on the other, I was effectually concealed. As +for Dromo, I know not whether it was that he coveted not exactly such +close proximity to the stones of such an edifice; but instead of ascending +with me, he took up a position beside one of the largest pines over +against me. + +Although the moon had got rid of her clouds, and the sky, where any of it +could be seen, was abundantly brilliant, the natural darkness of that +funereal grove was such, that very little difference could be produced in +the midst of it by any variation on the face of any nightly luminary. The +tower itself received some of the moonbeams on its carved surface; but its +contemporary trees participated not in any such illumination,—one solemn +shade covering all things beneath the influence of their growth. “I can +scarcely see you, Dromo,” said I; “but I think that speck must be your +beard, and if so, I beg you would tell me what it is you really have in +view by all this preparation? Do you expect me to stay here on a +tomb-stone all night, merely because you wish to have an opportunity of +terrifying poor Rubellia by some ghost-like howl or other when she passes +you?—which, by the way, it seems by no means certain she will do at all. +Or what is your purpose?”—“Hush!” was his answer; “ask no questions, but +hem thrice if you hear a footstep—for young ears are the keenest.” +Accordingly silence was kept so strictly, that, in spite of the chillness +of the stone on which I sate, I presently fell into a sort of dozing +slumber. + +By degrees, however,—nor, considering the hour and the fatigue I had +undergone, is it wonderful that it should have been so,—my sleep must have +become sufficiently profound, for I did not at first, on waking from it, +very well remember either where I was, or for what purpose I had come +thither. And, indeed, I have little doubt my slumbers might have continued +till day-break, but for the interruption I am now to mention. + +And yet it seemed as if even in my sleep I had been prepared for this by +some strange anticipation, for although it was a near sound of singing +voices that dispelled my slumbers, and made me start from the stone on +which I had placed myself, I could not help feeling as if that sound were +not altogether new to me;—whether it were that the half-sensible ear had +been already ministering indistinctly to the dreaming spirit, or that some +purely fantastic prelude had been vouchsafed to the real music. I started +up suddenly, that much is certain, and listened with astonishment, yet not +altogether with such surprise as might have been expected to attend a +transition so hasty from sleep to waking, and from silence to the near +neighbourhood of sounds at once so strange and so sweet. With breathless +curiosity, nevertheless, with awe, and not entirely I think without +terror, did I listen to the notes which seemed to ascend out of the +habitation of the noble dead into the nightly air—wild, yet solemn, as if +breathed from the bosom of a stately repose and a pensive felicity; +insomuch, that almost I persuaded myself I was hearing the forbidden +sounds of another world, and the thought came over me,—yet almost I think +at that moment without farther disturbing me,—what fearful interpretations +the old poets have affixed to such untimely communion, and how the +superstition of all antiquity has shrunk from its omen. + +My first impulse, after a moment had elapsed, was to call on Dromo, and I +did so, at first in a low whisper, and then two or three times more +loudly—but all equally in vain, for no answer was returned; and though I +strained my eyes in gazing on the place where I had last seen him, yet +there I could perceive no trace whatever of any human figure. The +moonlight indeed shewed with more distinctness than before the tall stem +of the old pine-tree against which he had been leaning; but no motion, nor +the least appearance of whiteness, could either my eyes or my imagination +discover there. I might easily, you will say, have stept across the road, +and entirely satisfied myself; but I know not well what it was that nailed +me to the place where I stood, and prevented me even from once thinking of +doing so. The calm sepulchral music, my friends, still continued to stream +from the recess of the mausoleum, and painless awe held me there, as if by +a charm incontrollable. I gazed upwards, and beheld the moon riding above +the black pine tops, in a now serene and cloudless heaven. The wind also +had passed away, as it appeared, with the clouds it had agitated. The bird +of night was asleep on her unseen bough; and all was silent as death, +except only the dwelling of the departed; and a certain indescribable +delight was beginning, as I gazed and listened, to be mixed with the +perturbation wherewith at first I had been inspired. + +And I know not how long I might have stood so, but while I was yet +listening to this mysterious music, there was mingled with its expiring +cadence the sound of a heavy footstep on the staircase above me, and +looking up, I perceived in the moonlight the figure of a man, clad in a +white gown, but having a naked sword stretched forth in his hand, +immediately over the place whereon I was standing. I obeyed the first +natural impulse, and leaped downwards swiftly on seeing him; but this +availed me nothing, for he also leaped, and almost before my feet had +touched the ground, I felt the grasp of his hand upon my shoulder, and +that so strongly, that I perceived plainly there was as little possibility +of escape as of resistance. I made therefore no farther effort, but +suffered him to do with me as he pleased; and he, on his part, said not a +single word, but still retaining his hold, pointed with his sword to the +same steps from which I had descended, and compelled me to mount them +before him, up to the very summit of the round tower. + +“Why is this, sir?” said I; “and whither do you conduct me?” + +“Peace,” was all his answer; and, in like manner as he had made me climb +the exterior, so also he compelled me to begin the descent of a similar +flight of steps, which led down from an aperture above, into the interior +of the edifice. And although I must confess to you that I obeyed not this +silent guidance without considerable fear, yet I strove as well as I could +to control myself. I moved with a step in which I think not there could be +perceived any trembling. + +Yet you will admit that even had I been master at that moment of less +firmness, I might have been excusable; for looking down, I perceived that +a lamp was burning in the midst of the sepulchral tower far below me, and +saw sitting around it a company of eight or ten persons, at whose mercy, +it was quite visible, I must be placed. Neither, if I might judge from the +demeanour of the person that was bringing me into their assembly, did +there appear to be any great room for dependance on them; for, as to +themselves, not one of them looked up towards me as I was stepping down, +and being wrapped in their cloaks, I had no means of discovering what +manner of persons they were. The way in which I had been treated, however, +by one of their number, was a sufficient evidence, either that they +conceived themselves to have been injured by my being there, or that they +were capable of taking some undue advantage of my helpless condition. The +calmness of their attitudes, and the recollection of the sounds that I had +heard, inclined me to the former of these suppositions; and when I +perceived that not one of them stirred, even till I had reached the +lowmost step of the interior staircase, in this, without question, I +already felt myself considerably strengthened. + +“Behold,” said my guide, as I at length touched the marble floor of the +mausoleum itself—“Behold proof, and that living, that my suspicions were +not quite so groundless as you were pleased to imagine. Here is a man whom +I found listening, even on the very steps of this tower. It is for you to +decide what shall be done with the eaves-dropper.” + +With this the whole company sprung at once to their feet, and I perceived +evidently, from the surprise expressed in their looks and attitudes, that +until that moment not one of them had been aware of my approach. I was +about to speak, and declare my innocence of any treachery, or even of any +knowledge concerning the purpose of their meeting; but before I could do +so, one of them, and I think the oldest of all that were present, having +in an instant recovered the tranquillity which my arrival had disturbed, +said to me in a voice of the utmost gentleness, “Young man, what has +brought thee hither, or who sent thee? Art thou indeed a spy, and was it +thy purpose to betray our assembly?” + +“Sir,” said I, “I know nothing of your assembly, or of its purpose; I fell +asleep by accident on the outside of this tower, and, when I awoke, the +music that I heard detained me.” + +“Examine the stripling,” quoth he that had conducted me—“examine his +person.”—“His looks belie him,” replied the senior, “if you have cause for +suspicion. But if you will it so, search the young man.” And with that my +guide, laying his unsheathed sword upon a table, or altar of black marble, +proceeded to search my garments, and finding in my bosom the scroll which +I had received from Tisias, he glanced on it for a moment, and then +handing it to the senior, said, “Now, sirs, doubt ye if ye will.”—“Before +heaven—it is the book of the holy Luke!” said the other; “this is indeed +suspicious. How came this scroll into thy hands, young man? Art thou aware +that one of the books of the Christians has been found in thy bosom?”—“I +know it,” said I; “it is one of the books of their faith, and I have read +in it this evening for the first time.”—“Then thou art not thyself a +Christian?”—“I received the book from one Christian,” said I, waiving the +question; “and I made promise to deliver it into the hands of +another?”—“Name the Christian who gave thee this book!” said my stern +guide.—“Tisias of Antioch,” I replied; “the same who died yesterday in the +Amphitheatre.”—“Yes,” quoth he, again; “and I suppose it was there he gave +it to you. Every one knows the name of Tisias. Name, if you please, the +person to whom you are to deliver the book.”—“You shall pardon me,” said +I, “that I will not. You may call me an eaves-dropper, if you will; but +you shall find I am no traitor. It is a Roman—a noble Roman lady to whom I +must give this book; and I would not tell you her name although you should +slaughter me here in this tomb, which I have entered living and without +guilt.” And having said this, I folded my arms, and stood still, abiding +their will. + +But scarcely had I finished these words, ere I felt a small trembling hand +laid upon my shoulder, and looking round, I perceived Athanasia herself, +who whispered into my ear,—“Valerius, was the book for me? If so, you may +say it boldly, and I will vouch for your word.”—“For you, lady,” I +answered in the same tone, “and for none other. You well know that I was +present in his prison the night before his death; so far at least you can +confirm what I have said.” + +“Sir,” said she, addressing the old man that had before questioned me, “I +know this young man: and I believe what he has said, and will be +answerable for his fidelity. It was he that went in to our friend the +other night in his prison, and the book was intrusted to him by the old +man, that it might be given into my hands. His name is Valerius—Caius +Valerius—and he is by birth a noble Roman.” + +“Say you so, lady?” interrupted my original conductor; “then I ask his +pardon. I have wronged Caius Valerius; but both you and he must forgive +me, for it must be confessed he was found in a very extraordinary +situation.” + +“Even so,” I replied, “I have nothing to complain of. I perceive that I am +present in an assembly of Christians; but he shall do me much wrong that +thinks I bear any enmity to them,—or, from all that I have yet seen or +read, to the faith which they profess. I have read part of that book,” I +continued, “for I made promise to Tisias that I should do so before giving +it to Athanasia; and I trust I shall still be permitted by her to read +more of it before it is finally demanded from me.”—“Oh, read it!” said +Athanasia, gently again whispering to me. “Oh yes, read the book, +Valerius, and may God enlighten the reader.” And so saying, she herself +took up the scroll from the table on which it was lying, and gave it again +into my hands.—“There was also a letter for you,” said I, receiving it, +“but that I left at home.”—“No matter,” said Athanasia, “you shall give me +the letter and the book both together hereafter.” + +“In the meantime,” said I, “I suppose it were better I should retire.” + +“Young sir,” said the senior, “that is as you please; in a little while we +shall all be moving towards the city. Stay with us till then, if such be +your will; that which you may hear, can at least do you no harm. Already, +I doubt not, you have seen enough to despise the ignorant calumnies of our +enemies.” + +When he had said so, the old man walked to the side of the sepulchre, and +took out from behind one of the urns that stood there, (ranged in their +niches,) a small casquet, which, returning, he placed before him on the +marble table. Then, opening the casquet, he brought forth a silver goblet, +and a salver containing some little pieces of bread; and, untying from his +neck a massive cross of gold, he set that also on the table, between the +cup and the salver. In brief, the Christian priest, (for such, as you +already see, he was,) had finished his preparation, and was about to +commence the administration of the blessed Eucharist. And when all the +rest were kneeling before the table, Athanasia, laying her hand upon my +arm, beckoned to me to kneel by her side; and so indeed I would have done +in my ignorance, had not the priest himself pointed to a station a few +yards behind the lady, to which, accordingly, I drew back—apart from those +who were to be privileged with the participation of those holy symbols. + +Scarcely had they composed themselves in their places, and listened to the +first words of the appointed service, when I, standing there by myself, +thought, unless my ears deceived me, there must be some one on the outer +stair-case of the tower; and my eyes instinctively, I suppose, were fixed +upon the aperture, which, as I have told you, was in the high roof above +the circle of the niched walls. Here, however, when I first looked, there +was nothing to be seen, but the round spot of the sky, far up in the midst +of the marble roof; but while I was looking steadfastly, that space was +suddenly diminished; and a dog bayed, and at the same moment a voice which +I well knew, screamed, “I have them—I hold them—let them burst the net if +they can.” + +The cry of Pona disturbed effectually the Christian priest, and the whole +of those that were with him. Rising up hastily from their knees, they +stood all together around the table, while the old man, having kissed both +the cup and the cross, restored them as quickly as he could to the casket +from which they had been taken. But while the priest was doing this, he +that found me on the stair appearing to revert into his suspicion, and +looking sternly upon me where I stood, said, “Is this then the innocence +which we spared! Is this the noble Roman for whom Athanasia pledged +herself? Speak, brethren, what shall be done to this traitor, by whom, +even more than by those dogs of the tombs, it is a shame for us that we +have been hunted?” Saying so, the man lifted up his sword again, and it +seemed as if he would have smitten me to the ground without farther +question. But Athanasia threw herself swiftly between him and me. “For +shame, Cotilius,” said she; “such suspiciousness is unworthy of a Roman +knight.”—“You say well, noble damsel,” quoth the old priest, interrupting +her; “but you might say also that such cruelty is unworthy of a soldier of +Christ. Peace, peace, children; there is no evil in the youth, nor, if +there were, would it be our part to avenge it.” + +While he was saying this, three or four blazing torches were thrust down +into the place from above, and Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, +said, “Look up, Caius, I see helmets.—Alas! am I not already here? why, if +they will slay me, should they drag me away now from the tomb of my +fathers?” I felt the trembling of her hands, and she leaned upon my +shoulder. I know not, I will confess to you, whether at that moment I +tasted more of pleasure or of pain. + +But by this time several of the soldiers had already begun to descend into +the tower, and before another minute had elapsed, we found ourselves +surrounded by the flame of their torches. And he that seemed to lead the +party, after counting us one by one, said, turning to his companions, +“Well, an old woman has told the truth for once—here are even more I think +than she warned us of.—Come along, worthy people, you must not keep the +Tribune waiting for you all night, and our watch is well-nigh expired +already. Come, mount the stair—it will take a good half hour yet, I +believe, to lodge you all safely in the Tullian—And do you,” he added, +laying his hand on the hilt of Cotilius’ sword—“do you, brave sir, allow +me to save you the trouble of carrying this bauble.” Nor was the stern +knight so foolish as to dispute the command; but having yielded up his +sword, he forthwith began to ascend, one or two spearmen preceding him +with their torches. The priest followed, and so did the rest; the last +being Athanasia and myself. + +On every side around the old tower, when I looked from the summit of it, I +perceived foot soldiers drawn up in a double line, while the road along +which I had come with Dromo, was occupied by a band of horsemen, one of +whom moved forward when he saw us descending, as if to take cognizance of +the number and quality of the surprised assembly. His long cloak being +muffled about his ears as he sate, and the shadow of his helmet falling +deeply, I did not at first suspect who it was; but he had not counted half +the party to the superior Officer behind him, ere I recognized him from +the sound of his voice; and who, think ye, should it be but my good friend +Sabinus? + +The Centurion, when his eye detected me, checked his horse so sharply that +the animal bounded into the air; and, “Valerius!” quoth he, “ha! by the +life of Cæsar, what is the meaning of this? Valerius in a Christian +synagogue! By all the gods, there must be some mistake.” But before I, in +my confusion, could make any answer to these exclamations, his eye chanced +to glance on Athanasia, who, trembling, still retained the support of my +arm; whereupon, “Ha! ha!” said he, in a quite different tone of voice, +“there is a lady in the case.” And then, stooping in his seat, he +whispered, half laughing, into my ear, “My most hypocritical smooth-face, +you shall see what is the consequence of bringing these transatlantic +pranks of yours to Rome. By Hercules, you wild dog, it may cost you some +little trouble to get out of this scrape.” + +Having said so, he turned his horse, and rejoining the troop, appeared to +enter into close conversation with him who sate at the head of the line. +Of what my friend said, I could catch nothing more than certain vehement +oaths, while, all the time, the Tribune (for such he was) continued to +shake his head, in a way significant at once of doubt and determination. +The end was, that he pointed with his sword; and Sabinus forced his horse +backwards, at one plunge, into the place from which he had advanced. + +Our party were immediately separated one from another. I saw the priest +lifted on a mule and hurried away towards the city, with a horseman on +each hand of him. The fiery Cotilius, and one or two more, were compelled +to follow, with similar attendance, in the same direction; others, again, +had their horses’ heads turned more to the westward—but all departed at +speed, and were soon lost to my view among the projections of the tombs. +The last that remained to be disposed of were Athanasia and myself, and +for a moment I had some hope that we might perhaps be intrusted to the +same guards; but this hope was in vain, and after I perceived that it was +so, scarcely even was time permitted to me for bidding her farewell. To +kiss her hand, and to whisper a single word of parting hope into her ear, +was all I could do. A tear rolled from her cheek and fell upon my hand; +yet she smiled faintly upon me, and “Hope,” said she—“yes, dear Valerius, +Hope and Faith both go with me.” And with that the pale maiden was +separated from the arm to which she had trusted, and I saw her also +mounted and borne away rapidly. A moment after, I found myself, in like +manner, seized and lifted upon a horse, and almost before I could look +around me, we had escaped from the flare of the torches, and the crowd of +the soldiery, and were stretching at a rapid pace, I knew not whither, +although I suspected, from the width of the road, that we had regained the +Appian. + +But I have forgotten to mention to you, that just at the moment when they +were lifting Athanasia upon the mule that was to bear her from my sight, +my eye caught a glimpse of the witch Pona, who was sitting at the root of +one of the pine-trees, close to the tower. And behind her stood, leaning +against the tree, a figure wrapped in a rich red cloak, which I suspected +to be a female also, but could not be certain, because the countenance was +concealed in the folds of the garment. To this person, whoever it might +be, the witch turned round eagerly, while the soldiers were carrying off +Athanasia. I saw no more, for, as I have told you, immediately afterwards +I also was carried away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +Our hasty pace had not borne us to any great distance from the place where +all these things occurred, ere the sky, which, as ye have heard, had all +that night been sufficiently variable, began to exhibit appearances which +my two companions interpreted as significant of the approach of one of +those nocturnal storms, to which, at that season of the year, the fair +heaven of Italy is peculiarly subject. That they apprehended somewhat of +this sort, I perceived from their looks, as they stopped for a moment to +draw the hoods of their mantles over their brazen helmets; for words they +uttered none, either to me or to each other, until our journey drew near +its close. For me, however, the numberless agitations through which I had +passed in the course of the few preceding hours, had, I suppose, +communicated an unnatural measure of ardour to my boyish blood; for +neither did I feel the night-breeze chill me as we rushed through it, nor +partook, in any sort, of the desire my companions testified to cover +themselves from the rain, which seemed to be about to discharge itself out +of all those black and lowering clouds now gathered above our heads from +every region of the heavens. When, on the contrary, the first heavy drops +fell, I bared my forehead with the eagerness of one who, in a parched +region, comes suddenly upon the margin of a well-spring. Nor did this +sensation subside even after the storm had thickened to the utmost, and +the dusty roads had drunk abundantly of the plashing rain. The strong wind +blew with redoubled coolness upon my moistened neck—the rain-drops dashed +on my hot hands; and I perceived, that, as is the nature of those animals, +the thunder which was mustering in the air, filled my horse one moment +with dread, and the next with a blind fierceness. At last the thunder +shouted over-head, and its echoes spread wide and far on either side, +until they seemed to be absorbed to the left in the remote depths of the +Appenine, and on the right hand in the measureless bosom of the Western +Sea—of which, as we galloped along the hill side, the broad lightning +(unless my fancy deceived me) revealed ever and anon a distant and +melancholy glimpse. + +We had passed a hill covered with towns, villages, and stately mansions, +(which I afterwards learned was no other than the famous Alban,) ere the +storm subsided beneath the influence of the reddening dawn. Yet even then +we slackened not our pace, although the horses were by this time not a +little exhausted with the swiftness of their motion, and the weight of +their wet riders. On rode we in the growing light of the morning; but I +perceived ere long that we had left the wide and magnificent Appian Way, +and were pursuing the line of a narrower road, which seemed to carry us +more and more westward. + +We halted for a moment on the brow of a declivity, where three paths +separated; and I perceived that among my guides there was some little +uncertainty as to which of these it behoved them to follow. While they +were muttering together, I looked and beheld at length the wide sea +heaving far below, over what appeared to me to be a forest as mighty as I +had ever seen in my native island. + +Old hoary oaks leaned on either hand quite over the narrow path-way, into +which (after their brief pause of consultation) my conductors directed our +course. Here and there, such a shield had those huge leafy boughs extended +over the road, that the dust rose from amongst the feet of our horses as +if all that night not one drop of rain had fallen there; although +elsewhere, in the absence of such mighty trees, the water lying across the +path in pools testified abundantly that the tempest had not spared the +forest any more than the champaign. Vast waving gulfs of bay and ilex, +with here and there some solitary pine raising itself proudly in the +midst, seemed to stretch away on either hand between the groves of those +gigantic oaks. + +The path we followed carried us ever deeper and deeper into the bosom of +the woods; and, at length, so buried were we in the windings of their +stifling shade, that I had lost all notion of the direction in which I was +moving; until, after two or three hot hours, weary man and jaded horse +were, I believe, equally delighted with snuffing once more the open +current of the air. We reached not the edge of the forest, however, before +I could hear distinctly the dashing of the Mediterranean waves; and the +last ascent we climbed laid open to my view a long sweep of the rolling +waters, and their rocky coast garnished every where with the richness of +superincumbent woods. Far, very far, in the distant north, I thought I +could recognize some of the stately towers of Ostium, bosomed apparently +within the billows over which they presided. All between was one wide +waste of wood and rock, save here and there a watch-tower perched on the +margin, and whitened half-way up with the foam of the yet uncalmed sea. + +Then, nor ever could I look upon the waters of the great deep, without +something of that filial yearning which seems so natural to every native +of our sea-girt island. But neither could I contrast the condition in +which I now approached it, with the gay and hopeful mood in which I had so +lately left it behind me, without many thoughts more sad and serious than +as yet had frequently visited my bosom. What a strange brood of visions +had passed before my eyes, since, but a few days before, I stept for the +first time, light of heart, beneath the shadow of those far-off bulwarks! +What new emotions had arisen, in the interval! How had every sense been +gratified! how had every dream of imagination been exceeded! Yet what a +void had been revealed within!—Alas! said I to myself, why is it that I +have been subjected to all these novelties? Had I not done better to have +remained, after all, where life flowed ever calmly—where affection hung +over me like a protecting buckler, and my soul could sleep in the security +of unbroken faith! But this was only for a moment. The thoughts of +Athanasia haunted me more deeply and more firmly. I thought over every +word she had spoken—every look of hers rose up in succession, with all the +vividness of a beautiful and a troubled dream. I seemed to feel, as if she +were yet present beside me, the trembling of her pale fingers upon my +shoulder—I kissed the hand on which her parting tear had fallen, as if it +were yet wet with the dear moisture. When I thought of the perils in which +she must now be enveloped—of the pains she must have suffered—must at that +moment be suffering,—it was as if I could have burst bands of iron, like +flax, from off my hands. When a glimpse of the darker future opened before +me, I shuddered, and, urging my poor horse onwards in the recklessness of +total abstraction, I perceived that even my guides pitied the agony of my +despair. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +We stopped before one of the watch-towers which, as I have told you, I had +seen scattered along the edge of the sea. But this, when we came up to it, +appeared larger than I had expected to find any of them. The narrow way, +alongst which we had been riding, brought us close to its gate, on the +side towards the land; but the rock shelving rapidly on the other side, +gave it the semblance, at a little distance, of being suspended over the +waves. + +It was a building of rude, and apparently very antique structure, the +under part square, but the upper circular; as is, for the most part, the +old Roman fashion in such erections. And this, indeed, I doubt not, might +have stood there long enough to have shewn a beacon, when some fleet of +Syracuse or Carthage darkened the blue sea over against the Lestrigonian +bay renowned in old song, or the snow-white promontory of Gaieta. + +One of the soldiers dismounted, and began to knock rather violently at the +door; but some little time elapsed ere any sound from within responded to +the clamour he raised. At last a hard and withered face made its +appearance at a little opening above the door, and then the helmets +passed, I suppose, for a sufficient warrant, for in a twinkling we heard +the bolts creaking; the old postern was soon set ajar, and forth stepped +the venerable keeper. Imagine a tall, skinny man of threescore years, with +a face as dry and yellow as ye have seen on the outside of a pye, and hair +as white as ever the skill of a confectioner could represent, and legs +bearing the same proportion to the feet, which the shaft of Saturn’s +scythe usually does to its blade. Clothe the nether part of this figure in +Dacian, or Gaulish breeches, throw a somewhat threadbare cloak over his +shoulders, and to finish the outfit, deck his head with a casque of the +Macedonian cut, that is to say, sitting close above the ears, and topped +with a bristling plume of horse hair. The Warder stood with dignity, and +listened with gravity, while one of my Prætorians whispered his message. +On its conclusion, he shrugged his shoulders, and regarding me with a +glance made up, I think, in pretty equal proportions, of surprise and +contempt, signified by the motion of his hand that we might all three +enter. He whistled at the same moment, and there came forth a comely +damsel, who, with many blushes and smiles, took possession of the reins of +our horses.—“Stand there,” quoth he, “stand there, little Cestia, and see +if there be never a handful of corn to be got for the prince’s +cattle,—stand there, and we shall be with you again anon.” And then he +also whispered something into the maiden’s ear, and I saw her looking at +me from under her eyelids with an expression of very uncommon curiosity. +Two or three curly-pated urchins, of different sizes, joined her at the +same moment, and to them, in her turn, the maiden whispered; whereupon the +eldest of the children retreating behind her, eyed me earnestly along the +skirt of her tunic, while the younger ones continued to gaze where they +were, with looks of open stupidity and wonder. Of all this I could make +nothing at the moment, but when we had got fairly into the inside of the +tower, I heard the children whispering to each other, “A Christian! A +Christian! A Jew! A Jew!” + +The lower part of the tower, into which I had now been conducted, seemed +to form nothing more than one huge, bare, and quadrangular apartment, +serving, I supposed (and rightly) at once as hall and vestibule to the +upper chambers contained within the walls. A small flight of steps, in one +of the corners, seemed to afford the only means of access to what was +above; but from the position of a door immediately below these, it was we +inferred that there were vaults under ground. Close beside this door there +stood, upon a very rude pedestal, a still more rude bust, either of +Jupiter, of Apollo, or of Hercules. The workmanship was such, that I could +not be very certain which of the family it was intended to represent, nor +whether the principal appendage was a club, a lyre, a bow, or a +thunder-bolt; but it did not escape my observation, that the old keeper +crept as close as he could to the sacred stone, as soon as I stepped over +the threshold. + +One of the little boys that had come out to the door on our arrival, +busied himself in setting forth a wooden board, whereon he placed in great +order a huge piece of yellow cheese, and a heap of crisp white cakes of +rye. A large jug of water also garnished the mess; but there seemed to be +a little less of diligence, or more of difficulty, about the wine. After +some pause, however, the mistress of the garrison appeared. A string of +amber beads floated to and fro on the ocean of her bosom. She had fine +golden bracelets on her arms too, but they were only half seen, being +almost buried in fat; and she wore a flaxen wig, which did not entirely +conceal the dark bristles below. At the girdle of the amazon hung, on the +right side, the much desiderated bunch of keys, being balanced on the left +by a dagger and toothpick case, almost of equal dimensions. + +“Will _you_ drink to Cæsar, young man?” cried the matron, ere the sitting +had been much prolonged; “will you drink honestly to the Emperor, in case +you also have a full cup given you? and, by the by, I think you must have +almost as much need of it as the rest.” And, with this courteous +invitation, I heard her whisper to one of my guards,—“By Jove, ’tis a +proper lad, after all; is this true that they have told me of him? Why, I +believe, the young man has a red edge to his gown. What is his name? who +is he?”—I heard him answer,—“By the life of Cæsar, you know as much about +him as any of us. There was a whole cluster taken last night a little way +beyond the Capene-Gate, and he was one; but what they were about, or who +he is, I know not, only he is certainly somebody, for I saw our Centurion +salute him.”—“I saw him with Sabinus,” whispered the other—“I am quite +sure of it, the last day the Amphitheatre was open; they sate together, +and appeared familiar.”—“I pray you, sir,” quoth the lady, raising her +voice,—“I pray you fill your cup, and here I pledge you to our better +acquaintance. You shake your head—well. But what must be, must; and while +you are with us, we may at least be good friends.”—“Thanks,” said I, +complying with her command; “Here, then, is health to all present; and +fair health to the great Trajan, says no one here more heartily than I.”—I +drank off the wine, and setting down the goblet, I believe I said, +“Excellent, by Jove,” or something of that sort; for they all started when +they heard what I said, and the old woman called out lustily, “Fill him +another cup to the brim, whether he be Christian or not. The young man at +least swears by the gods, and drinks to Cæsar.” + +“The old man,” observed one of the soldiers,—“he that was killed the other +day in the Amphitheatre—he might have saved his head, even at the last +moment, if he would have done as much.”—“Well, well,” quoth she again; +“let every one mind his own matters. Husband, bring down your book, and +let the new-comer enter his name with his own hand.” + +Having drained his cup, the keeper rose, and ere long returned with a +musty scroll of parchment, which, having blown away the dust from it, he +presented to me. I glanced over the record, and found in it the names of +various persons, all apparently entered in their own handwriting; and most +of them, as I could perceive, bearing date in the troublous reign of +Domitian. The last was that of Marcus Protius Lamontanus, who, as it +seemed, had been set free from his confinement immediately on the +accession of Nerva; and immediately under this I wrote my own name, with +that of my birthplace. The keeper read, and said, “So preserve me the +power of Jove! A Valerius! and born in Britain! Can you be the son of the +same Valerius who was Centurion in the ninth legion under Agricola?”—“You +have guessed rightly—I am the same.”—“Then the more is the pity,” he +replied, in a grave voice, “that you should have entered, in such a case +as this, the dwelling of one that was a true soldier beneath the eagle of +your father. But forgive me if in any thing we have been +disrespectful.”—“There is no occasion,” said I, “for any such apology. I +am here as a prisoner, and have been treated with all courtesy beyond what +a prisoner could expect.” + +“By Hercules!” interrupted the spouse, “I thought I had some knowledge of +the face—Well, I hope ten years hence he will be as fine a man as his +father was the day he slew the Caledonian giant, and tumbled him from his +chariot in front of all the line—yes, in sight of Galgacus himself. It was +the same day,” said she, turning to her lord, “that you were taken +prisoner, and driven away into the woods.”—“As witness these marks,” quoth +the man; and with that he stripped open his tunic, and displayed part of +his breast, stamped with various figures of blue and yellow, after the +northern fashion, and bearing withal the traces of two formidable wounds. + +The woman redoubled her kindness; but not wishing to interrupt festivity, +I soon requested her to shew me the place where I was to be confined. And, +indeed, as you may imagine, I had by this time not a little need of +repose. + +Both she and her husband accordingly rose to usher me to my prison. I gave +money to the soldiers, and requested them to inform Sabinus of the place +to which I had been conveyed; but did not choose to write any thing, +either to him or to Licinius, until I should have had a little time for +reflection. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +My fatigue brought speedy sleep; and so profound, that before I again +unclosed my eyes, the calm sea was already purple below me, and the sun +about to set. But neither purple sea, nor golden sky, nor all the divine +tranquillity of the evening air, could sooth my mind into repose, after I +had once awaked to a sense of the situation into which I had been +brought—I should say rather of the situation in which Athanasia was +placed. For myself, I could not in seriousness fear any calamity worthy of +the name,—if such should come, it must be my business to wrestle with it +as I might. But to think of her, young, beautiful, innocent; and of all to +which she might be exposed amidst the rude hands in which I had left her! + +Some time had passed before my attention was attracted by a conversation +carried on in the chamber below me, in which you will not be surprised +that I should have felt myself interested, even although the distance was +such that I could not distinguish one word that was said. I knew from the +first moment that it was impossible I should be mistaken—I was perfectly +certain it was Sabinus himself, who was talking with the old woman; and I +at once suspected that the worthy Centurion, having learned from the +soldiers who carried me off, to what place they had conveyed me, had +undertaken this speedy journey, for the purpose of comforting me in my +confinement. The kindness with which he had treated me from the beginning +of our acquaintance had been such, that I could have no occasion to wonder +at his exerting himself to discover me; but I confess this alacrity was +more than I had been prepared for, and I waited only for the moment when +he should enter my apartment to throw myself upon his bosom, and intrust +all my troubles to him, as to a friend and a brother. There was something, +however, which I could not at all comprehend in the merriment which seemed +to be reigning below on his arrival. Peals of female laughter interrupted +the uniform hearty tone of the Centurion’s voice; and the feeble treble of +the old Warder himself was stretched ever and anon in attempt at a +chuckle. + +At last in they came, and Sabinus, embracing me affectionately, thrust +into my hand a piece of parchment, which I perceived to be nothing less +than an order for my immediate release. Then taking off his riding-cap, +and rubbing with his handkerchief his most audacious and soldier-looking +brows, “My dear boy,” quoth he, “I see you are going to thank me—but wound +not modesty by fine speeches. There was war before Helen—have a better +care another time, and don’t pay Rome such a poor compliment, as to say +that you can find nobody to charm you but a Christian damsel, and no place +for flirtation but a gloomy tomb lined with urns and lachrymatories. My +honest friend here was quite frightened with the idea of having such an +unbelieving reprobate as they said you were, under the same roof with her +children. But now her fears are dispelled, for good souls are always +tolerant to the little vagaries of young blood; so thank your hostess, my +lad, kiss her hand, take one cup to the hearth of the old tower, and +tighten your girdle.” + +“Well!” quoth the woman; “who should have thought when the soldiers +brought him in with such mystery, that it was all for kissing by +moonlight! I protest to Venus, they would have made me believe he had been +caught eating an infant; but still I cannot quite pardon him. Well—well—we +must e’en take good hope he will mend ere he dies.” + +“Die?” cried the Centurion; “do you talk of dying to one that has scarcely +yet begun to live!—Come, come, Caius, I hope, after all, you may never get +into a worse scrape.” + +“And if I do,” said I, “I hope I shall always be equally fortunate in my +jailers.” + +“By the beard of Jove!” quoth Sabinus, “it needs no great skill to see +that you have been fortunate in that respect. I swear that, if the truth +were known, you are almost as unwilling to leave this tower now, as you +were last night to be torn away from another.” + +“Oh, Master Kæso,” quoth she again, “when will you have done with your +joking? Well, your father loved a jest in his time himself; but now he, I +suppose, is quiet enough. And he, good old man, how does he wear?—Can he +still sit in his porch of a fine morning, and listen to the news, as he +used to do, with his cup at his knee?” + +“I trust the old grasshopper can still chirp when the sun shines. But to +tell you the truth, it is long since I have seen him; and if this young +blade has no objection, I mean to pay him a visit this very night. I am +only just come home from Britain, and have not yet had leisure to salute +my Lares.” + +I said something about being anxious to return as soon as possible to +Rome; but the Centurion answered me with another shout, “Come, come; she’s +safe enough. I suppose you think every one gets out of jail as easily as +yourself.” + +I found it was out of the question to disapprove of any of the schemes of +Sabinus; so, having saluted the hostess, and flung my purse to her +children, (who, by the way, still regarded me with looks of apprehension,) +I accompanied him with a good grace to the gate. I made inquiry before I +went forth concerning the old jailer likewise; but I could easily gather +from the expression of face with which his wife accompanied her indistinct +reply, that he had, long before that time, reached a state in which she +felt little desire to exhibit him. The Centurion whistled as he stepped +across the threshold, and there forthwith drew near a soldier, wearing the +Prætorian helmet, (now sufficiently familiar to my sight,) and leading in +his hand three horses. In the rear, I recognized, not without +satisfaction, the busy countenance of my friend Dromo, whose ass did not +appear quite so eager to join the party as its rider. A few sturdy thumps, +however, at last brought the Cretan close to us, who saluted me with great +appearance of joy, and then whispered into my ear, “Great Jove! we must +keep silence for the present. What a story I have to tell; and I suppose +there is one to hear likewise—but all in good season. We must not crack +nuts before monkeys. I have a letter for you,” he added, “from Sextus, and +another from Licinius.” + +The Centurion sprung on his trusty war-horse, who seemed to rejoice in the +feeling of his weight; and we were soon in motion. I asked no questions +either about the course or distance, but rode by his side so silently, +that he bestowed on me many good-natured rebukes, for suffering a little +affair of love to distress me so greatly. “Cheer up now,” quoth he, “and +do not make me repent of carrying you to my father’s house, by shewing the +old man, who has had enough of troubles, such a countenance as must make +him think of Orcus, even although he did not know himself to be near its +gates. It is more than a year since I have seen him.” + +This sort of speech he repeated so often, that I thought the best way +would be to tell him frankly the true history of the adventure, from whose +immediate consequences he had delivered me. I told him, therefore, every +thing about both Tisias and Athanasia, and, indeed, kept nothing from him +in the whole matter, except only what referred to the impression made on +my own mind by what I had read of the Christian book,—for, as to this +subject, it was one which I totally despaired of being able to make him in +any measure comprehend,—and besides, the state of my own mind was still so +uncertain in regard to it, and my information so imperfect, that I could +not trust myself with speaking of it to any one, until I should have had +leisure for more both of reading and of reflection. + +He preserved silence for some minutes, and then said, “In truth, Caius, +you have distressed me. I thought it was merely some little frolic born of +an hour, to be forgotten in a day; but I cannot refuse you my sympathy. +Would I had more to offer!”—“Dear Sabinus,” said I, “I know not how to +thank you. You saw me but a few days ago the merriest young fellow that +ever trod the pavement of Rome—happy in the moments that passed, and full +of glad hopes for all that were to come; but now I feel myself quite +changed. Almost I wish I had never left my British fields; and yet I +should never have seen Athanasia.”—“Poor fellow!” quoth he, laying his +hand on the mane of my horse, “I perceive there is, indeed, no trifling in +your case. Compose yourself; whatever chances there may be in your favour +will never be bettered by despondence.” He paused a little, and +proceeded—“The worst of the whole is this new bitterness against these +Christians. Except during Nerva’s time, there was always some punishment +to be feared by them, in case of being detected; but there was a way of +managing things in almost every case, and people were well enough disposed +to grant immunities which were always attended with some good to the Fisk. +Nero and Domitian, to be sure, acted otherwise—but these were madmen; and +even they did so only by fits and starts. But now, when a prince like +Trajan has taken up the matter, it is no wonder that one should consider +it more seriously. One cannot help fancying he must have had some good +reason before he began—that is one thing; and having once begun, he is not +the man to drop it lightly—which is a more weighty consideration. Do you +think there is positively no chance of her giving up this dream, when she +finds what it has exposed her to?” + +“No,” said I; “I am sure she will not, nor can I wish it would be +otherwise with her.” + +“Well,” he resumed, “I enter into your feelings so far, my friend, even on +that point. I cannot imagine you to have been so deeply smitten with a +girl of a flighty unsteady character. But then this is not a case to be +judged of on common principles. It is no light thing to be exposed to such +examinations as are now set afoot for these people; and if she behaves +herself so resolutely as you seem to expect, what is the end of it? I +consider it highly probable—for there is no friendship in uncandid +speaking—that, in spite of all her friends can do, they will banish her at +the very least; scarcely dare I speak of it, but even worse than +banishment has heretofore befallen Romans—ay, Roman ladies too,—and these +as high in birth and place as Athanasia.” + +“My dear Sabinus,” said I, “do not imagine that now for the first time all +these things are suggested to me. Imagine rather, how, unable for a moment +to expel them from my mind, I have spent these miserable hours. Her +friends, too, what must not be their alarm!” + +“The thing was so done,” quoth the Centurion, “that I think it is +impossible it should have made much noise as yet. If there was in the +family no suspicion that the lady had any connection with these people, +they must be in perfect perplexity. I lay my life they take it for granted +she has had some private intrigue, and has gone off with her lover.” + +“Alas!” said I, “when they hear the truth, it will be still worse than +this in their eyes. Yet it appears fit that no time should be lost in +making them acquainted with the real state of the case. O Sabinus, I +foresee that in all these things I shall have need of your counsel and +your help.” + +“You shall have them both, my dear boy,” said he,—“you shall have them +both to the uttermost. But there is no question at all about the propriety +of telling the relations all you know. Licinius is probably well +acquainted with them. I am almost sorry for having prevented your +immediate return to the city; and yet one night will soon be over.” + +“But Athanasia herself——” + +“Ah! that indeed is a point of some difficulty. It was merely from having +remembered who the men were that rode off with you, that I was enabled to +learn so soon whither you yourself had been conveyed. But the party +consisted of a few men out of almost every one of our cohorts,—those, in +short, that were on duty, scattered up and down in different parts of the +city; and I may not find it very easy to discover who had the care of any +other individual.” + +“But Athanasia——” + +“True,” said he, “I had not thought of it. There was but one female +besides herself. That will furnish a clue. You may rely on it, I shall +easily find out the place to which they have taken her; but then where, +and at what distance that may be, Heaven only knows; for it seemed as if +every prisoner were to be carried to a separate place of confinement. At +all events, even if we knew where she is, we could do nothing at present. +Come, cheer up, now you have unburdened yourself of all this load. I shall +be ready to start as early as ever you please in the morning.” + +By this time the moon was in full splendour, and nothing could be more +beautiful than the scenery of the native place of Sabinus, as we drew near +to its precincts. A little gentle stream, which kissed our path, did not +desert us as we entered the village, but murmured all through its humble +street. Street, indeed, I should not say; for there were dwelling-houses +on the one side only, the other being occupied with gardens, in the midst +of which I saw the Doric portico of a small temple. In front of this a +bridge crossed the stream, and there we were met by a troop of maidens, +who seemed to be moving toward the sacred place with some purpose of +devotion, for they were singing in alternate measures, and in their hands +they carried garlands. Some recognized Sabinus, and, without interrupting +their chant, saluted him with their laughing eyes. We halted our horses, +and saw them proceed all together into the hallowed enclosure, which they +did, not by means of the bridge, although they were close by it, but by +wading hand in hand through the stream below; whose pebbles, as it +appeared from the evenness of their motion, dared not to offer any +violence to the delicate feet that trod upon them. “Happy creatures,” said +I to the Centurion; “of a surety they think these moonbeams shine on +nothing but glad faces like their own. Alas! with what heart does poor +Athanasia at this moment contemplate this lovely heaven!”—“Nay, Valerius,” +quoth he, “if people were not to be contented with their own share of +sorrow, would the world, think ye, be worth living in? I hope Athanasia +herself will ere long sing again by the moonlight.—But stop, here is my +own old haunt, the abode of our village barber, and now I think of it, +perhaps it might be as well that you and Dromo should remain here for a +moment, till I ride on to the house, and let them know you are coming, for +the sudden sight of strange faces might alarm the old folks at this hour.” + +He had scarcely said so, when the tonsor himself, hearing, I suppose, the +sound of our horses’ feet, ran out with his razor and basin in his hand, +to see what might be the matter. “Ah, good Virro,” quoth the Centurion, +“with joy do I once more behold your face. Well, the girls still sing, and +Virro still shaves; so every thing, without question, goes well.”—“The +Centurion himself!” replies the barber; “so Venus smile upon me, it is +Kæso Sabinus, who I began to think would never come back again.—Here, boy, +bring out a cup of the best. Alight, I pray you—well, at least, you shall +kiss the rim of the goblet.”—“I will,” said he, “I promise you, my good +friend, and that in a minute or two; but I must first salute my father; +and, in the meantime, I leave with you in pledge, good Virro, my excellent +friend here, and the most knowing Cretan that ever landed at +Brundusium.—Dismount, Valerius, I shall be with you again ere Virro can +half smoothen the chin of Dromo, which even this morning shewed no small +need of trimming.”—“Well, well,” said the tonsor, “eagles will have their +own way. Be speedy.” + +The Centurion had set the spur to his charger; and we, in obedience to his +command, submitted ourselves to the guidance of the oily-faced little +barber. A stripling was already holding two horses at the door, but +another came out and took care of our animals, and we entered, exchanging +courteous salutations, the tonsorial penetralia. + +They were occupied by as various and talkative a company, as the +imagination of Lucilius ever assembled in such a place. In the middle of +the room, which was spacious, though low-roofed, hung a huge shield of +brass, with a dozen mouths of flame blazing around the edge of its +circumference, close beside which sat a man with a napkin tucked about his +neck, the one side of whose visage, still besmeared with a thick coat of +lather, testified that the curiosity of Virro had induced him to abandon a +yet uncompleted job. The half-trimmed physiognomy, however, displayed no +sign of impatience, and the barber himself seemed not to think any apology +necessary, for he resumed his operations with an air of great +cheerfulness, saying, “Neighbours all, here is Kæso Sabinus, that is now +the Centurion, come once more to gladden the old village with his merry +face, and that, I promise you, is prettily tanned since we knew him +first.” + +This piece of news appeared not a little to interest several of those who +were sitting under the tonsor’s roof. “Ha!” said one, “the noble +Centurion! Well, has he brought home a wife with him at last? for the talk +was, that he had been seen at the Amphitheatre, paying great court to one +of the richest ladies in Rome.” + +“A wife?” says Virro, “no, no, centurions and barbers can do without +wives. But if he is to have one, I shall be happy to hear she is rich; for +centurions, after all, sometimes carry most of their silver upon their +helmets, as we do most of our brass on our basins.”—“Indeed,” said I, “I +never heard of it before.” + +“If it please you, friend,” said another of them, “is this the same +Sabinus that has lately been in Britain?”—“Britain,” quoth an ancient +dame; “I never heard that name before—Britain! I know it not—I know not +where he hath been, but they told me it was over the sea, perhaps in +Palestine.”—“Tut, dame,” interrupted the barber, (who was now busy on +Dromo,) “you think every one goes to Palestine, because your own boy +carried a spear with Titus; but you know they ruined the city, and killed +all the Jews and Christians, and there is no occasion for sending +Centurions thither now.”—“Killed all the Jews and Christians, said you?” +quoth another. “I think the old dame has the better of you as to that +point at least, Virro. Not Trajan himself will ever be able to kill them +all; the superstition spreads like a pestilence. It was but last night +that a hundred of them were taken together in one place, eating human +flesh.”—“Human flesh!” quoth the barber. “Oh, ye gods, why do ye endure +such barbarians!” + +“Human flesh!” echoed Dromo, springing from his seat, and I looked at him, +and saw that the barber in his horror had made in truth a deep incision +upon the cheek of the poor man. The blood, oozing from the cut, had +already traced a river of crimson upon the snowy surface of his +well-soaped chin. It was this that had deranged the philosophic composure +and customary phlegm of my Cretan; and no wonder; but the enthusiastic +tonsor took no notice of what had occurred.—“Great Jove,” he proceeded, +and he pointed to the roof with his razor as he spake—“Great Jove! I +adjure thee! are all thy lightnings spent; is there never a thunderbolt +remaining?” + +“In the meantime,” quoth one of the bystanders, “they are in the hand not +of Jove, but of Trajan, and he, I think, cannot now be accused of treating +these wretches with too much lenity. You have all heard of that +Tisias?”—“We have,” cried another; “but what was a single individual to +this great assembly? what a sight will it be the day they are all +executed!” + +“I think,” said the same person who had inquired whether our Centurion +were the Sabinus that had been in Britain,—“I think you are overrating the +numbers of that assembly. I heard of no more than a dozen.” + +This stranger (for such he seemed) had probably taken that day a +considerable journey, for his tunic and boots were covered with dust. He +was attired in the plainest manner, but notwithstanding, there was +something about him which gave one the idea of rank superior to the +company in which he was seated; and his complexion was so dark that I +could not help thinking to myself,—I am not the only provincial in the +room; here is certainly some well-born African or Asiatic. + +“You have not told me, however,” said he, after a pause, “whether or not +this be the Sabinus that was lately in Britain.”—“Sir,” said I, “it is the +same; I myself came in the same ship with him, but a few days ago. He is a +Centurion in the Prætorian Bands.”—“Yes,” replied the stranger, “I guessed +in truth, it must be the same; for I remember no other of that rank +bearing the same name.”—“If you are acquainted with him,” said I, “you may +have an opportunity of seeing him immediately, for I expect him here every +moment to conduct me to his father’s villa, which is hard by.” + +“Well,” quoth the barber, who by this time had ended, without fresh +misadventure, the trimming of the Cretan—“well, I hope he will stay for a +moment when he does come, and then we shall be sure to hear the truth as +to this story about the Christian assembly. They may talk as they please, +but may Jove devote me, if I had Cæsar’s ring upon my finger for one +night, this should be the last of them.”—“And how, friend,” said the +stranger, “by what means, if I may ask you, should you propose so speedily +to do away with this fast-spreading abomination?”—“Look ye, sirs,” quoth +he, “I would place myself thus in my tribunal”—(he took his seat at a +little table, beside a goblet of wine, as he spake,) “I would seat myself +thus in the midst of a field, as Cato and the great Censors of old used to +do. I would cause Rome to be emptied—man, woman, and child should pass +before me; and every one that did not acknowledge the gods as he passed, +by all the gods! he should sprawl upon a tree in presence of all the +people. What avails watching, prying, spying, and surprising? I should +make shorter work of it, I trow.” + +“You may say what you will,” said one who had not before spoken, “I cannot +bring myself to believe every thing I hear concerning their +superstition.”—“Ay, goldsmith,” quoth the barber, “you were always fond of +having an opinion of your own; and, pray, what is it that you have had +occasion to know about the Christians, more than the rest of us who hear +you? If you mean that you have seen some of them die bravely in the +Amphitheatre, why, that we have all heard of at least, and I think nobody +disputes it.”—“No, master barber,” replied he, “that is not what I was +thinking of. I have seen your common thief-knave, when he knew he could do +no better, brace you his nerves for the extremity, and die like a +Hercules. I would rather judge of a man by his living than his +dying.”—“True,” rejoins Virro; “and pray, what have you got to tell us +about the life, then, of the Christians?”—“Not much,” said he, “you shall +hear. My old mother (peace to her manes) was passing the Salarian one day +last year, and there came by a hot-headed spark, driving four abreast in a +chariot as fiercely as Nero in the Circus. He called out, that I believe, +but the dame was deaf, and whether he tried to pull up, I know not, but +the horses trod upon her as she fell. Another of the same sort came close +behind, and I have been told they were running a race; but however that +might be, on they both passed like a whirlwind, and my poor mother was +left by herself among the flying dust. But the gods had mercy on her; they +sent a kind heart to her aid. She was carried into one of the stateliest +villas on that side of Tiber, and tended for six weeks by a noble lady, as +if she had been not my mother, but her own; and this lady, friends—by Jove +I suspected it not for long after—this lady was a Christian; but I shall +not say how I found it out, nor would I mention the thing at all but among +honest men. But where were these you spoke of taken?—I should like to know +who they were.” + +“They were taken,” said the stranger, “not far from the Appian Way, within +one of the old monuments there,—a monument, it is said, of the +Sempronii.”—“Of the Sempronii?” cried the goldsmith, “Phœbus Apollo shield +us!” and from that moment he became as silent as hitherto he had been +communicative. + +The swarthy stranger, the silence yet continuing, arose from his seat, +laid a piece of money upon the table, and moved towards the door. The +barber also rose up, but he said to him, “Sit still, I pray you, my +friend;” at the same time beckoning with his finger to the goldsmith, who, +with a very dejected countenance, followed him into the street. What +passed between them there, we perceived not; but the artificer re-entered +not the chamber till some moments after we had heard the departing tread +of the stranger’s horses. When he did come in again, he had the appearance +of being in great confusion. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +Shortly after Sabinus reappeared, and bidding adieu to our tonsor, we +walked with him towards the paternal mansion,—and we soon reached it; for, +as I have already said, it was but a little way out from the village. + +The dwelling was modest enough, having no external ornament but a single +portico, with a few statues ranged between its pillars. We entered by this +portico, and found the feeble old man sitting by himself in an apartment +immediately adjacent, wherein the beams of the moon, having partial +access, were mingled with the subdued light of a painted lamp suspended +from the ceiling. The father of my friend had all the appearance of +sinking apace; yet he received me with an air, not of cheerfulness, but of +kindness. The breeze found admission through the open pillars, and his +countenance exhibited in its wan and faint lines the pleasure with which +the coolness affected him. Beside him were placed baskets of roses, +gathered from the abundance of his gardens. The young Vernæ, who from time +to time brought in these flowers, came into the chamber with a decent +appearance of sobriety and concern; but they were never long gone before +we could hear them laughing again at their play.—“Poor children,” quoth +the old man; “why should they trouble themselves with thinking of the not +remote victim of Orcus?”—To which the Centurion replied, somewhat +softening that loud and cheerful tone with which he was accustomed to +address all persons—“Courage, my dear father, you must not speak so. +Cerberus, I perceive, has only been making an ineffectual snap at you, and +you will be growing younger after all this.” + +At which the old man shook his head, without any external sign of emotion, +and replied, in a low monotonous voice,—“Younger in the wrong way, my boy; +for I become every day smaller in body, and feebler, and less able to do +any thing to help myself. Nor am I unconscious that I have seen my due +proportion of time. And yet, oh! fast sliding gentle brook, which I see +between these paternal trees—I am still loath to exchange thee for Styx, +and to lose the cheerful and sacred light of the sun and moon. I wish only +I were once more able to repair with thy stream to the banks of father +Tiber, that I might salute the good Emperor, who has been so kind to my +son, and who would treat even an old broken-down, and long-retired +soldier, like myself, with more favour than is to be expected from +Rhadamanthus. As clouds let down their drops, so the many-peopled earth +lets fall dismissed ghosts upon the Stygian shore.” + +While he was saying things in the same strain, an ancient Egyptian, who +seemed to have the chief management of every thing, came into the chamber, +and after desiring some of the boys to bring forth refreshments, took his +place on a low stool by the foot of his master’s couch. “Come, Tarna,” +said the Centurion, “what has become of all your philosophy? Why do you +not inspire our friend with less of gloominess? Why is it that you do not +bring out for his use some of those old stories, with which, when I was +young, you were more willing to treat my ears than they were to attend?” + +“Nay,” said the invalid, before the Egyptian could make any answer,—“I +liked well to listen to his Epicurean theories when I was able to walk +about the fields; but now I would rather have him be silent. Do not +trouble me any more, good Tarna, with any of your speeches. Allow me to +believe as all my fathers did, and to contemplate not only the sepulchre +in which their urns are placed, but the same dim regions in which many +dear shades expect the greeting of a descendant.” + +“To me,” said the slave modestly, “it still seems, that by the rushing +shower of atoms which moves every where through space, the mind is +soothed, as by the sound of a great river carrying continually the watery +offspring of the mountains into the bosom of ocean. The mind, sirs, +appears to me to be calmed by the contemplation of infinity, even as the +ear of an Egyptian sleeper is calmed by the eternal music of rolling +Nilus. It mingles itself with that which it contemplates; it perceives—it +feels itself to be a liquid part of that vast endless stream of universal +being: a part which has been casually arrested and detained, but which +will soon mingle again and be scattered away in a thousand fragments, to +wander, no one knows whither, through the great all-receiving void—not to +lose existence, for in that my dear master entirely misunderstands me—but +to cease from feeling as a Sabinus, or a Tarna.” + +The old man kept regarding his Egyptian with a placid smile; but I could +not help interposing: “What is this you have said? Do you assert that I +can cease to be Valerius, to feel as Valerius, and yet not lose my +existence? Can I _be_, and yet not be _myself_?” + +“Most easily,” replied he; “the divided fragments may move about for a +thousand years, before it befall any of them to be stopped in some future +combination of atoms. These, it is manifest, only tremble and suffer when +they form part of a soul, but are immediately released from all pain or +mischance, when this confinement and cohesion are at an end, and they, +being dispersed, regain liberty and wander about singly, as of yore; for, +as our great dispeller of delusion says—When death is, we are not. If, +therefore, Sabinus shrinks from the fear of death, it is an idle fear. +Does he not perceive that when death arrives, Sabinus is no longer to be +found. Whatever its effects may be, they must affect not him, but an army +of innumerable disjointed essences, in no one of which could he by any +means be able to recognize himself.” + +“To make a short story out of a very long one,” interrupted the Centurion; +“life, you think, is not worthy of the name of existence—that being so, it +is no wonder you should think lightly of death.” + +“Mistake me not,” quoth the sage; “no—life _is_ existence; I not only +admit that, but I assert that it is the business of every man, and the +sole true object of wisdom, to render life, while it endures, pleasant. +Earthly pleasure consists in a bland juxta-position of atoms necessarily, +though not permanently, connected; the removal of pain implies that +quiescence which pervades the nobleness of the unenclosed ALL. To exist in +this shape, we are compelled; it is our business to render our existence +as near an approach to felicity as we may.” + +“Fill your cup, Tarna,” quoth the Centurion; “I am no great philosopher, +yet methinks I can see the drift of this part of your story. Fill up your +goblet, most venerable Epicurean, and see (if it be not below your +dignity,) whether the atoms, which, by a fortuitous and temporary +juxta-position have formed your throat, will not feel their corners very +philosophically softened by the rushing of a little rivulet of good +Falernian—one cup of which, saving your presence, I hold to be more worthy +of wetting my guttural atoms, than all the water that ever sported its +music between Memphis and Alexandria.” + +While the slave and the Centurion were thus discoursing, the old man +appeared to taste, as it were, the pleasure of a renovated existence, in +contemplating the brown health and strong muscular fabric of the inheritor +of his name. The hearty masculine laugh with which my friend usually +concluded his observations, was, I take leave to think, richer music to +his ears than ever Egyptian heard in the dark rollings of the Nile, or +Epicurean dreamt of in the airy dance of atoms. I suspect he was more +reconciled to the inevitable stroke of fate, by considering that he was to +leave such a representative behind him, than by any argument which his own +superstition, or the philosophy of his attendant, could suggest. In return +for this obvious admiration, the Centurion, without question, manifested +every symptom of genuine affection. Yet, I think, the instinctive +consciousness of his own strength made the piety of the robust son assume +an air more approaching to that of patronage, than might have been +altogether becoming. If such a fault there were, however, it escaped the +notice of the invalid, who continued, till Tarna insisted upon his +retiring, to gaze upon my friend, and listen to his remarks, with looks of +exultation. + +The Centurion withdrew with his father, so that I was left alone with +Tarna for some time; and it was then that, in my juvenile simplicity, I +could not help expressing my surprise at finding in servile condition a +man possessed of such acquirements as his, and addicted to such pursuits. + +“It would argue little,” he replied, “in favour of such pursuits, if they +tended only to make me repine at the place which has been allotted me—no +matter whether by the decree of fate, or the caprice of fortune. And after +all, I am not of opinion that any such external circumstances can much +affect the real happiness of any one. Give to him that has been born a +slave, what men are pleased to call his freedom; in a few weeks he will +become so much accustomed to the boon, that he will cease to think of it. +Heap wealth upon him; to wealth also he will gradually become habituated. +Rank—power—with all it is the same. It is in the mind only that the seat +of happiness is placed; and there it never can be, unless in companionship +with thoughts that look down upon, and despise being affected by trifling +things.” + +“And are such,” said I, “the views of all those who follow your sect?” + +“I wish it were so,” he replied; “but ere you remain long in the city, you +will meet with not a few, philosophers only in the name, who, having small +means of subsistence, but being desirous of leading a luxurious and +agreeable life, become teachers of such doctrines as may accord best with +the vicious inclinations of those who are most likely to entertain them. +These persons assume too often the name of Epicureans. They are seen every +where at feasts crowned with myrtle, and fawning upon gouty senators; and +whenever a boar’s-head appears, they are sure to call it worthy of +Meleager. Their conversation is made up of stale jests about Charon and +his boat, and the taking of Auguries; and, when finally inebriated, they +roll upon the ground like those animals, to whom, in consequence of the +proceedings of such hypocritical pretenders, the ignorant have dared too +often to liken the wisest of mankind. Such things I disdain—I am satisfied +to remain, as I was born, in the rank of Æsop, Epictetus, Terence.” + +By this time the Centurion had returned. He had a lamp in his hand; and he +interrupted our conversation. “Come, we start betimes, Caius; and you too, +my sweet cock of Cyrene, I think you had better fold your wings, and +compose yourself upon your roost.” + +Oh, enviable temperament! said I to myself—you liken the slave to a bird. +Methinks yourself are more deserving of the simile. The light and the air +of heaven are sufficient to make you happy—your wings are ever +strong—their flight ever easy—and the rain of affliction glides off them +as fast as it falls. Sleep softly, kind heart. It is only the troubles of +a friend that can ever disturb your serenity. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +I was in bed before Dromo interrupted my reflections by saying, in a low +tone of considerable confidence, “And now, Master Valerius, do you still +continue, as much as two days ago, to disbelieve in philtres and despise +enchantresses? You see what, with all my precaution, has come of this +connection between Rubellia and the Neapolitan.” + +“In truth, Dromo,” I replied, “it is visible that Pona had some share in +leading the soldiers to the Sempronian Sepulchre; but I am doubtful if +that had any thing to do with the private affairs of the lady Rubellia. As +to that matter, I confess myself entirely in the dark.”—“Dark indeed,” +quoth he, “must your observation have been, if you have yet to learn that, +but for that accursed witch, nothing of all this had befallen; but if +there be an edict against the Christians, there are twenty laws against +sorcery; and that both Pona and she that consulted her shall know well ere +long, if they do not as yet know it; or may Cretan change places with +Bœotian!”—“Say on, good Dromo,” I replied, “I am all ears; and as you +appear to have been all eyes, I shall probably soon be more enlightened.” + +“Well,” quoth he, “I am glad to find that you are in a mood to listen to +me decently. You remember where I took my station when you mounted those +unfortunate steps upon the tower. I had not stood there many minutes +before I heard somebody approaching; and having no doubt it was Rubellia, +I was preparing myself for giving her such a salutation as I thought would +put a speedy end to her wandering for that night. On came the steps, but +no Rubellia. No; it was Xerophrastes himself; and although he had laid +aside the Greek mantle, and donned a boatman’s black cloak for the nonce, +I promise you I knew his stately gait well enough beneath all these new +trappings. It was no part of my job, however, to attempt frightening the +stoic.”—“And so you let him pass without doing any thing?”—“I did; I +confess I gave one or two groans after he had gone on a few paces, but I +did not observe him much quicken his walk, and I believe, to do the man +justice, he set it all down to the wind rustling among the trees. But I +thought not much of him at all, to speak the truth; for, said I to myself, +Well, if it be as I have suspected for these two blessed days, and this +master long-beard is really in league with the widow, the chances are, she +herself is not far behind him. I lay by, therefore, and expected in +silence till I should hear another tread; and in the meantime I spoke to +you once or twice across the path, but you made me no answer, for which +you know your own reasons.”—“The reason,” said I, “was a very simple one, +I assure you. I had fallen asleep, and no wonder, for you know how long I +had been a watcher.”—“Well,” said he, “I guessed as much, and it was +nothing but the born tenderness of my disposition, which made me cease +from offering you any disturbance. I thought I should surely be enough +single-handed for the widow; and besides, in case of need, I knew your +waking would always be in my power.” + +“Admirably reasoned, Dromo,” said I; “and so it seems no need came, for +you certainly never awakened me; for which I may thank the bonds from +which the Centurion’s kindness has just set me free. But you have atoned +abundantly—I pray you, get on with your tale.” + +“Presently,” he resumed, “I heard footsteps, indeed, my good master, and +not footsteps alone, but voices; and I moved from the place as hastily as +I could, till I came to a tree, the branches of which, springing low on +the trunk, offered an opportunity for mounting, which I should have been a +Bœotian indeed had I neglected. I mounted, and hiding myself as well as I +could among the boughs, awaited the arrival of the party, which +consisted—ay, stare if you will—of Xerophrastes and the widow, walking in +front, in earnest talk by themselves,—and the Neapolitan in the rear. They +halted, and though they spoke low, I could hear them distinctly.”—“And +what, in the name of Heaven, said they?” + +“‘Are you sure,’ said the widow, ‘that this is indeed the girl whom Sextus +went to see at the Villa? Can there be no mistake?’—‘Mistake, lady, there +is none,’ replied the Stoic. ‘Pona was at the villa with her basket, and +she saw them all walking together in the garden.’—‘And this little +Christian,’ said the lady as if to herself, ‘it is she that has cost me +all this trouble! It is for this Athanasia that I have been insulted as +never woman was by man, and they are both here in the tower!’—‘They are, +lady,’ quoth the witch; ‘they are both in the tower, for I saw her go in +by her self first, and then in went some dozen of those muffled +blasphemers, and, last of all, went in he himself. I saw him not enter +indeed, but I swear to you, that I saw him here not twenty paces from +hence, and he had with him that cunning slave of his, (meaning myself, +sir,) whose ugly face, (the foul woman added,) I would know although it +were disguised beneath all the washes that were ever mixed in the +seething-pots of Calabria.’—‘But what,’ interrupted our long-beard, ‘what +will Licinius say? At least, my lady and my friend Pona will take good +care that no suspicion rests upon me. Sextus is a silly boy, without +taste, judgment, or discretion; but Licinius is acute and powerful.’—‘Fear +not,’ said Rubellia; ‘fear not, dear Xerophrastes. Nobody shall appear in +the matter except Pona, and she tells you she has already given warning at +the Capene Gate. There are always a hundred men stationed on the Cœlian. +Nothing can save them!’ + +“These words were scarcely out of her mouth, ere the soldiers were heard +approaching. Xerophrastes ascended with great agility a tree just over +against mine; Rubellia retreated among the pines; and Pona alone awaited +the guard. I would have periled a limb to have been able to give you the +alarm; but little did I suspect, that had I sought you where I left you, I +should have sought in vain.—How, I pray you, did you contrive to get into +the accursed tower?” + +I told him I should give him the story another time at full length, and +mentioned briefly what had occurred. And then the Cretan proceeded with +his narrative. + +“I leave you to guess, Valerius, how my heart beat when I saw the witch +lead the soldiers straight to the place where I supposed you were still +sitting—with what anxiety I saw the tower surrounded—its tenants brought +out,—with what astonishment I saw you led out, the last of their number.—I +had neither time to think by what means all this had happened, nor the +least power to interfere. I saw you all mounted—guarded—borne away. +Whither they carried you, I was unable to make the smallest conjecture. I +saw Sabinus speak to you, and then I had hope,—but that too failed. In +brief, I did not venture from my tree till the whole assembly, not +forgetting Xerophrastes, had departed; and you may judge what a story I +had to tell Sextus when I reached home. + +“Instead of waiting to ponder and hesitate, as he used to do when his own +matters perplexed him, he went from me straight to his father. But before +they had done with their conversation, Sabinus himself arrived, and he was +immediately taken into the same chamber where they were. Licinius and he +went out together soon afterwards, and I think they walked towards the +Palatine; but whithersoever they went, they had a good deal of work before +them, for the day had advanced considerably before they returned. The +Centurion’s horses were brought to the door shortly after; my master +desired me to accompany him; and gave me letters for you, which I had +almost forgotten to deliver.” + +Such was the story of the faithful Cretan. The letter of Licinius I have +still preserved:— + +“Since our Sabinus desires that I should write to you, although his own +kindness renders it unnecessary that I should do so, I cannot refuse. I +understand little, my Valerius, of what has brought you into this +condition, from which, not without difficulty overcome, you are, +notwithstanding, speedily to be delivered. I guess, that hastiness of +various sorts, not, however, entirely without excuse in a person of your +age, has been the means of implicating you in the affairs of a sect, +equally unworthy of your communication, whether you consider the country +in which their superstition originated, or the barbarities with which it +is stained. But even for beauty, my young friend, it becomes not a Roman, +least of all a Valerius, to forget what is due to the laws of Rome, and +the will of the Prince. Consider with yourself how nearly you have escaped +serious evil. Return to us, and forget what has passed, except for the +lesson it must teach you. Of Rubellia and Xerophrastes I am unwilling to +believe, without farther examination, what has been told me by my slave +Dromo. We shall speak of that and other matters, when (which I hope will +be early to-morrow) you once more give me the pleasure of seeing you. I +have then much to say. Farewell.” + + + + + + _BOOK III. CHAPTER I._ + + +Day was far advanced before the Centurion and myself once more drew near +to the city. When we reached the first declivity beyond the Anio, the sun +was about to sink behind the Janicular. The innumerable sounds of the +capital, blended together into one mighty whisper, seemed only to form +part of the natural music of the air, and might almost have been +confounded with the universal hum of insects. We rode slowly down the +hill, the base of which is ever darkened by the solemn groves of the +Appian. + +We advanced in silence through that region of melancholy magnificence. I +scarcely knew whether I should be able of myself to recognize, among so +many similar edifices, the mausoleum of the Sempronii, and some feeling +rendered me unwilling to put any questions concerning it to Sabinus. + +But while we were moving leisurely, we heard of a sudden a clang of +cymbals among the trees, a little to the right hand, and the Centurion, +saying, “What company can this be?” led the way down a narrow path +branching from the main road. This path was winding and dusky, being edged +on either side with pines and cypresses, so that for some space we saw +nothing; and the cymbals having ceased again, the Centurion said, “I +suppose it is some funeral; they have probably completed every thing, and +have seen out the last gleam among the embers. Let us get on, for perhaps +we may be kept back by their procession, if they are already returning.” +We quickened our pace accordingly, till a sharp turning of the road +discovered to us a great number of persons who were standing silent, as if +in contemplation of some ceremony. Several persons on horseback seemed, +like ourselves, to have had their progress interrupted; but they were +sitting quietly, and making no complaint. The silence of the whole +assembly was indeed such, that Sabinus motioned to me to ask no questions, +adding, in a whisper, “Take off your cap; it is some religious rite—every +body is uncovered.” + +The Centurion, however, was not a person to be stopped thus, without +wishing to understand farther the cause of the interruption. The one side +of the road was guarded by a high wall, to the top of which a number of +juvenile spectators had climbed;—the other by a ditch of great breadth, +and full of water, beyond which was a grove of trees; and I saw him eyeing +the ditch, as if considering whether, by passing it, it might not be +possible, without disturbing the crowd, to get nearer the object of their +attention, or at least to make progress in our journey. At last he +beckoned to me to follow him, and the bold equestrian at one leap passed +easily. I imitated the example, and so did the Prætorian soldier, his +attendant, who had now come up to us; but as for Dromo, he was obliged to +remain behind. + +Ere we reached the bottom of the declivity, I perceived that we had come +close to the Sempronian monument, and that the ceremony, whatever it might +be, was taking place in front of the tower. We gave our horses to the +soldier, and contrived to gain the bank over against it—the same place, in +fact, where the Cretan slave had taken his station among the pine-trees, +on the night when all those things occurred of which I have spoken to you. +Like him, we placed ourselves as quietly as we could behind the trees, +and, indeed, for our purpose, there could have been no better situation. +We were contented, however, to occupy it as much as possible without +attracting observation; for it was evident, in spite of the curiosity that +detained so great a multitude near at hand, there must be something +mysterious or ominous of nature in that which was taking place, since not +one of the crowd had dared to come forward, so as to be within hearing of +the officiators. + +And these, indeed, were a melancholy group. For men, and women, and +children of every age, to the number it may be of an hundred, appeared all +standing together in garments of black; while, in the midst of them, and +immediately by the base of the tower, two or three veiled priests, with +their necessary assistants, seemed to be preparing for sacrifice a black +bull, whose hoofs spurned the dust as they held him, and his gilded horns +glittered in the light of the declining sun. Sabinus no sooner discovered +the arrangement of the solemn company, than he whispered to me, “Be sure, +these are all the kindred of the Sempronii. Without question they have +come to purify the mausoleum, and to avert the vengeance of the violated +Manes. Behold,” said he, “that stately figure, close to the head of the +animal on the right hand; that, I know, is Marcia Sempronia, Priestess of +Apollo. Without doubt, these by her are her brothers.” + +“Some of her near relations they must be,” I made answer; “for observe you +that girl whose face is wrapped in her mourning veil, and whose sobs are +audible through all its folds? I had one glimpse of her countenance, and I +am sure it is young Sempronia, the cousin and companion of Athanasia,—the +daughter of Lucius the senator.” + +“Poor girl,” replied Sabinus, “from my heart I pity her. They are all +joining hands, that the nearest of the kindred touching the priest, his +deed may appear manifestly to be the deed of all.” + +At this moment, one of the officiators sounded a few mournful notes upon a +trumpet. The priest who held the axe, clave at one blow the front of the +bull. The blood streamed, and wine streamed with it abundantly upon the +base of the mausoleum; and then, while we were yet gazing on the +convulsions of the animal, the trumpet sounded a second time, and the +whole company sung together, the priest leading them. + +The shadows of the tower and of the pine trees lay strongly upon them, and +I thought there was something of a very strange contrast between the +company and their chant, on the one hand, and the beautiful sculptures, +full of all the emblems of life and happiness, on the other, with which, +according to the gay dreams of Grecian fancy, the walls of the funereal +edifice itself had here and there been garnished. Fauns, and torch-bearing +nymphs, and children crowned with garlands, and wreathed groups and +fantastic dances, seemed to enliven almost to mockery the monumental +marbles; but one felt the real gloominess both of death and of +superstition, in the attitudes and accents of the worshippers. It was thus +they sung:— + + Ye Gods infernal! hear us from the gloom + Of venerable depths remote, unseen; + Hear us, ye guardians of the stained tomb, + Majestic Pluto—and thou, Stygian Queen, + On the dark bosom leaning of great Dis— + Thou reconciled Star of the Abyss. + + Blood, not for you, unholy hands have poured, + Ye heard the shriek of your insulted shrine; + Barbarian blasphemies, and rites abhorred, + Pollute the place that hath been long divine; + Borne from its wounded breast an atheist cry + Hath pierced the upper and the nether sky. + + With blood of righteous sacrifice again + The monumental stone your suppliants lave. + Behold the dark-brow’d bull—Behold him slain! + Accept, ye powers of the relenting grave, + The sable current of that vital stream; + And let the father’s hope upon the children gleam. + + And ye, that in the ever dusky glades + Of Hades, wandering by Cocytus’ shore, + Ancestral spirits—melancholy shades— + With us the tresspass of the tomb deplore; + Oh! intercede—that terror and disgrace + May not possess (as now) your resting-place. + + What though the liquid serpent of the deep + Between lie coil’d in many a glittering ring: + Not unobserved of your pale eyes we weep, + Nor to deaf ears this doleful chant we sing; + Strong is the voice of blood through night to go, + Through night and hell, and all the realms below. + + Then hear us, kindred spirits—stately Sire + And pensive Mother! wheresoe’er ye glide; + If ever solemn pile and soaring fire + In freedom sped you to the Stygian tide,— + Have pity on your children: let the breath + Of living sorrow melt the frozen ear of death. + + For Her that, sprung like us from your high line, + Hath mingled in the sacrifice of guilt, + Ye know that angry star, her natal sign, + To expiate whose curse this blood is spilt; + If not suffices this atoning blood, + Oh, steep the thought of her in Lethe’s flood. + + Beneath that current lazy and serene, + In whose unfathomable waters lie + The slumbering forms of horrors that have been + In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky— + With long forgotten curse and murder old, + Steep that lost daughter’s errors manifold. + + Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns. + Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows; + Despise not our lustrations of your urns, + Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes! + Above the children of your lineage born, + Hover not, awful ghosts, in anger and in scorn. + +These words were sung, as I have said, by the whole of this kindred there +assembled together; the first part of them distinctly, though not loudly; +but the last verses in a note so low, that no one, unless quite near, +(like ourselves,) could have comprehended their meaning. But as for the +young Sempronia, when they came to that part of the chant in which +reference was so particularly made to Athanasia, not only did her lips +refuse to join in the words, but her agitation was such that I thought the +poor maiden would have screamed outright, had she not been controlled by +the eye, and the hand also, of her aunt the Priestess. Sobs, however, and +low hysterical groans, could not be stifled; and at last so great was her +agony, that even the haughty Priestess was compelled to give way to it. + +“Bring water,” said she; “dash ye water upon the foolish thing: methinks +it seems almost as if she had partaken in the frenzy of her unhappy——” + +And before she could finish the sentence, one or two of the females that +were present did take hold of Sempronia, and began, seeing there was no +water nearer at hand, to bear her slender form towards the small stream of +which I have already spoken, and which flowed immediately behind the clump +of pine trees, amongst which the Centurion and I were standing. + +She was quite passive in their hands; and they dragged her without +resistance or difficulty to the place where we were standing; but they +could not pass without seeing us: and no sooner did the eyes of Sempronia +fall upon me, than she burst by one unexpected effort from the arms of +those that were sustaining her, and ere I or any one could suspect what +she was to do, there lay she at my feet, clinging with her arms around my +knees. “Oh, Valerius,” said she—“Oh, dear Valerius, they curse Athanasia! +Where is my Athanasia? whither have they taken her? Oh, tell me, that I +may go to her—that I may go to comfort Athanasia!” + +“Peace!” said, before I could answer, the Priestess of Apollo—“Peace, mad, +wretched thing,—has infatuation blasted the whole of our line?” And she +seized Sempronia by the arm, and compelled her to spring from her knees. +But the maiden still clung by her hands to me, and continued, with looks +and words of misery, to demand from me that knowledge which, alas! I would +myself have given so much to possess. Sabinus, however, smote me on the +shoulder, as if to make me recollect myself; and I had resolution enough +not to betray the feelings with which I listened to Sempronia’s frantic +supplication. + +“What is this, sir?” then said the Priestess—“What is it that you know of +Athanasia? and why is it that you have presumed to witness the secret +sacrifice of a noble race?—Speak—or is there no meaning in this poor +girl’s frenzy? And yet, methinks I have seen you before, and that, too, in +the presence of——” + +“It was,” said I, hastily—“it was indeed in the presence of Athanasia; but +that circumstance, if you please to remember, was altogether accidental. I +was with the lady Rubellia when you found her in the Temple of Apollo——” + +“Yes,” said she, “it was that same day when she refused to name the name +of Phœbus in his own precincts! Ha! little did I imagine what thoughts +were in her breast—else might we at least have been spared this open +degradation. And yet you, methinks, saluted Athanasia.—What is your name, +sir?—Know you, in truth, whither the lady Athanasia has been conveyed?” + +“He was with her!—he was with her!” exclaimed Sempronia,—“he was with her +in the tower when the soldiers came.—O Valerius! tell me where she is +now,—into what dungeon have they cast my friend—my sister——” + +“Ha!” quoth the Priestess, “he was with her in the +tower!—Romans—kinsmen—Lucius—Marcus—hear ye this? I charge ye, seize upon +this treacherous blasphemer!—It is he that has deceived Athanasia; and now +must he come here to taint the smoke of our sacrifice, and pollute our +prayers with his presence.—Seize him!”—And she herself grasped my cloak as +she spake—“Seize, I charge ye, this accursed Christian!” + +But Sabinus, when he saw the Priestess thus furious, stept forward, and +said to her kinsmen, who were standing in perplexity behind her, “Sirs, I +beseech you, be not you also carried away with this madness.—My friend +here knows nothing of the lady Athanasia, except that she was borne away +by soldiers from the very place where we are standing. I myself witnessed +it also, being here with the Prætorians. Valerius is no more a Christian +than she who accuses him.” + +“I know not, sirs, how we are to understand all this,” said one of the +Sempronii, in a calm voice. “Is this young man the same Valerius who is +living in the house of Licinius?—Yet it must be he. I have been with +Licinius this very day; and if this be he, whatever he may have known +before, I am sure he knows nothing of where Athanasia is now,—and, sister, +I am well assured he is no Christian.” + +“It is the same, sir,” said Sabinus. “He is the same Caius Valerius of +whom you spake, and I am Sabinus, a Centurion of the Prætorians.” + +“We have all heard of your name,” said Sempronius, respectfully; “I +perceive there is some mistake in all this matter. If it please you, let +us walk aside, and understand each other.” + +So saying, he withdrew Sabinus to a little distance, and beckoned to me to +accompany him. “Valerius,” said the old man, when he perceived that we +were out of hearing, “I crave you, in the first place, to forget all this +trouble which has been occasioned to you by the violence of my daughter, +on the one hand, and of my sister on the other. They are women; and, for +different reasons, the violence of both is excusable. I have been for a +considerable part of this day with Licinius, and have heard from him +enough to satisfy me how guiltlessly you yourself have been involved in +this affair; and your speedy liberation from confinement is more than +enough to confirm my belief of all that he said. Yet there is much which I +do not understand. I pray you speak openly, and fear nothing—you have, +indeed, nothing to fear. Was it in consequence of any private meeting with +my niece—nay, I mean not to suspect you of any thing amiss—in one word, +how was it that you happened to be taken into custody with that unhappy +girl?” + +“Sir,” I replied, “you are a noble Roman, and the near kinsman of +Athanasia. You have a right to put these questions, and whatever +reluctance I may have to overcome, I feel that I have no right to refuse +an answer.” And so I told Sempronius, plainly and distinctly, the story +both of my unwilling entrance into the mausoleum, and of my forcible +abduction from it. In short, I saw no reason to conceal any thing from the +person who was most likely to be able to serve Athanasia, if any thing to +serve her were possible. + +“It is well,” he said; “you speak as becomes a man of the Valerian blood. +But as for poor Athanasia, I swear to you I cannot yet bring myself to +believe that she hath in reality been privy to such things as have been +discovered concerning these Christians.”—“Discovered!” said I. “I pray +you, what has been discovered concerning them? If you allude to any of the +wild stories that are circulated about their religion, you may depend upon +it, it is all mere madness to believe a word of it. I have read in their +sacred books myself, and I swear to you, that, so far as I have seen, +nothing can be more simple, benign, humane, than the morality inculcated +by their leader.” + +“Young man,” he answered, “I was not thinking of their creed, which, for +aught I know or care, may be sublime enough; for there was always a +mysterious sort of philosophy current among those old Asiatic nations. But +I speak of the designs of these men; in one word, I speak of their +conspiracy.”—“Conspiracy!—What? How? Against whom? I will pledge my life, +no conspiracy was sheltered beneath yon tower that night. I swear to you, +they are simple people, and were thinking of nothing but their +worship.”—“Worship!” quoth he; “I promise you it will not be so easy to +persuade me that Cotilius has suddenly become a man of so much piety, +either to our gods, or to the deities (if they have any) of the +Christians.—What, Cotilius? By Jove, Rome does not hold at this moment a +more bold, daring, godless rascal. You may as soon try to make me believe +that Capaneus came to Thebes with a hymn in his mouth. No, no—the sworn +friend of Domitian will not easily gain credit for his new-sprung +sanctity.”—“Cotilius? That was the very name of the man that seized me, as +I have told you.”—“I should have guessed as much,” said he;—“Yes, I +promise you, how little soever Athanasia might have known, secrets they +had; and Cotilius was well aware at what peril they should be revealed.” + +“The late example,” said I, “must indeed have alarmed him.”—“What,” said +he, “do you speak of that fanatic Syrian? You know little of Cotilius. No, +no—had the worst of his fears been the necessity to worship all the +deities between Euphrates and Rhine, he would have slept soundly.”—“But +surely,” said I, “you do not believe that Athanasia had any knowledge of +the man’s secret designs, if he had any. He may have used Christianity, or +desired to use it, as a weapon against the State; but be certain, neither +she nor any of those really attached to their religion, had any notion of +his purpose.” + +“It may be so, indeed,” he answered;—“Heaven grant it may. As for +Cotilius, I will speak to you more at length of him anon. I will bid adieu +to my sister, and take order about my daughter; and then, if it so please +you, we shall walk together to the city.” + +To this I agreed, but Sabinus rode on to the camp of the Prætorians. He +whispered to me, however, that unless he were most necessarily detained, +he should be, ere long, at the house of Licinius. + +“To you,” said the Senator, as we went on, “who have so lately come from +your island, the whole of this expiatory spectacle is probably quite new; +but I am sure Sabinus could not have been aware what was its purpose, +otherwise he would not have been guilty of so grievously offending the +feelings of my sister, and some of the rest of my kindred, by remaining a +witness of these most private rites. The Priestess is indeed inconsolable, +and her grief has set half her other passions in motion likewise. +Athanasia was as dear to her as if she had been her daughter; so, in +truth, she was to us all, ever since her parents died. But Cotilius, this +knave Cotilius, has, I fear, blasted her hopes and ours.”—“It occurs to +me,” said I, “and I should have mentioned it to you before, that there +seemed to be no great understanding between this Cotilius and Athanasia. +She was evidently displeased with many things he both said and did; and +he, on his part, did not appear to relish her interference.”—“True,” he +continued, “you have already hinted as much; and I assure you, these are +some of the circumstances in the whole case that tend most to excite my +hopes. Great Heavens! what would Caius have said had he dreamt that his +orphan was to be suspected of having sympathy with any of the dark designs +of that shame to Roman knighthood! But you, of course, are a stranger to +this man’s history.”—“With its end, at least,” I replied, “it is like we +may all be soon enough acquainted.” + +“Yes,” said he, “Heaven grant we have not cause too deeply to remember it! +but I have known him from the beginning. I told you already that he was in +great favour with Domitian.”—“And the reverse, of course,” said I, “both +with Nerva and Trajan.” + +“Even so,” he continued, “and with reason; for in all the disturbances +which occurred on the accession of the last sovereign, and, in particular, +in those foul intrigues among the Prætorians, which at one time brought +Nerva’s own life into immediate danger and compelled him to bare his neck +to the soldiery at his gate, this Cotilius was more than suspected to have +had a deep concern. When Petronius and Parthenius(2) were hacked in +pieces, it needed no great witchcraft to detect some of the moving spirits +that produced their catastrophe; but proof there was none at the time; and +even had there been proof enough, the good old man would have been too +timid to act upon it. These things, however, could not be forgotten either +by Nerva or his successor. Hitherto, the strong hand has repressed every +rebellious motion; but be sure that no man ever lived more an object of +suspicion, than this man has done ever since Nerva adopted Trajan.” + +“And you think,” said I, “that, among other intrigues, it had occurred to +this man to make his own use of the Christians; despised and persecuted +though they be, there can, indeed, be no doubt that their numbers are +considerable, and that their faith is a strong bond of cohesion.” + +“It is even so,” said the Senator. “But as yet the treason even of +Cotilius rests on suspicion only, and report; and, after all, even if he +were proved guilty of having nourished such schemes, the account you give +of what you saw and heard at their assembly, inspires me with considerable +doubts whether he can be supposed to have ever as yet ventured to invite +their participation;—unless, indeed, they practised deception while you +were with them. The moment I heard of what had happened, I went to the +Palatine, in hopes of attaining either assistance from Urbicus, or mercy, +if that were all we could look for, from Trajan. But Urbicus could give me +no satisfaction, except that my niece was in a solitary and safe place. +The charges, he said, against one of the leaders (he meant Cotilius) were +heavy; and until these were sifted, it was impossible that access could be +afforded to any one who had been thrown into confinement. The Emperor had +shewn unusual symptoms of anxiety, and had even, so he hinted, been in +person investigating the matter at a distance from the city, during great +part of the preceding night and day. To tell you the truth, Valerius, till +this thing fell out, I was wont to consider the new violence about the +Christians as somewhat unworthy of the enlarged intellect of Trajan: it +had not occurred to me, how easily the resources of such a superstition +might be enlisted in the cause of discontent.” + +“Of course,” said I, “nothing will be done in regard to Athanasia until +all circumstances have been examined.” + +“Done!” said he; “has not enough been done already to justify almost in a +man more than you have seen among our women? Has not a whole family been +disgraced? Has not the mausoleum of their fathers been prostituted for the +unholy purposes of this barbarian sect? If the Senate should be summoned, +with what countenance should I shew myself among my friends?—Unhappy girl! +How little did she know in what trouble she was to involve those that love +her the best.” + +By this time we had come within sight of the house of Licinius, and the +Senator took leave, with a promise that I should see him on the morrow. + +I found Sextus alone in his chamber, where he embraced me with all the +ardour of juvenile affection. “Alas!” said he, “my dear Caius, at any +other time I might have found fault with you for taking so great a part in +my griefs, and yet keeping so many of your own to yourself. But if it be +indeed as Sempronia has said, I should be a strange friend to choose this +hour for complaining of such trifles as regard only myself.” + +“Sextus,” I replied, “it was only because of the greatness of your own +distresses that I concealed from your kindness any of mine.” + +“My Valerius,” he answered, “we shall talk at length to-morrow; at +present, I have only time to say, that the misfortune of Athanasia was +communicated to Sempronia almost immediately, by an old freedwoman, who +had been in the habit of attending her when she went from home in secret, +and who, going to the mausoleum to accompany her on her return, arrived +there just in time to see what befel her. She saw you also, (how she knew +who you were, I know not,) and when she had told her story to Sempronia, +the poor girl, before speaking even with her father, sent for me to come +to her in the gardens. I did so; all that passed I need not repeat; but I +hope my advice was the right one. At all events, I acted for the best, and +my father, who is now aware of every thing, seemed to approve of what I +had done. O Valerius! were Athanasia free, and you happy, many things have +occurred to make me much more at ease than when you left us. My father is +evidently shocked with what Dromo told about Rubellia; and as for +Xerophrastes, he had not once spoken to him either yesterday or to-day. +Indeed, neither of them have been much here. My father is continually +exerting himself concerning Athanasia; and Xerophrastes, I suppose, is +afraid of a discovery. As for me, I am sorry I must leave you, for I +promised to meet Sempronia; and although I have nothing to tell her, I +cannot fail in my appointment. She must have returned before this time +from the mausoleum, where an expiatory sacrifice was to be made at +sunset.” + +Sabinus by this time had hastened to me once more, according to his kind +promise. I told him that my kinsman was not at home, and that I proposed, +in the meantime, accompanying his son a part of the way towards the +Suburban of Capito. The Centurion insisted on going with us, saying, that +he could not think of returning to the camp without having spoken with +Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +The Centurion, in virtue of his office, had free access to the gardens of +Trajan; so he led us by both a more delightful and a nearer path towards +the Salarean Gate. Young Sextus then quitted us; and we returned slowly +through the beautiful groves of the Imperial Villa, in hopes of finding my +kinsman by the time we should reach his mansion. But as we were walking +very quietly along one of the broad green terraces, we heard voices in an +adjoining alley, separated from us by luxuriant thickets of myrtle, and +Sabinus, whispering to me, “Hush, let us see what we have got here,” +insinuated himself with great dexterity among the verdant shrubs. I +followed him with as little noise as was possible, and having found a +convenient peeping place, we soon perceived two figures at some little +distance from us in the moonlight.—“Come, Sabinus,” I whispered, “they are +lovers perhaps—I don’t see what right we have to overhear.”—“Peace,” quoth +he, “if you stir, they will detect us, and it is nothing unless it be +known.” + +With some reluctance I remained where I was; but my scruples were at an +end the moment I perceived who they were. + +“Most noble, most illustrious lady,” said Xerophrastes, “this matter has +indeed been conducted unfortunately, yet no reason see I why you should +give way to so many groundless apprehensions. The only thing, after all, +that you have lost, if indeed you have lost it, is the good opinion of +Licinius; for, as to that foolish boy——”—“Name him not,” replied Rubellia, +“name not the stripling. Surely madness alone can account for my +behaviour.”—“Madness!” quoth the Stoic; “yes, truly, and who, at certain +moments, is free from such madness? As Euripides has expressed it, Venus, +if she come in wisdom, is the wisest; if otherwise, the most frenzied of +influences. The greatest have not been exempt from such visitations. +Banish it from your heart, noble lady, or replace it by something more +worthy of your discernment. There is, I think, but one pair of eyes in +Rome that could have been blind to such perfections.”—“O Xerophrastes!” +said she, “speak not to me of perfections. Alas! I was born under a +deceitful star—a star of apparent splendour and real misery.”—“Noble +lady,” he replied, “I swear to you that what tincture of philosophy I have +imbibed, is unable to sustain my serenity when I hear such words from your +lips. You are surrounded by all that externals can minister. It is your +part to compose your mind, and then how should it be possible for you to +taste of unhappiness? Think no more of that boy.” + +The philosopher took her hand with an air of the deepest sympathy, and at +the same time drew the end of his mantle over his face, as if to conceal +the extent of his participation in her distresses.—“Alas! lady, this is, +after all, a miserable world. There is no rest but in the affections, and +behold how they are harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of +life. Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison is every where; +and it is all one course of being wounded to be cured, and being cured +only to be more easily wounded again.” + +Our friend continued in an attitude of pensive contemplation. The +moonbeams fell full on his high brow and the large massy features of his +countenance, and on the robust limbs which emerged from below the stately +folds of his mantle; and I could not help thinking that there was +something almost heroic, which I had never before remarked, in the whole +of his appearance. Rubellia kept her eyes fixed steadfastly upon him. + +“I should have known nothing of it,” he resumed, “had I never deserted my +paternal valley for the vain pleasures of Athens, and the magnificence of +Rome.”—“You repent,” said she, “that you ever visited Italy? I pray you +deal with me openly. If it be your wish to leave Rome, speak, and I shall +put it in your power to retire to Greece as handsomely as you could ever +have hoped to do from the family of Licinius. Of wealth, as you well know, +I have enough both for myself and for my faithful friends, among whom, be +sure, I place you in the first rank. Control your feelings, I pray you +once more—and speak freely.” + +Hastily and fervently he pressed his lip upon the beautiful hand of +Rubellia, and whispered something into her ear. She started, and I think +blushed in the moonlight; but neither seemed offended very deeply with +what he had said, nor with the gesture he had used.—“Softly, softly,” +whispered the Centurion, “be not ashamed, fair lady, of the love of thy +servant.” + +But (whether the echo of his Horatian parody had reached her ear or not, I +cannot tell,) scarcely had these words been uttered, ere Rubellia started +from her seat, and began to move pretty quickly down the shaded alley, as +if towards the entrance of the gardens. Xerophrastes sate still for a +moment, even after the lady had arisen, covering his eyes, and part of his +broad forehead with his hands, as if buried in his own thoughts too deeply +to be with ease affected with a sense of things passing around him. Then, +at last, he arose, and uttering an exclamation of surprise, walked after +the noble dame, taking heed, however, (it did not escape our observation,) +to arrange, as he rapidly followed her, the massive folds of his mantle +into a graceful drapery. + +Sabinus restrained himself till they were beyond the reach of his voice; +but he then made himself ample amends. “Ha!” said he, “is this to be the +end? Most pensive ghost of Leberinus, is this to be thy successor?”—“Good +heavens!” said I, “Sabinus, do you think it possible she should make the +pedagogue her husband—she that was but yesterday so desperately enamoured +of the beautiful young Sextus?”—“My dear islander,” quoth the Centurion, +“do you remember the story of a certain beautiful boy, called Adonis?”—“To +be sure,” said I, “who is ignorant of the story of Adonis, or of the +beautiful verses of Bion— + + “I weep for fair Adonis—for Adonis is no more, + Dead is the fair Adonis—his beauty I deplore; + His white thigh with a tusk of white the greenwood monster tore, + And now I weep Adonis—for Adonis is no more.’” + +“Well spouted,” quoth the soldier; “and with an excellent gravity: But +think you Venus never altered the burden of her ditty? Have you never +heard of Mars the blood-stained, the destroyer of men, the leveller of +city walls—nor of Anchises, the Dardan shepherd, wiser in his generation +than one who inherited both his station and his opportunity; no, nor even +of Vulcan, the cunning Artificer, the Lord of the One-eyed Hammerers, the +Lemnian, the Chain-maker, the Detector, the awkward Cup-bearer, whose +ministration, as honest Homer confesses, fills Olympus with +inextinguishable laughter. Have you heard of all these, and I take it of a +few more besides; and yet do you talk as if Venus, after the white boar’s +tusk had pierced the white thigh of her Adonis, had made no use of her +beautiful girdle, but to wipe the tears from her pretty eyes withal?—her +girdle, of which, heaven pity your memory, I know not how many blessed +ages after Adonis had fallen, the same faithful bard said, + + ‘In it is stored whate’er can love inspire: + In it is tender passion, warm desire, + Fond lovers’ soft and amorous intercourse; + The endearing looks and accents that can fire + The soul with passionate love’s resistless force, + ’Gainst which the wisest find in wisdom no resource.’ + +I was there the night she espoused Leberinus, and I pitied her very +sincerely, when I saw the pretty creature lifted over the old man’s +threshold in her yellow veil, which I could not help thinking concealed +more sighs, if not more blushes, than are usual on such occasions. But I +promise you the glare of her new torches shall affect me with different +emotions.” + +Such talk passed as we were leaving the gardens of Trajan. But as we +advanced into the more peopled region, we found the streets full of +clamour, insomuch that quiet discourse could no longer be carried on. The +evening was one of the most lovely I had ever seen, and the moon was +shedding a soft and yellow light upon the lofty towers and trees, and upon +all that long perspective of pillars and porticos. Yet groups of citizens +were seen running to and fro with torches in their hands; while many more +were stationary in impenetrable crowds, which had the air, as it seemed to +us, of being detained in the expectation of some spectacle. Accordingly we +had not jostled on much farther, ere there arose behind us a peal of what +seemed to me martial music; but my companion, as soon as the sounds +reached him, warned me that a procession of the priests of Cybele must be +at hand. + +At last they came quite close to us, and passed on dancing around the +image of the Goddess, and singing the chaunt of Atys. A path being opened +for them by the crowd all along, they made no halt in their progress, but +went on at the same pace, some of them leaping high from the ground as +they dashed their cymbals, and others dancing lowly while they blew the +long Phrygian trumpets and crooked horns of brass. The image itself was +seated in a brazen chariot, to which brazen lions also were fastened, the +whole being borne on the shoulders of some of the assistants. Behind it +came others, beating great hollow drums; and then again more, leaping, and +dancing, and singing, like those who preceded it. They were all clad in +long Asiatic vests, with lofty tiaras; and their countenances, as well as +their voices, intimated sufficiently that they were ministers of the same +order to which the hapless Atys had belonged. Yet nothing but enthusiasm +and triumph could be discovered in their manner of singing that terrible +hymn. + +They had not advanced much beyond the spot where we were standing, ere +they stopped of a sudden, and, placing the chariot and image of Cybele +between the pillars of one of the porticos that run out into the street, +began a more solemn species of saltation. When they had finished this +dance also, and the more stately and measured song of supplication with +which it was accompanied, the priests then turned to the multitude, and +called upon all those who reverenced the Didymæan mysteries, to approach +and offer their gifts. Immediately the multitude that were beyond formed +themselves into a close phalanx, quite across the street, and torches +being conveyed into the hands of such as stood in the foremost rank, there +was left in front of the image an open space, brightly illuminated, for +the convenience, as it seemed, of those who might come forward to carry +their offerings to the foot of the statue. And, indeed, it appeared as if +these were not likely to be few in number; for the way being quite blocked +up by those torch-bearers, no one could hope to pass on easily without +giving something, or to pass at all without being observed. Not a few +chariots, therefore, and litters also, having been detained, the persons +seated in these vehicles seemed to be anxious, as soon as possible, to +present their offerings, that the path onward might be cleared to them by +command of the priests. It was necessary, however, as it turned out, that +each person in advancing to the chariot of Cybele, should imitate the +motions practised by the Galli themselves; and this circumstance, as may +be imagined, was far from being the most acceptable part of the ceremony +to some of those who had thus been arrested. A few of the common sort, +both men and women, stepped boldly into the open ring, and with great +appearance of joy went through the needful gesticulations. But, at first, +none of the more lordly tenants of the chariots and litters seemed to be +able to prevail on themselves to follow the example. At length, however, +the impatience even of these dignified persons began to overcome their +reluctance; one and another red-edged gown was seen to float in lofty +undulations across the torch-lighted stage, and when a handful of coin was +heard to ring upon the basin of the Goddess, doubt not the priests +half-cracked their cheeks in blowing horn and trumpet, and clattered upon +their great tambarines as violently as if they had made prize of another +Atys. But how did the Centurion chuckle when he observed that one of the +next chariots was no other than that of Rubellia herself, and perceived +that she and the Stoic were now about to pass onwards like the rest, at +the expense of exhibiting their agility before the multitude. + +“Jove in heaven!” cried he, “I thought the garden scene was all in all; +but this is supreme! Behold how the sturdy Thracian tucks up his garment, +and how, nodding to the blows of the tambarine, he already meditates +within himself the appropriate convolutions. And the pretty widow! by the +girdle of Venus, she also is pointing her trim toe, and, look ye! better +and better, do you not see that she has given her veil to the Stoic, that +so she may perform the more expeditely?” + +At this moment, some one from behind laid hold of my arm, and whispered my +name. I looked round, and perceived an old man, wrapped in a very large +and deep mantle, the folds of which, however, were so arranged that I +could see very little of his features. Stepping a pace or two backwards, +he beckoned to me with his hand. I hesitated; but his gesture being +repeated, I also entered within the shade of the pillars, and then he, +dropping his mantle on his shoulders, said, “Valerius, do you not remember +me? We met last at the tomb of the Sempronii.”—“At the tomb of the +Sempronii!” said I; and recognized, indeed, the features of the Christian +priest, who had treated me on that eventful evening with so much courtesy; +but my wonder was great to find him in such a situation; for I had seen +him conveyed away between armed guards, and I could not imagine by what +means he, of all others, should have so soon regained his freedom. He +observed my astonishment, and said, in a low voice, “My friend, perhaps I +might have as much reason to be surprised with seeing you here, as you +have in seeing me. But follow me into this house, where we may communicate +what has occurred.” + +The hope of perhaps hearing something concerning Athanasia determined me. +I cast a look towards Sabinus, and saw him attentively engaged in +witnessing the performance; and hoping that he might continue to amuse +himself so for a few minutes longer, I permitted the old man to lead me +into the vestibule. The slaves, who were waiting there, seemed to receive +him with much respect. He passed them, saying, “Do not trouble +yourselves—I shall rejoin your master;” and shortly ushered me into a +chamber situated over the hall of entrance, where a grave personage was +reclining by the open window. He perceived not our approach till we had +come close up to his couch, for he was occupied with what was going on +without. When the old man accosted him, and said, “Pontius, I have been +successful. Here is my friend, Caius Valerius,” the stranger rose up, and +saluted me with kindness. “Caius Valerius,” said he, “will pardon me for +being desirous of seeing him here, when he learns that I was one of his +father’s oldest friends, and served with him many campaigns both in +Germany and Britain. I should have been ill pleased had I heard that you +had been in Rome, and departed without my having an opportunity of +retracing, as I now do, the image of my comrade.” + +I had to answer not a few questions concerning the situation of my mother +and myself, before I could lead the conversation into the channel I +desired; and at length, indeed, it was not so much any thing I said, as +the readiness of the priest himself, which gave to it that direction; for +the first pause that occurred in the discourse between Pontius and myself, +he filled up, by saying, “And now, will Valerius pardon me for asking, if +he has ever looked again into the narrative of Luke, or whether his +curiosity, in regard to these matters, has been entirely satisfied by the +adventures of one unfortunate night?” + +The manner in which Pontius regarded me when the priest said this, left me +no doubt that he was at least favourably inclined to the opinions of the +Christians; so I answered without hesitation, “My curiosity, instead of +being satisfied by what I saw that evening, received new strength; but you +may easily believe that the troubles in which I was involved, and still +more the troubles with which I know others yet to be surrounded, have +hitherto taken away from me both the means and the power of gratifying my +curiosity as I would wish.—But tell me, I pray you, by what means is your +imprisonment at an end?”—“My friend,” replied the priest, “you speak +naturally but rashly. I believe you yourself are the only one of those +surprised in the tower, whose imprisonment has as yet terminated. Yet +hope, good hope is not absent,—above all, I trust there is no reason to +despair concerning that dear child who interfered in your behalf, when a +bold, and, I fear me, a false man, had drawn his weapon to your peril. As +for me, I have but gained the liberty of an hour or two, and long ere dawn +I shall be restored again to my fetters.”—“Your fetters!” said I, “am I to +understand, that, by the connivance of a Roman jailor, you are this night +at liberty to perambulate the streets of Rome?”—“Young man,” answered the +priest, “he is a Christian.”—“Even for his sake,” said I, “the name is +honourable.” + +“Valerius,” said he, “I pray you speak not things which may hereafter give +pain to your memory. Already you have read something of the life of ONE, +for whose sake our name is indeed honourable—of Him I trust you shall ere +long both read and think more; but how shall I bless God, that threw my +lot, since captivity it was to be, into a place where such authority was +to have the superintendence of me? Yet more, how shall I be sufficiently +grateful, that She, in all things so delicate, although in nothing +fearful, has shared the same blessing?” + +“Heavens,” said I, “what do I hear!—Is Athanasia indeed lodged in the same +prison with yourself, and may she also go abroad thus freely?” + +“Think not,” he replied, “that I embrace such freedom for any purposes of +mine own. What I do for the service to which I am bound, think not that +Athanasia will ever desire to do for herself. She abides her time +patiently where the lot hath been cast for her; in due season, if such be +the will of the Lord, she shall regain that in truth, of which this is but +the shadow.” + +“God grant our prayer,” said Pontius, “and not ours only, but the prayer +of all that know her, and have heard of this calamity!—Whatever the +exertions of her family and their friends can accomplish, most surely +shall not be awanting. Would that those who are linked to her by ties yet +more sacred had the power, as they have the will, to serve her! Yet Hope +must never be rejected. The investigations of this very night may produce +the true accomplices of Cotilius; and then Trajan will be satisfied that +the Christians stand guiltless of that treason.” + +“Alas!” said I, “if this faith be a crime, how can any one hope to follow +it without being continually liable to accidents as unfortunate? In Rome, +at all events, what madness is it thus to tempt the fate which impends +over the discovery of that which it must be so difficult, so impossible to +conceal?” + +The aged Priest laid his finger on his lips, and pointed to the window. I +listened, and heard distinctly the shrill voices of the mutilated dancers, +as they brake forth above the choral murmurs of the drums and cymbals, and +I perceived that the bloody legend of Atys was once more the subject of +their song. + +The ancient waited till the voices were drowned again in the clamour of +the instruments, and then said to me, “Young man, do you know to what +horrid story these words of theirs refer? Do you know what sounds all +these are designed to imitate? Do you know what terror—what flight—what +blood—what madness are here set forth in honour of a cruel demon—or +rather, I should say, for the gain of these miserable and maimed +hirelings? Do you know all these things, and yet give counsel of flight +and of cowardice to me, upon whose head the hand of Christ’s holy apostle +hath been laid? Read, dear Valerius, read and ponder well.—My prayers, and +the prayers of one that is far purer than me—they are ever with you. But +now since I have introduced you to Pontius, why should I delay here any +longer? He, both for your father’s sake and for your own, and for that of +the faith, (of which you have had some glimpses) will abundantly aid you +in all things. Deal not coldly nor distantly with him. I commit you into +his hands, as a brand to be snatched from the burning.” + +Pontius reached forth his hand and grasped mine in token of acquiescence +in all the old man expressed. He, by and by, looking into the street, +said, “These jugglers have now departed to their dens, and the gaping +multitudes have dispersed. But I still see one person walking up and down, +as if expecting somebody; and it seems to me that it is the same, +Valerius, who was in your company.” I perceived that it was indeed +Sabinus, whistling to himself on the bright side of the pavement. I +therefore bade them adieu, saying, “Dear father, when shall I see you +again, and when shall I hear farther of Athanasia?”—The old man pausing +for a moment, said, “To-morrow at noontide be in the Forum, over against +the statue of Numa. You will there find tidings.” + +The Centurion plainly intimated that he took it for granted I had been +engaged in something which I wished to keep from his knowledge; but such +affairs made no great impression on him; and after laughing out his laugh, +he bade me farewell by the portico of Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +In the morning I found my kinsman and his son extremely uneasy, in +consequence of the absence of Xerophrastes, who had not returned during +the night; but Sabinus came in while they were talking to me, and +narrated, without hesitation, all he had seen and heard both in the garden +of Trajan, and at the procession of the Galli. Young Sextus could scarcely +be restrained by respect for his father, from expressing, rather too +openly, his satisfaction in the course which the affairs of the +disappointed lady appeared to be taking; while the orator muttered words +which I thought boded not much of good to the ambitious pedagogue. The +Centurion alone regarded all these things as matters of mere amusement, or +so at least he seemed to regard them; for, as I have already hinted, I was +not without my suspicion, that he was at bottom by no means well pleased +with the contemplation of the future splendour of the Stoic. + +However, after many jests had been exchanged between Sextus and the +Centurion concerning this incongruous amour, Licinius said, he was in so +far much relieved by what he had heard, as it satisfied him that both the +widow and Xerophrastes were now otherwise occupied, than in prosecuting +their designs against the niece of his friend Capito. + +“I myself,” he continued, “was all yesterday, as well as the day before, +exerting every means in my power for her extrication from this unfortunate +confinement. Cotilius, without question, has indeed been a traitor; but I +believe the Prince himself is, by this time, well inclined to absolve, not +only the young lady, but by far the greater part of those who were taken +with her, from any participation in his traitorous designs. The charge, +however, of which it rests with them alone to exculpate themselves, is one +of a nature so serious, that it is impossible to contemplate without much +anxiety the pain to which so many families—above all, the noble and +excellent Sempronii—may still be exposed. But this day Cotilius will, in +all likelihood, pay the last penalty of _his_ crimes—and then we shall see +what intercession may avail. Would to heaven there were any one who could +obtain access to the deluded lady, and prevail with her to do that which +would be more effectual than I can hope any intercession to prove. This +infatuation—this dream—this madness—is, indeed, a just source of fear; and +yet, why should we suppose it to be already so deeply confirmed in a +breast young, ingenuous, so full, according to report, of every thing +modest and submissive? Surely this affectionate girl cannot be insensible +to the affliction of those who love her.—But you still shake your head, +Valerius; well, it is in our hands to do what we can; as for the issue, +who can hope to divert Trajan from doing that which he believes to be +just? Our best hope is in his justice——” + +“And in his clemency,” interrupted the Centurion; “you will scarcely +persuade me that Cæsar can meditate any thing serious concerning a young +beauty, who has been guilty of nothing but a little superstition and +enthusiasm. Nobody will confound her case with that of any obstinate old +fanatic. In the meantime, what avails it to distress ourselves more than +is necessary? Licinius is able to do something; and as for Valerius, the +best thing he can do is to get on horseback, and go with Sextus and myself +to inspect the cohorts that have arrived from Calabria.” + +Young Sextus, on all occasions fond of military spectacles, embraced this +proposal; and fain would they both have prevailed on me to accede to it +likewise. I knew, however, that it would be impossible, if I accompanied +them, to keep my appointment with the old Christian; and that I was +resolved on no account to forego. I therefore retired to my chamber, there +to await the approach of the hour; and spent the time till it drew near, +in perusing once more the volume which had been restored to me by +Athanasia. This volume, and the letter which I have before mentioned, I +placed together in my bosom, before I went forth into the city. + +I entered the Forum, and found it, as formerly thronged with multitudes of +busy litigants and idle spectators. A greater concourse, indeed, than was +usual, crowded not it only, but the avenues to it, and the neighbouring +streets, by reason of a solemn embassy from the Parthian, which was to +have audience that day in the Senate. But I, for my part, having +discovered the statue of Numa Pompilius, resolved to abide by it, lest, +being mingled in the tumult of the expecting multitudes, I should, by any +mischance, escape the notice of the old man, who, I doubted not, meant to +seek me there in person. The time, however, went on—senator after senator +entered the temple—and, at last, the shouts of the people announced that +Trajan had arrived. And immediately after he had gone in, the pomp of the +embassy appeared, and every eye was fixed upon the long line of slaves, +laden with cloth of gold and rich merchandise, and upon the beautiful +troop of snow-white horses, which pawed the ground, in magnificent +caparisons, before the gate of the Senate-house. But while all were intent +upon the spectacle, I observed a little fair-haired girl standing over +against me, who, after looking at me for some moments, said with great +modesty, “Sir, if you be Caius Valerius, I pray you, follow me.” + +I followed her in silence up the hanging stairs, and, in a word, had soon +reached the level of the Capitol, from whence, looking back, I could +perceive the whole array of the forensic multitudes far below me. The +child paused for a moment at the summit, and then, still saying nothing, +conducted me across two magnificent squares, and round about the Temple of +Jupiter, until, at length, she stopped at one of the side doors of an +edifice, which, from the manner in which it was guarded, I already +suspected to be the Mammertine. + +The girl knocked, and he who kept the gate, saluting her cheerfully, +allowed us to pass without question into the interior of the prison. My +companion tripped before me along many passages, till we reached at length +a chamber which was arranged in such a manner that I could with difficulty +believe it to belong to a place of punishment. + +Here I was soon joined by the old priest, (whose name, if I have not +before mentioned it, was Aurelius Felix,) together with a mild-looking man +of middle age, whom he desired me to salute as the keeper of the prison, +saying, “Here, Valerius, is that Silo, of whom yesterday evening you spake +with so great admiration. But I hope the benevolence of a Christian will +ere long cease to be an object of so much wonder in your eyes.” + +“My father,” said the jailer, “methinks you yourself say too much about +such little things. But, in the meantime, let us ask Valerius if he has +heard any thing of what has been determined by Cæsar.” + +I answered by telling what I had just heard from Licinius; upon which the +countenance of the old man was not a little lightened; but Silo fixed his +eyes upon the ground, and seemed to regard the matter very seriously. He +said, however, after a pause, “So far, at least, it is well. Let us hope +that the calumnies which have been detected, may turn more and more of +discredit upon those that have gone abroad concerning that which is dearer +to you, my father, and to all your true companions, than any thing of what +men call their own. But, alas! these, after all, are but poor tidings for +our dear young lady.” + +“Fear not,” answered Aurelius: “have I not told you already oftentimes, +that strength of heart goes not with bone and sinew, and that my gentle +child is prepared for all things? She also well knows that the servant is +not greater than the master.” + +The old man motioned to us to remain where we were, and withdrew. I sate +for some minutes by the side of Silo, who was, indeed, manifestly much +troubled, until at length the same modest little damsel opened the door, +and addressing the jailer as her father, asked leave to conduct me to +Aurelius. + +The child led me, therefore, into the adjoining chamber, and tapped gently +at a door on the other side of it. The voice of the old priest bade us +come in, and Athanasia arose with him to receive me. She was dressed in a +white tunic, her hair braided in dark folds upon her forehead; her +countenance was calm, and, but for the paleness of her lips, I should have +said that her gravity scarcely partook of sadness. When, however, we had +exchanged our salutations, it was evident that some effort had been +necessary for this appearance of serenity; for when she spoke to me her +voice trembled in every tone, and, as she stooped to caress my young +guide, who had sate down by her feet, I saw the tear that had been +gathering drop heavily, and lose itself among the bright clusters of the +little damsel’s hair. I took her unresisting hand, and imitated as best I +could the language of consolation. But it seemed as if my poor whispers +only served to increase the misery. She covered her face with her hands, +and sobs and tears were mingled together, and the blood glowed red in her +neck, in the agony of her lamentation. + +The old priest was moved at first scarcely less than myself by this +sorrowful sight. Yet the calmness of age deserted him not long, and after +a moment there remained nothing on his countenance but the gravity and +tenderness of compassion. He arose from his seat, and walked quietly +towards the end of the apartment, from which when he returned, after a +brief space, there was an ancient volume open in his hand. And standing +near us, he began to read aloud, in the Greek tongue, words which were +then new, and which have ever since been in a peculiar manner dear to me. + +_God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble. Therefore +will not we fear though the earth be removed; though the mountains be +carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be +troubled; though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof._ + +Athanasia took her hands from her face, and gradually composing herself, +looked through her tears upon the old man as he proceeded. + +_There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God; +the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High._ + +_God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, +and that right early._ + +_The heathen raged; the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice; the +earth melted._ + +_The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge._ + +The blood had mounted in the countenance of Aurelius, ere he reached these +last words. The tears also had been dried up on the pale cheek of +Athanasia; and although her voice was not heard, I saw that her lips moved +fervently along with those of the priest. Even in me, ignorant of their +source, the words of the royal prophet produced I know not what of +buoyance and emotion, and perhaps my lips, too, had involuntarily essayed +to follow them; for when he paused from his reading, the old man turned to +me with a face full of benignity, and said, “Yes, Valerius, it is even so; +Homer, Pindar, Æschylus—these, indeed, can stir the blood; but it is such +poetry as this that alone can sooth in sorrow, and strengthen in the hour +of tribulation. Your vain-glorious Greeks called all men barbarians but +themselves; and yet these words, and thousands not less precious than +these, consoled the afflictions, and ennobled the triumphs of the chosen +race of Israel long, long years, ere ever the boasted melody of Ionian or +Doric verse had been heard of. From this alone, young man, you may judge +what measure of candour inhabits along with the disdain of our proud +enemies:—how fairly, without question, or opportunity of defence, the +charge of barbarity is heaped upon what they are pleased to call our +_superstition_;—how wisely the learned and the powerful of the earth have +combined in this league against the truth which they know not,—of which +they fear or despise the knowledge. Surely the truth is mighty, and the +gates of hell shall not prevail against her.” + +“But, alas! my dear father,” said Athanasia, “I fear me this is not the +place, nor the situation, in which Valerius might be most likely to listen +to your words. It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing of our +present danger, has rendered him even more cautious than he was before.” + +“And who, my dear child,” he replied hastily,—“and who is he that shall +dare to blame caution, or to preach, above all in such things as these, +the rashness that is of folly? Valerius will not believe that we, like the +miserable creatures whose impious songs he heard last night, are studious +only of working upon the fears of the ignorant, and harassing, with dark +and lying dreams, the imaginations of the simple. _Here_ are no wild +stories of blood-thirsty deities, and self-sacrificing maniacs. _Here_ is +that which Socrates vainly sought by all the ingenuity of reason. _Here_ +is that of which some faint and mysterious anticipations would appear to +have been shadowed forth in the visions of Plato. _Here_ is that which, as +that Mighty Martyr who died in this very city hath said, innumerable +prophets and kings of the old time desired to see, and yet saw not. Do +nothing rashly, young man; but it is possible, as you yourself well know, +that this may be the last opportunity I shall ever have of speaking with +you; and therefore, before we part, I must needs charge you solemnly, that +henceforth, if your knowledge increase not, the sin shall be upon your +head. I charge you, Valerius, that when you return to your island, you +blot not from your memory the things that you have seen and heard in this +great city of light and of darkness. Examine—judge—ask aid, and aid shall +not be refused you. I take Athanasia to witness, that I have given you the +warning that is needful.” + +“Oh, sir!” said Athanasia, “I am sure it shall not be in vain that you +have done so. I am sure Valerius will never forget this hour——” + +She gazed in my face, and a tear was again visible, yet on all her +countenance there was no other semblance of passion. The venerable +Aurelius clasping his thin hands together, whispered,—“Would to God that I +were here alone! Shall the axe be laid to the root of the fair young tree +that hath but begun to blossom, when so many old trunks stand around +withered with the lightnings, and sore broken by the winds?—The will of +the Lord be done!” + +“Amen!” said Athanasia, taking the old man by the hand, and smiling, I +think, more cheerfully than I had yet seen her—“My dear father, I fear you +yourself, after all, are teaching Valerius to take but a sad farewell of +us.” + +“Alas! my child,” he replied, “he must have a hard heart that could look +unmoved on that sweet face in this hour of sadness. But we are in the +hands of a greater than Trajan. If so it please Him, all may yet go well +with us even here upon the earth. You may live to see many happy years +among your kindred—and I, (the old man smiled most serenely,) and for me, +my gray hairs may be laid in bloodless dust. Whatever awaits us, blessed +be the name of the Lord!” + +So saying, the old man retired from the chamber, and once more I was left +alone in the presence of Athanasia. I took from my bosom the book and the +letter which I had placed there, and laid them upon her knee. She broke +the seal, and read hastily what Tisias had written, and then concealed the +scroll within her tunic, saying, “Alas! Valerius, little did the brave old +soldier suspect how soon his peril was to be mine—Will you permit me like +him to make you my messenger?—will you seek out my cousin, my sister, and +tell Sempronia in what condition you have found me?—no, not in what you +found—but in what you now see me. Will you go, Valerius, and speak comfort +to my poor friend? Her pity, at least, I am sure is mingled with no angry +thoughts; and yet she only has reason to complain, for her secret thoughts +were not hid from me, and, alas! I concealed mine from her.” + +“I have already seen her,” said I, “and you do her no more than justice. +But, indeed, Sempronius himself thinks of you even as gently as his +daughter.” + +“I doubt it not, Valerius; but, alas! there are many others besides these; +and I know not what relic of weakness it is, but methinks I could have +borne the worst more easily, had it not been for what I picture to myself +of their resentment. Alas! I am cut off for ever from the memory of my +kindred.” She threw open the lattice, as if that she might inhale the free +air, and her eyes wandered to and fro over all the magnificent prospect +that lay stretched out below us,—the temples and high porticos of the +Forum—the gleaming battlements and long arcades of the Palatine—the baths, +and theatres, and circuses between and the river—Tiber winding away among +fields and groves—and the sky of Italy extending over all things its arch +of splendour. When the trumpets were blown by the gate of the +Senate-house, the sound floated upwards to us as gently as if it had been +borne over the waters. The shouts of the multitude were faintly re-echoed +from the towers and the rocks. The princely pageant shewed like a pomp of +pigmies; spear, and helmet, and eagle glittered together, almost like dews +upon the distant herbage. Athanasia rested her eye once more upon the wide +range of the champaign, where fields and forests were spread out in +interminable succession—away towards the northern region and the visible +mountains. She raised her hand, and said, “Valerius, your home lies far +away yonder. I must give you something which you shall promise me to carry +with you, and preserve in memory—of Rome.” + +Before I had time to make any answer, she had taken out of a casket that +stood beside us, a scroll of parchment, bound with a silk ribbon, which +she immediately put into my hands, and—“To-morrow,” said she, “Valerius, +our fate, they tell us, must at length be determined;—if we share the fate +of Tisias, the last gift of Tisias shall be yours. If, however, any mercy +be extended to us, I cannot part with that memorial of a dying martyr. I +must keep to myself the old man’s favourite volume, for it was for me he +had designed it. But I have made a copy of the same book for yourself. I +have written it since I came hither, Valerius, and you must not despise it +because the Mammertine has not furnished the finest of materials. Take +this, Valerius, and take with it my thanks—my prayers. I know you will not +forget my message to my dear sister.—Sextus and she—may many happy days be +theirs—and yours.” + +I kissed the sad gift, and placed it in my bosom. + +“Valerius,” she said, “dry up your tears. You weep for me because I am a +Christian; forget not that the Roman blood flows in my veins, and think +not that its current is chilled, because I have forsworn the worship of +idol and demon, and am in peril for the service of The Living God.” + +“Athanasia!” said I,—“I weep for you, but not for you alone. I ask +nothing—I hope nothing—but I could not bear to part with you thus, and not +to tell you that when I part from you, I bid farewell to all things. +Pardon me—once more pardon me.” + +A single flush of crimson passed over her face, and I saw her lips move, +but the syllables died ere they were uttered. She continued for a moment +gazing on me, pale, and trembling; and then at last she fell upon my neck +and wept—not audibly—but I felt her tears. + +Athanasia was still folded to my bosom in that strange agony of sorrow and +of confidence, when Silo, the jailer, entered the apartment, abrupt and +breathless. + +“Oh, sir!” said he, “your sufferings are mine—but it is necessary that you +should leave us, and on the instant, for the Prefect is already at the +gate, and unquestionably he will examine every part of the prison; and +should you be recognized as the person who was taken in the Mausoleum, you +see plainly to what suspicions it might give rise. Come then, sir, and let +me secure your escape—we shall take care to warn you of whatever occurs, +and we shall send for you, if there be opportunity.” + +Athanasia recovered herself almost instantly, when she heard what Silo +said. + +“We shall meet again,” said I. + +“Once more,” she replied—“at least once more, Valerius.” + +And I tore myself away from her; and the jailer having once again +committed me to the guidance of his child, I was in a few moments +conducted to the same postern by which I had been introduced. In a word, I +found myself in the court of the Capitol, at the instant when the Prefect, +with all his attendants, was entering by the main gate of the Mammertine. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +On reaching home, I was told that Licinius was still absent; and found at +the same time a billet upon the table, which informed me that Sabinus had +carried Sextus with him to his quarters, and that both expected I would +join them there immediately upon my return. I knew not how to refuse +compliance, and yet I could not bear the thought of being so far from the +Capitol, in case of any message being sent to me from the prison. Since I +could do no better, however, I charged Boto to remain in my apartment till +sunset, and bring me, without delay, any letter or messenger that might +arrive in my absence. Should none such appear within that space, I gave +him a note, which I desired him to deliver into the hands of Silo; and +having, as I thought, furnished him with sufficient directions how to +discharge this commission, I myself took the path to the Prætorian Camp, +where I thought it very probable that I might gather some new intelligence +as to Cotilius. + +The Prætorian who had accompanied Sabinus at my release from the rustic +tower, recognized me at the gate, and conducted me immediately to the +Centurion, who, to my surprise and displeasure, had directed that I should +be ushered without delay to, not his own apartment, but the general table. +Here I was received most courteously, however, and hoping the feast was +nearly over, took my place near my friend. + +Several of those high-fed warriors who had more than once disposed of the +empire, were reclining upon rich couches around the board; and their +effeminate exterior would, perhaps, have made them less formidable in my +eyes, had I not remembered the youth of the great Cæsar, the Parthian +retreat of Antony, and the recent death of Otho.(3) There were present, +besides, a few casual visiters like ourselves; among others, a sleek +Flamen, who reclined on the right hand of the presiding Tribune, and a +little bald Greek, who seemed to think it incumbent upon himself to fill +up every pause in the conversation, by malicious anecdotes or sarcasms, of +which last it was easy to see that the Flamen opposite was a favourite +subject. Neither wit nor impiety, however, could make speedy impression +upon the smooth-faced Flamen, who seemed to think, if one might judge from +his behaviour, that the most acceptable service he could render to the +deities, was to do full and devout justice to the gifts of their +benevolence. + +A very animated discussion concerning the review of the newly-arrived +cohorts, (which, I have told you, had taken place that morning by the +river side,) relieved for some time the patient Flamen from the attacks of +this irreverent person, and engaged the zealous participation of those who +had hitherto been the most silent of the company. Sabinus, among the rest, +was ready with a world of remarks upon the equipments, the manœuvres, the +merits, and the demerits of the troops in question; but something he said +was quite at variance with the sentiments of one of his brother +Centurions, who disputed with him rather warmly than successfully for a +few moments, and at last ended with saying,—“But why should I take so much +trouble to discuss the point with you, who, we all know, were thinking of +other matters, and saw not much more of the review than if you had been a +hundred miles off from it?” + +The Centurion coloured a little, and laughed, as it seemed to me, with +rather less heartiness than usual; but the disputant pursuing his +advantage, said, “Yes, you may laugh if you will; but do you think we are +all blind, or do you suppose we are not acquainted with certain +particulars? Well, some people dislike the Suburra, but for my part I +agree with Sabinus; I think it is one of the genteelest places in Rome, +and that there are some of the snuggest houses in it too—and if old men +will die, for me, I protest, I don’t see why young men should not succeed +them.” The Centurion laughed again, and natural ruddiness of complexion +was, I thought, scarcely quite sufficient to account for the flush on his +countenance, as he listened to these innuendos. But the master of the +feast cut the matter short, by saying that he had a health to propose, and +that he expected all present should receive it with honour.—“Here,” said +he, “is to the fair lady Rubellia, who is never absent when the Prætorians +turn out, and may all things fair and fortunate attend her now and +hereafter.” I whispered to Sabinus,—“My friend, I think you have really +some reason for blushing. If you had no pity on Xerophrastes, you might at +least have had some for the pretty widow.” + +He made no answer to this, and looked, if possible, more confused than +ever; but, just at that moment, a soldier came in, and delivered a billet +to the presiding Tribune, who handed it to Sabinus immediately after he +had read it, and said, loud enough to be heard by all those who sate near +him, “I wish the Prince would give some of this work to these new comers. +But, indeed, I wonder what Lictors are good for now-a-days; but every +thing that these Christians are any way concerned in seems to be a matter +of importance.” + +Sabinus, having read the billet, handed it back again to the Tribune, and +said aloud, “_Exit_ Cotilius!—Who would not be of the chorus at the +falling of that curtain?” + +The Tribune shrugged his shoulders, whispered something into the ear of +the messenger, and then, dashing more wine into his cup, said, “Rome will +never be a quiet place, nor the Prætorian helmet a comfortable head-piece, +till these barbarians be extirpated.” + +The Flamen tossed off a full goblet, and, smiting with his hand upon the +table, said, “There spake a true Roman, and a worshipper of the Gods. I +rejoice to find that there is still some religion in the world; for, what +with skulking Jews on the one hand, and bold blasphemous Cyrenæans on the +other, so help me Jupiter, the general prospect is dark enough!” + +“In my opinion,” quoth the bald Greek, putting on an air of some gravity, +“the Jews will have the better of the Cyrenæans. Indeed, I should not be +much surprised to see this Christian superstition supplant every other.” +The Flamen half started from his couch. “You observe, gentlemen,” +proceeded the Greek,—“what great advantage any new superstition has over +any thing of the same sort that is old. We all know, for example, that +Isis and Cybele have for many years past left comparatively few +worshippers to Mars, Apollo,—even to Jupiter. It is lamentable; but it is +true. I have heard that unless on some very great day, a gift is now quite +a rarity upon the altar of any of the true ancient deities of Rome. Egypt +and Mount Ida have done this; and why should not Palestine succeed as well +as either? In the meantime, the enlightened contemplate every different +manifestation of the superstitious principle with equal indifference; and, +I confess to you, I have been a little surprised to perceive how far +Trajan is from imitating their example. But that Chæronæan master of his, +that Plutarch, was always an old woman; and I fear the Prince has not been +able to shake off the impression of his ridiculous stories.” + +“Hush!” quoth the master of the day, “if it please you, nothing can be +said here against either Trajan or his friends; and, as for Plutarch, he +was one of the pleasantest fellows that I ever met with.” + +Sabinus, desirous of restoring the harmony of the assembly, called +forthwith on a musical senior, to join him in a song. The gentleman +required solicitation, but at last announced his consent to attempt the +female part in the duet of Horace and Lydia. Sabinus, always ready, began +to roar out the tender words of regret and expostulation which the most +elegant of poets has ascribed to himself; and the delicate squeaking +response of our wrinkled Lydia formed an agreeable contrast. + +All, in short, were once more in perfect good humour, when another soldier +appeared behind the couch of the president, and handed to him what seemed +to be another billet of the same complexion. He tossed the paper as before +to my friend, who looked very serious as he read it.—“Caius,” he +whispered, “an additional guard is ordered to the Palatine—and the reason +is said to be that the rest of the Christian prisoners are to be examined, +within an hour, by the Emperor himself.” + +I had scarcely had a moment to compose myself, when one of the slaves in +attendance signified that a person wished to speak with me in the +anti-chamber. It was Dromo.—“Sir,” said he, “I have no time for +explanation. Silo wishes to see you—I left Boto with him at the +Mammertine.” + +As we walked from the camp, Sabinus, with his guard, passed without +noticing me; and I received some explanations which I must give to you +very briefly. Boto, mistrusting his recollection of my instructions, had +requested Dromo to assist him in finding his way to the Mammertine; and +the Cretan had come to be witness of a scene, which, in spite of his +sarcastic disposition, he could not narrate without tokens of sympathy. I +mentioned to you that my faithful slave, in coming with me to Rome, had +indulged the hope of meeting once more with a brother, who many years +before had been carried off from Britain. I smiled when the poor man +expressed confidence that he should find out this ere he had been many +days in the metropolis of the world. But now, in truth, a fortunate +accident had recompensed much ill-regulated search. He had found his +brother, and he had found him in the Mammertine. That very brother was +Silo, to whose kindness I, and one dearer than myself, had been so deeply +indebted. The Cretan, himself a slave and an exile, had partaken in the +feelings of the long-lost brothers, and hastened to bring me from the +camp, that Boto might be spared the pain of immediately parting from Silo. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +I had hurried along the darkening streets, and up the ascent of the +Capitoline, scarce listening to the story of the Cretan. On reaching the +summit, we found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already occupied +by detachments of foot. I hastened to the Mammertine—and before the +postern opened to admit us, the Prætorian squadron had drawn up at the +great gate. Sabinus beckoned me to him. “Caius,” said he, stooping on his +horse, “would to heaven I had been spared this duty! Cotilius comes forth +this moment, and then we go back to the Palatine; and I fear—I fear we are +to guard thither your Athanasia. If you wish to enter the prison, quicken +your steps.” + +We had scarcely entered the inner-court, ere Sabinus also, and about a +score of his Prætorians, rode into it. Silo and Boto were standing +together; and both had already hastened towards me; but the jailer, seeing +the Centurion, was constrained to part from me with one hurried +word:—“Pity me, for I also am most wretched. But you know the way—here, +take this key—hasten to my dear lady, and tell her what commands have +come.” + +Alas! I said I to myself, of what tidings am I doomed ever to be the +messenger!—but she was alone; and how could I shrink from any pain that +might perhaps alleviate hers? I took the key, glided along the corridors, +and stood once more at the door of the chamber in which I had parted from +Athanasia. No voice answered to my knock; I repeated it three times, and +then, agitated with indistinct apprehension, hesitated no longer to open +it. No lamp was burning within the chamber, but from without there entered +a wavering glare of deep saffron-coloured light, which shewed me Athanasia +extended on her couch. Its ominous and troubled hue had no power to mar +the image of her sleeping tranquillity. I hung over her for a moment, and +was about to disturb that slumber—perhaps the last slumber of peace and +innocence—when the chamber-walls were visited with a yet deeper glare. +“Caius,” she whispered, as I stepped from beside the couch; “why do you +leave me? stay, Valerius.” I looked back, but her eye-lids were still +closed; the same calm smile was upon her dreaming lips. The light streamed +redder and more red. All in an instant became as quiet without as within. +I approached the window, and saw Cotilius standing in the midst of the +court; Sabinus and Silo near him; the horsemen drawn up on either side, +and a soldier close behind resting upon an unsheathed sword. I saw the +keen blue eye as fierce as ever. I saw that the blood was still fervid in +his cheeks: for the complexion of this man was of the same bold and florid +brightness so uncommon in Italy, which you have seen represented in the +pictures of Sylla, and even the blaze of the torches seemed to strive in +vain to heighten its natural scarlet. The soldier had lifted his sword, +and my eye was fixed, as by fascination, when suddenly a deep voice was +heard amidst the deadly silence—“Cotilius!—look up, Cotilius!” + +Aurelius, the Christian priest, standing at an open window, not far +distant from that at which I was placed, stretched forth his fettered hand +as he spake:—“Cotilius! I charge thee, look upon the hand from which the +blessed water of baptism was cast upon thy head. I charge thee, look upon +me, and say, ere yet the blow be given, upon what hope thy thoughts are +fixed?—Is this sword bared against the rebel of Cæsar, or a martyr of +Jesus?—I charge thee, speak; and for thy soul’s sake speak truly.” + +A bitter motion of derision passed over his lips, and he nodded, as if +impatiently, to the Prætorian. Instinctively I turned me from the +spectacle, and my eye rested again upon the couch of Athanasia—but not +upon the vision of her tranquillity. The clap with which the corpse fell +upon the stones had, perhaps, reached the sleeping ear, and we know with +what swiftness thoughts chase thoughts in the wilderness of dreams. So it +was that she started at the very moment when the blow was given; and she +whispered—for it was still but a deep whisper—“Spare me, Trajan, Cæsar, +Prince—have pity on my youth—strengthen, strengthen me good Lord!—Fie! +fie! we must not lie to save life. Felix—Valerius—come close to me, +Caius—Fie! let us remember we are Romans—’Tis the trumpet——” + +The Prætorian trumpet sounded the march in the court below, and Athanasia, +starting from her sleep, gazed wildly around the reddened chamber. The +blast of the trumpet was indeed in her ear—and Valerius hung over her—but +after a moment the cloud of the broken dream passed away, and the maiden +smiled as she extended her hand to me from the couch, and began to gather +up the ringlets that floated all down upon her shoulder. She blushed and +smiled mournfully, and asked me hastily whence I came, and for what +purpose I had come; but before I could answer, the glare that was yet in +the chamber seemed anew to be perplexing her: and she gazed from me to the +red walls, and from them to me again: and then once more the trumpet was +blown, and Athanasia sprung from her couch. I know not in what terms I was +essaying to tell her what was the truth, but I know that ere I had said +many words, she discovered my meaning. For a moment she looked deadly +pale, in spite of all the glare of the torch-beams; but she recovered +herself, and said in a voice that sounded almost as if it came from a +light heart,—“But Caius, I must not go to Cæsar, without having at least a +garland on my head. Stay here, Valerius, and I shall be ready anon—quite +ready.” + +It seemed to me as if she were less hasty than she had promised, yet many +minutes elapsed not ere she returned. She plucked a blossom from her hair +as she drew near to me, and said, “Take it: you must not refuse one token +more; this also is a sacred gift. Caius, you must learn never to look upon +it without kissing these red streaks—these blessed streaks of the +Christian flower.” + +I took the flower from her hand, and pressed it to my lips; and I +remembered that the very first day I saw Athanasia, she had plucked such +an one, when apart from all the rest, in the gardens of Capito. I told her +what I remembered; and it seemed as if the little circumstance had called +up all the image of peaceful days; for once more sorrowfulness gathered +upon her countenance. If the tear was ready, however, it was not permitted +to drop; and Athanasia returned again to her flower. + +“Do you think there are any of them in Britain?” said she; “or do you +think that they would grow there? You must go to my dear uncle, and he +will not deny you, when you tell him that it is for my sake he is to give +you some of his. They call it the Passion-flower—’tis an emblem of an +awful thing. Caius, these purple streaks are like trickling drops; and +here, look ye, they are all round the flower. Is it not very like a bloody +crown upon a pale brow? I will take one of them in my hand, too, Caius; +and methinks I shall not disgrace myself when I look upon it, even though +Trajan should be frowning upon me.” + +I had not the heart to interrupt her; but heard silently all she said, and +I thought she said the words quickly and eagerly, as if she feared to be +interrupted. + +The old priest came into the chamber while she was yet speaking so, and +said very composedly, “Come, my dear child, our friend has sent again for +us, and the soldiers have been waiting already some space, who are to +convey us to the Palatine. Come, children, we must part for a +moment—perhaps it may be but for a moment—and Valerius may remain here +till we return to him. Here, at least, dear Caius, you shall have the +earliest tidings, and the surest.” + +The good man took Athanasia by the hand, and she, smiling now at length +more serenely than ever, said only, “Farewell, then, Caius, for a little +moment!” And so, drawing her veil over her face, she passed away from +before me, giving, I think, more support to the ancient Aurelius than, in +her turn, she received from him. I began to follow them, but the priest +waved his hand as if to forbid me:—the door closed after them, and I was +alone. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I know not, my friends, how to proceed with the narrative of what +followed. Thoughts, passions, fears, hopes, succeeding so rapidly, give to +that strange night, when I look back upon it through the vista of years, +the likeness of some incoherent, agonizing dream. Much, without doubt, of +what passed within my own mind I have forgotten; but it seems to me as if +what I saw or heard were still present in the distinctness of reality. +That chamber in the Mammertine! Its walls are before me blazing with the +reflection of torch-light, and then again, all dim and shadowy—the stars +shining feebly upon them from the twilight sky—every thing around lonely +and silent, except the voice of Silo’s little maiden,—bewailing no doubt +in her privacy the departure of Athanasia. + +Her father after a little time rejoined me. “Sir,” said he, “all is now +quiet here; will you walk with me towards the Palatine, that we may at +least be near to know what is reported of their proceedings? My brother +will stay here till we return.” + +We soon had descended from the Capitoline, passed through the silent +Forum, and gained the brow of the opposite eminence, where, as shortly +before at the Mammertine, all was light and tumult. Every court was +guarded with soldiery, and groups of busy men were passing continually +about the imperial gates and porticos. Silo led me round and round the +buildings, till we reached what seemed an abandoned wing. “Sir,” said he, +“you do not know more familiarly the house in which you were born and +reared, than I do every corner within these wide walls. But I have not +crossed the threshold since the day Cæsar died.—I was the slave of +Domitian, and he gave me my freedom.—He was kind to his household.” + +We entered beneath a small portico—and Silo drew a key from his bosom. The +lock, after two or three trials, yielded to its pressure. A large empty +hall received us, the circumference of which was scarcely visible by the +light of the newly-risen moon, streaming down from a cupola. + +Another and another sombre chamber we in like manner traversed, till at +length Silo opened one so comparatively light, that I started back, +apprehending we had intruded farther than he intended. A second glance, +however, seemed to indicate that we were still in the region of +desolation, for a statue lay in the midst of the floor, one of its limbs +snapped over, as if it had fallen and been permitted to remain. + +“Where are we, Silo?” I whispered, “what means this unnatural light among +so many symptoms of confusion?” + +“Sir,” said the freedman, “this is the place in which alone Domitian used +to eat and sleep, and walk about for the last months of his life, when he +was jealous of all men; and he contrived these walls, covered all over +with the shining Ethiopian stone, that no one might be able to approach +him without being discovered. Even when a slave entered, he would start as +if every side of the chamber had been invaded by some host of men; fifty +different reflections of one trembling eunuch. It was, they say, behind +this shattered piece of marble that he ran when he had felt the first +treacherous blow. Yonder in the corner is the couch he slept upon, and he +had always a dagger under his head, and he called to the little page that +was waiting upon him to fetch it from the place; but the scabbard only +remained; and then in came Parthenius and Claudianus, and the gladiator, +and the rest, who soon finished what the cunning Stephanus had begun. Let +us go on;—we have not yet reached the place to which I wished to bring +you—but it is not far off now.” + +With this Silo walked to the end of the melancholy chamber, and pressing +upon a secret spring, where no door was apparent, opened the way into a +room, darker and smaller than any of those through which we had come. He +then said to me, “Now, sir, you must not venture upon one whisper more—you +touch on the very heart of Domitian’s privacy. It is possible that the +place I have been leading you to may have been shut up—it may exist no +longer; but the state in which all things are found here makes me think it +more likely that Trajan has never been master of its secret. And in that +case, we shall be able both to see and to hear, without being either seen +or heard, exactly as Domitian used to do, when there was any council held +either in the Mars or the Apollo.” + +I started at the boldness of the project which now, for the first time, I +understood; but Silo laid his finger on his lip again,—cautiously lifted +up a piece of the dark-red cloth with which this chamber was hung,—and +essayed another spring in the pannelling beneath. Total darkness appeared +to be beyond; but the jailer motioning to me to remain for a moment where +I was, and to keep up the hanging, glided boldly into the recess. I +wondered how he should tread so lightly, that I could not perceive the +least echo; but this no longer surprised me, when I had the sign to +follow. The floor felt beneath my foot as if it were stuffed like a +pillow; and, after I had dropped the hanging, every thing was totally +dark, as it had at first appeared to me, except only at certain points, +separate and aloft, which let in gleams of light, manifestly artificial. +Silo, taking hold of me by the hand, conducted me up some steps towards +the nearest of these tiny apertures; and, as I approached it, I heard +distinctly the voices of persons talking together in the room beyond. I +did not draw my breath, you may well believe, with much boldness; but my +eye was soon fixed at one of the crevices, and, after the first dazzle was +over, I saw clearly. Silo took his station by my side, gazing through +another of these loop-holes, which, that you may understand every thing, +were evidently quite concealed among the rich carved-work of an ivory +cornice. + +The chamber was lighted by three tall candelabra of silver, close beside +one of which was placed a long table covered with an infinity of scrolls +and tablets. One person, who had his back turned towards us, was writing, +and two others, in one of whom I instantly recognized the Emperor, were +walking up and down on the other side. + +“No, Palma,” said Trajan, for it was that old favourite whom he +addressed—“I have made up my mind as to this matter. I shall never permit +any curious inquisition as to private opinion. Every man has a right, +without question, to think—to believe—exactly what pleases him; and I +shall concede as much in favour of every woman, Palma, if you will have it +so. But it is totally a different affair, when the fact, no matter how, is +forced upon my knowledge, that a subject, no matter who or what he be—a +subject of the Roman empire, refuses to comply with the first, the +elemental, and the most essential of the laws. The man—aye or the +woman—that confesses in my presence contempt for the deities whom the +commonwealth acknowledges in every step of its procedure—that person is a +criminal; and I cannot dismiss him unpunished, without injuring the +commonwealth by the display of weakness in its chief. As for these poor +fanatics themselves, it is the penalty of my station that I must control +my feelings.” + +“But you are satisfied, my lord,” said Palma, “that these people are quite +innocent as to Cotilius’s designs; and as it was upon that suspicion they +were apprehended, perhaps it may be possible——” + +“Yes, Palma,” interrupted the Prince; “quite possible and quite easy, +provided they will condescend to save themselves by the most trivial +acknowledgment of the sort which, I repeat to you, I do and must consider +as absolutely necessary. And women too—and girls forsooth—I suppose you +would have me wait till the very urchins on the street were gathering into +knots to discuss the nature of the Gods.—Do you remember what Plato +says?”— + +“No, my lord, I do not know to what you refer.” + +“Why, Plato says that nobody can ever understand any thing accurately +about the Deity, and that, if he could, he would have no right to +communicate his discoveries to others; the passage is in the Timæus, and +Tully has translated it besides. And is it to be endured that these modest +fanatics are to do every hour what the Platos and the Ciceros spoke of in +such terms as these? I think you carry your tolerance a little farther +than might have been expected from a disciple of the Academy.” + +“I despise them, my lord, as much as yourself; but, to tell you the truth, +it is this young lady that moves me to speak thus—and I crave your pardon, +if I have spoken with too much freedom.—Her father was one of the best +soldiers Titus had.” + +“The more is the pity, Palma. Have you ever seen the girl yourself? Did +you give orders that she should be brought hither? I have not the least +objection that you should have half an hour, or an hour if you will, to +talk with her quietly; perhaps your eloquence may have the effect we +desire.” + +“I doubt it, my lord, I greatly doubt it,” he replied; “but, indeed, I +know not whether she be yet here—Did you not send to the Mammertine?” + +The man writing at the table, to whom this interrogation was addressed, +said, “I believe, sir, both this lady and the old man that was in the same +prison are now in attendance.” And upon this Trajan and Palma retired +together towards the farther end of the apartment, where they conversed +for some minutes in a tone so low, that I could not understand any thing +of what was said. Trajan at length turned from his favourite with an air, +as I thought, of some little displeasure, and said aloud, coming back into +the middle of the room,—“I know it is so; but what is that to the affair +in hand? I am very sorry for the Sempronii, but I doubt if even they would +be so unreasonable as you are.” + +“Will you not see the poor girl yourself, Cæsar?” + +“You do not need to be told, that my seeing her would only make it more +difficult for me to do that, which, seeing or not seeing her, I know to be +my duty. Do you accept of my proposal? Are you willing to try the effect +of your own persuasion? I promise you, if you succeed, I shall rejoice not +less heartily than yourself; but it is rather too much to imagine that I +am personally to interfere about such an affair as this—an affair which, +the more I think of it, seems to me to be the more perfectly contemptible. +Nay, do not suppose it is this poor girl I am talking of—I mean the whole +of this Jewish, this Christian affair, which does indeed appear to me to +be the most bare-faced absurdity, that ever was permitted to disturb the +tranquillity of the empire. A mean and savage nation have but just +suffered the penalty of obstinacy and treachery alike unequalled, and from +them—from the scattered embers of this extinguished fire, we are to allow +a new flame to be kindled—ay, and that in the very centre of Rome. I tell +you, that if my own hand were to be scorched in the cause, I would +disperse this combustion to the winds of heaven; I tell you, that I stand +here Cæsar, and that I would rather be chained to the oar, than suffer, +while the power to prevent it is mine, the tiniest speck to be thrown upon +the Roman majesty. By all the Gods, Palma, it is enough to make a man sick +to think of the madness that is in this world, and of the iron arguments +by which we are compelled to keep those from harming us, that at first +sight of them excite no feeling but our pity. But I am weary of these very +names of Palestine—Jew—Christian. Go to this foolish girl, and try what +you can make of her; I give you fair warning—no breeders of young +Christians here.” + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Cornelius Palma, after the Prince retired, was apparently for some space +busied with his reflections. He then talked in a whispering manner with +the secretary, and moved towards an extremity of the chamber. But the +moment Silo perceived this, he plucked my sleeve, and drew me to the other +end of our closet, where, as I have told you, the light had admittance in +a similar manner. Here another of the imperial apartments was visible in +equal distinctness; and in it appeared Athanasia and her friend, as +waiting now at length in entire composure the moment when they should be +summoned. + +Palma entering, both rose, and he, returning their salutation, remained +before them for a moment in silence, his eyes fixed on Athanasia. It was +to Aurelius, nevertheless, that his first words were addressed:—“From what +has been reported of your behaviour at the execution of Cotilius, I fear +there is nothing to be gained by speaking to _you_, concerning the only +means by which your own safety can yet be secured. You are obstinate, old +man, in your superstition?”—“Noble Palma,” said the priest, “contempt is +the only thing I fear from men. But I thank my God, that it is the only +thing I have it in my power to avoid.”—“I will not argue with you,” +answered Palma, pointing to a door near him:—“It was not with any purpose +of bending you, that I undertook this painful office. I desire to speak in +freedom with one whose case is, I trust, less hopeless.” + +The old man, pointing to his fetters, said meekly, “Let them guard me +whither it pleases you.” + +“Sir,” said Athanasia, “I pray you let Aurelius remain; imagine not that I +shall either hear or answer less freely because of my friend’s presence.” + +“He will, at least, retire to the other end of the chamber,” said +Palma—“and interfere no farther.” + +The priest drew back;—Athanasia, on her part, seeing that Palma hesitated, +and seemed at a loss how to begin, said to him in a tone of modest +composure:—“Noble sir, if your purpose be indeed as kind as I think it is, +I pray you spare me at least the pain that is needless, and spare yourself +what I am sure is painful to you. You see my youth and my sex, and it is +not unnatural for you to think as you do; but know that my faith is fixed, +and that I hope I shall not be deserted, when I strive even at the last +moment to do it no dishonour.” + +“This gray beard,” said Palma, “has made you, then, thoroughly a +Christian?” + +“I would it were so,” she answered—“I would to God it were so!” + +“Lady,” resumed Palma, “we have knowledge both of your father’s high +character, and of your own amiable dispositions. If you persist in this +manner, you will give grief to Cæsar; and as for your family, have you yet +seriously considered into what misery they must be plunged?” + +“Sir,” she replied, “this is cruel kindness. I have considered all +things.” + +“Young maiden,” continued Palma, “the touch of the physician’s knife is +painful, yet his hand must not falter. But I have sent for those, who, I +hope, may speak more effectually.” + +The Senator turned from the pedestal on which he had been leaning, and +walked to the door over against where Aurelius was sitting: and after a +moment had elapsed, there entered, even as I had anticipated, both her +uncles, Lucius and Velius. Behind them came, wrapped in her consecrated +veil, the Priestess of Apollo; and last of all, gazing wildly around, her +apparel disordered, the friend of her youth, the sister of her bosom,—she +to whom in all things, save one, Athanasia’s heart had ever been laid +open. The two Patricians advanced, deeply dejected, towards the place +where Athanasia stood waiting their approach. The stately Priestess, +walking yet more slowly, lifted the veil from her face, which was pale and +calm as marble. But when the youthful companion at last rested her eye +upon her friend, and the fettered hands clasped together on that bosom, +she rushed past them all, and was folded in a cold embrace; for though +Athanasia pressed Sempronia to her bosom, I saw also that she trembled +from head to foot, and that her eyes were riveted on those who approached +with seriousness more terrible than the passion of young sympathy. + +“Athanasia,” said Lucius, taking her by the hand, “look not upon us thus; +we come as to a daughter.” + +“Dearest,” said old Velius, “listen to thy true friends. Do you put more +faith in the words of strangers than in the blood of kindred—the affection +of your father’s brothers—the guardians of his dear orphan?” + +“Wo is me!” said Athanasia—“O God, strengthen me! Why, oh, why am I forced +to wound these kind hearts! Have pity upon me, have pity upon me—you know +not what you speak of, else you would all be silent.” + +“Weep,” said the Priestess; “weep, and weep largely. There is yet time to +repent. Abjure this madness; let the last of your tears be shed upon the +altars of your paternal Gods, and they also will be merciful. Nay, tremble +not when you hear my voice, Athanasia. I love you as tenderly as the rest, +and if you have deceived me also, I have long since pardoned.” + +The Priestess kissed her forehead; and she bowed her head, weeping at +length audibly. But Athanasia speedily recovered herself, and gently +removing the hands of Sempronia, stood erect again in the midst. + +“Dear friends,” said she, “the moments you have to be with me are +numbered; what avails it that they should be spent in words that can have +no effect? I have been baptized in the name of the one true God—I have +partaken of the symbols of the Christian mystery—and I have no more power +to bring myself out of this peril, than he that stands in the front +rank—without sword or buckler—deprived of all things but his honour.” + +“Athanasia!” said Velius, “alas! my dear girl, what madness is this? Do +you hold yourself wiser than all the wise men, and all the good, and all +the great men that have ever lived in Rome? Do you deem yourself able to +penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of the earth have retreated +with humility? Consider with yourself—remember the modesty that might be +becoming in your tender years—and, I must speak the truth, your +ignorance.” + +“Oh, sir!” she answered, “believe not that I have been brought into this +place, because of my being puffed up with emptiness of conceit. I know +well that I am a poor, young, unlearned creature; but God gives not +according to our deserts; and because I am poor and ignorant, must I +therefore reject the promise of his riches, and the great light that has +been manifested to me,—which, would to God it had also been to you, +despite the perils which a dark world has thrown around it.” + +“O Athanasia!” said young Sempronia, “I know the secrets of your heart, +although you have kept from me some of them. Think, dear sister, of all +the love that we bear to you—and, oh! think of Valerius.” + +“The more, then, is the sacrifice!” said Athanasia. “Caius Valerius also +is a Christian—at least I hope in God he will soon be sealed into our +brotherhood.” + +“Amen! amen!” said Aurelius. + +The Priestess turned round when he uttered this, and observing that he +also was fettered, “Blasphemer!” cried she, “behold the end of your +frenzy. Your eyes are dim, your clay is already yearning, it may be, to be +sprinkled into ashes; but behold your victim. Ye Gods that see all things, +have mercy upon the errors of deceived, ensnared, murdered youth! Hoary +Apostate! feeble though you be, may strength be given to you in anger, +that you may taste the full struggle and the true agony. May you be strong +to wrestle, that you may fall slowly, and feel your fall! Would to the +Gods, just and merciful, that you might struggle and fall alone!” + +“Rash woman,” said the manacled Saint, “most surely your last wish is +mine. But why is it that you have come hither with cruel words, to +imbitter equally the last moments of a life that is dear to you, and a +life that you despise? You speak of ignorance and of deceit. Little know +ye who are the deceived. We are the servants of the living God, whose +light will soon shine abroad among the nations, and quench glimmering +tapers, fashioned with the hands of men, with which, hitherto, ye have sat +contented amidst darkness. Cæsar may bind and slay—but think ye that the +spirit is his to do with it what he will? Think ye that chains and +dungeons, and the sword of man can alter the course of things that are to +be, or shake from its purpose the will of Him, in whom, blind and +ignorant, ye refuse to behold the image of the Maker of all—shutting eyes, +and ears, and your proud hearts; and blaspheming against the God of +heaven, whose glory ye ascribe to stocks and stones, and to the ghosts of +wicked and bloody tyrants, long since mouldered into dust,—and to the sun, +and the moon, and the stars of the sky, which God set there to rule the +day and the night, even as he lets loose his winds to scatter the leaves +of the forest, and to lift up the waves of the great deep?—Leave us, I +beseech you.—The young and the old are alike steadfast, for God is our +strength, and he bestows it on them that ask for it in the name of the +Redeemer.” + +“Peace, thou accursed!” said the Priestess; “I serve the altar, and came +not hither to hear the Gods of heaven and earth insulted by the lips of +hardened impiety.—Athanasia! will you go with us, or will you stay here, +and partake the fate of this madman?” + +“O God!” cried the maiden; “how shall I speak that they may at length hear +me!—Friends—dear friends—if you have any love, any compassion, I pray you +kiss me once, and bid me farewell kindly, and lay my ashes in the +sepulchre of my fathers—beside the urn of my mother. Fear not that I will +disturb the repose of the place—I shall die in anger against no one, and I +shall have rest at length when I am relieved from this struggle. Pardon, +if in any thing besides I ever gave you pain—remember none of my offences +but this—think of me kindly. And go now, dear friends; kiss my lips in +love, and leave me to bear that which must be borne, since there is no +escape but in lying, and in baseness, and in utter perdition here and +hereafter. May the Lord strengthen his day soon, and may ye all bless the +full light, although now ye are startled by the redness of the dawn! +Farewell—kiss me, Velius—kiss me, Lucius—my aunt also will kiss me.” + +They did kiss her, and tears were mingled with their embraces; and they +said no more, but parted from her where she was. Palma himself lifted the +desolate Sempronia from the ground, and he and her father carried her away +senseless, her tresses sweeping the pavement as they moved. + +The prisoners were alone. “The moment is come,” said Silo; “now, sir, +prepare yourself to risk every thing where every thing may be gained.” + +He did not whisper this, but spake the words boldly; and ere I could +either answer any thing, or form any guess as to his meaning, he had +leaped down from my side, and thrown open another secret spring. Silo +rushed in, and I followed him. It was all done so rapidly, that I scarce +remember how. I cannot, indeed, forget the wild and vacant stare of +Athanasia, the cry which escaped from her lips, nor the fervour with which +she sunk into my embrace. But all the rest is a dream. The door closed +swiftly behind us;—swiftly I ran, bearing the maiden in my arms through +all the long course of those deserted chambers. Door after door flew open +before us. All alike, breathless and speechless, we ran on. We reached the +last of the chambers, the wide and echoing saloon, ere my heart had +recovered from the first palpitation of surprise; and a moment after we +breathed once more the free air of heaven. + +“Stop not,” said I, “for the sake of God. Hasten, Silo, it is you that +must guide us.”—“Ha!” said he, “already have they perceived it? Great God! +after all, is it in vain?” We heard shout echoing shout, and the clapping +of doors. “Treachery, treachery! Escape, escape!”—and trumpet and horn +mingled in the clamour of surprise, wrath, terror. “Ride, ride,” screamed +a voice high over all the tumult—“ride this instant—guard every +avenue—search every corner—the wing of Domitian!” + +“We are lost,” said Silo;—“we can never reach the gate.” + +“To the Temple of Apollo!” said I; “the Priestess will shelter Athanasia.” + +“Thank God,” whispered Silo, “there is one chance more.”—And so we began +again to run swiftly, keeping close beneath the shaded wall of the +edifice, and then threading many narrow passages of the hanging gardens of +Adonis, we reached indeed the adjoining court of the Palatine, and found +ourselves, where all was as yet silent and undisturbed, under the sacred +portico. The great gate was barred. Athanasia herself pointed out a +postern, and we stood within the temple. + +It was filled as before, (for here the alternations of day and night made +no difference,) with the soft and beautiful radiance proceeding from the +tree of lamps. But the fire on the altar burned high and clear, as if +recently trimmed, and behind its blaze stood one of the ministering +damsels. Her hand held the chain of the censer, and she was swinging it +slowly, while the clouds of fragrant smoke rolled high up above the +flames;—and the near light, and the intervening smoke, and the occupation +with which she was busied, prevented her from at first perceiving what +intrusion had been made on the solitude of the place. Athanasia ran on, +and clasping the knees of the astonished girl with her fettered hands, +began to implore her by the memory of old affection and companionship, and +for the sake of all that was dear to her, to give escape, if escape were +possible—at least to give concealment. The girl had dropped the censer +from her hand, and seemed utterly confused, and unable to guess the +meaning of what she saw and heard. “Lady!” cried Silo, falling by the side +of Athanasia—“Oh, lady! stand not here considering, for this is the very +moment of utmost peril. Behold these fetters—they tell you from what her +flight hath been.” + +The girl grasped the hands of Athanasia, and gazed upon the manacles, and +still seemed quite amazed and stupified; and while Silo was renewing his +entreaties, we heard suddenly some one trying to open the postern which +the freedman had fastened behind us. Once and again a violent hand essayed +to undo the bolt, and then all was quiet again. And in a moment after, the +great gate was itself thrown open, and the Priestess entered, followed by +her two brothers, who supported between them the yet faint and weeping +young Sempronia. + +In a moment Athanasia had rushed across the temple, and knelt down with +her forehead to the ground, close by where the feet of her haughty +kinswoman were planted. + +“Unhappy!” said she; “by what magic do I behold you here? How have you +escaped? and why—oh! why fled hither? Think ye, that here, in the Temple +of Apollo, the priestess of an insulted God can give shelter to blasphemy +flying from the arms of justice? Ha! and he, too, is here!—Outcast! how +durst thou? Speak, unhappy Athanasia—every thing is dark, and I see only +that you have brought hither——”—“Friends, friends—oh! blame them not,” +interrupted the maiden—“Oh! blame them not for venturing all to save me. +Oh! help us, and help speedily—for they search every where, and they may +speedily be here.” + +“Here?” cried the priestess—“who, I pray you? Ha! run, fly, bolt the door. +If Cæsar speaks, I answer.” + +The ring of arms, and voices of angry men, were heard distinctly +approaching. In a moment more we could hear them talking together beneath +the very portico, and trying, in their turn, to thrust open the massive +valves of the temple. “Who calls there?” cried the Priestess—“Who calls +and knocks? If a suppliant approaches, let him come as a +suppliant.”—“Castor! We are no suppliants,” answered a rough voice:—“Dead +or alive, you must give up our pretty Christians. Come, come, my sly +masters; yield, yield, there is no flying from Cæsar.” + +“Peace, insolent!” quoth the Priestess—“peace, and begone! This is the +Temple of Apollo, and ye shall find no Christians here. Turn, rude man, +and dread the arm that guarded Delphos!” And saying so, she at length +lifted up Athanasia, and moved towards the other extremity of the fane, +where, as I had occasion once to tell you before, the private chamber of +the Priestess was situated on the right hand beyond the statue of Apollo. +In passing the image she halted an instant, laid her hand on her eyes, and +kissed its feet, with a murmur of supplication; but that was her only +utterance: and the rest gave none. + +She thus led us across the chamber in which, on a former day, I had heard +Athanasia sing; and in like manner, having taken a lamp in her hand, on +through the long passages which conduct towards the receptacle wherein the +Sybilline prophecies are said to be preserved. She opened the door which +she had, on that earlier day, told me led into the repository of those +mysterious scrolls. Two inner doors appeared before us; that to the left +she opened likewise, and we perceived, descending from its threshold, a +dark flight of steps, as if down into the centre of the rock. + +“Here,” said she, as she paused, and held the lamp over the gloomy +perspective—“here, at last, I leave you, having already done too much, +whether I think of the God I serve, or of Trajan, or of myself. But for +the blood of kindred not little may be dared. Go with her, since you have +come with her. More I cannot do. Here—take this lamp; the door at the +bottom is fastened only from within; let it fall behind you, and make what +speed you may.” + +“One thing,” said Silo, “had better be done ere you depart;” and so, very +adroitly, he, by means of his jailer’s key, relieved both of them from +their fetters. He then whispered, “Go no farther, Valerius; you may rest +assured that no one suspects us.” I saw that he designed to return into +the courts of the Palatine, and so proceed homewards, as if ignorant of +every thing that had occurred. The good freedman had no other course to +pursue, either in duty to himself or to his family. But for me, all my +cares were here. I squeezed by the hand both Lucius and Velius, and both +warmly returned my pressure. The Priestess gave the lamp into my hand, and +the door was shut upon us; and we began, with hearts full of thankfulness, +but not yet composed enough to taste of lightness—with thankfulness +uppermost in our confused thoughts, and with no steady footsteps, to +descend into the unknown abyss. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +The steps were abrupt and narrow; but in a few minutes our feet became +accustomed to them, and we descended rapidly. After we had done so for +some time, we found ourselves in a low chamber of oblong form, in the +midst of which an iron stake was fixed into the floor, having chains of +ponderous workmanship attached to its centre, and over against it, a +narrow chair of the same metal, it also immoveable. I asked Athanasia to +repose herself here for a moment; for it was evident that the tumultuous +evening had much worn out her strength. But she said, shuddering, “No, not +here, Valerius; I never saw this place before, but the aspect of it recals +to me fearful stories. Here, wo is me, many a poor wretch has expiated +offences against the dignity of the shrine, and the servants of its Demon. +My father knows, I doubt not, some humble Christian roof, beneath which we +may be safe until the first search be over. Let us breathe at least the +open air, and He who has hitherto helped will not desert us.” + +“No, my children,” said Aurelius; “let us not linger here. Christian +roofs, indeed, are known to me, both humble and lofty; but how to know how +far suspicion may already have extended?—or why should we run any needless +risk of bringing others into peril, having by God’s grace escaped +ourselves, when all hope as to this life had been utterly taken away? Let +us quit these foul precincts—let us quit them speedily—but let us not +rashly be seen in the busy city. There is a place known to me, (and +Athanasia also has visited it heretofore,) where safety, I think, may be +expected, and where, if danger do come, it shall find no unnecessary +victim. Let us hasten to the Esquiline.” + +“Thanks, father!” said Athanasia; “there no one will seek us: there best +shall our thanksgivings and our prayers be offered. We will rest by the +sepulchre of our friend, and Valerius will go into the city, and procure +what things are needful.” + +We began the descent of another flight of steps, beyond the dark chamber. +This terminated at length in a door, the bolts of which being withdrawn, +we found ourselves beneath the sky of night, at the extremity of one of +the wooded walks that skirt the southern base of the Palatine—the remains +of the Assyrian magnificence which had once connected the Golden House of +Nero with the more modest structures of his predecessors. I wrapped +Athanasia in my cloak, and walked beside her in my tunic; and Aurelius +conducted us by many windings, avoiding as far as was possible the glare +of the Suburra, all round about the edge of the city, to the gardens which +hang over the wall by the great Esquiline Gate. + +“Is it here,” said I, when he paused—“is it in the midst of this splendour +that you hope to find a safe obscurity?” + +“Have patience,” replied the old man; “you are a stranger:—and yet you +speak what I should have heard without surprise from many that have spent +all their days in Rome. Few, indeed, ever think of entering a region which +is almost as extensive as the city itself, and none, I think, are +acquainted with all its labyrinths.” + +So saying, the priest led the way into one of the groves. Its trees formed +a dense canopy overhead; nor could we pass without difficulty among the +close-creeping undergrowth. At length we reached the centre of the wide +thicket, and found a small space of soil comparatively bare. The light of +moon and star plunged down there among the surrounding blackness of +boughs, as into some deep well, and shewed the entrance of a natural +grotto, which had, indeed, all the appearance of oblivion and utter +desertedness. “Confess,” said he, “that I did not deceive you. But there +is no hurry now; let me taste once more the water of this forgotten +spring.” + +I had not observed a small fountain hard by the mouth of the grotto, +which, in former days, had evidently been much cared for, although now +almost all its surface was covered with leaves. The marble margin shewed +dim with moss; nor had a statue just within the entrance of the grot +escaped this desolation. Damp herbage obscured its recumbent limbs, and +the Parian stone had lost its brightness. “You can scarcely see where the +inscription was,” said Aurelius, “for the letters are filled up or +effaced; but I remember when many admired it, and I can still repeat the +lines— + + ‘Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, + And to the murmur of these waters sleep; + Ah! spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, + And drink in silence, or in silence lave.’(4) + +Little did they, who graved this command, conjecture how well it was to be +obeyed. But there should be another inscription.—Ay, here it is,” said he, +stepping on a long flat piece of marble among the weeds. I was advancing +to examine the stone, but the old man stopped me:—“What avails it to spell +out the record? Do you remember the story of Asinius? It was within this +very cavern that the man was butchered;(5) and now you see both he and his +monument are alike sinking into forgetfulness. I believe, however, the +monument itself must bear the blame in part; for I have heard my father +say that he had been told this was a favourite fountain until that +slaughter.” + +Athanasia meantime had sat down by the grotto, and was laving her forehead +with the water of the solitary fountain. Aurelius, too, dipped his hands +in the well, and tasted of the water, and then turning to me, he said, +with a grave smile, “Valerius, methinks you are religious in your regard +for the slumbers of the nymph.” He whispered something into the ear of +Athanasia, and received an answer from her in the same tone, ere he +proceeded:—“Draw near—fear not that I shall do any thing rashly—we owe all +things to your love—we know we do; but speak plainly.—Do you indeed desire +to be admitted into the fellowship of the true Faith? Let not the symbol +of regeneration be applied hastily. Without doubt, great were my joy might +my hands be honoured to shed the blessed water of baptism upon the brow of +dear Valerius.” + +“Caius,” said Athanasia, “I know God has touched your heart; why should +this be delayed any longer? You have shared the perils of the faithful. +Partake with them in good as in evil. Hesitate no longer; God will perfect +what hath been so begun.” + +“Dearest friends!” said I, “if I hesitate, it is only because I doubt if I +am yet worthy. Surely I believe that this is the right faith, and that +there is no God but He whom you worship.” + +“Acceptable is humility in the sight of Heaven,” said the priest; and he +rose up from the place where he had been sitting, and began, standing by +the margin of the well, to pour out words of thanksgiving and +supplication, such as I have never heard equalled by any lips but his. The +deep calm voice of the holy man sounded both sweet and awful in the +breathless air of midnight. The tall black trees stood all around, like a +wall, cutting us off from the world, and from the thoughts of the world; +and the moon, steady in the serene sky, seemed to shower down light and +beauty upon nothing in all the wide earth, but that little guarded space +of our seclusion. I stepped into the cool water of the fountain. The old +man stooped over me, and sprinkled the drops upon my forehead, and the +appointed words were repeated. Aurelius kissed my brow, as I came forth +from the water, and Athanasia also drew slowly near, and then hastily she +pressed my forehead with trembling lips. + +We sate down together by the lonely well; and we sate in silence, for I +could not be without many thoughts partaken by none but myself, at the +moment when I had thus, in the face of God and man, abjured the faith of +all my fathers, and passed into the communion of the despised and +persecuted Few; nor did either the priest or Athanasia essay to disturb my +meditations. + +There were moments (for I must not conceal from you my weakness) in which +I could scarcely help suspecting that I had done something that was wrong. +I thought of my far distant mother; and I could not reflect without pain +upon the feelings with which I had every reason to suppose that she, kind +as she was, and merciful in all things, would have contemplated the scene +which had passed. I thought of my dead parent too; and that was yet more +serious and awful. The conviction of my own mind, in obedience to which I +had acted, relieved me, however, from any feelings of self-reproach.—My +father is dead, said I to myself—He died in ignorance, and he has not been +judged according to the light, which never shone upon him. But now—Oh, +yes! it must be so—the darkness has passed from before his eyes; and, if +the spirits of the departed ever visit, in the dim hours of silence, those +who were dear to them upon this earth, surely his venerable shade stood by +smiling while the forehead of his son was laved with these blessed waters. + +Meantime, minutes—hours, perhaps, glided away, while troubled, and solemn, +and tender thoughts thus occupied by turns my bosom. The old priest sate +by me, his arms folded on his breast, gazing upwards upon the spangled +glories of the firmament. Athanasia was on the other side, close by the +statue of the Sleeping Naiad. From time to time, she too would fix her +eyes for a moment upon the untroubled beauty of the moon; and then, +stooping over the brink of the fountain, once and again I saw its calm +dark waters rippled beneath her by the dropping of a tear. + +“My children,” said, at length, Aurelius, “methinks more sadness is +amongst us than might suit the remembrance of what Providence has done for +us, since the sun that went down upon fear and sorrow is about to rise +upon many fair hopes. I am old; the world lies behind me, save a remnant I +know not how brief. It lies all before you, and you have a light whereby +to look upon it, which my early day wanted. I trust that soon, very soon, +ye shall both be far from this city—I say both, for I know well, go where +ye may, ye will go together. As for me, my lot is cast here, and here I +will remain. Caius, you must leave us betimes—you must return into the +city, and consult with your friends and hers, how best Athanasia may be +conveyed safely beyond the bounds of Italy. Cæsar, indeed, rules every +where; but at a distance from Rome suspicion is, at least, less watchful; +and there is no precept given by which ye are bound to seek unnecessary +perils.” + +“Aurelius,” said I—“dear father, think not but that I have already been +considering all these things anxiously. As soon as I have seen you safely +placed within the retreat of which you have spoken, I shall hasten to +Licinius, my kinsman, who already, indeed, must be feeling no small +anxiety from my absence. I shall speak with him, and with both the +Sempronii. My own errand to the capital I value as nothing, and I shall be +ready on the instant, if Athanasia herself will consent to partake my +voyage.” + +“Yes, Caius,” said the father—“this child of God will be your wife, and ye +will both serve the Lord many days, amidst the quiet valleys of your far +off island.—Nay, daughter, do not weep, for these are not common days, and +you must follow without fear the path which God’s providence points out. +Before ye go, my children, I myself shall join your hands in the name of +our God.” + +Athanasia heard his words, and saw me gaze upon his face, but she made no +reply, except by the tears which Aurelius rebuked, and a timid, yet grave +and serious pressure, with which she, when he had made an end of speaking, +returned the fervid pressure of my hand upon hers. + +“Children,” said the old man, “there is no need of words when hearts are +open—the tears that ye have shed together are the best earnest of the vows +that ye shall ere long, I trust, pronounce. Yet, let no rashness attend +your steps. The dawn must now be near, and Athanasia and I had better +retire into our protecting covert. Valerius will leave us, and return at +eventide. Till then, fasting and praying, we shall give thanks for our +deliverance, and ask the aid that alone is precious for the time that yet +remains.” + +I had, fortunately, brought all the way with me the lamp which lighted our +steps down the mysterious staircase, from the shrine of Apollo. Some +little oil still remained within it, and Aurelius soon struck a light, +and, taking it in his hand, began to enter before us the dark cavern, by +the mouth of which we had all this while been sitting. You, perhaps, have +never heard of those strange excavations, the whole extent of which has +probably never been known to any one person, but which appear, indeed, as +the priest had said, to be almost co-extensive with the great city beneath +which they are placed. For what purpose they were at first dug, is a +subject which has long exercised the conjectures of those fond of +penetrating into the origin of things, and the customs of antiquity. By +some it is supposed, that in such caverns, winding far away into unseen +recesses, the first rude inhabitants of Italy, like the Troglodytes of +Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, had fixed their miserable abodes. Others assert, +that they owe their origin merely to the elder builders of the visible +Rome, who, to avoid marring the surface of the earth, were contented to +bring their materials of sand, clay, and stone, from these subterraneous +labyrinths, which so grew with the progress of diligence, and with the +extension of the city itself. Perhaps both conjectures may have some +foundation in truth; but be that as it may, there is no question, that, in +succeeding times, these catacombs had been widened and extended, to serve +as places of burial for the mortal remains of the poor citizens. And now +is it to be wondered at, that here, in regions so obscure and dismal, the +persecuted adherents of the Faith should have frequently sought not only +resting-places for the bodies of their dead, but even shelter for +themselves, amidst the terror of those relentless days? Hither, more than +once, the aged priest said, he had fled to escape the pursuit of his +enemies—here once more he hoped the shield of safety would lie over his +peril—here, at last, by whatever death he should die, his brethren had +promised to lay his bones in the earth, beside Tisias of Antioch, and many +more that, in the bloody times of Nero and Domitian, had already, in the +sight of all that heartless city, merited the crown, and the spotless +robe, and the palm-branch of martyrdom, by patient endurance of the last +insolence of man. + +Our father, therefore, held the lamp before us, and we entered those +gloomy regions, wherein alone the servants of the Son of God could at that +troubled era esteem themselves in safety from the hot pursuit of +contemptuous power. We passed along beneath the arches of the rock-hewn +roof, and between the endless winding walls, on either side of which +appeared many humble inscriptions, recording the virtues of the departed +and the regrets of the surviving poor. Of these last, however, as it +appeared, all must long since have been gathered to the ashes of those +they lamented, for there was no semblance of any new monument among all +that we observed, and most of them, to judge from the shape of the letters +upon them, must have been set up at least as long ago as the period of +Asinius. After traversing many of these subterraneous galleries, we came, +at last, to one more low-roofed than the rest, into which Aurelius struck +aside, saying, “Here Tisias lies, but no inscription marks the place where +a martyr finds repose. Here is the spot; with my own hands I lent feeble +help in digging the grave. Athanasia, too, knows it well, for she also did +not fear to assist in rendering the last honours to that soldier of +Christ.” + +A flat thin stone, without mark or epitaph, indicated the spot. + +“Father,” said Athanasia, “let me rest here. I am weary and worn—but here +I shall fear no evil. Conduct Caius back to the grotto; it is time he +should go.” + +Thus leaving her by the funeral-stone, Aurelius and I retraced our steps +to the mouth of the catacomb. + +“Already,” said he, “the sky is red eastward—walk cautiously through the +gardens, and regain with all speed the house of your kinsman. Go, my son; +may all blessings attend your steps. Come back at the rising of the moon, +and cast a stone into the fountain, and I shall be within hearing. Go, and +fear not.” + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +I passed without disturbance through the gardens of the Esquiline, and the +streets of the city, in which no one was as yet moving, except a few +rustics driving asses laden with herbs to the market-place. When I reached +the house of my kinsman, however, it was evident that sleep did not +prevail within its gates; lights were visible in the vestibule, and there +I found several of the slaves sitting in conversation. My own could not +conceal the extravagance of his satisfaction on seeing me enter among them +in safety; so that I had no doubt his brother had informed him, in so far +at least, of what had passed after our leaving him in the Mammertine. +Dromo received me also with warm demonstrations of joy, and conducted me +to the chamber of Licinius, in which, with the orator himself, were +Sextus, pale with watching, Sabinus, still habited in military attire, +with a goblet of wine before him on the table, and Lucius Sempronius, who +was reclining at some little distance from the rest. It was he that +eagerly began to question me; and I perceived from the style in which he +spoke, that all present had already been made aware of the manner in which +Athanasia had been withdrawn from the council-chamber. A few words +informed them of what had followed after we quitted the Temple of Apollo. + +“I thank the gods,” said Sempronius,—“so far at least it goes well—but if +this strictness, of which the Centurion speaks, shall be adhered to, there +still must be no small difficulty about conveying her beyond the city.” + +“In truth,” quoth Sabinus, after a little pause, “I am afraid this is +scarcely a matter in regard to which I should be consulted. I know not but +already I have done several things that could not be quite reconciled with +my duty. I shall, in all probability, be set on the watch myself, and if +so—much as I must regret the necessity—it certainly will be most necessary +for me to discharge what is committed to my trust. Is there no +possibility, think you, of inventing some impenetrable disguise? Depend on +it, it is quite impossible the young lady should remain any where in Rome, +without being ere long discovered. The first thing is to have her safe +beyond the city-walls.” + +“I myself,” said I, “shall embark instantly for Britain. Sempronius, +Athanasia must go with me—Surely it may be possible to have her carried +unobserved to the shore.” + +“You!” said Licinius—“you embark instantly for Britain?—You know not what +you speak; your law-suit has been determined this very afternoon. Every +thing that Cneius left is your own.” + +“O Jove!” cried Sabinus, “did ever mortal receive such news with such a +face! But come, here is health to the heir of the Valerii, and may this +Massic choke me, if I love him not the better for his gravity.” + +“Would to heaven!” said Sempronius, “our young friend had loved under +other auspices! No, Valerius must stay and take possession, destined, as I +hope he is, to equal, under the favour of the gods, the noblest name in +his lineage. My dear niece—let us trust she may be concealed somewhere in +safety from the pursuit. Separated from this fanatic crew, she will, ere +long, without question, abandon the dreams they have filled her mind +withal; and on some happier day, our friend may perhaps have no reason +either to fear or to blush, for lifting her over the threshold of the +Valerii.” + +I drew near to the old man, and, receiving his embrace, whispered into his +ear, “Sempronius, you speak generously; but know that this very evening I +also have become a Christian.” + +“Heavens!” cried he, “what limits shall be affixed to this contagion! Rash +boy! have you not seen already to what consequences this must lead?” + +“What?” says Licinius—“what new calamity is this? Have my ears deceived +me? Speak, dear Caius—for the sake of all the blood in your veins—you have +not embraced this frenzy?” + +“My friends,” said I, “why should I speak to one, when all of you are, I +well know, alike interested? In all things else I bow to age and +understanding so much above my own; but here I have thought for myself, +and my faith is fixed.” + +Licinius heard me with a countenance of painful and anxious emotion. In +the eye of young Sextus I saw a tear ready to start, and his whole aspect +was that of one sad and bewildered. Sempronius leaned his brow upon his +hand, and turned himself away from me. But as for the Centurion, he +preserved his usual air; and after a moment, all the rest continuing +silent, said, “Valerius, I have been in love ere now, and perhaps am not +out of the scrape at present; but you have thrown a new light upon the +matter. What do you fancy to be the great merits of the present age, that +it should be treated with more favour than all that have gone before it? +And, if you come to speak of the Jews, every body knows they are a most +pitiful, mean, knavish set of creatures. They were always by the ears +among themselves; but I think it is rather too much that they should have +the credit of bringing their betters (by which I mean all the world +besides) into confusion. You are but green yet; all this will blow over +anon, and you will laugh more heartily than any one else when you think of +your weakness. But look up, good friend, I don’t think you are listening +to me.” + +“My dear Sabinus,” said I, “I do listen, but I think it is rather to the +gay Prætorian, than to the patient friend I had expected to find in you.” + +“Come!” said he again, “you take every thing so seriously. If you are +resolved to be a Christian, I am very sorry for it; but even that shall +not stand between me and a true friend. I hope you will soon see the thing +as I do—I know you will; but, in the meantime, Valerius, you may count +upon me.”—And the kind man squeezed my hand with his customary fervour. + +He then turned round to the rest of our friends, and began to propose for +their consideration a dozen different schemes of escape, that had already +suggested themselves to his imagination. + +Licinius took advantage of the first pause, to suggest that the Centurion +seemed in a hurry to get rid of me. He then passed into an account of the +speech he had delivered on the preceding afternoon before the Court of the +Centumvirs, and of the unhesitating manner, so gratifying to his feelings, +in which its judgment had been pronounced. For some moments, in his detail +of these proceedings, he seemed almost to have lost sight of the present +situation and views of the person most interested in their termination. +But when, in the progress of his story, he came to enlarge upon the +magnificence of my new possessions—the domains in Africa—the rich farms in +Sicily—the numerous slaves engaged in their cultivation—the Spanish silver +mine—and, last of all, the splendours of the great villa upon the banks of +the Tiber—it was not difficult to perceive that he could scarcely restrain +his indignation at the purpose I had been expressing. “And such,” said he, +“are the realities which our young friend quits for the reasons he has +mentioned! Well, every man must judge for himself. If it must be so, let +it be so.” + +I heard him patiently to the end, and then said, “You have well summed up +the whole matter, my dear Licinius. It must indeed be so. I go immediately +to Britain, and I trust she—for whom I would leave all these things, were +they greater than they are—shall, by the aid of your kindness, go with me +in safety. There is one request only which I have, in addition to all +this, to lay before you; and that you may hear it the more patiently, it +does not concern myself. + +“In a word, then,” I continued, “should happier days arrive, I hope once +more to be among you here in Rome. The wealth which, thanks to your zeal, +Licinius, is this day mine, can be of little use to me in the British +valley, to which, for the present, I retire. Above all, this beautiful +villa of which you speak,—why, because for a time I am unable to occupy +it, should the mansion of my fathers stand empty, when there are others +among their descendants, who lie not under the same necessity of exile? +Till I am enabled to breathe in freedom the air of Italy, I trust Licinius +will consent to let Sextus represent me in my villa. There, too, I hope +Sempronius will permit his daughter to be. It will give pleasure to +Athanasia, to think that those halls contain the dearest of our friends. +When we come back, if ever we do so, they will not grudge to make room for +us beneath the same roof with themselves. Licinius—Sempronius—what say +you?” + +They were both silent for a moment; but Sabinus was at hand to answer for +them:—“By all Olympus! I shall knock down any man henceforth, that in my +presence abuses Christianity as a destruction of men’s hearts. Let it be, +good friends, as our Caius says. I know, Sextus, I have at least your +voice upon my side. Let it be so; and, for heaven’s sake, let it be +immediately. A wedding is the very thing to divert attention from these +troubles in both kindreds.” + +Our conversation was interrupted by Dromo, who told me that Silo the +jailer had come to see me, and was below in the hall. There I found the +humane man, with his little daughter in his hand, and walked aside with +him into the inner portico of the house. I told him how the escape, for +which his zeal alone was to be thanked, had been terminated—and to what +resolution I had now come;—and then inquired whether no suspicion had been +attached to himself, in consequence of his absence from the Capitoline. +Having assured me that he had no reason to think so,—“The oath which I had +taken to Trajan,” said he, “prevented me from adopting the simpler course +of setting open for our dear friends the gates of the Mammertine; and I +trust that I did not offend against that oath by acting as I did, after +they had been taken away for the time from my keeping. But both they and +you must be aware of the pain which I suffered during their confinement, +and of the dangers which I have encountered by their escape. I am resolved +no more to be subject to such struggles. I cannot preserve my faith as a +Christian, and my honour as a servant of Trajan. This very day I resign my +charge in the Mammertine; this very night, if it so please you, I am ready +to accompany you and my dear young lady, in your flight to Britain.” + +I need not say with what gladness I heard this proposal. Returning to my +friends, I informed them of what I had just heard, and perceiving now at +last that there was no chance of diverting me from my project, they +entered, like true friends, into serious consultation respecting the best +method of carrying my project into execution. The aid of Silo, who had +already given such proofs both of presence of mind, and of prudence, and +courage, was regarded by them as of the highest importance. He was shortly +summoned to take part in our deliberation, and it was resolved, that after +resigning in a formal manner the office he held, and transferring his +property for the present into the custody of Licinius, he should forthwith +repair to Ostium, and there hire and put in readiness, for immediate use, +a small vessel, the lightest he could find, in which the fugitive party +might transport themselves at least as far as Corsica. To this the zealous +Silo without hesitation assented. It was agreed that he should have the +mariners on their benches by the coming on of night, and that he himself +should be waiting for us by a certain ruined tower, which stands +conspicuously by the river side, about a mile and a half above Ostium. We +left it to Silo himself, to stock the bark with any merchandise which he +might deem best adapted to deceive the superintendents of the haven. + +Partly from the necessity of making provision of various kinds for this +voyage, but still more in consequence of the law-suit, with the +termination of which you have just been made acquainted, I had no leisure +that day, from which to work out unnecessary pain either for myself or for +others. I had to assist Licinius in looking over an infinity of deeds, and +to superintend the drawing out of others. In the next place, I had to go +to the Forum for the purpose of manumitting some slaves, (such a largess +being naturally expected); and while I was occupied with this, need I tell +you, that my own poor Briton was not forgotten? Licinius having, at the +joint request of Sextus and myself, accorded that morning to the Cretan +also the well-merited gift of his liberty, Boto and Dromo were seen +strutting about the Forum together for some moments, each arrayed in that +worshipful cap which had formed the most prominent object in their +day-dreams of felicity. I shall not trouble you with needless particulars. +Let it suffice, that the greater part of the day was thus spent in +unavoidable business. + +Towards evening, I stole privately from my kinsman’s house, being willing +to avoid a formal farewell, and repaired to Sabinus, who received me with +very lively emotion. What he dwelt upon most fervently, however, was the +probability—the certainty he seemed to esteem it—that a persecution of +this nature could not be long persisted in by such a prince as Trajan; and +the pleasure with which, that being all at an end, he should see me come +back to Rome, and take due possession of the inheritance of my fathers. +After expatiating most fluently for some minutes on the expected delights +of that day, he paused suddenly, and then added, in a tone of some little +hesitation, “And as for me, I wonder in what state you shall find me. Rich +or poor—married or single—Centurion or Tribune—one thing is certain, that +I shall, in all circumstances, be not a little rejoiced to see you.” + +“You had better marry, my good captain,” said I. + +“Marry! me to marry? I have not the least thought of such a thing. You did +not put any faith, did you, in the raillery of those waggish fellows of +yesterday?” + +“A little—a very little, Sabinus.” + +“Poh! poh! now you are jesting.” + +“And much, very much, Sabinus, in the conscious looks of a certain +blushing Centurion, yesterday.” + +“Come,” quoth he, “there is more cunning in these British eyes than I ever +should have dreamt of. Fill your cup to the brim, boy, and since you are +to leave us so speedily, I shall have no secrets for you. I have seen +service;—true, but what of that? I have kept a light heart in all my +campaigns. But my day, it must be confessed, begins to wear a little, a +very little, towards the evening; and, Castor! if you allow supper-time to +slip over, I don’t know but you must go to bed with a light stomach. Now +or never was the word, my boy; and the widow is mine own.” + +“And Xerophrastes?” said I. + +“And as for the most sagacious and venerable Xerophrastes, why, to tell +you the truth, I see nothing for him but that he should allow his beard to +curl as it pleases, drop his long cloak over his ambitious pair of shanks, +forswear moonlight, purchase for himself a dark lantern instead, and see +whether he can’t find, within the four walls of Rome, an honest Greek, and +a constant widow, to make one blessed wedding withal. That is my advice to +the Stoic—Stoic no longer—but, if there be hoops upon a tub, the most +cynical of all Cynics.” + +When it was at last necessary that I should move—“Dear Caius,” said the +Centurion, “you know the Prefect has set a price on their heads, and I +promise you it is such a temptation as no virtue, that keeps watch beneath +any common prætorian breast-plate, could well be trusted to wrestle with. +But hope, and dare. And here, take once more this helmet, and cloak, and +sword, and with them share the password of the night.” + +Sabinus then gave private orders to one of his troop, and walked with me +towards the Esquiline.—But why should I linger over what little remains of +this story? Why pain you with the parting which I witnessed between my +Athanasia and the holy Aurelius, afterwards numbered among the martyrs of +Christ?—Behold us at last issued from the Catacombs, and mounted on the +trusty horses which our friend had caused to be waiting at no great +distance from the thicket that clothed their entrance. Behold us arrived +without interruption at the Ostian Gate of Rome. + +The soldiers on guard challenged us cheerily as we came up to them. + +“The word, comrades?” + +“_Titus!_” quoth the Centurion. + +“Pass on—whom bear you with you, comrades!” + +“A Christian—a Christian prisoner,” said I. + +“By Jove, that’s worth gold to you, brother,” quoth the guard.—“Open the +gate there;—pass on, friends. I hope I shall have luck one day myself.” + + + + + + FINIS. + + + + + + + PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. + + + + + + + FOOTNOTES + + + 1 “Concerning the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus.” + + 2 These were the principal conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. + They were afterwards butchered by the Prætorians, who regretted the + tyrant; and it was supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that + slaughter, and its shameful consequences to himself, (for he was + compelled, among other insults, to return public thanks to the + butchers,) that Nerva called to his aid the personal vigour and high + military genius of Trajan. + + 3 ——Catonem + Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho. + + 4 So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines: + + Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis, + Dormio, dum blandæ sentio murmur aquæ; + Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum + Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace. + + 5 Asinius autem brevi illo tempore quasi in hortulos in _arenarias_ + quasdam juxta portam Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.—Cic. _Pro + Cluent._ + + + + + + TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE + + +Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “eyebrows”, “eye-brows”; “godlike”, +“god-like”) have not been changed. + +Other changes, which have been made to the text: + + page 72, question mark added after “him”, quote mark added before + “His” + page 267, “Aybss” changed to “Abyss” + page 307, “Capito” changed to “Capitol” + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERIUS. 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A ROMAN STORY*** + + + + + + BLACKWOOD'S + + STANDARD NOVELS + + ---------------------- + + VALERIUS + + + + + + VALERIUS + + A ROMAN STORY + + + NEW EDITION + + + WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS + EDINBURGH AND LONDON + + + + + + + VALERIUS. + + + + + + _BOOK I. CHAPTER I._ + + +Since you are desirous, my friends, that I should relate to you, at length +and in order, the things which happened to me during my journey to Rome, +notwithstanding the pain which it must cost me to throw myself back into +some of the feelings of that time, I cannot refuse to comply with your +request. After threescore years spent in this remote province of an +empire, happy, for the most part, in the protection of enlightened, just, +and benevolent princes, I remember, far more accurately than things which +occurred only a few months ago, the minutest particulars of what I saw and +heard while I sojourned, young and a stranger, among the luxuries and +cruelties of the capital of the world, as yet imperfectly recovered from +the effects of the flagitious tyranny of the last of the Flavii. + +My father, as you have heard, came with his legion into this island, and +married a lady of native blood, some years before the first arrival of +Agricola. In the wars of that illustrious commander, during the reigns of +Vespasian and Titus, he had the fortune to find opportunities of +distinguishing himself; but when his general was recalled, by the jealousy +of Domitian, he retired from public life, and determined to spend the +remainder of his days in peace, on the lands which belonged to him in +right of his wife here in Britain. He laid the foundations of the house in +which I have now the pleasure of receiving you; and here, in the +cultivation of his fields, and in the superintendence of my education, he +found sufficient employment for an active, though no longer an ambitious +mind. Early in the reign of Trajan he died. Never did either Roman or +British dwelling lament a more generous master. + +I cannot pretend to regret the accident which immediately afterwards +separated me from a gentle mother--never to see her more upon the earth. +Yet deeply was the happiness of my returning hour stained by that +privation. It is the common rule of nature, that our parents should +precede us to the grave; and it is also her rule, that our grief for them +should not be of such power as to prevent us from entering, after they are +gone, into a zealous participation both of the business and the pleasures +of life. Yet, in after years, the memory of that buried tenderness rises +up ever and anon, and wins rather than warns us to a deliberate +contemplation of our own dissolution. + +Towards the end of the winter following the death of my father, there +arrived letters which engaged anxious consideration. They were from +members of his family, none of whom either my mother or myself had seen. +It was explained, especially by Caius Licinius, the lawyer, (who was near +of kin to our house,) that by the death of a certain Patrician, Cneius +Valerius by name, I had become legally entitled to a very considerable +fortune, to claim and take possession of which, demanded my immediate +presence in the metropolis. My rights, said this jurist, were indeed +called in question by another branch of the family, but were I on the +spot, his professional exertions, with whatever interest he or any of his +friends could command, should be at my service, for the sake of my father +and of my name. + +The love of travel had never before been excited in my bosom; but now that +I knew I was so soon to embark for Italy, the delights which I might there +hope to experience came crowding upon my imagination. The dark and +pine-clad banks of my native Anton, said I, shall now be exchanged for +that golden-waved Tiber, of which so many illustrious poets have sung. +Instead of moving here among the ill-cemented and motley fabric of an +insulated colony, and seeing only the sullen submission of barbarians on +the one hand, or the paltry vanity of provincial deputies on the other, I +shall tread the same ground with the rulers of the earth, and wear, among +native Romans, the gown of my ancestors. I shall behold the Forum, which +has heard the eloquence of Cicero and Hortensius; I shall ascend to the +Capitol, where Csar triumphed; I shall wander in the luxurious gardens of +Sallust, or breathe the fresh air in the fields of Cato: I shall gaze upon +the antique majesty of temples and palaces, and open my eyes on all that +art and nature have been able to heap together through eight centuries, +for the ornament of the chosen seat of wisdom and valour. + +A single trusty slave was selected to accompany me. It was not certainly +on account of his accomplishments that Boto had been chosen for this duty; +for although he had lived all his days in the vicinity of the colonists at +Venta, there was scarcely a person within the bounds of the British Belg +that spoke worse Latin. He was, however, a man of natural sagacity, +possessing shrewd discernment concerning whatever things had fallen under +his customary observation; and he shewed no symptom either of diffidence +respecting his qualifications for this new office, or of regret at being +separated from those in whose company many years of gentle servitude had +glided over his sun-burnt countenance. It was reported to me, that he +invited several of our rustics to drink with him in one of the out-houses, +where his exultation knew no limits. He was going to Rome, for his young +master very well knew he could never get on in such a journey without the +helping eye and hand of Boto; and he had a brother in Italy already, (he +had gone over with a distinguished legionary some ten years before,) and +from him (for he would of course meet with him as soon as our arrival +should be known) he would receive all requisite information concerning the +doings of the great city. The usefulness which, he doubted not, I should +be constrained to acknowledge in his manifold qualifications, would, +without all question, entitle him to some signal reward--perhaps nothing +less than manumission on his return. + +Two days passed more quickly than any I ever remember to have spent amidst +a strange mixture of mirth, and sorrow, and noisy preparation. + +Where that single tall naked pine now stands buffeted by the wind, then +grew a thick grove, of which that relic alone survives. It was there that +I turned round to gaze once more on the quiet verdure of these paternal +fields, and our small pastoral stream glistening here and there beneath +the shady covert of its margin. + +I had at first intended to cross over to Gaul, and traversing that +province, enter Italy, either by the route of the Alps, in case we could +procure convenient guides and companions, or by some vessel sailing from +Marseilles or Forum Julii to Ostium. But the advice of one of my +neighbours, who had himself been a great traveller, made me alter this +plan, and resolve to commit myself to the care of an experienced mariner +who was just about to sail for Italy, by the way of the pillars of +Hercules, in a vessel laden chiefly with tin; and on reaching the +Clausentum, I found this man, with several passengers, ready for the +voyage. + +For the first three or four days, I was so afflicted by the motion of the +vessel, that I could bestow little attention on any external object; my +eyes were so confused and dazzled, that I saw nothing beyond the corner of +the deck on which I had caused my carpets to be laid; and a few +ejaculations to Castor and Pollux were all the articulate sounds that I +uttered. By degrees, however, the weight of my depression began to be +alleviated; and at intervals, more particularly during the night watches, +if I was not altogether in possession of myself, I was at least well +enough to enjoy a sort of giddy delight in watching the billows as they +rose and retreated from the prow. There were moments, also, in which the +behaviour of Boto, under this new species of calamity, could furnish me, +as it had already done the more hardy of my fellow-voyagers, with store of +mirth. Near us frequently, upon the deck, sat a Captain of the Prtorian +Bands, who, more than any other of these, displayed a florid complexion +and cheerful eye, unalterable by the fluctuation of the waters. This +Sabinus had served in all the wars of Agricola, and accompanied him even +in his perilous circumnavigation of the islands which lie scattered to the +north of Britain. He had also gone back to Rome with his commander, not, +like him, to extenuate imperial jealousy by the affectation of indolence, +but to seek for new occupation on some other disturbed frontier of the +Empire. In Syria and Cappadocia he had spent some years; after which, he +had attended the Emperor himself through Msia and Illyricum, and all +those countries he traversed and retraversed, during that shameful contest +in which so many Roman eagles were made the prey of barbarous enemies, and +which terminated at last in that cowardly treaty, by which Domitian +granted a diadem to Decebalus, and condescended to place the Roman Senate +among the tributaries of a Dacian. Our friend had also strutted his part +in that gorgeous triumph, or rather succession of triumphs, by which the +defeated and disgraced Prince, on his return from the Ister, mocked the +eyes and ears of the incredulous and indignant Romans. In a word, he had +partaken in all kinds of fortune, good and evil, and preserved his +rubicundity and equanimity unaltered in them all. Having attained to a +situation of some dignity, he had now been visiting Britain on a special +message from the new Emperor, and was returning in the hope that no future +accident of fortune, or princely caprice, would ever again make it +necessary for him to quit the shows and festivities of the capital. + +This good-natured man sat down beside my suffering peasant, endeavouring +to withdraw his attention from the pangs of his sickness, by pointing out +the different boats which came in view as we held on from the Goban +rocks, keeping close to the shore as we went, in order to shun, as well as +we could, the customary fury of the Aquitanic Ocean. "Behold these +fishing-vessels," he would cry, "which have undoubtedly been upon the +coast of Rutupia for oysters, or it may be about the mouth of yonder +Ligoris for turbot, and are now stretching all their canvass to get home +with their booty to Italy. Smooth be your winds and fair your passage, oh +rare fish!" To which the downcast Boto would reply, "Lavish not, oh +master, your good wishes upon the mute fish, which have been tossed about +all their lives, but reserve them rather for me (unhappy) who am thus +tormented in an unnatural and intolerable manner;" or perhaps, "Speak not, +I beseech you, of oysters, or of turbot, or of any other eatable, for I +believe I shall never again feel hungry, so grievously are all my internal +parts discomposed. Oh, that I had never left my native fields, and +bartered the repose of my whole body for the vain hope of gratification to +my eyes!" + +By degrees, however, custom reconciled all of us to the motion of the +bark, and the weather being calm during the greater part of the voyage, I +enjoyed, at my leisure, the beauties, both of the sea, and of the shores +alongst which we glided. From time to time, we put in for water and other +necessaries, to various sea-ports of the Spanish Peninsula; but our stay +was never so long at any place as to admit of us losing sight of our +vessel. Our chief delight, indeed, consisted in the softness and amenity +of the moonlight nights we spent in sailing along the coasts of +Mauritania,--now the dark mountains of the family of Atlas throwing their +shadows far into the sea--and anon, its margin glittering with the white +towers of Siga, or Gilba, or Cartenna, or some other of the rich cities of +that old Carthaginian region. On such nights it was the custom of all the +passengers to be congregated together upon the deck, where the silent +pleasures of contemplation were, from time to time, interrupted by some +merry song chanted in chorus by the mariners, or perhaps some wild +barbarian ditty, consecrated by the zeal of Boto to the honour of some +ancient indigenous hero of the North. Nor did our jovial Prtorian disdain +to contribute now and then to the amusement of the assembly, by some +boisterous war-song, composed, perhaps, by some light-hearted young +spearman, which our centurion might have learned by heart, without any +regular exertion, from hearing it sung around many a British and Dacian +watch-fire. + +Thus we contrived to pass the time in a cheerful manner, till we reached +the Lilyban promontory. We tarried there two days to refit some part of +our rigging, and then stretched boldly across the lower sea, towards the +mouth of the Tiber. We were becalmed, however, for a whole day and night, +after we had come within sight of the Pharos of Ostium, where, but for the +small boats that came out to us with fresh fish and fruit, we should have +had some difficulty in preserving our patience; for, by this time, our +stock of wine was run to the last cup, and nothing remained to be eat but +some mouldy biscuit which had survived two voyages between Italy and +Britain. During this unwelcome delay, the Prtorian endeavoured to give me +as much information as he could about the steps necessary to be pursued on +my arrival in the city. But, to say truth, his experience had lain chiefly +among martial expeditions and jovial recreations, so that I could easily +perceive he was no great master of the rules of civil life. From him, +however, I was glad to find, that the reputation of Licinius was really as +great at Rome as it had been represented in our province; and, indeed, he +treated me with a yet greater measure of attention after he was informed +of my relationship to that celebrated jurist. + +Early in the morning, a light breeze sprung up from the west, and with +joyful acclamations the sails were once again uplifted. The number of +mariners on board was insufficient for impelling the heavily laden vessel +altogether by the force of oars, but now they did not refuse to assist the +favouring breeze with strenuous and lively exertion. The Prtorian cheered +and incited them by his merry voice, and even the passengers were not +loath to assist them in this labour. My slave, among the rest, joined in +the toil; but his awkwardness soon relieved him from his seat on the +bench; a disgrace which he would have shared with his master, had I been +equally officious. + +Ere long, we could trace with exactness those enormous structures by which +the munificence of Augustus had guarded and adorned that great avenue of +nations to the imperial city. Those mountains of marble, projected on +either side into the deep, surpassed every notion I had formed of the +extent to which art may carry its rivalry of nature. Their immovable +masses were garnished here and there with towers and battlements, on which +the Prtorian pointed out to me the frame-work of those terrible +catapults, and other engines of warfare, of which no specimens have ever +been seen in Britain. + +No sooner had we stept upon the shore, than we were surrounded by a great +throng of hard-favoured persons, who pulled us by the cloak, with +innumerable interrogations and offers of service. Among these, the +varieties of form, complexion, and accent, were such, that we could not +regard them without especial wonder; for it appeared as if every tribe and +language under heaven had sent some representative to this great seaport +of Rome. The fair hair and blue eye of the Gaul or German, might here be +seen close by the tawny skin of the Numidian or Getulian slave, or the +shining blackness of the Ethiopian visage. The Greek merchant was ready, +with his Thracian bondsman carrying his glittering wares upon his back; +the usurer was there, with his arms folded closely in his mantle; nor was +the Chaldean or Assyrian soothsayer awanting, with his air of abstraction +and his flowing beard. + +Boto, as if alarmed with the prevailing bustle, and fearful lest some +untoward accident should separate us, kept close behind me, grasping my +gown. But our good friend Sabinus did not long leave us in this +perplexity; for, having hastily engaged the master of a small barge to +carry him to Rome, he insisted that I should partake of this easy method +of conveyance. We found the vessel small but convenient, furnished with a +red awning, under which cushions and carpets were already stretched out +for our repose. The oars were soon in motion, and we began to emerge from +among the forest of masts with a rapidity which astonished me; for the +multitude of vessels of all sizes, continually crossing and re-crossing, +was so great, that at first I expected every moment some dangerous +accident might occur. + +By degrees, however, such objects failed to keep alive my attention; the +sleeplessness of the preceding night, and the abundance of an Ostian +repast, conspiring to lull me into a gentle doze, which continued for I +know not what space. I awoke, greatly refreshed, and found we had made +considerable progress; for the continual succession of stately edifices +already indicated the vicinity of the metropolis. The dark green of the +venerable groves, amidst which the buildings were, for the most part, +embosomed, and the livelier beauties of the parterres which here and there +intervened between these and the river, afforded a soft delight to my +eyes, which had so long been fatigued with the uniform flash and dazzle of +the Mediterranean waves, and the roughness of the sea-beaten precipices. +The minute and elaborate cultivation every where visible, the smoothness +of the shorn turf on the margin, the graceful foliage of the ancient +planes and sycamores,--but, above all, the sublimity of the porticos and +arcades, and the air of established and inviolable elegance which pervaded +the whole region, kept my mind in pleasurable wonder. Here and there, a +gentle winding conducted us through some deep and massy shade of oaks and +elms; whose branches, stretching far out from either side, diffused a +sombre and melancholy blackness almost entirely over the face of Tiber. +Loitering carelessly, or couched supinely, beneath some of these hoary +branches, we could see, from time to time, the figure of some stately +Roman, or white-robed lady, with her favourite scroll of parchment in her +hand. The cool and glassy rippling of the water produced a humming music +of stillness in the air, which nothing disturbed, save only the regular +dash of the oars, and, now and then, the deep and strenuous voice of our +cautious helmsman. Anon would ensue some glimpse of the open champaign, +descending with all its wealth of golden sheaves to the very brink of the +river--or, perhaps, the lively courts of a farmyard stretching along the +margin of some tributary streamlet--or some long expanse of level meadow, +with herds of snow-white heifers. I could not gaze upon the rich and +splendid scene without reverting, with a strange mixture of emotions, to +the image of this my native land; its wild forests, shaggy with brushwood +and unprofitable coppice, through which of old the enormous wild deer +stalked undisturbed, except by the adder of the grass, or the obscene fly +of the thicket; its little patches of corn and meadow, laboriously rescued +from the domain of the wild beast, and rudely fortified against his +continual incursions;--the scattered hamlets of this Brigian valley, and my +own humble villa--then humbler than it is now. Trees, and temples, and +gardens, and meadows, and towns, and villages, were, ere long, lost in one +uniform sobriety of twilight; and it was already quite dark, when the +centurion, pointing to the left bank, said, "Behold the Gardens of Csar: +beyond, is the Portian Gate, and the street of the Rural Lares. In a few +moments we shall see the lights of the Sublician Bridge, and be in the +city." At these words I started up, and gazing forward, could penetrate +through the mists of evening into the busy glare of a thousand streets and +lanes, opening upon the river. The old wall was already visible; where, +after having swept round the region towards the Vatican and Janicular +Hills, it brings the last of its turrets close down to the Tiber, over +against the great dock-yards by the Field of Brutus. + +Through a forest of triremes, galleys, and all sorts of craft, we then +shot on to the bridge--beneath the centre arch of which our steersman +conducted us. Beyond, such was the hum of people on the quays, and such +the star-like profusion of lights reflected in the water, that we doubted +not we had already reached the chief seat of the bustle of Rome. On, +however, we still held our course, till the theatre of Marcellus rose like +a mountain on our right. It was there that we ran our bark into the shore, +not far from the little bridge--the third as you ascend the river--which +conducts to the Island and the Temple of sculapius. While our friend was +settling matters with the master, and the attendants were bringing out our +baggage, I stood by myself on the elevated quay. Here a long tier of +reflected radiance bespoke, it may be, the vicinity of some splendid +portico--of palace, or temple, or bath, or theatre; there a broad and +steady blaze of burning red, indicated the abode of artizans, resolved, as +it seemed, on carrying their toil into the bosom of the night. +Between--some speck of lustre betrayed, perhaps, the lamp of the solitary +student, or the sober social hour of some peaceful family, assembled +around the hearth of their modest lares. Behold me then, said I, in the +capital of the globe; but were I to be swallowed up this moment in the +waves of Tiber, not one of all these lights would be dimmed. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +Being told that my relation had his residence at no great distance, the +friendly Sabinus insisted upon escorting me thither in safety. We walked, +therefore, along two or three proud streets, which brought us near to the +Pantheon of Agrippa, and there the house was easily pointed out to us; its +porch decorated with recent palm-branches, which the Centurion said must +have been placed there by the joyful hands of some fortunate client. Here +having thanked this kind person, and left honest Boto among the crowd of +slaves in the vestibule, I was speedily conducted into the presence of the +Patrician. + +I found him in a small upper chamber, lighted by a single silver lamp +suspended from the roof, enjoying, as it appeared, repose and relaxation +after the exertions of the day. He was reclining when I entered; and +although supper was long over, some fruits and other trifling things still +remained on the board. At table with him there was no one present, +excepting a Greek of solemn aspect, whom he introduced to me as the +superintendent of his son's education, and Sextus himself, a modest and +ingenuous youth, who sat at the lower extremity of his father's couch. He +was indeed a very mild and amiable young man, and I had more pleasure, +after a space, in surveying his features, than the more marked lineaments +of the other two. At first, however, nothing riveted my attention so much +as the energetic physiognomy of the Senator. The forepart of his head was +already quite bald, although the darkness of the short curls behind +testified that age was not the cause of this deformity. His eyes were +black and rapid, and his eyebrows vibrated in a remarkable manner, not +only when he spoke, but even when he was silent; indicating, as it +appeared, by their transitions, every new train of thought and imagination +within his mind. His style of conversation was quick and fervid, and his +gestures vehement as he spake; it being apparent, that, from restlessness +and vanity of disposition, he was continually exercising a needless +measure of mental activity and anxiety. Not satisfied with his own +sufficient richness of ideas, no thought could be expressed which he did +not immediately seize upon, and explain, even to him by whom it had been +first suggested, with much fluency and earnestness of illustration. On the +other hand, the guest, who wore a long beard reaching to his girdle, +preserved in all things an uncommon demureness of manner, restraining +every salient movement of his mind, and watching, with the gravity of a +Numa, the glancing eyes and sharp features of his patron. A roll of yellow +parchment graced his left hand, but the other was employed in selecting +from the table such articles as were most agreeable to his palate. +Licinius, although meagre in person, and at that time parched with +declamation, seemed to live in such a state of intellectual excitement, +that he thought little either of eating or drinking; therefore, the +Athenian, resigning, for the most part, his share of the conversation, +amused himself, in exchange, with the more trivial gratifications +abandoned to him by his host. Nor, if one might draw any conclusion from +his complexion and figure, was this the first occasion on which +Xerophrastes had exercised that species of humility. + +When Licinius had inquired of me concerning my native place, and also +given a few words to the affairs which had brought me to the city, his +conversation was naturally directed to subjects more new to me, if not +more interesting to him. "You would observe," said he, "the palm branches +at my door. They were won to-day by a five hours' harangue before the +Centumviri. It is only in contests such as these that men of my order have +now any opportunity to exercise themselves, and preserve some remembrance +of those ancient worthies and great public characters that once adorned +the state. To these things, therefore, young kinsman, I entirely devote +myself; nor aim, like other citizens of rank, at passing the day in +diversion, and ending it with luxuries. At supper my table is furnished +with moderate fare, while in other houses I know not how many roasted +boars and pompous sturgeons have been regaling with the rich perfume of +their sauces and stuffing, guests who love the meat more than the man who +gives it. This learned person knows how laborious is my course of life, +and what an impatient crowd awaits my appearance every morning. His pupil +will, I hope, tread in the same steps, and afford to a future generation +the image of the former Licinius." With these, and the like discourses, he +occupied our ears till it was time to retire; and then intimated that he +had allotted to me an apartment which he expected I would continually +occupy during my residence in the city. But being informed that I had a +British slave with me, he insisted on having this man sent for, that he +might see him, as he expressed it, before the genuine unsophisticated +barbarian had been corrupted by keeping company with the cunning menials +of the metropolis. Whereupon, it was commanded that Boto should come up, +and he was forthwith ushered in by a certain leering varlet, with rings in +his ears, whose face resembled some comic mask in the habitual archness of +its malicious and inquisitive look. + +Not few were the bows and scrapes with which my Briton entered these +penetralia; nor was the astonishment inconsiderable with which the orator +regarded Boto. "So, friend," said Licinius,--"and you have ventured to come +to Rome, without so much as shaving your beard?" But the merry and +good-natured tone in which these words were uttered, having somewhat +reassured the bashful rustic, he gave a sly side-look towards the +philosopher, (who, I think, had never once glanced at him,) and replied to +Licinius, "Pardon me, O master, for coming thus into your presence; but I +knew not, till Dromo told me, that beards were worn in Rome only by goats +and the wisest of mankind." The words of the barbarian amused the +orator--but, turning round to his own slave, "Ah! Dromo," said he, "do I +already recognize the effects of your teaching?--beware the whip, corrupt +not this good Briton, at your peril." He then asked of Boto various +questions concerning his recent voyage; to all of which he made answers +after his own fashion, sufficiently sagacious. Great contempt, however, +was depicted on the face of the silent stoic during this conversation; +which he, no doubt, looked upon as a very unworthy condescension on the +part of Licinius; till at last, having, in a leisurely manner, poured out +the last of the flagon, Xerophrastes arose from his couch and departed. As +he withdrew, he unfortunately struck his knee on the corner of the table, +which elicited from his stubborn features a sudden contortion. This, +however, he immediately smoothed of, twisting his involuntary stoop into +an obeisance to the Senator. + +Young Sextus conducted me to my chamber; and we conversed together with +easy juvenile confidence for some time before he left me. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +My sleep was sound and sweet; nevertheless, when the morning began to +dawn, I was awakened by its first glimmerings, and found that my thoughts +became at once too busy to admit of a return to slumber. I therefore +arose, and went to walk in an open gallery, with which my chamber was +connected. This gallery commanded a prospect of a great part of the city, +which at that hour appeared no less tranquil than stately, nothing being +in motion except a few small boats gliding here and there upon the river. +Neither as yet had any smoke begun to darken the atmosphere; so that all +things were seen in a serene and steady light, the shadows falling broadly +westward over streets and squares--but pillars, and obelisks, and arches, +rising up every where with unsullied magnificence into the bright air of +the morning. The numerous poplars and other lofty trees of the gardens, +also, seemed to be rejoicing in the hour of dew and silence; so fresh and +cheerful was the intermixture of their branches among the piles of white +and yellow marble. Near at hand, over the groves of the Philoclean +Mansion, I could see the dome of the Pantheon, all burnished with living +gold, and the proud colonnades of the Flaminian Circus, loaded with armies +of brazen statues. Between these and the river, the theatres of Pompey and +Marcellus, and I know not how many temples, were visible. Across a more +crowded region, to the westward, my eye ascended to the cliffs and towers +of the Capitol; while, still farther removed from me, (although less +elevated in natural situation,) the gorgeous mansion of the Emperor was +seen, lifted up, like some new and separate city, upon its enormous fabric +of arcades. Behind me, the Flavian Amphitheatre, the newest and the most +majestic of all Roman edifices, detained the eye for a space from all that +lay beyond it--the splendid mass of the Esquiline--and those innumerable +aqueducts which lie stretched out, arch after arch, and pillar after +pillar, across the surrounding plain. + +As I stood upon a projecting balcony, I heard some person stepping softly +along the floor, and, being screened by some pillars, looked back into the +gallery without subjecting myself to observation in return. The noise, I +found, was occasioned by one of the slaves of Licinius, (the same I had +remarked over night,) who had an air of anxious vigilance on this +occasion, looking about from side to side as if afraid of being detected +in some impropriety. I heard him tap at one of the apartments adjoining my +own, and young Sextus, opening the door, eagerly asked, "Well, Dromo, good +Dromo, what news?--Have you seen or heard any thing of her?--Speak low, I +beseech you, and remember that my preceptor is near." "Which preceptor?" +replied Dromo; "count me your best, and I will teach you how to manage all +besides."--"Hush!" whispered the young man; "he may be astir with these +eternal parchments."--"Be easy," returned the slave; "I have found out +facts which will serve to bridle that tongue at any time."--"Dromo," said +Sextus, "have a care; remember the thong of sleek leather which hangs at +the foot of the stair-case; and many is the time I have saved you from it; +for which you may, perhaps, have to thank the beauty of her who has +rendered you necessary to me, as much as my own good nature. But no more +idle words at present--what have you to tell me?" + +"I have just been down," answered he, "to the herb-market. I had made my +bargain, and was coming away, when I met one of old Capito's men, driving +an ass laden with articles from the country. So I asked if he was carrying +a present to his master's brother. He said he had brought nothing for +Lucius but a letter; and that he believed its purport was to invite the +two young ladies, to come out to-day and enjoy the beauty of the season. I +no sooner got this information, than I ran hither as swiftly as my legs +would carry me. You can easily go out, as if by chance, to pay your +respects to the Patrician." + +"Ah, Sempronia!" sighed Sextus, "shall I approach you at last?--What will +she think when she sees me there?--Oh, how will she speak to me?" + +While he was uttering these words, Dromo suddenly started, and came +peeping on tiptoe towards the place where I stood. I stepped from behind +my pillar, and said to the astonished youth, "Fear not, Sextus, that I +shall intermeddle with your secrets, or make any use of what I have +accidentally overheard. But I wish you would satisfy my curiosity, and +inform me who is this lady, and what may be the meaning of all this +concealment?" + +Here Dromo, perceiving that his young master was a good deal confused, +came forward and said, "From observing your looks last night, when I was +making a handle of yon barbarian to torture our friend of the porch, I +think you are a good-natured person, who would not willingly bring any of +us into trouble. The truth is, that Licinius wishes my young master here +to marry a certain lady, who has already had wet eyes over the ashes of a +first husband; but who is of noble birth, and very rich. Now Sextus, being +only eighteen, does not like this great lady so well as she likes him; and +has, in fact, lost his heart elsewhere."--"Dromo," answered I, taking young +Sextus by the hand as I spoke, "this is a pretty common sort of story; but +I shall take no side till I have seen both of the ladies; and the sooner +your ingenuity can bring that about, the more shall I be beholden to +you."--"We shall try," replied the slave, observing that I had overcome the +reluctance of the lover; "but in the meantime I observe that the clients +are beginning to assemble in the porch, to await the forthcoming of +Licinius. Go, therefore, and get some breakfast, for, by and by, you will +both be expected to accompany the Senator to the Forum, to hear him plead; +which, between ourselves, will be a six hours' job for you, unless you +manage matters dexterously." + +This hint produced a visible effect on Sextus; but we went down together +immediately to an apartment, where some bread and grapes were prepared for +us; and there, with much ingenuousness, he opened his heart to me. But +what surprised me most of all, was to hear, that although he had been +enamoured of Sempronia for several months, and was well acquainted with +several of her relations, he had never yet seen her, except at certain +places of public resort, nor enjoyed any opportunity of making known his +passion. + +While I was expressing my astonishment at this circumstance, we were +interrupted by Xerophrastes, who came to inform us that Licinius, having +already descended into the hall, was about to issue forth, and desirous of +my company, if no other occupation detained me. We accordingly followed +the philosopher, and found his patron where he had indicated, pacing to +and fro, in the highest state of excitation, like a generous steed about +to scour the field of battle. The waxen effigies of his ancestors stood at +one end of the hall, some of them defaced with age; and upon these he +frequently fixed his ardent eyes. Seeing me enter, he immediately cried +out, "Come hither, young friend, and I shall presently conduct you to a +scene worthy, above all others, of the curiosity of a stranger." + +With this, arranging his gown, and putting himself into a dignified +attitude, he ordered the porter, who stood chained by the door, to throw +wide its massy valves; which being done, the litigants and consulters, who +were without, received the orator with acclamations, and surrounded him on +all sides. Some of the poorer ones, I observed kissing the hem of his +garment, and dodging wistfully at his elbows, without ever attracting a +word or look from him; while those of a higher class came forward more +familiarly, seeking to impress particular circumstances upon his memory, +and paying him compliments on the appearance he had made the day before in +the Centumviral Court. Encircled by this motley group, he walked towards +the great Forum, followed at a little distance by Sextus, the preceptor, +myself, and some freedmen of his household. In moving on, we passed, by +accident, the door of another great pleader, by name Bruttianus, who stood +there attended in a similar manner. When he perceived Licinius, this man +took from his door-post a green palm-branch, and waved it towards us in a +vaunting manner; but our friend, saluting him courteously, cried out, with +his sharp and cutting voice, "We shall try it again." Whereon +Xerophrastes, immediately stepping up to his patron, began thus, "How this +vain-glorious person exposes himself!--he is certainly a weak man; and his +tones, by Hermes, are more detestable than those of an African fowl."--At +which words, Sextus tipped me the wink; but I did not observe that +Licinius was at all displeased with them. Yet, soon after, Bruttianus +having overtaken us, the processions were joined, and the two pleaders +walked the rest of the way together in a loving manner, exchanging +complimentary speeches; to which Xerophrastes listened with edifying +gravity of visage. + +At length we entered that venerable space, every yard of whose surface is +consecrated to the peculiar memory of some great incident in the history +of Rome. Young Sextus allowed me to contemplate for some time, with silent +wonder, the memorable objects which conspired to the decoration of this +remarkable place; but after the first gaze of astonishment was satisfied, +proceeded to point out, in order, the names and uses of the principal +structures which rose on every side over its porticos--above all, of its +sublime temples--into whose cool and shady recesses the eye could here and +there penetrate through the open valves. Nor did the ancient rostrum from +which Tully had declaimed, escape our observation--nor within its guarding +rail of silver, the rising shoots of the old mysterious fig-tree of +Romulus--nor the rich tesselated pavement which covered the spot that had +once yawned an abyss before the steady eye of Curtius--nor the resplendent +Milliary pillar which marked the centre of the place. In a word, had the +gathering crowds permitted, I could have willingly spent many hours in +listening to the explanation of such magnificent objects; but these, and +the elevated voice of Licinius, who was just beginning his harangue, soon +compelled me to attend to things of another description. + +Within one of the proud ranges of arcade, on the side nearest to the +Capitoline stairs, a majestic Patrician had already taken his seat on an +elevated tribunal--his assessors being arranged on a lower bench by his +side, and the orators and clients congregated beneath. When I heard the +clear and harmonious periods of my kinsman; when I observed with what +apparent simplicity he laid his foundations in a few plain facts and +propositions; with what admirable art he upreared from these a +superstructure of conclusions, equally easy as unexpected; when he had +conducted us to the end of his argument, and closed with a burst of +passionate eloquence, in which he seemed to leave even himself behind him, +I could not but feel as if I had now for the first time contemplated the +practised strength of intellect. Yet I have lived to discover that the +talent which so greatly excited my wonder is often possessed from nature, +or acquired through practice, in a measure which at that time would have +afforded me scarcely inferior delight, by men of no extraordinary rank. + +The keen and lively gestures of the fervid Licinius, whose soul seemed to +speak out of every finger he moved, and who appeared to be altogether +immersed in the cause he pleaded, were succeeded by the solemn and +somewhat pompous stateliness of Bruttianus, who made a brief pause between +every two sentences, as if he were apprehensive that the mind of the judge +could not keep pace with the stream of his illustrations, and looked round +ever and anon upon the spectators with a placid and assured smile, rather, +as it seemed to me, to signify his approbation of their taste in +applauding him, than his own pleasure in their applauses. Nevertheless, he +also was a splendid speaker, and his affectation displeased the more, +because it was evidently unworthy of his understanding. While he was +speaking, I observed that the Stoic preceptor was frequently shifting his +place among the crowd, and muttering every where expressions of high +contempt. But this did not disgust me so much as the fixed attitude of +ecstasy in which he listened to the discourse of his own patron, and the +pretended involuntary exclamations of his delight. "Oh, admirable +cadence!" he would say, "I feel as if I were draining a honey-comb. Oh, +harmonious man, where have I, or any other person here, sucked in such +sweetness!" These absurd phrases, however, were caught up forthwith, and +repeated by the numerous young men who hung upon the skirts of the orator, +and seemed, indeed, to be drinking in nectar from the speech, if one might +judge from their countenances. From their taking notes in their tablets +from time to time, and from the knowing looks they assumed at the +commencement of every new chain of argument, I guessed that these might be +embryo jurisconsults, preparing themselves by their attendance for future +exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I listened to their +conversation at the close of every speech, I thought I could perceive in +their tones and accents, studied mimicry of the natural peculiarities of +Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other orators. Altogether, the scene was as +full of amusement as of novelty, and I could willingly have remained to +the end of the discussion. But my eyes chanced to fall upon young Sextus, +and I could not but see that his mind was occupied in matters remote from +the business of the Forum. He stood with his arms folded in his gown, and +his eyes fixed upon the ground, only lifting them up from time to time +with an impatient air towards a side entrance, or to observe by the +shadows on the porticos what progress the sun was making. + +Perceiving, at length, that Xerophrastes had his back turned to us, and +that his father was engaged with his tablets, he plucked me by the sleeve. +I understood his meaning, and followed him quickly through the crowd; nor +did we look back till we had left the noise of the Forensic assembly +entirely behind us. "I am depriving you," he said, "of no great +gratification, for that old creature is, indeed, possessed of much natural +shrewdness, but he is bitter from observing that his reputation is rather +eclipsed by younger people, and looks like some worn-out and discarded +cat, grinning from the top of the wall at the dalliance of some sleeker +rival. You could find no delight in the angry sneerings of such an envious +person; and his age would prevent you, at the same time, from willingly +giving way to contemptuous emotions. I will be your guide to the villa. +But if any questions be asked on our return, you can say I was anxious to +shew you something of the other regions of the city." + +He hurried me through noble streets, and past innumerable edifices, before +each of which I would gladly have paused. Nevertheless, seeing him wrapped +up in anxious thoughts, I did not oppose myself to his inclinations; and +ere long, having passed the Hill of Gardens, I found that we had gained +the eastern limit of the city. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +A sharp walk of about an hour and a half on the Salarean Way, brought us +within sight of the Suburban of Capito. + +A lofty wall protected the fields of this retirement from the intrusive +eyes of passengers. We entered by a small side-door, and found ourselves, +as if by some magical delusion, transported from the glare of a Roman +highway, into the depth and silence of some primeval forest. No nicely +trimmed path conducted our feet. Every thing had at least the appearance +of being left as nature had formed it. The fern rustled beneath us as we +moved; the ivy was seen spreading its careless tresses from tree to tree; +the fawn bounded from the thicket. By degrees, however, the gloom +lessened, till at length, over an open space of lawn, we perceived the +porch of entrance, and a long line of colonnade. We passed under the +porch, and across a paved court where a fountain was playing, into the +great hall, which commanded all the other side of the place--a noble +prospect of elaborate gardens gradually rising into shady hills, and lost +in a distance of impenetrable wood. + +Here a freedman attended us, who informed us that Capito had retired into +a sequestered part of the grounds with some friends from the city; but +that if we chose we could easily join him there. We assented, and, +following his guidance, ere long traversed no narrow space of luxuriant +cultivation. From one perfumed terrace we descended to another; till, +having reached a certain green and mossy walk, darkened by a natural +arching of vines and mulberries, the freedman pointed to a statue at the +farther end, and told us it stood over against the entrance of his +master's summer-house. When we reached the statue, however, we could +perceive no building. The shaded avenue terminated in face of a +precipitous rock, from which there fell a small stream that was received +in a massive basin, where the waters foamed into spray without +transgressing the margin. A thousand delicious plants and far-sought +flowers clustered around the base of the rock and the brink of the +fountain, and the humming of innumerable bees mingled with the whispers of +the stream. We stood for a moment uncertain whether we should move on or +retire, when we heard one calling to us from beyond; and passing to the +other side of the basin, descried, between the rock and the falling water, +a low entrance into what seemed to be a natural cave or grotto. We +stooped, and found ourselves within one of the most luxurious retirements +ever haunted by the foot of Dryad. A sparry roof hung like a canopy of +gems and crystals over a group of sculptured Nymphs and Fawns, which were +placed on a rustic pedestal within a circular bath shaped out of the +living stone. Around the edge of the waveless waters that slumbered in +this green recess, were spread carpets rich with the dyes of Tyrian art, +whereon Capito was reposing with his friends. He received Sextus with +kindness, and me with politeness, introducing us both to his companions, +who were three in number--all of them, like himself, advanced in years, and +two of them wearing long beards, though their demeanour was destitute of +any thing like the affected stateliness of our friend Xerophrastes. These +two, as our host informed us, were Greeks and Rhetoricians--the third, a +Patrician of the house of the Pontii, devoted, like himself, to the +pursuits of philosophy and the pleasures of a literary retirement. + +They were engaged, when we joined them, in a conversation which had sprung +from the perusal of some new metaphysical treatise. One of the Greeks, the +more serene-looking of the pair, was defending its doctrines with +earnestness of manner, although in a low and measured cadence of voice; +the other espoused the opposite side, with quickness of utterance and +severe animation of look; while the two lordly Romans seemed to be +contenting themselves, for the most part, with listening, although it was +not difficult to perceive from their countenances, that the one sided in +opinion with the Stoic, and Capito himself with the Epicurean. + +They all arose presently, and proceeded to walk together, without +interrupting the conversation, along the same shaded avenue which Sextus +and myself had already traversed. He and I moved along with them, but a +little in their rear--my companion being still too much abstracted to +bestow his attention on what they were saying; while I myself, being but +little an adept in such mysteries, amused myself rather with the exterior +and manners of the men, than with the merits of the opinions they were +severally defending. The Greeks were attired in the graceful costume of +their country, which was worn, however, far more gracefully by the +Epicurean than his brother,--the materials of his robe being delicate, and +its folds arranged with studied elegance, whereas the coarse garment of +the Stoic had apparently engaged less attention. Nevertheless, there was a +more marked difference between the attire of Capito and that of Pontius +Mamurra; for the former was arrayed in a tunic of the whitest cloth, +beneath which appeared fine linen rollers, swathing his thighs and legs, +to protect them, as I supposed, from the heat and the insects, and a pair +of slippers, of dark violet-coloured cloth, embroidered with silver +flowers; while the other held his arms folded in the drapery of an old but +genuine toga, which left his yet strong and sinewy nether limbs exposed to +the weather, all except what was covered by his tall black sandals and +their senatorian crescents. + +As we passed on, our host from time to time directed the attention of his +visiters, more particularly of the two Greeks, to the statues of bronze +and marble, which were placed at convenient intervals along the terraces +of his garden. The symmetry of these figures, and the graceful simplicity +of their attitudes, inspired me with I know not what of calm and soothing +pleasure such as I had never before tasted, so that I thought I could have +lingered for ever amidst these haunts of philosophic luxury. The images +were, for the most part, portraits of illustrious men--Greeks, Romans--sages +and heroes; but beautiful female forms were not wanting, nor majestic +representations of gods and demi-gods, and all the ethereal imaginations +of the Grecian poets. Seeing the name of Jupiter inscribed upon one of the +pedestals, I paused for a moment to contemplate the glorious +personification of might and wisdom, depositing, at the same time, a +handful of roses at the feet of the statue--upon which I could observe that +my behaviour furnished some mirth to the Epicurean Demochares; while, on +the contrary, Euphranor, the disciple of the Porch, approved of what I +did, and rebuked his companion for saying any thing that might even by +possibility disturb the natural piety of an innocent youth. But the Roman +Stoic stood by with a smile of stately scorn; and utter indifference was +painted on the countenance of Capito. At another time, Sextus having staid +behind to examine the beauties of a certain statue of Diana, which +represented the goddess stretched out in careless slumber on the turf, +with a slender grayhound at her feet, the Epicurean began to rally me on +having a taste inferior to that of my friend, whose devotion, he said, +could not be blamed, being paid to an exquisite imitation of what the +great Nature of things had decreed should ever be the most agreeable of +all objects in the eyes of a person of his age.--"Whereas you," continued +he, "appear to be more occupied with deep-hung eye-brows, ambrosial +beards, and fantastic thunderbolts, and the other exuberances of Homeric +imagination." + +To this reproach I made no reply, but Capito immediately began to recite +some verses of a Hymn of Calimachus, in which both the Greeks joined him; +nor could any thing be more delightful than the harmonious numbers. A +sudden exclamation of my friend, however, interrupted them, and Capito, +looking up a long straight pathway, said, "Come, Valerius, we shall see +whether you or Sextus is the more gallant to living beauties, for here +come my nieces. I assure you, I know not of which of them I am the more +proud; but Sempronia has more of the Diana about her, so it is probable +she may find a ready slave in our Sextus." + +We advanced, and the uncle, having tenderly saluted them, soon presented +us to their notice. Sextus blushed deeply when he found himself introduced +to Sempronia, while in her smile, although she looked at him as if to say +she had never seen him before, I thought I could detect a certain +half-suppressed something of half-disdainful archness--the colour in her +cheeks, at the same time, being not entirely unmoved. She was, indeed, a +very lovely girl, and in looking on her light dancing play of features, I +could easily sympathize with the young raptures of my friend. Her dress +was such as to set off her charms to the utmost advantage, for the bright +green of her Byssine robe, although it would have been a severe trial to +any ordinary complexion, served only to heighten the delicious brilliancy +of hers. A veil, of the same substance and colour, richly embroidered with +flowers of silver tissue, fell in flowing drapery well-nigh to her knees. +Her hair was almost entirely concealed by this part of her dress, but a +single braid of the brightest nut-brown was visible low down on her +polished forehead. Her eyes were black as jet, and full of a nymph-like +vivacity. + +The other, Athanasia, was not a dazzling beauty. Taller than her cousin, +and darker-haired, but with eyes rather light than otherwise, of a clear, +somewhat melancholy gray--with a complexion paler than is usual in Italy, a +demeanour hovering between cheerfulness and innocent gravity, and attired +with a vestal simplicity in the old Roman tunic, and cloak of white +cloth--it is possible that most men might have regarded her less than the +other. A single star of diamonds, planted high up among her black hair, +was the only ornament she wore. + +At the request of the younger lady, we all returned to the grotto, in the +neighbourhood of which, as I have already mentioned, our tasteful host had +placed the rarest of his exotic plants, some of which Sempronia was now +desirous of inspecting. As we paced again slowly over those smooth-shaven +alleys of turf, and between those rows of yews and box, clipped into +regular shapes, which abounded in this more artificial region, the +conversation, which the appearance of the cousins had disturbed, was +resumed; although, as out of regard to their presence, the voices of the +disputants preserved a lower and milder tone than before. I must confess, +however, that mild as was the manner of the discourse, I could not help +being somewhat astonished, that a polite Roman could permit such topics to +be discussed in the hearing of females; above all, that he did not +interpose to prevent Demochares from throwing out so many sarcastic +reflections concerning the deities whose statues decorated the garden. A +beautiful Mercury, in particular, which we all paused to admire, elicited +many observations, that I could easily see were far from being agreeable +to the fair cousins. But greatest of all was my wonder at the behaviour of +Capito himself, who, after we had again entered that delightful grotto, +turned himself to me as if peculiarly, and began a deliberate and +ingenious piece of declamation concerning the tenets of his favourite +philosophy;--such as the fortuitous concourse of atoms, the transitory and +fluctuating nature of all things, and the necessity of snatching present +enjoyments, as nothing permanent can be discovered whereon to repose the +mind. With great elegance, indeed, did he enlarge on these golden +theories, nor did he fail to intersperse his discourse with many exquisite +verses from Lucretius and other poetical followers of his sect. Such, +however, was the earnestness of his declamation, that I could not help +believing him to be quite sincere to what he said, and asked him, not +without anxiety, whether he had all his life been an Epicurean, or whether +it was only of late that he had espoused that discipline. + +"Valerius," said he, "the question is not discreditable to your tender age +and provincial education. To be born wise, Fate or Heaven has denied to +the human race. It is their privilege to win wisdom for themselves; the +fault is their own, if they do not die wise. When the stripling enters +upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes are around him, and he moves +onward in the buoyancy of conscious power. The pride of young existence is +the essence and extract of all his innumerable sensations. Rejoicing in +the feeling of the real might that is, it is his delight to think--to +dream--of might existing and exerted as for ever. New to the material, but +still more to the moral world, he believes in the stability of all things +whose transitory nature has not been exhibited before him. New to the +tricks of mankind, he believes that to be said truly, which, why it should +be said falsely, he is unable to conjecture. For him, superstition has +equal potency to darken the past, and illuminate the future. At that early +period, when ignorance is of itself sufficient to produce a certain +happiness, the ambition is too high to admit such doctrines as I have no +shame in avowing. But time moves on, and every hour some tender plant is +crushed beneath his tread. The spirit clings long to its delusions. The +promise that is destroyed to-day springs into life to-morrow in some new +shape; and Hope, like some warring deity of your poets, bleeds and sickens +only to revive again. But disappointment at length gathers to itself the +vigour of an enduring form. The horizon becomes colder around us--the soul +waxes faint and more faint within. It is then that man begins to recognize +the true state, not of his own nature alone, but of all things that +surround him--that having tasted much of evil, he is taught to feel the +value of good--and weaning himself from vain-glorious dreams, learns the +great lesson of wisdom, to enjoy the moments as they pass--to snatch some +solid pleasure, at least, amidst a world of vision and imagination; so, in +a word, as the poet has expressed it, he may not have reason to complain +in the hour of death that he has never lived. + +"In me," he continued, "you behold one that has gone through the +experience necessary to produce an entire acquiescence in these doctrines. +I am one of those, Valerius, who have resolved to concentrate, after this +fashion, the whole of my dreams upon the hour that is. There are not +wanting, indeed, here and elsewhere, persons who profess the same +theories, only in the view of finding excuse and shelter for the practice +of vice. But till it be proved that the practice of vice is the best means +of enjoyment, in vain shall it be asserted that our doctrine is +essentially adverse to virtue. The mistakes or the misdeeds of individuals +must be estimated for nothing; for where is the doctrine that may not be +shewn to have been defended by impure livers? The founder of our sect is +acknowledged, by its most virulent enemies, to have been the most +blameless of men, and they, I must take leave to believe, can never be +sincere friends of virtue, who doubt, that he who is a true worshipper of +pleasure, may also be the worshipper of virtue." + +There was a certain something, as I thought, more like suppressed +melancholy than genuine hilarity, in the expression of the old man's face, +as well as in the tone of his voice, while he gave utterance to these +sentiments; nor did any of those present appear desirous of protracting +the argument; although I did not imagine from their looks that any of them +had altered their opinion. What, however, I could not help remarking in a +particular manner, was the gentle regret painted in the countenance of the +elder niece, while Capito was speaking. The maiden sate over against him +all the while, her cheek supported on her left hand, with an expression of +tender affection. From time to time, indeed, she cast her eye upward with +a calm smile, but immediately resumed her attitude of pensive abstraction. +Her uncle took her hand in his when he had done speaking, and kissed it +gently, as if to apologize for having said any thing disagreeable to her. +She smiled again upon the sceptic, and walked by herself, (for I could not +help following her with my eye,) down into a dark walk of pines that +branched off at the right hand from the entrance into the grotto. There I +saw her stoop and pluck a pale flower. This she placed in her bosom, and +then rejoined us with a more cheerful aspect; after which, we all walked +towards the villa. Nor did it escape my notice, that, although Sempronia +appeared willing to avoid Sextus as we went, it always happened, by some +accident or other, that he was nearer to her than any other person of the +company. + +They were both at a little distance behind the rest of the party, when +Euphranor addressed himself to me, saying, "Is not this youth, your +companion, the same that is under the guidance of a certain +Xerophrastes?"--"The same," said I, "and a wary, sage-looking Athenian is +his tutor. I believe he also is of the Porch."--"No doubt," interrupted +Demochares; "he has a beard that Zeno might have been proud of, and walks +as if he conceived himself to be the chief pillar of the Porch, if not the +Porch itself."--"Who shall prevent Demochares from having his jest?" +replied Euphranor. "The man is by birth a Thessalian, and his gutturals +still remind one strongly of his native hills."--I would gladly have heard +more of it, but he was interrupted by the nearer approach of the rest. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +Before the hour of taking the bath, we exercised ourselves for some time +in the tennis-court, where I could not but admire, especially after having +heard Capito philosophise, the vigour and agility displayed by him as well +as his companions. I was then conducted into the baths, where, after being +washed and perfumed in the most luxurious manner, I was arrayed in an +elegant supper-garment by one of the slaves of our host. At table we were +joined again by the ladies, who both reclined on the same couch with their +uncle. Three comely youths attended us, in short tunics, and girt with +napkins of fine linen; but, during the repast, an ancient female slave +stood in silence behind the couch of the young ladies. A small fountain of +alabaster played between two tall candelabra of the same material, at the +farther end of the apartment; and a young damsel stood beside them, +swinging slowly from time to time a silver censer, from which clouds of +delicate odour rolled up to the mirrored roof. + +In all things the feast was splendid; but there was no appearance of +useless or vain ostentation. Every thing was conducted in a style of great +calmness and order, without the least formality. The repast interrupted +not the conversation, which went on in a manner to me equally instructive +as entertaining; although I must confess the presence of Athanasia +sometimes rendered me inattentive to what was spoken. I could not divest +myself of the idea, that some unknown circumstance was pressing on the +mind of the fair creature, and that when she smiled upon those who +addressed her, it was sometimes to conceal her ignorance of that which had +been said. + +Being asked by Capito, I endeavoured, among other things, to inform him +and his friends, as far as I could, concerning the then condition of this +island, which, more particularly after the exploits of Agricola, had come +to be a subject of some interest. In return, the chief topics which then +occupied the capital were discussed by them, as I perceived, in a great +measure on my account; and I listened with delight to the praises, which +they all agreed on bestowing on the new Emperor. Many anecdotes were +narrated, which tended to strengthen the feelings of admiration, with +which I had already been accustomed to contemplate his character. But +others were told, as the conversation went on, which I could not so easily +reconcile with the idea I had formed of him. + +For example, I was somewhat disturbed with what they told me concerning +his treatment of the Christians, who, as we understood in Britain, had +been suffered to live in tranquillity ever since Nerva acceded to the +empire. But now, from the circumstances related, it appeared that the mild +and humane Trajan had taken up, in regard to this sect, the whole aversion +of Domitian; every day some cruel catastrophe was made known of some +person who had adopted their tenets. Being ignorant of the nature of those +tenets, and having heard only in general terms that they were of Jewish +origin, dark, and mystical, I was at a loss to account for the extreme +hatred of the Prince, or rather for his condescending to give himself so +much trouble concerning a matter so obscure and seemingly trifling. + +Capito, however, assured me, that although I might have good occasion to +wonder at the steps taken by the Emperor, it would no longer be said by +any one, that the progress of the Christian sect deserved to be considered +as a matter either of obscurity, or of no consequence. "On the contrary," +said he, "from what you have just heard of the numbers and quality of +those that have lately suffered various punishments, you cannot hesitate +to admit that the head of the empire has been justified in considering it +as a subject worthy his attention." + +"We have adopted the gods of many nations," said Pontius Mamurra, "nor do +I see why, because the Jews have been unfortunate in a contest with Rome, +we should take it for granted that theirs are unworthy of respect. If, +however, as we have heard asserted, he who embraces this creed becomes an +infidel in regard to the deities of Rome, I say Csar does well in +refusing toleration to the intolerant superstition. Domitian was a tyrant, +and a monster of humanity; the late prince was wise and good; and yet it +may be, that, in regard to these Christians, the principle of Domitian's +conduct was right in the main, and that of Nerva's wrong. But you, Capito, +regard both sides of the question, I have no doubt, with the same +indifference." + +"I hope," replied Capito, "I shall never regard with indifference any +question, in which the interest of the empire and the honour of Trajan are +concerned. But if you mean only that I am indifferent about the nature of +this Syrian superstition, you are in the right. I have no knowledge of its +dogmas, nor desire to have. I presume they have their share of that old +eastern barbarity, in the shady places of which the elder Greeks used to +think they could discover the outlines of something really grand and +majestic." + +"It may be so," said Mamurra; "but if the superstition be found dangerous +to the state, the Prince does well in repressing its progress. That is the +only question of which I spake."--"There is, indeed, no other," said +Capito; "I thought of none."--"And how do you answer it, dear uncle?" said +Athanasia, (lifting herself up, for the first time, to take part in the +conversation.)--"Nay, my love," said the old man, "to answer that is the +business of Csar, and of the Senate. I only regret, that blood should be +shed, and citizens exiled; above all, in the reign of a just and merciful +Prince.--Sempronia," continued he, "what is that strange story your father +was telling about one of the daughters of Serennius?" + +"They only allege," replied Sempronia, with a smile, "that Tertulla had a +flirtation with a handsome young Greek, and the Greek happened to be a +Christian,--and she was converted by the Greek,--and she was found out in +going with him to some secret assembly of these people, in a vault by the +Vatican Hill,--and her father has been glad to send her to Corsica, partly +to escape the lawyers, and partly, I suppose, in hopes that the quietness +of the island, and the absence of handsome young Christians, may perhaps, +in time, restore poor Tertulla to her right mind--This is all. Do you think +that a strange story, uncle?" "Not, if it be exactly as you have told it, +Sempronia. What says Athanasia?" Athanasia answered gravely, that she was +sorry for Tertulla, and had never heard any thing of the young Greek +before. + +By this time, the increasing darkness of the chamber had warned me that we +ought to be thinking of our return. I had more than once looked towards +Sextus, but he refused to meet my eye. When I was on the point of +speaking, Sempronia, starting from her couch, exclaimed, that she was sure +there was thunder in the skies; and presently flash after flash gleamed +along the horizon. All sat silent, as if awe-struck; but Sempronia was the +only one that seemed to be in terror from the tempest. Nevertheless, my +eyes rested more on Athanasia, who looked paler than she had done, +although her countenance preserved its serenity. "How awful," said I, "is +the voice of Jupiter!" Athanasia folded her arms upon her bosom, and +lifting her eyes to heaven, said in a whisper,--"How awful is the voice of +God!" She then dropt her hand on the end of her couch, and half +unconsciously taking hold of it in mine, I asked her if she was afraid. +"No," said she, "I am not afraid, but the heaviness of the air makes me +faint, and I never can listen to thunder without feeling something +extraordinary within me." + +Capito said, he could not think of our going into the city that evening, +and that we must all make up our minds to remain in the villa. The +countenance of Sextus brightened up, and he looked to me as if to ask my +assent. I was easily persuaded, and our host despatched a messenger to +inform Licinius of the cause of our absence. The old man then led us into +another apartment, which was richly furnished with books and paintings. +Here he read for some time out of one of the poets, to a party, none of +whom, I am afraid, were very attentive in listening to him, till, the hour +of rest being come, we were conducted to our several apartments, Sextus +and myself, indeed, being lodged in the same chamber. + +We were no sooner left alone than I began to rally my friend on the beauty +of his mistress, and the earnest court he had been paying her. The youth +listened with blushes of delight to her praises, but seemed not to have +the least idea that he had been so fortunate as to make any impression on +her mind. On the contrary, he scarcely appeared to be aware of having done +any thing to attract attention from her, and expressed astonishment when I +assured him, that his behaviour had been such as could not possibly admit +of more than one explanation in the eyes of a person so quick and +vivacious as the lovely Sempronia. + +After we had both retired to our beds, and the lights were extinguished, +we still continued for some time to talk over the incidents of our visit, +and the future prospects of Sextus and his love; until at length sleep +overpowered us in easy bonds, and agreeable dreams followed, I doubt not, +in the hearts of us both, the thoughts and sights of a delightful day. +Mine surely were delightful, for they were all of Athanasia. Yet, even in +the visions of the night, I could never gaze on her face without some +strange impression of mystery. I saw her placid smile--I heard the sweet +low cadence of her voice--but I felt, and I could not feel it without a +certain indescribable anxiety, that her deep thoughts were far away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I awoke early, and drew near to the bed of Sextus; but seeing that he was +fast asleep, and that a quiet smile was on his lips, I could not think of +awakening him. The sun shone bright into the apartment, and I resolved to +walk forth and breathe the balmy air of the garden. + +The moisture was still heavy on the green paths, and the birds were +singing among glittering leaves; the god-like statues stood unscathed in +their silent beauty. I walked to and fro, enjoying the enchantment of the +scene;--a new feeling of the beauty of all things seemed to have been +breathed into my soul; and the pensive grace of Athanasia hovered over my +imagination, like some presiding genius of the groves. + +I found myself near the favourite grotto, and had stood over against its +entrance for some space, contemplating the augmented stream as it fell +from the superincumbent rock, and regretting the ravage which the nightly +tempest had made among the delicate flowers round its basin. Twice I +thought I heard the murmurs of a voice, and twice I persuaded myself that +it was only the rippling of the waters; but the third time I was satisfied +that some person must be near. I passed between the water and the rock, +and beheld the fair creature that had been occupying so many of my +thoughts, kneeling far within the grotto, as it seemed, in supplication. +To disturb her by advancing farther, would have been impious; to retire, +without the risk of disturbing her, almost impossible; but I remained +there fixed to the spot, without perhaps considering all these things as I +should have done. The virgin modesty of her attitude was holy in my eyes, +and the thought never occurred to me, that I might be doing wrong in +permitting myself to witness the simple devotions of Athanasia. "Great +God, listen to my prayers," was all I understood of what she said; but she +whispered for some moments in a lowly and fervent tone, and I saw that she +kissed something with her lips ere she arose from her knees. She then +plunged her hands into the well, by whose brink she had knelt, and turned +round to the light. "Athanasia, forgive me," was already on my lips; but +on seeing me, she uttered a faint cry and fell prostrate upon the marble. +I rushed forward, lifted up her head, and laved water from the fountain, +till I saw her lips tremble. At last she opened her eyes, and after gazing +on me wildly for a moment, she gathered her strength, and stood quite +upright, supporting herself against the wall of the grotto. "Great +heavens!" cried I, "in what have I offended, that I should be rendered the +cause of affliction to Athanasia? Speak, lady, and say that you forgive +me." + +"I thought," said she, with a proud calmness, "that Valerius was of +Roman--of Patrician blood. What brings him to be a spy upon the secret +moments of a Patrician maiden?"--Then bursting into a tone of unutterable +fervour, "Speak," said she, "young man, what have you heard? How long have +you stood here? Am I betrayed?" + +"Witness, heaven and earth!" cried I, kneeling, "and witness every god, +that I have heard nothing, except to know that you were praying. I have +only seen you kneeling, and been guilty of gazing on your beauty." "You +heard not the words of my prayer?" said she. "No, not its words, +Athanasia, nor any thing of its purpose." "Do you swear this to me, young +man?" "Yes, I swear by Jupiter and by Rome--as I am a man and a Roman, I +know not, neither do I desire to know, any thing of what you said. Forgive +me for the fault of my indiscretion--you have no other to forgive." + +Athanasia paused for a moment, and then resuming more of her usual tone of +voice, (although its accents were still somewhat disturbed and faltering,) +said to me, "Valerius, since the thing is so, I have nothing to forgive. +It is you that must pardon me for my suspicion." "Distress me not, +Athanasia," said I, "by speaking such words." "From this hour, then," said +she, "what has passed here is forgotten. We blot it from our +memories;"--and with that, as if in token of the paction, she extended to +me her hand. I kissed it as I knelt, and swore that all things were safe +with me; but added, as I arose, "that I was afraid I should be promising +more than I should be able to perform,--did I say I should be able to +forget any hour, or any place, where I had seen Athanasia." "Nay," said +she, "no compliment, or I shall begin to suspect you of insincerity." I +was then about to withdraw from the grotto; but seeing a scroll of +parchment lying at the feet of Athanasia, I stooped, and presented it to +her, saying, "I was afraid she might forget it." She took it eagerly, and +saying, "Of that there was no danger," placed it in her bosom, within the +folds of her tunic. She was then gathering up her black tresses, and +fastening them hastily on the back part of her head, when we heard the +sound of footsteps not far off, and beckoning to me to remain where I was, +she darted from me, and in a moment vanished among the trees. I waited for +a few minutes, and then stepping forth, beheld her walking at a distance, +beside her sister, in the direction of the villa. They were soon lost +among the paths, and I returned alone into the grotto. + +I sat down beside the dark well, wherein she had dipt her hands, and mused +in a most disturbed mood on all the particulars of this strange and +unexpected interview. Every motion of her features--every modulation of her +voice, was present with me; I had gathered them all into my heart, and I +felt that I must cherish them there for ever. From the first moment I saw +her, my eyes had been constrained to gaze upon her with an interest quite +novel to me; but now I knew that she could not smile, without making my +heart faint within me, and that the least whisper of her voice was able to +bring tears into mine eyes. Now I thought of my own unworthiness, and +could not help saying to myself, "Why should a poor ignorant provincial, +such as I am, be torturing myself with the thoughts of such a creature as +this?" Then, again, some benign glance of hers would return before me, and +I could not help having some faint hopes, that her innocent heart might be +won to me by faithful unwearied love. But what always threw me back into +despair, was the recollection of the mystery that I knew hung over her +mind, although what it was I could not know. That she had been saying +something in her prayers which could not be overheard without betraying +her, she had herself confessed. What could be this secret, so cherished in +dread, and in darkness?--A crime?--No crime could sully the clear bosom of +her innocence. No consciousness of guilt could be concealed beneath that +heavenly visage. But perhaps she had been made the confidante of some +erring,--some unhappy friend. Perhaps, in her prayer, she had made mention +of another's name, and implored the pardon of another's guilt. Last of +all, why might it not be so, that the maiden loved, and was beloved again; +that she might have some reason to regard any casual betrayal of her +affection as a calamity; and that, having uttered the name of her lover in +her secret supplications, her terrors might all have been occasioned by +her apprehensions of my having overheard it? And yet there was something +in the demeanour of Athanasia, that I could not bring myself to reconcile +entirely with any one of these suppositions. Had she feared that I had +overheard any confession of guilt,--even of the guilt of another,--surely +some semblance of shame would have been mingled with her looks of terror. +Had she apprehended only the discovery of an innocent love, surely her +blushes would have been deeper, and her boldness less. Yet the last +solution of the difficulty was that which haunted me the most powerfully. + +When I came forth into the open air, I perceived that the sun was already +high in heaven, and proceeded in haste towards the villa, not doubting +that Sextus and Capito would be astonished by the length of my absence. I +found them and the ladies walking under the northern colonnade, having +returned, as they told me, from a fruitless search after me through almost +the whole of the garden. I looked to Athanasia, as if to signify that she +well knew where I might have been found; but, although I saw that she +understood my meaning, she said nothing in explanation. Sextus drew me +aside shortly after, and told me, that his father had sent to inform him, +that our presence was necessary in the city before supper-time, to attend +a great entertainment which was to be given that evening by the lady whose +cause he had successfully pleaded in the Forum on the preceding day; which +lady, I now for the first time learned, was no other than the same Marcia +Rubellia, to whom his father was very anxious the youth should be married. +The success of this pleading had increased very much the wealth of the +lady, and, of course, as Sextus well knew, the anxiety of Licinius for the +proposed union; and to remain at the villa any longer, was, he said, +entirely impossible, since he already suspected his father had not been +quite pleased with him for leaving the Forum the day before, without +staying to hear out a cause in which his duty, if not his inclination, +ought to have made him feel so greatly interested. + +We bade adieu, therefore, to our kind host and the young ladies, not +without more reluctance than either of us durst express, and ready +promises to return soon again to the villa. We found Dromo and Boto +waiting for us at the gate, the former of whom looked unutterable things, +while the latter appeared to be as joyful in seeing me again, as if we had +been parted for a twelvemonth. The two slaves were mounted on asses, but +they led horses for our conveyance; so we mounted with all speed, and were +soon beyond the beautiful enclosures of Capito. As soon as we were fairly +out of sight of the house, Dromo began to ply Sextus with innumerable +questions about the result of the visit, all of them in bad Greek; that, +as he said, there might be no chance of what passed being understood by +the Druid; for by that venerable designation, he informed us, the +primitive Boto had already come to be best known in the vestibule of +Licinius. "Ah!" quoth he, "there is no need for many words; I am sure my +young master has not been behindhand with himself. If he has, it is no +fault of mine, however. I put Opportunity into his hands, and she, you +know, as the poets say, has only one lock of hair, and that is in front." + +Sextus being very shy of entering into particulars, I found myself obliged +to take upon me the satisfying of the curiosity of this inquisitive +varlet, which I did in a manner that much astonished Sextus, who by no +means suspected, that in the midst of my own attention to the other +cousin, I had been able to take so much notice of what passed between him +and Sempronia. However, the gentle youth took a little raillery all in +good part, and we laughed loudly in unison at the triumphant capers which +the whip of Dromo made his poor ass exhibit, in testimony of his +satisfaction with the progress which all things appeared to be making. We +reached the city about three hours after noon, and were told by the slaves +in attendance, that Xerophrastes had gone out some time before, and that +Licinius was already busy in arraying himself for the feast of Rubellia. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Her mansion was situated about the middle of the Suburra, in a +neighbourhood nowise splendid, and itself distinguished, on the side +fronting to the street, by no uncommon marks of elegance or opulence. A +plain brick wall covered almost the whole of the building from the eye of +the passenger; and what was seen deserved the praise of neatness, rather +than of magnificence. Nevertheless, the moment one had passed the gate, +and entered the court, one could not help perceiving, that taste and +wealth had been alike expended abundantly on the residence; for the broad +terrace and gallery behind were lavishly adorned, the one with sculpture +and the other with paintings; and the gardens, which these overlooked, +appeared to be both extensive and elaborate. + +We were conducted through several pillared halls, and then up a wide +staircase, of somewhat sombre magnificence, into the chamber where the +company were already in part assembled, and busy in offering their +congratulations to the mistress of the feast. She was so much engaged with +their flatteries that she did not at first perceive our entrance; but as +soon as she knew who had come, the chief part of her attention was divided +between her victorious advocate and his blushing son. + +Rapidly as we have been advancing in our imitation of the manners of the +capital, our island, most unquestionably, has never yet displayed any +thing that could sustain the smallest comparison with what then met my +eyes in the stately saloon of this widow. The group around her was gay and +various, and she was worthy of forming its centre; young and handsome, +dressed in a style of the utmost splendour, her deportment equally elegant +and vivacious. Her complexion was of that clear rich brown which lends to +the eye a greater brilliancy than the most exquisite contrast of red and +white; and over which the blood, when it does come into the face, diffuses +at once the warmest and the deepest of blushes. Her hair appeared to be +perfectly black, unless where the light, streaming from behind, gave an +edging of glossy brown to the thick masses of her curls. Her robe of +crimson silk was fastened by a girdle, which seemed to consist of nothing +but rubies and emeralds, strung upon threads of gold. She wore a tiara +that rose high above her tresses, and was all over resplendent with +flowers woven in jewellery; and around her delicate wrists and ankles were +twined broad chains of virgin gold, interspersed with alternate wreaths of +sapphire. Her form was the perfection of luxury; and although I have said +that her deportment was in general lively and brilliant, yet there was a +soft seriousness that every now and then settled in her eyes, which gave +her, for a moment, a look of melancholy that seemed to me more likely to +be in harmony with the secret nature of her disposition. I watched her in +particular when she spoke to Sextus; her full rich-toned voice was then +merry, and her large eyes sparkled; but when she was engaged with any +other person, she could not help gazing on the beautiful youth in silence; +and then it was that her countenance wore its deepest expression of +calmness--I had almost said, of sadness. + +I had been gazing on her, I know not how long, from another part of the +room, when I heard a hearty chuckle from behind me, and thought I could +not be unacquainted with the voice. Looking round, I saw, not without +delight, the stately figure of my Prtorian Captain, Sabinus, whose +cheerful eye soon distinguished me, and who forthwith came up to salute me +in the most friendly manner. I introduced him to Licinius and Sextus, the +former of whom expressed himself as being much gratified with the +attention the centurion had shewn to me during our voyage; so that I felt +myself, as it were, no longer a stranger in the place; and the lutes and +trumpets at that moment announcing that supper was ready to be served up, +I took care to keep close to Sabinus, and to place myself near him on the +couch. + +The room in which the feast was prepared, communicated by a pair of brazen +folding doors, richly sculptured, with that in which the company had +assembled; but from it, although the sun had not yet gone down, all light +was excluded, excepting what streamed from golden candelabra, and broad +lamps of bronze suspended overhead from the high and painted ceiling. The +party might consist of about twenty, who reclined along one demi-circular +couch, the covers of which were of the softest down, and the frame-work +inlaid with ivory;--the part of the room enclosed by its outline being +occupied with the table, and an open space to which the attendants had +free access. We had no sooner taken our seats than a crowd of slaves +entered, carrying large boards upon their heads, which being forthwith +arranged on the table, were seen to be loaded with dishes of gold and +silver, and all manner of drinking vessels, also with vases of rare +flowers, and urns of perfume. But how did the countenance of Sabinus +brighten, when the trumpet sounded a second time as if from below, and the +floor of the chamber was suddenly, as it were, pierced in twain, and the +pealing music ushered up a huge roasted boar, all wreathed with stately +garnishings, and standing erect on his golden platform as on a chariot of +triumph! "Ah! my dear boy," cries he, "here comes the true king of beasts, +and only legitimate monarch of the woods. What should we not have given +for a slice of him when we were pent up, half-starved and fainting, in +that abominable ship of ours?--All hail, most potent conqueror! but whether +Germanic or Asiatic be thy proper title, I shall soon know, when that +expert Ionian has daintily carved and divided thee." But why should I +attempt to describe to you the particulars of the feast? Let it suffice, +that whatever idea I had formed of Roman profusion was surpassed, and that +the splendour of the entertainment engaged the attention of all except +Rubellia herself, who, reclining immediately above Sextus, kept her eyes +fixed almost all the time it lasted, upon his luxuriant curls of dark +hair, unless when she caused the young damsel, her cup-bearer, to pour out +to her wine in a goblet of onyx, which she touched with her lips, and then +handed to the indifferent boy. When the supper was half over, the +folding-doors were again thrown open, and there entered a group of maidens +and beautiful youths, who danced before us to the music of the lute, and +scattered crowns of roses at the feet of Rubellia and her guests. She +herself placed one of them on the head of Sextus, and another on that of +his father, who lay on the other side of her, and then caused a large cup +of wine to be carried all around, whereof each of us tasted, and drank to +the health of the orator, in whose honour the entertainment was made. The +ladies that were present imitated the example of the hostess, and crowned +such as were by them; but Sabinus and I, not being near enough to any of +them, received that courtesy from some of the dancing maidens. Libations +were poured out abundantly on the marble floor, and all the gods were +invoked to shower down their blessings on Rubellia, and those that had +been so fortunate as to serve her. Sweet strains of music resounded +through the tall pillars of the banqueting-room, and the lamps burned +heavily in an atmosphere overloaded with perfumes. + +It appeared to me, from the beginning, that my friend Sabinus witnessed, +not without some feelings of displeasure, the excessive attentions which +Rubellia lavished on young Sextus; and I gathered, from the way in which +he every now and then looked towards them during the supper, that, had the +place permitted, he would not have allowed such things to go on without +some comment. But when we had left the banqueting-room, and removed to +another apartment, where, amidst various entertainments of dancing, music, +and recitation, Rubellia still retained close to herself the heir of +Licinius, the centurion made to himself abundant amends for the previous +restraint to which his temper had been subjected. "Confess now," said he, +"that she is a lovely creature, and that your British beauties are tame +and insipid, when compared with such a specimen of Roman fascination; and +confess, withal, that this curled boy is either the most ignorant, or the +most insusceptible of his sex. Good heavens! in what a different style was +she treated by the old magistrate, whose very bust there, in the corner, +looks quite blank and disconsolate with its great white eyes, while she, +that sate for so many months pale and weeping by his bed-side, is thinking +of nothing but to bestow all the wealth he left her on a beardless +stripling, who appears to regard the bust and the beauty with almost equal +indifference.--Alas! poor old withered Leberinus, little did you imagine +that so small a phial would suffice to hold all her tears. My only wonder +is, that she still permits your marble image to occupy even a corner of +her mansion; but, no doubt, you will soon be sent on your travels. I dare +say, some cold pedestal in the garden will, ere long, be the best birth +you need look for.--Well, well, you see what fools we may be made by the +cunning of these pretty crocodiles. I trust my dotage, when it does come, +will not shew itself in the same shape with that of my good old friend. I +hope the ghost of the worthy Prtor will not frown unseen the night she +takes this Adonis to her arms. If I were in his place, I should give her +curtains a pretty shake. By Hermes! it would not be a pretty monument and +a flowery epitaph that would make me lie still." + +"How long is it," said I, "since this venerable magistrate died? Surely +she has allowed him the decency of a tenmonth's grief, before she began to +give suppers, and perceive the beauty of Sextus?" "Whether it be a +tenmonth ago or not," replied the Centurion, "is more than I can take upon +me to decide; all I know is, that it appears to me as if it were but +yesterday that I supped here, (it was just before I set off for Britain,) +and saw the young lady reclining, even at table, with those long black +curls of her's, in the bosom of the emaciated Leberinus. By Jupiter! the +old man would not taste a drop of wine unless she kissed the cup--she +coaxed every morsel he swallowed down his throat, and clasped the garland +round his bald pate with her own fingers; ay, twice before that sleek +physician--that solemn-faced Greek, whom you see at this moment talking +with your kinsman, advised her to have him carried to his bed. For all the +gravity of his looks, I would lay a trifle, that worthy Boeotian has his +own thoughts about what is passing, as well as I. But the worst-pleased +face in the whole room is, I think, that of old Rubellius himself yonder, +who has just come in, without, it is evident, being aware that any feast +was going forward. Without question, the crafty usurer is of opinion he +might have been invited. I promise you, I can interpret the glances of +that gray-headed extortioner; and well I may, for it is not the first time +I have had an opportunity of studying them. Ay, ay, quoth he to himself, +she may do as she will with the bonds of Leberinus; but she might have +remembered, that a codicil can be easily tacked to the end of a living +man's testament." + +"But, after all," said I, "one must admit, that if she married old +Leberinus to please her father, the widow has some right to choose her +second husband according to the pattern of her own fancy." "Oh! by all +means," answered he; "let her please herself; let her make a fool of +herself now, if she will. She may perhaps learn, some time or other, that +it is as possible to have too young a husband, as to have too old a one." +"Come now," said I, "Sabinus, confess that if she had selected some +well-made, middle-aged man--some respectable man--some man of note and +distinction, you would have judged less harshly of poor Rubellia." "Ah! +you cunning dog," said he; "who would have thought that you had brought so +much wickedness from that new world of yours? But do you really think she +will wed Sextus? The boy appears strangely cold. I should not wonder, when +all is done, if the match were more of the orator's seeking than his own." +"I can only tell you," said I, "that I have never heard Licinius mention +any thing about it; and, I dare say, Sextus would be very sorry to think +of losing his liberty for the sake of the wealth of Leberinus--ay, or for +that of old Rubellius to boot." "Young friend," quoth he, "you are not +quite acquainted with the way in which these matters are managed at Rome. +If we had you six weeks at the other side of the Viminal, we should teach +you better." + +I know not how long this sort of talk might have lasted; but Licinius put +an end to it by joining us, and soon engaged the worthy Centurion, and +several more of us, with some lively, but unintelligible discussion on the +merits of some new edict, of which none of us had ever heard, or were +likely ever to hear any thing again. We were glad to escape from the +lawyer into another room, where some Greek slaves were performing a sort +of comic pantomime, that appeared to give more delight to old Rubellius +than any other of the spectators. As for Sextus, I saw plainly that he was +quite weary of the entertainment, and anxious to get away; but we were +obliged to remain till after Licinius was gone, for it was evident that he +wished his son to see out the last. But no sooner had we heard his chariot +drive off, than the young man and I took leave of the lady, and withdrew. +Sabinus lingered a moment behind us, and then joined us in the vestibule, +from which, his course lying so far in the same direction as ours, we all +proceeded homewards on foot. + +We had proceeded along the street of the Suburra for a considerable space, +and were already beneath the shade of the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, (which stands on the northern side of the Esquiline Hill, nigh +over against the Amphitheatre of Vespasian,) when, from the opposite side +of the way, we were hailed by a small party of soldiers, who, as it turned +out, had been sent from the Prtorian camp in search of Sabinus, and one +of whom had now recognized his gait and stature, notwithstanding the +obscurity of the hour. The Centurion went aside with the leader of these +men for some moments, and then informed us that it was very fortunate they +had so easily recognized him, as the business on which they had been sent +was such as did not admit of being negligently dealt with. "To-morrow," +said he, pointing to the Amphitheatre before us, "that glorious edifice is +to be the scene of one of the grandest shows exhibited by Trajan since his +accession to the empire. It is the anniversary of the day on which he was +adopted by Nerva, and the splendour of the spectacle will be in proportion +to the gratitude and veneration with which he at all times regards the +memory of that excellent benefactor. But there are some parts of the +exhibition that I am afraid old Nerva, could he be present to behold them, +would not regard with the same feelings as his successor." "Surely," said +I, "the beneficent Trajan will not stain the expression of his gratitude +by any thing unworthy of himself, or that could give displeasure to +Nerva?" "Nay," replied the Centurion, "it is not for me to talk about any +thing that Trajan chooses to do being unworthy of Trajan; but you well +know that Nerva would never suffer any of the Christians to be molested +during his reign, and now here are some of these unhappy fanatics, that +are to be compelled either to renounce their faith in the face of the +assembly to-morrow, or to die in the arena. It is to inspect the condition +of these unfortunates, who, I know not for what reason, are confined in a +dungeon below the ramparts in the vicinity of our camp, and to announce to +them the final determination of their fate, that I, as Centurion of the +night, have now been summoned. If you are curious to see the men, you are +at liberty to go with me, and I shall be obliged to you for your company." + +My curiosity having been excited in regard to the new faith and its +adherents, I was very desirous to accept of this offer. Nor did Sextus any +sooner perceive that such was my inclination, than he advised me to +gratify it, undertaking, at the same time, to satisfy his father, in case +of any inquiry, that I was in a place of safety, and under the protection +of Sabinus. With him, therefore, and with his Prtorians, I proceeded +along various streets which led us by the skirts of the Esquiline and +Viminal Hills, on to the region of the Mounds of Tarquin, over against +which, as you have heard, the great camp of those bands is situated;--if +indeed that ought of right to be called by the name of a camp, which is +itself a city of no slender dimensions, and built with great splendour of +architecture, spread out beyond the limits of Rome, for the accommodation +of that proud soldiery. There my friend took me into his chamber, and +furnished me with a cloak and helmet, that I might excite no suspicion by +accompanying him on his errand. The watch-word of the night also was given +me, _Silent faith_; and proceeding again, we shortly reached the place +where the Christians were lying. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +Entering the guard-room, we found it crowded with spearmen of Sabinus's +band, some playing at dice, others carousing jovially, many wrapt up in +their mantles, and asleep upon the floor; while a few only were sitting +beneath the porch, with their spears in their hands, and leaning upon +their bucklers. From one of these, the Centurion, having drawn him aside, +made inquiry concerning the names and condition of the prisoners, and +whether as yet they had received any intelligence as to the morrow. The +soldier, who was a grave man, well stricken in years, made answer, "that +the men were free-born and of decent estate, and that he had not heard of +any thing else being laid to their charge, excepting that which concerned +their religion. Since they have been here," he continued, "I have been +several times set on watch over them, and twice have I lain with one of +them in his dungeon; yet have I heard no complaints from any of them, for +in all things they are patient. One of them only is to suffer +to-morrow--but for him I am especially concerned, for he was known to me of +old, having served often with me when I was a horseman in the army of +Titus, all through the war of Palestine, and at the siege of Jerusalem." + +"And of what country is he?" said Sabinus. "Is he also a Roman?" "No, +sir," answered the spearman, "he is no Roman; but he was of a troop of the +allies that was joined often to our legion, and I have seen him bear +himself on the day of battle as well as any Roman. He is by birth a Greek +of the Syrian coast; but his mother was of the nation of the Jews." "And +yet, although the son of a Jewess, he was with us, say you, at the siege +of Jerusalem?" "Even so," replied the man; "and not he only, but many +others; for the Jews were divided against themselves; and of all them that +were Christians, not one abode in the city, or gave help to defend it. As +this man himself said, the oracles of the Christians, and their prophets, +had of old given warning that the city must fall into the hands of Csar, +by reason of the wickedness of that people; therefore, when we set our +camp against Jerusalem, these all passed out from the city, with their +wives and children, and dwelt safely in the mountainous country until the +fate was fulfilled. But some of their young men fought in our camp, and +did good service, because the place was known to them, and they had +acquaintance with all the secrets of the Rock. Of these, this man was one. +He and all his household had departed from the ancient religion of the +Jews, and were believers in the doctrines of the Christians, for which +cause he is now to suffer; and of that, although I have not spoken to him +this evening, I think he has already received some intelligence, for +certain of his friends passed in to him, and they covered their faces as +they went in, as if weeping." "Are these friends still with him?" said +Sabinus. "Yes," answered he, "for I must have seen them had they come +forth again. Without doubt, the two women are still with him in his +dungeon." "Women?" quoth Sabinus; "and of what condition think you they +may be?" "That I know not," replied the soldier; "for, as I have said, +they were muffled in their mantles. But one of them, at least, is a Roman, +for I heard her speak to him that is by the door of the dungeon." "How +long is it," said the Centurion, "since they went in to the prisoner?" +"More than an hour," replied the soldier, looking at the water-clock that +stood beneath the porch; "and if they be Christians, they are not yet +about to depart, for they never separate without singing together, which +is said to be their favourite manner of worship." + +He had scarcely uttered these words, when the soldiers that were carousing +within the guard-room became silent, and we heard the voices of those that +were in the dungeon singing together in a sweet and lowly manner. "Ah, +sir!" said the old soldier, "I thought it would be even so--there is not a +spearman in the band that would not willingly watch here a whole night, +could he be sure of hearing that melody. Well do I know that soft +voice--Hear now, how she sings by herself--and there again, that deep strong +note--that is the voice of the prisoner." + +"Hush!" quoth the Centurion, "heard you ever any thing half so divine? Are +these words Greek or Syrian?" "What the words are I know not," said the +soldier; "but I know the tune well.--I have heard it played many a night +with hautboy, clarion, and dulcimer, on the high walls of Jerusalem, while +the city was beleaguered." "It is some old Jewish tune then," said +Sabinus; "I knew not those barbarians had had half so much art." + +"Why, as for that, sir," replied the man, "I have been all over Greece and +Egypt--to say nothing of Italy--and I never heard any music like that music +of the Jews. When they came down to join the battle, their trumpets +sounded so gloriously, that we wondered how it was possible for them ever +to be driven back; and then, when their gates were closed, and they sent +out to beg their dead, they would play such solemn awful notes of +lamentation, that the plunderers stood still to listen, and their warriors +were delivered to them with all their mail as they had fallen." "And the +Christians also," said Sabinus, "had the same tunes?" "Oh yes, sir--why, +for that matter, these very tunes may have been among them, for aught we +know, since the beginning of their nation. I have stood sentinel with this +very man, and seen the tears run down his cheeks by the star-light, when +he heard the music from the city, as the Jewish captains were going their +rounds upon the battlements." "But this, surely," said the Centurion, "is +no warlike melody." "I know not," quoth the old soldier, "whether it be or +not--but I am sure it sounds not like any music of sorrow,--and yet what +plaintive tones are in the part of that female voice!" "The bass sounds +triumphantly, in good sooth." "Ay, sir, but that is the old man's own +voice--I am sure he will keep a good heart to the end, even though they +should be singing their farewell to him. Well, the Emperor loses a good +soldier, the hour Tisias dies. I wish to Jupiter he had not been a +Christian, or had kept his religion to himself. But as for changing +now--you might as well think of persuading the Prince himself to be a Jew." + +"That last high strain, however," quoth Sabinus, "has ended their singing. +Let us speak to the women as they come out; and if it be so that the man +is already aware of what is to be done to-morrow, I see not why we should +trouble him with entering his cell. He has but a few hours to live, and I +would not willingly disturb him." "I hear them coming," said the soldier. +"Then do you meet them," said Sabinus, "and tell them that the Centurion +wishes to speak to them ere they go away--we will retire out of hearing of +the guard." + +With that he and I withdrew to the other side of the way, over against the +door of the prison; and we stood there waiting for the women under a +fig-tree, close by the city wall. In a few minutes two persons, arrayed as +the soldier had described, drew near to us; and one of them, without +uncovering her countenance, said,--"Master, we trust we have done no evil +in visiting the prisoners; had it been so, surely we should not have been +permitted to enter without question." + +These words were spoken in a voice tremulous, as if with grief rather than +with terror; but I could not help starting when I heard them. However, I +commanded myself, and heard in silence what Sabinus replied.--"Be not +alarmed," said he; "there is no offence committed, for no orders have been +issued to prevent these men from seeing their friends. I sent for you, not +to find fault with what you have done, but only to ask whether this +prisoner has already been told that the Emperor has announced his +resolution concerning him, and that he must die to-morrow, in the +Amphitheatre of Vespasian, unless he renounce his superstition."--"He knows +all," answered the same voice; "and is prepared for all." + +"By heavens! Valerius," whispered Sabinus; "it is no mean person that +speaks so--this is the accent and the gesture of a Roman lady." Then +raising his voice, "In that case there is no need for my going into the +dungeon; and yet, could I hope to say any thing that might tend to make +him change his purpose, I would most gladly do so. The Emperor is as +humane as he is just, and unless when rebellious obstinacy shuts the gates +of mercy, he is the last that would consent to the shedding of any +blood.--For this Tisias, of whose history I have just been hearing +something, I am in a particular manner interested, and to save him, I wish +only I had power equal to my inclination. Is there no chance of convincing +him?"--"He is already convinced."--"Could his friends do nothing?"--"His +friends have been with him," said the voice.--This last sentence was spoken +so distinctly, that I knew I could no longer be mistaken; and I was on the +brink of speaking out, without thinking of the consequences that might +occur, when she that had spoken, uttered a faint cry, and dropping on her +knees before Sabinus, said,--"Oh, sir! to us also be merciful, and let us +go hence ere any one behold us!"--"Go in peace, lady," answered the +Centurion, "and henceforth be prudent as well as kind;" and they went away +from us, and were soon lost to our sight in the windings of the street. + +We stood there for some moments in silence, looking towards the place +where they disappeared. "Strange superstition," said Sabinus; "what +heroism dwells with this madness!--you see how little these men regard +their lives;--nay, even women, and Roman women too--you see how their nature +is changed by it."--"It is, indeed, a most strange spectacle," said I; "but +what is to be the end of it, if this spirit become diffused widely among +the people?"--"In truth I know not," answered the Centurion; "as yet we +have heard of few who had once embraced this faith, renouncing it out of +fear for their lives."--"And in the days of Nero and Domitian," said I, +"were not many hundreds of them punished even here in the capital?"--"You +are within the mark," said he; "and not a few of those who were sent into +exile, because of their Christianity, were, as you may have heard, of no +ordinary condition. Among these there were Flavius Clemens, the Consular, +and his wife, Domitilla; both of whom I have often seen in my youth--both +relations to the family of Vespasian--whom, notwithstanding, all the +splendour of the imperial blood could not save from the common fate of +their sect. But Nerva suffered all of them to live in peace, and recalled +such as were in exile, excepting only Domitilla, whose fate has been +regretted by all men; but I suppose it was not at first judged safe to +recal her, lest any tumult should have been excited in her name, by those +that regretted (and I am sorry to say these were not a few) the wicked +license of which they had been deprived by the death of her tyrannical +kinsman, and the transition of the imperial dignity into another line. She +also with whom we have been speaking, is, I am sure, a Roman lady of +condition; and you may judge of her zeal, when you see it brings her +hither at midnight, to mingle tears and prayers with those of an obscure +Asiatic. Did you observe, that the other female both walked and stood +behind her." + +"I observed all this," answered I. But little did Sabinus suspect that I +had observed so much more than himself had done. Before parting from him, +I said I should still be gratified with being permitted to see the +prisoner; and although he declined entering himself, he accordingly gave +command that the door of his dungeon should be opened for me, requesting +me, at the same time, to refrain from saying any thing more than was +necessary for the explaining the apparent purpose of my visit,--the +communication, namely, of Trajan's decree. + +The Centurion withdrew to his camp; and the same old spearman with whom we +had conversed at the Porch, carried a torch in his hand, and shewed me the +way into the dungeon. + +Between the first door and the second, which appeared to be almost +entirely formed of iron, there intervened a few broad steps of mason-work; +and upon the lowest of these, I stood waiting till he should open the +inner door. Several keys were applied before he discovered the right one; +but at last the heavy door swung away from before him so speedily, that +the air, rushing out of the vault, extinguished the torch; insomuch, that +we had no light excepting that which streamed from an aperture high up in +the wall of the dungeon itself; a feeble ray of star-light alone--for the +moon had, long ere this time, been gone down--which, nevertheless, sufficed +to shew us to the prisoner, although we at first could see nothing of him. + +"Soldiers," said the old man, in a voice of perfect calmness, "for what +reason are you come?"--"We come," said my companion, "by command of the +Centurion, to inform you of things which we would willingly not have to +tell--To-morrow Trajan opens the Amphitheatre of Vespasian."--"My comrade," +said the prisoner, "is it your voice I hear? I knew all this already; and +you know of old that I fear not the face of death."--"I know well, Tisias, +you fear not death; yet why, when there is no need, should you cast away +life? Think well, I beseech you, and reserve yourself for a better +day."--"The dawn of that better day, Romans, already begins to open upon my +eyes. I see the east red with the promise of its brightness. Would you +have me tarry in darkness, when I am invited to walk forth into the +light?"--"Your words rejoice me," answered the spearman; "and I am sure all +will rejoice in hearing that you have at length come to think thus--Trajan +himself will rejoice. You have but to say the word, and you are +free,"--"You mean kindly," said the old man, rising from his pallet, and +walking towards us as far as his fetters permitted; "but you are much +mistaken--I have but to keep silence, and I am free."--"Alas! what mean you? +Do you know what you say? You must worship the gods in the morning, else +you die."--"Evening, and morning, and for ever, I must worship the God that +made heaven and earth. If I bow down to the idols of Trajan, I buy the +life of a day at the price of death everlasting. Tempt me not in your +kindness: I fell once. Great God, preserve me from falling! I have bade +farewell to my friends already. Leave me to spend these few hours by +myself.--Leave me to prepare the flesh for that from which the spirit +shrinks not." So saying, he extended his hand to the spearman, and the two +old men embraced each other before me. + +"Prisoner," said I, "if there be any thing in which we can serve you, +command our aid. We have already done our duty; if we can also do any +thing that may give ease to your mind now, or comfort to your kindred, you +have but to speak."--"Sir," replied he, "I see by the eagle wings on your +helmet, that you are one in authority, and I hear by your voice that you +are young. There is a certain thing, concerning which I had some purpose +to speak to this old brother."--"Speak with confidence," said I; "although +I am a Roman, and bear all loyalty to Csar, yet this Prtorian helmet is +not mine, and I have but assumed it for the sake of having access to your +prison. I am no soldier of Trajan: Whatever I can do for you without harm +to others, speak, and I will do it. I will swear to you----" "Nay, sir," +said he, "swear not--mock not the God of heaven, by invoking idol or +demon--I believe your word--but, since you will hear, there is no need why +any other should be witness to my request."--"I will retire," said the +other, "and keep watch at the door. I am but a poor spearman, and this +young patrician can do more than I."--"Be it so," said the prisoner, a +second time embracing him; "I would not willingly expose you to any +needless danger; and yet I see not what danger there is in all that I have +to ask." + +With this the spearman withdrew; and being left alone with Tisias, I took +his hand, and sitting down beside him on his pallet, shortly explained to +him the circumstances under which I had come thither. + +"Young sir," said he, "I know not what is about the sound of your voice, +and the frankness of your demeanour, that makes me feel confidence enough +to intrust you with a certain thing, which concerns not myself, nor any +hope of mine, for that were little--but the interests of one that is far +dearer to me than I can express, and who, I hope, will live many happy +days upon earth, after I shall have sealed my belief in the message of +God, by blood that has of old been exposed a thousand times to all mortal +perils, for the sake of worthless things. But a very short while ago, and +I might have executed this thing for myself; but weakness overcame me at +the moment of parting." + +"If it be any thing which you would have me convey to any one, say where I +may find the person," said I, "and be assured I shall deliver it in +safety." + +"Sir," he proceeded, "I have here with me certain writings, which I have +carried for these twenty years continually in my bosom. Among these, is +one of the sacred books of the faith for which I am to die, and I would +fain have it placed in the hands of one to whom I know it will be dearest +of all for the sake of that which it contains; but, I hope, dear also for +the sake of him that bequeaths it. Will you seek out a certain Roman lady, +and undertake to give into her own hands, in secret, the scroll which I +shall give you?"--"I will do my endeavour," said I; "and if I cannot find +means to execute your command, I shall destroy the book with my own hands +before I quit Rome--for my stay here is uncertain."--"If you cannot find +means to do what I ask safely," he replied, "I do not bid you destroy the +book--_that_ is yours to do with as it shall seem good to you--but I conjure +you to read it before you throw it away. Nay, even as it is, I conjure you +to read it before you seek to give it to her whose name I shall +mention."--"Old man," said I, "almost I believe that I already know her +name, and more besides. If it be so that I have conjectured aright, be +assured that all you ask shall be fulfilled to the letter; be assured +also, that I would die with you to-morrow, rather than live to be the +cause or instrument of any evil thing to her that but now visited you in +your dungeon."--"Alas!" cried the old man, starting up, "lay not this also, +O Lord! upon my head. Let the old bear witness--but let the young be +spared, to serve thee in happier years upon the earth!"--"Be not afraid," +said I, "if it was Athanasia, no one suspected it but myself; and I have +already told you that I would die rather than bring evil upon her head." + +"Yes," he answered, after a pause--"it was, indeed, Athanasia. Who is it +but she that would have left the halls of nobles, and the couches of +peace, to breathe at midnight the air of a dungeon, that she might solace +the last moments of a poor man, and, save the bond of Christ, a stranger! +But if you have known her before, and spoken with her before, then surely +she must indeed be safe in your hands. You know where she dwells--that I +myself know not. Here is the scroll, from which that noble maiden has +heard my humble voice essay to expound the words of eternal life. I charge +you to approach her with reverence, and give into her own hands my dying +bequest; yet, as I have said, deliver it not to her till you have yourself +read what it contains."--"Christian," said I, placing the writing in my +bosom, "have no fear--I will read your book, and ere two nights have gone +over my head, I shall find means to place it in the hands of Athanasia; +and now, farewell."--"Nay, not yet for the last time. Will you not come in +the morning, and behold the death of a Christian?"--"Alas!" said I, "what +will it avail that I should witness the shedding of your blood? The Prince +may have reason to regard you as an offender against the state; but I have +spoken with you in your solitude, and know that your heart is noble. Would +to Heaven, that by going thither I could avert your fate!"--"Methinks, +sir," he replied, "it may be weakness--but yet methinks it would give me +some farther comfort in my death, to know that there was at least one +Roman there, who would not see me die without pity; and besides I must +have you constrain yourself, that you may be able to carry the tidings of +my departure. Her prayers will be with me, but not her eyes. You must tell +Athanasia the manner of my death."--"For that cause," said I, "I will +constrain myself, and be present in the Amphitheatre."--"Then, farewell," +said he; "----and yet go not. In whatsoever faith you live,--in whatsoever +faith you die, the blessing of an old man and a Christian can do you no +harm." So saying, the old man stood up, and leaning his hand on my head as +I sat, pronounced over me a blessing which I never shall forget. "The Lord +bless thee--the Lord enlighten thy darkness--the Lord plant his seed in thy +kind heart--the Lord give thee also to die the death of a Christian!" + +When he had said so, he sat down again; and I departed greatly oppressed +in spirit, yet feeling, I know not how or why, as I would rather have lost +many merry days, than that dark and sorrowful hour. The soldiers in the +guard-room were so much engaged in their different occupations, that they +heeded me not as, dropping my borrowed habiliments, I stept silently to +the gate; and I was soon out of sight of their flaming watch-fires, and +far from the sounds of their noisy mirth. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +The Roman streets were totally silent and deserted. It was the first time +that I had been in the presence of a human being, foreseeing distinctly, +and quietly waiting, the termination of his mortal existence, and I could +not help asking of myself, how, under similar circumstances of terror, I +should have been able to sustain my spirits?--to what resources I should, +in such a moment, look for the support which seemed to have been +vouchsafed so abundantly to this old man; by what charm, in fine,--by what +tenet of philosophy, or by what hope of religion,--I should, in the midst +of life, be able to reconcile myself to a voluntary embrace of death! To +avoid disgrace, indeed, and dishonour, said I, I think I could be Roman +enough to dare the worst; but this poor man is willing to die, rather than +acknowledge, by one offering on the altar, the deities in whose worship +all his Greek ancestors have been trained; yet who, except perhaps a few +obscure individuals that have adopted the same new superstition, would +think this man dishonoured by returning to the religion of his fathers? +Deep, indeed, must be his conviction of the truth of that which he +professes to believe--serious indeed must be his faith, and high his trust. +What if, after all, his faith should be true, and his trust wise? And the +gentle Athanasia!--She too a Christian! Might not this mystery be hereafter +explained to me by her lips? + +Musing and meditating thus, it was no wonder that I, who knew so little of +Rome, should have soon wandered from the straight way to the home of my +kinsman. But that I at last caught, at the turning of a street, a glimpse +of the Flavian Amphitheatre, which I had before passed on my way from the +feast of Rubellia, I might, perhaps, have wandered long. I had some notion +how that grand edifice was situated with respect to the house of Licinius, +and therefore moved towards it immediately, intending to pass straight +down from thence into the Sacred Way. But when I came close to the +Amphitheatre, I found that, surrounded on all sides by a city of sleep and +silence, that region was already filled with all manner of noise and +tumult, in consequence of the preparations which had begun to be made for +the spectacles. The east hardly yet indicated dawn; but the torches and +lanterns of workmen and artificers were in motion every where. On one +side, the whole way was blocked up with a throng of waggons; the +conductors, almost all Ethiopians and Numidians, lashing each other's +horses, and exchanging, in their barbarous tongues, outcries of wrath and +execration. The bellowings that resounded from any of the waggons, which +happened to be set in motion amidst the throng, intimated that savage +beasts were confined within them; and when I had discovered this, and then +regarded the prodigious multitude of the vehicles, I cannot say what +horror came over me at thinking what cruel sights, and how lavish in +cruelty, were become the favourite pastimes of the most refined of +nations. I recognized the well-known short deep snort of the wild boar, +and the long hollow bark of the wolf; but a thousand fierce sounds, +mingled with these, were new to my ears. One voice, however, was so grand +in its notes of sullen rage, that I could not help asking a soldier, who +sate on horseback near me, from what monster it proceeded. The man +answered, that it was a lion; but then what laughter arose among some of +the rabble, that had overheard my interrogation; and what contemptuous +looks were thrown upon me by the naked negroes, who sate grinning in the +torch-light, on the tops of their carriages! Then one or two of the +soldiers would be compelled to ride into the midst of the confusion, to +separate some of these wretches, fighting with their whips about +precedence in the approach; and it seemed to me that the horses could not +away with the strong sickly smell of the wild beasts; for they would +prance, and caper, and rear on end, and snort as if panic-struck, and dart +themselves towards the other side; while some of the riders were thrown +off in the midst of the tumult, and others, with fierce and strong bits, +compelled the frightened or infuriated animals to endure the thing they +abhorred--in their wrath and pride forcing them even nearer than was +necessary. In another quarter, this close-mingled pile of carts and horses +was surmounted by the enormous heads of elephants, thrust up into the air, +some of them with their huge lithe trunks lashing and beating (for they, +too, as you have heard, would rather die than snuff in the breath of these +monsters of the woods,) while the tiara'd heads of their riders would be +seen tossed to and fro by their contortions. What a cry of cursing, what +cracking of whips and cords, what blowing of horns, and whistling and +screaming; and all this mixed with what roaring and howling from the +savage creatures caged in darkness! + +I went, however, for a moment, into the Amphitheatre, by a little +side-way, where admission was cheaply obtained. Here, as yet, all things +were in order, for the hour had not yet come for giving the wild beasts +entrance to the huge dens prepared for them. A few carpenters only were +seen in one corner, erecting a sort of low stage, and singing merrily, of +whom, when I made inquiry concerning the purpose of that erection, one of +these fellows also began to jeer; "Whence come you, good sir, that you do +not know a common scaffold when you see it? It is surely not the first +time that a Christian has had his head chopped off in the Flavian?"--"By +Pluto, I am not so sure about that matter," quoth another. "I don't know +whether any of the dogs were ever beheaded here or not; if they have been, +I can only say it was better than they deserved."--"There spoke a true +man," cries a third. "No, no; keep beheading for Romans--let citizens have +their own. Things are come to a pretty pass, when they shew us nothing but +tigers against tigers. By Jove, I would rather see one of those +misbelieving Atheists set right before the mouth of a true Getulian lion's +cage, and hear his bones cracked ere all be over,--I say, I would rather +see that, than fifty of your mere beast fights."--"After all," rejoined the +first, "it must be allowed that our Csar had a fine eye for the +Amphitheatre."--"Who doubts it?" says the other. "Rome has never seen any +thing that deserved to be called a show, since he was killed by sneaking +traitors. They say, Nero was still better at that sort of work; but 'let +the skinless Jew believe,' as the saying is. I desire to see no better +sport than Domitian gave us the very week before his death. We shall never +live to see his like again!"--"Come, boys," rejoins one of the rest; "no +despairing! I had begun to think that these good princes, as they call +them, would never shew us a bit of real sport again. Here, now, is at +least something. Who can tell what may follow? and, besides, if the worst +come to the worst, we shall still have lions against lions, tigers against +tigers, Dacians against Dacians, and now and then a Jew or a Christian, or +whatever you please to call him, exhibited _solus_ on such a stage as +this. Come, come, don't make matters worse than they are." + +The ruffians shewed that they knew well enough I was displeased, and I +half regretted, as I strode away from them, the want of that Prtorian +helmet, which would have preserved me from the insolence of their mirth. +However, I was well pleased to gain a distance at which I could no longer +be troubled with them, and walked with rapid steps along the wide streets, +over which morning was now beginning to shine; while the air, agitated +with a quick breeze, refreshed my cheeks and temples--of which I had need, +being heated with the glare and noise, and, perhaps, faint, too, after the +manner of the young, from want of sleep. + +I was admitted into the house by Dromo, who seemed to have been looking +out for me; for he opened the door almost before I had time to knock at +it. He regarded me as I entered with a very cunning face; insomuch, that I +comprehended without difficulty, he believed me to have spent the night in +some scene of debauch; but he, nevertheless, attended me, without saying a +word, into my chamber. He then assumed a countenance of great reflection, +and advised me, with much appearance of friendly concern, to go to bed, +even although I could not stay long there; "because," said he, "you will +feel much fresher when you get up; and let me tell you, you must be up +early, for I have already been with Licinius, who intends to send Sextus +with a present to Rubellia immediately after breakfast; and you may be +sure he will insist on your company, for he can do nothing without you. +Ah! had it not been for a certain pretty creature, the young gentleman +would not, I am confident, have permitted you to be going the rounds in +this way by yourself. But I take it something amiss, and shall tell him +so, that he did not depute me (who am not particularly enamoured just at +present) to go with you, and take care of your safety. I only wonder how +you have got home so well as it is."--"Indeed," said I, "good Dromo, I +cannot help wondering a little at that myself--for I have been all through +the city, and lost my way half-a-dozen times over, and yet here you see I +am."--"The more reason," quoth the slave, "that you should send some little +offering to Mercury's Temple over the way, in the morning--a few sesterces +will be sufficient--and if you have no objections, I shall willingly take +care of them for you. Mercury is the guardian of all that travel about in +the dark; and besides, he is the special patron of love expeditions. But +to say the truth, you are not the only person that owes a gift to that +shrine; for the worthy sage--Xerophrastes--he, too, has been a +night-wanderer--and he has not yet come in. I have my doubts whether, when +he does so, he will be as sober as you are; but I must take care to be at +my post, and admit him in silence, for the time is not yet come to uncloak +his doings. Trust me, this is not the only vagary I have set down to his +account--all in good time. But what says my master Valerius, touching the +offering to the great God Hermes?" + +I saw, by the knave's face, that it was necessary the sesterces should be +forthcoming. "Here they are," said I, "good Dromo; and remember, that +although Mercury, among other things, is the god of thieves also, he will +not be well pleased if you curtail his offering." "Never mind," answered +the varlet, as he was shuffling out of the room, "Mercury and I understand +each other of old. Go to bed, and try to get a little of your own old +British red into your cheeks again; for Licinius has a hawk's eye, and +will be sure to have his suspicions, if he sees you come down with such a +haggard look. Remember you have not a beard to cover half your face, and +all your iniquities." + +So saying, he left me to my couch, indeed, but not to slumber; for busy +thoughts kept me broad awake, till, after the lapse of perhaps an hour, +young Sextus entered my apartment, already arrayed with more than usual +elegance, to execute, however unwillingly, the message of his father. He +had in his hand a small casket of open ivory-work, which he flung down on +my bed, saying, "Get up, dear Valerius, and save me at least from the pain +of going alone with these gewgaws. Would to Heaven my father would marry +her himself, and then I should have no objection to carry as many caskets +as he pleases. But do you get up and assist me; and as we go along, you +shall tell me what you have seen and heard in company with your jovial +Prtorian." + +I was soon ready, and ascended, along with my young friend, the chariot +which Licinius had commanded to be ready. I told him, as we glided through +the streets, as much as I judged expedient; and, in particular, when I +perceived that our charioteer was making a circuit, in order to avoid the +neighbourhood of the Amphitheatre, I could not help expressing to him the +effect which had been produced in my mind, by my casual inspection of the +preparations. "I am afraid, then," said he, "that you will scarcely be +willing to witness the exhibition itself; and yet I would fain have you to +overcome your aversion, both because, whatever you may think of such +things, it is not fitting that you should go from Rome without once, at +least, seeing how they are conducted; and more particularly, because I +much suspect Rubellia intends to be present at the festival--in which case +I should be sorry to be compelled to attend upon her without you; and as +to leaving her at the gate of the Amphitheatre, that, you know, would be +quite impossible, unless I wished openly to contradict the wishes of my +father." + +I assured him he should not want any comfort my presence could afford him; +although not without, at the same time, expressing my astonishment that he +should consider it at all probable that his dainty Rubellia would choose +to sit among the spectators of an exhibition so abounding in circumstances +of cruelty, and, as I had understood, forbidden to her sex. "Nay," +answered he, "laws and edicts are made to be broken in such cases; and as +for the cruelty of the scene, there is scarcely a lady in Rome that would +be more scrupulous on that head than my widow. To tell you the truth, one +of the things that makes me most unwilling to go, is the fear that +Sempronia also may be there; and, perhaps, when she sees me with Rubellia, +give credence to some of the reports which have been circulated (not +without my father's assent, I think, if all were known,) about this odious +marriage, which I swear to you shall never take place, although Licinius +were to drive me from his door, and adopt a stranger."--"Sextus," I made +answer, "if Sempronia thinks there is any thing serious between the widow +and you, she must think you a pretty rascal, for the violent love you made +to herself at the Villa. But I am sure she will easily perceive, by your +countenance, that you do not regard Rubellia, handsome as she is, with any +extraordinary admiration; whereas--if you were not conscious of it, I am +sure she must have been so--there was never a face of more passionate love +than yours, all the time you were in _her_ company. And, even now, the +very mention of her name calls a glow into your cheeks,--yes, and even into +your eyes,--that I think would flatter Rubellia, could she excite such +another, more than all the jewels of all the caskets your father will ever +send."--"Distract me not, O Valerius!" said the youth,--"distract me not +with speaking of that too lovely, and, I fear, too scornful girl. Do you +not perceive that we have at last struck into the Suburra, and are quite +near to Rubellia's house?"--"It is so," said I, looking out of the +carriage, "and I suspect you are right in thinking she means to be present +at the Amphitheatre, for there is a crowd of urchins about her gate, and I +perceive a brilliant group of equipages has attracted them. She purposes +to go in all her splendour."--"Good Heavens!" replied he, "I believe all +the world is to be there. I never passed so many chariots; and as for the +rabble, see what a stream of heads continues pouring down out of every +alley. My only hope is, that Rubellia may arrive too late for the best +situations, and perhaps disdain to witness the spectacle from any inferior +part of the Amphitheatre; and yet she must have interest, no doubt, to +have secured good accommodation beforehand." + +We were just in time to meet Rubellia stepping from her portico with a gay +cluster of attendants. On seeing us, however, she beckoned with her +finger, and said, "Oh, are you come at last? Well, I must take Valerius +with myself, for I insist upon it that I shall be best able to point out +what is worthy of his notice; and you, Sextus Licinius, come you also into +my chariot; we will not separate you from your Orestes." She said so with +an air of sprightly ease and indifference, and sprung into the carriage. +An elderly lady, with a broad merry face, went into it also, but there was +still room for Sextus and myself; and the rest of the party followed in +other vehicles that were waiting. + +The crowd by this time had so accumulated, that our horses could not +advance but at leisurely pace; but the noise of the multitude as they +rushed along, and the tumult of expectation visible on every countenance, +prevented us from thinking of any thing but the festival. The variety, +however, and great splendour of the equipages, could not but attract my +attention. Now it was an open chariot, drawn by milk-white Thessalian +horses, in which reclined some gorgeous female, blazing with jewellery, +with a cluster of beautiful boys or girls administering odours to her +nostril; and perhaps some haughty Knight or Senator now and then offering +the refreshment of his flattery. Then, perhaps, would come rumbling along, +a close clumsy waggon, of the old-fashioned matronly sort, stuck full with +some substantial plebeian family--the fat, comfortable-looking citizen, and +his demure spouse, sitting well back on their cushions, and having their +knees loaded with an exulting progeny of lads and lasses, whose faces +would, every now and then, be thrust half out of the window, in spite of +the mother's tugging at their skirts. And then, again, a cry of "Place, +place," and a group of lictors, shoving every body aside with their rods, +before the litter of some dignified magistrate, who, from pride or gout, +preferred that species of motion to the jolting of a chariot. Such a +portly person as this would soon be hurried past us, but not before we had +time to observe the richness of the silken cushions on which he lay +extended, or the air of majesty with which he submitted himself to the fan +of the favoured freedman, whose business it was to keep those +authoritative cheeks free from the contamination of common dust and flies. +Anon, a jolly band of young gallants, pushing their steeds along, to not a +few of whom the fair Rubellia would vouchsafe her salutation. But wherever +the carriage was stopped for an instant, it was wonderful to see the +number of old emaciated men, and withered hags, that would make their way +close up to the windows, imploring wherewithal to obtain a morsel. The +widow herself leaned back on these occasions, as if to avoid the sight; +but she pointed to a bag of small coin that hung in a corner of the +chariot, and from it Sextus distributed to the one side, and I to the +other; and yet it was impossible to give to every one; we were surrounded +all the way with a mingled clamour of benedictions from those that had +received, and execrations from those that had got nothing, and noisy +ever-renewed solicitations from that ever-swelling army of mendicants. At +last, however, we arrived in safety at the western gate--the same around +which I had, the night before, witnessed such tumultuous preparation. One +of the officers in waiting there, no sooner descried the equipage, than he +caused a space to be laid open for its approach, and himself advanced to +hand Rubellia into the interior, but she whispered to Sextus and me, by no +means to separate from her in the crowd. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +Behold me, therefore, in the midst of the Flavian Amphitheatre, and +seated, under the wing of the luxurious Rubellia, in a very convenient +situation. There was a general silence in the place, because proclamation +had just been made that the gladiators, with whose combats the exhibition +was to commence, were about to enter upon the arena, and shew themselves +in order to the people. As yet, however, they had not come forth from that +place of concealment to which so many of their number would never return; +so that I had leisure to collect my thoughts, and survey for a moment, +without disturbance, the mighty and most motley multitude, piled above, +below, and on every side around me, from the lordly senators, on their +silken couches, along the parapet of the arena, up to the impenetrable +mass of plebeian heads which skirted the horizon, above the topmost wall +of the Amphitheatre itself. Such was the enormous crowd of human beings, +high and low, that when any motion went through their assembly, the noise +of their rising up or sitting down might be likened to the sullen roaring +of the sea, or the rushing of a great night-wind in a forest. Not less +than eighty thousand human beings, they told me, were here met together. +Such a multitude could no where be regarded, without inspiring a certain +indefinable sense of majesty; least of all, when congregated within the +wide sweep of such a glorious edifice, and surrounded on all sides with +every circumstance of ornament and splendour, befitting an everlasting +monument of Roman victory and imperial munificence. Judge, then, with what +eyes all this was surveyed by me, who had but of yesterday emerged from a +British valley--who had been accustomed all my life to consider as among +the most impressive of spectacles, the casual passage of a few scores of +legionaries through some dark alley of a wood, or awe-struck village of +barbarians. + +Trajan himself was already present--his ivory chair distinguished only by +its canopy from that of the other Consul who sate over against him; tall +and majestic in his demeanour; grave, sedate, and benign in countenance, +as you have seen in his medals and statues. He was arrayed in a plain +gown, and appeared to converse quite familiarly, without affectation of +condescension, with such Patricians as had their places near him; among +whom Sextus and Rubellia pointed out many remarkable personages to my +notice; as Adrian, afterwards emperor; Pliny, the orator, a man of courtly +presence, and lively, agreeable aspect; and, above all, the historian +Tacitus, the worthy son-in-law of our Agricola, in whose pallid +countenance I could easily recognize the depth, but sought in vain to +discover any traces of the sternness of his genius. Of all the then proud +names that were whispered into my ear, could I recollect or repeat them +now, how few would awaken any interest in your minds! Those, indeed, which +I have mentioned, have an interest that will never die. Would that the +greatest and the best of them all were to be remembered only for deeds of +greatness and goodness! + +The proclamation being repeated a second time, a door on the right hand of +the arena was laid open, and a single trumpet sounded, as it seemed to me, +mournfully, while the gladiators marched in with slow steps, each +man--naked, except being girt with a cloth about his loins--bearing on his +left arm a small buckler, and having a short straight sword suspended by a +cord around his neck. They marched, as I have said, slowly and steadily; +so that the whole assembly had full leisure to contemplate the forms of +the men; while those skilled in such business were fixing, in their own +minds, on such as they thought most likely to be victorious, and laying +wagers concerning their chances of success, with as much unconcern as if +they had been contemplating irrational animals, or rather, indeed, I +should say, so many pieces of ingenious mechanism. The diversity of +complexion and feature exhibited among these devoted athletes, afforded at +once a majestic idea of the extent of the empire, and a terrible one of +the purposes to which that wide sway had often been made subservient. The +beautiful Greek, with a countenance of noble serenity, and limbs after +which the sculptors of his country might have modelled their symbols of +graceful power, walked side by side with the yellow-bearded savage, whose +gigantic muscles had been nerved in the freezing waves of the Elbe or +Ister, or whose thick strong hair was congealed and shagged on his brow +with the breath of Scythian or Scandinavian winters. Many fierce Moors and +Arabs, and curled Ethiopians, were there, with the beams of the southern +sun burnt in every various shade of swarthiness upon their skins. Nor did +our own remote island want her representatives in the deadly procession, +for I saw among the armed multitude--not surely without some feelings of +more peculiar interest--two or three gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and +shoulders bore uncouth marks of blue and purple, so vivid in the tints, +that I thought many months could not have elapsed since they must have +been wandering in wild freedom along the native ridges of some Silurian or +Caledonian forest. As they moved around the arena, some of these men were +saluted by the whole multitude with noisy acclamations, in token, I +suppose, of the approbation wherewith the feats of some former festival +had deserved to be remembered. On the appearance of others, groans and +hisses were heard from some parts of the Amphitheatre, mixed with +contending cheers and huzzas from others of the spectators. But by far the +greater part were suffered to pass on in silence;--this being in all +likelihood the first--who could tell whether it might not also be the last +day of their sharing in that fearful exhibition! + +Their masters paired them shortly, and in succession they began to make +proof of their fatal skill. At first, Scythian was matched against +Scythian--Greek against Greek--Ethiopian against Ethiopian--Spaniard against +Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet with blood streaming +from the wounds of kindred hands. But these combats, although abundantly +bloody and terrible, were regarded only as preludes to the serious +business of the day, which consisted of duels between Europeans on the one +side, and Africans on the other; wherein it was the well-nigh +intransgressible law of the Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every +pair of combatants should die. Instead of shrinking from these more +desperate brutalities, the almost certainty of their termination seemed +only to make the assembly gaze on them with a more intense curiosity and +delight. Methinks I feel as if it were but of yesterday, when,--sickened +with the protracted terrors of a conflict, that seemed as if it were never +to have an end, although both the combatants were already covered all over +with hideous gashes,--I at last bowed down my head, and clasped my hands +upon my eyes. I had scarcely done so, when Rubellia laid her hand upon my +elbow, whispering, "Look, look, now look," in a voice of low, steady +impatience. I did look, but not to the arena: No; it was upon the +beautiful features of that woman's face that I looked, and truly it seemed +to me as if they presented a spectacle almost as fearful. I saw those rich +lips parted, those dark eyes extended, those smooth cheeks suffused with a +steadfast blush, that lovely bosom swelled and glowing; and I hated +Rubellia, for I knew not before how utterly beauty can be brutalized by +the throbbings of a cruel heart. But I looked round to escape from the +sight of her;--and the hundreds of females that I saw fixed with equal +earnestness on the same horrors, taught me, even at the moment, to think +with more charity of that pitiless gaze of one. + +At that instant all were silent in contemplation of the breathless strife; +insomuch, that a groan, the first that had escaped from either of the +combatants, although low and suppressed, sounded distinctly amidst the +deep hush, and being constrained to turn once more downwards, I beheld +that, at length, one of the two had received the sword of his adversary +quite through his body, and had sunk upon the sand. A beautiful young man +was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, clustered in glossy +ringlets upon his neck and brows; but the sickness of his wound was +already visible on his drooping eye-lids, and his lips were pale, as if +the blood had rushed from them to the untimely outlet. Nevertheless, the +Moorish gladiator who had fought with him had drawn forth again his +weapon, and stood there awaiting in silence the decision, whether at once +to slay the defenceless youth, or to assist in removing him from the +arena, if perchance the blood might be stopped from flowing, and some hope +of recovery even yet extended. There arose, on the instant, a loud voice +of contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man regarded the +multitude with a proud, contemptuous glance, being aware, without +question, that he had executed all things so as to deserve their +compassion, but aware, moreover, that even had that been freely vouchsafed +to him, it was too late. But the cruelty of their faces, it may be, and +the loudness of their cries, were a sorrow to him, and filled his dying +breast with loathing. Whether or not the haughtiness of his countenance +had been observed by them with displeasure, I cannot say; but those who +had cried out to give him a chance of recovery, were speedily silent, and +Csar looking round, and seeing all the thumbs turned downwards, was +constrained to give the sign, and forthwith the young man, receiving again +without a struggle the sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, breathed +forth his life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the place of +guilt. With that a joyous clamour was uplifted by many of those that +looked upon it, and the victorious Moor, being crowned with an ivy +garland, was carried in procession around the arena by certain young men, +who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of the assembly. In the +meantime, those that had the care of such things, dragged away, with a +filthy hook, the corpse of him that had been slain; and then, raking up +the sand over the blood that had fallen from him, prepared the place, with +indifferent countenances, for some other tragedy,--while all around me, the +spectators were seen rising from their places, and saluting each other; +and there was a buzz of talking as universal as the silence had been +during the combat; some speaking of this thrust and that ward, and paying +and receiving money lost and won; some already discoursing of other +matters, as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; while others, again, +appeared to be entirely occupied with the martial music which ever struck +up majestically at such pauses, beating time upon the benches before them, +or joining their voices with the proud notes of the trumpets and clarions. +Rubellia talked gaily with Sextus, inviting him to ridicule me with her, +for the strangeness of behaviour I had displayed. + +The sun, by this, had already mounted high in the heavens, and the glare +became so intolerable, that men could no longer fight on equal terms; +which being perceived, Csar gave command to look after the wild beasts, +and, in the meantime, (for I heard his voice distinctly,) to give warning +to the Flamens that they should have their altar set forth. + + + + + _CHAPTER XI._ + + +Upon this, Trajan, with those immediately about his person, withdrew; but +Rubellia told me he had only gone to the Palatine by the subterraneous +path, for the purpose of taking some refreshment, and that there was no +doubt he would return in time to witness the rest of the spectacle. This +example, however, was followed in some sort by a great part of the +spectators, for some departed altogether from the Amphitheatre, while many +more were seen moving from place to place, crossing from one vomitory to +another, and paying their respects to different parties of friends, who +had occupied places at a distance from them during the combats. In the +meantime, servants of Trajan's household were observed giving directions +in the arena to a great number of persons, who afterwards began to +distribute baskets of dried fish, bread, and other eatables, among such as +chose to accept of them; while viands of a more costly description were +introduced among the wealthy, by slaves and freedmen of their own. Neither +were the bearers of water-jars idle, nor the street hawkers of fruit; +least of all, those whose traffic is in snow,--of whom, I believe, hundreds +were scrambling in all quarters over the benches, whistling shrilly, as is +their method, to announce the article in which they dealt. + +The Lady Rubellia was not one of those who would ever leave her friends +destitute of the means of refreshment on such an occasion as this; and +accordingly two or three of her household were soon with us, bearing jars +of sweet-meats, baskets of fruit, flasks of wine, with other appurtenances +of a luxurious collation. We had scarcely begun to taste of these things, +when our attention was attracted by some one striding, with great +activity, from one row of benches to another behind us, and looking round, +I discovered the rosy countenance of Sabinus, whose anxiety to join us +was, as I immediately suspected, the cause of this exertion. An ordinary +person would have sought some circuitous method of approach, rather than +attempt the sheer descent from one of the stone parapets which rose +immediately in our rear; but the brawny limbs of the Centurion shrunk not +from that adventurous leap, and, in a word, I soon found him seated beside +us, bowing and smiling to Rubellia with his usual mixture of boldness and +suavity. He delayed not from participation in her delicacies; but lifting +a goblet of Falernian, drank down, without stopping, till he could see the +foundation of its interior gold. His fingers also soon became acquainted +with the receptacles of fruit and confectionary; and I was half-inclined +to some suspicion, that he might perhaps have remained in his original +situation, had he not chanced to observe the slaves of Rubellia, as they +came up the vomitory, with their comely-looking, napkin-covered baskets +upon their heads. As it was, his arrival was acceptable, except perhaps to +Rubellia, who I thought looked as if she were not overmuch pleased with +the interruption his mirthful talk occasioned to the conversation on which +she had been endeavouring to fix the attention of young Licinius. + +For that, however, another interruption had been already prepared in +another part of the assembly, from which our Xerophrastes also had taken +cognizance of our position. There was such a crowd, however, immediately +below us, that I know not whether the philosopher would ever have been +able to make his way to the region where we sat, had it not been that we +heard his voice in disputation, and entreated those that opposed his +passage, if possible, to make room for him. The first glimpse we had of +his countenance, shewed us that the squeeze had been giving him serious +inconvenience, for the drops of perspiration stood visible on his bald +front. The persons whom he was addressing, however, seemed to listen with +such unconcern, that it was impossible not to feel somewhat displeased +with them, for treating so disrespectfully one whom his venerable aspect +might have entitled to more courtesy. In vain did he represent to them, +(for we heard his strong voice distinctly every now and then,) that it was +not for the sake of any personal ease or convenience he was desirous of +penetrating into an upper part. In vain did he reiterate "My pupil"--"my +disciple"--"my young scholar, Sextus Licinius"--"the son of Caius +Licinius"--"the son of the great orator Caius Licinius is there." In vain +did he enlarge upon the constancy of attention which philosophers owe to +those who are placed by the hands of parents under their superintendence. +No sooner, however, did Sextus and I begin to shew the interest we took in +his situation, than Sabinus raised himself up on the bench, and called +aloud on those that surrounded the Stoic, with a voice of much sternness +and authority, to let him pass immediately at their peril. + +Many eyes were forthwith turned towards us; and whether it were the +dignity and haughtiness of the Centurion's voice and attitude, or that his +garb alone gave him much weight in the assembly, the resistance was +relaxed, and Xerophrastes enjoyed an opportunity of almost entirely +recovering his usual serenity of aspect before he reached us. The first +thing he did was to accept of a cup which I held out to him, and then with +much courtesy did he thank us all, but most the Centurion, for the part he +had taken in working out his deliverance from the hands, as he expressed +it, of those inhuman and illiterate persons; "while you," he continued, +"brave warrior, have shewn that in your breast, as in that of +Epaminondas--of Alexander--and of your own Julius--the reverence of the +muses, and of divine philosophy, does not disdain to inhabit with the +ardour of active patriotism, and the spirit-stirring delights of Mars." + +"As for that," said Rubellia, with a smile, "all the world knows that +Sabinus is quite a philosopher--he was just beginning a very learned +harangue when we were attracted by your voice in the crowd; and you have +the more reason to thank him, because he was cut very unseasonably short, +in consequence of the distress in which we perceived you." + +"Most noble lady!" replied the Stoic, "you know not how much you have +delighted me; from the first moment, indeed, that my eyes rested upon the +countenance of your heroic friend, I suspected that he had subjected +himself to some other discipline besides that of camps. I saw the traces +of thought, lady--and serious contemplation. The mind can never exercise +its faculties, without conveying some symptoms of those internal +operations to the external surface of the visage. The soul can never +energize habitually, without betraying its activity in the delicacy and +acumen, which the more elegant and susceptible parts of the corporeal +frame acquire during those elaborate and mysterious processes of thought. +I saw, therefore, and suspected. But what thanks are not due to you, for +having so agreeably confirmed me in this happy suspicion! Of a surety, the +noise and tumult of the camp is not so well adapted for the theoretic or +contemplative life, as perfect leisure and retirement; yet, who shall +doubt that the soul of great energy can overcome all such disadvantages? +Who shall think that the spirit of Socrates did not eagerly philosophize +during the campaign he served?--Who shall say that the Stagyrite must have +suspended his acute, although imperfect investigations, even although he +had accompanied his royal pupil across the Hellespont, and attended all +the motions of his victorious army, instead of staying at home to teach +the youth of Greece?--Who, finally," said he, casting his courteous eyes +full on the Prtorian, "shall suspect but that this generous warrior has +been effectually advancing the growth of philosophic science, within his +own mind at least,--if not composing works, in his intervals of leisure, +destined hereafter to benefit and instruct the world, even although he may +have been attending the flight of the Eagle from utmost Britain to the +desert frontiers of the Parthian?"--"Nobody, indeed," replied the sportive +lady--"nobody, indeed, who has enjoyed any opportunity of being acquainted +with the Centurion, can have any doubt on that head.--Sabinus," she +continued, turning towards him, "what treatise are you at present engaged +with? Come, now, speak out, and truly;--are you still busy with your peri +ts Phuses tou oistrou bakchikou,(1) that you were quoting from the other +night?--or are you deep in '_the delight of contemplation_?'--or----"--"Not at +all," quoth the Centurion, interrupting her; "I am only deep in _love_----" +Saying so, he laid his hand in a very tender fashion upon his breast, and +even, as I thought, began to throw a little sentiment into his eyes; but +he had no opportunity of going on with his speech, for Xerophrastes had no +sooner heard him utter the word _love_, than he immediately began to pour +out a new rhapsody. + +"Love!" quoth he; "Ha! love:--in good sooth, a noble subject, and one +concerning which not a few laudable treatises have been composed. Yet, +without question, much remains to be done in this matter; and I should be +most proud if the illustrious Sabinus would vouchsafe to me a perusal of +his speculations. Without question," he continued, "you have commenced +with a proper definition and division of the subject. You have +distinguished betwixt what is properly called _love_, and the other more +or less kindred affections, with which hallucinating writers have too +often committed the error of confounding it. You have described, in the +first place, the difference between it and the _Storg_ or natural +affection which parents have for their offspring--an affection in which not +a few of the irrational tribes appear (if physiologists may be trusted) to +be even superior to the human race."--"Hens, for example," quoth the +Centurion, with a face of infinite gravity.--"Even so--_hens_," continued +the sage; "an apt illustration.--I perceive, indeed, lady," whispered he to +Rubellia, "that you have not deceived me concerning the attainments of +this your noble friend.--Hens--a most acute illustration!--See you now, O +Sextus!" he went on, "it is not the characteristic of true philosophy to +despise those illustrations which are drawn from the affairs of ordinary +life, and the common surfaces of things. No: it is rather her part to shew +forth her own intrinsic excellence and splendour, by raising that which is +in itself low and customary, to unexpected dignity, by her methods of +felicitous application. See you, now, with what unexampled skill this +hero--this philosopher, I should rather say--may I presume to add, this +brother philosopher?--has illustrated the nature of love in this treatise +of his, by introducing the domestic habits of your common household fowl. +Such things should not pass unheeded by the young aspirants to learning, +because these, more than any other circumstances, may furnish them with +encouragement to proceed in their course, by shewing how many of the +materials of philosophy lie every where under the eyes of the most common +traveller of the path of life; and how assuredly it is the fault of the +individual himself, if he neglect the means of spiritual advancement, +which are sure to be afforded in whatever situation may chance to have +been assigned to him." + +"I beg your pardon for interrupting you," said Rubellia; "but Sabinus has +almost finished the grapes while you have been speaking; and I would only +just beg to suggest, that it is the fault of the individual, Xerophrastes, +if he neglects the means of corporeal refreshment, which may yet be +afforded to him by what remains in the basket." + +"Most kind lady," resumed he, "your benevolence is worthy of your +nobility.--But you know not how much the philosophy I have embraced, tends +to lessen the natural desire of man for such things as you allude +to--nevertheless," he continued, "I will not refuse to partake yet farther +of your bounty; for I have been sorely dealt with in the multitude, as +yourselves witnessed." + +So saying, he took hold of the basket, and began to feel in the bottom of +it, but found very little to his purpose; for, to say the truth, the rest +of the party had been almost as eager in their attentions to it as the +Centurion. A few slender bunches, notwithstanding, were still there, one +of which the philosopher thrust into his mouth, and the rest he concealed +beneath one of the folds of his huge mantle, until he should have made an +end of his criticism. Meantime, the natural language of the broad, jovial, +unreflective countenance of our worthy Centurion, seemed considerably at +variance from the notion of his attainments and pursuits, which this merry +lady had been instilling into the pedagogue. Rubellia herself, however, +appeared to enjoy the thing far more keenly than either Sextus or I; +insomuch, that I was afraid Xerophrastes would penetrate through the joke +she was playing off upon him, before he had given himself his full swing +in commendation of the Prtorian. But Sabinus, on his side, was, as it +seemed, of opinion, that he had already heard enough of such +disquisitions; for he had scarcely seen out the last cup of Falernian, ere +he began to give hints that he wished very much to descend into the arena, +for the purpose of observing the animals about to be exhibited, while they +were yet in their cages. Xerophrastes, however, even when he had heard him +signify this desire, appeared still to be resolved on considering him as +one of the philosophic order of mankind; for he at once offered to +accompany him, saying, that the visit was of course intended for the +gratification of some scientific curiosity, and that therefore he should +think himself culpable did he neglect the opportunity. + +"Come, then," quoth the good-natured Sabinus, "by all means prepare +yourself for the descent; but at least allow me to precede you, that there +may be no risk of untimely obstructions."--"Most assuredly, noble +Centurion," replied Xerophrastes, "in this, as in all things, I shall be +proud to be enumerated among your followers. My pupil, also," he added, +"and his friend, will no doubt accompany us, that they may benefit by our +discourse on whatever may be subjected to observation."--"Venerated +friend," said Rubellia, "would you leave the ladies by themselves in the +midst of the Amphitheatre? I hope Sextus Licinius, at least, will consider +our weakness, and remain for our protection." + +She laid her hand on my companion's arm, with a look which was decisive. +Her ancient crony whispered something about the impropriety of leaving +only one of the party to attend upon two females; but I took advantage of +her low tone to pretend ignorance of that hint, and rose with the +Centurion. + +"Go quickly," said Sextus, "for the interval must be well-nigh at an end; +and if those that have gone out begin to rush in again, you may have +difficulty in regaining your places."--"Give fear to the winds," quoth +Sabinus; "am not I with them, that know every lion-feeder in Rome? No +chance of the exhibition recommencing without my having sufficient +warning. It is not for nothing that I have lost and won so many thousand +sesterces in the Amphitheatre. Would to Hercules as much respect were paid +to experience every where else, as in the Arena to your true old Better. +Already, I perceive that half a dozen of those knowing characters down +below, about the entrances to the dens, have detected me. They must fancy +my purse is in a poor state indeed, when I don't seem to think it worth +while to take even a single peep at the cages. Come, worthy brother in +philosophy, and you, my fellow-voyager, let us be alert, lest we arrive +after Plata." + +We obeyed with due alacrity, and, leaving the reluctant Sextus to his +fate, touched presently the margin of the arena. We had no sooner arrived +there, than an old skin-dried limping Numidian, with a bit of lion's hide +fastened round his loins--one who, from his leanness and blackness, had +very much the appearance of having been baked to a cinder, drew to the +Centurion, with many nods and significant grins of recognition. Sabinus, +on his part, seemed noways backward to acknowledge this acquaintance; but, +on the contrary, began to talk volubly with him in a strange sort of +broken dialect, chiefly composed, as I afterwards learned, of Punic +vocables. After this had lasted some minutes, he took Xerophrastes and me +by the hand, and seemed to introduce us to the Numidian, who then desired +us all to come down, and he would conduct us to a place where we should +see something not unworthy of being seen. About to follow these +directions, I felt my gown seized from behind, and looking round, observed +that it was my faithful Briton, who, from the heat and confusion of his +aspect, appeared not to have come thither without a considerable struggle. +Sabinus seeing him, said, "Ah! my old friend Boto, how have you come to +this part of the Amphitheatre? We must not leave you behind us, however: +Of a surety, you have never seen a lion--you shall descend along with your +master; and who knows but we may persuade Xerophrastes that you also are a +brother philosopher?"--"Most noble Centurion," replied the grateful slave, +"I saw you and my master from the very topmost bench, where I have been +sitting for these three hours with Dromo, and I was determined to draw +near to you, if it were possible. To go from this place up to yonder +quarter would perhaps be impossible; but it is never a very difficult +matter to go down in this world; so, saving your reverence, I trundled +myself over the benches, and when heads were in my way, I trundled myself +over them too."--"It is well, good Briton," quoth the Centurion--by this +time we had crossed the arena--"and now prepare to exercise your eyes as +well as you already have exercised your limbs; for know, that very near to +you is the abode of nobler animals than even your lord hath ever +observed." + +With this the African opened one of the iron doors edging the arena, and +having received some money, admitted us to the sight of a long flight of +marble steps, which appeared to descend into the bowels of the earth, far +below the foundation of the Amphitheatre. "Come along, masters," quoth he; +"we had better go down this way, for we shall have a better view of the +animals so, than on the other side. My master, Sabinus, will tell you all, +that old Aspar knows as much about these things as any Numidian in the +place."--"Indeed, since friend Bisbal is gone," quoth the Centurion, "there +is not another of these that is to be compared to you."--"Ah!" replied +Aspar, "Bisbal was a great man; there is not a feeder in Rome that is +worthy to tie the latchet of his sandals, if he were alive."--"Why, as to +that," said the other, "old Bisbal was very seldom worth a pair of sandals +worth the tying, when he was alive; but, come on, we have no great leisure +for talking now, and Aspar shall shew a lion with any Bisbal that ever +wielded whip.--Come on." + +We soon reached a large vaulted place, apparently below the Amphitheatre, +the sides of which were almost entirely covered with iron-gratings,--while +up and down the open space were strolling many strange groupes of men, +connected in different capacities with the bloody spectacles of the arena. +On one hand, we saw some of the gladiators, who had already been +combating, walking to and fro with restless and agitated steps, as if they +had not yet been able to recover themselves from the excitement into which +their combats had thrown them. Even of such as had been victorious, I +observed that not a few partook in all these symptoms of uneasiness; and +the contrast thus exhibited to the haughty mien of calmness they had so +lately been displaying, affected me with a strange sense of the irrational +and inhuman life these unhappy persons were condemned by folly or +necessity to lead. The blood had forsaken the lips and cheeks of others, +and from the fixed stare of their eyes, it appeared that their minds were +entirely withdrawn from every thing passing around them. Their limbs, so +recently nerved to the utmost show of vigour, were now relaxed and +unstrung, and they trod the marble floor with heavy and straggling feet. +But they that appeared to me to be in the most wretched state, were such +as, they told us, expected to be led forth shortly to contend with the +wild beasts, in whose immediate vicinity they were now walking. The +summons to battle with a human opponent calls into action the fierceness +and the pride of man; but he that has to fight with a beast, how should he +not be weighed down with the sense of mortal degradation; how should the +Reason that is in him not fill him, in such a prospect, with dispiriting +and humbling, rather than with strengthening and stimulating thoughts? +Howbeit, the Centurion, although the most good-natured of mankind, being +rendered from custom quite callous to these things, immediately entered +into conversation with some of those unfortunates, in a tone of coolness +and unconcern that shocked me the more, because it did not seem in the +smallest degree to shock them. Among other topics, he enlarged at much +length to one of them upon the best method of evading the attack of a +tiger. + +"Look ye now," said he, "there are some that are always for taking things, +as they call it, in good time,--these will be pointing their swords before +the creature makes his spring; but I have seen what comes of that, and so +has old Aspar here, if he would be honest enough to confess it. The true +way is to watch his eye when he is setting; let him fairly fix upon his +mark, and spring; but at the moment when he is taking his leap, then is +the time for the gladiator to start aside, and have at him with a +side-thrust. Your side-thrust is the only one I would lay an _as_ +upon."--"Yea," quoth the grinning Aspar,--"it was always on your cool steady +side-thrust, the moment he had sprung, that the great Bisbal used to stake +himself. Ha! ha! I was fond of the side-thrust in my day myself; but I got +a scratch once--witness my poor leg, masters,--and since then I am a poor +feeder."--"I was always clear for the side-thrust," quoth Sabinus. "I never +saw it fail but twice, and then, to be sure, the men died; but they could +have had no chance at all with the frontguard; and it is always +something," continued he, clapping one of the poor expecting gladiators on +the back,--"it is always something to have a chance. Be sure you try him +with the side-thrust, if it come to your turn to-day." + +The poor creature--he also was an African--lifted up his head on being so +addressed, and shewed all his white teeth in a melancholy attempt at a +smile; but said not a word in reply, and forthwith became as downcast as +before. But the Centurion took little or no heed of the manner in which +his advice had been received. He contemplated the man's figure for a +moment, as if to form some judgment concerning the measure of his +strength; and after doing the like in regard to some of his companions, +commanded Aspar to shew us where the prime lions of the day were reposing. + +The Numidian seized a long pole that was leaning against one of the +pillars of the vault, and led us to a certain part of the grated wall, +behind which was the den, wherein six monstrous Atlantic lions were kept. +I looked in upon them with wonder, and not without dread, through the iron +net-work of the doors. An imperfect gleam of light descended from above +upon their tawny hides and glaring eyes. They, like the gladiators, seemed +also to be preparing for the combat; but not like them in fear, nor in +cold dewy tremors; for the deprivation of food, which they had been made +to suffer in prospect of the exhibition, had roused all the energies of +their savage natures; insomuch, that a sulky and yearning rage seemed to +spread through every nerve and sinew of their gigantic frames, and to make +them paw their quadrangular prison with long and pliant strides. They +moved, however, as yet in total silence; so that Boto having fixed his +eyes upon them, took courage to approach the grate,--slowly, nevertheless, +and with a face that appeared to lengthen an inch for every inch he +advanced. But when he had almost touched the bars, one of the huge lions +came forward towards him, with something between a growl and a sigh, which +made Boto spring backward with great and surprising agility, and with such +force, that both he and Xerophrastes, who happened unfortunately to have +been standing a little way behind him, were overthrown at all their length +upon the floor. + +The Centurion, and the limping old keeper, burst into laughter; but +Xerophrastes rising, and shaking his garment, said, with some warmth, +"Think not, O Sabinus, that any sudden start of fear has thus ridiculously +stretched me upon the floor; but attribute the mischance only to this rude +offspring of British earth, whose unreclaimed natural feelings are still +shamefully affected by natural causes."--"Castor and Pollux," quoth the +Centurion,--"you take every thing too seriously, my friend."--"I take it not +seriously," replied he, with admirable gravity. "My philosophy forbids me +to do so; it has steeled me against externals."--"Has it so, in faith!" +rejoined the Centurion. "I think some of your equanimity is, in fact, +owing to the trifling circumstance, that you have in reality received no +injury whatever from your tumble. And as to steeling, let me tell you, I +think the iron in the grated door there is much better placed, than in the +bosom of a philosopher; for, in the door, it serves the purpose of +preventing all harm; but if these animals were once out, all the mental +steel of which you boast would not save every bone in your body from being +cracked in the twanging of a bow-string."--"You speak," replied +Xerophrastes, "as if you had embraced the tenets of a sect not worthy of +the lovers of wisdom--You speak as if the artificial contrivances of human +workmen were all in all. An iron cage may confine wild beasts; but can +cages be made for all those misfortunes to which mankind are liable, and +against which the force of the mind is their only means of defence? Can +you cage the Eumenides, when they come to avenge a life spent in ignoble +indolence and degrading luxury?"--"In truth," replied the Centurion with a +smile, "I have never seen the Eumenides except once, and that was in the +theatre of Athens. But Boto, perhaps, has been more fortunate. Did you +ever see the Eumenides, good Boto?" "No, master," replied, stupidly, the +perplexed Boto, "I never was at the theatre." + +"Ye gods!" exclaimed the Stoic, "of a surety this Britain must have been +the last spot rescued from the dominion of Chaos!" + +But while we were yet contemplating those enormous animals, and amused +with the awkward gestures of Boto, the trumpets were blown in the +Amphitheatre, and no sooner did the sound of them penetrate into the +vaults, than it was evident, from the bustle which ensued, that the +Emperor had returned to his place. With all speed, therefore, did we +reascend to the upper air, leaving the gladiators in the act of mustering +in their respective quarters of the gloomy vault; and the feeders not less +busied in preparing their beasts for the expected combat. Had we not been +under the protection of Sabinus, we should have attempted in vain to +regain our places; but he being an acknowledged and current authority, +known in every department of the Amphitheatre, the door-keepers, and other +functionaries, durst refuse him nothing; room was made for us where no +room appeared; and, in a word, we shortly found ourselves once more seated +by the side of Rubellia and Sextus. + + + + + _CHAPTER XII._ + + +The day was by this time considerably advanced; and, in spite of the +awnings spread all over head, the rays of the sun were so powerful, that +the marble benches felt hot to the touch, wherever they were exposed to +them; and altogether there was such a glare and fervour throughout the +place, that my eyes began to be weary of gazing; and very gladly would I +have retired, rather than remain to see out the rest of the exhibition. +Nevertheless, there was no appearance of any one having gone away in +weariness; but, on the contrary, the seats, and even the passages, seemed +to be more crowded than they had been in the anterior part of the morning. + +The arena was vacant, when I looked down upon it; but in a short time, a +single old man, who, as Rubellia told me, had, without doubt, been found +guilty of some atrocious wickedness, was led forth from a small wicket on +the one side, and presently his fetters being struck off, those that +conducted him retired, leaving him alone upon the sand. The eyes of this +malefactor refused at first to look steadfastly on the objects around him, +and it seemed to me that he had probably been long confined in some dark +place, so grievously did the dazzling splendour, reflected from the floor +and walls, appear to bewilder and confound him. Nevertheless, after a +brief space, he seemed in some measure to recover himself, and assumed a +posture of resignation, leaning with one hand against the parapet, as if +he needed support to uphold himself. Pallid and extenuated were the +outlines of the old man's visage, and his hair and beard exhibited not a +little of the squalidness attendant on long confinement; yet there was +something in the attitude, and even in the countenance, which made me +harbour the suspicion that he had not, at some former period, been +altogether unacquainted with the luxuries and refinements of social life. +The beauty, indeed, of the mould in which his form had originally been +cast, might, perhaps, have been the sole cause of these casual +demonstrations of elegance; yet it was impossible not to regard the man +with greater interest, by reason of the contrast suggested between what he +once perhaps had been, and what he now was. + +A feeling of the same sort seemed to pervade many more in the assembly; +and I heard a continual whispering among those around me, as if there was +a general anxiety to learn something of the history of the man. No one, +however, appearing to be able to say any thing concerning this, I kept my +eyes fixed upon himself, awaiting the issue in silence. Judge then, what +was my surprise, when one of the heralds of Trajan, having commanded that +there should be silence in the amphitheatre, said, "Let Tisias of Antioch +come forth, and answer to the things that shall be alleged against him." +To which the old man, that was alone in the arena, immediately made +reply,--"Here am I--my name is Tisias of Antioch."--In vain, however, even +after hearing the well-remembered voice, did I attempt to persuade myself +that the face was such as I had pictured within myself; for, as to seeing +it, I have already told you that utter darkness prevailed in the dungeon +all the time I was there with him. + +Then arose the Prefect of the city, who had his place immediately under +the chair of Csar, and said in a voice, which, although not loud, was +heard distinctly all through the Amphitheatre,--"Tisias of Antioch, being +accused of blasphemy and contempt for the Gods, has been brought hither, +either to refute this charge, by doing homage at the altar of Jupiter Best +and Greatest; or, persisting in his rebellion, to suffer openly the +punishment which the laws have affixed to such perversity. Let him remain +where he is until the Flamens invite all to join in the sacrifice." + +Tisias, hearing these words, stept forth into the middle of the arena, and +folding his arms upon his breast, stood there composedly, without once +lifting up his eyes, either to the place from which the Prefect had +spoken, or to any other region of the Amphitheatre. The situation in which +he stood was such, that I commanded, where I sate, a full and distinct +view of every movement of the old man's countenance, and assuredly my eyes +were in no danger of being directed away from him. For a few moments there +was perfect silence throughout the assembly, until at length the same +herald made proclamation for the doors to be thrown open, that the priests +of Jupiter might have access. There was heard forthwith a noise, as of the +turning of some heavy machinery, and a part of the ground-work of the +arena itself appeared to be giving way, right over against that quarter in +which Tisias had his station. But of this the purpose was soon manifested, +when there arose from underneath into the space thus vacated, a wooden +stage, or platform, covered all over with rich carpetings, whereof the +centre was occupied by a marble altar, set forth already with all the +usual appurtenances of sacrifice, and surmounted on one side by a gigantic +statue of bronze, in which it was easy to recognize the features of the +great Phidian Jupiter. Neither had the altar any sooner made its +appearance there, and the sound of the machinery, by which its great +weight had been lifted, ceased to be heard, than even as the herald had +given command, the main gates of the Amphitheatre were expanded, and +thereby a free passage prepared for the procession of the Flamens. With +that, all those that were present in the Amphitheatre, arose from their +seats and stood up, and a sweet symphony of lutes and clarions ushered in +the sacred band to the place appointed for them. And, first of all, there +marched a train of fifty beautiful boys, and then an equal number of very +young maidens, all, both boys and maidens, arrayed in white tunics, and +having their heads crowned with oaken garlands, and bearing in their hands +fresh branches of the oak tree, which, above all the other trees of the +forest, is, as you have heard and well know, held dear and sacred to +Jupiter. Then these youthful bands were separated, and they arranged +themselves, the boys on the right, and the girls on the left hand of the +altar, some of them standing on the arena itself, and others on either +side, upon the steps of the platform whereon the altar was fixed; and +beautiful, indeed, was their array, and comely and guiltless were their +looks; and much modesty was apparent, both in the downcast eyes and closed +lips, with which some of them stood there to await the issue of their +coming, and in the juvenile admiration wherewith others of them were +regarding the wide and splendid assemblage around them; insomuch, that I +could not but feel within myself a certain dread and fearfulness, when I +saw the feet of so many tender and innocent ones placed there upon the +same hot and guilty sand, which had so often drunk the blood of fierce +beasts and cruel malefactors--alas!--which had drunk the blood of the +innocent also--and which was yet to drink thereof abundantly. + +And after them there came in the priests themselves of Jupiter, arrayed in +the white garments of sacrifice, walking two by two, the oldest and +principal of them coming last. And behind them again, were certain younger +assistants, clothed also in white, who led by a cord of silk inwrought +with threads of silver, a milk-white steer, without spot or blemish, whose +horns were already gilt, and his broad brows crowned with oak leaves and +roses. And last of all entered the Vestal Virgins, none of whom had ever +before been seen by me, and they also walked two by two; and no one could +contemplate without veneration the majesty of their demeanour. With broad +fillets were they bound around the forehead, and deep flowing veils hung +down to their feet, entirely covering their faces and their hands; +nevertheless, their dignity was apparent; and it was not the less +impressive, by reason of the great mystery in which all things about them +appeared to be enveloped. + +Imagine, therefore, to yourselves, how magnificent was the appearance of +all things, when youths and damsels, and priests and vestals, had taken +their places, according to the custom of their sacred observances; and all +that innumerable company of spectators yet standing up in the +amphitheatre, the choral-hymn was begun, in which every voice there was +united, except only that of Tisias the Christian. Now, it was the soft low +voices of the young maidens that sounded, and then these would pause, and +give place to the clearer and more piercing notes of the boys that stood +on the other side of the altar; then again the priestesses of Vesta would +break in from afar with their equable harmony; and anon these in their +turn ceasing, the Flamens of Jupiter would lift up their strong deep +chanting, until, at the appointed signal from him that stood on the +highest step of the altar, with the cup of libation in his hand, the whole +people that were present burst in and joined in the rushing stream of the +burden, "Jupiter,--Jupiter, hear us!--hear us, Father of Gods and men!" +while the wine was poured out, gushing red upon the marble, and the +incense flung on high from fifty censers, rolled its waves of smoke all +over the surface of the arena, and quite up to the gorgeous canopy of that +resounding Amphitheatre. Magnificent, indeed, was the spectacle, and +majestic the music; yet in the midst of it, how could I take away my eyes +from the pale and solitary old man, by reason of whose presence alone all +these things were so? With calm eyes did he regard all the pageantry of +those imperial rites,--with closed lips did he stand amidst all the +shouting multitudes. He bowed not his head; he lifted not up his hand; +neither would he bend his knee, when the victim was slain before the horns +of the altar; neither would he in any thing give semblance of being a +partaker in the worship. + +At length the song ceased, and there was a proclamation again for deep +silence; and the Prefect of the city, addressing himself once more to +Tisias, spoke thus:--"Impious and unhappy man, with great clemency have all +things been conducted as concerning thee. When, after long imprisonment, +and innumerable exhortations in private and in public, thou hadst always +rejected every means of safety, and spurned from thee the pardon of those +in whose hands thy being is placed, yet, notwithstanding of all thine +obstinacy and continual rebellion, was it determined, that, in the face of +all the people, thou shouldst once more have free grace offered to thee, +provided only thou shouldst, when all the assembly worshipped, join thy +voice with them, and bow thy head also toward the altar of Jupiter. +Nevertheless all that now hear me shall bear witness, that, with open and +visible contumacy, thou hast rejected this opportunity also of being +reconciled unto the prince and the empire,--that, when every knee bent, and +every voice was lifted up, thou alone hast stood upright, and thy lips +alone have been closed. If it be so, that, from some inflicted, rather +than voluntary perversion of mind, thou hast never yet been able to +understand the danger in which thou art placed, know now, that there +remains no hope at all for thee, except for a moment; and let the strong +fear of death open thine eyes, that thou mayst see where thou art, and for +what purpose thou hast been brought hither. Thou art a born subject of +Rome, and thy life can only be held by thee, in virtue of obedience to the +laws. These are clearer upon nothing, than the necessity that all men +should acknowledge the deities of Rome; and of good reason, since, if they +be despised, and their authority set at nought, by what means shall an +oath be ratified, or a pledge given; or how may the head, which counsels +and protects, be assured that the members shall not be lifted up against +it? Let silence remain in the assembly, and let Tisias of Antioch make his +election, whether he will give obedience, or suffer the penalty of +transgression." + +Then the Prefect, and all those round about Trajan, sat down, and there +was a deep silence throughout the lower region, where, for the most part, +they of condition were placed; but when the rabble, that sat above, beheld +the stern and resolute countenance with which the old man stood there upon +the arena, it seemed as if they were enraged beyond measure, and there +arose among them a fierce uproar, and a shouting of hatred; and, amidst +groans and hisses, there was a cry from innumerable voices of--"Christian! +Christian!--Blasphemer! Blasphemer!--Atheist! Atheist!--A tiger! A tiger!--Let +loose a tiger upon the Christian!" + +Nevertheless, the old man preserved unmoved the steadfastness of his +demeanour, and lifting up his eyes to the place from whence the tumult +proceeded, regarded the ferocious multitude with a visage, not of anger or +of scornfulness, but rather of pity and calmness; insomuch, that I +perceived the nobles and senators were somewhat ashamed of the outcry, and +the Prefect of the city arose from his place, and beckoned with his hand, +until the people were weary of shouting, and order was, in some measure, +re-established in the Amphitheatre. + +Then Tisias, perceiving that silence once more prevailed, lifted up his +hand, and bowed himself before Trajan, and the great men of authority that +were near to his chair, and said, with a firm clear voice, in the Roman +tongue, "My name, O Trajan, is Tisias--the son of Androboulos. I am a +native of Antioch, in Syria, and have in all things, except only in what +pertains to this cause, observed throughout all the years of my life the +statutes of the empire, as they, by whose accusation I have been led +hither, shall themselves be constrained to bear witness for me this day. +My father was a Greek of Macedonian extraction, being descended from one +of those that came into Syria beneath the banners of the great King +Seleucus; but he took to wife a maiden of the Hebrew nation, and in +process of time became a proselyte to the faith of her fathers. +Nevertheless, he lived in trust and honour beneath the governors appointed +by those that were before you in the empire, and brought up me and all his +children to reverence, in all things that are lawful, the authority of +Csar. But as to the faith of the true God, whose worshippers ye blindly +and foolishly call atheists and blasphemers, from that he neither swerved +himself, nor would permit any of those that were in his household to +depart. Now, when he had been a dweller for some time in Jerusalem, the +great city of the Jews, he began to examine into those things which were +reported publicly concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is also called the +Christ, of which things not a few that had been eye-witnesses were then +living in that city. And when he had been satisfied from their testimony, +that those miracles, of which you have all heard, were in truth performed +in the sight of the people by Jesus, and had listened unto the words of +their teachers, and saw how they proved that the old prophets of the +Hebrews had foretold those wonderful works, he perceived that Jesus of +Nazareth was indeed the Christ of God, and the great Deliverer that had +been promised to that people, even from the beginning of their nation. And +he believed on him with all his household; and I also, from a stripling, +have, although unworthy, been a Christian; for by that name were they +first called in Antioch, the city of my birth. + +"But being brought into trouble by reason of his religion, which the +rulers of the Jews abhorred, my father departed, after a time, from +Jerusalem, and dwelt with my mother in one of the villages of Palestine, +until his death. Not long after which time, the Jews rebelled against +Csar, and the great war began, which terminated in the overthrow of +Jerusalem, and the utter ruin of their nation. Now, when Vespasian first +came with his army into those regions, I, being without employment in the +place where we had our habitation, and having, moreover, taken up a great, +and perhaps a sinful, wrath against the Jews, on account of the sufferings +which my father had undergone among them, and of the evils which, at their +hands, our whole household had sustained, joined myself to one of the +bands of Syrian auxiliaries; and although my mother entreated me, could +not be persuaded to refrain from following the camp of Csar with them. Of +which thing it has often since then repented me, and in which, it may be, +I still hold myself not to have done altogether as was right; for if the +Jews had offended Csar, it was, indeed, a reasonable thing that Csar +should visit them with his vengeance; but, peradventure, it behoved not +any of them that were descended from the fathers of that people, to take +part in the warfare. Nevertheless, being then young, and, as I have said, +irritated by the sense of domestic injuries, I scrupled not to fulfil in +all things the duty of a soldier, and followed the eagles of Vespasian and +his son, even to the day when the lines were drawn around the Holy City; +and it was manifest, that the war could have no end, but in the eternal +overthrow of the power of the Jews. Neither did the length of the siege +weary me, or produce within me any sort of unwillingness; but, on the +contrary, so long as the city was beleaguered, I remained with the band in +which I had numbered myself, and did in all labours such service as my +strength would permit. Even among the soldiers that have guarded my +prison, since I was led into Rome for the sake of that accusation which +has been brought against me in the matter of my belief,--even among them, I +have seen the faces of some that were my comrades in that fierce war, and +that long beleaguerment, who also, if they be commanded, will not refuse +to bear testimony before you, that all these things are true, even as I +have said, and that I was a faithful soldier, both of Vespasian and of +Titus, unto the last. Neither, indeed, did I lay down arms immediately +when Jerusalem had been sacked, and the Temple burnt, according to the +prediction of Christ, but went with Csar along the sea-coast, and was +present with him all through the journeyings he made in Egypt, even to the +day when he made his great festival at Alexandria, and crowned the Ox Apis +with his own hands, in the presence of all that people. On which day it +was, that, for the first time, I also was accused of being a Christian, +and at the command of Titus himself, was interrogated by one of the rulers +of the army. + +"Now with shame and confusion of face must I acknowledge, that on that day +I, from desire of life, forgot myself utterly, and being deserted of all +steadfastness, went up to the altar in presence of my judge, and offered +gifts there, whereon I was declared free of all blame; and even received +honour and commendation thereafter from them, on account of my services in +the war. But, from that day, my spirit sunk within me, and I knew not what +to do; I grew weary of all things, and determined to leave the band in +which I was serving, that I might seek out, if it were possible, the +habitation of my mother, and make atonement in secret for the wickedness +of which I, unhappy and fearful man, had been guilty at Alexandria. Being +absolved, therefore, from my oath of service, on account of the length of +time I had remained with the army, I departed from Egypt, and, after a +time, found out my mother where she was dwelling in the mountainous +country of Palestine, to the north of Jerusalem. In going thither, +however, I was constrained to pass by the place where I had so long lain +in your camp, O Romans! and to look with my own eyes on the sorrowful +desolation of that ancient city, where so many holy prophets of the +Hebrews had ministered, and so many great kings reigned in the days of the +old time, when their nation flourished, and was chosen and favoured of the +Almighty. And it was then, indeed, that I first began to repent me of +having been present in the host of Titus, and of having had a part in that +terrible destruction; to which, when I added the recollection of my own +miserable timorousness at Alexandria, great was my perplexity, and I fled +across the mountains with much speed, seeking in vain to fly from the +stings and unceasing torment of my own meditations, which nevertheless +continued ever more and more to sink into my spirit; insomuch, that when I +came into the place where my mother was dwelling, scarcely could she +recognize me, wasted and worn as I was with that perpetual misery of shame +and repentance. Without reproaches, however, and indeed with great +kindness, did she receive me into her habitation, even although, as I have +said, she had been much offended with me because of my going up to the +beleaguerment of the city of her fathers. But when I, being humbled, made +confession to her and her household, and to all the faithful that were in +that place, of the grievous sin whereof I had been guilty in Egypt, both +she and all the rest of them busied themselves continually to comfort me, +and to assure me that there was yet hope, if my repentance were sincere, +and my resolution immovable never again to yield myself to any similar +temptation. One of them also, that had been set apart to minister in holy +things among the scattered believers that dwelt up and down in that +region, came not many days after to the same place, and having publicly +heard my confession, admitted me once more to be a partaker with them in +the mysteries of the sanctuary. From which day, O Trajan! I have never +again been so far deserted of myself, as to fall back into that miserable +error, or by any cowardly word of mine, to deny the faith that is in me, +which is the faith of the True God that made heaven and earth, and of his +Son Jesus Christ, whom he sent into the world to teach loving-kindness, +and long-suffering, and patience, among all kindreds, and tongues, and +nations of mankind; and to make expiation, by the accursed death of the +cross, for the evil and the wickedness that is in the world. From which +faith, should I now depart, out of terror for that which, by your command, +may befal me in this place, of a surety no comfort could ever again come +to me in my mind, for I should be bowed down, and utterly miserable, out +of grief and shame; which as you yourself, O Csar, will admit and +acknowledge, is far worse than death itself, or any evil which the body of +man can sustain. Neither could I have any hope of being reconciled unto +the True God, whom I should have so, once and again, denied; insomuch, +that neither in life nor in death should I be able to have any +happiness;--for in life, what happiness is there to him that is ashamed of +himself?--and, in departing from life, what comfort can be given to him, +that, knowing the truth, hath openly abjured the truth for the sake of a +few, at the utmost, and these most miserable and unhappy years? I am an +old man, and my near kindred and my friends are already dead, so that poor +after all, and not worthy to be mentioned, is the sacrifice on which I +have this day resolved. And as for you, O Romans, should I now make +shipwreck of my faith, and tell a lie to save my life before you, with +what contempt would yourselves be constrained forthwith to look upon me? +Whosoever is wise among you, according to the philosophy of the earth, +would utterly despise me; and whosoever is brave and steadfast of spirit, +would think foul scorn that a soldier of Titus should be so much afraid to +die. Therefore, O Trajan, am I resolved to endure all things rather than +sacrifice to your gods; and if such be your will, I will not refuse to die +for this cause, to which witness has already been borne in Rome by the +blood of holy Apostles, and other noble martyrs of Christ." + +The old man, having said these words, bowed himself once more reverently +before Trajan, and then folding his arms in his cloak, appeared to await +whatever might be appointed. Steadfastly did I look upon his face at that +moment, to see whether it might exhibit no trace of wavering, or at least, +if pride barred irresolution, whether, nevertheless, there might not +appear some token of natural sorrow, and human unwillingness to die; yet +in vain did I scrutinize and seek for any such symptoms of spiritual +weakness; for although it was visible that, with the exertion of so long +standing and speaking, to say nothing of thought and anxiety, his bodily +strength was much spent, still his eye preserved firmness, and his brow +remained serene; and the parched lips of the old man did not once betray +the least shadow of trembling. Methinks I see him even now, as he then +stood--his deep calm eyes sometimes turned upwards to Trajan, but for the +most part bent to the ground, beneath those gray brows of his, whose dark +shade rested upon his large solemn eyelids. Upon his broad front, as he +stooped, no hair appeared, but long hoary ringlets, clustered down on +either side, mingling with the venerable, although dishevelled beard, that +lay upon his bosom. Heroic meekness was enthroned visibly upon all his +lineaments, and a murmur began to run through the assembly, as if--even in +a Christian--it were not possible to contemplate such things without +admiration. + +But as they afterwards related to me--for I myself was not indeed +sufficiently attentive to it--Trajan, who had as yet, during all the +occurrences of the day, preserved unmoved the majestic serenity of his +countenance, when he observed this last movement in the spirit of the +assembly, began all at once to be very indignant, that such things should +occur in such a place, in consequence of the appearance merely, and the +language, of a culprit and a Christian. I confess it, that I was too much +occupied with gazing on Tisias, to have any leisure for remarking the +particulars of the deportment of any other person present--no, not even of +Csar; yet such had been the effect produced on me by the history which +the old man delivered of himself, that I indeed was not prepared at the +moment to find the strong arm of power directed ruthlessly, and +immediately against him. At least, said I to myself, the Prince will +institute an inquiry among all those now present in the capital, who are +likely to be able either to contradict essentially, or to confirm, the +narrative in which this man has thought fit to embody his only defence. +Many years indeed have elapsed since the walls of Jerusalem were shattered +by the engines of Rome, and the golden gate of its antique temple refused +to be any protection against the furious soldiery of Titus. Yet surely not +a few of such as were present in that proud host, must be still in life; +yea, not a few of them must be now present in the capital of the world. +The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, and beside the +ramparts underneath which this Christian was imprisoned, he surely cannot +be the only witness that remains to give testimony. He at least there is, +and we shall forthwith have him at least confronted with Tisias. + +Such were my thoughts within me; judge, therefore, what was my +astonishment when I heard the trumpet sound, and perceived that its note, +without any word being spoken, was at once received as a sufficient +warning by the priests and the vestals, and the youths and the damsels, +and all those that had in any way been connected with the service of the +altar, to retire from the place whereon they stood, and leave the old man +there alone, to await the issue of his destiny. Immediately on the signal +being given by the trumpet, did all these begin to move away; but although +in silence they had at first marched into the Amphitheatre, they did not +retire from it in silence. Another hymn, on the contrary, in which also, +as it seemed, different parts were allotted for each different order of +singers, was begun to be sung by them even before they had moved from the +arena; and after the last of their procession had disappeared behind the +wide folding-doors of the Amphitheatre, we still heard their voices +chanting solemnly until they had entered the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, which, as I have already said, stands over against it, on the +brink of the Esquiline. And while all were yet listening to their singing, +and to the harmony of lutes and other sweet-sounding instruments that +accompanied their voices, the slaves and other attendants removed every +thing from the arena, except only the altar and statue of Jupiter, which +were still left where they had been placed; insomuch, that ere they had +made an end of singing, and we of listening, the old man was left alone +there as at the beginning, when he first came forth. + +But just when deep silence once more prevailed, and expectation was most +intense concerning what should be at length commanded by Trajan, it fell +out so, that a little bald ape escaped through the bars of one of the +grated doors, which were along the boundary-wall of the arena, and leaping +forth upon the sand, began to skip up and down, challenging, by all manner +of foolish gestures, the attention of those that sate over against it, +leaning down from the parapet. And immediately certain painted courtezans, +that were sitting not far from thence, with gilded breasts and +bright-coloured garlands, and all other gorgeous trappings of the +degradation of harlotry, began to throw down apples and nuts to the +obscene creature, and to testify much delight in the grimaces with which +it received them, hopping to and fro, and casting them away, and then +catching them up again, with continual gibbering and prating; and no +sooner did the rabble that were above perceive these things, than they +all, as with one consent, began to applaud; so that the vaulted vomitories +and wide arches of entrance, and all the marble walls, re-echoed with +every wild sound of carelessness and merriment. While, in the meantime, +the African feeders and naked gladiators, and all those hangers-on of the +Amphitheatre, whom we had seen in the dark places below, hearing now the +sounds that had arisen among the assembly, began to shew themselves in +crowds from behind the same grated doors through one of which the monkey +had escaped, and to partake in the mirth of the spectators, and to whistle +upon the creature, and to excite it to new caperings, by their outcries +and jeerings. It seemed as if the minds of all present were entirely +occupied with the pranks of this brute; and that almost it was forgotten +amidst the tumult, not only for what purpose all that solemn and stately +pageantry had just been exhibited before them; but even that Tisias was +still standing there upon the same arena. + +For myself, who had never before looked upon any creature of this +disgusting tribe, and had gathered only some general notion of its +appearance from the treatises of the physiologists and the narratives of +travellers,--I could not, indeed, refuse to contemplate at first its +motions with some curiosity; but I knew not, after the scene had lasted +for a little space, whether to be more humbled within myself by the +monkey's filthy mimickings of the form and attitudes of mankind, or by the +display of brutish heartlessness, which burst forth from all that +countless multitude, while gazing on that spectacle of humiliation. + +But it was not until my eye fell again on Tisias, who stood all this time +solitary and silent amidst the hub-bub, that my sorrow and indignation +were the greatest. There stood the old man even as before, with his arms +folded in his gown, and his eyes resting on the sand before him, pale, +calm, and unmoved in his meekness, even as if his ears had not once +received any sound of all the shoutings and the joyous laughters of that +unpitying rabble, that had come there to behold him die. Once, indeed--it +was but once--I thought I could perceive that a slight emotion of contempt +wreathed for an instant his thin and bloodless lips; but it seemed as if +that were but the involuntary and momentary passing over him of one proud +thought, which he cast from him immediately, as a thing unworthy of the +resolute mind of his integrity, choosing rather to array himself in the +divine armour of patience, than to oppose, with any weapon of human +passion, the insults heaped upon his head by the cruel callousness of that +degenerate congregation of men. And, whether it were that the sight of all +this did not affect me alone with such reflections, or only that they in +authority were afraid too much of the day might be occupied with what +formed so unseemly an addition to the ordained business of the assembly, +while the uproar of mirth was yet at its height, certain of the lictors +that were about the consular chairs leapt down into the arena, and beat +the monkey back again among the feeders, and other base hirelings, that +stood behind the grated doors of which I have spoken. Whereupon there was +at once an end of the tumult, and the lictors having reascended to their +places, the eyes of all began once more to fix themselves upon the +Christian. + +And he also, when he perceived that it was so, and was sensible of the +silence that once more prevailed, it seemed as if he, too, were aware that +at last his appointed hour had come, and that he must needs prepare +himself in good earnest for the abiding of the issue. For, instead of +continuing steadfast in his place, as he had done during all the time he +had as yet been exposed there, it appeared as if now at length, being +swallowed up in the contemplation of the approaching fate, he had quite +forgotten all the rules he had laid down to himself concerning his +behaviour. Not that he now lost remembrance of the courage which hitherto +he had manifested, or even, that any the least symptom of changeableness +was made visible upon his countenance. But it seemed to me, of a truth, +that of such things as he had determined upon within himself before he +came thither, touching the mere external demeanour of his bodily frame, +the memory now, in this final moment of expectation, had somewhat passed +away; for Tisias stood still no longer on the centre of the arena; but +retaining his arms folded as they had been, and his eyes fixed upon the +sand, he began to pace rapidly to and fro, traversing the open space +whereon he alone now was, from side to side, without once looking up, or +exhibiting any token that he was conscious of the presence of any man. By +and by, nevertheless, in the deeper knittings of his brows, and in the +closer pressure of his extenuated lips, and then again in the quivering of +the nerves and muscles upon the arms and legs of the old man, as he moved +before us, it was testified how keenly the spirit was at work within; the +strong soul wrestling, it may be, with some last stirring temptations of +the flesh, and the mind itself not altogether refusing to betray its +sympathy with the natural shudderings of the body. But the moment that the +herald of Trajan commanded attention in the assembly, and that the Prefect +of the city began again to prepare himself for speaking, that moment did +the old man appear to return at once again entirely to himself; and he +fixed his eyes upon the Prefect with even the same steadfastness as when +he made his oration to Csar. + +"By all the gods," whispered Sabinus at that moment, "this is a true +soldier of Vespasian and Titus. He will die for this superstition with the +constancy of a Roman."--"With all the constancy of a philosopher, say +rather," quoth Xerophrastes, who had overheard his whisper--"yea, with all +the constancy of a philosopher. Of a surety, there must be some lessons of +nobility in this faith of the Jews."--"Now, speak not, but look at the old +man," interrupted Rubellia; "the signal is given for the executioner." + +And I looked, and saw that the Prefect was standing up in his place, +immediately below the chair of Trajan, and immediately he began to speak; +and he said, first looking towards the people,--"Let there be silence, and +let no man stir in this place until this matter be ended." And then +addressing himself, as it seemed, to Tisias,--"With all patience," +proceeded he, "have the words which this man chose to utter in his +defence, been listened to; but it must be manifest to all men, that they +contain no shadow of apology, but rather afford the strongest confirmation +of all that had before been alleged. Instead of departing from his error, +or offering any extenuation of its magnitude, his words have tended only +to shew what was already well known to all that have had any dealings with +the adherents of this blasphemous sect; that their obstinacy is as great +as their atheism is perverse; and that no clemency can, without blame, be +extended to their wilfulness, and to the scorn wherewith they are resolved +to regard all things sacred. Nevertheless, inquiry has been made, and +confirmation has been given, by those who were present in the wars of the +Divine Titus, as to that which this man hath said concerning his own +service throughout the glorious campaign of Palestine, and the siege of +the city of the Jews. For which service, it hath seemed right unto Csar, +Ever-Merciful, that no circumstance of needless shame be added to the +death by which this Christian must now expiate before all them who have +seen his contempt of the sacrifice of Jupiter, and heard his words of +blasphemy against all the gods, the guilt of which, it is manifest to all, +he hath been justly and necessarily accused. Let those, therefore, who had +been commanded to bring forth a tiger, depart now with their beast, and +let this man be beheaded before the Altar of Jupiter; after which, for +this day, the assembly will disperse; for, until the morrow, the spectacle +of the wild animals, which the Prince hath prepared, must be deferred." + +The Prefect made his obeisance again to Csar, and sate down in his place, +and immediately one of the doors of the arena was flung open, and there +entered some slaves, bearing a wooden block upon their shoulders, behind +whom followed also certain ill-favoured blacks, out of the company of +African gladiators, one of whom carried bare in his hand a long and heavy +sword, the surface of which glittered brightly as he moved, as if newly +sharpened and burnished for the occasion. Seeing all which fatal +preparations, Tisias immediately flung aside the long cloak in which +hitherto his arms and all his body had been wrapped; and after regarding +those that had come in for a moment with a steadfast eye, he turned +himself to the place where the Prefect was sitting, as if he had yet one +word to say before he should submit himself to the sword; whereupon the +Prefect said,--"If the prisoner has yet any thing to offer, it is not too +late for mercy--Let him speak." + +"I have nothing more to offer, O Romans!" answered the old man, "as +concerning that of which I have spoken. But since already some favour has +been extended to me by reason of my services in the army of Csar, perhaps +so neither will this be refused, that my body may be given to such as +shall ask for it, that it may be treated without indignity after my soul +is released." + +"It is granted," replied the Prefect.--"Is there any thing more?" + +The old man was silent. + +With that, the block being already fixed upon the sand immediately in +front of the Altar of Jupiter, one of the Africans moved towards Tisias, +as if to conduct him to the place where it behoved him to kneel; but he, +observing what was his intention, forthwith prevented him, and walked of +himself steadily close up to him in whose hand the sword was unsheathed. +Being come thither, he immediately took his station over against the +block, and having for a moment placed his hand upon his eyes, and moved +his lips, as it seemed, in fervent supplication, dropped his one knee on +the ground, and stretched forth his neck towards the block; but suddenly, +after he had done so, he sprung again upon his feet, and began to gaze +with a keen eye all around the assembly, as if he were in search of some +one to whom he had something yet to say. In vain, however, as it appeared, +did he make this endeavour; for after a little space, he shook his head +despairingly, and gave over the steadfastness of his look. Nevertheless, +he lifted up his voice, and, surveying once more the whole face of the +Amphitheatre round about, from side to side, said audibly,--"There is one +here who made last night a promise to me in my dungeon. I cannot see him +where he is; but I conjure him to take good heed, and execute, as he is a +man and a Roman, all those things which he said to me he would do." Now, +when I heard him say so, I well knew within myself that it was for me only +his eye had been searching, and half did I arise from my seat, that he +might see I was there, and observe my resolution to keep the faith I had +plighted voluntarily to him in his prison. But Sabinus, having watched my +earnestness in contemplating Tisias, and comprehending something of that +which was meant, held me firm upon the bench, whispering, "As you regard +me, Valerius, and as you regard your own safety, be still." + +Being thus constrained, I neither rose up, nor made any attempt to attract +the attention of Tisias--for which forbearance, I confess to you, I have +since that day undergone the visitation of not a few bitter thoughts--but +remained steadily in my place, while the old man once more addressed +himself to kneel down upon the block that was before him. Calmly now at +length did he kneel, and with much composure did he place himself. Yet, +before the gladiator was ready to strike, he lifted his head once again, +and gazed upwards for a moment towards heaven, with such a countenance of +faith and hope, that there went through all the assembly a murmur, as it +were, and a stirring breath of admiration. Then bowed he for the last time +his gray hairs, and almost before he had rested his neck upon the tree, +the strong sword of the African smote with merciful fierceness, and the +headless trunk falling backwards upon the sand, the blood spouted forth in +a gushing stream, and sprinkled all over with red drops the base of the +statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the surface of the marble altar, +whereupon the sacrifice of the Flamens had been offered. + +The executioner having made an end of his duty, wiped his sword from the +blood of the Christian, and advancing towards the seats of the +magistrates, claimed the largess that was due to him,--which when he had +received, as is the custom, he and all his attendants withdrew immediately +from the arena; the Emperor, at the same moment, and the Consulars, and +all they that were about him, departing also from the assembly; and the +whole Amphitheatre speedily being filled with the clamours of an universal +upbreaking and dispersion. + + + + + + _BOOK II. CHAPTER I._ + + +I saw, my friends, that you listened with not less of indignation, than of +astonishment, to the account which I yesterday gave you of a day spent in +the Amphitheatre of Vespasian. Neither did I expect that it should be +otherwise with young persons of ingenuous minds, whose feelings have never +been hardened by any experience of the life of Rome. + +And yet, when you reflect a little more upon the matter, I think you will +abate something of the wonder you manifested on hearing of the fondness of +the Roman people for some of those cruel, ruthful spectacles. You will +admit, at least, that there is a certain natural principle, on an +exaggerated and morbid obedience to which, rather than on any total and +absolute departure from the laws of our mind, much of that which excited +so much of your astonishment and indignation also may be supposed to +depend. In and by myself, I maintain it must always be a most interesting +thing for a man to witness, in whatever shape, the last moments of any +human creature. I mean not those merely corporeal struggles, in which +there must always be every thing to revolt, and nothing to interest, +because in them, it is evident, the nobler part of our nature can have no +share--the soul being already swallowed up, and its divinity absorbed in +the intense convulsions of animal suffering. These are things on which no +eyes can gaze willingly, without indicating degradation of spirit. But +before that curtain falls, beyond which every one must shudder to +penetrate, there is a last terrible act of the real tragedy, which must +ever have power to fix the eyes with an earnestness not the less deep, +because of its being preceded by some struggles of reluctance. We live in +a state in which, however we may clothe ourselves in the armour of levity, +or with the more effectual armour of occupation, it is impossible that the +one fearful idea of dissolution should not ever and anon come to scare us +with its terrors. We feel that we are walking over a soil, on the most +level and the most rugged parts of which it is equally possible we may +meet with the dark pit wherein it is our destiny to stumble. How sudden, +or how gradual soever the inevitable fall may be, we well know we shall +have little enough space to prepare ourselves for the last leap, when we +shall be fairly on the declivity; and I maintain, once more, that it is a +rational, no less than a natural, curiosity, which leads us to seek to +supply, in some measure, this necessary defect, and to gather, if +possible, from witnessing the last moments of others, some hints which may +be of use to us when our own dark hour shall come. We see a being standing +on the edge of a precipice, to which the only thing we know certainly, is, +that we ourselves shall one day be brought; and shall it be possible to +feel no curiosity concerning the manner in which he conducts himself on +that giddy brink? That which is denied to us in our own person, may, in +part, be supplied in his; and the eyes which dwell upon his features, +while they are filled with the overwhelming expectation of near +approaching death, make the closest approximation of which our nature +admits to penetrating the actual mysteries of the unseen region. For +myself, both wiser and better did I come away from all that mournful +spectacle. But perhaps I am joining together things which, after all, had +no necessary connection, when I ascribe to my contemplation of the death +of Tisias, and the other cruel sights which, as it seemed, were regarded +with indifference by the great multitudes around me, so much of the change +which, about this period, my own spirit underwent. + +The slumbers which followed that busy day of novelties and terrors, were +long and heavy; for utterly worn out were both mind and body, and youth +hastened to repair the waste of its energies, by drinking deeply at the +great fountain of natural refreshment. Nevertheless, although the hand of +sleep had lain steadily upon me, when I awoke in the already-confirmed +light of morning, I found myself yet filled with a confused and tremulous +sense of excitation, as if the spirit had disdained to be idle after +having received so much food for activity, and Fancy had still been +garnishing the passive sphere of the night with aerial representations of +all the gorgeous and solemn realities of the by-past day. I lay there +ruminating amidst the dispersing shadows of the mysterious world of +dreams, and scarcely as yet aware that a whole night had passed since I +had returned from the Amphitheatre, when I was at length roused to a +sudden and complete recollection of all things by the entrance of Boto. + +"My dear master," said he, making a sort of start after he had come in, "I +was afraid you would be angry with me for not coming to you sooner, but +now I perceive you have been as lazy as the rest of us. Why, surely, you +are not aware what time of day it is! What would my dear old lady over the +water say, if she heard of my young master lying in bed till within three +hours of noon? Oh, what a place is this you have brought me to! Why, when +I awake in the morning, the first thought that comes into my head always +is, What, Boto, and is it really possible that all that wide roaring sea +lies between you and the green banks of quiet Anton? Is it truth, good +truth, and neither dream nor witching, that you, _Boto_, are in _Rome_? +But I sometimes have to jump up, and take a look out of the window before +I am quite convinced; and then, to be sure, I know well enough that I, who +used always to dream about driving cattle to Venta, and perhaps kissing a +Brigian lass by the way, could never dream of so many fine things unless I +were really among them. Good heavens! what a heap of stories I shall have +to tell, when we get safe back to Old Britain!"--"Indeed, Boto," said I, +"you will be quite a travelled man. Be sure you do not give yourself too +many airs on the occasion."--"Travelled man, in faith," replied the clown. +"I should like to know, who it is that will be able to hold up his head +with me, when I am once fairly back again? Oh, how the old smith will be +humbled! He thought himself such a mighty person, because my old master, +your father, had taken him with him as far as Camolodunum, and how he used +to brag of what he had seen there; but now, I trow, Master Pernorix will +be fain to talk quietly about his journeys.--O Rome, Rome! what fine things +shall I have to tell them all about Rome,--and the lions, and the monkeys, +and Csar, and the elephants, and the fighting men, and the Christian, and +all the wonderful sights we saw yesterday. But the worst of it is, that +nobody will ever be able to believe one half of what I shall tell +them.--And when does my dear Master Valerius think we shall be returning to +my old lady, and all the rest of them in Britain?" + +"Of a truth, good Boto," said I, "that is more than I can pretend to give +you any notion of; but I dare say, you shall have both time and +opportunity to pick up a few more marvels still before we go. In the +meantime, you are comfortable, I hope, in your quarters, and Dromo takes +good heed of you."--"Dromo," quoth he, looking as arch as his massive +features would admit of,--"Dromo, indeed!--If I had nobody to trust to but +him, I should be very ill off. Dromo is a great man; the young lord of the +house has him up in his chamber every day to talk with him by himself; and +when he comes down again, or returns from any of the errands he is sent +out upon, there is no bearing with him in the court-yard, where we are all +huddled together. As for the overseer, old Sarcalus, the freed-man, he has +quite given him up. Nobody dare speak about whipping him; he looks upon +himself as almost as important a person as his master, I believe, if the +truth were known; and yet I should not complain, for, after all, it was +Dromo that carried me yesterday to the Amphitheatre."--"Ay, that was very +kind of Dromo--I should have thought of it myself. And did he not see that +you got your supper snugly, when you came back?"--"Ah! now, master, don't +make them whip me--I see they have told you all."--"All!" said I--"I do +assure you they have told me nothing about you; but come, speak out. It +must be something very bad that would make me think of having you whipt. +You have only been three days in Rome--I shall make allowance for a few +vagaries, provided they be not very extravagant."--"Well, then, Master +Caius," quoth he, "since they have told you nothing beforehand, and you +seem inclined to be so good-natured with me, I shall e'en tell you all +myself, and I hope you won't think me, after all, very much to +blame."--"Speak out, my honest Boto, and remember there is Dromo also to be +examined, in case you keep any thing back from me."--"Ah! master, but Dromo +would not be so easily caught as poor Boto. Dromo is a cunning man, and a +close; and besides, they say he was born in a city they call Crete, and +the people of that place can't speak a word of truth, even although they +were willing. Do not think any thing at all about Dromo; but trust +entirely to your own poor Boto, and he will tell you every thing. Dromo is +a sad dog." + +I know not what more he might have proceeded to say concerning Dromo, had +not that crafty Cretan, who, without question, had been listening all the +while behind the door, just at that moment glided in on very delicate +tiptoe, and coming close up behind the British slave, as he stood in the +act of haranguing me, smote him a smart fillip upon the cheek with the +back of his fingers, mimicking, at the same time, the outlandish accent of +the man, and repeating after him into his tinkling ears, the words, _Dromo +is a sad dog--Dromo is a cunning man, and a close--Dromo would not be so +easily caught as poor Boto_.--"Ha, ha! Master Valerius," then said he to +me, "and so you would really take the trouble to ask questions of this +worthy man, when you had it in your power to send for me? I thought it had +not been for nothing that three persons I could name entered upon a +certain alliance--but 'tis all one to the Cretan.--Both Sextus, and you, may +manage your own affairs for yourselves, if such be your pleasure." + +I knew not on this whether to be more amazed with the impudence of the +Cretan, or the confusion of poor Boto, who stood rubbing his cheek with a +strangely mingled aspect of sheepishness and sulkiness; but Dromo soon put +an end to the affair, by turning round with a face of admirably feigned +astonishment to my Briton, and saying, "Good heavens! Boto, are you still +there? Do you not perceive that your master and I have something to say to +each other in private? Begone, my good man--shall I never be able to render +you susceptible of the smallest polish?" + +These last words being accompanied with a gentle push on the back, soon +expelled poor Boto, who, nevertheless, did not depart without casting +towards me a look of woful appeal over his shoulder. But I perceiving +plainly, in the midst of all his frolicsome behaviour, that Dromo had +really something to say to me; and suspecting, of course, that the +interest of Sextus might be concerned in what he had to say, suffered my +slave to withdraw in good earnest. Dromo, after the door was shut, laid +his finger upon his lip, and stood still for a moment in an attitude of +close attention; but the heavy heels of the reluctant Briton were heard +with great distinctness, lumbering along the marble floor of the gallery; +so, being satisfied that there was no eavesdropping in the case, the +varlet seated himself forthwith in a posture of great familiarity on the +nether end of my couch, and, to judge from the expression of his +countenance, seemed evidently to be preparing himself for a disclosure of +some importance. At length, after not a few winks of much intelligence, it +was thus he began:--"You may hear Boto's story, sir, at any time you +please, and I dare say it will amuse you; but, in the meantime, I must +really have you attend to me, for, without jesting, things are by no means +in so fair a train as I had thought for my young master; and if something +effectual be not speedily discovered, I am really at a loss to think how +we shall be able to get out of our difficulties, in such a manner as may +be either satisfactory to him, or creditable to my management. But you had +better get up and dress yourself, and while you are doing so, I will tell +you every thing." + +I did as he bade me, and then the Cretan proceeded:--"As I was coming out +of the Amphitheatre yesterday, I happened to find myself rubbing shoulders +with a certain old fat Calabrian, whom I had seen before about Rubellia's +house in the Suburra, and thinking that no harm could possibly come of +being civil to him, I began immediately to ask his opinion of the +spectacles. I wish you had been there to see how much he was delighted +with the attention I paid him, and how he plumed himself on being admitted +to talk on such subjects with such a person as me; for the man himself is +but an ignorant fellow, and seems never to have kept company but with the +grooms and hinds. From less to more, we began to be the greatest friends +in the world; and by the time we got to the Arch, it was evident that we +could not possibly part, without having a cup together to cement the +acquaintance. Well, we were just about to dive into one of the +wine-cellars there, below the gate-way, when I saw your friend Boto +standing by himself in the middle of the street, apparently quite a-gaze +and bewildered, and not able to form the smallest guess which way he ought +to take in order to reach home; and being a good-natured fellow, in spite +of all that has been said, I immediately shouted out his name till he was +compelled to hear me, and then beckoned to him to come along with us, +which indeed he did without much coaxing." + +"Well, Dromo," said I, "and so all your great news is, that you have been +leading my Briton into one of your debauches? In truth, I think you need +not have made such an affectation of mystery withal."--"Stop now," quoth +he, cutting me short; "if the slave be too slow, I am sure the master's +quickness will make up for it.--Hear me out before you begin commenting; +such interruptions would bring the Stagyrite himself to a stand. We were +soon, all three of us, seated in one of those snug little places, which if +you have not yet seen, you are ignorant of the most comfortable sight +within all the four walls of Rome,--a quiet cleanly little place,--three +good hassocks upon the floor, a handful of sausages, a plate of dried fish +as broad as the shield of Ajax, and a good old fashioned round-bellied +jolly jug of Surrentine in the midst of us. I dare say, there were a +hundred besides employed in the same way in the house; but we shut the +door, and were as private as behind the altar of Vesta."--"A tempting +scene, Dromo; and what use did you make of your privacy?"--"All in good +time, Master Valerius; you would have the apple before the egg. We had +scarcely emptied our first jug, ere the conversation between the Calabrian +and me took a turn that was not quite unnatural; for slaves, however +little you may trust them, will always be smelling out something of the +truth; and you may be sure, all this visiting, and feasting, and riding +about in chariots, and sitting together at the Amphitheatre, has not been +going on, without causing a good deal of talk both in this house and the +rich widow's. The courtship was of course the subject of our conversation, +and I, pretending to know nothing of it myself, except from the common +report of the slaves about our house, affected to consider it as highly +probable, that the fat Calabrian might have had much better opportunities +than mine of being informed how the affair really stood." + +"And did he really seem to have any knowledge about it?" said I.--"Not +much--not much; but still the man did tell me something that I think may +turn out to be well worth the knowing. 'I am sure,' said I, (by this time +Boto was fast asleep,)--'I am sure, if Rubellia won't have my young master, +it won't be for want of presents; for we all know he has already given her +a whole casket of rings and bracelets that belonged to his mother, and he +is sitting for his picture, which, they say, he is to give her +besides.'--'And _I_ am sure,' quoth the Calabrian in return, 'that if your +young master don't have my lady, it won't be for want of presents neither; +for she is the most generous open-handed lady in the world, and that her +worst enemies will allow, although her father be an old rogue, and an +usurer, as all the town says he is. No, Dromo,' continued he, 'nor will it +be for want of philtres, nor of charms, nor of any thing that soothsaying +can procure; for, between ourselves, my lady keeps up a constant traffic +of late with all that sort of gentry; and what the issue of it all may be, +Hecate only knows.' Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him speak of +philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken up my ears more +keenly than ever." + +"Dromo!" said I; "you are not serious. You do not mean surely to make me +think that you believe in the efficacy of love-potions, or any such +quackeries?" "Quackeries! do you call philtres quackeries? Why, there was +a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept me raving for six +months."--"What sort of a looking girl was she, good Dromo?"--"Bah!" quoth +he; "don't expect to jeer me out of memory as well as judgment. Heavens +and earth! when did any body ever hear of any body denying the efficacy of +philtres? What an atheistical sort of barbarians those Britons must be. I +wonder you are not afraid of some evil coming upon you. Remember Dian's +handful; remember the fate of Acton!"--"Good Dromo," said I, "I suppose +you also suffered from peeping. But talk seriously; are you yourself a +dealer in philtres, that you are so anxious I should believe in their +power? Or what is your meaning?" + +"My meaning is this," quoth he, with great vehemence,--"it is, that if +Rubellia gives Sextus such another philtre as a certain cunning damsel +gave me, before I left pleasant Crete, to be a drudge and a packhorse here +in Rome, where a man may sweat all his life in another's service without +being once thanked for his pains, and perhaps be laid out, look ye, for a +supper to the vultures at last, because no body will treat his carcase to +a blaze of old sticks,--I say, that if the Lady Rubellia contrives to give +Sextus such another philtre as that, the game's up, Master Valerius; and +we may as well set about painting the dead, as try to save him from her +clutches. The man's gone--he's as lost as Troy."--"Well, Dromo," said I, for +I perceived there was no use in fighting it with him, "and have you not +been able to hit upon any feasible scheme?"--"Ay, have you come to that at +last? that is just what I have been cudgelling my brains about for the +last twelve hours. But if I do hit upon any thing, I shall need +assistance. In such cases, the best judgment can do nothing by +itself."--"Fear not, Dromo," quoth I; "if my assistance can do you any +good, you well know you can command it to the utmost."--"Then prepare," +replied the Cretan, rising up with an air of much solemnity--"then prepare +in good earnest; for, may Cerberus growl upon me, if I don't find out some +scheme before another day goes over, and shew you all what stuff I am made +of. To think of entrapping Sextus without consulting Dromo!--No, by Cretan +Jove, she shall not accomplish it--no, not even with a sea of philtres." + +"And, in the meantime," said I, "what must Sextus do with himself?"--"He +must not go near the Suburra; he must remain closely at home; and as for +tasting any thing at her house, or any thing that comes from her--by +heavens, if he does not take his oath against that--we may as well leave +him to his destiny. If he will but take good care for this one day, I +think there is every chance something may be hit upon ere the morning. I +have got my cue, and shall not be idle, I promise you; but I undertake +nothing, unless you swear to keep Sextus safe, and at a distance from her, +till night-fall."--"Good Dromo," said I, "make yourself easy on that score; +it will be a new circumstance indeed, if we find any difficulty in +persuading Sextus to stay a single day away from the Suburra." + +"Persuading!" quoth the slave; "who ever heard of such a word as +persuasion at such a crisis as this? I tell you he _must_ be kept away; +and if no other plan can be fallen on, I have a great mind to turn the key +on him and his pedagogue both together. I heard them hammering at their +lessons already as I came along--and that puts me in mind that I have a +very shrewd notion there is more between that bearded goat of ours and +this Rubellia, than any of us had been suspecting. Unless that Calabrian +lies--and I think lying is above his sphere--this old rogue has been oftener +in the Suburra of late than we had any thought of. So help me Hermes! I +believe Licinius has been employing him to go his private messages to +Rubellia--but that is only one insult more, and I shall have my revenge all +in a lump." + +"I think it very likely," answered I, quietly, "that Licinius may have +been employing Xerophrastes in some such embassies; and, if I mistake not +the matter, he would feel himself quite as much in his element, trotting +along the Sacred Way, and so forth, on such delicate errands for the +father, as in expounding musty parchments to the son."--"No matter for all +that," quoth Dromo, rubbing his hands; "the more enemies the more glory. +Would Miltiades have been pleased had the Spartans arrived?--Leave all to +me--take you care only of Sextus, and I am not afraid for any reinforcement +that rascally rhetorician may bring against me."--While he was saying so, +the face of the Cretan exhibited symptoms of incipient glee; and he +concluded with snapping his fingers, and uttering a short keen whistle, +such as you have heard from the lips of a hunter, when the dogs begin to +bay around a thicket. + +Seeing his eyes dance with the expectation of some bustling scene, I could +not help participating, in some measure, in the feelings of the Cretan; +and, "Dear Dromo," said I, "I beseech you, if it be possible, let me have +a share in whatever you resolve upon."--"Watch well," replied he, "during +the day, and you shall see what you shall see, when the moon mounts above +the Coelian, and the hour for grubbing among herbs and bones is come.--But +now I hear some one coming--it is Licinius."--Dromo, finger on lip, glided +from the room. Nor had his well-practised ears deceived him, for he +scarcely vanished, before my kinsman entered. + +"Valerius," said he, saluting me affectionately, "I thought you were +probably much fatigued with your spectacles, so I desired that nobody +should call you this morning; but I met Boto in the hall, and hearing that +you were astir, I have come up, for I wish a little private conversation. +Shall we walk in the eastern portico, till Xerophrastes leaves Sextus at +liberty?" + +He led the way along the gallery, and in passing, we also heard the deep +voice of the rhetorician resounding among the pillars, and could even +catch a few of the magniloquent phrases with which he was feeding the ears +of his pupil. "Ay, ay," says Licinius, "I wish, indeed, it were possible +to inspire the youth with some sense of what is due to the dignity of +principle, and how absurd it is to think of gratifying whims at the +expense of duty. But I fear the boy is incorrigible; and, Caius, I am +sorry to say, I suspect you have been looking on his errors with a +countenance rather of favour and of confirmation, than, as I should have +expected, of rebuke." + +"Licinius," said I, "you know not how much you distress me. I could rather +die than encourage Sextus in any thing I thought evil; but, indeed, I have +seen nothing to make me imagine him capable of such conduct." + +"Come, by Hercules," returned he, "there is no occasion for so many words. +I thought it very odd that you went away so soon from the Forum the other +day, considering that you had never been there before; but I thought it +doubly and trebly remarkable that Sextus should have accompanied you, when +the case in hand affected the affairs of Rubellia. But I have since found +out that it was not the society of old Capito which attracted him--no, my +friend, nor yet the alarm of a thunder storm that detained you at the +villa. In a word, Valerius, I strongly suspect that Sextus is carrying on +an intrigue with a young lady whom I never saw, but who, I am quite sure, +will never be mistress of a dozen lizards, and that this is the true cause +of his reluctance concerning a match, which, to say nothing of the +pleasure it would give to me, is the only means by which I can see any +prospect of the young man's fortune being made, and the dignity of his +family kept up, after another effigy shall have been added to our hall. +Infatuated and headstrong boy! if he owes nothing to himself or to me, is +it possible that he can look upon that venerable line of sages and heroes, +without feeling shame in the degradation of his own earth-stooping +desires?" + +"Without question," said I, "you allude to the Lady Rubellia, whom, as I +have heard from various quarters, you are desirous of seeing wedded to +Sextus." + +"Yes, Caius Valerius, it is indeed to her I allude; and it is of the +obstacle which--unwittingly, I doubt not--you yourself have been throwing in +the way of that union, that I have now to make my complaint. Not such the +service that I had expected from my kinsman. Rubellia is descended from a +noble family, and, both in possession and expectation, her wealth is +great. Two heavy fines laid upon me by Domitian, and the expense at which +I have maintained my rank among the great patrons of Rome--these things +together have impoverished me, and to an extent not altogether convenient. +In this boy my hopes were placed; and see now how they are all likely to +be blasted for a dimpled cheek and a pair of wanton eyes!--or rather, +indeed, I should say, for the sake of the malignant pleasure that is +derived from thwarting my purposes; for, if beauty were what the boy +wanted, where should he find beauty beyond Rubellia? Perhaps, Caius, I +should, before this time, have made you acquainted with my intentions from +my own lips. But it is my own foolish indulgence which has made my +degenerate boy quite forget, not only what is the duty of a son, but what +is the power of a father." + +"I trust," said I, "there is no need for all this seriousness. Sextus has +only laid aside the garb of a stripling; it is too much to be despairing +of his success in life, only because he is unwilling, at a period so +early, to enter upon a permanent connection. Is it possible, that, if he +really dislike Rubellia, you would wish to see him marry her--only to +divorce her, without question, as soon as he should find it possible to do +so without inconvenience?"--"Handsome, rich, noble, and almost as young as +himself, why, in the name of all the gods, for what cause should he +divorce Rubellia?"--"Sir," said I, "he loves not Rubellia, nor will ever +love her; and if you cause your son to marry this woman, look you well to +it, that the unhappiness of both rest not on your head. Handsome, rich, +noble, and young she may be; but I am sure, she has neither such a heart, +nor such a mind, as should belong to the wife of your Sextus. A luxurious +woman is Rubellia, and I have seen her find luxury in the contemplation of +blood. Wed not Rubellia to your son."--"Peace, Valerius," he answered; +"what boyish nonsense is this?--I _will_ wed Rubellia to my son; and let +him see to it, that he tempts me not farther with his disobedience." + +Licinius said these last words in a voice of so much earnestness, that I +knew not well what answer to make to him; but while I was hesitating, one +of the little boys about the house, (I mean the children of the domestic +slaves,) said, "If it please my lord, the same senator that was here in +the morning is waiting in the hall."--"Pontius Mamurra!" said the orator, +leaving me. + +I, for my part, when I heard the name of the visiter, began to understand +somewhat of the channel through which my kinsman had been informed about +what had passed at the Suburban. I had no leisure, however, to reflect +long upon this hint; for I found Sextus waiting for me. "Come," he said, +"I was afraid I must set off without you. My father has been looking on me +this morning with such an aspect of displeasure as I rarely before +witnessed in him, and if I defer going to the painter about this likeness, +he will be altogether enraged at supper-time. I know very well he means +the ring, in which it is to be placed, for another present to Rubellia; +but notwithstanding, what can I do? Any opposition to him in lesser +matters would only tend to bring on some final explanation about the great +affair itself, and that, whether it be weakness in me or not, I as yet +have no courage to encounter. The man must be expecting me; and I am sure +you will accompany me, for I have much need of you to keep up my heart. +Xerophrastes, indeed, has been desired to go with me; but he will be no +comfort, for I see plainly, from the drift of his harangues, that he is +enlisted against me. Dear Caius, I have nobody in the whole world I can +trust to but Dromo and yourself." + +He had scarcely said so, when we heard Xerophrastes pacing up and down +with solemn strides in the gallery; so I knew not how to excuse myself, +although I was very anxious to have staid at home for another purpose. +Sextus had taken my gown from the nail; he threw it over my shoulders +before I had time to say any thing, and we were soon on our way to his +ungrateful destination. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +We had to traverse a considerable part of the city; for this painter was +one of those who exercise their art during the public hours of the day in +the baths of the Palatine, where, as you have heard, in the wide circuit +of the princely residence, abundant accommodation is set forth for all +such ingenious persons. We proceeded along the edge of the river, and by +the west of the Capitol, following the line of that great Triumphal Way +which has been witness of so many glorious pageants; for so, they told me, +we should most easily ascend into the Csarian courts. But when we had +come thither, we found the whole open space, in front of the portico and +stairs of Trajan, occupied by a detachment of the Prtorian cohorts, drawn +up in splendid array to receive some promised donative; while the music, +and the clamours of their mustering, had collected enough of spectators to +render the passage onwards in some measure difficult. We were constrained +to form part of their attendance, and stood gazing among the multitude. +Even Xerophrastes caught some animation from the brilliancy of the +spectacle; and the enamoured and perplexed Sextus himself, beating time on +my shoulder, seemed to have forgotten, for a moment, the anxieties of his +situation. + +Some horsemen, however, riding along to keep the ground open in front of +the soldiery, compelled us to shift to the eastward, where many chariots +were drawn up--and in one of these Rubellia. The lady looked paler than I +had before seen her, and had not the air of being in the smallest degree +occupied with what was passing. I did not think it necessary to take any +notice of her being there to my companions, and was willing, indeed, to +keep myself turned away from the place where she sat, in order to avoid +our being recognized. Yet there was something in her aspect and attitude, +that, as by a sort of fascination, drew my eyes to the spot I wished to +avoid. From time to time, therefore, I felt myself constrained to regard +the melancholy lady; and by and by, Sextus perceived what it was that +attracted my attention:--so I discovered, although he said not a word, from +a fervent pressure upon my arm as I stood before him. At that moment there +drew near a little ugly old woman, with no covering upon her head but long +coarse gray clusters of hair hanging matted and twisted down upon her +shoulders, who lifted up a basket of trinkets, and presented it; but +Rubellia started on her seat, and, looking in the face of the old +creature, manifested signs of no trivial emotion; for her colour returned +with a sudden flush, and her eyes recovered all their animation, and it +was evident she had something to say which could not regard the gaudy +ornaments offered to her view. Whatever it was, however, she did not +occupy much time in saying it; for scarcely a minute elapsed before the +basket was lowered again, and the old woman began to move towards another +part of the crowd; on which Rubellia sunk back in her chariot, and +appeared to relapse into pensive abstraction. + +Presently a low voice croaking out, "Rings, rings--amulets and rings!" +amongst the crowd that stood immediately behind me; and I perceived the +same woman pushing her basket between Xerophrastes and Sextus.--"Noble +youth," quoth the hag, leering, "lovely young gentleman--sweet Adonis, my +charming lord, do now look into old Pona's basket--do take a look at +Ponula's rings and amulets--her amulets and rings. Here is one that I could +have sold a hundred times, but I was determined to keep it till I should +see the prettiest young gentleman in Rome, and I will never go back to +Naples without selling it, after this day; for this little amulet must be +nobody's but yours. You will break my heart, my prince, if you buy not my +beautiful amulet." + +"And what," said Sextus, blushing and laughing, "may be the virtues of +your amulet?" + +Then laying her yellow hand upon his shoulder, till she had made him stoop +down so that she might get close to his ear, she began to pour out, with +much mysterious volubility, all the story of its marvellous potencies; but +what she said even I could not know, only I heard the words, "thiopian, +thiopian," and "Memnon, Memnon," and something about "not a pretty lady +in Rome." But just as the woman was most earnest in her whisper, and +Sextus, apparently at least, in listening, I found my gown plucked from +behind, and behold, there was Dromo, with a countenance tremulously +agitated, and white as a piece of dead parchment, pointing to his young +master and the old hag, and beseeching me to separate them, by motions in +nowise to be mistaken. How he had come thither, or what was the cause of +this anxiety, I had no time to conjecture, for before I could say a word, +he began to bellow out,--"The horses, the horses--make room for the horses;" +and immediately those that stood near him began to move a little, and +then, the cry being repeated, those that stood farther off mistaking the +noise of their feet for the approach of some new squadron, there arose a +sort of rushing among the crowd; and, in a twinkling, the voice of Pona +was heard grumbling and croaking at a distance from the place to which our +party were borne. Close, nevertheless, did the faithful Cretan stick to +us; and no sooner was quiet in some measure restored, and the false alarm +he had created at an end, than he whispered into my ear, "For the sake of +all that is sacred, let not that foul hag speak another word to my young +master--I will tell you more anon. Meantime, haste ye, haste ye. Make the +best of your speed to the Palatine; it will be much easier for you to push +your way thither, than it was for me to reach you." + +My friend being already weary of the heat and the pressure, we were ready +to take advantage of an opening pointed out by the Cretan. It so happened, +however, that in the same commotion the chariot of Rubellia also had +changed its situation; for just as we had escaped, as I thought, and were +about to place our feet on the magnificent flight of stairs that leads +from the New Way to the Augustan Towers, there came to us a lad of that +lady's household, who told us she was near at hand, and desirous, if it so +pleased us, of our company. Aware that we were in sight, how could we +disobey? We found the lady in her chariot, but not such as we had seen her +before. On the contrary, the liveliness of her aspect seemed now to be +restored, and she received us with her usual gaiety of address. "Careless +men," said she, as we drew near; "I suppose I might have sat here till the +Greek Kalends, before any one of you would have observed me." + +"Most noble lady," quoth Xerophrastes, "bear it not indignantly, that +amidst all the confusion of men and horses, and trumpets and shoutings, +our attention was abstracted from that which was most worthy of notice. My +young friends deserve to be excused, since even I, who am not in the habit +of being much troubled by such vanities, was so bewildered that I scarcely +knew my right hand from my left, in this human chaos.--Pardon, noble +Rubellia; we have been unwitting offenders." + +"And was it so?" said the lady, not looking at the Stoic.--"But I did not +call for you to hear useless apologies. What new sight is it that attracts +you to the Palatine?--or is it only that you are desirous of exhibiting to +Valerius the old-established wonders of the place? In either case, I have +half a mind to accompany you. In spite of all they tell us about the +Golden House, I can scarcely think the Palatine shewed more splendidly +than it does now, even in the days of Nero." + +"Indeed," said I, as we began to mount together the broad slabbed steps +which rise up, tier above tier, from the portico on the street, to that +which hangs on the brow--"Indeed, it is not easy for me to doubt that +Rubellia is in the right."--For now, on one side, were all the pillars and +arches of the Forum stretched out below us, and, on the other, lay the +great Circus, topped with its obelisk; while before rose the gray cliffs +of the Capitoline, with their domes and proud pinnacles in the glow of +noontide--the space between, radiant with arms and banners. Even +Xerophrastes did not refrain from some ejaculations.--"Illustrious Rome! +how great is thy sublimity!" And then, after a pause, he repeated, in a +voice of much majesty, those verses from the Fury of Ajax: + + "Oh! might I be where o'er the living deep + Lies the broad shadow of the Sounian cliff, + Waving with all its glorious garniture, + Of rock-sprung foliage: from old Ocean's side, + That I might look on Athens once again!" + +Some of the hints which had reached me concerning his nativity recurring +to my recollection, I could not help echoing his quotation with another +from the neid, about the wide tracts ploughed by the Thracians; of which +impertinence the sage took no notice. + +Nor was admiration diminished when, having gained the top of that massive +staircase, or rather, as I should say, hill of marble, we passed beneath +the sounding portal, the sole remnant of the original pile of Augustus, +and found ourselves within the first of those great imperial quadrangles, +by which the whole summit of that once so variously and multitudinously +peopled region is now occupied. The light and airy porticoes--the domes--the +princely towers--the universal profusion of marble, brass, ivory, flaming +gold, lavished on arch, metope, and architrave--all conspired to dazzle the +sight, and I stood still to gaze. + +"Observe," said Sextus, "those two equestrian statues of bronze on the +left hand. I have heard my father say that they mark the sites of two +houses, which, before Augustus began to enclose the whole Palatine in his +walls, were inhabited, the one by Cicero, the other by Clodius; these are +the only traces of their mansions." + +"What grim-looking figures!" said the lady; "yet, I dare say, they don't +cast half such fierce looks on each other, as the predecessors you +mention. I should like to have seen the countenance of old Tully, the +morning he went down the hill to deliver his harangue for Milo." + +"I am glad," said I, "that Sextus has told me this; for in reading those +famous philippics in time to come, I shall possess a new key to the +bitterness of their phraseology, knowing, as I do, that the two lived just +over the way from each other, and that the orator, when his spirits were +flagging, could derive a new reinforcement of spleen from merely putting +his head out of the window."--"To hear you," says Rubellia, "one would +think you were studying the art of making philippics--I am afraid, that if +it be so, my joining your party may prove to have been but an ill-judged +thing; for if any of you be preparing to abuse me, my presence will serve +to sharpen your weapons."--"In that case, however," interrupted the smiling +Xerophrastes, "my noble lady will admit, that the converse also will hold +good, and that if praise be in meditation, it will not be the feebler +because the subject of the intended panegyric has passed before our +eyes."--"Most courteous of men," replied the lady, "who talks of the +stiffness of the Porch? To-day and yesterday you have paid me as many +compliments as might give a lesson to the gayest trifler about these +baths. If all," she continued, (gazing as she spoke, with all her eyes +upon Sextus,)--"if all were as profuse, I should be unable to sustain the +weight of their civilities."--"Nay, Oh! generous lady," quoth the sage +again, "it must be remembered, that, as the poet has expressed it, there +are two kinds of shame--there is the wicked shame and the good shame. Why +should it be doubted, that a modest Verecundity, not unsuitable to their +age, has laid her finger on the lips of our young friends? I swear by the +Victrix of Ida, that your presence itself is that which occasions their +silence;--bear it not ill--bear it not harshly--the young will learn--not +every one has seen Corinth."--"No, truly," answered the laughing lady; "but +I doubt whether they that have been so fortunate, have ever seen any thing +half so fine as what now awaits Valerius." + +She pointed to the solemn Doric columns which sustain the portico of the +famous Temple of Apollo, whose shade lay far out upon the court before us; +and, passing between those brazen horsemen, we soon began to ascend the +steps that lead up to the shrine. Nor can I tell you how delightful was +the fragrant coolness, which reigned beneath the influence of that massive +canopy of marble, to us whose eyes had been so long supporting the +meridian blaze. We entered with slow steps within the vestibule of the +Temple, and stood there for some space, enjoying in silence the soft +breath of air that played around the flowing fountains. Then passing on, +the airy hall received us; and I saw the statue of Phoebus presiding, like +a pillar of tender light, over the surrounding darkness of the vaulted +place; for, to the lofty shrine of the God of day no light of day had +access, and there lay only a small creeping flame burning thin upon his +altar; but a dim and sweet radiance, like that of the stars in autumn, was +diffused all upon the statue, and the altar, and the warlike trophies +suspended in the inner recesses, from the sacred tree of silver that +stands in the centre; amidst the trembling enamelled leaves and drooping +boughs of which hung many lamps, after the shape and fashion of +pomegranates: and out of every pomegranate flowed a separate gleam of that +soft light, supplied mysteriously through the stem of the silver tree. + +There appeared presently from behind the statue, a majestic woman, arrayed +in long white garments, and having a fillet of laurel leaves twined above +her veil. Venerable and stately was her mien, but haughty, rather than +serene, the aspect of her countenance. Without looking towards us, she +went up to the altar, and began to busy herself in trimming the sacred +fire, which, as I have said, exhibited only a lambent flame. When, with +many kneelings and other ceremonies, she had accomplished this service, +the priestess turned again, as if to depart; and then first, as it seemed, +observing the presence of strangers, she stood still before the altar, and +regarding us attentively, began to recognize the Lady Rubellia; whom, +forthwith advancing, she saluted courteously, and invited to come with the +rest of us into her privacy, behind the shrine of the God. + +She led the way, Rubellia and the rest of us in her train, through several +folding-doors, and along many narrow passages all inlaid, on roof, wall, +and floor, with snow-white alabaster and rich mosaic work; until at length +we came to a little airy chamber, where three young maidens were sitting +with their embroidering cushions, while one, taller than the rest, whose +back was placed towards us, knelt on the floor, touching, with slow +fingers, the strings of a Dorian lyre. Hearing the sound of her music as +we entered, we stood still in the door-way, and the priestess, willing +apparently that our approach should remain unknown, advancing a step or +two before us, said, "Sing on--I have trimmed the flame; but remember, I +pray you, that the precincts of Phoebus are not those of Pluto, and let not +your chant be of such funereal solemnity. We solitaries have little need +of depressing numbers." + +"Dear friend," replied she that had been thus addressed, without changing +her attitude, "you must bear with my numbers such as they are; for if you +bid me sing only merry strains, I am afraid neither voice nor fingers may +be able well to obey you." + +These words were spoken in a low and melancholy voice, which I well +recognized. Sextus, also, perceived who spoke; but when he looked at me to +signify this, I motioned to keep silence. + +"Then please yourself," said the priestess, laying her hand on Athanasia's +shoulders; "but do sing, for I should fain have my maidens to hear +something truly of your music." With that she again applied her fingers to +the lyre, and stooping over it, began to play some notes of prelude, less +sorrowful than what we had at first heard. "Ay, my dear girl," says the +priestess, "you could not have chosen better. Heavens! how many lordly +choirs have I heard singing to that old Delian air. There are a hundred +hymns that may be sung to it--give us whichsoever of them pleases your +fancy the best."--"I will try," replied the maiden, "to sing the words you +have heard before. If I remember, you liked them." Then boldly at once, +yet gently, did her voice rush into the current of that ancient strain +that you have heard so often; but it was then that I myself for the first +time heard it. + + The moon, the moon is thine, O night, + Not altogether dark art thou; + Her trembling crescent sheds its light, + Trembling and pale, upon thine ancient brow. + + The moon is thine, and round her orb + A thousand sweet stars minister, + Whose twinkling rays dark wells absorb, + And all the wide seas drink them far and near. + + They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles + Of gladness o'er the waters creep; + Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles, + And there is glory on the slumbering deep + + Afar. Along the black hill's side, + Right blithe of heart the wanderers go, + While that soft radiance, far and wide, + Gleams on the winding streams and woods below. + + And gaily for the fragile bark, + Through the green waves its path is shorn, + When all the murmurs of the dark + Cold sea lie calm'd beneath that gliding horn. + + Yet hail, ye glittering streaks, that lie + The eastern mountain tops upon! + Hail, ye deep blushes of the sky, + That speak the coming of the bridegroom sun! + + Hail to the healing beam of day, + That rouses every living thing! + The forest gulphs confess thy sway, + And upon freshening branches glad birds sing. + + And loathsome forms, that crept unseen + Beneath the star-light faint and wan, + Cower in their brakes the thorns between, + Dreading that fervid eye, and its sure scan + + Triumphant. Welcome life and light! + Sing rocks and mountains, plain and sea; + Fearful though lovely was the night; + Hail to more perfect beauty--hail to THEE! + +"Why stop you, Athanasia?" said the priestess, finding that here she +paused,--"why do you rise up, and take your fingers from the lyre, before +you sing out the chorus?"--"No more, dear aunt--excuse me--no more. I have +already sung all that I can," replied Athanasia.--"Nay, then," says she, +"if you be fatigued, sing not; but join me, maidens, in the close--perhaps +it rises too high for Athanasia." + +And with that the ancient lady herself, joined by the three damsels that +had been embroidering, took up the strain, which, indeed, rose higher +towards its end + + Hail to thee Phoebus, son of Jove, + Glorious Apollo, Lord of Light, + Hail, lovely in thy Delian grove, + And terrible on Delphos' haunted height! + + Hail to thee here beneath the dome, + Great Phoebus, of thy Latian shrine; + All hail from Csar and from Rome; + Hail by thy dearest name, God Palatine! + +But as they were singing the last verse of all, Rubellia also aided their +melody with a rich strong gushing voice, which rose far above all the +others; and the silent Athanasia turning round quickly, perceived, not +without manifestation of alarm, by how many strangers her song had been +overheard. On seeing who we were, she saluted Sextus and myself with +modest courtesy, amidst her confusion; and it may be that my companion, as +well as myself, blushed at the same moment; for he could not see Athanasia +without thinking of Sempronia. + +It seemed as if her confusion were not unconnected with some suspicion of +having been recognized near the Prtorian guard-house; for, after the +first glance, I in vain endeavoured to meet her eye; while on the +contrary, to Sextus she directed both looks and words, enough to provoke +visibly some not altogether benign movements in our Rubellia. Such, at +least, was my interpretation of the fair widow's aspect, and the tone of +impatience in which she, after a minute or two had passed, began to urge +the propriety of our proceeding to the part of the imperial edifice in +which the painter was expecting us. + +The priestess of Apollo hearing her say so, courteously offered to guide +us beyond the precincts of the temple, and our whole party were again in +motion; but Athanasia remained behind with the three young damsels, and I, +who walked last, saw her, ere the portal received me, preparing again to +handle the lyre, with fingers visibly trembling, and a pale countenance, +not as I thought unstained with some yet more distinct traces of keen +emotion. The sight of her agitation fixed my footstep for a moment, and it +was then that, on her casting a sudden glance round to the place where I +stood, I perceived truly that I had not been mistaken, and that the tears +were gathered within her eyelids. It was no more, however, than one +glance, for immediately she stooped again, and, dashing her fingers along +the chords of the instrument, appeared to bury her thoughts in its +harmony. I stood for a moment, and then ashamed of myself, and troubled +with her troubles and with my own, I followed the rest into the great +library which Augustus placed beneath the protection of the Palatine +Apollo. The priestess parted from us at its entrance, after pointing out a +low and massive door of bronze on the right hand, within which, as she +told me, the remains of the Sybilline prophecies are preserved, unseen by +profane eyes, watched over perpetually by the guardians of the place. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +I had walked by the side of my young friend, and behind the Stoic, (who, I +think, was expressing, in his pompous fashion, much admiration of the +singing of Rubellia,) along one or two of the great halls in which the +library is contained, before the novelty of the objects surrounding me +made any impression even on my eyes; and even after these were in some +measure engaged, my mind still continued to dwell on that troubled aspect, +and on the notes of the uncompleted song. At length, however, the levity +of youth, and natural curiosity revived; and I began to be present, not in +body merely, in a place where there was much that might well interest the +mind. Far-receding rows of columns conducted my eyes into the interminable +recesses of that wide range of chambers, in which the records of the +thought and spirit of all past ages are piled up together; and gazing on +the loaded shelves which every where ascended into the galleries, I could +not but be affected with many new emotions. I perused glorious names on +the busts that seemed to preside over the different compartments. The high +filletted front of Homer detained for the first time my contemplation; the +eyes of the divine old man, even in sculpture, distinctly and visibly +blind, while the serenity and sanctity of the towering forehead, revealed +how the intense perception at once of the lovely and the great could +compensate for visions of earthly beauty shut out. The mild Plato, and the +imperious Stagyrite--Pindar--Simonides--Alcus--and I know not how many more, +succeeded as we passed along--each in his own sphere, reigning by himself; +yet all connected together by a certain common air of greatness, like so +many successive princes, or contemporary heroes of the same mighty empire. + +From this main range, there diverged many lesser chambers, in which we saw +studious persons engaged, each seated by himself, and having his eyes +fixed on the parchment before him. Of these, some deigned not to intimate +by the smallest movement their perception that any one had approached; but +with others Xerophrastes exchanged, as he walked, lofty salutation, and +one or two even entered, for a moment, into conversation with him. With +one of these, indeed, (an ancient of bitter aspect,) to such a length did +the colloquy extend, that we began to think we should never be able to get +our Stoic away from him; till, as our fortune would have it, it became +necessary for them to have a certain book for the purpose of reference, +and then Xerophrastes began to make inquiries concerning Parmeno, who, as +I gathered, must needs be one of those intrusted with the care of the +library. + +"I am afraid," said the other, "if we must wait for him, we shall not be +able to get that work either to-day or to-morrow; for his pupil, the son +of Fabricius, is dead, and I suppose he will now change his quarters, and +be no longer seen so often about these haunts of the muses." + +"Alas!" interrupted Sextus, "I met Fabricius in the Forum a few days ago, +and he told me his son was ill; but little did I imagine my dear companion +was so near his end! Is it indeed so?" + +"Even so," rejoined the other. "Rapid have been the shears of Atropos! It +is but a few moments since Agaso, the painter passed; and, he told me he +had been receiving orders to take a likeness, as well as he could, from +the corpse." + +"If Agaso be so engaged," replied Xerophrastes, "I am afraid we need not +expect to find him neither in his usual place. Perhaps we had better make +inquiry for him at the dwelling of Fabricius." + +To this Sextus assented; or rather, being lost in reflection concerning +the death of his friend, he suffered himself to be conducted by the Stoic. +Passing, therefore, through one or two more apartments, we issued forth, +and drew near to the vestibule of Fabricius' house, who, as they told me, +was a noble Roman, having the chief superintendance of the whole library, +and an intimate friend of Licinius--one whose domestic calamity could not +fail to spread much affliction through a wide circle of patrician kindred. + +At the vestibule, we found assembled not a few of the young man's +relations; but Xerophrastes immediately said, "Behold Parmeno, he is the +most afflicted; and what wonder that it should be so?" + +"Alas!" said Sextus, "the bier is set forth; the last rites are to be +performed this evening." + +This Parmeno was a striking figure. Seated close by the bier, his head was +involved in his cloak, so that only his eyes and his nose could be seen, +but these of themselves expressed a decorous affliction; and the folds of +the cloak fell down over the rest of his person in great order and +dignity. On the pavement beside him was seen lying, half-unfolded, a book +inscribed with the name of Heraclitus, which he appeared to have been +reading. When Xerophrastes approached, this mourner stretched forth his +hand, and shook his head, but he did not say any thing, nor even look +towards the rest of us; and indeed to have done so, would have disturbed +the attitude in which he had placed himself. Xerophrastes, on his part, +received the proffered hand, and shaking his head in response, said, "Yes, +my Ionian friend, I may still bid thee hail and live; but I must say +farewell to the plant thou wast rearing. Farewell to the youthful promise +of Fabricius!" + +On hearing these words, the sitting philosopher drew his mantle quite over +his face, and leant himself heavily against one of the fluted columns of +the vestibule, for he seemed to be much shaken. In the meantime Sextus +approached the bier, and contemplated his companion as he lay there +wreathed with melancholy garlands; his countenance bearing a natural +mixture of sadness and astonishment. Nor could I, who had never before +seen the young man, behold the spectacle without similar emotions; for his +age, as it seemed, could not have been much different from my own, and the +pale features were interesting, their expression not less amiable than +solemn. + +"Alas!" said Sextus, "the last time I saw him, how differently did he +appear! We rode out together with some others to Tibur, and spent all the +day there; and as we returned by the moonlight, how joyous his +conversation! Methinks I yet hear him laughing and speaking. We parted at +the foot of the Capitoline, and never did I see him again till now." + +"Oh, fate of man!" quoth Xerophrastes; "how uncertain is life, how certain +death! Without doubt, young Fabricius had as little thought of dying as +any of your company; and yet, see now, he is arrayed for the last time, +and this juvenile gown, which he should so soon have laid aside for the +manly, is destined to be consumed with him." + +"A fine lad he was," cries one of the standers by,--"a fine lad, and an +excellent horseman. The Martian Field did not often behold such a rider in +these degenerate days of the Roman youth." + +But while the rest were still contemplating the bier, Xerophrastes, +turning to his brother philosopher, said, "Tell me now, my learned friend, +do you still, after this mournful event, continue to reside with the elder +Fabricius? Has that excellent man any more sons to be educated, or will he +retain you only for the sake of the library, with which assuredly he will +find few so conversant as yourself?" + +To which Parmeno replied, "Your question, O Xerophrastes, shews that clear +judgment concerning the affairs of men, for which you have always been +celebrated. No, my friend, the gray-haired Fabricius no longer requires my +residence here; for he is about to retire into one of his villas on the +Campanian shore, and to bury for ever his affliction in the privacy of his +woods. We are about to part, not without mutual tears; and several +Patricians have already been applying to him for his influence with me, +whom, although unworthy of so much research, they earnestly covet, and +wish to engage as the instructor of their young men. I have been sitting +here not unseen, beside this my former charge, and each is impatient to +solicit me into his service." + +"Your reputation I well know is high," replied Xerophrastes, "and +deservedly so; more particularly, for that fine talent you have for giving +metaphysical interpretations of mythology, and for explaining the obscure +allegories of ancient poets. But for my own part, Parmeno, I find not so +much delight in abstract ideas, or in the passive contemplation of the +universe; but incline rather to study, as heretofore, that part of +philosophy which relates to action, and the morality of duty." + +"Yes, worthy Xerophrastes," returned he, with a most languid serenity; +"and so far as I understand, you sort well in this with the stirring +disposition of your friend Licinius." + +To which Xerophrastes made answer:--"My patron Licinius is fond of action, +and I of the rules of action. He says, it is only in war, or in civil +functions of a public nature, that a person can prove himself a man. The +rest, he says, is visionary, and comes to nothing, or is a slumber of the +mind in sensuality, without thought." + +"Does he think, then," quoth Parmeno, his wobegone countenance relaxing +into a smile,--"Does Licinius think, then, there is no sensuality in +perpetual action, and declamation and noise? To me such things appear +almost as trivial as the lazy enjoyments of Epicureans, besides being +harsh and disagreeable, and not unfrequently ridiculous. But observe, O +Xerophrastes! that I speak these things as it were abstractly, and not by +any means in disparagement of Licinius, your excellent patron and friend." + +To which the stoic replied in astonishment--"What is this you have said? Do +you assert that action is sensual?" + +Then Parmeno, lifting from the pavement the book which he had been +reading, or appearing to read, said, "It is even so, most erudite +Xerophrastes. Indeed, I have always delighted in the most primitive and +remote doctrines handed down from antiquity; and among others, in the +riddles of this obscure Ephesian. Following the scope of his philosophy, I +am led to believe, that, so often as the mind impels, or is impelled by +other causes, it begins to lose sight of pure knowledge, and becomes in +danger of thinking that every thing is vain, light, and evanescent, except +what is perceived by the senses. Heraclitus well says, that Love and +Hatred govern all things. Now, when the principle of Discord prevails, it +subjects all things to the dominion of action, and to the gross +perceptions of sense. But when that of Love is prevalent, it emancipates +the struggling chaos of things from the yearning of compulsion, and from +the darkness of sensual proximity; for, between things that struggle +immediately against each other, light has no room to enter in and shine; +and therefore it is, that, when Love gains the ascendency, a new +arrangement is produced--an arrangement which, if I may so express it, is +more serene, transparent, orderly and divine, and wherein things exist in +safety from the danger of mutual destruction." + +After a preliminary cough:--"My opinion," replied Xerophrastes, "coincides +rather with that of Empedocles. The immortal Sicilian thinks that Discord +is the only separating and arranging principle which marks the boundaries +between things, and enables them mutually to act and repel, in such a way +as to preserve order."--"Nay, nay," interrupted Parmeno, his hands being by +this quite disentangled from his cloak, and his countenance lighted +up,--"Nay, nay, to such doctrine I never shall assent. From Empedocles--even +from Xerophrastes, I must differ for ever on this head. The order of which +you and the Sicilian speak, is the order of darkness only, and of blind +force,--a kind of order in which fierceness and cruelty always reign." But +Xerophrastes continued:--"And I farther concur with Empedocles in thinking, +that Love is a principle of which the predominance is more fit to turn +order into a chaos, than to produce the effects you have described."--"Nay, +speak not against Love," quoth Parmeno--"Speak not against Love, nor +believe that any respect is due to the dictates of Empedocles, who taught +the worst that can be taught by any man--that is to say, the alternation of +order and confusion succeeding each other throughout all time. To seek for +truth in conceptions like these, is no better than to seek repose in the +bosom of tna."--"In reference to that point," resumed Xerophrastes, "I +agree with you in your disapprobation of Empedocles. But when you say, +that Love is the source of knowledge, you much astonish me; for I have +always thought rather that its tendency is to bring confusion upon the +mind." + +"Once more," said Parmeno--"once more, let me beseech you to say nothing +against love. You are thinking of the love of particular objects. You +speak of Cupid, and not of that heavenly Eros, who, so far from +enchaining, or tyrannizing over the mind, rather enables it to escape into +the tranquil freedom of far extended contemplation. But what is +contemplation without the knowledge of permanent forms, on which the mind +may find repose, and so keep itself from being perplexed by the shifting +aspects of the many-coloured universe? And therefore it is, O +Xerophrastes, that, sometimes laying aside Heraclitus, I study the ancient +verses of the poet, Xenophanes, who shews, by the nature of abstract +forms, that a certain unity pervades all things. Xenophanes mused of old +at Colophon, looking through the blue ether of my native Ionia.--But why +should I speak thus at length? Alas! what is the occasion of our being +here!--I perceive the approach of the poet, who was to compose an +inscription for the urn of my dear Fabricius. Yonder also is the +architect, who comes with a design for the tomb. Oh! day of wo, that I +should sit in judgment concerning the epitaph and tomb of my ingenuous +youth!" + +"It is, indeed, true," replied Xerophrastes, "that even I, in the +repercussions of our talk, had well-nigh forgotten this unhappy +occurrence; but, perhaps, there is something not after all entirely +excusable in our giving so much superiority to the affairs of +philosophical discussion. Now, however, it is evident, that we must +suspend our colloquy--And who, I beseech you, above all things, is he that +now draws near to the place of this mournful assembly, holding a horse in +his hand. Methinks I have seen his face before." + +"That you have indeed, Master," quoth he that had come up,--"that you have; +and no longer ago than yesterday neither, if you will be pleased to give +yourself the trouble of recollecting. My name is Aspar--I am well known. If +but my excellent friend, the noble Centurion Sabinus, were here, poor old +Aspar would have no reason to complain of the want of a good word." + +"Good morrow to you, Aspar," said Sextus; "but what is it that brings you +hither just at this moment? And for what purpose have you brought your +horse with you? for people of your sort do not in general ride in the +courts of the Palatine." + +"Alas!" quoth Aspar, "and is it you, who seem to have been one of the +contemporaries of that peerless youth--is it you that ask such a question +as this? I did not, in truth, imagine that there was any friend of young +Fabricius, who did not know his affection for little Sora. There is not +such another within twenty miles of the Capitol; but I brought her hither +merely out of regard for the family. As for myself, I should never bear to +look on her again with pleasure, after knowing the sudden manner of his +death. I wish to Heaven the filly were fairly lodged in one of the +paddocks of the Lord Fabricius himself." + +"Lead the animal round into the stables," says Parmeno, "and I doubt not +care will be taken of her.--Yonder comes one of the buffoons of the +theatre;--he, I doubt not, is here to disgrace, if he be permitted, this +solemn scene, with ranting quotations from the tragic poets. Alas! alas! I +cannot bear all this: There also advance the officiators from the Temple +of Libitina; they have their cypress boughs ready in their hands. Oh, my +learned friend, I cannot sustain these things; let me be gone into the +mansion." + +The admirer of Heraclitus, picking up his scroll, and gathering together +the folds of his mantle, moved slowly into the house, Xerophrastes +following with similar gestures. Sextus and I also were about to take our +departure; and he, having procured from one of the slaves of the house a +myrtle garland, had already placed it upon the bier of the young +Fabricius, as the last testimonial of his concern; when there drew near +two young men, clad in long mantles of black, who, solemnly embracing my +friend, began to exchange with him many expressions of grief. + +While they were thus engaged, Rubellia, who had been standing all this +while a little apart, sent a boy to inform us that the painter we were in +search of had at last made his appearance, and was anxious to proceed with +his portrait. I drew Sextus away, therefore, and soon joined the lady and +the artist; but as we were moving off thus, one of the bystanding slaves, +an old gray-headed man, came up and whispered to Sextus, "Sir, be not +deceived; these two nephews of my bereaved master are to me the most +disagreeable part of all this preparation. You have heard their +lamentation, and seen their sweeping raiment of mourning; but, be sure, a +principal subject of their reflection is the probability that one or other +of them must be adopted by Fabricius. Alas! alas! so goes all between +Lucina and Libitina. There was never a birth nor a marriage that did not +create some sorrow, nor a funeral procession that did not give rise to +some joy. Your rhetoricians talk, but what avails it all? Slaves and +masters are alike subjected to the evils of the world, and of these death +is both the last and the least." + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +Agaso, the painter, was a smart dapper little bandy-legged man of Verona, +dressed in a Grecian mantle, and endeavouring to look as much as possible +like a Greek. Had Xerophrastes not gone off with his brother of Ionia, I +have no doubt this man would have made his presence a sufficient excuse +for speaking nothing but Greek to us; but, even as it was, his +conversation was interlarded with an abundant intermixture of that noble +tongue. Nothing could be spoken of which Agaso did not think fit to +illustrate, either by the narration of something he himself had seen or +heard during his residence at Athens, or, at least, by some quotation from +the Grecian poets. To judge from the square, and somewhat ponderous +formation of the man's features, Nature had not designed him for any of +the most mercurial specimens of her workmanship; but he contrived, +notwithstanding, by perpetual shrugging and grimacing, and, above all, by +keeping his eyes and eyebrows continually in motion, to give himself an +air of no inconsiderable life and vivacity. + +Hopping before us with much alacrity, this artist conducted our steps +through eight or ten galleries, until at length a curtain being withdrawn, +which had covered the space between two pilasters, we found ourselves in a +spacious apartment, which, from the courteousness wherewith he bowed us +into it, there could be no difficulty in perceiving to be the customary +sphere of his own exertions. It was not altogether deserted even when we +entered, but the removal of the curtain attracted more of the loungers of +the baths, and ere Sextus was fairly fixed before the table of the +painter, the modest youth had the mortification to find himself surrounded +with a very crowd of knowing and curious physiognomies. The presence of +these, however, appeared not unwelcome to the master. On the contrary, +there arose between the little man, as he was preparing his brushes, and +those who had come to survey him at his work, such a gabble of +compliments, remarks, and disquisitions, that it seemed to me as if he +would have been disappointed had he not been favoured with their +attendance. + +"How noble," cries one, "is that portrait you have just been finishing of +Rupilius!--Heavens! with what felicity you have caught the air! Methinks I +see him about to enter the Basilica, when he knows that some great cause +is awaiting his decision. What solemnity in his aspect! what grandeur in +the gown!--How finely the purple of the laticlave is made to harmonize with +the colouring of the cheeks and chin! What beautiful handling about the +fingers with which he grasps his tablets!--As for the head of the stylus, +it is the very eye of the picture."--"Exquisite indeed," quoth another; +"but who can look at it, or at any thing else, in the same room with this +little jewel?--Heavens! what a beauty! who can it be? for I never saw her +either at the Circus or the Amphitheatre. What an inimitable modesty!" + +The painter heard this last piece of eulogy with an air of some +embarrassment, and at the same time looked very cunningly towards the +person who had uttered it. But the Lady Rubellia tossed her head, and +whispered to me, "Pretty she may be, though I cannot say that style of +dressing the hair is at all adapted for such features; but for modesty! +hem. I asked Agaso two or three days ago who it was, and he told +me--guess!--it is a little Spanish girl, whom that august-looking person, +with the grand laticlave, and the purple cheeks and chin, and the +glittering stylus, thought fit to bring home with him when he was relieved +from the hard duties of the Pro-prtorship. I dare say, he takes care she +shall not be seen either at Circus or Amphitheatre; and, indeed, I think +it is sufficient impudence to shew her likeness in the company of so many +portraits of respectability." + +"My dear lady," quoth the painter, who overheard somewhat, "for the sake +of all that is sacred, no word of this again! Wait, at least, till the +canvass for the Augurship be over. There are always so many to exaggerate +and misrepresent."--"Exaggerate, indeed! I think Rupilius ought to be +ashamed of himself; and at his time of life too. I think you said he was +just the same age with my uncle?"--"Yes," says the painter, "he must be of +that standing; and I think he went to Spain just about the period of your +marriage."--"Filthy old fellow," quoth she, very quickly; "and this is the +treasure he has brought home with him! I have a great mind to tell his +wife."--"Hush, hush," said Agaso, "this is the very day Rupilius spoke of +bringing her to see his own portrait; and, indeed, I am sure that is the +Senator's cough. I rely on your prudence." + +And the portly original of the laticlaved portrait walked into the room, +having his gown and every part of his dress arranged as represented in the +picture; although in the living countenance it was easy to discover a few +lines and spots which had been omitted in the copy. By his side moved a +short woman, arrayed in the extremity of costly attire, whose swarthy +complexion did not, in spite of cosmeticism, harmonize very well with the +bright golden ringlets of her Sicambrian peruque; while behind the pair +came a thin damsel, whose lineaments exhibited a sort of faint shadow of +the same visage, the rudiments of which had been so abundantly filled up +in that of the rubicund magistrate. The ex-pro-prtor, after saluting +Agaso, stood still with dignity in the midst of the apartment, while the +fond daughter, rushing close up to his picture, could with difficulty +affix any limits to her expressions of satisfaction:--"O Jupiter! look at +the ring. It is the very ring he wears!--the very images are engraved upon +it; one can see the three Graces. I never saw such a picture--when will it +be brought home?"--"Hush, hush, now, Primula," quoth the mother. "It is +certainly a likeness; but why will artists, now-a-days, always paint +people older than they are? And besides, it wants something of his +expression. Don't you think so yourself, sir?" (turning to the painter) +"Rupilius has surely been looking very gloomily when he sat." + +On this the painter, leaving Sextus, advanced to her side, and after a +pause of some moments, spent in contemplating alternately his own work and +the original, said, with a courteous simper, "How much am I indebted to +you, most noble lady, for this visit, and these judicious remarks! I only +wish you had accompanied the senator, for then, without question, his +countenance would have worn the look you desiderate; and I perhaps might +have more easily succeeded in catching it, being aided by your +suggestions. I hope it may yet be amended."--"How modest he is!" ejaculated +the spouse. "A single sitting will suffice, I am sure. We shall come some +day when you are quite alone, and I will sit by you, and talk to Rupilius +all the while."--"Delightful!" replied the artist; "how happy shall I be in +such an opportunity of improving both the picture and myself! We must +positively prevail on the senator to give us this one sitting +more."--"Never ask his consent," quoth the matron, smiling upon her lord; +"leave the whole matter to me. The picture is for me. And besides, if he +were to refuse, I know how I should be certain to overcome him; for he has +asked me to sit to you myself, and you know if I were to persist in +sitting with my gloomy face, as he has with his, we should soon bring him +to his right reason."--"_Your_ gloomy face, noble lady!" replied the +artist, strutting back a pace or two. "I am afraid, if that is the charm +by which alone he is to be softened, we must give up all our hopes."--"I +protest," says the lady, "I believe you will keep me laughing all the time +I sit. And pray now, what dress do you think I should wear? Prima says, I +ought certainly to be in green; but I was thinking, that perhaps a yellow +byssine would suit me better. But I shall send over half a dozen robes, +and then we can choose whichever seems to be the best. One thing only I am +quite resolved upon, and that is, that I shall have my golden chain, with +the miniature of the Pro-prtor--the Senator, I mean--at the end of +it."--"Nothing could be in finer taste," he made answer; "and if my lady +should think of green, or purple, or any dark colour for the gown, the +rings of the chain and the setting of the miniature would have the richest +effect."--"And do, my dear mother," interrupted Prima; "and do have on the +sapphire tiara when you sit to Agaso. Or what would you think of having +your own hair simply like this lady here? What a beauty!"--"A smart little +girl, indeed," quoth the mother. "I think I should know that face. Is she +Roman, Agaso?"--"No, not a Roman," answered the artist; "nor do I think my +lady can ever have met with her. But perhaps my Lord Rupilius may, for she +is a Spaniard." + +Agaso turned with a smile to the Senator; but he, scarcely appearing to +look at the picture, answered, with great gravity, "I think I have seen +the countenance before; and perhaps it was in my province. The face is +certainly a pretty one; but nothing so very extraordinary."--"They may say +what they like," observed the spouse, drawing herself up; "but there is no +such thing as a really urbane air to be got out of Rome." + +Meantime, in another part of the room, some other picture appeared to be +exciting a scarcely inferior measure of curiosity. On approaching the +party, I perceived that this was a sketch, in chalk only, of the head and +shoulders of an old man; and when I had gained an opportunity of more +nearly surveying it, I recognized without difficulty the features of +Tisias of Antioch. The greater number of those who were looking on it, +seemed also to have been present at his death; for I heard pointed out by +them with exactness the parts in which the resemblance had been most +successfully taken. The beauty of the old man's lineaments, and the +serenity of his aspect, they all admired; and while they were loud in +praising these, Agaso himself also joined them, saying, "Oh, so you have +found out my old Christian! How did you get hold of him? for I meant it +not to be seen till I had lain on a little of the colour. But is it not a +fine study?--is it not a noble head? I think I shall introduce it in the +picture I am painting for Pliny. The subject is the sacrifice of +Iphigenia. I went to the Amphitheatre," he continued, "rather late, +without expecting any thing particular; but it immediately struck me that +he might be turned to some account. I made several little sketches of him, +for it was a long time ere it was over; and this is from the one I took +just after he had made his oration. His hands and feet were singularly +fine, I thought. Here," said he, turning over the leaves of his +tablets--"here you have him in a variety of shapes!--the muscles shewed +powerfully when he knelt;--there, again, you have his fingers as they were +folded on his breast--not much flesh, but the lines good--veins well +expressed." + +But about this time the great bell rung in the tower above the Baths, and +the greater part of the young loungers soon dispersed themselves; some to +fence or wrestle--others to play in the tennis-court--others to ride in the +Hippodrome, in preparation for the bath. So Agaso, being left alone with +Sextus, Rubellia, and myself, had at length leisure to proceed with his +portrait of the youth. + +Much did the lady and the painter discourse, and many merry things were +said by them both; but all they said could not entirely remove the +embarrassment fixed on the countenance of Sextus; nor, of a truth, did he +present himself with much advantage before the artist. Rubellia, +nevertheless, sate over against him with looks of no severe criticism; and +I doubt not she would have remained to the end of the sitting, had not one +of her household come with a message, which, as it seemed, rendered +necessary her departure. It struck me, that the messenger answered very +well to Dromo's description of the fat Calabrian with whom he and Boto had +been drinking; but of this I said nothing to Sextus. + +It was near the hour of supper before we were dismissed, and we found +Licinius already about to enter his eating chamber. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +The orator received us with less coldness than I could have expected. I +suppose his knowledge that our morning had been spent in Rubellia's +company, had in some measure softened his feelings of jealousy towards his +son; and perhaps he had given me credit for advice, to the merit of which +I had no claim. But he remained not long at table after supper was +concluded, being summoned to discourse in private with a client:--so that +Sextus and I were left to spend the evening as it might please ourselves; +for as to Xerophrastes, he had not as yet made his appearance, and we took +it for granted he had remained at the mansion of Fabricius, for the +purpose of consoling with philosophical controversies his bereaved brother +of Ionia. + +We retired, therefore, into the apartment of my young friend; but he could +not read a page without coming upon some verse which made him throw down +the scroll to ruminate on the charms of his Sempronia. When he took up his +lute, his fingers seemed to evoke only the most melancholy sounds. It was +only in the exercise of the foil, that he succeeded in banishing from his +thoughts the troubles of his situation; but both of us having contended +till we were breathless, were soon compelled to sit down, and then the +unhappy boy's exhausted body seemed to communicate a new debility to his +mind. We sat for the most part in silence, (for I soon found that I could +not say any thing capable of interesting him,) until the shades of evening +had quite darkened the chamber, and then we walked together, not less +silently, in the adjoining open gallery, until the moon had arisen from +above the tall poplars around the Pantheon and Baths of Agrippa, and +diffused her radiance over all the beautiful gardens and noble edifices +that lay beneath us down to the brink of the river. Lassitude of spirit +then, if not expectation of sleep, rendered Sextus desirous of retiring to +his couch; so, having exhorted the youth to wrestle with his grief, and to +call hope to his aid, I at length left him to himself. But as for me, I +had as yet no feeling of weariness, and, besides, I remembered the promise +I had made to Dromo in the morning. + +I was very much surprised, indeed, that the Cretan had not as yet come to +me, and made inquiry concerning him of Boto; but hearing that the man was +absent from the house, I thought from this there was the more likelihood +of his being engaged in some scheme, the result of which I should by and +by learn from his own lips. I dismissed my Briton, therefore, and prepared +to read by my watch-light, and while I was considering what I should read, +I remembered the scroll I had received from Tisias, which forthwith I took +from the place in which I had locked it up on the morning of the preceding +day. There fell from out of it, as I unfolded it, a letter sealed, but +without any superscription. This I of course considered as meant only for +the eye of Athanasia; so I kissed the parchment her fingers were destined +to touch, and, before I began to read, restored it to its receptacle. + +More than one of you, my young friends, have already heard me speak, on +another occasion, of the impression which that night's reading made upon +my mind, and been told, from my own lips, what book it was that was +contained in the scroll of Tisias; the rest of you will judge for +yourselves with what astonishment it was that I, who had at the best +expected to unfold some obscure treatise of Asiatic lore, some +semi-barbarous exposition of mystical riddles, found myself engaged in the +perusal of a plain and perspicuous narrative of facts, written evidently +by a man of accomplishment and learning, and in Greek of which the most +elegant penman of these times could have had no occasion to be ashamed. In +a word, it was the Gospel of the holy physician St Luke which had been put +into my hands; and at this day I am still grateful that this was the first +of the Christian books which I had an opportunity of seeing; for such had +been my education, that I am afraid others, not less worthy of the true +faith, might have repelled me by the peculiarities of their composition, +as well as by the acquaintance with many things, to me then entirely +unknown, which they take for granted in the style of their commencement. +Here, however, there was enough only of mystery, the more effectually to +stimulate my curiosity, while the eagerness with which I engaged myself in +its gratification, was abundantly repaid from the beginning, both by the +beauty of the simple narrative itself, and the sublimity of the +conceptions embodied and evolved in its course. + +Considering the book which I was reading, as one merely of human origin +and invention, I could not help regarding it with such admiration, that it +appeared to me above all things wonderful, I had never seen it mentioned +by any of the writers of the age, or heard it spoken of by any of those +who, in my presence, since I came to Rome, had talked concerning the faith +and doctrines of the persecuted Christians. But this was not all. At +least, said I to myself, there is something here which deserves to be +inquired into and examined. Of things such as these, if told falsely, it +must needs have been--nay, it must still be, easy to prove the falsehood. +It is impossible that, in the days of Tiberius, any such events should +have occurred in Palestine, without being more or less submitted to the +inspection of Roman eyes. This is no wild tale, handed down from the dark +ages of a barbarous race. Here I have a Roman Centurion described as among +the witnesses of this man's miraculous power, and acknowledging the +divinity of his benevolence. Here, at least, must have been one spectator +without prejudices, otherwise than against this Prophet of Nazareth. Of a +surety, the legends of Rome herself contain many tales which demand a much +greater measure of indulgence; since the wonders they narrate appear to +have been oftentimes attended with no beneficial consequences, either to +individuals or to the state; whereas here the occasion seems always to +have been such as might justify the interference of supernatural might. +The power of this person seems to have been exerted only for good; and his +precepts are full of such godlike loftiness as neither Socrates, nor +Plato, nor any of those Greek sages, who bowed in reverence to the hoary +wisdom of Egypt and India, would have disdained to admire. + +The doubts, suspicions, and distrusts, with which such thoughts were +mingled,--the under-current of reluctance with which I felt myself all +along contending,--were such as you may more easily imagine than I can +describe. + +As the narrative went on, however, you will have no difficulty in +supposing that my attention became more and more rivetted, and that, +occupied with the strange events and sublime scenes it unfolds--and +agitated by turns with the pity, the wonder, the terror, and the +admiration that matchless story must ever awaken,--I had forgotten every +thing beyond the page of the volume on which my finger was fixed. + +It was only the rustling of Dromo's cloak against the edge of my chair, +that made me aware my privacy was disturbed. His hands seemed to be busied +in tightening his girdle even before he was able to speak, and the first +words he uttered, were--"Come, sir--this is no time for study. I have +acquaintance with some of the soldiers at the Capene Gate, and they will +let us pass through; but they are relieved at the next watch, and then we +shall have no chance."--"And why," said I, hastily thrusting the scroll +into my bosom--"why, Dromo, or for what purpose should we desire to pass +through the Capene Gate at the dead hour of night?"--"Come," said he; +"there is no time for explanation. It is simply because it is the dead +hour of night that we must pass through the gate; for it would do nobody +any good to pass through at any other time. Come--or abandon Sextus to his +fate." + +Thus adjured, I could not oppose any obstacle to his zeal. The chained +porter was lying asleep across the threshold; but Dromo had already found +means to have the door opened, so he leaped lightly over the man, and I +imitated his agility. The Cretan then locked the gate on the outside, by +means of a key which he carried in his bosom; and I followed his rapid +steps without farther question. + +This cunning varlet, (who seemed, indeed, to move as if he had a natural +aversion to every open place,) threaded one obscure lane after another, +keeping always, where the moonlight had any access, to the dark side of +the way; a person better skilled than myself might well have been somewhat +puzzled; as for me, I had not the least conception whither I was going. +Close, however, did I adhere to him; and we reached the Capene Port, which +is on the south side of the city, not many bow-shots from the Anio, before +I could have imagined it possible to traverse so great a space. + +Here Dromo told me to wait for him a single moment, and stepped down into +a cellar, in which a light was burning; but he staid not long, and when he +returned to me, I observed that his style of walking was more clumsy than +usual, which, indeed, was not to be wondered at, considering that he had +now to carry, not only himself, but two huge skins of wine, intended, as I +at once suspected, for the purpose of facilitating our passage. I told him +my suspicion in a whisper; but he made no answer, except by handing to me +one of his burdens. So laden, we crept on as well as we could to the +portal, beneath the shadow of which two Prtorians were pacing, their +armour ringing audibly upon them amidst the silence of the night.--Silently +did the well-oiled hinges turn, and very silently stooping did we step +beneath the lintel of the Capene Gate, which as silently was again made +fast. + +As we advanced among the funereal monuments which line the Appian Way on +either side, Dromo stood still every now and then for a moment, as if to +listen; but whatever he might have heard, or expected to hear, I perceived +nothing, except here and there the howl of a dog, or the lazy hooting of +the night-owl, from the top of some of the old cypresses that rose between +us and the moon. + +At last he seemed to catch the sound he had been expecting, for he started +suddenly; and laying his finger on his lip, crept to the parapet. + +The ground behind was more desolate of aspect than any part of that which +we had traversed--stoney and hard, with here and there tufts of withered +fern; and immediately below the wall two human figures were visible. The +one was sitting on the ground, wrapped in a dark cloak which entirely +concealed the countenance: the other was a half-naked boy, holding in a +string a little new-shorn lamb, which with one of his hands he continually +caressed. But forthwith the sitter arose, and throwing away the cloak, +displayed the gray tangled tresses of an old woman, and two strong boney +arms, one of which was stretched forth with an impatient gesture towards +the stripling, while the other was pointed upwards to the visible moon. +"Strike," said she, "strike deeply--beware lest the blood tinge your feet +or your hands;"--and I recognized at once the voice of the same Pona that +had attracted my notice in the morning, at the foot of the Palatine. + +The boy drew forth instantly a knife from his bosom, whose glittering +blade was buried in the throat of the yearling, and it was then first that +I perceived a small ditch dug between the boy and the woman, into which, +the lamb's throat being held over it, the blood was made to drop from the +wound. So surely had the blow been given, that not one bleat escaped from +the animal, and so deeply, that the blood flowed in a strong stream, +dashing audibly upon the bottom of the trench. And while it was dropping, +the old woman muttering a sort of chant to Hecate, as I gathered, showered +from her girdle I know not what of bones or sticks, mingled with leaves +and roots, which afterwards she seemed to be stirring about in the blood +with one of the tall strong stems of the fern that grew there. The +wildness of her gestures was such, that I could not doubt she had herself +some faith in the efficacy of the foul charms to which she had resorted; +nor could I see her stirring that trench of innocent blood, without +remembering the still more ruthless charms, whose practice the poets of +Italy have ascribed to such hoary enchantresses. The dreariness of the +midnight wind, too, as it whistled along the bare and steril soil around +us, and the perpetual variations in the light, by reason of the careering +of those innumerable clouds, and the remembrance of the funereal purposes +for which, as it seemed, all this region was set apart--the whole of this +together produced, I know not how, a certain pressure upon my spirits, and +I confess to you, I felt, kneeling there by the side of my now trembling +Cretan, as if I owed him no great thanks for having brought me that night +beyond the Capene Gate. + +It seemed as if the goddess, to whom the witch's song had been addressed, +did not listen to it with favourable ear; for the clouds gathered +themselves more thickly than ever, while the wind howled only more loudly +among the tombs, and the half-scared owl sent up a feebler hooting. +Notwithstanding, the old woman continued fixed in the same attitude of +expectation, and the stripling still held the well-nigh drained throat of +his lamb above the trench. By degrees, however, the patience of both +seemed to be exhausted; and there arose between them an angry altercation. +"Infernal brat of Hades!" quoth the witch, "look ye, if you have not +stained your filthy hands, and if the thirsty shadows be not incensed, +because you have deprived them of some of the sweet blood which they +love!"--"Curse not me, mother," replied the boy--"Did you think, in truth, +that the blood of a stolen lamb would ever propitiate Hecate?"--"Imp!" +quoth she, "Hold thy peace, or I will try whether no other blood may make +the charm work better!"--"Beware!" quoth the boy, leaping backwards--"beware +what you do! I am no longer so weak that I must bear all your blows." + +"Stop," cried I, "for there are eyes that you think not of, to take note +of your wickedness;" and in my vehemence I shook one of the great loose +stones that were on the top of the wall, which rolled down and bounded +into the ditch beside them; and the woman, huddling her cloak over her +head, began to run swiftly away from us, along the wall over which we were +leaning. The boy only stood still for a moment, and looked upwards towards +the place where we were, and then he also fled, but in the opposite +direction; and Dromo said to me in a very piteous whisper, but not till +both were out of sight,--"Heaven and earth! was ever such madness as to +scare the witch from her incantation? Alas! for you and for me, sir--and, +most of all, alas for Sextus--for I fear me after this we shall have no +luck in counteracting the designs of Rubellia." + +"Rubellia! what? can you possibly imagine Rubellia to have any thing to do +with this madness?" + +"Imagine?" quoth he; "do you need to be told, that if things had gone well +with that woman and her ditch, we should never have been able to preserve +Sextus from her clutches?" + +"By the rod of Hermes, good Dromo!" said I, "this will never do. I shall +believe much on your credit, but not things quite so extravagant as this." + +He made no reply save a long, incredulous, and, I think, contemptuous +whistle, which seemed to reach the ears of every owl between us and the +Appian; with such a hooting and screeching did they echo its note from +every cypress. And when Dromo heard that doleful concert, his dread +redoubled within him, for he shook from head to foot, while I held his arm +in mine; until, at last, he seemed to make one violent effort, and +springing on his feet, said--"Come, Master Valerius, let us behave after +all like men!"--I smiled when he said so--"The hour has not yet come, if my +Calabrian friend is to be trusted, at which the lady was to visit Pona in +her dwelling. It is but daring a little more. If she has seen and known us +already, then nothing can endanger us farther; and if she hath not, we may +escape again."--"Well spoken," said I, "most shrewd Dromo, and like +yourself; but what is it that you would have us to do?"--"The first thing," +he replied, "is what has already been too long delayed." + +The Cretan produced from under his cloak a long fictitious beard, which he +immediately proceeded to fix upon his own face with a string. A thin tall +cap of black cloth was next brought forth, which he fastened in like +manner around his brows; and a little piece of chalk, with which he once +or twice rubbed over his black bushy eye-brows, completed a disguise +beneath which I should certainly have sought in vain to discover any trace +of the natural countenance of Dromo. In short, after a few changes in the +folding of his cloak, there stood before me a figure so venerably +mysterious, that had I met it unawares at midnight, in the neighbourhood +of so many tombs, I am not sure, although of no superstitious temper, that +I could have regarded it without awe. + +"Come now, good Master," quoth he, "you are taller than I, pluck me a +branch from the nearest tree, and I think you shall confess I make a +decent Soothsayer." In this it was easy to gratify him; for there was an +old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs were so dry with age, that +I soon abstracted a very proper wand for him. After receiving which, he +stood for a moment leaning on it in a dignified fashion, as if to rehearse +an attitude worthy of his new vocation; and then said--"Well, sir, I think +if the Lady Rubellia comes now, we shall be tolerably prepared for her. +But I have no disguise for you; therefore, the moment you hear a footstep, +be sure you wrap your face in your gown, and stand behind me, for so shall +you best consult both your own concealment, and the dignity of this +Assyrian. There is no other way by which she can come from the Suburra, +therefore we might stay very well where we are; but I think it might be +still better to await her coming where there are either tombs or larger +trees to cast a shade over our equipage, in case the moon should take it +into her head to be more kind to us than she was to Pona."--"By all means," +said I, "most venerable man--and besides, the wind is rather chilly, +therefore I shall be well pleased to have shelter as well as shade." + +"You shall have both," quoth he; "there is a thick grove of pines only a +little way on. I believe there is a very grand tomb in the midst of them, +in case you should prefer to sit under it.--By the bye," he continued, +after some little pause, "it is odd enough that it should be so; but I +believe it is the very place where all that race of the Sempronii, to +which a certain young damsel belongs, have been burnt and buried ever +since Rome was a city. You cannot see their tomb yet; but that is only +from the thickness of the trees, some of which are, I suppose, even older +than itself. Now I remember me, it was just there that they set up two +winters ago the funeral pile of old Caius--I mean the father of the Lady +Athanasia, whom you saw at Capito's villa. They are a very noble race, and +although none of the richest now-a-days, there is not a prouder in Rome. I +saw the procession at that old man's funeral myself, and I think the +images of his ancestors that they carried before him, would have reached +half way from hence to the Great Road. Grim, dusty figures, I trow they +were; but I doubt not there had been many a haughty captain among them +when they were alive." + +These words were spoken as we were moving onwards towards this same grove +of pines, and before he had made an end of speaking, we could clearly hear +the wind sighing among their branches, and along the dry underground. And +on coming to them I found that he had said truly there was a tomb in the +midst of them, for a very noble, high, circular tower was indeed there, +which, from the grayness of its walls, and luxuriance of ivy, had the +appearance of being at least as ancient as any of the surrounding trees. +The only method of access to the inside, seemed to be by means of a +winding stair, which rose on the exterior from the ground to the summit--a +method not unusual in Roman sepulchres--and it was on one of the steps of +this stair that I seated myself, where, between the shaded wall on the one +side, and the pine branches on the other, I was effectually concealed. As +for Dromo, I know not whether it was that he coveted not exactly such +close proximity to the stones of such an edifice; but instead of ascending +with me, he took up a position beside one of the largest pines over +against me. + +Although the moon had got rid of her clouds, and the sky, where any of it +could be seen, was abundantly brilliant, the natural darkness of that +funereal grove was such, that very little difference could be produced in +the midst of it by any variation on the face of any nightly luminary. The +tower itself received some of the moonbeams on its carved surface; but its +contemporary trees participated not in any such illumination,--one solemn +shade covering all things beneath the influence of their growth. "I can +scarcely see you, Dromo," said I; "but I think that speck must be your +beard, and if so, I beg you would tell me what it is you really have in +view by all this preparation? Do you expect me to stay here on a +tomb-stone all night, merely because you wish to have an opportunity of +terrifying poor Rubellia by some ghost-like howl or other when she passes +you?--which, by the way, it seems by no means certain she will do at all. +Or what is your purpose?"--"Hush!" was his answer; "ask no questions, but +hem thrice if you hear a footstep--for young ears are the keenest." +Accordingly silence was kept so strictly, that, in spite of the chillness +of the stone on which I sate, I presently fell into a sort of dozing +slumber. + +By degrees, however,--nor, considering the hour and the fatigue I had +undergone, is it wonderful that it should have been so,--my sleep must have +become sufficiently profound, for I did not at first, on waking from it, +very well remember either where I was, or for what purpose I had come +thither. And, indeed, I have little doubt my slumbers might have continued +till day-break, but for the interruption I am now to mention. + +And yet it seemed as if even in my sleep I had been prepared for this by +some strange anticipation, for although it was a near sound of singing +voices that dispelled my slumbers, and made me start from the stone on +which I had placed myself, I could not help feeling as if that sound were +not altogether new to me;--whether it were that the half-sensible ear had +been already ministering indistinctly to the dreaming spirit, or that some +purely fantastic prelude had been vouchsafed to the real music. I started +up suddenly, that much is certain, and listened with astonishment, yet not +altogether with such surprise as might have been expected to attend a +transition so hasty from sleep to waking, and from silence to the near +neighbourhood of sounds at once so strange and so sweet. With breathless +curiosity, nevertheless, with awe, and not entirely I think without +terror, did I listen to the notes which seemed to ascend out of the +habitation of the noble dead into the nightly air--wild, yet solemn, as if +breathed from the bosom of a stately repose and a pensive felicity; +insomuch, that almost I persuaded myself I was hearing the forbidden +sounds of another world, and the thought came over me,--yet almost I think +at that moment without farther disturbing me,--what fearful interpretations +the old poets have affixed to such untimely communion, and how the +superstition of all antiquity has shrunk from its omen. + +My first impulse, after a moment had elapsed, was to call on Dromo, and I +did so, at first in a low whisper, and then two or three times more +loudly--but all equally in vain, for no answer was returned; and though I +strained my eyes in gazing on the place where I had last seen him, yet +there I could perceive no trace whatever of any human figure. The +moonlight indeed shewed with more distinctness than before the tall stem +of the old pine-tree against which he had been leaning; but no motion, nor +the least appearance of whiteness, could either my eyes or my imagination +discover there. I might easily, you will say, have stept across the road, +and entirely satisfied myself; but I know not well what it was that nailed +me to the place where I stood, and prevented me even from once thinking of +doing so. The calm sepulchral music, my friends, still continued to stream +from the recess of the mausoleum, and painless awe held me there, as if by +a charm incontrollable. I gazed upwards, and beheld the moon riding above +the black pine tops, in a now serene and cloudless heaven. The wind also +had passed away, as it appeared, with the clouds it had agitated. The bird +of night was asleep on her unseen bough; and all was silent as death, +except only the dwelling of the departed; and a certain indescribable +delight was beginning, as I gazed and listened, to be mixed with the +perturbation wherewith at first I had been inspired. + +And I know not how long I might have stood so, but while I was yet +listening to this mysterious music, there was mingled with its expiring +cadence the sound of a heavy footstep on the staircase above me, and +looking up, I perceived in the moonlight the figure of a man, clad in a +white gown, but having a naked sword stretched forth in his hand, +immediately over the place whereon I was standing. I obeyed the first +natural impulse, and leaped downwards swiftly on seeing him; but this +availed me nothing, for he also leaped, and almost before my feet had +touched the ground, I felt the grasp of his hand upon my shoulder, and +that so strongly, that I perceived plainly there was as little possibility +of escape as of resistance. I made therefore no farther effort, but +suffered him to do with me as he pleased; and he, on his part, said not a +single word, but still retaining his hold, pointed with his sword to the +same steps from which I had descended, and compelled me to mount them +before him, up to the very summit of the round tower. + +"Why is this, sir?" said I; "and whither do you conduct me?" + +"Peace," was all his answer; and, in like manner as he had made me climb +the exterior, so also he compelled me to begin the descent of a similar +flight of steps, which led down from an aperture above, into the interior +of the edifice. And although I must confess to you that I obeyed not this +silent guidance without considerable fear, yet I strove as well as I could +to control myself. I moved with a step in which I think not there could be +perceived any trembling. + +Yet you will admit that even had I been master at that moment of less +firmness, I might have been excusable; for looking down, I perceived that +a lamp was burning in the midst of the sepulchral tower far below me, and +saw sitting around it a company of eight or ten persons, at whose mercy, +it was quite visible, I must be placed. Neither, if I might judge from the +demeanour of the person that was bringing me into their assembly, did +there appear to be any great room for dependance on them; for, as to +themselves, not one of them looked up towards me as I was stepping down, +and being wrapped in their cloaks, I had no means of discovering what +manner of persons they were. The way in which I had been treated, however, +by one of their number, was a sufficient evidence, either that they +conceived themselves to have been injured by my being there, or that they +were capable of taking some undue advantage of my helpless condition. The +calmness of their attitudes, and the recollection of the sounds that I had +heard, inclined me to the former of these suppositions; and when I +perceived that not one of them stirred, even till I had reached the +lowmost step of the interior staircase, in this, without question, I +already felt myself considerably strengthened. + +"Behold," said my guide, as I at length touched the marble floor of the +mausoleum itself--"Behold proof, and that living, that my suspicions were +not quite so groundless as you were pleased to imagine. Here is a man whom +I found listening, even on the very steps of this tower. It is for you to +decide what shall be done with the eaves-dropper." + +With this the whole company sprung at once to their feet, and I perceived +evidently, from the surprise expressed in their looks and attitudes, that +until that moment not one of them had been aware of my approach. I was +about to speak, and declare my innocence of any treachery, or even of any +knowledge concerning the purpose of their meeting; but before I could do +so, one of them, and I think the oldest of all that were present, having +in an instant recovered the tranquillity which my arrival had disturbed, +said to me in a voice of the utmost gentleness, "Young man, what has +brought thee hither, or who sent thee? Art thou indeed a spy, and was it +thy purpose to betray our assembly?" + +"Sir," said I, "I know nothing of your assembly, or of its purpose; I fell +asleep by accident on the outside of this tower, and, when I awoke, the +music that I heard detained me." + +"Examine the stripling," quoth he that had conducted me--"examine his +person."--"His looks belie him," replied the senior, "if you have cause for +suspicion. But if you will it so, search the young man." And with that my +guide, laying his unsheathed sword upon a table, or altar of black marble, +proceeded to search my garments, and finding in my bosom the scroll which +I had received from Tisias, he glanced on it for a moment, and then +handing it to the senior, said, "Now, sirs, doubt ye if ye will."--"Before +heaven--it is the book of the holy Luke!" said the other; "this is indeed +suspicious. How came this scroll into thy hands, young man? Art thou aware +that one of the books of the Christians has been found in thy bosom?"--"I +know it," said I; "it is one of the books of their faith, and I have read +in it this evening for the first time."--"Then thou art not thyself a +Christian?"--"I received the book from one Christian," said I, waiving the +question; "and I made promise to deliver it into the hands of +another?"--"Name the Christian who gave thee this book!" said my stern +guide.--"Tisias of Antioch," I replied; "the same who died yesterday in the +Amphitheatre."--"Yes," quoth he, again; "and I suppose it was there he gave +it to you. Every one knows the name of Tisias. Name, if you please, the +person to whom you are to deliver the book."--"You shall pardon me," said +I, "that I will not. You may call me an eaves-dropper, if you will; but +you shall find I am no traitor. It is a Roman--a noble Roman lady to whom I +must give this book; and I would not tell you her name although you should +slaughter me here in this tomb, which I have entered living and without +guilt." And having said this, I folded my arms, and stood still, abiding +their will. + +But scarcely had I finished these words, ere I felt a small trembling hand +laid upon my shoulder, and looking round, I perceived Athanasia herself, +who whispered into my ear,--"Valerius, was the book for me? If so, you may +say it boldly, and I will vouch for your word."--"For you, lady," I +answered in the same tone, "and for none other. You well know that I was +present in his prison the night before his death; so far at least you can +confirm what I have said." + +"Sir," said she, addressing the old man that had before questioned me, "I +know this young man: and I believe what he has said, and will be +answerable for his fidelity. It was he that went in to our friend the +other night in his prison, and the book was intrusted to him by the old +man, that it might be given into my hands. His name is Valerius--Caius +Valerius--and he is by birth a noble Roman." + +"Say you so, lady?" interrupted my original conductor; "then I ask his +pardon. I have wronged Caius Valerius; but both you and he must forgive +me, for it must be confessed he was found in a very extraordinary +situation." + +"Even so," I replied, "I have nothing to complain of. I perceive that I am +present in an assembly of Christians; but he shall do me much wrong that +thinks I bear any enmity to them,--or, from all that I have yet seen or +read, to the faith which they profess. I have read part of that book," I +continued, "for I made promise to Tisias that I should do so before giving +it to Athanasia; and I trust I shall still be permitted by her to read +more of it before it is finally demanded from me."--"Oh, read it!" said +Athanasia, gently again whispering to me. "Oh yes, read the book, +Valerius, and may God enlighten the reader." And so saying, she herself +took up the scroll from the table on which it was lying, and gave it again +into my hands.--"There was also a letter for you," said I, receiving it, +"but that I left at home."--"No matter," said Athanasia, "you shall give me +the letter and the book both together hereafter." + +"In the meantime," said I, "I suppose it were better I should retire." + +"Young sir," said the senior, "that is as you please; in a little while we +shall all be moving towards the city. Stay with us till then, if such be +your will; that which you may hear, can at least do you no harm. Already, +I doubt not, you have seen enough to despise the ignorant calumnies of our +enemies." + +When he had said so, the old man walked to the side of the sepulchre, and +took out from behind one of the urns that stood there, (ranged in their +niches,) a small casquet, which, returning, he placed before him on the +marble table. Then, opening the casquet, he brought forth a silver goblet, +and a salver containing some little pieces of bread; and, untying from his +neck a massive cross of gold, he set that also on the table, between the +cup and the salver. In brief, the Christian priest, (for such, as you +already see, he was,) had finished his preparation, and was about to +commence the administration of the blessed Eucharist. And when all the +rest were kneeling before the table, Athanasia, laying her hand upon my +arm, beckoned to me to kneel by her side; and so indeed I would have done +in my ignorance, had not the priest himself pointed to a station a few +yards behind the lady, to which, accordingly, I drew back--apart from those +who were to be privileged with the participation of those holy symbols. + +Scarcely had they composed themselves in their places, and listened to the +first words of the appointed service, when I, standing there by myself, +thought, unless my ears deceived me, there must be some one on the outer +stair-case of the tower; and my eyes instinctively, I suppose, were fixed +upon the aperture, which, as I have told you, was in the high roof above +the circle of the niched walls. Here, however, when I first looked, there +was nothing to be seen, but the round spot of the sky, far up in the midst +of the marble roof; but while I was looking steadfastly, that space was +suddenly diminished; and a dog bayed, and at the same moment a voice which +I well knew, screamed, "I have them--I hold them--let them burst the net if +they can." + +The cry of Pona disturbed effectually the Christian priest, and the whole +of those that were with him. Rising up hastily from their knees, they +stood all together around the table, while the old man, having kissed both +the cup and the cross, restored them as quickly as he could to the casket +from which they had been taken. But while the priest was doing this, he +that found me on the stair appearing to revert into his suspicion, and +looking sternly upon me where I stood, said, "Is this then the innocence +which we spared! Is this the noble Roman for whom Athanasia pledged +herself? Speak, brethren, what shall be done to this traitor, by whom, +even more than by those dogs of the tombs, it is a shame for us that we +have been hunted?" Saying so, the man lifted up his sword again, and it +seemed as if he would have smitten me to the ground without farther +question. But Athanasia threw herself swiftly between him and me. "For +shame, Cotilius," said she; "such suspiciousness is unworthy of a Roman +knight."--"You say well, noble damsel," quoth the old priest, interrupting +her; "but you might say also that such cruelty is unworthy of a soldier of +Christ. Peace, peace, children; there is no evil in the youth, nor, if +there were, would it be our part to avenge it." + +While he was saying this, three or four blazing torches were thrust down +into the place from above, and Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, +said, "Look up, Caius, I see helmets.--Alas! am I not already here? why, if +they will slay me, should they drag me away now from the tomb of my +fathers?" I felt the trembling of her hands, and she leaned upon my +shoulder. I know not, I will confess to you, whether at that moment I +tasted more of pleasure or of pain. + +But by this time several of the soldiers had already begun to descend into +the tower, and before another minute had elapsed, we found ourselves +surrounded by the flame of their torches. And he that seemed to lead the +party, after counting us one by one, said, turning to his companions, +"Well, an old woman has told the truth for once--here are even more I think +than she warned us of.--Come along, worthy people, you must not keep the +Tribune waiting for you all night, and our watch is well-nigh expired +already. Come, mount the stair--it will take a good half hour yet, I +believe, to lodge you all safely in the Tullian--And do you," he added, +laying his hand on the hilt of Cotilius' sword--"do you, brave sir, allow +me to save you the trouble of carrying this bauble." Nor was the stern +knight so foolish as to dispute the command; but having yielded up his +sword, he forthwith began to ascend, one or two spearmen preceding him +with their torches. The priest followed, and so did the rest; the last +being Athanasia and myself. + +On every side around the old tower, when I looked from the summit of it, I +perceived foot soldiers drawn up in a double line, while the road along +which I had come with Dromo, was occupied by a band of horsemen, one of +whom moved forward when he saw us descending, as if to take cognizance of +the number and quality of the surprised assembly. His long cloak being +muffled about his ears as he sate, and the shadow of his helmet falling +deeply, I did not at first suspect who it was; but he had not counted half +the party to the superior Officer behind him, ere I recognized him from +the sound of his voice; and who, think ye, should it be but my good friend +Sabinus? + +The Centurion, when his eye detected me, checked his horse so sharply that +the animal bounded into the air; and, "Valerius!" quoth he, "ha! by the +life of Csar, what is the meaning of this? Valerius in a Christian +synagogue! By all the gods, there must be some mistake." But before I, in +my confusion, could make any answer to these exclamations, his eye chanced +to glance on Athanasia, who, trembling, still retained the support of my +arm; whereupon, "Ha! ha!" said he, in a quite different tone of voice, +"there is a lady in the case." And then, stooping in his seat, he +whispered, half laughing, into my ear, "My most hypocritical smooth-face, +you shall see what is the consequence of bringing these transatlantic +pranks of yours to Rome. By Hercules, you wild dog, it may cost you some +little trouble to get out of this scrape." + +Having said so, he turned his horse, and rejoining the troop, appeared to +enter into close conversation with him who sate at the head of the line. +Of what my friend said, I could catch nothing more than certain vehement +oaths, while, all the time, the Tribune (for such he was) continued to +shake his head, in a way significant at once of doubt and determination. +The end was, that he pointed with his sword; and Sabinus forced his horse +backwards, at one plunge, into the place from which he had advanced. + +Our party were immediately separated one from another. I saw the priest +lifted on a mule and hurried away towards the city, with a horseman on +each hand of him. The fiery Cotilius, and one or two more, were compelled +to follow, with similar attendance, in the same direction; others, again, +had their horses' heads turned more to the westward--but all departed at +speed, and were soon lost to my view among the projections of the tombs. +The last that remained to be disposed of were Athanasia and myself, and +for a moment I had some hope that we might perhaps be intrusted to the +same guards; but this hope was in vain, and after I perceived that it was +so, scarcely even was time permitted to me for bidding her farewell. To +kiss her hand, and to whisper a single word of parting hope into her ear, +was all I could do. A tear rolled from her cheek and fell upon my hand; +yet she smiled faintly upon me, and "Hope," said she--"yes, dear Valerius, +Hope and Faith both go with me." And with that the pale maiden was +separated from the arm to which she had trusted, and I saw her also +mounted and borne away rapidly. A moment after, I found myself, in like +manner, seized and lifted upon a horse, and almost before I could look +around me, we had escaped from the flare of the torches, and the crowd of +the soldiery, and were stretching at a rapid pace, I knew not whither, +although I suspected, from the width of the road, that we had regained the +Appian. + +But I have forgotten to mention to you, that just at the moment when they +were lifting Athanasia upon the mule that was to bear her from my sight, +my eye caught a glimpse of the witch Pona, who was sitting at the root of +one of the pine-trees, close to the tower. And behind her stood, leaning +against the tree, a figure wrapped in a rich red cloak, which I suspected +to be a female also, but could not be certain, because the countenance was +concealed in the folds of the garment. To this person, whoever it might +be, the witch turned round eagerly, while the soldiers were carrying off +Athanasia. I saw no more, for, as I have told you, immediately afterwards +I also was carried away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +Our hasty pace had not borne us to any great distance from the place where +all these things occurred, ere the sky, which, as ye have heard, had all +that night been sufficiently variable, began to exhibit appearances which +my two companions interpreted as significant of the approach of one of +those nocturnal storms, to which, at that season of the year, the fair +heaven of Italy is peculiarly subject. That they apprehended somewhat of +this sort, I perceived from their looks, as they stopped for a moment to +draw the hoods of their mantles over their brazen helmets; for words they +uttered none, either to me or to each other, until our journey drew near +its close. For me, however, the numberless agitations through which I had +passed in the course of the few preceding hours, had, I suppose, +communicated an unnatural measure of ardour to my boyish blood; for +neither did I feel the night-breeze chill me as we rushed through it, nor +partook, in any sort, of the desire my companions testified to cover +themselves from the rain, which seemed to be about to discharge itself out +of all those black and lowering clouds now gathered above our heads from +every region of the heavens. When, on the contrary, the first heavy drops +fell, I bared my forehead with the eagerness of one who, in a parched +region, comes suddenly upon the margin of a well-spring. Nor did this +sensation subside even after the storm had thickened to the utmost, and +the dusty roads had drunk abundantly of the plashing rain. The strong wind +blew with redoubled coolness upon my moistened neck--the rain-drops dashed +on my hot hands; and I perceived, that, as is the nature of those animals, +the thunder which was mustering in the air, filled my horse one moment +with dread, and the next with a blind fierceness. At last the thunder +shouted over-head, and its echoes spread wide and far on either side, +until they seemed to be absorbed to the left in the remote depths of the +Appenine, and on the right hand in the measureless bosom of the Western +Sea--of which, as we galloped along the hill side, the broad lightning +(unless my fancy deceived me) revealed ever and anon a distant and +melancholy glimpse. + +We had passed a hill covered with towns, villages, and stately mansions, +(which I afterwards learned was no other than the famous Alban,) ere the +storm subsided beneath the influence of the reddening dawn. Yet even then +we slackened not our pace, although the horses were by this time not a +little exhausted with the swiftness of their motion, and the weight of +their wet riders. On rode we in the growing light of the morning; but I +perceived ere long that we had left the wide and magnificent Appian Way, +and were pursuing the line of a narrower road, which seemed to carry us +more and more westward. + +We halted for a moment on the brow of a declivity, where three paths +separated; and I perceived that among my guides there was some little +uncertainty as to which of these it behoved them to follow. While they +were muttering together, I looked and beheld at length the wide sea +heaving far below, over what appeared to me to be a forest as mighty as I +had ever seen in my native island. + +Old hoary oaks leaned on either hand quite over the narrow path-way, into +which (after their brief pause of consultation) my conductors directed our +course. Here and there, such a shield had those huge leafy boughs extended +over the road, that the dust rose from amongst the feet of our horses as +if all that night not one drop of rain had fallen there; although +elsewhere, in the absence of such mighty trees, the water lying across the +path in pools testified abundantly that the tempest had not spared the +forest any more than the champaign. Vast waving gulfs of bay and ilex, +with here and there some solitary pine raising itself proudly in the +midst, seemed to stretch away on either hand between the groves of those +gigantic oaks. + +The path we followed carried us ever deeper and deeper into the bosom of +the woods; and, at length, so buried were we in the windings of their +stifling shade, that I had lost all notion of the direction in which I was +moving; until, after two or three hot hours, weary man and jaded horse +were, I believe, equally delighted with snuffing once more the open +current of the air. We reached not the edge of the forest, however, before +I could hear distinctly the dashing of the Mediterranean waves; and the +last ascent we climbed laid open to my view a long sweep of the rolling +waters, and their rocky coast garnished every where with the richness of +superincumbent woods. Far, very far, in the distant north, I thought I +could recognize some of the stately towers of Ostium, bosomed apparently +within the billows over which they presided. All between was one wide +waste of wood and rock, save here and there a watch-tower perched on the +margin, and whitened half-way up with the foam of the yet uncalmed sea. + +Then, nor ever could I look upon the waters of the great deep, without +something of that filial yearning which seems so natural to every native +of our sea-girt island. But neither could I contrast the condition in +which I now approached it, with the gay and hopeful mood in which I had so +lately left it behind me, without many thoughts more sad and serious than +as yet had frequently visited my bosom. What a strange brood of visions +had passed before my eyes, since, but a few days before, I stept for the +first time, light of heart, beneath the shadow of those far-off bulwarks! +What new emotions had arisen, in the interval! How had every sense been +gratified! how had every dream of imagination been exceeded! Yet what a +void had been revealed within!--Alas! said I to myself, why is it that I +have been subjected to all these novelties? Had I not done better to have +remained, after all, where life flowed ever calmly--where affection hung +over me like a protecting buckler, and my soul could sleep in the security +of unbroken faith! But this was only for a moment. The thoughts of +Athanasia haunted me more deeply and more firmly. I thought over every +word she had spoken--every look of hers rose up in succession, with all the +vividness of a beautiful and a troubled dream. I seemed to feel, as if she +were yet present beside me, the trembling of her pale fingers upon my +shoulder--I kissed the hand on which her parting tear had fallen, as if it +were yet wet with the dear moisture. When I thought of the perils in which +she must now be enveloped--of the pains she must have suffered--must at that +moment be suffering,--it was as if I could have burst bands of iron, like +flax, from off my hands. When a glimpse of the darker future opened before +me, I shuddered, and, urging my poor horse onwards in the recklessness of +total abstraction, I perceived that even my guides pitied the agony of my +despair. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +We stopped before one of the watch-towers which, as I have told you, I had +seen scattered along the edge of the sea. But this, when we came up to it, +appeared larger than I had expected to find any of them. The narrow way, +alongst which we had been riding, brought us close to its gate, on the +side towards the land; but the rock shelving rapidly on the other side, +gave it the semblance, at a little distance, of being suspended over the +waves. + +It was a building of rude, and apparently very antique structure, the +under part square, but the upper circular; as is, for the most part, the +old Roman fashion in such erections. And this, indeed, I doubt not, might +have stood there long enough to have shewn a beacon, when some fleet of +Syracuse or Carthage darkened the blue sea over against the Lestrigonian +bay renowned in old song, or the snow-white promontory of Gaieta. + +One of the soldiers dismounted, and began to knock rather violently at the +door; but some little time elapsed ere any sound from within responded to +the clamour he raised. At last a hard and withered face made its +appearance at a little opening above the door, and then the helmets +passed, I suppose, for a sufficient warrant, for in a twinkling we heard +the bolts creaking; the old postern was soon set ajar, and forth stepped +the venerable keeper. Imagine a tall, skinny man of threescore years, with +a face as dry and yellow as ye have seen on the outside of a pye, and hair +as white as ever the skill of a confectioner could represent, and legs +bearing the same proportion to the feet, which the shaft of Saturn's +scythe usually does to its blade. Clothe the nether part of this figure in +Dacian, or Gaulish breeches, throw a somewhat threadbare cloak over his +shoulders, and to finish the outfit, deck his head with a casque of the +Macedonian cut, that is to say, sitting close above the ears, and topped +with a bristling plume of horse hair. The Warder stood with dignity, and +listened with gravity, while one of my Prtorians whispered his message. +On its conclusion, he shrugged his shoulders, and regarding me with a +glance made up, I think, in pretty equal proportions, of surprise and +contempt, signified by the motion of his hand that we might all three +enter. He whistled at the same moment, and there came forth a comely +damsel, who, with many blushes and smiles, took possession of the reins of +our horses.--"Stand there," quoth he, "stand there, little Cestia, and see +if there be never a handful of corn to be got for the prince's +cattle,--stand there, and we shall be with you again anon." And then he +also whispered something into the maiden's ear, and I saw her looking at +me from under her eyelids with an expression of very uncommon curiosity. +Two or three curly-pated urchins, of different sizes, joined her at the +same moment, and to them, in her turn, the maiden whispered; whereupon the +eldest of the children retreating behind her, eyed me earnestly along the +skirt of her tunic, while the younger ones continued to gaze where they +were, with looks of open stupidity and wonder. Of all this I could make +nothing at the moment, but when we had got fairly into the inside of the +tower, I heard the children whispering to each other, "A Christian! A +Christian! A Jew! A Jew!" + +The lower part of the tower, into which I had now been conducted, seemed +to form nothing more than one huge, bare, and quadrangular apartment, +serving, I supposed (and rightly) at once as hall and vestibule to the +upper chambers contained within the walls. A small flight of steps, in one +of the corners, seemed to afford the only means of access to what was +above; but from the position of a door immediately below these, it was we +inferred that there were vaults under ground. Close beside this door there +stood, upon a very rude pedestal, a still more rude bust, either of +Jupiter, of Apollo, or of Hercules. The workmanship was such, that I could +not be very certain which of the family it was intended to represent, nor +whether the principal appendage was a club, a lyre, a bow, or a +thunder-bolt; but it did not escape my observation, that the old keeper +crept as close as he could to the sacred stone, as soon as I stepped over +the threshold. + +One of the little boys that had come out to the door on our arrival, +busied himself in setting forth a wooden board, whereon he placed in great +order a huge piece of yellow cheese, and a heap of crisp white cakes of +rye. A large jug of water also garnished the mess; but there seemed to be +a little less of diligence, or more of difficulty, about the wine. After +some pause, however, the mistress of the garrison appeared. A string of +amber beads floated to and fro on the ocean of her bosom. She had fine +golden bracelets on her arms too, but they were only half seen, being +almost buried in fat; and she wore a flaxen wig, which did not entirely +conceal the dark bristles below. At the girdle of the amazon hung, on the +right side, the much desiderated bunch of keys, being balanced on the left +by a dagger and toothpick case, almost of equal dimensions. + +"Will _you_ drink to Csar, young man?" cried the matron, ere the sitting +had been much prolonged; "will you drink honestly to the Emperor, in case +you also have a full cup given you? and, by the by, I think you must have +almost as much need of it as the rest." And, with this courteous +invitation, I heard her whisper to one of my guards,--"By Jove, 'tis a +proper lad, after all; is this true that they have told me of him? Why, I +believe, the young man has a red edge to his gown. What is his name? who +is he?"--I heard him answer,--"By the life of Csar, you know as much about +him as any of us. There was a whole cluster taken last night a little way +beyond the Capene-Gate, and he was one; but what they were about, or who +he is, I know not, only he is certainly somebody, for I saw our Centurion +salute him."--"I saw him with Sabinus," whispered the other--"I am quite +sure of it, the last day the Amphitheatre was open; they sate together, +and appeared familiar."--"I pray you, sir," quoth the lady, raising her +voice,--"I pray you fill your cup, and here I pledge you to our better +acquaintance. You shake your head--well. But what must be, must; and while +you are with us, we may at least be good friends."--"Thanks," said I, +complying with her command; "Here, then, is health to all present; and +fair health to the great Trajan, says no one here more heartily than I."--I +drank off the wine, and setting down the goblet, I believe I said, +"Excellent, by Jove," or something of that sort; for they all started when +they heard what I said, and the old woman called out lustily, "Fill him +another cup to the brim, whether he be Christian or not. The young man at +least swears by the gods, and drinks to Csar." + +"The old man," observed one of the soldiers,--"he that was killed the other +day in the Amphitheatre--he might have saved his head, even at the last +moment, if he would have done as much."--"Well, well," quoth she again; +"let every one mind his own matters. Husband, bring down your book, and +let the new-comer enter his name with his own hand." + +Having drained his cup, the keeper rose, and ere long returned with a +musty scroll of parchment, which, having blown away the dust from it, he +presented to me. I glanced over the record, and found in it the names of +various persons, all apparently entered in their own handwriting; and most +of them, as I could perceive, bearing date in the troublous reign of +Domitian. The last was that of Marcus Protius Lamontanus, who, as it +seemed, had been set free from his confinement immediately on the +accession of Nerva; and immediately under this I wrote my own name, with +that of my birthplace. The keeper read, and said, "So preserve me the +power of Jove! A Valerius! and born in Britain! Can you be the son of the +same Valerius who was Centurion in the ninth legion under Agricola?"--"You +have guessed rightly--I am the same."--"Then the more is the pity," he +replied, in a grave voice, "that you should have entered, in such a case +as this, the dwelling of one that was a true soldier beneath the eagle of +your father. But forgive me if in any thing we have been +disrespectful."--"There is no occasion," said I, "for any such apology. I +am here as a prisoner, and have been treated with all courtesy beyond what +a prisoner could expect." + +"By Hercules!" interrupted the spouse, "I thought I had some knowledge of +the face--Well, I hope ten years hence he will be as fine a man as his +father was the day he slew the Caledonian giant, and tumbled him from his +chariot in front of all the line--yes, in sight of Galgacus himself. It was +the same day," said she, turning to her lord, "that you were taken +prisoner, and driven away into the woods."--"As witness these marks," quoth +the man; and with that he stripped open his tunic, and displayed part of +his breast, stamped with various figures of blue and yellow, after the +northern fashion, and bearing withal the traces of two formidable wounds. + +The woman redoubled her kindness; but not wishing to interrupt festivity, +I soon requested her to shew me the place where I was to be confined. And, +indeed, as you may imagine, I had by this time not a little need of +repose. + +Both she and her husband accordingly rose to usher me to my prison. I gave +money to the soldiers, and requested them to inform Sabinus of the place +to which I had been conveyed; but did not choose to write any thing, +either to him or to Licinius, until I should have had a little time for +reflection. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +My fatigue brought speedy sleep; and so profound, that before I again +unclosed my eyes, the calm sea was already purple below me, and the sun +about to set. But neither purple sea, nor golden sky, nor all the divine +tranquillity of the evening air, could sooth my mind into repose, after I +had once awaked to a sense of the situation into which I had been +brought--I should say rather of the situation in which Athanasia was +placed. For myself, I could not in seriousness fear any calamity worthy of +the name,--if such should come, it must be my business to wrestle with it +as I might. But to think of her, young, beautiful, innocent; and of all to +which she might be exposed amidst the rude hands in which I had left her! + +Some time had passed before my attention was attracted by a conversation +carried on in the chamber below me, in which you will not be surprised +that I should have felt myself interested, even although the distance was +such that I could not distinguish one word that was said. I knew from the +first moment that it was impossible I should be mistaken--I was perfectly +certain it was Sabinus himself, who was talking with the old woman; and I +at once suspected that the worthy Centurion, having learned from the +soldiers who carried me off, to what place they had conveyed me, had +undertaken this speedy journey, for the purpose of comforting me in my +confinement. The kindness with which he had treated me from the beginning +of our acquaintance had been such, that I could have no occasion to wonder +at his exerting himself to discover me; but I confess this alacrity was +more than I had been prepared for, and I waited only for the moment when +he should enter my apartment to throw myself upon his bosom, and intrust +all my troubles to him, as to a friend and a brother. There was something, +however, which I could not at all comprehend in the merriment which seemed +to be reigning below on his arrival. Peals of female laughter interrupted +the uniform hearty tone of the Centurion's voice; and the feeble treble of +the old Warder himself was stretched ever and anon in attempt at a +chuckle. + +At last in they came, and Sabinus, embracing me affectionately, thrust +into my hand a piece of parchment, which I perceived to be nothing less +than an order for my immediate release. Then taking off his riding-cap, +and rubbing with his handkerchief his most audacious and soldier-looking +brows, "My dear boy," quoth he, "I see you are going to thank me--but wound +not modesty by fine speeches. There was war before Helen--have a better +care another time, and don't pay Rome such a poor compliment, as to say +that you can find nobody to charm you but a Christian damsel, and no place +for flirtation but a gloomy tomb lined with urns and lachrymatories. My +honest friend here was quite frightened with the idea of having such an +unbelieving reprobate as they said you were, under the same roof with her +children. But now her fears are dispelled, for good souls are always +tolerant to the little vagaries of young blood; so thank your hostess, my +lad, kiss her hand, take one cup to the hearth of the old tower, and +tighten your girdle." + +"Well!" quoth the woman; "who should have thought when the soldiers +brought him in with such mystery, that it was all for kissing by +moonlight! I protest to Venus, they would have made me believe he had been +caught eating an infant; but still I cannot quite pardon him. Well--well--we +must e'en take good hope he will mend ere he dies." + +"Die?" cried the Centurion; "do you talk of dying to one that has scarcely +yet begun to live!--Come, come, Caius, I hope, after all, you may never get +into a worse scrape." + +"And if I do," said I, "I hope I shall always be equally fortunate in my +jailers." + +"By the beard of Jove!" quoth Sabinus, "it needs no great skill to see +that you have been fortunate in that respect. I swear that, if the truth +were known, you are almost as unwilling to leave this tower now, as you +were last night to be torn away from another." + +"Oh, Master Kso," quoth she again, "when will you have done with your +joking? Well, your father loved a jest in his time himself; but now he, I +suppose, is quiet enough. And he, good old man, how does he wear?--Can he +still sit in his porch of a fine morning, and listen to the news, as he +used to do, with his cup at his knee?" + +"I trust the old grasshopper can still chirp when the sun shines. But to +tell you the truth, it is long since I have seen him; and if this young +blade has no objection, I mean to pay him a visit this very night. I am +only just come home from Britain, and have not yet had leisure to salute +my Lares." + +I said something about being anxious to return as soon as possible to +Rome; but the Centurion answered me with another shout, "Come, come; she's +safe enough. I suppose you think every one gets out of jail as easily as +yourself." + +I found it was out of the question to disapprove of any of the schemes of +Sabinus; so, having saluted the hostess, and flung my purse to her +children, (who, by the way, still regarded me with looks of apprehension,) +I accompanied him with a good grace to the gate. I made inquiry before I +went forth concerning the old jailer likewise; but I could easily gather +from the expression of face with which his wife accompanied her indistinct +reply, that he had, long before that time, reached a state in which she +felt little desire to exhibit him. The Centurion whistled as he stepped +across the threshold, and there forthwith drew near a soldier, wearing the +Prtorian helmet, (now sufficiently familiar to my sight,) and leading in +his hand three horses. In the rear, I recognized, not without +satisfaction, the busy countenance of my friend Dromo, whose ass did not +appear quite so eager to join the party as its rider. A few sturdy thumps, +however, at last brought the Cretan close to us, who saluted me with great +appearance of joy, and then whispered into my ear, "Great Jove! we must +keep silence for the present. What a story I have to tell; and I suppose +there is one to hear likewise--but all in good season. We must not crack +nuts before monkeys. I have a letter for you," he added, "from Sextus, and +another from Licinius." + +The Centurion sprung on his trusty war-horse, who seemed to rejoice in the +feeling of his weight; and we were soon in motion. I asked no questions +either about the course or distance, but rode by his side so silently, +that he bestowed on me many good-natured rebukes, for suffering a little +affair of love to distress me so greatly. "Cheer up now," quoth he, "and +do not make me repent of carrying you to my father's house, by shewing the +old man, who has had enough of troubles, such a countenance as must make +him think of Orcus, even although he did not know himself to be near its +gates. It is more than a year since I have seen him." + +This sort of speech he repeated so often, that I thought the best way +would be to tell him frankly the true history of the adventure, from whose +immediate consequences he had delivered me. I told him, therefore, every +thing about both Tisias and Athanasia, and, indeed, kept nothing from him +in the whole matter, except only what referred to the impression made on +my own mind by what I had read of the Christian book,--for, as to this +subject, it was one which I totally despaired of being able to make him in +any measure comprehend,--and besides, the state of my own mind was still so +uncertain in regard to it, and my information so imperfect, that I could +not trust myself with speaking of it to any one, until I should have had +leisure for more both of reading and of reflection. + +He preserved silence for some minutes, and then said, "In truth, Caius, +you have distressed me. I thought it was merely some little frolic born of +an hour, to be forgotten in a day; but I cannot refuse you my sympathy. +Would I had more to offer!"--"Dear Sabinus," said I, "I know not how to +thank you. You saw me but a few days ago the merriest young fellow that +ever trod the pavement of Rome--happy in the moments that passed, and full +of glad hopes for all that were to come; but now I feel myself quite +changed. Almost I wish I had never left my British fields; and yet I +should never have seen Athanasia."--"Poor fellow!" quoth he, laying his +hand on the mane of my horse, "I perceive there is, indeed, no trifling in +your case. Compose yourself; whatever chances there may be in your favour +will never be bettered by despondence." He paused a little, and +proceeded--"The worst of the whole is this new bitterness against these +Christians. Except during Nerva's time, there was always some punishment +to be feared by them, in case of being detected; but there was a way of +managing things in almost every case, and people were well enough disposed +to grant immunities which were always attended with some good to the Fisk. +Nero and Domitian, to be sure, acted otherwise--but these were madmen; and +even they did so only by fits and starts. But now, when a prince like +Trajan has taken up the matter, it is no wonder that one should consider +it more seriously. One cannot help fancying he must have had some good +reason before he began--that is one thing; and having once begun, he is not +the man to drop it lightly--which is a more weighty consideration. Do you +think there is positively no chance of her giving up this dream, when she +finds what it has exposed her to?" + +"No," said I; "I am sure she will not, nor can I wish it would be +otherwise with her." + +"Well," he resumed, "I enter into your feelings so far, my friend, even on +that point. I cannot imagine you to have been so deeply smitten with a +girl of a flighty unsteady character. But then this is not a case to be +judged of on common principles. It is no light thing to be exposed to such +examinations as are now set afoot for these people; and if she behaves +herself so resolutely as you seem to expect, what is the end of it? I +consider it highly probable--for there is no friendship in uncandid +speaking--that, in spite of all her friends can do, they will banish her at +the very least; scarcely dare I speak of it, but even worse than +banishment has heretofore befallen Romans--ay, Roman ladies too,--and these +as high in birth and place as Athanasia." + +"My dear Sabinus," said I, "do not imagine that now for the first time all +these things are suggested to me. Imagine rather, how, unable for a moment +to expel them from my mind, I have spent these miserable hours. Her +friends, too, what must not be their alarm!" + +"The thing was so done," quoth the Centurion, "that I think it is +impossible it should have made much noise as yet. If there was in the +family no suspicion that the lady had any connection with these people, +they must be in perfect perplexity. I lay my life they take it for granted +she has had some private intrigue, and has gone off with her lover." + +"Alas!" said I, "when they hear the truth, it will be still worse than +this in their eyes. Yet it appears fit that no time should be lost in +making them acquainted with the real state of the case. O Sabinus, I +foresee that in all these things I shall have need of your counsel and +your help." + +"You shall have them both, my dear boy," said he,--"you shall have them +both to the uttermost. But there is no question at all about the propriety +of telling the relations all you know. Licinius is probably well +acquainted with them. I am almost sorry for having prevented your +immediate return to the city; and yet one night will soon be over." + +"But Athanasia herself----" + +"Ah! that indeed is a point of some difficulty. It was merely from having +remembered who the men were that rode off with you, that I was enabled to +learn so soon whither you yourself had been conveyed. But the party +consisted of a few men out of almost every one of our cohorts,--those, in +short, that were on duty, scattered up and down in different parts of the +city; and I may not find it very easy to discover who had the care of any +other individual." + +"But Athanasia----" + +"True," said he, "I had not thought of it. There was but one female +besides herself. That will furnish a clue. You may rely on it, I shall +easily find out the place to which they have taken her; but then where, +and at what distance that may be, Heaven only knows; for it seemed as if +every prisoner were to be carried to a separate place of confinement. At +all events, even if we knew where she is, we could do nothing at present. +Come, cheer up, now you have unburdened yourself of all this load. I shall +be ready to start as early as ever you please in the morning." + +By this time the moon was in full splendour, and nothing could be more +beautiful than the scenery of the native place of Sabinus, as we drew near +to its precincts. A little gentle stream, which kissed our path, did not +desert us as we entered the village, but murmured all through its humble +street. Street, indeed, I should not say; for there were dwelling-houses +on the one side only, the other being occupied with gardens, in the midst +of which I saw the Doric portico of a small temple. In front of this a +bridge crossed the stream, and there we were met by a troop of maidens, +who seemed to be moving toward the sacred place with some purpose of +devotion, for they were singing in alternate measures, and in their hands +they carried garlands. Some recognized Sabinus, and, without interrupting +their chant, saluted him with their laughing eyes. We halted our horses, +and saw them proceed all together into the hallowed enclosure, which they +did, not by means of the bridge, although they were close by it, but by +wading hand in hand through the stream below; whose pebbles, as it +appeared from the evenness of their motion, dared not to offer any +violence to the delicate feet that trod upon them. "Happy creatures," said +I to the Centurion; "of a surety they think these moonbeams shine on +nothing but glad faces like their own. Alas! with what heart does poor +Athanasia at this moment contemplate this lovely heaven!"--"Nay, Valerius," +quoth he, "if people were not to be contented with their own share of +sorrow, would the world, think ye, be worth living in? I hope Athanasia +herself will ere long sing again by the moonlight.--But stop, here is my +own old haunt, the abode of our village barber, and now I think of it, +perhaps it might be as well that you and Dromo should remain here for a +moment, till I ride on to the house, and let them know you are coming, for +the sudden sight of strange faces might alarm the old folks at this hour." + +He had scarcely said so, when the tonsor himself, hearing, I suppose, the +sound of our horses' feet, ran out with his razor and basin in his hand, +to see what might be the matter. "Ah, good Virro," quoth the Centurion, +"with joy do I once more behold your face. Well, the girls still sing, and +Virro still shaves; so every thing, without question, goes well."--"The +Centurion himself!" replies the barber; "so Venus smile upon me, it is +Kso Sabinus, who I began to think would never come back again.--Here, boy, +bring out a cup of the best. Alight, I pray you--well, at least, you shall +kiss the rim of the goblet."--"I will," said he, "I promise you, my good +friend, and that in a minute or two; but I must first salute my father; +and, in the meantime, I leave with you in pledge, good Virro, my excellent +friend here, and the most knowing Cretan that ever landed at +Brundusium.--Dismount, Valerius, I shall be with you again ere Virro can +half smoothen the chin of Dromo, which even this morning shewed no small +need of trimming."--"Well, well," said the tonsor, "eagles will have their +own way. Be speedy." + +The Centurion had set the spur to his charger; and we, in obedience to his +command, submitted ourselves to the guidance of the oily-faced little +barber. A stripling was already holding two horses at the door, but +another came out and took care of our animals, and we entered, exchanging +courteous salutations, the tonsorial penetralia. + +They were occupied by as various and talkative a company, as the +imagination of Lucilius ever assembled in such a place. In the middle of +the room, which was spacious, though low-roofed, hung a huge shield of +brass, with a dozen mouths of flame blazing around the edge of its +circumference, close beside which sat a man with a napkin tucked about his +neck, the one side of whose visage, still besmeared with a thick coat of +lather, testified that the curiosity of Virro had induced him to abandon a +yet uncompleted job. The half-trimmed physiognomy, however, displayed no +sign of impatience, and the barber himself seemed not to think any apology +necessary, for he resumed his operations with an air of great +cheerfulness, saying, "Neighbours all, here is Kso Sabinus, that is now +the Centurion, come once more to gladden the old village with his merry +face, and that, I promise you, is prettily tanned since we knew him +first." + +This piece of news appeared not a little to interest several of those who +were sitting under the tonsor's roof. "Ha!" said one, "the noble +Centurion! Well, has he brought home a wife with him at last? for the talk +was, that he had been seen at the Amphitheatre, paying great court to one +of the richest ladies in Rome." + +"A wife?" says Virro, "no, no, centurions and barbers can do without +wives. But if he is to have one, I shall be happy to hear she is rich; for +centurions, after all, sometimes carry most of their silver upon their +helmets, as we do most of our brass on our basins."--"Indeed," said I, "I +never heard of it before." + +"If it please you, friend," said another of them, "is this the same +Sabinus that has lately been in Britain?"--"Britain," quoth an ancient +dame; "I never heard that name before--Britain! I know it not--I know not +where he hath been, but they told me it was over the sea, perhaps in +Palestine."--"Tut, dame," interrupted the barber, (who was now busy on +Dromo,) "you think every one goes to Palestine, because your own boy +carried a spear with Titus; but you know they ruined the city, and killed +all the Jews and Christians, and there is no occasion for sending +Centurions thither now."--"Killed all the Jews and Christians, said you?" +quoth another. "I think the old dame has the better of you as to that +point at least, Virro. Not Trajan himself will ever be able to kill them +all; the superstition spreads like a pestilence. It was but last night +that a hundred of them were taken together in one place, eating human +flesh."--"Human flesh!" quoth the barber. "Oh, ye gods, why do ye endure +such barbarians!" + +"Human flesh!" echoed Dromo, springing from his seat, and I looked at him, +and saw that the barber in his horror had made in truth a deep incision +upon the cheek of the poor man. The blood, oozing from the cut, had +already traced a river of crimson upon the snowy surface of his +well-soaped chin. It was this that had deranged the philosophic composure +and customary phlegm of my Cretan; and no wonder; but the enthusiastic +tonsor took no notice of what had occurred.--"Great Jove," he proceeded, +and he pointed to the roof with his razor as he spake--"Great Jove! I +adjure thee! are all thy lightnings spent; is there never a thunderbolt +remaining?" + +"In the meantime," quoth one of the bystanders, "they are in the hand not +of Jove, but of Trajan, and he, I think, cannot now be accused of treating +these wretches with too much lenity. You have all heard of that +Tisias?"--"We have," cried another; "but what was a single individual to +this great assembly? what a sight will it be the day they are all +executed!" + +"I think," said the same person who had inquired whether our Centurion +were the Sabinus that had been in Britain,--"I think you are overrating the +numbers of that assembly. I heard of no more than a dozen." + +This stranger (for such he seemed) had probably taken that day a +considerable journey, for his tunic and boots were covered with dust. He +was attired in the plainest manner, but notwithstanding, there was +something about him which gave one the idea of rank superior to the +company in which he was seated; and his complexion was so dark that I +could not help thinking to myself,--I am not the only provincial in the +room; here is certainly some well-born African or Asiatic. + +"You have not told me, however," said he, after a pause, "whether or not +this be the Sabinus that was lately in Britain."--"Sir," said I, "it is the +same; I myself came in the same ship with him, but a few days ago. He is a +Centurion in the Prtorian Bands."--"Yes," replied the stranger, "I guessed +in truth, it must be the same; for I remember no other of that rank +bearing the same name."--"If you are acquainted with him," said I, "you may +have an opportunity of seeing him immediately, for I expect him here every +moment to conduct me to his father's villa, which is hard by." + +"Well," quoth the barber, who by this time had ended, without fresh +misadventure, the trimming of the Cretan--"well, I hope he will stay for a +moment when he does come, and then we shall be sure to hear the truth as +to this story about the Christian assembly. They may talk as they please, +but may Jove devote me, if I had Csar's ring upon my finger for one +night, this should be the last of them."--"And how, friend," said the +stranger, "by what means, if I may ask you, should you propose so speedily +to do away with this fast-spreading abomination?"--"Look ye, sirs," quoth +he, "I would place myself thus in my tribunal"--(he took his seat at a +little table, beside a goblet of wine, as he spake,) "I would seat myself +thus in the midst of a field, as Cato and the great Censors of old used to +do. I would cause Rome to be emptied--man, woman, and child should pass +before me; and every one that did not acknowledge the gods as he passed, +by all the gods! he should sprawl upon a tree in presence of all the +people. What avails watching, prying, spying, and surprising? I should +make shorter work of it, I trow." + +"You may say what you will," said one who had not before spoken, "I cannot +bring myself to believe every thing I hear concerning their +superstition."--"Ay, goldsmith," quoth the barber, "you were always fond of +having an opinion of your own; and, pray, what is it that you have had +occasion to know about the Christians, more than the rest of us who hear +you? If you mean that you have seen some of them die bravely in the +Amphitheatre, why, that we have all heard of at least, and I think nobody +disputes it."--"No, master barber," replied he, "that is not what I was +thinking of. I have seen your common thief-knave, when he knew he could do +no better, brace you his nerves for the extremity, and die like a +Hercules. I would rather judge of a man by his living than his +dying."--"True," rejoins Virro; "and pray, what have you got to tell us +about the life, then, of the Christians?"--"Not much," said he, "you shall +hear. My old mother (peace to her manes) was passing the Salarian one day +last year, and there came by a hot-headed spark, driving four abreast in a +chariot as fiercely as Nero in the Circus. He called out, that I believe, +but the dame was deaf, and whether he tried to pull up, I know not, but +the horses trod upon her as she fell. Another of the same sort came close +behind, and I have been told they were running a race; but however that +might be, on they both passed like a whirlwind, and my poor mother was +left by herself among the flying dust. But the gods had mercy on her; they +sent a kind heart to her aid. She was carried into one of the stateliest +villas on that side of Tiber, and tended for six weeks by a noble lady, as +if she had been not my mother, but her own; and this lady, friends--by Jove +I suspected it not for long after--this lady was a Christian; but I shall +not say how I found it out, nor would I mention the thing at all but among +honest men. But where were these you spoke of taken?--I should like to know +who they were." + +"They were taken," said the stranger, "not far from the Appian Way, within +one of the old monuments there,--a monument, it is said, of the +Sempronii."--"Of the Sempronii?" cried the goldsmith, "Phoebus Apollo shield +us!" and from that moment he became as silent as hitherto he had been +communicative. + +The swarthy stranger, the silence yet continuing, arose from his seat, +laid a piece of money upon the table, and moved towards the door. The +barber also rose up, but he said to him, "Sit still, I pray you, my +friend;" at the same time beckoning with his finger to the goldsmith, who, +with a very dejected countenance, followed him into the street. What +passed between them there, we perceived not; but the artificer re-entered +not the chamber till some moments after we had heard the departing tread +of the stranger's horses. When he did come in again, he had the appearance +of being in great confusion. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +Shortly after Sabinus reappeared, and bidding adieu to our tonsor, we +walked with him towards the paternal mansion,--and we soon reached it; for, +as I have already said, it was but a little way out from the village. + +The dwelling was modest enough, having no external ornament but a single +portico, with a few statues ranged between its pillars. We entered by this +portico, and found the feeble old man sitting by himself in an apartment +immediately adjacent, wherein the beams of the moon, having partial +access, were mingled with the subdued light of a painted lamp suspended +from the ceiling. The father of my friend had all the appearance of +sinking apace; yet he received me with an air, not of cheerfulness, but of +kindness. The breeze found admission through the open pillars, and his +countenance exhibited in its wan and faint lines the pleasure with which +the coolness affected him. Beside him were placed baskets of roses, +gathered from the abundance of his gardens. The young Vern, who from time +to time brought in these flowers, came into the chamber with a decent +appearance of sobriety and concern; but they were never long gone before +we could hear them laughing again at their play.--"Poor children," quoth +the old man; "why should they trouble themselves with thinking of the not +remote victim of Orcus?"--To which the Centurion replied, somewhat +softening that loud and cheerful tone with which he was accustomed to +address all persons--"Courage, my dear father, you must not speak so. +Cerberus, I perceive, has only been making an ineffectual snap at you, and +you will be growing younger after all this." + +At which the old man shook his head, without any external sign of emotion, +and replied, in a low monotonous voice,--"Younger in the wrong way, my boy; +for I become every day smaller in body, and feebler, and less able to do +any thing to help myself. Nor am I unconscious that I have seen my due +proportion of time. And yet, oh! fast sliding gentle brook, which I see +between these paternal trees--I am still loath to exchange thee for Styx, +and to lose the cheerful and sacred light of the sun and moon. I wish only +I were once more able to repair with thy stream to the banks of father +Tiber, that I might salute the good Emperor, who has been so kind to my +son, and who would treat even an old broken-down, and long-retired +soldier, like myself, with more favour than is to be expected from +Rhadamanthus. As clouds let down their drops, so the many-peopled earth +lets fall dismissed ghosts upon the Stygian shore." + +While he was saying things in the same strain, an ancient Egyptian, who +seemed to have the chief management of every thing, came into the chamber, +and after desiring some of the boys to bring forth refreshments, took his +place on a low stool by the foot of his master's couch. "Come, Tarna," +said the Centurion, "what has become of all your philosophy? Why do you +not inspire our friend with less of gloominess? Why is it that you do not +bring out for his use some of those old stories, with which, when I was +young, you were more willing to treat my ears than they were to attend?" + +"Nay," said the invalid, before the Egyptian could make any answer,--"I +liked well to listen to his Epicurean theories when I was able to walk +about the fields; but now I would rather have him be silent. Do not +trouble me any more, good Tarna, with any of your speeches. Allow me to +believe as all my fathers did, and to contemplate not only the sepulchre +in which their urns are placed, but the same dim regions in which many +dear shades expect the greeting of a descendant." + +"To me," said the slave modestly, "it still seems, that by the rushing +shower of atoms which moves every where through space, the mind is +soothed, as by the sound of a great river carrying continually the watery +offspring of the mountains into the bosom of ocean. The mind, sirs, +appears to me to be calmed by the contemplation of infinity, even as the +ear of an Egyptian sleeper is calmed by the eternal music of rolling +Nilus. It mingles itself with that which it contemplates; it perceives--it +feels itself to be a liquid part of that vast endless stream of universal +being: a part which has been casually arrested and detained, but which +will soon mingle again and be scattered away in a thousand fragments, to +wander, no one knows whither, through the great all-receiving void--not to +lose existence, for in that my dear master entirely misunderstands me--but +to cease from feeling as a Sabinus, or a Tarna." + +The old man kept regarding his Egyptian with a placid smile; but I could +not help interposing: "What is this you have said? Do you assert that I +can cease to be Valerius, to feel as Valerius, and yet not lose my +existence? Can I _be_, and yet not be _myself_?" + +"Most easily," replied he; "the divided fragments may move about for a +thousand years, before it befall any of them to be stopped in some future +combination of atoms. These, it is manifest, only tremble and suffer when +they form part of a soul, but are immediately released from all pain or +mischance, when this confinement and cohesion are at an end, and they, +being dispersed, regain liberty and wander about singly, as of yore; for, +as our great dispeller of delusion says--When death is, we are not. If, +therefore, Sabinus shrinks from the fear of death, it is an idle fear. +Does he not perceive that when death arrives, Sabinus is no longer to be +found. Whatever its effects may be, they must affect not him, but an army +of innumerable disjointed essences, in no one of which could he by any +means be able to recognize himself." + +"To make a short story out of a very long one," interrupted the Centurion; +"life, you think, is not worthy of the name of existence--that being so, it +is no wonder you should think lightly of death." + +"Mistake me not," quoth the sage; "no--life _is_ existence; I not only +admit that, but I assert that it is the business of every man, and the +sole true object of wisdom, to render life, while it endures, pleasant. +Earthly pleasure consists in a bland juxta-position of atoms necessarily, +though not permanently, connected; the removal of pain implies that +quiescence which pervades the nobleness of the unenclosed ALL. To exist in +this shape, we are compelled; it is our business to render our existence +as near an approach to felicity as we may." + +"Fill your cup, Tarna," quoth the Centurion; "I am no great philosopher, +yet methinks I can see the drift of this part of your story. Fill up your +goblet, most venerable Epicurean, and see (if it be not below your +dignity,) whether the atoms, which, by a fortuitous and temporary +juxta-position have formed your throat, will not feel their corners very +philosophically softened by the rushing of a little rivulet of good +Falernian--one cup of which, saving your presence, I hold to be more worthy +of wetting my guttural atoms, than all the water that ever sported its +music between Memphis and Alexandria." + +While the slave and the Centurion were thus discoursing, the old man +appeared to taste, as it were, the pleasure of a renovated existence, in +contemplating the brown health and strong muscular fabric of the inheritor +of his name. The hearty masculine laugh with which my friend usually +concluded his observations, was, I take leave to think, richer music to +his ears than ever Egyptian heard in the dark rollings of the Nile, or +Epicurean dreamt of in the airy dance of atoms. I suspect he was more +reconciled to the inevitable stroke of fate, by considering that he was to +leave such a representative behind him, than by any argument which his own +superstition, or the philosophy of his attendant, could suggest. In return +for this obvious admiration, the Centurion, without question, manifested +every symptom of genuine affection. Yet, I think, the instinctive +consciousness of his own strength made the piety of the robust son assume +an air more approaching to that of patronage, than might have been +altogether becoming. If such a fault there were, however, it escaped the +notice of the invalid, who continued, till Tarna insisted upon his +retiring, to gaze upon my friend, and listen to his remarks, with looks of +exultation. + +The Centurion withdrew with his father, so that I was left alone with +Tarna for some time; and it was then that, in my juvenile simplicity, I +could not help expressing my surprise at finding in servile condition a +man possessed of such acquirements as his, and addicted to such pursuits. + +"It would argue little," he replied, "in favour of such pursuits, if they +tended only to make me repine at the place which has been allotted me--no +matter whether by the decree of fate, or the caprice of fortune. And after +all, I am not of opinion that any such external circumstances can much +affect the real happiness of any one. Give to him that has been born a +slave, what men are pleased to call his freedom; in a few weeks he will +become so much accustomed to the boon, that he will cease to think of it. +Heap wealth upon him; to wealth also he will gradually become habituated. +Rank--power--with all it is the same. It is in the mind only that the seat +of happiness is placed; and there it never can be, unless in companionship +with thoughts that look down upon, and despise being affected by trifling +things." + +"And are such," said I, "the views of all those who follow your sect?" + +"I wish it were so," he replied; "but ere you remain long in the city, you +will meet with not a few, philosophers only in the name, who, having small +means of subsistence, but being desirous of leading a luxurious and +agreeable life, become teachers of such doctrines as may accord best with +the vicious inclinations of those who are most likely to entertain them. +These persons assume too often the name of Epicureans. They are seen every +where at feasts crowned with myrtle, and fawning upon gouty senators; and +whenever a boar's-head appears, they are sure to call it worthy of +Meleager. Their conversation is made up of stale jests about Charon and +his boat, and the taking of Auguries; and, when finally inebriated, they +roll upon the ground like those animals, to whom, in consequence of the +proceedings of such hypocritical pretenders, the ignorant have dared too +often to liken the wisest of mankind. Such things I disdain--I am satisfied +to remain, as I was born, in the rank of sop, Epictetus, Terence." + +By this time the Centurion had returned. He had a lamp in his hand; and he +interrupted our conversation. "Come, we start betimes, Caius; and you too, +my sweet cock of Cyrene, I think you had better fold your wings, and +compose yourself upon your roost." + +Oh, enviable temperament! said I to myself--you liken the slave to a bird. +Methinks yourself are more deserving of the simile. The light and the air +of heaven are sufficient to make you happy--your wings are ever +strong--their flight ever easy--and the rain of affliction glides off them +as fast as it falls. Sleep softly, kind heart. It is only the troubles of +a friend that can ever disturb your serenity. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +I was in bed before Dromo interrupted my reflections by saying, in a low +tone of considerable confidence, "And now, Master Valerius, do you still +continue, as much as two days ago, to disbelieve in philtres and despise +enchantresses? You see what, with all my precaution, has come of this +connection between Rubellia and the Neapolitan." + +"In truth, Dromo," I replied, "it is visible that Pona had some share in +leading the soldiers to the Sempronian Sepulchre; but I am doubtful if +that had any thing to do with the private affairs of the lady Rubellia. As +to that matter, I confess myself entirely in the dark."--"Dark indeed," +quoth he, "must your observation have been, if you have yet to learn that, +but for that accursed witch, nothing of all this had befallen; but if +there be an edict against the Christians, there are twenty laws against +sorcery; and that both Pona and she that consulted her shall know well ere +long, if they do not as yet know it; or may Cretan change places with +Boeotian!"--"Say on, good Dromo," I replied, "I am all ears; and as you +appear to have been all eyes, I shall probably soon be more enlightened." + +"Well," quoth he, "I am glad to find that you are in a mood to listen to +me decently. You remember where I took my station when you mounted those +unfortunate steps upon the tower. I had not stood there many minutes +before I heard somebody approaching; and having no doubt it was Rubellia, +I was preparing myself for giving her such a salutation as I thought would +put a speedy end to her wandering for that night. On came the steps, but +no Rubellia. No; it was Xerophrastes himself; and although he had laid +aside the Greek mantle, and donned a boatman's black cloak for the nonce, +I promise you I knew his stately gait well enough beneath all these new +trappings. It was no part of my job, however, to attempt frightening the +stoic."--"And so you let him pass without doing any thing?"--"I did; I +confess I gave one or two groans after he had gone on a few paces, but I +did not observe him much quicken his walk, and I believe, to do the man +justice, he set it all down to the wind rustling among the trees. But I +thought not much of him at all, to speak the truth; for, said I to myself, +Well, if it be as I have suspected for these two blessed days, and this +master long-beard is really in league with the widow, the chances are, she +herself is not far behind him. I lay by, therefore, and expected in +silence till I should hear another tread; and in the meantime I spoke to +you once or twice across the path, but you made me no answer, for which +you know your own reasons."--"The reason," said I, "was a very simple one, +I assure you. I had fallen asleep, and no wonder, for you know how long I +had been a watcher."--"Well," said he, "I guessed as much, and it was +nothing but the born tenderness of my disposition, which made me cease +from offering you any disturbance. I thought I should surely be enough +single-handed for the widow; and besides, in case of need, I knew your +waking would always be in my power." + +"Admirably reasoned, Dromo," said I; "and so it seems no need came, for +you certainly never awakened me; for which I may thank the bonds from +which the Centurion's kindness has just set me free. But you have atoned +abundantly--I pray you, get on with your tale." + +"Presently," he resumed, "I heard footsteps, indeed, my good master, and +not footsteps alone, but voices; and I moved from the place as hastily as +I could, till I came to a tree, the branches of which, springing low on +the trunk, offered an opportunity for mounting, which I should have been a +Boeotian indeed had I neglected. I mounted, and hiding myself as well as I +could among the boughs, awaited the arrival of the party, which +consisted--ay, stare if you will--of Xerophrastes and the widow, walking in +front, in earnest talk by themselves,--and the Neapolitan in the rear. They +halted, and though they spoke low, I could hear them distinctly."--"And +what, in the name of Heaven, said they?" + +"'Are you sure,' said the widow, 'that this is indeed the girl whom Sextus +went to see at the Villa? Can there be no mistake?'--'Mistake, lady, there +is none,' replied the Stoic. 'Pona was at the villa with her basket, and +she saw them all walking together in the garden.'--'And this little +Christian,' said the lady as if to herself, 'it is she that has cost me +all this trouble! It is for this Athanasia that I have been insulted as +never woman was by man, and they are both here in the tower!'--'They are, +lady,' quoth the witch; 'they are both in the tower, for I saw her go in +by her self first, and then in went some dozen of those muffled +blasphemers, and, last of all, went in he himself. I saw him not enter +indeed, but I swear to you, that I saw him here not twenty paces from +hence, and he had with him that cunning slave of his, (meaning myself, +sir,) whose ugly face, (the foul woman added,) I would know although it +were disguised beneath all the washes that were ever mixed in the +seething-pots of Calabria.'--'But what,' interrupted our long-beard, 'what +will Licinius say? At least, my lady and my friend Pona will take good +care that no suspicion rests upon me. Sextus is a silly boy, without +taste, judgment, or discretion; but Licinius is acute and powerful.'--'Fear +not,' said Rubellia; 'fear not, dear Xerophrastes. Nobody shall appear in +the matter except Pona, and she tells you she has already given warning at +the Capene Gate. There are always a hundred men stationed on the Coelian. +Nothing can save them!' + +"These words were scarcely out of her mouth, ere the soldiers were heard +approaching. Xerophrastes ascended with great agility a tree just over +against mine; Rubellia retreated among the pines; and Pona alone awaited +the guard. I would have periled a limb to have been able to give you the +alarm; but little did I suspect, that had I sought you where I left you, I +should have sought in vain.--How, I pray you, did you contrive to get into +the accursed tower?" + +I told him I should give him the story another time at full length, and +mentioned briefly what had occurred. And then the Cretan proceeded with +his narrative. + +"I leave you to guess, Valerius, how my heart beat when I saw the witch +lead the soldiers straight to the place where I supposed you were still +sitting--with what anxiety I saw the tower surrounded--its tenants brought +out,--with what astonishment I saw you led out, the last of their number.--I +had neither time to think by what means all this had happened, nor the +least power to interfere. I saw you all mounted--guarded--borne away. +Whither they carried you, I was unable to make the smallest conjecture. I +saw Sabinus speak to you, and then I had hope,--but that too failed. In +brief, I did not venture from my tree till the whole assembly, not +forgetting Xerophrastes, had departed; and you may judge what a story I +had to tell Sextus when I reached home. + +"Instead of waiting to ponder and hesitate, as he used to do when his own +matters perplexed him, he went from me straight to his father. But before +they had done with their conversation, Sabinus himself arrived, and he was +immediately taken into the same chamber where they were. Licinius and he +went out together soon afterwards, and I think they walked towards the +Palatine; but whithersoever they went, they had a good deal of work before +them, for the day had advanced considerably before they returned. The +Centurion's horses were brought to the door shortly after; my master +desired me to accompany him; and gave me letters for you, which I had +almost forgotten to deliver." + +Such was the story of the faithful Cretan. The letter of Licinius I have +still preserved:-- + +"Since our Sabinus desires that I should write to you, although his own +kindness renders it unnecessary that I should do so, I cannot refuse. I +understand little, my Valerius, of what has brought you into this +condition, from which, not without difficulty overcome, you are, +notwithstanding, speedily to be delivered. I guess, that hastiness of +various sorts, not, however, entirely without excuse in a person of your +age, has been the means of implicating you in the affairs of a sect, +equally unworthy of your communication, whether you consider the country +in which their superstition originated, or the barbarities with which it +is stained. But even for beauty, my young friend, it becomes not a Roman, +least of all a Valerius, to forget what is due to the laws of Rome, and +the will of the Prince. Consider with yourself how nearly you have escaped +serious evil. Return to us, and forget what has passed, except for the +lesson it must teach you. Of Rubellia and Xerophrastes I am unwilling to +believe, without farther examination, what has been told me by my slave +Dromo. We shall speak of that and other matters, when (which I hope will +be early to-morrow) you once more give me the pleasure of seeing you. I +have then much to say. Farewell." + + + + + + _BOOK III. CHAPTER I._ + + +Day was far advanced before the Centurion and myself once more drew near +to the city. When we reached the first declivity beyond the Anio, the sun +was about to sink behind the Janicular. The innumerable sounds of the +capital, blended together into one mighty whisper, seemed only to form +part of the natural music of the air, and might almost have been +confounded with the universal hum of insects. We rode slowly down the +hill, the base of which is ever darkened by the solemn groves of the +Appian. + +We advanced in silence through that region of melancholy magnificence. I +scarcely knew whether I should be able of myself to recognize, among so +many similar edifices, the mausoleum of the Sempronii, and some feeling +rendered me unwilling to put any questions concerning it to Sabinus. + +But while we were moving leisurely, we heard of a sudden a clang of +cymbals among the trees, a little to the right hand, and the Centurion, +saying, "What company can this be?" led the way down a narrow path +branching from the main road. This path was winding and dusky, being edged +on either side with pines and cypresses, so that for some space we saw +nothing; and the cymbals having ceased again, the Centurion said, "I +suppose it is some funeral; they have probably completed every thing, and +have seen out the last gleam among the embers. Let us get on, for perhaps +we may be kept back by their procession, if they are already returning." +We quickened our pace accordingly, till a sharp turning of the road +discovered to us a great number of persons who were standing silent, as if +in contemplation of some ceremony. Several persons on horseback seemed, +like ourselves, to have had their progress interrupted; but they were +sitting quietly, and making no complaint. The silence of the whole +assembly was indeed such, that Sabinus motioned to me to ask no questions, +adding, in a whisper, "Take off your cap; it is some religious rite--every +body is uncovered." + +The Centurion, however, was not a person to be stopped thus, without +wishing to understand farther the cause of the interruption. The one side +of the road was guarded by a high wall, to the top of which a number of +juvenile spectators had climbed;--the other by a ditch of great breadth, +and full of water, beyond which was a grove of trees; and I saw him eyeing +the ditch, as if considering whether, by passing it, it might not be +possible, without disturbing the crowd, to get nearer the object of their +attention, or at least to make progress in our journey. At last he +beckoned to me to follow him, and the bold equestrian at one leap passed +easily. I imitated the example, and so did the Prtorian soldier, his +attendant, who had now come up to us; but as for Dromo, he was obliged to +remain behind. + +Ere we reached the bottom of the declivity, I perceived that we had come +close to the Sempronian monument, and that the ceremony, whatever it might +be, was taking place in front of the tower. We gave our horses to the +soldier, and contrived to gain the bank over against it--the same place, in +fact, where the Cretan slave had taken his station among the pine-trees, +on the night when all those things occurred of which I have spoken to you. +Like him, we placed ourselves as quietly as we could behind the trees, +and, indeed, for our purpose, there could have been no better situation. +We were contented, however, to occupy it as much as possible without +attracting observation; for it was evident, in spite of the curiosity that +detained so great a multitude near at hand, there must be something +mysterious or ominous of nature in that which was taking place, since not +one of the crowd had dared to come forward, so as to be within hearing of +the officiators. + +And these, indeed, were a melancholy group. For men, and women, and +children of every age, to the number it may be of an hundred, appeared all +standing together in garments of black; while, in the midst of them, and +immediately by the base of the tower, two or three veiled priests, with +their necessary assistants, seemed to be preparing for sacrifice a black +bull, whose hoofs spurned the dust as they held him, and his gilded horns +glittered in the light of the declining sun. Sabinus no sooner discovered +the arrangement of the solemn company, than he whispered to me, "Be sure, +these are all the kindred of the Sempronii. Without question they have +come to purify the mausoleum, and to avert the vengeance of the violated +Manes. Behold," said he, "that stately figure, close to the head of the +animal on the right hand; that, I know, is Marcia Sempronia, Priestess of +Apollo. Without doubt, these by her are her brothers." + +"Some of her near relations they must be," I made answer; "for observe you +that girl whose face is wrapped in her mourning veil, and whose sobs are +audible through all its folds? I had one glimpse of her countenance, and I +am sure it is young Sempronia, the cousin and companion of Athanasia,--the +daughter of Lucius the senator." + +"Poor girl," replied Sabinus, "from my heart I pity her. They are all +joining hands, that the nearest of the kindred touching the priest, his +deed may appear manifestly to be the deed of all." + +At this moment, one of the officiators sounded a few mournful notes upon a +trumpet. The priest who held the axe, clave at one blow the front of the +bull. The blood streamed, and wine streamed with it abundantly upon the +base of the mausoleum; and then, while we were yet gazing on the +convulsions of the animal, the trumpet sounded a second time, and the +whole company sung together, the priest leading them. + +The shadows of the tower and of the pine trees lay strongly upon them, and +I thought there was something of a very strange contrast between the +company and their chant, on the one hand, and the beautiful sculptures, +full of all the emblems of life and happiness, on the other, with which, +according to the gay dreams of Grecian fancy, the walls of the funereal +edifice itself had here and there been garnished. Fauns, and torch-bearing +nymphs, and children crowned with garlands, and wreathed groups and +fantastic dances, seemed to enliven almost to mockery the monumental +marbles; but one felt the real gloominess both of death and of +superstition, in the attitudes and accents of the worshippers. It was thus +they sung:-- + + Ye Gods infernal! hear us from the gloom + Of venerable depths remote, unseen; + Hear us, ye guardians of the stained tomb, + Majestic Pluto--and thou, Stygian Queen, + On the dark bosom leaning of great Dis-- + Thou reconciled Star of the Abyss. + + Blood, not for you, unholy hands have poured, + Ye heard the shriek of your insulted shrine; + Barbarian blasphemies, and rites abhorred, + Pollute the place that hath been long divine; + Borne from its wounded breast an atheist cry + Hath pierced the upper and the nether sky. + + With blood of righteous sacrifice again + The monumental stone your suppliants lave. + Behold the dark-brow'd bull--Behold him slain! + Accept, ye powers of the relenting grave, + The sable current of that vital stream; + And let the father's hope upon the children gleam. + + And ye, that in the ever dusky glades + Of Hades, wandering by Cocytus' shore, + Ancestral spirits--melancholy shades-- + With us the tresspass of the tomb deplore; + Oh! intercede--that terror and disgrace + May not possess (as now) your resting-place. + + What though the liquid serpent of the deep + Between lie coil'd in many a glittering ring: + Not unobserved of your pale eyes we weep, + Nor to deaf ears this doleful chant we sing; + Strong is the voice of blood through night to go, + Through night and hell, and all the realms below. + + Then hear us, kindred spirits--stately Sire + And pensive Mother! wheresoe'er ye glide; + If ever solemn pile and soaring fire + In freedom sped you to the Stygian tide,-- + Have pity on your children: let the breath + Of living sorrow melt the frozen ear of death. + + For Her that, sprung like us from your high line, + Hath mingled in the sacrifice of guilt, + Ye know that angry star, her natal sign, + To expiate whose curse this blood is spilt; + If not suffices this atoning blood, + Oh, steep the thought of her in Lethe's flood. + + Beneath that current lazy and serene, + In whose unfathomable waters lie + The slumbering forms of horrors that have been + In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky-- + With long forgotten curse and murder old, + Steep that lost daughter's errors manifold. + + Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns. + Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows; + Despise not our lustrations of your urns, + Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes! + Above the children of your lineage born, + Hover not, awful ghosts, in anger and in scorn. + +These words were sung, as I have said, by the whole of this kindred there +assembled together; the first part of them distinctly, though not loudly; +but the last verses in a note so low, that no one, unless quite near, +(like ourselves,) could have comprehended their meaning. But as for the +young Sempronia, when they came to that part of the chant in which +reference was so particularly made to Athanasia, not only did her lips +refuse to join in the words, but her agitation was such that I thought the +poor maiden would have screamed outright, had she not been controlled by +the eye, and the hand also, of her aunt the Priestess. Sobs, however, and +low hysterical groans, could not be stifled; and at last so great was her +agony, that even the haughty Priestess was compelled to give way to it. + +"Bring water," said she; "dash ye water upon the foolish thing: methinks +it seems almost as if she had partaken in the frenzy of her unhappy----" + +And before she could finish the sentence, one or two of the females that +were present did take hold of Sempronia, and began, seeing there was no +water nearer at hand, to bear her slender form towards the small stream of +which I have already spoken, and which flowed immediately behind the clump +of pine trees, amongst which the Centurion and I were standing. + +She was quite passive in their hands; and they dragged her without +resistance or difficulty to the place where we were standing; but they +could not pass without seeing us: and no sooner did the eyes of Sempronia +fall upon me, than she burst by one unexpected effort from the arms of +those that were sustaining her, and ere I or any one could suspect what +she was to do, there lay she at my feet, clinging with her arms around my +knees. "Oh, Valerius," said she--"Oh, dear Valerius, they curse Athanasia! +Where is my Athanasia? whither have they taken her? Oh, tell me, that I +may go to her--that I may go to comfort Athanasia!" + +"Peace!" said, before I could answer, the Priestess of Apollo--"Peace, mad, +wretched thing,--has infatuation blasted the whole of our line?" And she +seized Sempronia by the arm, and compelled her to spring from her knees. +But the maiden still clung by her hands to me, and continued, with looks +and words of misery, to demand from me that knowledge which, alas! I would +myself have given so much to possess. Sabinus, however, smote me on the +shoulder, as if to make me recollect myself; and I had resolution enough +not to betray the feelings with which I listened to Sempronia's frantic +supplication. + +"What is this, sir?" then said the Priestess--"What is it that you know of +Athanasia? and why is it that you have presumed to witness the secret +sacrifice of a noble race?--Speak--or is there no meaning in this poor +girl's frenzy? And yet, methinks I have seen you before, and that, too, in +the presence of----" + +"It was," said I, hastily--"it was indeed in the presence of Athanasia; but +that circumstance, if you please to remember, was altogether accidental. I +was with the lady Rubellia when you found her in the Temple of Apollo----" + +"Yes," said she, "it was that same day when she refused to name the name +of Phoebus in his own precincts! Ha! little did I imagine what thoughts +were in her breast--else might we at least have been spared this open +degradation. And yet you, methinks, saluted Athanasia.--What is your name, +sir?--Know you, in truth, whither the lady Athanasia has been conveyed?" + +"He was with her!--he was with her!" exclaimed Sempronia,--"he was with her +in the tower when the soldiers came.--O Valerius! tell me where she is +now,--into what dungeon have they cast my friend--my sister----" + +"Ha!" quoth the Priestess, "he was with her in the +tower!--Romans--kinsmen--Lucius--Marcus--hear ye this? I charge ye, seize upon +this treacherous blasphemer!--It is he that has deceived Athanasia; and now +must he come here to taint the smoke of our sacrifice, and pollute our +prayers with his presence.--Seize him!"--And she herself grasped my cloak as +she spake--"Seize, I charge ye, this accursed Christian!" + +But Sabinus, when he saw the Priestess thus furious, stept forward, and +said to her kinsmen, who were standing in perplexity behind her, "Sirs, I +beseech you, be not you also carried away with this madness.--My friend +here knows nothing of the lady Athanasia, except that she was borne away +by soldiers from the very place where we are standing. I myself witnessed +it also, being here with the Prtorians. Valerius is no more a Christian +than she who accuses him." + +"I know not, sirs, how we are to understand all this," said one of the +Sempronii, in a calm voice. "Is this young man the same Valerius who is +living in the house of Licinius?--Yet it must be he. I have been with +Licinius this very day; and if this be he, whatever he may have known +before, I am sure he knows nothing of where Athanasia is now,--and, sister, +I am well assured he is no Christian." + +"It is the same, sir," said Sabinus. "He is the same Caius Valerius of +whom you spake, and I am Sabinus, a Centurion of the Prtorians." + +"We have all heard of your name," said Sempronius, respectfully; "I +perceive there is some mistake in all this matter. If it please you, let +us walk aside, and understand each other." + +So saying, he withdrew Sabinus to a little distance, and beckoned to me to +accompany him. "Valerius," said the old man, when he perceived that we +were out of hearing, "I crave you, in the first place, to forget all this +trouble which has been occasioned to you by the violence of my daughter, +on the one hand, and of my sister on the other. They are women; and, for +different reasons, the violence of both is excusable. I have been for a +considerable part of this day with Licinius, and have heard from him +enough to satisfy me how guiltlessly you yourself have been involved in +this affair; and your speedy liberation from confinement is more than +enough to confirm my belief of all that he said. Yet there is much which I +do not understand. I pray you speak openly, and fear nothing--you have, +indeed, nothing to fear. Was it in consequence of any private meeting with +my niece--nay, I mean not to suspect you of any thing amiss--in one word, +how was it that you happened to be taken into custody with that unhappy +girl?" + +"Sir," I replied, "you are a noble Roman, and the near kinsman of +Athanasia. You have a right to put these questions, and whatever +reluctance I may have to overcome, I feel that I have no right to refuse +an answer." And so I told Sempronius, plainly and distinctly, the story +both of my unwilling entrance into the mausoleum, and of my forcible +abduction from it. In short, I saw no reason to conceal any thing from the +person who was most likely to be able to serve Athanasia, if any thing to +serve her were possible. + +"It is well," he said; "you speak as becomes a man of the Valerian blood. +But as for poor Athanasia, I swear to you I cannot yet bring myself to +believe that she hath in reality been privy to such things as have been +discovered concerning these Christians."--"Discovered!" said I. "I pray +you, what has been discovered concerning them? If you allude to any of the +wild stories that are circulated about their religion, you may depend upon +it, it is all mere madness to believe a word of it. I have read in their +sacred books myself, and I swear to you, that, so far as I have seen, +nothing can be more simple, benign, humane, than the morality inculcated +by their leader." + +"Young man," he answered, "I was not thinking of their creed, which, for +aught I know or care, may be sublime enough; for there was always a +mysterious sort of philosophy current among those old Asiatic nations. But +I speak of the designs of these men; in one word, I speak of their +conspiracy."--"Conspiracy!--What? How? Against whom? I will pledge my life, +no conspiracy was sheltered beneath yon tower that night. I swear to you, +they are simple people, and were thinking of nothing but their +worship."--"Worship!" quoth he; "I promise you it will not be so easy to +persuade me that Cotilius has suddenly become a man of so much piety, +either to our gods, or to the deities (if they have any) of the +Christians.--What, Cotilius? By Jove, Rome does not hold at this moment a +more bold, daring, godless rascal. You may as soon try to make me believe +that Capaneus came to Thebes with a hymn in his mouth. No, no--the sworn +friend of Domitian will not easily gain credit for his new-sprung +sanctity."--"Cotilius? That was the very name of the man that seized me, as +I have told you."--"I should have guessed as much," said he;--"Yes, I +promise you, how little soever Athanasia might have known, secrets they +had; and Cotilius was well aware at what peril they should be revealed." + +"The late example," said I, "must indeed have alarmed him."--"What," said +he, "do you speak of that fanatic Syrian? You know little of Cotilius. No, +no--had the worst of his fears been the necessity to worship all the +deities between Euphrates and Rhine, he would have slept soundly."--"But +surely," said I, "you do not believe that Athanasia had any knowledge of +the man's secret designs, if he had any. He may have used Christianity, or +desired to use it, as a weapon against the State; but be certain, neither +she nor any of those really attached to their religion, had any notion of +his purpose." + +"It may be so, indeed," he answered;--"Heaven grant it may. As for +Cotilius, I will speak to you more at length of him anon. I will bid adieu +to my sister, and take order about my daughter; and then, if it so please +you, we shall walk together to the city." + +To this I agreed, but Sabinus rode on to the camp of the Prtorians. He +whispered to me, however, that unless he were most necessarily detained, +he should be, ere long, at the house of Licinius. + +"To you," said the Senator, as we went on, "who have so lately come from +your island, the whole of this expiatory spectacle is probably quite new; +but I am sure Sabinus could not have been aware what was its purpose, +otherwise he would not have been guilty of so grievously offending the +feelings of my sister, and some of the rest of my kindred, by remaining a +witness of these most private rites. The Priestess is indeed inconsolable, +and her grief has set half her other passions in motion likewise. +Athanasia was as dear to her as if she had been her daughter; so, in +truth, she was to us all, ever since her parents died. But Cotilius, this +knave Cotilius, has, I fear, blasted her hopes and ours."--"It occurs to +me," said I, "and I should have mentioned it to you before, that there +seemed to be no great understanding between this Cotilius and Athanasia. +She was evidently displeased with many things he both said and did; and +he, on his part, did not appear to relish her interference."--"True," he +continued, "you have already hinted as much; and I assure you, these are +some of the circumstances in the whole case that tend most to excite my +hopes. Great Heavens! what would Caius have said had he dreamt that his +orphan was to be suspected of having sympathy with any of the dark designs +of that shame to Roman knighthood! But you, of course, are a stranger to +this man's history."--"With its end, at least," I replied, "it is like we +may all be soon enough acquainted." + +"Yes," said he, "Heaven grant we have not cause too deeply to remember it! +but I have known him from the beginning. I told you already that he was in +great favour with Domitian."--"And the reverse, of course," said I, "both +with Nerva and Trajan." + +"Even so," he continued, "and with reason; for in all the disturbances +which occurred on the accession of the last sovereign, and, in particular, +in those foul intrigues among the Prtorians, which at one time brought +Nerva's own life into immediate danger and compelled him to bare his neck +to the soldiery at his gate, this Cotilius was more than suspected to have +had a deep concern. When Petronius and Parthenius(2) were hacked in +pieces, it needed no great witchcraft to detect some of the moving spirits +that produced their catastrophe; but proof there was none at the time; and +even had there been proof enough, the good old man would have been too +timid to act upon it. These things, however, could not be forgotten either +by Nerva or his successor. Hitherto, the strong hand has repressed every +rebellious motion; but be sure that no man ever lived more an object of +suspicion, than this man has done ever since Nerva adopted Trajan." + +"And you think," said I, "that, among other intrigues, it had occurred to +this man to make his own use of the Christians; despised and persecuted +though they be, there can, indeed, be no doubt that their numbers are +considerable, and that their faith is a strong bond of cohesion." + +"It is even so," said the Senator. "But as yet the treason even of +Cotilius rests on suspicion only, and report; and, after all, even if he +were proved guilty of having nourished such schemes, the account you give +of what you saw and heard at their assembly, inspires me with considerable +doubts whether he can be supposed to have ever as yet ventured to invite +their participation;--unless, indeed, they practised deception while you +were with them. The moment I heard of what had happened, I went to the +Palatine, in hopes of attaining either assistance from Urbicus, or mercy, +if that were all we could look for, from Trajan. But Urbicus could give me +no satisfaction, except that my niece was in a solitary and safe place. +The charges, he said, against one of the leaders (he meant Cotilius) were +heavy; and until these were sifted, it was impossible that access could be +afforded to any one who had been thrown into confinement. The Emperor had +shewn unusual symptoms of anxiety, and had even, so he hinted, been in +person investigating the matter at a distance from the city, during great +part of the preceding night and day. To tell you the truth, Valerius, till +this thing fell out, I was wont to consider the new violence about the +Christians as somewhat unworthy of the enlarged intellect of Trajan: it +had not occurred to me, how easily the resources of such a superstition +might be enlisted in the cause of discontent." + +"Of course," said I, "nothing will be done in regard to Athanasia until +all circumstances have been examined." + +"Done!" said he; "has not enough been done already to justify almost in a +man more than you have seen among our women? Has not a whole family been +disgraced? Has not the mausoleum of their fathers been prostituted for the +unholy purposes of this barbarian sect? If the Senate should be summoned, +with what countenance should I shew myself among my friends?--Unhappy girl! +How little did she know in what trouble she was to involve those that love +her the best." + +By this time we had come within sight of the house of Licinius, and the +Senator took leave, with a promise that I should see him on the morrow. + +I found Sextus alone in his chamber, where he embraced me with all the +ardour of juvenile affection. "Alas!" said he, "my dear Caius, at any +other time I might have found fault with you for taking so great a part in +my griefs, and yet keeping so many of your own to yourself. But if it be +indeed as Sempronia has said, I should be a strange friend to choose this +hour for complaining of such trifles as regard only myself." + +"Sextus," I replied, "it was only because of the greatness of your own +distresses that I concealed from your kindness any of mine." + +"My Valerius," he answered, "we shall talk at length to-morrow; at +present, I have only time to say, that the misfortune of Athanasia was +communicated to Sempronia almost immediately, by an old freedwoman, who +had been in the habit of attending her when she went from home in secret, +and who, going to the mausoleum to accompany her on her return, arrived +there just in time to see what befel her. She saw you also, (how she knew +who you were, I know not,) and when she had told her story to Sempronia, +the poor girl, before speaking even with her father, sent for me to come +to her in the gardens. I did so; all that passed I need not repeat; but I +hope my advice was the right one. At all events, I acted for the best, and +my father, who is now aware of every thing, seemed to approve of what I +had done. O Valerius! were Athanasia free, and you happy, many things have +occurred to make me much more at ease than when you left us. My father is +evidently shocked with what Dromo told about Rubellia; and as for +Xerophrastes, he had not once spoken to him either yesterday or to-day. +Indeed, neither of them have been much here. My father is continually +exerting himself concerning Athanasia; and Xerophrastes, I suppose, is +afraid of a discovery. As for me, I am sorry I must leave you, for I +promised to meet Sempronia; and although I have nothing to tell her, I +cannot fail in my appointment. She must have returned before this time +from the mausoleum, where an expiatory sacrifice was to be made at +sunset." + +Sabinus by this time had hastened to me once more, according to his kind +promise. I told him that my kinsman was not at home, and that I proposed, +in the meantime, accompanying his son a part of the way towards the +Suburban of Capito. The Centurion insisted on going with us, saying, that +he could not think of returning to the camp without having spoken with +Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +The Centurion, in virtue of his office, had free access to the gardens of +Trajan; so he led us by both a more delightful and a nearer path towards +the Salarean Gate. Young Sextus then quitted us; and we returned slowly +through the beautiful groves of the Imperial Villa, in hopes of finding my +kinsman by the time we should reach his mansion. But as we were walking +very quietly along one of the broad green terraces, we heard voices in an +adjoining alley, separated from us by luxuriant thickets of myrtle, and +Sabinus, whispering to me, "Hush, let us see what we have got here," +insinuated himself with great dexterity among the verdant shrubs. I +followed him with as little noise as was possible, and having found a +convenient peeping place, we soon perceived two figures at some little +distance from us in the moonlight.--"Come, Sabinus," I whispered, "they are +lovers perhaps--I don't see what right we have to overhear."--"Peace," quoth +he, "if you stir, they will detect us, and it is nothing unless it be +known." + +With some reluctance I remained where I was; but my scruples were at an +end the moment I perceived who they were. + +"Most noble, most illustrious lady," said Xerophrastes, "this matter has +indeed been conducted unfortunately, yet no reason see I why you should +give way to so many groundless apprehensions. The only thing, after all, +that you have lost, if indeed you have lost it, is the good opinion of +Licinius; for, as to that foolish boy----"--"Name him not," replied Rubellia, +"name not the stripling. Surely madness alone can account for my +behaviour."--"Madness!" quoth the Stoic; "yes, truly, and who, at certain +moments, is free from such madness? As Euripides has expressed it, Venus, +if she come in wisdom, is the wisest; if otherwise, the most frenzied of +influences. The greatest have not been exempt from such visitations. +Banish it from your heart, noble lady, or replace it by something more +worthy of your discernment. There is, I think, but one pair of eyes in +Rome that could have been blind to such perfections."--"O Xerophrastes!" +said she, "speak not to me of perfections. Alas! I was born under a +deceitful star--a star of apparent splendour and real misery."--"Noble +lady," he replied, "I swear to you that what tincture of philosophy I have +imbibed, is unable to sustain my serenity when I hear such words from your +lips. You are surrounded by all that externals can minister. It is your +part to compose your mind, and then how should it be possible for you to +taste of unhappiness? Think no more of that boy." + +The philosopher took her hand with an air of the deepest sympathy, and at +the same time drew the end of his mantle over his face, as if to conceal +the extent of his participation in her distresses.--"Alas! lady, this is, +after all, a miserable world. There is no rest but in the affections, and +behold how they are harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of +life. Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison is every where; +and it is all one course of being wounded to be cured, and being cured +only to be more easily wounded again." + +Our friend continued in an attitude of pensive contemplation. The +moonbeams fell full on his high brow and the large massy features of his +countenance, and on the robust limbs which emerged from below the stately +folds of his mantle; and I could not help thinking that there was +something almost heroic, which I had never before remarked, in the whole +of his appearance. Rubellia kept her eyes fixed steadfastly upon him. + +"I should have known nothing of it," he resumed, "had I never deserted my +paternal valley for the vain pleasures of Athens, and the magnificence of +Rome."--"You repent," said she, "that you ever visited Italy? I pray you +deal with me openly. If it be your wish to leave Rome, speak, and I shall +put it in your power to retire to Greece as handsomely as you could ever +have hoped to do from the family of Licinius. Of wealth, as you well know, +I have enough both for myself and for my faithful friends, among whom, be +sure, I place you in the first rank. Control your feelings, I pray you +once more--and speak freely." + +Hastily and fervently he pressed his lip upon the beautiful hand of +Rubellia, and whispered something into her ear. She started, and I think +blushed in the moonlight; but neither seemed offended very deeply with +what he had said, nor with the gesture he had used.--"Softly, softly," +whispered the Centurion, "be not ashamed, fair lady, of the love of thy +servant." + +But (whether the echo of his Horatian parody had reached her ear or not, I +cannot tell,) scarcely had these words been uttered, ere Rubellia started +from her seat, and began to move pretty quickly down the shaded alley, as +if towards the entrance of the gardens. Xerophrastes sate still for a +moment, even after the lady had arisen, covering his eyes, and part of his +broad forehead with his hands, as if buried in his own thoughts too deeply +to be with ease affected with a sense of things passing around him. Then, +at last, he arose, and uttering an exclamation of surprise, walked after +the noble dame, taking heed, however, (it did not escape our observation,) +to arrange, as he rapidly followed her, the massive folds of his mantle +into a graceful drapery. + +Sabinus restrained himself till they were beyond the reach of his voice; +but he then made himself ample amends. "Ha!" said he, "is this to be the +end? Most pensive ghost of Leberinus, is this to be thy successor?"--"Good +heavens!" said I, "Sabinus, do you think it possible she should make the +pedagogue her husband--she that was but yesterday so desperately enamoured +of the beautiful young Sextus?"--"My dear islander," quoth the Centurion, +"do you remember the story of a certain beautiful boy, called Adonis?"--"To +be sure," said I, "who is ignorant of the story of Adonis, or of the +beautiful verses of Bion-- + + "I weep for fair Adonis--for Adonis is no more, + Dead is the fair Adonis--his beauty I deplore; + His white thigh with a tusk of white the greenwood monster tore, + And now I weep Adonis--for Adonis is no more.'" + +"Well spouted," quoth the soldier; "and with an excellent gravity: But +think you Venus never altered the burden of her ditty? Have you never +heard of Mars the blood-stained, the destroyer of men, the leveller of +city walls--nor of Anchises, the Dardan shepherd, wiser in his generation +than one who inherited both his station and his opportunity; no, nor even +of Vulcan, the cunning Artificer, the Lord of the One-eyed Hammerers, the +Lemnian, the Chain-maker, the Detector, the awkward Cup-bearer, whose +ministration, as honest Homer confesses, fills Olympus with +inextinguishable laughter. Have you heard of all these, and I take it of a +few more besides; and yet do you talk as if Venus, after the white boar's +tusk had pierced the white thigh of her Adonis, had made no use of her +beautiful girdle, but to wipe the tears from her pretty eyes withal?--her +girdle, of which, heaven pity your memory, I know not how many blessed +ages after Adonis had fallen, the same faithful bard said, + + 'In it is stored whate'er can love inspire: + In it is tender passion, warm desire, + Fond lovers' soft and amorous intercourse; + The endearing looks and accents that can fire + The soul with passionate love's resistless force, + 'Gainst which the wisest find in wisdom no resource.' + +I was there the night she espoused Leberinus, and I pitied her very +sincerely, when I saw the pretty creature lifted over the old man's +threshold in her yellow veil, which I could not help thinking concealed +more sighs, if not more blushes, than are usual on such occasions. But I +promise you the glare of her new torches shall affect me with different +emotions." + +Such talk passed as we were leaving the gardens of Trajan. But as we +advanced into the more peopled region, we found the streets full of +clamour, insomuch that quiet discourse could no longer be carried on. The +evening was one of the most lovely I had ever seen, and the moon was +shedding a soft and yellow light upon the lofty towers and trees, and upon +all that long perspective of pillars and porticos. Yet groups of citizens +were seen running to and fro with torches in their hands; while many more +were stationary in impenetrable crowds, which had the air, as it seemed to +us, of being detained in the expectation of some spectacle. Accordingly we +had not jostled on much farther, ere there arose behind us a peal of what +seemed to me martial music; but my companion, as soon as the sounds +reached him, warned me that a procession of the priests of Cybele must be +at hand. + +At last they came quite close to us, and passed on dancing around the +image of the Goddess, and singing the chaunt of Atys. A path being opened +for them by the crowd all along, they made no halt in their progress, but +went on at the same pace, some of them leaping high from the ground as +they dashed their cymbals, and others dancing lowly while they blew the +long Phrygian trumpets and crooked horns of brass. The image itself was +seated in a brazen chariot, to which brazen lions also were fastened, the +whole being borne on the shoulders of some of the assistants. Behind it +came others, beating great hollow drums; and then again more, leaping, and +dancing, and singing, like those who preceded it. They were all clad in +long Asiatic vests, with lofty tiaras; and their countenances, as well as +their voices, intimated sufficiently that they were ministers of the same +order to which the hapless Atys had belonged. Yet nothing but enthusiasm +and triumph could be discovered in their manner of singing that terrible +hymn. + +They had not advanced much beyond the spot where we were standing, ere +they stopped of a sudden, and, placing the chariot and image of Cybele +between the pillars of one of the porticos that run out into the street, +began a more solemn species of saltation. When they had finished this +dance also, and the more stately and measured song of supplication with +which it was accompanied, the priests then turned to the multitude, and +called upon all those who reverenced the Didyman mysteries, to approach +and offer their gifts. Immediately the multitude that were beyond formed +themselves into a close phalanx, quite across the street, and torches +being conveyed into the hands of such as stood in the foremost rank, there +was left in front of the image an open space, brightly illuminated, for +the convenience, as it seemed, of those who might come forward to carry +their offerings to the foot of the statue. And, indeed, it appeared as if +these were not likely to be few in number; for the way being quite blocked +up by those torch-bearers, no one could hope to pass on easily without +giving something, or to pass at all without being observed. Not a few +chariots, therefore, and litters also, having been detained, the persons +seated in these vehicles seemed to be anxious, as soon as possible, to +present their offerings, that the path onward might be cleared to them by +command of the priests. It was necessary, however, as it turned out, that +each person in advancing to the chariot of Cybele, should imitate the +motions practised by the Galli themselves; and this circumstance, as may +be imagined, was far from being the most acceptable part of the ceremony +to some of those who had thus been arrested. A few of the common sort, +both men and women, stepped boldly into the open ring, and with great +appearance of joy went through the needful gesticulations. But, at first, +none of the more lordly tenants of the chariots and litters seemed to be +able to prevail on themselves to follow the example. At length, however, +the impatience even of these dignified persons began to overcome their +reluctance; one and another red-edged gown was seen to float in lofty +undulations across the torch-lighted stage, and when a handful of coin was +heard to ring upon the basin of the Goddess, doubt not the priests +half-cracked their cheeks in blowing horn and trumpet, and clattered upon +their great tambarines as violently as if they had made prize of another +Atys. But how did the Centurion chuckle when he observed that one of the +next chariots was no other than that of Rubellia herself, and perceived +that she and the Stoic were now about to pass onwards like the rest, at +the expense of exhibiting their agility before the multitude. + +"Jove in heaven!" cried he, "I thought the garden scene was all in all; +but this is supreme! Behold how the sturdy Thracian tucks up his garment, +and how, nodding to the blows of the tambarine, he already meditates +within himself the appropriate convolutions. And the pretty widow! by the +girdle of Venus, she also is pointing her trim toe, and, look ye! better +and better, do you not see that she has given her veil to the Stoic, that +so she may perform the more expeditely?" + +At this moment, some one from behind laid hold of my arm, and whispered my +name. I looked round, and perceived an old man, wrapped in a very large +and deep mantle, the folds of which, however, were so arranged that I +could see very little of his features. Stepping a pace or two backwards, +he beckoned to me with his hand. I hesitated; but his gesture being +repeated, I also entered within the shade of the pillars, and then he, +dropping his mantle on his shoulders, said, "Valerius, do you not remember +me? We met last at the tomb of the Sempronii."--"At the tomb of the +Sempronii!" said I; and recognized, indeed, the features of the Christian +priest, who had treated me on that eventful evening with so much courtesy; +but my wonder was great to find him in such a situation; for I had seen +him conveyed away between armed guards, and I could not imagine by what +means he, of all others, should have so soon regained his freedom. He +observed my astonishment, and said, in a low voice, "My friend, perhaps I +might have as much reason to be surprised with seeing you here, as you +have in seeing me. But follow me into this house, where we may communicate +what has occurred." + +The hope of perhaps hearing something concerning Athanasia determined me. +I cast a look towards Sabinus, and saw him attentively engaged in +witnessing the performance; and hoping that he might continue to amuse +himself so for a few minutes longer, I permitted the old man to lead me +into the vestibule. The slaves, who were waiting there, seemed to receive +him with much respect. He passed them, saying, "Do not trouble +yourselves--I shall rejoin your master;" and shortly ushered me into a +chamber situated over the hall of entrance, where a grave personage was +reclining by the open window. He perceived not our approach till we had +come close up to his couch, for he was occupied with what was going on +without. When the old man accosted him, and said, "Pontius, I have been +successful. Here is my friend, Caius Valerius," the stranger rose up, and +saluted me with kindness. "Caius Valerius," said he, "will pardon me for +being desirous of seeing him here, when he learns that I was one of his +father's oldest friends, and served with him many campaigns both in +Germany and Britain. I should have been ill pleased had I heard that you +had been in Rome, and departed without my having an opportunity of +retracing, as I now do, the image of my comrade." + +I had to answer not a few questions concerning the situation of my mother +and myself, before I could lead the conversation into the channel I +desired; and at length, indeed, it was not so much any thing I said, as +the readiness of the priest himself, which gave to it that direction; for +the first pause that occurred in the discourse between Pontius and myself, +he filled up, by saying, "And now, will Valerius pardon me for asking, if +he has ever looked again into the narrative of Luke, or whether his +curiosity, in regard to these matters, has been entirely satisfied by the +adventures of one unfortunate night?" + +The manner in which Pontius regarded me when the priest said this, left me +no doubt that he was at least favourably inclined to the opinions of the +Christians; so I answered without hesitation, "My curiosity, instead of +being satisfied by what I saw that evening, received new strength; but you +may easily believe that the troubles in which I was involved, and still +more the troubles with which I know others yet to be surrounded, have +hitherto taken away from me both the means and the power of gratifying my +curiosity as I would wish.--But tell me, I pray you, by what means is your +imprisonment at an end?"--"My friend," replied the priest, "you speak +naturally but rashly. I believe you yourself are the only one of those +surprised in the tower, whose imprisonment has as yet terminated. Yet +hope, good hope is not absent,--above all, I trust there is no reason to +despair concerning that dear child who interfered in your behalf, when a +bold, and, I fear me, a false man, had drawn his weapon to your peril. As +for me, I have but gained the liberty of an hour or two, and long ere dawn +I shall be restored again to my fetters."--"Your fetters!" said I, "am I to +understand, that, by the connivance of a Roman jailor, you are this night +at liberty to perambulate the streets of Rome?"--"Young man," answered the +priest, "he is a Christian."--"Even for his sake," said I, "the name is +honourable." + +"Valerius," said he, "I pray you speak not things which may hereafter give +pain to your memory. Already you have read something of the life of ONE, +for whose sake our name is indeed honourable--of Him I trust you shall ere +long both read and think more; but how shall I bless God, that threw my +lot, since captivity it was to be, into a place where such authority was +to have the superintendence of me? Yet more, how shall I be sufficiently +grateful, that She, in all things so delicate, although in nothing +fearful, has shared the same blessing?" + +"Heavens," said I, "what do I hear!--Is Athanasia indeed lodged in the same +prison with yourself, and may she also go abroad thus freely?" + +"Think not," he replied, "that I embrace such freedom for any purposes of +mine own. What I do for the service to which I am bound, think not that +Athanasia will ever desire to do for herself. She abides her time +patiently where the lot hath been cast for her; in due season, if such be +the will of the Lord, she shall regain that in truth, of which this is but +the shadow." + +"God grant our prayer," said Pontius, "and not ours only, but the prayer +of all that know her, and have heard of this calamity!--Whatever the +exertions of her family and their friends can accomplish, most surely +shall not be awanting. Would that those who are linked to her by ties yet +more sacred had the power, as they have the will, to serve her! Yet Hope +must never be rejected. The investigations of this very night may produce +the true accomplices of Cotilius; and then Trajan will be satisfied that +the Christians stand guiltless of that treason." + +"Alas!" said I, "if this faith be a crime, how can any one hope to follow +it without being continually liable to accidents as unfortunate? In Rome, +at all events, what madness is it thus to tempt the fate which impends +over the discovery of that which it must be so difficult, so impossible to +conceal?" + +The aged Priest laid his finger on his lips, and pointed to the window. I +listened, and heard distinctly the shrill voices of the mutilated dancers, +as they brake forth above the choral murmurs of the drums and cymbals, and +I perceived that the bloody legend of Atys was once more the subject of +their song. + +The ancient waited till the voices were drowned again in the clamour of +the instruments, and then said to me, "Young man, do you know to what +horrid story these words of theirs refer? Do you know what sounds all +these are designed to imitate? Do you know what terror--what flight--what +blood--what madness are here set forth in honour of a cruel demon--or +rather, I should say, for the gain of these miserable and maimed +hirelings? Do you know all these things, and yet give counsel of flight +and of cowardice to me, upon whose head the hand of Christ's holy apostle +hath been laid? Read, dear Valerius, read and ponder well.--My prayers, and +the prayers of one that is far purer than me--they are ever with you. But +now since I have introduced you to Pontius, why should I delay here any +longer? He, both for your father's sake and for your own, and for that of +the faith, (of which you have had some glimpses) will abundantly aid you +in all things. Deal not coldly nor distantly with him. I commit you into +his hands, as a brand to be snatched from the burning." + +Pontius reached forth his hand and grasped mine in token of acquiescence +in all the old man expressed. He, by and by, looking into the street, +said, "These jugglers have now departed to their dens, and the gaping +multitudes have dispersed. But I still see one person walking up and down, +as if expecting somebody; and it seems to me that it is the same, +Valerius, who was in your company." I perceived that it was indeed +Sabinus, whistling to himself on the bright side of the pavement. I +therefore bade them adieu, saying, "Dear father, when shall I see you +again, and when shall I hear farther of Athanasia?"--The old man pausing +for a moment, said, "To-morrow at noontide be in the Forum, over against +the statue of Numa. You will there find tidings." + +The Centurion plainly intimated that he took it for granted I had been +engaged in something which I wished to keep from his knowledge; but such +affairs made no great impression on him; and after laughing out his laugh, +he bade me farewell by the portico of Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +In the morning I found my kinsman and his son extremely uneasy, in +consequence of the absence of Xerophrastes, who had not returned during +the night; but Sabinus came in while they were talking to me, and +narrated, without hesitation, all he had seen and heard both in the garden +of Trajan, and at the procession of the Galli. Young Sextus could scarcely +be restrained by respect for his father, from expressing, rather too +openly, his satisfaction in the course which the affairs of the +disappointed lady appeared to be taking; while the orator muttered words +which I thought boded not much of good to the ambitious pedagogue. The +Centurion alone regarded all these things as matters of mere amusement, or +so at least he seemed to regard them; for, as I have already hinted, I was +not without my suspicion, that he was at bottom by no means well pleased +with the contemplation of the future splendour of the Stoic. + +However, after many jests had been exchanged between Sextus and the +Centurion concerning this incongruous amour, Licinius said, he was in so +far much relieved by what he had heard, as it satisfied him that both the +widow and Xerophrastes were now otherwise occupied, than in prosecuting +their designs against the niece of his friend Capito. + +"I myself," he continued, "was all yesterday, as well as the day before, +exerting every means in my power for her extrication from this unfortunate +confinement. Cotilius, without question, has indeed been a traitor; but I +believe the Prince himself is, by this time, well inclined to absolve, not +only the young lady, but by far the greater part of those who were taken +with her, from any participation in his traitorous designs. The charge, +however, of which it rests with them alone to exculpate themselves, is one +of a nature so serious, that it is impossible to contemplate without much +anxiety the pain to which so many families--above all, the noble and +excellent Sempronii--may still be exposed. But this day Cotilius will, in +all likelihood, pay the last penalty of _his_ crimes--and then we shall see +what intercession may avail. Would to heaven there were any one who could +obtain access to the deluded lady, and prevail with her to do that which +would be more effectual than I can hope any intercession to prove. This +infatuation--this dream--this madness--is, indeed, a just source of fear; and +yet, why should we suppose it to be already so deeply confirmed in a +breast young, ingenuous, so full, according to report, of every thing +modest and submissive? Surely this affectionate girl cannot be insensible +to the affliction of those who love her.--But you still shake your head, +Valerius; well, it is in our hands to do what we can; as for the issue, +who can hope to divert Trajan from doing that which he believes to be +just? Our best hope is in his justice----" + +"And in his clemency," interrupted the Centurion; "you will scarcely +persuade me that Csar can meditate any thing serious concerning a young +beauty, who has been guilty of nothing but a little superstition and +enthusiasm. Nobody will confound her case with that of any obstinate old +fanatic. In the meantime, what avails it to distress ourselves more than +is necessary? Licinius is able to do something; and as for Valerius, the +best thing he can do is to get on horseback, and go with Sextus and myself +to inspect the cohorts that have arrived from Calabria." + +Young Sextus, on all occasions fond of military spectacles, embraced this +proposal; and fain would they both have prevailed on me to accede to it +likewise. I knew, however, that it would be impossible, if I accompanied +them, to keep my appointment with the old Christian; and that I was +resolved on no account to forego. I therefore retired to my chamber, there +to await the approach of the hour; and spent the time till it drew near, +in perusing once more the volume which had been restored to me by +Athanasia. This volume, and the letter which I have before mentioned, I +placed together in my bosom, before I went forth into the city. + +I entered the Forum, and found it, as formerly thronged with multitudes of +busy litigants and idle spectators. A greater concourse, indeed, than was +usual, crowded not it only, but the avenues to it, and the neighbouring +streets, by reason of a solemn embassy from the Parthian, which was to +have audience that day in the Senate. But I, for my part, having +discovered the statue of Numa Pompilius, resolved to abide by it, lest, +being mingled in the tumult of the expecting multitudes, I should, by any +mischance, escape the notice of the old man, who, I doubted not, meant to +seek me there in person. The time, however, went on--senator after senator +entered the temple--and, at last, the shouts of the people announced that +Trajan had arrived. And immediately after he had gone in, the pomp of the +embassy appeared, and every eye was fixed upon the long line of slaves, +laden with cloth of gold and rich merchandise, and upon the beautiful +troop of snow-white horses, which pawed the ground, in magnificent +caparisons, before the gate of the Senate-house. But while all were intent +upon the spectacle, I observed a little fair-haired girl standing over +against me, who, after looking at me for some moments, said with great +modesty, "Sir, if you be Caius Valerius, I pray you, follow me." + +I followed her in silence up the hanging stairs, and, in a word, had soon +reached the level of the Capitol, from whence, looking back, I could +perceive the whole array of the forensic multitudes far below me. The +child paused for a moment at the summit, and then, still saying nothing, +conducted me across two magnificent squares, and round about the Temple of +Jupiter, until, at length, she stopped at one of the side doors of an +edifice, which, from the manner in which it was guarded, I already +suspected to be the Mammertine. + +The girl knocked, and he who kept the gate, saluting her cheerfully, +allowed us to pass without question into the interior of the prison. My +companion tripped before me along many passages, till we reached at length +a chamber which was arranged in such a manner that I could with difficulty +believe it to belong to a place of punishment. + +Here I was soon joined by the old priest, (whose name, if I have not +before mentioned it, was Aurelius Felix,) together with a mild-looking man +of middle age, whom he desired me to salute as the keeper of the prison, +saying, "Here, Valerius, is that Silo, of whom yesterday evening you spake +with so great admiration. But I hope the benevolence of a Christian will +ere long cease to be an object of so much wonder in your eyes." + +"My father," said the jailer, "methinks you yourself say too much about +such little things. But, in the meantime, let us ask Valerius if he has +heard any thing of what has been determined by Csar." + +I answered by telling what I had just heard from Licinius; upon which the +countenance of the old man was not a little lightened; but Silo fixed his +eyes upon the ground, and seemed to regard the matter very seriously. He +said, however, after a pause, "So far, at least, it is well. Let us hope +that the calumnies which have been detected, may turn more and more of +discredit upon those that have gone abroad concerning that which is dearer +to you, my father, and to all your true companions, than any thing of what +men call their own. But, alas! these, after all, are but poor tidings for +our dear young lady." + +"Fear not," answered Aurelius: "have I not told you already oftentimes, +that strength of heart goes not with bone and sinew, and that my gentle +child is prepared for all things? She also well knows that the servant is +not greater than the master." + +The old man motioned to us to remain where we were, and withdrew. I sate +for some minutes by the side of Silo, who was, indeed, manifestly much +troubled, until at length the same modest little damsel opened the door, +and addressing the jailer as her father, asked leave to conduct me to +Aurelius. + +The child led me, therefore, into the adjoining chamber, and tapped gently +at a door on the other side of it. The voice of the old priest bade us +come in, and Athanasia arose with him to receive me. She was dressed in a +white tunic, her hair braided in dark folds upon her forehead; her +countenance was calm, and, but for the paleness of her lips, I should have +said that her gravity scarcely partook of sadness. When, however, we had +exchanged our salutations, it was evident that some effort had been +necessary for this appearance of serenity; for when she spoke to me her +voice trembled in every tone, and, as she stooped to caress my young +guide, who had sate down by her feet, I saw the tear that had been +gathering drop heavily, and lose itself among the bright clusters of the +little damsel's hair. I took her unresisting hand, and imitated as best I +could the language of consolation. But it seemed as if my poor whispers +only served to increase the misery. She covered her face with her hands, +and sobs and tears were mingled together, and the blood glowed red in her +neck, in the agony of her lamentation. + +The old priest was moved at first scarcely less than myself by this +sorrowful sight. Yet the calmness of age deserted him not long, and after +a moment there remained nothing on his countenance but the gravity and +tenderness of compassion. He arose from his seat, and walked quietly +towards the end of the apartment, from which when he returned, after a +brief space, there was an ancient volume open in his hand. And standing +near us, he began to read aloud, in the Greek tongue, words which were +then new, and which have ever since been in a peculiar manner dear to me. + +_God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble. Therefore +will not we fear though the earth be removed; though the mountains be +carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be +troubled; though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof._ + +Athanasia took her hands from her face, and gradually composing herself, +looked through her tears upon the old man as he proceeded. + +_There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God; +the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High._ + +_God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, +and that right early._ + +_The heathen raged; the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice; the +earth melted._ + +_The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge._ + +The blood had mounted in the countenance of Aurelius, ere he reached these +last words. The tears also had been dried up on the pale cheek of +Athanasia; and although her voice was not heard, I saw that her lips moved +fervently along with those of the priest. Even in me, ignorant of their +source, the words of the royal prophet produced I know not what of +buoyance and emotion, and perhaps my lips, too, had involuntarily essayed +to follow them; for when he paused from his reading, the old man turned to +me with a face full of benignity, and said, "Yes, Valerius, it is even so; +Homer, Pindar, schylus--these, indeed, can stir the blood; but it is such +poetry as this that alone can sooth in sorrow, and strengthen in the hour +of tribulation. Your vain-glorious Greeks called all men barbarians but +themselves; and yet these words, and thousands not less precious than +these, consoled the afflictions, and ennobled the triumphs of the chosen +race of Israel long, long years, ere ever the boasted melody of Ionian or +Doric verse had been heard of. From this alone, young man, you may judge +what measure of candour inhabits along with the disdain of our proud +enemies:--how fairly, without question, or opportunity of defence, the +charge of barbarity is heaped upon what they are pleased to call our +_superstition_;--how wisely the learned and the powerful of the earth have +combined in this league against the truth which they know not,--of which +they fear or despise the knowledge. Surely the truth is mighty, and the +gates of hell shall not prevail against her." + +"But, alas! my dear father," said Athanasia, "I fear me this is not the +place, nor the situation, in which Valerius might be most likely to listen +to your words. It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing of our +present danger, has rendered him even more cautious than he was before." + +"And who, my dear child," he replied hastily,--"and who is he that shall +dare to blame caution, or to preach, above all in such things as these, +the rashness that is of folly? Valerius will not believe that we, like the +miserable creatures whose impious songs he heard last night, are studious +only of working upon the fears of the ignorant, and harassing, with dark +and lying dreams, the imaginations of the simple. _Here_ are no wild +stories of blood-thirsty deities, and self-sacrificing maniacs. _Here_ is +that which Socrates vainly sought by all the ingenuity of reason. _Here_ +is that of which some faint and mysterious anticipations would appear to +have been shadowed forth in the visions of Plato. _Here_ is that which, as +that Mighty Martyr who died in this very city hath said, innumerable +prophets and kings of the old time desired to see, and yet saw not. Do +nothing rashly, young man; but it is possible, as you yourself well know, +that this may be the last opportunity I shall ever have of speaking with +you; and therefore, before we part, I must needs charge you solemnly, that +henceforth, if your knowledge increase not, the sin shall be upon your +head. I charge you, Valerius, that when you return to your island, you +blot not from your memory the things that you have seen and heard in this +great city of light and of darkness. Examine--judge--ask aid, and aid shall +not be refused you. I take Athanasia to witness, that I have given you the +warning that is needful." + +"Oh, sir!" said Athanasia, "I am sure it shall not be in vain that you +have done so. I am sure Valerius will never forget this hour----" + +She gazed in my face, and a tear was again visible, yet on all her +countenance there was no other semblance of passion. The venerable +Aurelius clasping his thin hands together, whispered,--"Would to God that I +were here alone! Shall the axe be laid to the root of the fair young tree +that hath but begun to blossom, when so many old trunks stand around +withered with the lightnings, and sore broken by the winds?--The will of +the Lord be done!" + +"Amen!" said Athanasia, taking the old man by the hand, and smiling, I +think, more cheerfully than I had yet seen her--"My dear father, I fear you +yourself, after all, are teaching Valerius to take but a sad farewell of +us." + +"Alas! my child," he replied, "he must have a hard heart that could look +unmoved on that sweet face in this hour of sadness. But we are in the +hands of a greater than Trajan. If so it please Him, all may yet go well +with us even here upon the earth. You may live to see many happy years +among your kindred--and I, (the old man smiled most serenely,) and for me, +my gray hairs may be laid in bloodless dust. Whatever awaits us, blessed +be the name of the Lord!" + +So saying, the old man retired from the chamber, and once more I was left +alone in the presence of Athanasia. I took from my bosom the book and the +letter which I had placed there, and laid them upon her knee. She broke +the seal, and read hastily what Tisias had written, and then concealed the +scroll within her tunic, saying, "Alas! Valerius, little did the brave old +soldier suspect how soon his peril was to be mine--Will you permit me like +him to make you my messenger?--will you seek out my cousin, my sister, and +tell Sempronia in what condition you have found me?--no, not in what you +found--but in what you now see me. Will you go, Valerius, and speak comfort +to my poor friend? Her pity, at least, I am sure is mingled with no angry +thoughts; and yet she only has reason to complain, for her secret thoughts +were not hid from me, and, alas! I concealed mine from her." + +"I have already seen her," said I, "and you do her no more than justice. +But, indeed, Sempronius himself thinks of you even as gently as his +daughter." + +"I doubt it not, Valerius; but, alas! there are many others besides these; +and I know not what relic of weakness it is, but methinks I could have +borne the worst more easily, had it not been for what I picture to myself +of their resentment. Alas! I am cut off for ever from the memory of my +kindred." She threw open the lattice, as if that she might inhale the free +air, and her eyes wandered to and fro over all the magnificent prospect +that lay stretched out below us,--the temples and high porticos of the +Forum--the gleaming battlements and long arcades of the Palatine--the baths, +and theatres, and circuses between and the river--Tiber winding away among +fields and groves--and the sky of Italy extending over all things its arch +of splendour. When the trumpets were blown by the gate of the +Senate-house, the sound floated upwards to us as gently as if it had been +borne over the waters. The shouts of the multitude were faintly re-echoed +from the towers and the rocks. The princely pageant shewed like a pomp of +pigmies; spear, and helmet, and eagle glittered together, almost like dews +upon the distant herbage. Athanasia rested her eye once more upon the wide +range of the champaign, where fields and forests were spread out in +interminable succession--away towards the northern region and the visible +mountains. She raised her hand, and said, "Valerius, your home lies far +away yonder. I must give you something which you shall promise me to carry +with you, and preserve in memory--of Rome." + +Before I had time to make any answer, she had taken out of a casket that +stood beside us, a scroll of parchment, bound with a silk ribbon, which +she immediately put into my hands, and--"To-morrow," said she, "Valerius, +our fate, they tell us, must at length be determined;--if we share the fate +of Tisias, the last gift of Tisias shall be yours. If, however, any mercy +be extended to us, I cannot part with that memorial of a dying martyr. I +must keep to myself the old man's favourite volume, for it was for me he +had designed it. But I have made a copy of the same book for yourself. I +have written it since I came hither, Valerius, and you must not despise it +because the Mammertine has not furnished the finest of materials. Take +this, Valerius, and take with it my thanks--my prayers. I know you will not +forget my message to my dear sister.--Sextus and she--may many happy days be +theirs--and yours." + +I kissed the sad gift, and placed it in my bosom. + +"Valerius," she said, "dry up your tears. You weep for me because I am a +Christian; forget not that the Roman blood flows in my veins, and think +not that its current is chilled, because I have forsworn the worship of +idol and demon, and am in peril for the service of The Living God." + +"Athanasia!" said I,--"I weep for you, but not for you alone. I ask +nothing--I hope nothing--but I could not bear to part with you thus, and not +to tell you that when I part from you, I bid farewell to all things. +Pardon me--once more pardon me." + +A single flush of crimson passed over her face, and I saw her lips move, +but the syllables died ere they were uttered. She continued for a moment +gazing on me, pale, and trembling; and then at last she fell upon my neck +and wept--not audibly--but I felt her tears. + +Athanasia was still folded to my bosom in that strange agony of sorrow and +of confidence, when Silo, the jailer, entered the apartment, abrupt and +breathless. + +"Oh, sir!" said he, "your sufferings are mine--but it is necessary that you +should leave us, and on the instant, for the Prefect is already at the +gate, and unquestionably he will examine every part of the prison; and +should you be recognized as the person who was taken in the Mausoleum, you +see plainly to what suspicions it might give rise. Come then, sir, and let +me secure your escape--we shall take care to warn you of whatever occurs, +and we shall send for you, if there be opportunity." + +Athanasia recovered herself almost instantly, when she heard what Silo +said. + +"We shall meet again," said I. + +"Once more," she replied--"at least once more, Valerius." + +And I tore myself away from her; and the jailer having once again +committed me to the guidance of his child, I was in a few moments +conducted to the same postern by which I had been introduced. In a word, I +found myself in the court of the Capitol, at the instant when the Prefect, +with all his attendants, was entering by the main gate of the Mammertine. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +On reaching home, I was told that Licinius was still absent; and found at +the same time a billet upon the table, which informed me that Sabinus had +carried Sextus with him to his quarters, and that both expected I would +join them there immediately upon my return. I knew not how to refuse +compliance, and yet I could not bear the thought of being so far from the +Capitol, in case of any message being sent to me from the prison. Since I +could do no better, however, I charged Boto to remain in my apartment till +sunset, and bring me, without delay, any letter or messenger that might +arrive in my absence. Should none such appear within that space, I gave +him a note, which I desired him to deliver into the hands of Silo; and +having, as I thought, furnished him with sufficient directions how to +discharge this commission, I myself took the path to the Prtorian Camp, +where I thought it very probable that I might gather some new intelligence +as to Cotilius. + +The Prtorian who had accompanied Sabinus at my release from the rustic +tower, recognized me at the gate, and conducted me immediately to the +Centurion, who, to my surprise and displeasure, had directed that I should +be ushered without delay to, not his own apartment, but the general table. +Here I was received most courteously, however, and hoping the feast was +nearly over, took my place near my friend. + +Several of those high-fed warriors who had more than once disposed of the +empire, were reclining upon rich couches around the board; and their +effeminate exterior would, perhaps, have made them less formidable in my +eyes, had I not remembered the youth of the great Csar, the Parthian +retreat of Antony, and the recent death of Otho.(3) There were present, +besides, a few casual visiters like ourselves; among others, a sleek +Flamen, who reclined on the right hand of the presiding Tribune, and a +little bald Greek, who seemed to think it incumbent upon himself to fill +up every pause in the conversation, by malicious anecdotes or sarcasms, of +which last it was easy to see that the Flamen opposite was a favourite +subject. Neither wit nor impiety, however, could make speedy impression +upon the smooth-faced Flamen, who seemed to think, if one might judge from +his behaviour, that the most acceptable service he could render to the +deities, was to do full and devout justice to the gifts of their +benevolence. + +A very animated discussion concerning the review of the newly-arrived +cohorts, (which, I have told you, had taken place that morning by the +river side,) relieved for some time the patient Flamen from the attacks of +this irreverent person, and engaged the zealous participation of those who +had hitherto been the most silent of the company. Sabinus, among the rest, +was ready with a world of remarks upon the equipments, the manoeuvres, the +merits, and the demerits of the troops in question; but something he said +was quite at variance with the sentiments of one of his brother +Centurions, who disputed with him rather warmly than successfully for a +few moments, and at last ended with saying,--"But why should I take so much +trouble to discuss the point with you, who, we all know, were thinking of +other matters, and saw not much more of the review than if you had been a +hundred miles off from it?" + +The Centurion coloured a little, and laughed, as it seemed to me, with +rather less heartiness than usual; but the disputant pursuing his +advantage, said, "Yes, you may laugh if you will; but do you think we are +all blind, or do you suppose we are not acquainted with certain +particulars? Well, some people dislike the Suburra, but for my part I +agree with Sabinus; I think it is one of the genteelest places in Rome, +and that there are some of the snuggest houses in it too--and if old men +will die, for me, I protest, I don't see why young men should not succeed +them." The Centurion laughed again, and natural ruddiness of complexion +was, I thought, scarcely quite sufficient to account for the flush on his +countenance, as he listened to these innuendos. But the master of the +feast cut the matter short, by saying that he had a health to propose, and +that he expected all present should receive it with honour.--"Here," said +he, "is to the fair lady Rubellia, who is never absent when the Prtorians +turn out, and may all things fair and fortunate attend her now and +hereafter." I whispered to Sabinus,--"My friend, I think you have really +some reason for blushing. If you had no pity on Xerophrastes, you might at +least have had some for the pretty widow." + +He made no answer to this, and looked, if possible, more confused than +ever; but, just at that moment, a soldier came in, and delivered a billet +to the presiding Tribune, who handed it to Sabinus immediately after he +had read it, and said, loud enough to be heard by all those who sate near +him, "I wish the Prince would give some of this work to these new comers. +But, indeed, I wonder what Lictors are good for now-a-days; but every +thing that these Christians are any way concerned in seems to be a matter +of importance." + +Sabinus, having read the billet, handed it back again to the Tribune, and +said aloud, "_Exit_ Cotilius!--Who would not be of the chorus at the +falling of that curtain?" + +The Tribune shrugged his shoulders, whispered something into the ear of +the messenger, and then, dashing more wine into his cup, said, "Rome will +never be a quiet place, nor the Prtorian helmet a comfortable head-piece, +till these barbarians be extirpated." + +The Flamen tossed off a full goblet, and, smiting with his hand upon the +table, said, "There spake a true Roman, and a worshipper of the Gods. I +rejoice to find that there is still some religion in the world; for, what +with skulking Jews on the one hand, and bold blasphemous Cyrenans on the +other, so help me Jupiter, the general prospect is dark enough!" + +"In my opinion," quoth the bald Greek, putting on an air of some gravity, +"the Jews will have the better of the Cyrenans. Indeed, I should not be +much surprised to see this Christian superstition supplant every other." +The Flamen half started from his couch. "You observe, gentlemen," +proceeded the Greek,--"what great advantage any new superstition has over +any thing of the same sort that is old. We all know, for example, that +Isis and Cybele have for many years past left comparatively few +worshippers to Mars, Apollo,--even to Jupiter. It is lamentable; but it is +true. I have heard that unless on some very great day, a gift is now quite +a rarity upon the altar of any of the true ancient deities of Rome. Egypt +and Mount Ida have done this; and why should not Palestine succeed as well +as either? In the meantime, the enlightened contemplate every different +manifestation of the superstitious principle with equal indifference; and, +I confess to you, I have been a little surprised to perceive how far +Trajan is from imitating their example. But that Chronan master of his, +that Plutarch, was always an old woman; and I fear the Prince has not been +able to shake off the impression of his ridiculous stories." + +"Hush!" quoth the master of the day, "if it please you, nothing can be +said here against either Trajan or his friends; and, as for Plutarch, he +was one of the pleasantest fellows that I ever met with." + +Sabinus, desirous of restoring the harmony of the assembly, called +forthwith on a musical senior, to join him in a song. The gentleman +required solicitation, but at last announced his consent to attempt the +female part in the duet of Horace and Lydia. Sabinus, always ready, began +to roar out the tender words of regret and expostulation which the most +elegant of poets has ascribed to himself; and the delicate squeaking +response of our wrinkled Lydia formed an agreeable contrast. + +All, in short, were once more in perfect good humour, when another soldier +appeared behind the couch of the president, and handed to him what seemed +to be another billet of the same complexion. He tossed the paper as before +to my friend, who looked very serious as he read it.--"Caius," he +whispered, "an additional guard is ordered to the Palatine--and the reason +is said to be that the rest of the Christian prisoners are to be examined, +within an hour, by the Emperor himself." + +I had scarcely had a moment to compose myself, when one of the slaves in +attendance signified that a person wished to speak with me in the +anti-chamber. It was Dromo.--"Sir," said he, "I have no time for +explanation. Silo wishes to see you--I left Boto with him at the +Mammertine." + +As we walked from the camp, Sabinus, with his guard, passed without +noticing me; and I received some explanations which I must give to you +very briefly. Boto, mistrusting his recollection of my instructions, had +requested Dromo to assist him in finding his way to the Mammertine; and +the Cretan had come to be witness of a scene, which, in spite of his +sarcastic disposition, he could not narrate without tokens of sympathy. I +mentioned to you that my faithful slave, in coming with me to Rome, had +indulged the hope of meeting once more with a brother, who many years +before had been carried off from Britain. I smiled when the poor man +expressed confidence that he should find out this ere he had been many +days in the metropolis of the world. But now, in truth, a fortunate +accident had recompensed much ill-regulated search. He had found his +brother, and he had found him in the Mammertine. That very brother was +Silo, to whose kindness I, and one dearer than myself, had been so deeply +indebted. The Cretan, himself a slave and an exile, had partaken in the +feelings of the long-lost brothers, and hastened to bring me from the +camp, that Boto might be spared the pain of immediately parting from Silo. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +I had hurried along the darkening streets, and up the ascent of the +Capitoline, scarce listening to the story of the Cretan. On reaching the +summit, we found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already occupied +by detachments of foot. I hastened to the Mammertine--and before the +postern opened to admit us, the Prtorian squadron had drawn up at the +great gate. Sabinus beckoned me to him. "Caius," said he, stooping on his +horse, "would to heaven I had been spared this duty! Cotilius comes forth +this moment, and then we go back to the Palatine; and I fear--I fear we are +to guard thither your Athanasia. If you wish to enter the prison, quicken +your steps." + +We had scarcely entered the inner-court, ere Sabinus also, and about a +score of his Prtorians, rode into it. Silo and Boto were standing +together; and both had already hastened towards me; but the jailer, seeing +the Centurion, was constrained to part from me with one hurried +word:--"Pity me, for I also am most wretched. But you know the way--here, +take this key--hasten to my dear lady, and tell her what commands have +come." + +Alas! I said I to myself, of what tidings am I doomed ever to be the +messenger!--but she was alone; and how could I shrink from any pain that +might perhaps alleviate hers? I took the key, glided along the corridors, +and stood once more at the door of the chamber in which I had parted from +Athanasia. No voice answered to my knock; I repeated it three times, and +then, agitated with indistinct apprehension, hesitated no longer to open +it. No lamp was burning within the chamber, but from without there entered +a wavering glare of deep saffron-coloured light, which shewed me Athanasia +extended on her couch. Its ominous and troubled hue had no power to mar +the image of her sleeping tranquillity. I hung over her for a moment, and +was about to disturb that slumber--perhaps the last slumber of peace and +innocence--when the chamber-walls were visited with a yet deeper glare. +"Caius," she whispered, as I stepped from beside the couch; "why do you +leave me? stay, Valerius." I looked back, but her eye-lids were still +closed; the same calm smile was upon her dreaming lips. The light streamed +redder and more red. All in an instant became as quiet without as within. +I approached the window, and saw Cotilius standing in the midst of the +court; Sabinus and Silo near him; the horsemen drawn up on either side, +and a soldier close behind resting upon an unsheathed sword. I saw the +keen blue eye as fierce as ever. I saw that the blood was still fervid in +his cheeks: for the complexion of this man was of the same bold and florid +brightness so uncommon in Italy, which you have seen represented in the +pictures of Sylla, and even the blaze of the torches seemed to strive in +vain to heighten its natural scarlet. The soldier had lifted his sword, +and my eye was fixed, as by fascination, when suddenly a deep voice was +heard amidst the deadly silence--"Cotilius!--look up, Cotilius!" + +Aurelius, the Christian priest, standing at an open window, not far +distant from that at which I was placed, stretched forth his fettered hand +as he spake:--"Cotilius! I charge thee, look upon the hand from which the +blessed water of baptism was cast upon thy head. I charge thee, look upon +me, and say, ere yet the blow be given, upon what hope thy thoughts are +fixed?--Is this sword bared against the rebel of Csar, or a martyr of +Jesus?--I charge thee, speak; and for thy soul's sake speak truly." + +A bitter motion of derision passed over his lips, and he nodded, as if +impatiently, to the Prtorian. Instinctively I turned me from the +spectacle, and my eye rested again upon the couch of Athanasia--but not +upon the vision of her tranquillity. The clap with which the corpse fell +upon the stones had, perhaps, reached the sleeping ear, and we know with +what swiftness thoughts chase thoughts in the wilderness of dreams. So it +was that she started at the very moment when the blow was given; and she +whispered--for it was still but a deep whisper--"Spare me, Trajan, Csar, +Prince--have pity on my youth--strengthen, strengthen me good Lord!--Fie! +fie! we must not lie to save life. Felix--Valerius--come close to me, +Caius--Fie! let us remember we are Romans--'Tis the trumpet----" + +The Prtorian trumpet sounded the march in the court below, and Athanasia, +starting from her sleep, gazed wildly around the reddened chamber. The +blast of the trumpet was indeed in her ear--and Valerius hung over her--but +after a moment the cloud of the broken dream passed away, and the maiden +smiled as she extended her hand to me from the couch, and began to gather +up the ringlets that floated all down upon her shoulder. She blushed and +smiled mournfully, and asked me hastily whence I came, and for what +purpose I had come; but before I could answer, the glare that was yet in +the chamber seemed anew to be perplexing her: and she gazed from me to the +red walls, and from them to me again: and then once more the trumpet was +blown, and Athanasia sprung from her couch. I know not in what terms I was +essaying to tell her what was the truth, but I know that ere I had said +many words, she discovered my meaning. For a moment she looked deadly +pale, in spite of all the glare of the torch-beams; but she recovered +herself, and said in a voice that sounded almost as if it came from a +light heart,--"But Caius, I must not go to Csar, without having at least a +garland on my head. Stay here, Valerius, and I shall be ready anon--quite +ready." + +It seemed to me as if she were less hasty than she had promised, yet many +minutes elapsed not ere she returned. She plucked a blossom from her hair +as she drew near to me, and said, "Take it: you must not refuse one token +more; this also is a sacred gift. Caius, you must learn never to look upon +it without kissing these red streaks--these blessed streaks of the +Christian flower." + +I took the flower from her hand, and pressed it to my lips; and I +remembered that the very first day I saw Athanasia, she had plucked such +an one, when apart from all the rest, in the gardens of Capito. I told her +what I remembered; and it seemed as if the little circumstance had called +up all the image of peaceful days; for once more sorrowfulness gathered +upon her countenance. If the tear was ready, however, it was not permitted +to drop; and Athanasia returned again to her flower. + +"Do you think there are any of them in Britain?" said she; "or do you +think that they would grow there? You must go to my dear uncle, and he +will not deny you, when you tell him that it is for my sake he is to give +you some of his. They call it the Passion-flower--'tis an emblem of an +awful thing. Caius, these purple streaks are like trickling drops; and +here, look ye, they are all round the flower. Is it not very like a bloody +crown upon a pale brow? I will take one of them in my hand, too, Caius; +and methinks I shall not disgrace myself when I look upon it, even though +Trajan should be frowning upon me." + +I had not the heart to interrupt her; but heard silently all she said, and +I thought she said the words quickly and eagerly, as if she feared to be +interrupted. + +The old priest came into the chamber while she was yet speaking so, and +said very composedly, "Come, my dear child, our friend has sent again for +us, and the soldiers have been waiting already some space, who are to +convey us to the Palatine. Come, children, we must part for a +moment--perhaps it may be but for a moment--and Valerius may remain here +till we return to him. Here, at least, dear Caius, you shall have the +earliest tidings, and the surest." + +The good man took Athanasia by the hand, and she, smiling now at length +more serenely than ever, said only, "Farewell, then, Caius, for a little +moment!" And so, drawing her veil over her face, she passed away from +before me, giving, I think, more support to the ancient Aurelius than, in +her turn, she received from him. I began to follow them, but the priest +waved his hand as if to forbid me:--the door closed after them, and I was +alone. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I know not, my friends, how to proceed with the narrative of what +followed. Thoughts, passions, fears, hopes, succeeding so rapidly, give to +that strange night, when I look back upon it through the vista of years, +the likeness of some incoherent, agonizing dream. Much, without doubt, of +what passed within my own mind I have forgotten; but it seems to me as if +what I saw or heard were still present in the distinctness of reality. +That chamber in the Mammertine! Its walls are before me blazing with the +reflection of torch-light, and then again, all dim and shadowy--the stars +shining feebly upon them from the twilight sky--every thing around lonely +and silent, except the voice of Silo's little maiden,--bewailing no doubt +in her privacy the departure of Athanasia. + +Her father after a little time rejoined me. "Sir," said he, "all is now +quiet here; will you walk with me towards the Palatine, that we may at +least be near to know what is reported of their proceedings? My brother +will stay here till we return." + +We soon had descended from the Capitoline, passed through the silent +Forum, and gained the brow of the opposite eminence, where, as shortly +before at the Mammertine, all was light and tumult. Every court was +guarded with soldiery, and groups of busy men were passing continually +about the imperial gates and porticos. Silo led me round and round the +buildings, till we reached what seemed an abandoned wing. "Sir," said he, +"you do not know more familiarly the house in which you were born and +reared, than I do every corner within these wide walls. But I have not +crossed the threshold since the day Csar died.--I was the slave of +Domitian, and he gave me my freedom.--He was kind to his household." + +We entered beneath a small portico--and Silo drew a key from his bosom. The +lock, after two or three trials, yielded to its pressure. A large empty +hall received us, the circumference of which was scarcely visible by the +light of the newly-risen moon, streaming down from a cupola. + +Another and another sombre chamber we in like manner traversed, till at +length Silo opened one so comparatively light, that I started back, +apprehending we had intruded farther than he intended. A second glance, +however, seemed to indicate that we were still in the region of +desolation, for a statue lay in the midst of the floor, one of its limbs +snapped over, as if it had fallen and been permitted to remain. + +"Where are we, Silo?" I whispered, "what means this unnatural light among +so many symptoms of confusion?" + +"Sir," said the freedman, "this is the place in which alone Domitian used +to eat and sleep, and walk about for the last months of his life, when he +was jealous of all men; and he contrived these walls, covered all over +with the shining Ethiopian stone, that no one might be able to approach +him without being discovered. Even when a slave entered, he would start as +if every side of the chamber had been invaded by some host of men; fifty +different reflections of one trembling eunuch. It was, they say, behind +this shattered piece of marble that he ran when he had felt the first +treacherous blow. Yonder in the corner is the couch he slept upon, and he +had always a dagger under his head, and he called to the little page that +was waiting upon him to fetch it from the place; but the scabbard only +remained; and then in came Parthenius and Claudianus, and the gladiator, +and the rest, who soon finished what the cunning Stephanus had begun. Let +us go on;--we have not yet reached the place to which I wished to bring +you--but it is not far off now." + +With this Silo walked to the end of the melancholy chamber, and pressing +upon a secret spring, where no door was apparent, opened the way into a +room, darker and smaller than any of those through which we had come. He +then said to me, "Now, sir, you must not venture upon one whisper more--you +touch on the very heart of Domitian's privacy. It is possible that the +place I have been leading you to may have been shut up--it may exist no +longer; but the state in which all things are found here makes me think it +more likely that Trajan has never been master of its secret. And in that +case, we shall be able both to see and to hear, without being either seen +or heard, exactly as Domitian used to do, when there was any council held +either in the Mars or the Apollo." + +I started at the boldness of the project which now, for the first time, I +understood; but Silo laid his finger on his lip again,--cautiously lifted +up a piece of the dark-red cloth with which this chamber was hung,--and +essayed another spring in the pannelling beneath. Total darkness appeared +to be beyond; but the jailer motioning to me to remain for a moment where +I was, and to keep up the hanging, glided boldly into the recess. I +wondered how he should tread so lightly, that I could not perceive the +least echo; but this no longer surprised me, when I had the sign to +follow. The floor felt beneath my foot as if it were stuffed like a +pillow; and, after I had dropped the hanging, every thing was totally +dark, as it had at first appeared to me, except only at certain points, +separate and aloft, which let in gleams of light, manifestly artificial. +Silo, taking hold of me by the hand, conducted me up some steps towards +the nearest of these tiny apertures; and, as I approached it, I heard +distinctly the voices of persons talking together in the room beyond. I +did not draw my breath, you may well believe, with much boldness; but my +eye was soon fixed at one of the crevices, and, after the first dazzle was +over, I saw clearly. Silo took his station by my side, gazing through +another of these loop-holes, which, that you may understand every thing, +were evidently quite concealed among the rich carved-work of an ivory +cornice. + +The chamber was lighted by three tall candelabra of silver, close beside +one of which was placed a long table covered with an infinity of scrolls +and tablets. One person, who had his back turned towards us, was writing, +and two others, in one of whom I instantly recognized the Emperor, were +walking up and down on the other side. + +"No, Palma," said Trajan, for it was that old favourite whom he +addressed--"I have made up my mind as to this matter. I shall never permit +any curious inquisition as to private opinion. Every man has a right, +without question, to think--to believe--exactly what pleases him; and I +shall concede as much in favour of every woman, Palma, if you will have it +so. But it is totally a different affair, when the fact, no matter how, is +forced upon my knowledge, that a subject, no matter who or what he be--a +subject of the Roman empire, refuses to comply with the first, the +elemental, and the most essential of the laws. The man--aye or the +woman--that confesses in my presence contempt for the deities whom the +commonwealth acknowledges in every step of its procedure--that person is a +criminal; and I cannot dismiss him unpunished, without injuring the +commonwealth by the display of weakness in its chief. As for these poor +fanatics themselves, it is the penalty of my station that I must control +my feelings." + +"But you are satisfied, my lord," said Palma, "that these people are quite +innocent as to Cotilius's designs; and as it was upon that suspicion they +were apprehended, perhaps it may be possible----" + +"Yes, Palma," interrupted the Prince; "quite possible and quite easy, +provided they will condescend to save themselves by the most trivial +acknowledgment of the sort which, I repeat to you, I do and must consider +as absolutely necessary. And women too--and girls forsooth--I suppose you +would have me wait till the very urchins on the street were gathering into +knots to discuss the nature of the Gods.--Do you remember what Plato +says?"-- + +"No, my lord, I do not know to what you refer." + +"Why, Plato says that nobody can ever understand any thing accurately +about the Deity, and that, if he could, he would have no right to +communicate his discoveries to others; the passage is in the Timus, and +Tully has translated it besides. And is it to be endured that these modest +fanatics are to do every hour what the Platos and the Ciceros spoke of in +such terms as these? I think you carry your tolerance a little farther +than might have been expected from a disciple of the Academy." + +"I despise them, my lord, as much as yourself; but, to tell you the truth, +it is this young lady that moves me to speak thus--and I crave your pardon, +if I have spoken with too much freedom.--Her father was one of the best +soldiers Titus had." + +"The more is the pity, Palma. Have you ever seen the girl yourself? Did +you give orders that she should be brought hither? I have not the least +objection that you should have half an hour, or an hour if you will, to +talk with her quietly; perhaps your eloquence may have the effect we +desire." + +"I doubt it, my lord, I greatly doubt it," he replied; "but, indeed, I +know not whether she be yet here--Did you not send to the Mammertine?" + +The man writing at the table, to whom this interrogation was addressed, +said, "I believe, sir, both this lady and the old man that was in the same +prison are now in attendance." And upon this Trajan and Palma retired +together towards the farther end of the apartment, where they conversed +for some minutes in a tone so low, that I could not understand any thing +of what was said. Trajan at length turned from his favourite with an air, +as I thought, of some little displeasure, and said aloud, coming back into +the middle of the room,--"I know it is so; but what is that to the affair +in hand? I am very sorry for the Sempronii, but I doubt if even they would +be so unreasonable as you are." + +"Will you not see the poor girl yourself, Csar?" + +"You do not need to be told, that my seeing her would only make it more +difficult for me to do that, which, seeing or not seeing her, I know to be +my duty. Do you accept of my proposal? Are you willing to try the effect +of your own persuasion? I promise you, if you succeed, I shall rejoice not +less heartily than yourself; but it is rather too much to imagine that I +am personally to interfere about such an affair as this--an affair which, +the more I think of it, seems to me to be the more perfectly contemptible. +Nay, do not suppose it is this poor girl I am talking of--I mean the whole +of this Jewish, this Christian affair, which does indeed appear to me to +be the most bare-faced absurdity, that ever was permitted to disturb the +tranquillity of the empire. A mean and savage nation have but just +suffered the penalty of obstinacy and treachery alike unequalled, and from +them--from the scattered embers of this extinguished fire, we are to allow +a new flame to be kindled--ay, and that in the very centre of Rome. I tell +you, that if my own hand were to be scorched in the cause, I would +disperse this combustion to the winds of heaven; I tell you, that I stand +here Csar, and that I would rather be chained to the oar, than suffer, +while the power to prevent it is mine, the tiniest speck to be thrown upon +the Roman majesty. By all the Gods, Palma, it is enough to make a man sick +to think of the madness that is in this world, and of the iron arguments +by which we are compelled to keep those from harming us, that at first +sight of them excite no feeling but our pity. But I am weary of these very +names of Palestine--Jew--Christian. Go to this foolish girl, and try what +you can make of her; I give you fair warning--no breeders of young +Christians here." + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Cornelius Palma, after the Prince retired, was apparently for some space +busied with his reflections. He then talked in a whispering manner with +the secretary, and moved towards an extremity of the chamber. But the +moment Silo perceived this, he plucked my sleeve, and drew me to the other +end of our closet, where, as I have told you, the light had admittance in +a similar manner. Here another of the imperial apartments was visible in +equal distinctness; and in it appeared Athanasia and her friend, as +waiting now at length in entire composure the moment when they should be +summoned. + +Palma entering, both rose, and he, returning their salutation, remained +before them for a moment in silence, his eyes fixed on Athanasia. It was +to Aurelius, nevertheless, that his first words were addressed:--"From what +has been reported of your behaviour at the execution of Cotilius, I fear +there is nothing to be gained by speaking to _you_, concerning the only +means by which your own safety can yet be secured. You are obstinate, old +man, in your superstition?"--"Noble Palma," said the priest, "contempt is +the only thing I fear from men. But I thank my God, that it is the only +thing I have it in my power to avoid."--"I will not argue with you," +answered Palma, pointing to a door near him:--"It was not with any purpose +of bending you, that I undertook this painful office. I desire to speak in +freedom with one whose case is, I trust, less hopeless." + +The old man, pointing to his fetters, said meekly, "Let them guard me +whither it pleases you." + +"Sir," said Athanasia, "I pray you let Aurelius remain; imagine not that I +shall either hear or answer less freely because of my friend's presence." + +"He will, at least, retire to the other end of the chamber," said +Palma--"and interfere no farther." + +The priest drew back;--Athanasia, on her part, seeing that Palma hesitated, +and seemed at a loss how to begin, said to him in a tone of modest +composure:--"Noble sir, if your purpose be indeed as kind as I think it is, +I pray you spare me at least the pain that is needless, and spare yourself +what I am sure is painful to you. You see my youth and my sex, and it is +not unnatural for you to think as you do; but know that my faith is fixed, +and that I hope I shall not be deserted, when I strive even at the last +moment to do it no dishonour." + +"This gray beard," said Palma, "has made you, then, thoroughly a +Christian?" + +"I would it were so," she answered--"I would to God it were so!" + +"Lady," resumed Palma, "we have knowledge both of your father's high +character, and of your own amiable dispositions. If you persist in this +manner, you will give grief to Csar; and as for your family, have you yet +seriously considered into what misery they must be plunged?" + +"Sir," she replied, "this is cruel kindness. I have considered all +things." + +"Young maiden," continued Palma, "the touch of the physician's knife is +painful, yet his hand must not falter. But I have sent for those, who, I +hope, may speak more effectually." + +The Senator turned from the pedestal on which he had been leaning, and +walked to the door over against where Aurelius was sitting: and after a +moment had elapsed, there entered, even as I had anticipated, both her +uncles, Lucius and Velius. Behind them came, wrapped in her consecrated +veil, the Priestess of Apollo; and last of all, gazing wildly around, her +apparel disordered, the friend of her youth, the sister of her bosom,--she +to whom in all things, save one, Athanasia's heart had ever been laid +open. The two Patricians advanced, deeply dejected, towards the place +where Athanasia stood waiting their approach. The stately Priestess, +walking yet more slowly, lifted the veil from her face, which was pale and +calm as marble. But when the youthful companion at last rested her eye +upon her friend, and the fettered hands clasped together on that bosom, +she rushed past them all, and was folded in a cold embrace; for though +Athanasia pressed Sempronia to her bosom, I saw also that she trembled +from head to foot, and that her eyes were riveted on those who approached +with seriousness more terrible than the passion of young sympathy. + +"Athanasia," said Lucius, taking her by the hand, "look not upon us thus; +we come as to a daughter." + +"Dearest," said old Velius, "listen to thy true friends. Do you put more +faith in the words of strangers than in the blood of kindred--the affection +of your father's brothers--the guardians of his dear orphan?" + +"Wo is me!" said Athanasia--"O God, strengthen me! Why, oh, why am I forced +to wound these kind hearts! Have pity upon me, have pity upon me--you know +not what you speak of, else you would all be silent." + +"Weep," said the Priestess; "weep, and weep largely. There is yet time to +repent. Abjure this madness; let the last of your tears be shed upon the +altars of your paternal Gods, and they also will be merciful. Nay, tremble +not when you hear my voice, Athanasia. I love you as tenderly as the rest, +and if you have deceived me also, I have long since pardoned." + +The Priestess kissed her forehead; and she bowed her head, weeping at +length audibly. But Athanasia speedily recovered herself, and gently +removing the hands of Sempronia, stood erect again in the midst. + +"Dear friends," said she, "the moments you have to be with me are +numbered; what avails it that they should be spent in words that can have +no effect? I have been baptized in the name of the one true God--I have +partaken of the symbols of the Christian mystery--and I have no more power +to bring myself out of this peril, than he that stands in the front +rank--without sword or buckler--deprived of all things but his honour." + +"Athanasia!" said Velius, "alas! my dear girl, what madness is this? Do +you hold yourself wiser than all the wise men, and all the good, and all +the great men that have ever lived in Rome? Do you deem yourself able to +penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of the earth have retreated +with humility? Consider with yourself--remember the modesty that might be +becoming in your tender years--and, I must speak the truth, your +ignorance." + +"Oh, sir!" she answered, "believe not that I have been brought into this +place, because of my being puffed up with emptiness of conceit. I know +well that I am a poor, young, unlearned creature; but God gives not +according to our deserts; and because I am poor and ignorant, must I +therefore reject the promise of his riches, and the great light that has +been manifested to me,--which, would to God it had also been to you, +despite the perils which a dark world has thrown around it." + +"O Athanasia!" said young Sempronia, "I know the secrets of your heart, +although you have kept from me some of them. Think, dear sister, of all +the love that we bear to you--and, oh! think of Valerius." + +"The more, then, is the sacrifice!" said Athanasia. "Caius Valerius also +is a Christian--at least I hope in God he will soon be sealed into our +brotherhood." + +"Amen! amen!" said Aurelius. + +The Priestess turned round when he uttered this, and observing that he +also was fettered, "Blasphemer!" cried she, "behold the end of your +frenzy. Your eyes are dim, your clay is already yearning, it may be, to be +sprinkled into ashes; but behold your victim. Ye Gods that see all things, +have mercy upon the errors of deceived, ensnared, murdered youth! Hoary +Apostate! feeble though you be, may strength be given to you in anger, +that you may taste the full struggle and the true agony. May you be strong +to wrestle, that you may fall slowly, and feel your fall! Would to the +Gods, just and merciful, that you might struggle and fall alone!" + +"Rash woman," said the manacled Saint, "most surely your last wish is +mine. But why is it that you have come hither with cruel words, to +imbitter equally the last moments of a life that is dear to you, and a +life that you despise? You speak of ignorance and of deceit. Little know +ye who are the deceived. We are the servants of the living God, whose +light will soon shine abroad among the nations, and quench glimmering +tapers, fashioned with the hands of men, with which, hitherto, ye have sat +contented amidst darkness. Csar may bind and slay--but think ye that the +spirit is his to do with it what he will? Think ye that chains and +dungeons, and the sword of man can alter the course of things that are to +be, or shake from its purpose the will of Him, in whom, blind and +ignorant, ye refuse to behold the image of the Maker of all--shutting eyes, +and ears, and your proud hearts; and blaspheming against the God of +heaven, whose glory ye ascribe to stocks and stones, and to the ghosts of +wicked and bloody tyrants, long since mouldered into dust,--and to the sun, +and the moon, and the stars of the sky, which God set there to rule the +day and the night, even as he lets loose his winds to scatter the leaves +of the forest, and to lift up the waves of the great deep?--Leave us, I +beseech you.--The young and the old are alike steadfast, for God is our +strength, and he bestows it on them that ask for it in the name of the +Redeemer." + +"Peace, thou accursed!" said the Priestess; "I serve the altar, and came +not hither to hear the Gods of heaven and earth insulted by the lips of +hardened impiety.--Athanasia! will you go with us, or will you stay here, +and partake the fate of this madman?" + +"O God!" cried the maiden; "how shall I speak that they may at length hear +me!--Friends--dear friends--if you have any love, any compassion, I pray you +kiss me once, and bid me farewell kindly, and lay my ashes in the +sepulchre of my fathers--beside the urn of my mother. Fear not that I will +disturb the repose of the place--I shall die in anger against no one, and I +shall have rest at length when I am relieved from this struggle. Pardon, +if in any thing besides I ever gave you pain--remember none of my offences +but this--think of me kindly. And go now, dear friends; kiss my lips in +love, and leave me to bear that which must be borne, since there is no +escape but in lying, and in baseness, and in utter perdition here and +hereafter. May the Lord strengthen his day soon, and may ye all bless the +full light, although now ye are startled by the redness of the dawn! +Farewell--kiss me, Velius--kiss me, Lucius--my aunt also will kiss me." + +They did kiss her, and tears were mingled with their embraces; and they +said no more, but parted from her where she was. Palma himself lifted the +desolate Sempronia from the ground, and he and her father carried her away +senseless, her tresses sweeping the pavement as they moved. + +The prisoners were alone. "The moment is come," said Silo; "now, sir, +prepare yourself to risk every thing where every thing may be gained." + +He did not whisper this, but spake the words boldly; and ere I could +either answer any thing, or form any guess as to his meaning, he had +leaped down from my side, and thrown open another secret spring. Silo +rushed in, and I followed him. It was all done so rapidly, that I scarce +remember how. I cannot, indeed, forget the wild and vacant stare of +Athanasia, the cry which escaped from her lips, nor the fervour with which +she sunk into my embrace. But all the rest is a dream. The door closed +swiftly behind us;--swiftly I ran, bearing the maiden in my arms through +all the long course of those deserted chambers. Door after door flew open +before us. All alike, breathless and speechless, we ran on. We reached the +last of the chambers, the wide and echoing saloon, ere my heart had +recovered from the first palpitation of surprise; and a moment after we +breathed once more the free air of heaven. + +"Stop not," said I, "for the sake of God. Hasten, Silo, it is you that +must guide us."--"Ha!" said he, "already have they perceived it? Great God! +after all, is it in vain?" We heard shout echoing shout, and the clapping +of doors. "Treachery, treachery! Escape, escape!"--and trumpet and horn +mingled in the clamour of surprise, wrath, terror. "Ride, ride," screamed +a voice high over all the tumult--"ride this instant--guard every +avenue--search every corner--the wing of Domitian!" + +"We are lost," said Silo;--"we can never reach the gate." + +"To the Temple of Apollo!" said I; "the Priestess will shelter Athanasia." + +"Thank God," whispered Silo, "there is one chance more."--And so we began +again to run swiftly, keeping close beneath the shaded wall of the +edifice, and then threading many narrow passages of the hanging gardens of +Adonis, we reached indeed the adjoining court of the Palatine, and found +ourselves, where all was as yet silent and undisturbed, under the sacred +portico. The great gate was barred. Athanasia herself pointed out a +postern, and we stood within the temple. + +It was filled as before, (for here the alternations of day and night made +no difference,) with the soft and beautiful radiance proceeding from the +tree of lamps. But the fire on the altar burned high and clear, as if +recently trimmed, and behind its blaze stood one of the ministering +damsels. Her hand held the chain of the censer, and she was swinging it +slowly, while the clouds of fragrant smoke rolled high up above the +flames;--and the near light, and the intervening smoke, and the occupation +with which she was busied, prevented her from at first perceiving what +intrusion had been made on the solitude of the place. Athanasia ran on, +and clasping the knees of the astonished girl with her fettered hands, +began to implore her by the memory of old affection and companionship, and +for the sake of all that was dear to her, to give escape, if escape were +possible--at least to give concealment. The girl had dropped the censer +from her hand, and seemed utterly confused, and unable to guess the +meaning of what she saw and heard. "Lady!" cried Silo, falling by the side +of Athanasia--"Oh, lady! stand not here considering, for this is the very +moment of utmost peril. Behold these fetters--they tell you from what her +flight hath been." + +The girl grasped the hands of Athanasia, and gazed upon the manacles, and +still seemed quite amazed and stupified; and while Silo was renewing his +entreaties, we heard suddenly some one trying to open the postern which +the freedman had fastened behind us. Once and again a violent hand essayed +to undo the bolt, and then all was quiet again. And in a moment after, the +great gate was itself thrown open, and the Priestess entered, followed by +her two brothers, who supported between them the yet faint and weeping +young Sempronia. + +In a moment Athanasia had rushed across the temple, and knelt down with +her forehead to the ground, close by where the feet of her haughty +kinswoman were planted. + +"Unhappy!" said she; "by what magic do I behold you here? How have you +escaped? and why--oh! why fled hither? Think ye, that here, in the Temple +of Apollo, the priestess of an insulted God can give shelter to blasphemy +flying from the arms of justice? Ha! and he, too, is here!--Outcast! how +durst thou? Speak, unhappy Athanasia--every thing is dark, and I see only +that you have brought hither----"--"Friends, friends--oh! blame them not," +interrupted the maiden--"Oh! blame them not for venturing all to save me. +Oh! help us, and help speedily--for they search every where, and they may +speedily be here." + +"Here?" cried the priestess--"who, I pray you? Ha! run, fly, bolt the door. +If Csar speaks, I answer." + +The ring of arms, and voices of angry men, were heard distinctly +approaching. In a moment more we could hear them talking together beneath +the very portico, and trying, in their turn, to thrust open the massive +valves of the temple. "Who calls there?" cried the Priestess--"Who calls +and knocks? If a suppliant approaches, let him come as a +suppliant."--"Castor! We are no suppliants," answered a rough voice:--"Dead +or alive, you must give up our pretty Christians. Come, come, my sly +masters; yield, yield, there is no flying from Csar." + +"Peace, insolent!" quoth the Priestess--"peace, and begone! This is the +Temple of Apollo, and ye shall find no Christians here. Turn, rude man, +and dread the arm that guarded Delphos!" And saying so, she at length +lifted up Athanasia, and moved towards the other extremity of the fane, +where, as I had occasion once to tell you before, the private chamber of +the Priestess was situated on the right hand beyond the statue of Apollo. +In passing the image she halted an instant, laid her hand on her eyes, and +kissed its feet, with a murmur of supplication; but that was her only +utterance: and the rest gave none. + +She thus led us across the chamber in which, on a former day, I had heard +Athanasia sing; and in like manner, having taken a lamp in her hand, on +through the long passages which conduct towards the receptacle wherein the +Sybilline prophecies are said to be preserved. She opened the door which +she had, on that earlier day, told me led into the repository of those +mysterious scrolls. Two inner doors appeared before us; that to the left +she opened likewise, and we perceived, descending from its threshold, a +dark flight of steps, as if down into the centre of the rock. + +"Here," said she, as she paused, and held the lamp over the gloomy +perspective--"here, at last, I leave you, having already done too much, +whether I think of the God I serve, or of Trajan, or of myself. But for +the blood of kindred not little may be dared. Go with her, since you have +come with her. More I cannot do. Here--take this lamp; the door at the +bottom is fastened only from within; let it fall behind you, and make what +speed you may." + +"One thing," said Silo, "had better be done ere you depart;" and so, very +adroitly, he, by means of his jailer's key, relieved both of them from +their fetters. He then whispered, "Go no farther, Valerius; you may rest +assured that no one suspects us." I saw that he designed to return into +the courts of the Palatine, and so proceed homewards, as if ignorant of +every thing that had occurred. The good freedman had no other course to +pursue, either in duty to himself or to his family. But for me, all my +cares were here. I squeezed by the hand both Lucius and Velius, and both +warmly returned my pressure. The Priestess gave the lamp into my hand, and +the door was shut upon us; and we began, with hearts full of thankfulness, +but not yet composed enough to taste of lightness--with thankfulness +uppermost in our confused thoughts, and with no steady footsteps, to +descend into the unknown abyss. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +The steps were abrupt and narrow; but in a few minutes our feet became +accustomed to them, and we descended rapidly. After we had done so for +some time, we found ourselves in a low chamber of oblong form, in the +midst of which an iron stake was fixed into the floor, having chains of +ponderous workmanship attached to its centre, and over against it, a +narrow chair of the same metal, it also immoveable. I asked Athanasia to +repose herself here for a moment; for it was evident that the tumultuous +evening had much worn out her strength. But she said, shuddering, "No, not +here, Valerius; I never saw this place before, but the aspect of it recals +to me fearful stories. Here, wo is me, many a poor wretch has expiated +offences against the dignity of the shrine, and the servants of its Demon. +My father knows, I doubt not, some humble Christian roof, beneath which we +may be safe until the first search be over. Let us breathe at least the +open air, and He who has hitherto helped will not desert us." + +"No, my children," said Aurelius; "let us not linger here. Christian +roofs, indeed, are known to me, both humble and lofty; but how to know how +far suspicion may already have extended?--or why should we run any needless +risk of bringing others into peril, having by God's grace escaped +ourselves, when all hope as to this life had been utterly taken away? Let +us quit these foul precincts--let us quit them speedily--but let us not +rashly be seen in the busy city. There is a place known to me, (and +Athanasia also has visited it heretofore,) where safety, I think, may be +expected, and where, if danger do come, it shall find no unnecessary +victim. Let us hasten to the Esquiline." + +"Thanks, father!" said Athanasia; "there no one will seek us: there best +shall our thanksgivings and our prayers be offered. We will rest by the +sepulchre of our friend, and Valerius will go into the city, and procure +what things are needful." + +We began the descent of another flight of steps, beyond the dark chamber. +This terminated at length in a door, the bolts of which being withdrawn, +we found ourselves beneath the sky of night, at the extremity of one of +the wooded walks that skirt the southern base of the Palatine--the remains +of the Assyrian magnificence which had once connected the Golden House of +Nero with the more modest structures of his predecessors. I wrapped +Athanasia in my cloak, and walked beside her in my tunic; and Aurelius +conducted us by many windings, avoiding as far as was possible the glare +of the Suburra, all round about the edge of the city, to the gardens which +hang over the wall by the great Esquiline Gate. + +"Is it here," said I, when he paused--"is it in the midst of this splendour +that you hope to find a safe obscurity?" + +"Have patience," replied the old man; "you are a stranger:--and yet you +speak what I should have heard without surprise from many that have spent +all their days in Rome. Few, indeed, ever think of entering a region which +is almost as extensive as the city itself, and none, I think, are +acquainted with all its labyrinths." + +So saying, the priest led the way into one of the groves. Its trees formed +a dense canopy overhead; nor could we pass without difficulty among the +close-creeping undergrowth. At length we reached the centre of the wide +thicket, and found a small space of soil comparatively bare. The light of +moon and star plunged down there among the surrounding blackness of +boughs, as into some deep well, and shewed the entrance of a natural +grotto, which had, indeed, all the appearance of oblivion and utter +desertedness. "Confess," said he, "that I did not deceive you. But there +is no hurry now; let me taste once more the water of this forgotten +spring." + +I had not observed a small fountain hard by the mouth of the grotto, +which, in former days, had evidently been much cared for, although now +almost all its surface was covered with leaves. The marble margin shewed +dim with moss; nor had a statue just within the entrance of the grot +escaped this desolation. Damp herbage obscured its recumbent limbs, and +the Parian stone had lost its brightness. "You can scarcely see where the +inscription was," said Aurelius, "for the letters are filled up or +effaced; but I remember when many admired it, and I can still repeat the +lines-- + + 'Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, + And to the murmur of these waters sleep; + Ah! spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, + And drink in silence, or in silence lave.'(4) + +Little did they, who graved this command, conjecture how well it was to be +obeyed. But there should be another inscription.--Ay, here it is," said he, +stepping on a long flat piece of marble among the weeds. I was advancing +to examine the stone, but the old man stopped me:--"What avails it to spell +out the record? Do you remember the story of Asinius? It was within this +very cavern that the man was butchered;(5) and now you see both he and his +monument are alike sinking into forgetfulness. I believe, however, the +monument itself must bear the blame in part; for I have heard my father +say that he had been told this was a favourite fountain until that +slaughter." + +Athanasia meantime had sat down by the grotto, and was laving her forehead +with the water of the solitary fountain. Aurelius, too, dipped his hands +in the well, and tasted of the water, and then turning to me, he said, +with a grave smile, "Valerius, methinks you are religious in your regard +for the slumbers of the nymph." He whispered something into the ear of +Athanasia, and received an answer from her in the same tone, ere he +proceeded:--"Draw near--fear not that I shall do any thing rashly--we owe all +things to your love--we know we do; but speak plainly.--Do you indeed desire +to be admitted into the fellowship of the true Faith? Let not the symbol +of regeneration be applied hastily. Without doubt, great were my joy might +my hands be honoured to shed the blessed water of baptism upon the brow of +dear Valerius." + +"Caius," said Athanasia, "I know God has touched your heart; why should +this be delayed any longer? You have shared the perils of the faithful. +Partake with them in good as in evil. Hesitate no longer; God will perfect +what hath been so begun." + +"Dearest friends!" said I, "if I hesitate, it is only because I doubt if I +am yet worthy. Surely I believe that this is the right faith, and that +there is no God but He whom you worship." + +"Acceptable is humility in the sight of Heaven," said the priest; and he +rose up from the place where he had been sitting, and began, standing by +the margin of the well, to pour out words of thanksgiving and +supplication, such as I have never heard equalled by any lips but his. The +deep calm voice of the holy man sounded both sweet and awful in the +breathless air of midnight. The tall black trees stood all around, like a +wall, cutting us off from the world, and from the thoughts of the world; +and the moon, steady in the serene sky, seemed to shower down light and +beauty upon nothing in all the wide earth, but that little guarded space +of our seclusion. I stepped into the cool water of the fountain. The old +man stooped over me, and sprinkled the drops upon my forehead, and the +appointed words were repeated. Aurelius kissed my brow, as I came forth +from the water, and Athanasia also drew slowly near, and then hastily she +pressed my forehead with trembling lips. + +We sate down together by the lonely well; and we sate in silence, for I +could not be without many thoughts partaken by none but myself, at the +moment when I had thus, in the face of God and man, abjured the faith of +all my fathers, and passed into the communion of the despised and +persecuted Few; nor did either the priest or Athanasia essay to disturb my +meditations. + +There were moments (for I must not conceal from you my weakness) in which +I could scarcely help suspecting that I had done something that was wrong. +I thought of my far distant mother; and I could not reflect without pain +upon the feelings with which I had every reason to suppose that she, kind +as she was, and merciful in all things, would have contemplated the scene +which had passed. I thought of my dead parent too; and that was yet more +serious and awful. The conviction of my own mind, in obedience to which I +had acted, relieved me, however, from any feelings of self-reproach.--My +father is dead, said I to myself--He died in ignorance, and he has not been +judged according to the light, which never shone upon him. But now--Oh, +yes! it must be so--the darkness has passed from before his eyes; and, if +the spirits of the departed ever visit, in the dim hours of silence, those +who were dear to them upon this earth, surely his venerable shade stood by +smiling while the forehead of his son was laved with these blessed waters. + +Meantime, minutes--hours, perhaps, glided away, while troubled, and solemn, +and tender thoughts thus occupied by turns my bosom. The old priest sate +by me, his arms folded on his breast, gazing upwards upon the spangled +glories of the firmament. Athanasia was on the other side, close by the +statue of the Sleeping Naiad. From time to time, she too would fix her +eyes for a moment upon the untroubled beauty of the moon; and then, +stooping over the brink of the fountain, once and again I saw its calm +dark waters rippled beneath her by the dropping of a tear. + +"My children," said, at length, Aurelius, "methinks more sadness is +amongst us than might suit the remembrance of what Providence has done for +us, since the sun that went down upon fear and sorrow is about to rise +upon many fair hopes. I am old; the world lies behind me, save a remnant I +know not how brief. It lies all before you, and you have a light whereby +to look upon it, which my early day wanted. I trust that soon, very soon, +ye shall both be far from this city--I say both, for I know well, go where +ye may, ye will go together. As for me, my lot is cast here, and here I +will remain. Caius, you must leave us betimes--you must return into the +city, and consult with your friends and hers, how best Athanasia may be +conveyed safely beyond the bounds of Italy. Csar, indeed, rules every +where; but at a distance from Rome suspicion is, at least, less watchful; +and there is no precept given by which ye are bound to seek unnecessary +perils." + +"Aurelius," said I--"dear father, think not but that I have already been +considering all these things anxiously. As soon as I have seen you safely +placed within the retreat of which you have spoken, I shall hasten to +Licinius, my kinsman, who already, indeed, must be feeling no small +anxiety from my absence. I shall speak with him, and with both the +Sempronii. My own errand to the capital I value as nothing, and I shall be +ready on the instant, if Athanasia herself will consent to partake my +voyage." + +"Yes, Caius," said the father--"this child of God will be your wife, and ye +will both serve the Lord many days, amidst the quiet valleys of your far +off island.--Nay, daughter, do not weep, for these are not common days, and +you must follow without fear the path which God's providence points out. +Before ye go, my children, I myself shall join your hands in the name of +our God." + +Athanasia heard his words, and saw me gaze upon his face, but she made no +reply, except by the tears which Aurelius rebuked, and a timid, yet grave +and serious pressure, with which she, when he had made an end of speaking, +returned the fervid pressure of my hand upon hers. + +"Children," said the old man, "there is no need of words when hearts are +open--the tears that ye have shed together are the best earnest of the vows +that ye shall ere long, I trust, pronounce. Yet, let no rashness attend +your steps. The dawn must now be near, and Athanasia and I had better +retire into our protecting covert. Valerius will leave us, and return at +eventide. Till then, fasting and praying, we shall give thanks for our +deliverance, and ask the aid that alone is precious for the time that yet +remains." + +I had, fortunately, brought all the way with me the lamp which lighted our +steps down the mysterious staircase, from the shrine of Apollo. Some +little oil still remained within it, and Aurelius soon struck a light, +and, taking it in his hand, began to enter before us the dark cavern, by +the mouth of which we had all this while been sitting. You, perhaps, have +never heard of those strange excavations, the whole extent of which has +probably never been known to any one person, but which appear, indeed, as +the priest had said, to be almost co-extensive with the great city beneath +which they are placed. For what purpose they were at first dug, is a +subject which has long exercised the conjectures of those fond of +penetrating into the origin of things, and the customs of antiquity. By +some it is supposed, that in such caverns, winding far away into unseen +recesses, the first rude inhabitants of Italy, like the Troglodytes of +Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, had fixed their miserable abodes. Others assert, +that they owe their origin merely to the elder builders of the visible +Rome, who, to avoid marring the surface of the earth, were contented to +bring their materials of sand, clay, and stone, from these subterraneous +labyrinths, which so grew with the progress of diligence, and with the +extension of the city itself. Perhaps both conjectures may have some +foundation in truth; but be that as it may, there is no question, that, in +succeeding times, these catacombs had been widened and extended, to serve +as places of burial for the mortal remains of the poor citizens. And now +is it to be wondered at, that here, in regions so obscure and dismal, the +persecuted adherents of the Faith should have frequently sought not only +resting-places for the bodies of their dead, but even shelter for +themselves, amidst the terror of those relentless days? Hither, more than +once, the aged priest said, he had fled to escape the pursuit of his +enemies--here once more he hoped the shield of safety would lie over his +peril--here, at last, by whatever death he should die, his brethren had +promised to lay his bones in the earth, beside Tisias of Antioch, and many +more that, in the bloody times of Nero and Domitian, had already, in the +sight of all that heartless city, merited the crown, and the spotless +robe, and the palm-branch of martyrdom, by patient endurance of the last +insolence of man. + +Our father, therefore, held the lamp before us, and we entered those +gloomy regions, wherein alone the servants of the Son of God could at that +troubled era esteem themselves in safety from the hot pursuit of +contemptuous power. We passed along beneath the arches of the rock-hewn +roof, and between the endless winding walls, on either side of which +appeared many humble inscriptions, recording the virtues of the departed +and the regrets of the surviving poor. Of these last, however, as it +appeared, all must long since have been gathered to the ashes of those +they lamented, for there was no semblance of any new monument among all +that we observed, and most of them, to judge from the shape of the letters +upon them, must have been set up at least as long ago as the period of +Asinius. After traversing many of these subterraneous galleries, we came, +at last, to one more low-roofed than the rest, into which Aurelius struck +aside, saying, "Here Tisias lies, but no inscription marks the place where +a martyr finds repose. Here is the spot; with my own hands I lent feeble +help in digging the grave. Athanasia, too, knows it well, for she also did +not fear to assist in rendering the last honours to that soldier of +Christ." + +A flat thin stone, without mark or epitaph, indicated the spot. + +"Father," said Athanasia, "let me rest here. I am weary and worn--but here +I shall fear no evil. Conduct Caius back to the grotto; it is time he +should go." + +Thus leaving her by the funeral-stone, Aurelius and I retraced our steps +to the mouth of the catacomb. + +"Already," said he, "the sky is red eastward--walk cautiously through the +gardens, and regain with all speed the house of your kinsman. Go, my son; +may all blessings attend your steps. Come back at the rising of the moon, +and cast a stone into the fountain, and I shall be within hearing. Go, and +fear not." + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +I passed without disturbance through the gardens of the Esquiline, and the +streets of the city, in which no one was as yet moving, except a few +rustics driving asses laden with herbs to the market-place. When I reached +the house of my kinsman, however, it was evident that sleep did not +prevail within its gates; lights were visible in the vestibule, and there +I found several of the slaves sitting in conversation. My own could not +conceal the extravagance of his satisfaction on seeing me enter among them +in safety; so that I had no doubt his brother had informed him, in so far +at least, of what had passed after our leaving him in the Mammertine. +Dromo received me also with warm demonstrations of joy, and conducted me +to the chamber of Licinius, in which, with the orator himself, were +Sextus, pale with watching, Sabinus, still habited in military attire, +with a goblet of wine before him on the table, and Lucius Sempronius, who +was reclining at some little distance from the rest. It was he that +eagerly began to question me; and I perceived from the style in which he +spoke, that all present had already been made aware of the manner in which +Athanasia had been withdrawn from the council-chamber. A few words +informed them of what had followed after we quitted the Temple of Apollo. + +"I thank the gods," said Sempronius,--"so far at least it goes well--but if +this strictness, of which the Centurion speaks, shall be adhered to, there +still must be no small difficulty about conveying her beyond the city." + +"In truth," quoth Sabinus, after a little pause, "I am afraid this is +scarcely a matter in regard to which I should be consulted. I know not but +already I have done several things that could not be quite reconciled with +my duty. I shall, in all probability, be set on the watch myself, and if +so--much as I must regret the necessity--it certainly will be most necessary +for me to discharge what is committed to my trust. Is there no +possibility, think you, of inventing some impenetrable disguise? Depend on +it, it is quite impossible the young lady should remain any where in Rome, +without being ere long discovered. The first thing is to have her safe +beyond the city-walls." + +"I myself," said I, "shall embark instantly for Britain. Sempronius, +Athanasia must go with me--Surely it may be possible to have her carried +unobserved to the shore." + +"You!" said Licinius--"you embark instantly for Britain?--You know not what +you speak; your law-suit has been determined this very afternoon. Every +thing that Cneius left is your own." + +"O Jove!" cried Sabinus, "did ever mortal receive such news with such a +face! But come, here is health to the heir of the Valerii, and may this +Massic choke me, if I love him not the better for his gravity." + +"Would to heaven!" said Sempronius, "our young friend had loved under +other auspices! No, Valerius must stay and take possession, destined, as I +hope he is, to equal, under the favour of the gods, the noblest name in +his lineage. My dear niece--let us trust she may be concealed somewhere in +safety from the pursuit. Separated from this fanatic crew, she will, ere +long, without question, abandon the dreams they have filled her mind +withal; and on some happier day, our friend may perhaps have no reason +either to fear or to blush, for lifting her over the threshold of the +Valerii." + +I drew near to the old man, and, receiving his embrace, whispered into his +ear, "Sempronius, you speak generously; but know that this very evening I +also have become a Christian." + +"Heavens!" cried he, "what limits shall be affixed to this contagion! Rash +boy! have you not seen already to what consequences this must lead?" + +"What?" says Licinius--"what new calamity is this? Have my ears deceived +me? Speak, dear Caius--for the sake of all the blood in your veins--you have +not embraced this frenzy?" + +"My friends," said I, "why should I speak to one, when all of you are, I +well know, alike interested? In all things else I bow to age and +understanding so much above my own; but here I have thought for myself, +and my faith is fixed." + +Licinius heard me with a countenance of painful and anxious emotion. In +the eye of young Sextus I saw a tear ready to start, and his whole aspect +was that of one sad and bewildered. Sempronius leaned his brow upon his +hand, and turned himself away from me. But as for the Centurion, he +preserved his usual air; and after a moment, all the rest continuing +silent, said, "Valerius, I have been in love ere now, and perhaps am not +out of the scrape at present; but you have thrown a new light upon the +matter. What do you fancy to be the great merits of the present age, that +it should be treated with more favour than all that have gone before it? +And, if you come to speak of the Jews, every body knows they are a most +pitiful, mean, knavish set of creatures. They were always by the ears +among themselves; but I think it is rather too much that they should have +the credit of bringing their betters (by which I mean all the world +besides) into confusion. You are but green yet; all this will blow over +anon, and you will laugh more heartily than any one else when you think of +your weakness. But look up, good friend, I don't think you are listening +to me." + +"My dear Sabinus," said I, "I do listen, but I think it is rather to the +gay Prtorian, than to the patient friend I had expected to find in you." + +"Come!" said he again, "you take every thing so seriously. If you are +resolved to be a Christian, I am very sorry for it; but even that shall +not stand between me and a true friend. I hope you will soon see the thing +as I do--I know you will; but, in the meantime, Valerius, you may count +upon me."--And the kind man squeezed my hand with his customary fervour. + +He then turned round to the rest of our friends, and began to propose for +their consideration a dozen different schemes of escape, that had already +suggested themselves to his imagination. + +Licinius took advantage of the first pause, to suggest that the Centurion +seemed in a hurry to get rid of me. He then passed into an account of the +speech he had delivered on the preceding afternoon before the Court of the +Centumvirs, and of the unhesitating manner, so gratifying to his feelings, +in which its judgment had been pronounced. For some moments, in his detail +of these proceedings, he seemed almost to have lost sight of the present +situation and views of the person most interested in their termination. +But when, in the progress of his story, he came to enlarge upon the +magnificence of my new possessions--the domains in Africa--the rich farms in +Sicily--the numerous slaves engaged in their cultivation--the Spanish silver +mine--and, last of all, the splendours of the great villa upon the banks of +the Tiber--it was not difficult to perceive that he could scarcely restrain +his indignation at the purpose I had been expressing. "And such," said he, +"are the realities which our young friend quits for the reasons he has +mentioned! Well, every man must judge for himself. If it must be so, let +it be so." + +I heard him patiently to the end, and then said, "You have well summed up +the whole matter, my dear Licinius. It must indeed be so. I go immediately +to Britain, and I trust she--for whom I would leave all these things, were +they greater than they are--shall, by the aid of your kindness, go with me +in safety. There is one request only which I have, in addition to all +this, to lay before you; and that you may hear it the more patiently, it +does not concern myself. + +"In a word, then," I continued, "should happier days arrive, I hope once +more to be among you here in Rome. The wealth which, thanks to your zeal, +Licinius, is this day mine, can be of little use to me in the British +valley, to which, for the present, I retire. Above all, this beautiful +villa of which you speak,--why, because for a time I am unable to occupy +it, should the mansion of my fathers stand empty, when there are others +among their descendants, who lie not under the same necessity of exile? +Till I am enabled to breathe in freedom the air of Italy, I trust Licinius +will consent to let Sextus represent me in my villa. There, too, I hope +Sempronius will permit his daughter to be. It will give pleasure to +Athanasia, to think that those halls contain the dearest of our friends. +When we come back, if ever we do so, they will not grudge to make room for +us beneath the same roof with themselves. Licinius--Sempronius--what say +you?" + +They were both silent for a moment; but Sabinus was at hand to answer for +them:--"By all Olympus! I shall knock down any man henceforth, that in my +presence abuses Christianity as a destruction of men's hearts. Let it be, +good friends, as our Caius says. I know, Sextus, I have at least your +voice upon my side. Let it be so; and, for heaven's sake, let it be +immediately. A wedding is the very thing to divert attention from these +troubles in both kindreds." + +Our conversation was interrupted by Dromo, who told me that Silo the +jailer had come to see me, and was below in the hall. There I found the +humane man, with his little daughter in his hand, and walked aside with +him into the inner portico of the house. I told him how the escape, for +which his zeal alone was to be thanked, had been terminated--and to what +resolution I had now come;--and then inquired whether no suspicion had been +attached to himself, in consequence of his absence from the Capitoline. +Having assured me that he had no reason to think so,--"The oath which I had +taken to Trajan," said he, "prevented me from adopting the simpler course +of setting open for our dear friends the gates of the Mammertine; and I +trust that I did not offend against that oath by acting as I did, after +they had been taken away for the time from my keeping. But both they and +you must be aware of the pain which I suffered during their confinement, +and of the dangers which I have encountered by their escape. I am resolved +no more to be subject to such struggles. I cannot preserve my faith as a +Christian, and my honour as a servant of Trajan. This very day I resign my +charge in the Mammertine; this very night, if it so please you, I am ready +to accompany you and my dear young lady, in your flight to Britain." + +I need not say with what gladness I heard this proposal. Returning to my +friends, I informed them of what I had just heard, and perceiving now at +last that there was no chance of diverting me from my project, they +entered, like true friends, into serious consultation respecting the best +method of carrying my project into execution. The aid of Silo, who had +already given such proofs both of presence of mind, and of prudence, and +courage, was regarded by them as of the highest importance. He was shortly +summoned to take part in our deliberation, and it was resolved, that after +resigning in a formal manner the office he held, and transferring his +property for the present into the custody of Licinius, he should forthwith +repair to Ostium, and there hire and put in readiness, for immediate use, +a small vessel, the lightest he could find, in which the fugitive party +might transport themselves at least as far as Corsica. To this the zealous +Silo without hesitation assented. It was agreed that he should have the +mariners on their benches by the coming on of night, and that he himself +should be waiting for us by a certain ruined tower, which stands +conspicuously by the river side, about a mile and a half above Ostium. We +left it to Silo himself, to stock the bark with any merchandise which he +might deem best adapted to deceive the superintendents of the haven. + +Partly from the necessity of making provision of various kinds for this +voyage, but still more in consequence of the law-suit, with the +termination of which you have just been made acquainted, I had no leisure +that day, from which to work out unnecessary pain either for myself or for +others. I had to assist Licinius in looking over an infinity of deeds, and +to superintend the drawing out of others. In the next place, I had to go +to the Forum for the purpose of manumitting some slaves, (such a largess +being naturally expected); and while I was occupied with this, need I tell +you, that my own poor Briton was not forgotten? Licinius having, at the +joint request of Sextus and myself, accorded that morning to the Cretan +also the well-merited gift of his liberty, Boto and Dromo were seen +strutting about the Forum together for some moments, each arrayed in that +worshipful cap which had formed the most prominent object in their +day-dreams of felicity. I shall not trouble you with needless particulars. +Let it suffice, that the greater part of the day was thus spent in +unavoidable business. + +Towards evening, I stole privately from my kinsman's house, being willing +to avoid a formal farewell, and repaired to Sabinus, who received me with +very lively emotion. What he dwelt upon most fervently, however, was the +probability--the certainty he seemed to esteem it--that a persecution of +this nature could not be long persisted in by such a prince as Trajan; and +the pleasure with which, that being all at an end, he should see me come +back to Rome, and take due possession of the inheritance of my fathers. +After expatiating most fluently for some minutes on the expected delights +of that day, he paused suddenly, and then added, in a tone of some little +hesitation, "And as for me, I wonder in what state you shall find me. Rich +or poor--married or single--Centurion or Tribune--one thing is certain, that +I shall, in all circumstances, be not a little rejoiced to see you." + +"You had better marry, my good captain," said I. + +"Marry! me to marry? I have not the least thought of such a thing. You did +not put any faith, did you, in the raillery of those waggish fellows of +yesterday?" + +"A little--a very little, Sabinus." + +"Poh! poh! now you are jesting." + +"And much, very much, Sabinus, in the conscious looks of a certain +blushing Centurion, yesterday." + +"Come," quoth he, "there is more cunning in these British eyes than I ever +should have dreamt of. Fill your cup to the brim, boy, and since you are +to leave us so speedily, I shall have no secrets for you. I have seen +service;--true, but what of that? I have kept a light heart in all my +campaigns. But my day, it must be confessed, begins to wear a little, a +very little, towards the evening; and, Castor! if you allow supper-time to +slip over, I don't know but you must go to bed with a light stomach. Now +or never was the word, my boy; and the widow is mine own." + +"And Xerophrastes?" said I. + +"And as for the most sagacious and venerable Xerophrastes, why, to tell +you the truth, I see nothing for him but that he should allow his beard to +curl as it pleases, drop his long cloak over his ambitious pair of shanks, +forswear moonlight, purchase for himself a dark lantern instead, and see +whether he can't find, within the four walls of Rome, an honest Greek, and +a constant widow, to make one blessed wedding withal. That is my advice to +the Stoic--Stoic no longer--but, if there be hoops upon a tub, the most +cynical of all Cynics." + +When it was at last necessary that I should move--"Dear Caius," said the +Centurion, "you know the Prefect has set a price on their heads, and I +promise you it is such a temptation as no virtue, that keeps watch beneath +any common prtorian breast-plate, could well be trusted to wrestle with. +But hope, and dare. And here, take once more this helmet, and cloak, and +sword, and with them share the password of the night." + +Sabinus then gave private orders to one of his troop, and walked with me +towards the Esquiline.--But why should I linger over what little remains of +this story? Why pain you with the parting which I witnessed between my +Athanasia and the holy Aurelius, afterwards numbered among the martyrs of +Christ?--Behold us at last issued from the Catacombs, and mounted on the +trusty horses which our friend had caused to be waiting at no great +distance from the thicket that clothed their entrance. Behold us arrived +without interruption at the Ostian Gate of Rome. + +The soldiers on guard challenged us cheerily as we came up to them. + +"The word, comrades?" + +"_Titus!_" quoth the Centurion. + +"Pass on--whom bear you with you, comrades!" + +"A Christian--a Christian prisoner," said I. + +"By Jove, that's worth gold to you, brother," quoth the guard.--"Open the +gate there;--pass on, friends. I hope I shall have luck one day myself." + + + + + + FINIS. + + + + + + + PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. + + + + + + + FOOTNOTES + + + 1 "Concerning the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus." + + 2 These were the principal conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. + They were afterwards butchered by the Prtorians, who regretted the + tyrant; and it was supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that + slaughter, and its shameful consequences to himself, (for he was + compelled, among other insults, to return public thanks to the + butchers,) that Nerva called to his aid the personal vigour and high + military genius of Trajan. + + 3 ----Catonem + Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho. + + 4 So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines: + + Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis, + Dormio, dum bland sentio murmur aqu; + Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum + Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace. + + 5 Asinius autem brevi illo tempore quasi in hortulos in _arenarias_ + quasdam juxta portam Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.--Cic. _Pro + Cluent._ + + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + +Variations in hyphenation (e.g. "eyebrows", "eye-brows"; "godlike", +"god-like") have not been changed. + +Other changes, which have been made to the text: + + page 72, question mark added after "him", quote mark added before + "His" + page 267, "Aybss" changed to "Abyss" + page 307, "Capito" changed to "Capitol" + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERIUS. 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A ROMAN STORY*** +</pre> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"></div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <p class="tei tei-p" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> + + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src= + "images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover image" /></div> + + <div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pgi" id="Pgi" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style= + "font-size: 144%">BLACKWOOD’S</span><br /> + <br /> + <span style="font-size: 144%">STANDARD NOVELS</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-tb"> + <hr style="width: 30%" /> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style= + "font-size: 144%">VALERIUS</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pgii" id="Pgii" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + </div> + <hr class="doublepage" /> + + <div class="tei tei-titlePage" style="text-align: center"> + <div class="tei tei-pb" style="text-align: center"></div><a name= + "Pgiii" id="Pgiii" class="tei tei-anchor" style= + "text-align: center"></a> <span class="tei tei-docTitle" style= + "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-titlePart" style= + "text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 173%">VALERIUS</span></span><br /> + <br /> + <span class="tei tei-titlePart" style= + "text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">A ROMAN + STORY</span></span></span><br /> + <br /> + <br /> + <span class="tei tei-docEdition" style="text-align: center">NEW + EDITION</span><br /> + <br /> + <br /> + <span class="tei tei-docImprint" style= + "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-publisher" style= + "text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">WILLIAM BLACKWOOD + AND SONS</span></span><br /> + <span class="tei tei-pubPlace" style="text-align: center">EDINBURGH + AND LONDON</span></span> + + <div class="tei tei-pb" style="text-align: center"></div><a name= + "Pgiv" id="Pgiv" class="tei tei-anchor" style= + "text-align: center"></a> + </div> + </div> + <hr class="doublepage" /> + + <div class="tei tei-body" style= + "margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span><a name="Pg001" id= + "Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"> + <span style="font-size: 173%">VALERIUS.</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="pdf1" id="pdf1"></a> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <a name="toc2" id="toc2"></a> <a name="pdf3" id="pdf3"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">BOOK I. CHAPTER + I.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Since you are + desirous, my friends, that I should relate to you, at length and in + order, the things which happened to me during my journey to Rome, + notwithstanding the pain which it must cost me to throw myself back + into some of the feelings of that time, I cannot refuse to comply + with your request. After threescore years spent in this remote + province of an empire, happy, for the most part, in the protection + of enlightened, just, and benevolent princes, I remember, far more + accurately than things which occurred only a few months ago, the + minutest particulars of what I saw and heard while I sojourned, + young and a stranger, among the luxuries and cruelties of the + capital of the world, as yet imperfectly recovered from the effects + of the flagitious tyranny of the last of the + Flavii.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page2">[pg + 2]</span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My father, as + you have heard, came with his legion into this island, and married + a lady of native blood, some years before the first arrival of + Agricola. In the wars of that illustrious commander, during the + reigns of Vespasian and Titus, he had the fortune to find + opportunities of distinguishing himself; but when his general was + recalled, by the jealousy of Domitian, he retired from public life, + and determined to spend the remainder of his days in peace, on the + lands which belonged to him in right of his wife here in Britain. + He laid the foundations of the house in which I have now the + pleasure of receiving you; and here, in the cultivation of his + fields, and in the superintendence of my education, he found + sufficient employment for an active, though no longer an ambitious + mind. Early in the reign of Trajan he died. Never did either Roman + or British dwelling lament a more generous master.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I cannot pretend + to regret the accident which immediately afterwards separated me + from a gentle mother—never to see her more upon the earth. Yet + deeply was the happiness of my returning hour stained by that + privation. It is the common rule of nature, that our parents should + precede us to the grave; and it is also her rule, that our grief + for them should not be of such power as to prevent us from + entering, after they are gone, into a zealous participation both of + the business and the pleasures of life. Yet, in after years, the + memory of that buried tenderness rises up ever and anon, and wins + rather than warns us to a deliberate contemplation of our own + dissolution.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Towards the end + of the winter following the death of my father, there arrived + letters which engaged <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page3">[pg + 3]</span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>anxious consideration. They were from members + of his family, none of whom either my mother or myself had seen. It + was explained, especially by Caius Licinius, the lawyer, (who was + near of kin to our house,) that by the death of a certain + Patrician, Cneius Valerius by name, I had become legally entitled + to a very considerable fortune, to claim and take possession of + which, demanded my immediate presence in the metropolis. My rights, + said this jurist, were indeed called in question by another branch + of the family, but were I on the spot, his professional exertions, + with whatever interest he or any of his friends could command, + should be at my service, for the sake of my father and of my + name.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The love of + travel had never before been excited in my bosom; but now that I + knew I was so soon to embark for Italy, the delights which I might + there hope to experience came crowding upon my imagination. The + dark and pine-clad banks of my native Anton, said I, shall now be + exchanged for that golden-waved Tiber, of which so many illustrious + poets have sung. Instead of moving here among the ill-cemented and + motley fabric of an insulated colony, and seeing only the sullen + submission of barbarians on the one hand, or the paltry vanity of + provincial deputies on the other, I shall tread the same ground + with the rulers of the earth, and wear, among native Romans, the + gown of my ancestors. I shall behold the Forum, which has heard the + eloquence of Cicero and Hortensius; I shall ascend to the Capitol, + where Cæsar triumphed; I shall wander in the luxurious gardens of + Sallust, or breathe the fresh air in the fields of Cato: I shall + gaze upon the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page4">[pg + 4]</span><a name="Pg004" id="Pg004" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>antique majesty of temples and palaces, and + open my eyes on all that art and nature have been able to heap + together through eight centuries, for the ornament of the chosen + seat of wisdom and valour.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A single trusty + slave was selected to accompany me. It was not certainly on account + of his accomplishments that Boto had been chosen for this duty; for + although he had lived all his days in the vicinity of the colonists + at Venta, there was scarcely a person within the bounds of the + British Belgæ that spoke worse Latin. He was, however, a man of + natural sagacity, possessing shrewd discernment concerning whatever + things had fallen under his customary observation; and he shewed no + symptom either of diffidence respecting his qualifications for this + new office, or of regret at being separated from those in whose + company many years of gentle servitude had glided over his + sun-burnt countenance. It was reported to me, that he invited + several of our rustics to drink with him in one of the out-houses, + where his exultation knew no limits. He was going to Rome, for his + young master very well knew he could never get on in such a journey + without the helping eye and hand of Boto; and he had a brother in + Italy already, (he had gone over with a distinguished legionary + some ten years before,) and from him (for he would of course meet + with him as soon as our arrival should be known) he would receive + all requisite information concerning the doings of the great city. + The usefulness which, he doubted not, I should be constrained to + acknowledge in his manifold qualifications, would, without all + question, entitle him to some signal reward—perhaps nothing less + than manumission on his return.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page5">[pg 5]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Two days passed + more quickly than any I ever remember to have spent amidst a + strange mixture of mirth, and sorrow, and noisy preparation.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Where that + single tall naked pine now stands buffeted by the wind, then grew a + thick grove, of which that relic alone survives. It was there that + I turned round to gaze once more on the quiet verdure of these + paternal fields, and our small pastoral stream glistening here and + there beneath the shady covert of its margin.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had at first + intended to cross over to Gaul, and traversing that province, enter + Italy, either by the route of the Alps, in case we could procure + convenient guides and companions, or by some vessel sailing from + Marseilles or Forum Julii to Ostium. But the advice of one of my + neighbours, who had himself been a great traveller, made me alter + this plan, and resolve to commit myself to the care of an + experienced mariner who was just about to sail for Italy, by the + way of the pillars of Hercules, in a vessel laden chiefly with tin; + and on reaching the Clausentum, I found this man, with several + passengers, ready for the voyage.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For the first + three or four days, I was so afflicted by the motion of the vessel, + that I could bestow little attention on any external object; my + eyes were so confused and dazzled, that I saw nothing beyond the + corner of the deck on which I had caused my carpets to be laid; and + a few ejaculations to Castor and Pollux were all the articulate + sounds that I uttered. By degrees, however, the weight of my + depression began to be alleviated; and at intervals, more + particularly during the night watches, if I was not altogether in + possession of myself, I was at least well enough to enjoy a sort of + giddy delight in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page6">[pg + 6]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>watching the billows as they rose and + retreated from the prow. There were moments, also, in which the + behaviour of Boto, under this new species of calamity, could + furnish me, as it had already done the more hardy of my + fellow-voyagers, with store of mirth. Near us frequently, upon the + deck, sat a Captain of the Prætorian Bands, who, more than any + other of these, displayed a florid complexion and cheerful eye, + unalterable by the fluctuation of the waters. This Sabinus had + served in all the wars of Agricola, and accompanied him even in his + perilous circumnavigation of the islands which lie scattered to the + north of Britain. He had also gone back to Rome with his commander, + not, like him, to extenuate imperial jealousy by the affectation of + indolence, but to seek for new occupation on some other disturbed + frontier of the Empire. In Syria and Cappadocia he had spent some + years; after which, he had attended the Emperor himself through + Mæsia and Illyricum, and all those countries he traversed and + retraversed, during that shameful contest in which so many Roman + eagles were made the prey of barbarous enemies, and which + terminated at last in that cowardly treaty, by which Domitian + granted a diadem to Decebalus, and condescended to place the Roman + Senate among the tributaries of a Dacian. Our friend had also + strutted his part in that gorgeous triumph, or rather succession of + triumphs, by which the defeated and disgraced Prince, on his return + from the Ister, mocked the eyes and ears of the incredulous and + indignant Romans. In a word, he had partaken in all kinds of + fortune, good and evil, and preserved his rubicundity and + equanimity unaltered in them all. Having attained <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page7">[pg 7]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to a situation of some dignity, he had + now been visiting Britain on a special message from the new + Emperor, and was returning in the hope that no future accident of + fortune, or princely caprice, would ever again make it necessary + for him to quit the shows and festivities of the capital.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This + good-natured man sat down beside my suffering peasant, endeavouring + to withdraw his attention from the pangs of his sickness, by + pointing out the different boats which came in view as we held on + from the Gobæan rocks, keeping close to the shore as we went, in + order to shun, as well as we could, the customary fury of the + Aquitanic Ocean. <span class="tei tei-q">“Behold these + fishing-vessels,”</span> he would cry, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“which have undoubtedly been upon the coast of Rutupia + for oysters, or it may be about the mouth of yonder Ligoris for + turbot, and are now stretching all their canvass to get home with + their booty to Italy. Smooth be your winds and fair your passage, + oh rare fish!”</span> To which the downcast Boto would reply, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Lavish not, oh master, your good wishes + upon the mute fish, which have been tossed about all their lives, + but reserve them rather for me (unhappy) who am thus tormented in + an unnatural and intolerable manner;”</span> or perhaps, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Speak not, I beseech you, of oysters, or + of turbot, or of any other eatable, for I believe I shall never + again feel hungry, so grievously are all my internal parts + discomposed. Oh, that I had never left my native fields, and + bartered the repose of my whole body for the vain hope of + gratification to my eyes!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By degrees, + however, custom reconciled all of us to the motion of the bark, and + the weather being calm during the greater part of the voyage, I + enjoyed, at my <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page8">[pg + 8]</span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>leisure, the beauties, both of the sea, and of + the shores alongst which we glided. From time to time, we put in + for water and other necessaries, to various sea-ports of the + Spanish Peninsula; but our stay was never so long at any place as + to admit of us losing sight of our vessel. Our chief delight, + indeed, consisted in the softness and amenity of the moonlight + nights we spent in sailing along the coasts of Mauritania,—now the + dark mountains of the family of Atlas throwing their shadows far + into the sea—and anon, its margin glittering with the white towers + of Siga, or Gilba, or Cartenna, or some other of the rich cities of + that old Carthaginian region. On such nights it was the custom of + all the passengers to be congregated together upon the deck, where + the silent pleasures of contemplation were, from time to time, + interrupted by some merry song chanted in chorus by the mariners, + or perhaps some wild barbarian ditty, consecrated by the zeal of + Boto to the honour of some ancient indigenous hero of the North. + Nor did our jovial Prætorian disdain to contribute now and then to + the amusement of the assembly, by some boisterous war-song, + composed, perhaps, by some light-hearted young spearman, which our + centurion might have learned by heart, without any regular + exertion, from hearing it sung around many a British and Dacian + watch-fire.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus we + contrived to pass the time in a cheerful manner, till we reached + the Lilybæan promontory. We tarried there two days to refit some + part of our rigging, and then stretched boldly across the lower + sea, towards the mouth of the Tiber. We were becalmed, however, for + a whole day and night, after we had come within <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page9">[pg 9]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sight of the Pharos of Ostium, where, + but for the small boats that came out to us with fresh fish and + fruit, we should have had some difficulty in preserving our + patience; for, by this time, our stock of wine was run to the last + cup, and nothing remained to be eat but some mouldy biscuit which + had survived two voyages between Italy and Britain. During this + unwelcome delay, the Prætorian endeavoured to give me as much + information as he could about the steps necessary to be pursued on + my arrival in the city. But, to say truth, his experience had lain + chiefly among martial expeditions and jovial recreations, so that I + could easily perceive he was no great master of the rules of civil + life. From him, however, I was glad to find, that the reputation of + Licinius was really as great at Rome as it had been represented in + our province; and, indeed, he treated me with a yet greater measure + of attention after he was informed of my relationship to that + celebrated jurist.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Early in the + morning, a light breeze sprung up from the west, and with joyful + acclamations the sails were once again uplifted. The number of + mariners on board was insufficient for impelling the heavily laden + vessel altogether by the force of oars, but now they did not refuse + to assist the favouring breeze with strenuous and lively exertion. + The Prætorian cheered and incited them by his merry voice, and even + the passengers were not loath to assist them in this labour. My + slave, among the rest, joined in the toil; but his awkwardness soon + relieved him from his seat on the bench; a disgrace which he would + have shared with his master, had I been equally officious.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ere long, we + could trace with exactness those enor<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page10">[pg 10]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>mous structures by which the munificence of + Augustus had guarded and adorned that great avenue of nations to + the imperial city. Those mountains of marble, projected on either + side into the deep, surpassed every notion I had formed of the + extent to which art may carry its rivalry of nature. Their + immovable masses were garnished here and there with towers and + battlements, on which the Prætorian pointed out to me the + frame-work of those terrible catapults, and other engines of + warfare, of which no specimens have ever been seen in Britain.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No sooner had we + stept upon the shore, than we were surrounded by a great throng of + hard-favoured persons, who pulled us by the cloak, with innumerable + interrogations and offers of service. Among these, the varieties of + form, complexion, and accent, were such, that we could not regard + them without especial wonder; for it appeared as if every tribe and + language under heaven had sent some representative to this great + seaport of Rome. The fair hair and blue eye of the Gaul or German, + might here be seen close by the tawny skin of the Numidian or + Getulian slave, or the shining blackness of the Ethiopian visage. + The Greek merchant was ready, with his Thracian bondsman carrying + his glittering wares upon his back; the usurer was there, with his + arms folded closely in his mantle; nor was the Chaldean or Assyrian + soothsayer awanting, with his air of abstraction and his flowing + beard.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boto, as if + alarmed with the prevailing bustle, and fearful lest some untoward + accident should separate us, kept close behind me, grasping my + gown. But our good friend Sabinus did not long leave us in this + perplexity; <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page11">[pg + 11]</span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>for, having hastily engaged the master of a + small barge to carry him to Rome, he insisted that I should partake + of this easy method of conveyance. We found the vessel small but + convenient, furnished with a red awning, under which cushions and + carpets were already stretched out for our repose. The oars were + soon in motion, and we began to emerge from among the forest of + masts with a rapidity which astonished me; for the multitude of + vessels of all sizes, continually crossing and re-crossing, was so + great, that at first I expected every moment some dangerous + accident might occur.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By degrees, + however, such objects failed to keep alive my attention; the + sleeplessness of the preceding night, and the abundance of an + Ostian repast, conspiring to lull me into a gentle doze, which + continued for I know not what space. I awoke, greatly refreshed, + and found we had made considerable progress; for the continual + succession of stately edifices already indicated the vicinity of + the metropolis. The dark green of the venerable groves, amidst + which the buildings were, for the most part, embosomed, and the + livelier beauties of the parterres which here and there intervened + between these and the river, afforded a soft delight to my eyes, + which had so long been fatigued with the uniform flash and dazzle + of the Mediterranean waves, and the roughness of the sea-beaten + precipices. The minute and elaborate cultivation every where + visible, the smoothness of the shorn turf on the margin, the + graceful foliage of the ancient planes and sycamores,—but, above + all, the sublimity of the porticos and arcades, and the air of + established and inviolable elegance which pervaded the whole + region, kept my mind in pleasurable wonder. <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page12">[pg 12]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Here and there, a gentle winding + conducted us through some deep and massy shade of oaks and elms; + whose branches, stretching far out from either side, diffused a + sombre and melancholy blackness almost entirely over the face of + Tiber. Loitering carelessly, or couched supinely, beneath some of + these hoary branches, we could see, from time to time, the figure + of some stately Roman, or white-robed lady, with her favourite + scroll of parchment in her hand. The cool and glassy rippling of + the water produced a humming music of stillness in the air, which + nothing disturbed, save only the regular dash of the oars, and, now + and then, the deep and strenuous voice of our cautious helmsman. + Anon would ensue some glimpse of the open champaign, descending + with all its wealth of golden sheaves to the very brink of the + river—or, perhaps, the lively courts of a farmyard stretching along + the margin of some tributary streamlet—or some long expanse of + level meadow, with herds of snow-white heifers. I could not gaze + upon the rich and splendid scene without reverting, with a strange + mixture of emotions, to the image of this my native land; its wild + forests, shaggy with brushwood and unprofitable coppice, through + which of old the enormous wild deer stalked undisturbed, except by + the adder of the grass, or the obscene fly of the thicket; its + little patches of corn and meadow, laboriously rescued from the + domain of the wild beast, and rudely fortified against his + continual incursions;—the scattered hamlets of this Brigian valley, + and my own humble villa—then humbler than it is now. Trees, and + temples, and gardens, and meadows, and towns, and villages, were, + ere long, lost in one uniform sobriety of twilight; and + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page13">[pg 13]</span><a name="Pg013" + id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>it was already quite dark, + when the centurion, pointing to the left bank, said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Behold the Gardens of Cæsar: beyond, is the Portian + Gate, and the street of the Rural Lares. In a few moments we shall + see the lights of the Sublician Bridge, and be in the city.”</span> + At these words I started up, and gazing forward, could penetrate + through the mists of evening into the busy glare of a thousand + streets and lanes, opening upon the river. The old wall was already + visible; where, after having swept round the region towards the + Vatican and Janicular Hills, it brings the last of its turrets + close down to the Tiber, over against the great dock-yards by the + Field of Brutus.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through a forest + of triremes, galleys, and all sorts of craft, we then shot on to + the bridge—beneath the centre arch of which our steersman conducted + us. Beyond, such was the hum of people on the quays, and such the + star-like profusion of lights reflected in the water, that we + doubted not we had already reached the chief seat of the bustle of + Rome. On, however, we still held our course, till the theatre of + Marcellus rose like a mountain on our right. It was there that we + ran our bark into the shore, not far from the little bridge—the + third as you ascend the river—which conducts to the Island and the + Temple of Æsculapius. While our friend was settling matters with + the master, and the attendants were bringing out our baggage, I + stood by myself on the elevated quay. Here a long tier of reflected + radiance bespoke, it may be, the vicinity of some splendid + portico—of palace, or temple, or bath, or theatre; there a broad + and steady blaze of burning red, indicated the abode of artizans, + resolved, as it seemed, on carrying <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page14">[pg 14]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>their toil into the bosom of the night. + Between—some speck of lustre betrayed, perhaps, the lamp of the + solitary student, or the sober social hour of some peaceful family, + assembled around the hearth of their modest lares. Behold me then, + said I, in the capital of the globe; but were I to be swallowed up + this moment in the waves of Tiber, not one of all these lights + would be dimmed.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page15">[pg 15]</span><a name="Pg015" + id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc4" id= + "toc4"></a> <a name="pdf5" id="pdf5"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + II.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Being told that + my relation had his residence at no great distance, the friendly + Sabinus insisted upon escorting me thither in safety. We walked, + therefore, along two or three proud streets, which brought us near + to the Pantheon of Agrippa, and there the house was easily pointed + out to us; its porch decorated with recent palm-branches, which the + Centurion said must have been placed there by the joyful hands of + some fortunate client. Here having thanked this kind person, and + left honest Boto among the crowd of slaves in the vestibule, I was + speedily conducted into the presence of the Patrician.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found him in a + small upper chamber, lighted by a single silver lamp suspended from + the roof, enjoying, as it appeared, repose and relaxation after the + exertions of the day. He was reclining when I entered; and although + supper was long over, some fruits and other trifling things still + remained on the board. At table with him there was no one present, + excepting a Greek of solemn aspect, whom he introduced to me as the + superintendent of his son’s education, and Sextus himself, a modest + and ingenuous youth, who sat at the lower extremity of his father’s + couch. He was <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page16">[pg + 16]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>indeed a very mild and amiable young man, and + I had more pleasure, after a space, in surveying his features, than + the more marked lineaments of the other two. At first, however, + nothing riveted my attention so much as the energetic physiognomy + of the Senator. The forepart of his head was already quite bald, + although the darkness of the short curls behind testified that age + was not the cause of this deformity. His eyes were black and rapid, + and his eyebrows vibrated in a remarkable manner, not only when he + spoke, but even when he was silent; indicating, as it appeared, by + their transitions, every new train of thought and imagination + within his mind. His style of conversation was quick and fervid, + and his gestures vehement as he spake; it being apparent, that, + from restlessness and vanity of disposition, he was continually + exercising a needless measure of mental activity and anxiety. Not + satisfied with his own sufficient richness of ideas, no thought + could be expressed which he did not immediately seize upon, and + explain, even to him by whom it had been first suggested, with much + fluency and earnestness of illustration. On the other hand, the + guest, who wore a long beard reaching to his girdle, preserved in + all things an uncommon demureness of manner, restraining every + salient movement of his mind, and watching, with the gravity of a + Numa, the glancing eyes and sharp features of his patron. A roll of + yellow parchment graced his left hand, but the other was employed + in selecting from the table such articles as were most agreeable to + his palate. Licinius, although meagre in person, and at that time + parched with declamation, seemed to live in such a state of + intellectual excitement, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg + 17]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>that he thought little either of eating or + drinking; therefore, the Athenian, resigning, for the most part, + his share of the conversation, amused himself, in exchange, with + the more trivial gratifications abandoned to him by his host. Nor, + if one might draw any conclusion from his complexion and figure, + was this the first occasion on which Xerophrastes had exercised + that species of humility.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Licinius + had inquired of me concerning my native place, and also given a few + words to the affairs which had brought me to the city, his + conversation was naturally directed to subjects more new to me, if + not more interesting to him. <span class="tei tei-q">“You would + observe,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“the palm + branches at my door. They were won to-day by a five hours’ harangue + before the Centumviri. It is only in contests such as these that + men of my order have now any opportunity to exercise themselves, + and preserve some remembrance of those ancient worthies and great + public characters that once adorned the state. To these things, + therefore, young kinsman, I entirely devote myself; nor aim, like + other citizens of rank, at passing the day in diversion, and ending + it with luxuries. At supper my table is furnished with moderate + fare, while in other houses I know not how many roasted boars and + pompous sturgeons have been regaling with the rich perfume of their + sauces and stuffing, guests who love the meat more than the man who + gives it. This learned person knows how laborious is my course of + life, and what an impatient crowd awaits my appearance every + morning. His pupil will, I hope, tread in the same steps, and + afford to a future generation the image of the former + Licinius.”</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page18">[pg + 18]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>With these, and the like discourses, he + occupied our ears till it was time to retire; and then intimated + that he had allotted to me an apartment which he expected I would + continually occupy during my residence in the city. But being + informed that I had a British slave with me, he insisted on having + this man sent for, that he might see him, as he expressed it, + before the genuine unsophisticated barbarian had been corrupted by + keeping company with the cunning menials of the metropolis. + Whereupon, it was commanded that Boto should come up, and he was + forthwith ushered in by a certain leering varlet, with rings in his + ears, whose face resembled some comic mask in the habitual archness + of its malicious and inquisitive look.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not few were the + bows and scrapes with which my Briton entered these penetralia; nor + was the astonishment inconsiderable with which the orator regarded + Boto. <span class="tei tei-q">“So, friend,”</span> said + Licinius,—<span class="tei tei-q">“and you have ventured to come to + Rome, without so much as shaving your beard?”</span> But the merry + and good-natured tone in which these words were uttered, having + somewhat reassured the bashful rustic, he gave a sly side-look + towards the philosopher, (who, I think, had never once glanced at + him,) and replied to Licinius, <span class="tei tei-q">“Pardon me, + O master, for coming thus into your presence; but I knew not, till + Dromo told me, that beards were worn in Rome only by goats and the + wisest of mankind.”</span> The words of the barbarian amused the + orator—but, turning round to his own slave, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ah! Dromo,”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“do I already recognize the effects of your + teaching?—beware the whip, corrupt not this good Briton, at your + peril.”</span> He then asked of Boto <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page19">[pg 19]</span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>various questions concerning his recent + voyage; to all of which he made answers after his own fashion, + sufficiently sagacious. Great contempt, however, was depicted on + the face of the silent stoic during this conversation; which he, no + doubt, looked upon as a very unworthy condescension on the part of + Licinius; till at last, having, in a leisurely manner, poured out + the last of the flagon, Xerophrastes arose from his couch and + departed. As he withdrew, he unfortunately struck his knee on the + corner of the table, which elicited from his stubborn features a + sudden contortion. This, however, he immediately smoothed of, + twisting his involuntary stoop into an obeisance to the + Senator.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Young Sextus + conducted me to my chamber; and we conversed together with easy + juvenile confidence for some time before he left me.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span><a name="Pg020" + id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc6" id= + "toc6"></a> <a name="pdf7" id="pdf7"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + III.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My sleep was + sound and sweet; nevertheless, when the morning began to dawn, I + was awakened by its first glimmerings, and found that my thoughts + became at once too busy to admit of a return to slumber. I + therefore arose, and went to walk in an open gallery, with which my + chamber was connected. This gallery commanded a prospect of a great + part of the city, which at that hour appeared no less tranquil than + stately, nothing being in motion except a few small boats gliding + here and there upon the river. Neither as yet had any smoke begun + to darken the atmosphere; so that all things were seen in a serene + and steady light, the shadows falling broadly westward over streets + and squares—but pillars, and obelisks, and arches, rising up every + where with unsullied magnificence into the bright air of the + morning. The numerous poplars and other lofty trees of the gardens, + also, seemed to be rejoicing in the hour of dew and silence; so + fresh and cheerful was the intermixture of their branches among the + piles of white and yellow marble. Near at hand, over the groves of + the Philoclean Mansion, I could see the dome of the Pantheon, all + burnished with living gold, and the proud colonnades of the + Flaminian Circus, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg + 21]</span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>loaded with armies of brazen statues. Between + these and the river, the theatres of Pompey and Marcellus, and I + know not how many temples, were visible. Across a more crowded + region, to the westward, my eye ascended to the cliffs and towers + of the Capitol; while, still farther removed from me, (although + less elevated in natural situation,) the gorgeous mansion of the + Emperor was seen, lifted up, like some new and separate city, upon + its enormous fabric of arcades. Behind me, the Flavian + Amphitheatre, the newest and the most majestic of all Roman + edifices, detained the eye for a space from all that lay beyond + it—the splendid mass of the Esquiline—and those innumerable + aqueducts which lie stretched out, arch after arch, and pillar + after pillar, across the surrounding plain.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I stood upon + a projecting balcony, I heard some person stepping softly along the + floor, and, being screened by some pillars, looked back into the + gallery without subjecting myself to observation in return. The + noise, I found, was occasioned by one of the slaves of Licinius, + (the same I had remarked over night,) who had an air of anxious + vigilance on this occasion, looking about from side to side as if + afraid of being detected in some impropriety. I heard him tap at + one of the apartments adjoining my own, and young Sextus, opening + the door, eagerly asked, <span class="tei tei-q">“Well, Dromo, good + Dromo, what news?—Have you seen or heard any thing of her?—Speak + low, I beseech you, and remember that my preceptor is near.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Which preceptor?”</span> replied Dromo; + <span class="tei tei-q">“count me your best, and I will teach you + how to manage all besides.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Hush!”</span> whispered the young man; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“he may be astir with these eternal + parchments.”</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page22">[pg + 22]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Be easy,”</span> + returned the slave; <span class="tei tei-q">“I have found out facts + which will serve to bridle that tongue at any + time.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dromo,”</span> said Sextus, + <span class="tei tei-q">“have a care; remember the thong of sleek + leather which hangs at the foot of the stair-case; and many is the + time I have saved you from it; for which you may, perhaps, have to + thank the beauty of her who has rendered you necessary to me, as + much as my own good nature. But no more idle words at present—what + have you to tell me?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I have just been down,”</span> answered he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“to the herb-market. I had made my bargain, + and was coming away, when I met one of old Capito’s men, driving an + ass laden with articles from the country. So I asked if he was + carrying a present to his master’s brother. He said he had brought + nothing for Lucius but a letter; and that he believed its purport + was to invite the two young ladies, to come out to-day and enjoy + the beauty of the season. I no sooner got this information, than I + ran hither as swiftly as my legs would carry me. You can easily go + out, as if by chance, to pay your respects to the + Patrician.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ah, Sempronia!”</span> sighed Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“shall I approach you at last?—What will she think when + she sees me there?—Oh, how will she speak to me?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While he was + uttering these words, Dromo suddenly started, and came peeping on + tiptoe towards the place where I stood. I stepped from behind my + pillar, and said to the astonished youth, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Fear not, Sextus, that I shall intermeddle with your + secrets, or make any use of what I have accidentally overheard. But + I wish you would satisfy my curiosity, and inform me who is this + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg 23]</span><a name="Pg023" + id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>lady, and what may be the + meaning of all this concealment?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here Dromo, + perceiving that his young master was a good deal confused, came + forward and said, <span class="tei tei-q">“From observing your + looks last night, when I was making a handle of yon barbarian to + torture our friend of the porch, I think you are a good-natured + person, who would not willingly bring any of us into trouble. The + truth is, that Licinius wishes my young master here to marry a + certain lady, who has already had wet eyes over the ashes of a + first husband; but who is of noble birth, and very rich. Now + Sextus, being only eighteen, does not like this great lady so well + as she likes him; and has, in fact, lost his heart + elsewhere.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dromo,”</span> answered + I, taking young Sextus by the hand as I spoke, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“this is a pretty common sort of story; but I shall + take no side till I have seen both of the ladies; and the sooner + your ingenuity can bring that about, the more shall I be beholden + to you.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“We shall try,”</span> + replied the slave, observing that I had overcome the reluctance of + the lover; <span class="tei tei-q">“but in the meantime I observe + that the clients are beginning to assemble in the porch, to await + the forthcoming of Licinius. Go, therefore, and get some breakfast, + for, by and by, you will both be expected to accompany the Senator + to the Forum, to hear him plead; which, between ourselves, will be + a six hours’ job for you, unless you manage matters + dexterously.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This hint + produced a visible effect on Sextus; but we went down together + immediately to an apartment, where some bread and grapes were + prepared for us; and there, with much ingenuousness, he opened his + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span><a name="Pg024" + id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>heart to me. But what + surprised me most of all, was to hear, that although he had been + enamoured of Sempronia for several months, and was well acquainted + with several of her relations, he had never yet seen her, except at + certain places of public resort, nor enjoyed any opportunity of + making known his passion.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While I was + expressing my astonishment at this circumstance, we were + interrupted by Xerophrastes, who came to inform us that Licinius, + having already descended into the hall, was about to issue forth, + and desirous of my company, if no other occupation detained me. We + accordingly followed the philosopher, and found his patron where he + had indicated, pacing to and fro, in the highest state of + excitation, like a generous steed about to scour the field of + battle. The waxen effigies of his ancestors stood at one end of the + hall, some of them defaced with age; and upon these he frequently + fixed his ardent eyes. Seeing me enter, he immediately cried out, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Come hither, young friend, and I shall + presently conduct you to a scene worthy, above all others, of the + curiosity of a stranger.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With this, + arranging his gown, and putting himself into a dignified attitude, + he ordered the porter, who stood chained by the door, to throw wide + its massy valves; which being done, the litigants and consulters, + who were without, received the orator with acclamations, and + surrounded him on all sides. Some of the poorer ones, I observed + kissing the hem of his garment, and dodging wistfully at his + elbows, without ever attracting a word or look from him; while + those of a higher class came forward more familiarly, seeking to + impress particular circumstances upon his memory, and <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg 25]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>paying him compliments on the appearance + he had made the day before in the Centumviral Court. Encircled by + this motley group, he walked towards the great Forum, followed at a + little distance by Sextus, the preceptor, myself, and some freedmen + of his household. In moving on, we passed, by accident, the door of + another great pleader, by name Bruttianus, who stood there attended + in a similar manner. When he perceived Licinius, this man took from + his door-post a green palm-branch, and waved it towards us in a + vaunting manner; but our friend, saluting him courteously, cried + out, with his sharp and cutting voice, <span class="tei tei-q">“We + shall try it again.”</span> Whereon Xerophrastes, immediately + stepping up to his patron, began thus, <span class="tei tei-q">“How + this vain-glorious person exposes himself!—he is certainly a weak + man; and his tones, by Hermes, are more detestable than those of an + African fowl.”</span>—At which words, Sextus tipped me the wink; + but I did not observe that Licinius was at all displeased with + them. Yet, soon after, Bruttianus having overtaken us, the + processions were joined, and the two pleaders walked the rest of + the way together in a loving manner, exchanging complimentary + speeches; to which Xerophrastes listened with edifying gravity of + visage.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length we + entered that venerable space, every yard of whose surface is + consecrated to the peculiar memory of some great incident in the + history of Rome. Young Sextus allowed me to contemplate for some + time, with silent wonder, the memorable objects which conspired to + the decoration of this remarkable place; but after the first gaze + of astonishment was satisfied, proceeded to point out, in order, + the names and uses of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg + 26]</span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the + principal structures which rose on every side over its + porticos—above all, of its sublime temples—into whose cool and + shady recesses the eye could here and there penetrate through the + open valves. Nor did the ancient rostrum from which Tully had + declaimed, escape our observation—nor within its guarding rail of + silver, the rising shoots of the old mysterious fig-tree of + Romulus—nor the rich tesselated pavement which covered the spot + that had once yawned an abyss before the steady eye of Curtius—nor + the resplendent Milliary pillar which marked the centre of the + place. In a word, had the gathering crowds permitted, I could have + willingly spent many hours in listening to the explanation of such + magnificent objects; but these, and the elevated voice of Licinius, + who was just beginning his harangue, soon compelled me to attend to + things of another description.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Within one of + the proud ranges of arcade, on the side nearest to the Capitoline + stairs, a majestic Patrician had already taken his seat on an + elevated tribunal—his assessors being arranged on a lower bench by + his side, and the orators and clients congregated beneath. When I + heard the clear and harmonious periods of my kinsman; when I + observed with what apparent simplicity he laid his foundations in a + few plain facts and propositions; with what admirable art he + upreared from these a superstructure of conclusions, equally easy + as unexpected; when he had conducted us to the end of his argument, + and closed with a burst of passionate eloquence, in which he seemed + to leave even himself behind him, I could not but feel as if I had + now for the first time contemplated the practised strength of + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page27">[pg 27]</span><a name="Pg027" + id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>intellect. Yet I have lived + to discover that the talent which so greatly excited my wonder is + often possessed from nature, or acquired through practice, in a + measure which at that time would have afforded me scarcely inferior + delight, by men of no extraordinary rank.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The keen and + lively gestures of the fervid Licinius, whose soul seemed to speak + out of every finger he moved, and who appeared to be altogether + immersed in the cause he pleaded, were succeeded by the solemn and + somewhat pompous stateliness of Bruttianus, who made a brief pause + between every two sentences, as if he were apprehensive that the + mind of the judge could not keep pace with the stream of his + illustrations, and looked round ever and anon upon the spectators + with a placid and assured smile, rather, as it seemed to me, to + signify his approbation of their taste in applauding him, than his + own pleasure in their applauses. Nevertheless, he also was a + splendid speaker, and his affectation displeased the more, because + it was evidently unworthy of his understanding. While he was + speaking, I observed that the Stoic preceptor was frequently + shifting his place among the crowd, and muttering every where + expressions of high contempt. But this did not disgust me so much + as the fixed attitude of ecstasy in which he listened to the + discourse of his own patron, and the pretended involuntary + exclamations of his delight. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, admirable + cadence!”</span> he would say, <span class="tei tei-q">“I feel as + if I were draining a honey-comb. Oh, harmonious man, where have I, + or any other person here, sucked in such sweetness!”</span> These + absurd phrases, however, were caught up forthwith, and repeated by + the numerous young men who hung upon the skirts of <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the orator, and seemed, indeed, to be + drinking in nectar from the speech, if one might judge from their + countenances. From their taking notes in their tablets from time to + time, and from the knowing looks they assumed at the commencement + of every new chain of argument, I guessed that these might be + embryo jurisconsults, preparing themselves by their attendance for + future exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I listened + to their conversation at the close of every speech, I thought I + could perceive in their tones and accents, studied mimicry of the + natural peculiarities of Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other + orators. Altogether, the scene was as full of amusement as of + novelty, and I could willingly have remained to the end of the + discussion. But my eyes chanced to fall upon young Sextus, and I + could not but see that his mind was occupied in matters remote from + the business of the Forum. He stood with his arms folded in his + gown, and his eyes fixed upon the ground, only lifting them up from + time to time with an impatient air towards a side entrance, or to + observe by the shadows on the porticos what progress the sun was + making.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perceiving, at + length, that Xerophrastes had his back turned to us, and that his + father was engaged with his tablets, he plucked me by the sleeve. I + understood his meaning, and followed him quickly through the crowd; + nor did we look back till we had left the noise of the Forensic + assembly entirely behind us. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am + depriving you,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“of no + great gratification, for that old creature is, indeed, possessed of + much natural shrewdness, but he is bitter from observing that his + reputation is rather eclipsed by younger people, and looks like + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span><a name="Pg029" + id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>some worn-out and discarded + cat, grinning from the top of the wall at the dalliance of some + sleeker rival. You could find no delight in the angry sneerings of + such an envious person; and his age would prevent you, at the same + time, from willingly giving way to contemptuous emotions. I will be + your guide to the villa. But if any questions be asked on our + return, you can say I was anxious to shew you something of the + other regions of the city.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He hurried me + through noble streets, and past innumerable edifices, before each + of which I would gladly have paused. Nevertheless, seeing him + wrapped up in anxious thoughts, I did not oppose myself to his + inclinations; and ere long, having passed the Hill of Gardens, I + found that we had gained the eastern limit of the city.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span><a name="Pg030" + id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc8" id= + "toc8"></a> <a name="pdf9" id="pdf9"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IV.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A sharp walk of + about an hour and a half on the Salarean Way, brought us within + sight of the Suburban of Capito.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A lofty wall + protected the fields of this retirement from the intrusive eyes of + passengers. We entered by a small side-door, and found ourselves, + as if by some magical delusion, transported from the glare of a + Roman highway, into the depth and silence of some primeval forest. + No nicely trimmed path conducted our feet. Every thing had at least + the appearance of being left as nature had formed it. The fern + rustled beneath us as we moved; the ivy was seen spreading its + careless tresses from tree to tree; the fawn bounded from the + thicket. By degrees, however, the gloom lessened, till at length, + over an open space of lawn, we perceived the porch of entrance, and + a long line of colonnade. We passed under the porch, and across a + paved court where a fountain was playing, into the great hall, + which commanded all the other side of the place—a noble prospect of + elaborate gardens gradually rising into shady hills, and lost in a + distance of impenetrable wood.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here a freedman + attended us, who informed us that Capito had retired into a + sequestered part of the grounds <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page31">[pg 31]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>with some friends from the city; but that if + we chose we could easily join him there. We assented, and, + following his guidance, ere long traversed no narrow space of + luxuriant cultivation. From one perfumed terrace we descended to + another; till, having reached a certain green and mossy walk, + darkened by a natural arching of vines and mulberries, the freedman + pointed to a statue at the farther end, and told us it stood over + against the entrance of his master’s summer-house. When we reached + the statue, however, we could perceive no building. The shaded + avenue terminated in face of a precipitous rock, from which there + fell a small stream that was received in a massive basin, where the + waters foamed into spray without transgressing the margin. A + thousand delicious plants and far-sought flowers clustered around + the base of the rock and the brink of the fountain, and the humming + of innumerable bees mingled with the whispers of the stream. We + stood for a moment uncertain whether we should move on or retire, + when we heard one calling to us from beyond; and passing to the + other side of the basin, descried, between the rock and the falling + water, a low entrance into what seemed to be a natural cave or + grotto. We stooped, and found ourselves within one of the most + luxurious retirements ever haunted by the foot of Dryad. A sparry + roof hung like a canopy of gems and crystals over a group of + sculptured Nymphs and Fawns, which were placed on a rustic pedestal + within a circular bath shaped out of the living stone. Around the + edge of the waveless waters that slumbered in this green recess, + were spread carpets rich with the dyes of Tyrian art, whereon + Capito was reposing with <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page32">[pg + 32]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his + friends. He received Sextus with kindness, and me with politeness, + introducing us both to his companions, who were three in number—all + of them, like himself, advanced in years, and two of them wearing + long beards, though their demeanour was destitute of any thing like + the affected stateliness of our friend Xerophrastes. These two, as + our host informed us, were Greeks and Rhetoricians—the third, a + Patrician of the house of the Pontii, devoted, like himself, to the + pursuits of philosophy and the pleasures of a literary + retirement.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They were + engaged, when we joined them, in a conversation which had sprung + from the perusal of some new metaphysical treatise. One of the + Greeks, the more serene-looking of the pair, was defending its + doctrines with earnestness of manner, although in a low and + measured cadence of voice; the other espoused the opposite side, + with quickness of utterance and severe animation of look; while the + two lordly Romans seemed to be contenting themselves, for the most + part, with listening, although it was not difficult to perceive + from their countenances, that the one sided in opinion with the + Stoic, and Capito himself with the Epicurean.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They all arose + presently, and proceeded to walk together, without interrupting the + conversation, along the same shaded avenue which Sextus and myself + had already traversed. He and I moved along with them, but a little + in their rear—my companion being still too much abstracted to + bestow his attention on what they were saying; while I myself, + being but little an adept in such mysteries, amused myself rather + with the exterior and manners of the men, than with the merits of + the opinions they were severally defending. The <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Greeks were attired in the graceful + costume of their country, which was worn, however, far more + gracefully by the Epicurean than his brother,—the materials of his + robe being delicate, and its folds arranged with studied elegance, + whereas the coarse garment of the Stoic had apparently engaged less + attention. Nevertheless, there was a more marked difference between + the attire of Capito and that of Pontius Mamurra; for the former + was arrayed in a tunic of the whitest cloth, beneath which appeared + fine linen rollers, swathing his thighs and legs, to protect them, + as I supposed, from the heat and the insects, and a pair of + slippers, of dark violet-coloured cloth, embroidered with silver + flowers; while the other held his arms folded in the drapery of an + old but genuine toga, which left his yet strong and sinewy nether + limbs exposed to the weather, all except what was covered by his + tall black sandals and their senatorian crescents.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we passed on, + our host from time to time directed the attention of his visiters, + more particularly of the two Greeks, to the statues of bronze and + marble, which were placed at convenient intervals along the + terraces of his garden. The symmetry of these figures, and the + graceful simplicity of their attitudes, inspired me with I know not + what of calm and soothing pleasure such as I had never before + tasted, so that I thought I could have lingered for ever amidst + these haunts of philosophic luxury. The images were, for the most + part, portraits of illustrious men—Greeks, Romans—sages and heroes; + but beautiful female forms were not wanting, nor majestic + representations of gods and demi-gods, and all the ethereal + imaginations of the Grecian poets. Seeing the <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg 34]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>name of Jupiter inscribed upon one of + the pedestals, I paused for a moment to contemplate the glorious + personification of might and wisdom, depositing, at the same time, + a handful of roses at the feet of the statue—upon which I could + observe that my behaviour furnished some mirth to the Epicurean + Demochares; while, on the contrary, Euphranor, the disciple of the + Porch, approved of what I did, and rebuked his companion for saying + any thing that might even by possibility disturb the natural piety + of an innocent youth. But the Roman Stoic stood by with a smile of + stately scorn; and utter indifference was painted on the + countenance of Capito. At another time, Sextus having staid behind + to examine the beauties of a certain statue of Diana, which + represented the goddess stretched out in careless slumber on the + turf, with a slender grayhound at her feet, the Epicurean began to + rally me on having a taste inferior to that of my friend, whose + devotion, he said, could not be blamed, being paid to an exquisite + imitation of what the great Nature of things had decreed should + ever be the most agreeable of all objects in the eyes of a person + of his age.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Whereas you,”</span> continued + he, <span class="tei tei-q">“appear to be more occupied with + deep-hung eye-brows, ambrosial beards, and fantastic thunderbolts, + and the other exuberances of Homeric imagination.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To this reproach + I made no reply, but Capito immediately began to recite some verses + of a Hymn of Calimachus, in which both the Greeks joined him; nor + could any thing be more delightful than the harmonious numbers. A + sudden exclamation of my friend, however, interrupted them, and + Capito, looking up a long <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg + 35]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>straight pathway, said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, Valerius, we shall see whether you or Sextus is + the more gallant to living beauties, for here come my nieces. I + assure you, I know not of which of them I am the more proud; but + Sempronia has more of the Diana about her, so it is probable she + may find a ready slave in our Sextus.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We advanced, and + the uncle, having tenderly saluted them, soon presented us to their + notice. Sextus blushed deeply when he found himself introduced to + Sempronia, while in her smile, although she looked at him as if to + say she had never seen him before, I thought I could detect a + certain half-suppressed something of half-disdainful archness—the + colour in her cheeks, at the same time, being not entirely unmoved. + She was, indeed, a very lovely girl, and in looking on her light + dancing play of features, I could easily sympathize with the young + raptures of my friend. Her dress was such as to set off her charms + to the utmost advantage, for the bright green of her Byssine robe, + although it would have been a severe trial to any ordinary + complexion, served only to heighten the delicious brilliancy of + hers. A veil, of the same substance and colour, richly embroidered + with flowers of silver tissue, fell in flowing drapery well-nigh to + her knees. Her hair was almost entirely concealed by this part of + her dress, but a single braid of the brightest nut-brown was + visible low down on her polished forehead. Her eyes were black as + jet, and full of a nymph-like vivacity.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The other, + Athanasia, was not a dazzling beauty. Taller than her cousin, and + darker-haired, but with eyes rather light than otherwise, of a + clear, somewhat melancholy gray—with a complexion paler than is + usual in Italy, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg + 36]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a + demeanour hovering between cheerfulness and innocent gravity, and + attired with a vestal simplicity in the old Roman tunic, and cloak + of white cloth—it is possible that most men might have regarded her + less than the other. A single star of diamonds, planted high up + among her black hair, was the only ornament she wore.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the request + of the younger lady, we all returned to the grotto, in the + neighbourhood of which, as I have already mentioned, our tasteful + host had placed the rarest of his exotic plants, some of which + Sempronia was now desirous of inspecting. As we paced again slowly + over those smooth-shaven alleys of turf, and between those rows of + yews and box, clipped into regular shapes, which abounded in this + more artificial region, the conversation, which the appearance of + the cousins had disturbed, was resumed; although, as out of regard + to their presence, the voices of the disputants preserved a lower + and milder tone than before. I must confess, however, that mild as + was the manner of the discourse, I could not help being somewhat + astonished, that a polite Roman could permit such topics to be + discussed in the hearing of females; above all, that he did not + interpose to prevent Demochares from throwing out so many sarcastic + reflections concerning the deities whose statues decorated the + garden. A beautiful Mercury, in particular, which we all paused to + admire, elicited many observations, that I could easily see were + far from being agreeable to the fair cousins. But greatest of all + was my wonder at the behaviour of Capito himself, who, after we had + again entered that delightful grotto, turned himself to me as if + peculiarly, and began <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page37">[pg + 37]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a + deliberate and ingenious piece of declamation concerning the tenets + of his favourite philosophy;—such as the fortuitous concourse of + atoms, the transitory and fluctuating nature of all things, and the + necessity of snatching present enjoyments, as nothing permanent can + be discovered whereon to repose the mind. With great elegance, + indeed, did he enlarge on these golden theories, nor did he fail to + intersperse his discourse with many exquisite verses from Lucretius + and other poetical followers of his sect. Such, however, was the + earnestness of his declamation, that I could not help believing him + to be quite sincere to what he said, and asked him, not without + anxiety, whether he had all his life been an Epicurean, or whether + it was only of late that he had espoused that discipline.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius,”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the question is not discreditable to your tender age + and provincial education. To be born wise, Fate or Heaven has + denied to the human race. It is their privilege to win wisdom for + themselves; the fault is their own, if they do not die wise. When + the stripling enters upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes + are around him, and he moves onward in the buoyancy of conscious + power. The pride of young existence is the essence and extract of + all his innumerable sensations. Rejoicing in the feeling of the + real might that is, it is his delight to think—to dream—of might + existing and exerted as for ever. New to the material, but still + more to the moral world, he believes in the stability of all things + whose transitory nature has not been exhibited before him. New to + the tricks of mankind, he believes that to be said truly, which, + why it should be said falsely, he is unable to conjecture. For him, + superstition has <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg + 38]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>equal potency to darken the past, and + illuminate the future. At that early period, when ignorance is of + itself sufficient to produce a certain happiness, the ambition is + too high to admit such doctrines as I have no shame in avowing. But + time moves on, and every hour some tender plant is crushed beneath + his tread. The spirit clings long to its delusions. The promise + that is destroyed to-day springs into life to-morrow in some new + shape; and Hope, like some warring deity of your poets, bleeds and + sickens only to revive again. But disappointment at length gathers + to itself the vigour of an enduring form. The horizon becomes + colder around us—the soul waxes faint and more faint within. It is + then that man begins to recognize the true state, not of his own + nature alone, but of all things that surround him—that having + tasted much of evil, he is taught to feel the value of good—and + weaning himself from vain-glorious dreams, learns the great lesson + of wisdom, to enjoy the moments as they pass—to snatch some solid + pleasure, at least, amidst a world of vision and imagination; so, + in a word, as the poet has expressed it, he may not have reason to + complain in the hour of death that he has never lived.</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In me,”</span> he continued, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you behold one that has gone through the experience + necessary to produce an entire acquiescence in these doctrines. I + am one of those, Valerius, who have resolved to concentrate, after + this fashion, the whole of my dreams upon the hour that is. There + are not wanting, indeed, here and elsewhere, persons who profess + the same theories, only in the view of finding excuse and shelter + for the practice of vice. But till it be proved that the practice + of vice <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg 39]</span><a name= + "Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>is the best means of + enjoyment, in vain shall it be asserted that our doctrine is + essentially adverse to virtue. The mistakes or the misdeeds of + individuals must be estimated for nothing; for where is the + doctrine that may not be shewn to have been defended by impure + livers? The founder of our sect is acknowledged, by its most + virulent enemies, to have been the most blameless of men, and they, + I must take leave to believe, can never be sincere friends of + virtue, who doubt, that he who is a true worshipper of pleasure, + may also be the worshipper of virtue.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was a + certain something, as I thought, more like suppressed melancholy + than genuine hilarity, in the expression of the old man’s face, as + well as in the tone of his voice, while he gave utterance to these + sentiments; nor did any of those present appear desirous of + protracting the argument; although I did not imagine from their + looks that any of them had altered their opinion. What, however, I + could not help remarking in a particular manner, was the gentle + regret painted in the countenance of the elder niece, while Capito + was speaking. The maiden sate over against him all the while, her + cheek supported on her left hand, with an expression of tender + affection. From time to time, indeed, she cast her eye upward with + a calm smile, but immediately resumed her attitude of pensive + abstraction. Her uncle took her hand in his when he had done + speaking, and kissed it gently, as if to apologize for having said + any thing disagreeable to her. She smiled again upon the sceptic, + and walked by herself, (for I could not help following her with my + eye,) down into a dark walk of pines that branched off <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg 40]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>at the right hand from the entrance into + the grotto. There I saw her stoop and pluck a pale flower. This she + placed in her bosom, and then rejoined us with a more cheerful + aspect; after which, we all walked towards the villa. Nor did it + escape my notice, that, although Sempronia appeared willing to + avoid Sextus as we went, it always happened, by some accident or + other, that he was nearer to her than any other person of the + company.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They were both + at a little distance behind the rest of the party, when Euphranor + addressed himself to me, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Is not + this youth, your companion, the same that is under the guidance of + a certain Xerophrastes?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The + same,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“and a wary, + sage-looking Athenian is his tutor. I believe he also is of the + Porch.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“No doubt,”</span> + interrupted Demochares; <span class="tei tei-q">“he has a beard + that Zeno might have been proud of, and walks as if he conceived + himself to be the chief pillar of the Porch, if not the Porch + itself.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Who shall prevent + Demochares from having his jest?”</span> replied Euphranor. + <span class="tei tei-q">“The man is by birth a Thessalian, and his + gutturals still remind one strongly of his native hills.”</span>—I + would gladly have heard more of it, but he was interrupted by the + nearer approach of the rest.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page41">[pg 41]</span><a name="Pg041" + id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc10" id= + "toc10"></a> <a name="pdf11" id="pdf11"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER V.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Before the hour + of taking the bath, we exercised ourselves for some time in the + tennis-court, where I could not but admire, especially after having + heard Capito philosophise, the vigour and agility displayed by him + as well as his companions. I was then conducted into the baths, + where, after being washed and perfumed in the most luxurious + manner, I was arrayed in an elegant supper-garment by one of the + slaves of our host. At table we were joined again by the ladies, + who both reclined on the same couch with their uncle. Three comely + youths attended us, in short tunics, and girt with napkins of fine + linen; but, during the repast, an ancient female slave stood in + silence behind the couch of the young ladies. A small fountain of + alabaster played between two tall candelabra of the same material, + at the farther end of the apartment; and a young damsel stood + beside them, swinging slowly from time to time a silver censer, + from which clouds of delicate odour rolled up to the mirrored + roof.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In all things + the feast was splendid; but there was no appearance of useless or + vain ostentation. Every thing was conducted in a style of great + calmness and order, without the least formality. The repast + inter<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span><a name= + "Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>rupted not the + conversation, which went on in a manner to me equally instructive + as entertaining; although I must confess the presence of Athanasia + sometimes rendered me inattentive to what was spoken. I could not + divest myself of the idea, that some unknown circumstance was + pressing on the mind of the fair creature, and that when she smiled + upon those who addressed her, it was sometimes to conceal her + ignorance of that which had been said.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Being asked by + Capito, I endeavoured, among other things, to inform him and his + friends, as far as I could, concerning the then condition of this + island, which, more particularly after the exploits of Agricola, + had come to be a subject of some interest. In return, the chief + topics which then occupied the capital were discussed by them, as I + perceived, in a great measure on my account; and I listened with + delight to the praises, which they all agreed on bestowing on the + new Emperor. Many anecdotes were narrated, which tended to + strengthen the feelings of admiration, with which I had already + been accustomed to contemplate his character. But others were told, + as the conversation went on, which I could not so easily reconcile + with the idea I had formed of him.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For example, I + was somewhat disturbed with what they told me concerning his + treatment of the Christians, who, as we understood in Britain, had + been suffered to live in tranquillity ever since Nerva acceded to + the empire. But now, from the circumstances related, it appeared + that the mild and humane Trajan had taken up, in regard to this + sect, the whole aversion of Domitian; every day some cruel + catastrophe was made known <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg + 43]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of + some person who had adopted their tenets. Being ignorant of the + nature of those tenets, and having heard only in general terms that + they were of Jewish origin, dark, and mystical, I was at a loss to + account for the extreme hatred of the Prince, or rather for his + condescending to give himself so much trouble concerning a matter + so obscure and seemingly trifling.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Capito, however, + assured me, that although I might have good occasion to wonder at + the steps taken by the Emperor, it would no longer be said by any + one, that the progress of the Christian sect deserved to be + considered as a matter either of obscurity, or of no consequence. + <span class="tei tei-q">“On the contrary,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“from what you have just heard of the + numbers and quality of those that have lately suffered various + punishments, you cannot hesitate to admit that the head of the + empire has been justified in considering it as a subject worthy his + attention.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“We have adopted the gods of many nations,”</span> said + Pontius Mamurra, <span class="tei tei-q">“nor do I see why, because + the Jews have been unfortunate in a contest with Rome, we should + take it for granted that theirs are unworthy of respect. If, + however, as we have heard asserted, he who embraces this creed + becomes an infidel in regard to the deities of Rome, I say Cæsar + does well in refusing toleration to the intolerant superstition. + Domitian was a tyrant, and a monster of humanity; the late prince + was wise and good; and yet it may be, that, in regard to these + Christians, the principle of Domitian’s conduct was right in the + main, and that of Nerva’s wrong. But you, Capito, regard both sides + of the question, I have no doubt, with the same + indifference.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg + 44]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I hope,”</span> replied Capito, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I shall never regard with indifference any question, + in which the interest of the empire and the honour of Trajan are + concerned. But if you mean only that I am indifferent about the + nature of this Syrian superstition, you are in the right. I have no + knowledge of its dogmas, nor desire to have. I presume they have + their share of that old eastern barbarity, in the shady places of + which the elder Greeks used to think they could discover the + outlines of something really grand and majestic.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It may be so,”</span> said Mamurra; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but if the superstition be found dangerous to the + state, the Prince does well in repressing its progress. That is the + only question of which I spake.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“There is, indeed, no other,”</span> said Capito; + <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought of none.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“And how do you answer it, dear uncle?”</span> said + Athanasia, (lifting herself up, for the first time, to take part in + the conversation.)—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, my love,”</span> + said the old man, <span class="tei tei-q">“to answer that is the + business of Cæsar, and of the Senate. I only regret, that blood + should be shed, and citizens exiled; above all, in the reign of a + just and merciful Prince.—Sempronia,”</span> continued he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“what is that strange story your father was + telling about one of the daughters of Serennius?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“They only allege,”</span> replied Sempronia, with a + smile, <span class="tei tei-q">“that Tertulla had a flirtation with + a handsome young Greek, and the Greek happened to be a + Christian,—and she was converted by the Greek,—and she was found + out in going with him to some secret assembly of these people, in a + vault by the Vatican Hill,—and her father has been glad to send her + to Corsica, partly to escape the lawyers, and partly, I suppose, in + hopes <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg 45]</span><a name= + "Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that the quietness of + the island, and the absence of handsome young Christians, may + perhaps, in time, restore poor Tertulla to her right mind—This is + all. Do you think that a strange story, uncle?”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Not, if it be exactly as you have told it, Sempronia. + What says Athanasia?”</span> Athanasia answered gravely, that she + was sorry for Tertulla, and had never heard any thing of the young + Greek before.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By this time, + the increasing darkness of the chamber had warned me that we ought + to be thinking of our return. I had more than once looked towards + Sextus, but he refused to meet my eye. When I was on the point of + speaking, Sempronia, starting from her couch, exclaimed, that she + was sure there was thunder in the skies; and presently flash after + flash gleamed along the horizon. All sat silent, as if awe-struck; + but Sempronia was the only one that seemed to be in terror from the + tempest. Nevertheless, my eyes rested more on Athanasia, who looked + paler than she had done, although her countenance preserved its + serenity. <span class="tei tei-q">“How awful,”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“is the voice of Jupiter!”</span> Athanasia + folded her arms upon her bosom, and lifting her eyes to heaven, + said in a whisper,—<span class="tei tei-q">“How awful is the voice + of God!”</span> She then dropt her hand on the end of her couch, + and half unconsciously taking hold of it in mine, I asked her if + she was afraid. <span class="tei tei-q">“No,”</span> said she, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I am not afraid, but the heaviness of the + air makes me faint, and I never can listen to thunder without + feeling something extraordinary within me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Capito said, he + could not think of our going into the city that evening, and that + we must all make up our minds to remain in the villa. The + countenance of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg + 46]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Sextus brightened up, and he looked to me as + if to ask my assent. I was easily persuaded, and our host + despatched a messenger to inform Licinius of the cause of our + absence. The old man then led us into another apartment, which was + richly furnished with books and paintings. Here he read for some + time out of one of the poets, to a party, none of whom, I am + afraid, were very attentive in listening to him, till, the hour of + rest being come, we were conducted to our several apartments, + Sextus and myself, indeed, being lodged in the same chamber.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were no + sooner left alone than I began to rally my friend on the beauty of + his mistress, and the earnest court he had been paying her. The + youth listened with blushes of delight to her praises, but seemed + not to have the least idea that he had been so fortunate as to make + any impression on her mind. On the contrary, he scarcely appeared + to be aware of having done any thing to attract attention from her, + and expressed astonishment when I assured him, that his behaviour + had been such as could not possibly admit of more than one + explanation in the eyes of a person so quick and vivacious as the + lovely Sempronia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After we had + both retired to our beds, and the lights were extinguished, we + still continued for some time to talk over the incidents of our + visit, and the future prospects of Sextus and his love; until at + length sleep overpowered us in easy bonds, and agreeable dreams + followed, I doubt not, in the hearts of us both, the thoughts and + sights of a delightful day. Mine surely were delightful, for they + were all of Athanasia. Yet, even in the visions of the night, I + could never gaze <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg + 47]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on + her face without some strange impression of mystery. I saw her + placid smile—I heard the sweet low cadence of her voice—but I felt, + and I could not feel it without a certain indescribable anxiety, + that her deep thoughts were far away.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg 48]</span><a name="Pg048" + id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc12" id= + "toc12"></a> <a name="pdf13" id="pdf13"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VI.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I awoke early, + and drew near to the bed of Sextus; but seeing that he was fast + asleep, and that a quiet smile was on his lips, I could not think + of awakening him. The sun shone bright into the apartment, and I + resolved to walk forth and breathe the balmy air of the garden.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The moisture was + still heavy on the green paths, and the birds were singing among + glittering leaves; the god-like statues stood unscathed in their + silent beauty. I walked to and fro, enjoying the enchantment of the + scene;—a new feeling of the beauty of all things seemed to have + been breathed into my soul; and the pensive grace of Athanasia + hovered over my imagination, like some presiding genius of the + groves.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found myself + near the favourite grotto, and had stood over against its entrance + for some space, contemplating the augmented stream as it fell from + the superincumbent rock, and regretting the ravage which the + nightly tempest had made among the delicate flowers round its + basin. Twice I thought I heard the murmurs of a voice, and twice I + persuaded myself that it was only the rippling of the waters; but + the third time I was satisfied that some person must be near. I + passed <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg 49]</span><a name= + "Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>between the water and + the rock, and beheld the fair creature that had been occupying so + many of my thoughts, kneeling far within the grotto, as it seemed, + in supplication. To disturb her by advancing farther, would have + been impious; to retire, without the risk of disturbing her, almost + impossible; but I remained there fixed to the spot, without perhaps + considering all these things as I should have done. The virgin + modesty of her attitude was holy in my eyes, and the thought never + occurred to me, that I might be doing wrong in permitting myself to + witness the simple devotions of Athanasia. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Great God, listen to my prayers,”</span> was all I + understood of what she said; but she whispered for some moments in + a lowly and fervent tone, and I saw that she kissed something with + her lips ere she arose from her knees. She then plunged her hands + into the well, by whose brink she had knelt, and turned round to + the light. <span class="tei tei-q">“Athanasia, forgive me,”</span> + was already on my lips; but on seeing me, she uttered a faint cry + and fell prostrate upon the marble. I rushed forward, lifted up her + head, and laved water from the fountain, till I saw her lips + tremble. At last she opened her eyes, and after gazing on me wildly + for a moment, she gathered her strength, and stood quite upright, + supporting herself against the wall of the grotto. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Great heavens!”</span> cried I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“in what have I offended, that I should be rendered the + cause of affliction to Athanasia? Speak, lady, and say that you + forgive me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I thought,”</span> said she, with a proud calmness, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that Valerius was of Roman—of Patrician + blood. What brings him to be a spy upon the secret moments of a + Patrician maiden?”</span>—Then bursting into a tone of <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>unutterable fervour, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Speak,”</span> said she, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“young man, what have you heard? How long have you + stood here? Am I betrayed?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Witness, heaven and earth!”</span> cried I, kneeling, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and witness every god, that I have heard + nothing, except to know that you were praying. I have only seen you + kneeling, and been guilty of gazing on your beauty.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“You heard not the words of my + prayer?”</span> said she. <span class="tei tei-q">“No, not its + words, Athanasia, nor any thing of its purpose.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Do you swear this to me, young + man?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I swear by Jupiter and + by Rome—as I am a man and a Roman, I know not, neither do I desire + to know, any thing of what you said. Forgive me for the fault of my + indiscretion—you have no other to forgive.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia paused + for a moment, and then resuming more of her usual tone of voice, + (although its accents were still somewhat disturbed and faltering,) + said to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius, since the thing is + so, I have nothing to forgive. It is you that must pardon me for my + suspicion.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Distress me not, + Athanasia,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“by speaking + such words.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“From this hour, + then,”</span> said she, <span class="tei tei-q">“what has passed + here is forgotten. We blot it from our memories;”</span>—and with + that, as if in token of the paction, she extended to me her hand. I + kissed it as I knelt, and swore that all things were safe with me; + but added, as I arose, <span class="tei tei-q">“that I was afraid I + should be promising more than I should be able to perform,—did I + say I should be able to forget any hour, or any place, where I had + seen Athanasia.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> said + she, <span class="tei tei-q">“no compliment, or I shall begin to + suspect you of insincerity.”</span> I was then about to withdraw + from the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg + 51]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>grotto; but seeing a scroll of parchment lying + at the feet of Athanasia, I stooped, and presented it to her, + saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“I was afraid she might forget + it.”</span> She took it eagerly, and saying, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Of that there was no danger,”</span> placed it in her + bosom, within the folds of her tunic. She was then gathering up her + black tresses, and fastening them hastily on the back part of her + head, when we heard the sound of footsteps not far off, and + beckoning to me to remain where I was, she darted from me, and in a + moment vanished among the trees. I waited for a few minutes, and + then stepping forth, beheld her walking at a distance, beside her + sister, in the direction of the villa. They were soon lost among + the paths, and I returned alone into the grotto.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I sat down + beside the dark well, wherein she had dipt her hands, and mused in + a most disturbed mood on all the particulars of this strange and + unexpected interview. Every motion of her features—every modulation + of her voice, was present with me; I had gathered them all into my + heart, and I felt that I must cherish them there for ever. From the + first moment I saw her, my eyes had been constrained to gaze upon + her with an interest quite novel to me; but now I knew that she + could not smile, without making my heart faint within me, and that + the least whisper of her voice was able to bring tears into mine + eyes. Now I thought of my own unworthiness, and could not help + saying to myself, <span class="tei tei-q">“Why should a poor + ignorant provincial, such as I am, be torturing myself with the + thoughts of such a creature as this?”</span> Then, again, some + benign glance of hers would return before me, and I could not help + having some faint hopes, that her <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page52">[pg 52]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>innocent heart might be won to me by faithful + unwearied love. But what always threw me back into despair, was the + recollection of the mystery that I knew hung over her mind, + although what it was I could not know. That she had been saying + something in her prayers which could not be overheard without + betraying her, she had herself confessed. What could be this + secret, so cherished in dread, and in darkness?—A crime?—No crime + could sully the clear bosom of her innocence. No consciousness of + guilt could be concealed beneath that heavenly visage. But perhaps + she had been made the confidante of some erring,—some unhappy + friend. Perhaps, in her prayer, she had made mention of another’s + name, and implored the pardon of another’s guilt. Last of all, why + might it not be so, that the maiden loved, and was beloved again; + that she might have some reason to regard any casual betrayal of + her affection as a calamity; and that, having uttered the name of + her lover in her secret supplications, her terrors might all have + been occasioned by her apprehensions of my having overheard it? And + yet there was something in the demeanour of Athanasia, that I could + not bring myself to reconcile entirely with any one of these + suppositions. Had she feared that I had overheard any confession of + guilt,—even of the guilt of another,—surely some semblance of shame + would have been mingled with her looks of terror. Had she + apprehended only the discovery of an innocent love, surely her + blushes would have been deeper, and her boldness less. Yet the last + solution of the difficulty was that which haunted me the most + powerfully.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When I came + forth into the open air, I perceived <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page53">[pg 53]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>that the sun was already high in heaven, and + proceeded in haste towards the villa, not doubting that Sextus and + Capito would be astonished by the length of my absence. I found + them and the ladies walking under the northern colonnade, having + returned, as they told me, from a fruitless search after me through + almost the whole of the garden. I looked to Athanasia, as if to + signify that she well knew where I might have been found; but, + although I saw that she understood my meaning, she said nothing in + explanation. Sextus drew me aside shortly after, and told me, that + his father had sent to inform him, that our presence was necessary + in the city before supper-time, to attend a great entertainment + which was to be given that evening by the lady whose cause he had + successfully pleaded in the Forum on the preceding day; which lady, + I now for the first time learned, was no other than the same Marcia + Rubellia, to whom his father was very anxious the youth should be + married. The success of this pleading had increased very much the + wealth of the lady, and, of course, as Sextus well knew, the + anxiety of Licinius for the proposed union; and to remain at the + villa any longer, was, he said, entirely impossible, since he + already suspected his father had not been quite pleased with him + for leaving the Forum the day before, without staying to hear out a + cause in which his duty, if not his inclination, ought to have made + him feel so greatly interested.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We bade adieu, + therefore, to our kind host and the young ladies, not without more + reluctance than either of us durst express, and ready promises to + return soon again to the villa. We found Dromo and Boto waiting + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page54">[pg 54]</span><a name="Pg054" + id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>for us at the gate, the + former of whom looked unutterable things, while the latter appeared + to be as joyful in seeing me again, as if we had been parted for a + twelvemonth. The two slaves were mounted on asses, but they led + horses for our conveyance; so we mounted with all speed, and were + soon beyond the beautiful enclosures of Capito. As soon as we were + fairly out of sight of the house, Dromo began to ply Sextus with + innumerable questions about the result of the visit, all of them in + bad Greek; that, as he said, there might be no chance of what + passed being understood by the Druid; for by that venerable + designation, he informed us, the primitive Boto had already come to + be best known in the vestibule of Licinius. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“there + is no need for many words; I am sure my young master has not been + behindhand with himself. If he has, it is no fault of mine, + however. I put Opportunity into his hands, and she, you know, as + the poets say, has only one lock of hair, and that is in + front.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sextus being + very shy of entering into particulars, I found myself obliged to + take upon me the satisfying of the curiosity of this inquisitive + varlet, which I did in a manner that much astonished Sextus, who by + no means suspected, that in the midst of my own attention to the + other cousin, I had been able to take so much notice of what passed + between him and Sempronia. However, the gentle youth took a little + raillery all in good part, and we laughed loudly in unison at the + triumphant capers which the whip of Dromo made his poor ass + exhibit, in testimony of his satisfaction with the progress which + all things appeared to be making. We <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page55">[pg 55]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>reached the city about three hours after noon, + and were told by the slaves in attendance, that Xerophrastes had + gone out some time before, and that Licinius was already busy in + arraying himself for the feast of Rubellia.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span><a name="Pg056" + id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc14" id= + "toc14"></a> <a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her mansion was + situated about the middle of the Suburra, in a neighbourhood nowise + splendid, and itself distinguished, on the side fronting to the + street, by no uncommon marks of elegance or opulence. A plain brick + wall covered almost the whole of the building from the eye of the + passenger; and what was seen deserved the praise of neatness, + rather than of magnificence. Nevertheless, the moment one had + passed the gate, and entered the court, one could not help + perceiving, that taste and wealth had been alike expended + abundantly on the residence; for the broad terrace and gallery + behind were lavishly adorned, the one with sculpture and the other + with paintings; and the gardens, which these overlooked, appeared + to be both extensive and elaborate.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were + conducted through several pillared halls, and then up a wide + staircase, of somewhat sombre magnificence, into the chamber where + the company were already in part assembled, and busy in offering + their congratulations to the mistress of the feast. She was so much + engaged with their flatteries that she did not at first perceive + our entrance; but as soon as she knew who had come, the chief part + of her attention <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page57">[pg + 57]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>was + divided between her victorious advocate and his blushing son.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rapidly as we + have been advancing in our imitation of the manners of the capital, + our island, most unquestionably, has never yet displayed any thing + that could sustain the smallest comparison with what then met my + eyes in the stately saloon of this widow. The group around her was + gay and various, and she was worthy of forming its centre; young + and handsome, dressed in a style of the utmost splendour, her + deportment equally elegant and vivacious. Her complexion was of + that clear rich brown which lends to the eye a greater brilliancy + than the most exquisite contrast of red and white; and over which + the blood, when it does come into the face, diffuses at once the + warmest and the deepest of blushes. Her hair appeared to be + perfectly black, unless where the light, streaming from behind, + gave an edging of glossy brown to the thick masses of her curls. + Her robe of crimson silk was fastened by a girdle, which seemed to + consist of nothing but rubies and emeralds, strung upon threads of + gold. She wore a tiara that rose high above her tresses, and was + all over resplendent with flowers woven in jewellery; and around + her delicate wrists and ankles were twined broad chains of virgin + gold, interspersed with alternate wreaths of sapphire. Her form was + the perfection of luxury; and although I have said that her + deportment was in general lively and brilliant, yet there was a + soft seriousness that every now and then settled in her eyes, which + gave her, for a moment, a look of melancholy that seemed to me more + likely to be in harmony with the secret nature of her disposition. + I watched her in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg + 58]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>particular when she spoke to Sextus; her full + rich-toned voice was then merry, and her large eyes sparkled; but + when she was engaged with any other person, she could not help + gazing on the beautiful youth in silence; and then it was that her + countenance wore its deepest expression of calmness—I had almost + said, of sadness.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had been + gazing on her, I know not how long, from another part of the room, + when I heard a hearty chuckle from behind me, and thought I could + not be unacquainted with the voice. Looking round, I saw, not + without delight, the stately figure of my Prætorian Captain, + Sabinus, whose cheerful eye soon distinguished me, and who + forthwith came up to salute me in the most friendly manner. I + introduced him to Licinius and Sextus, the former of whom expressed + himself as being much gratified with the attention the centurion + had shewn to me during our voyage; so that I felt myself, as it + were, no longer a stranger in the place; and the lutes and trumpets + at that moment announcing that supper was ready to be served up, I + took care to keep close to Sabinus, and to place myself near him on + the couch.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The room in + which the feast was prepared, communicated by a pair of brazen + folding doors, richly sculptured, with that in which the company + had assembled; but from it, although the sun had not yet gone down, + all light was excluded, excepting what streamed from golden + candelabra, and broad lamps of bronze suspended overhead from the + high and painted ceiling. The party might consist of about twenty, + who reclined along one demi-circular couch, the covers of which + were of the softest down, and the frame-work inlaid with + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span><a name="Pg059" + id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ivory;—the part of the room + enclosed by its outline being occupied with the table, and an open + space to which the attendants had free access. We had no sooner + taken our seats than a crowd of slaves entered, carrying large + boards upon their heads, which being forthwith arranged on the + table, were seen to be loaded with dishes of gold and silver, and + all manner of drinking vessels, also with vases of rare flowers, + and urns of perfume. But how did the countenance of Sabinus + brighten, when the trumpet sounded a second time as if from below, + and the floor of the chamber was suddenly, as it were, pierced in + twain, and the pealing music ushered up a huge roasted boar, all + wreathed with stately garnishings, and standing erect on his golden + platform as on a chariot of triumph! <span class="tei tei-q">“Ah! + my dear boy,”</span> cries he, <span class="tei tei-q">“here comes + the true king of beasts, and only legitimate monarch of the woods. + What should we not have given for a slice of him when we were pent + up, half-starved and fainting, in that abominable ship of ours?—All + hail, most potent conqueror! but whether Germanic or Asiatic be thy + proper title, I shall soon know, when that expert Ionian has + daintily carved and divided thee.”</span> But why should I attempt + to describe to you the particulars of the feast? Let it suffice, + that whatever idea I had formed of Roman profusion was surpassed, + and that the splendour of the entertainment engaged the attention + of all except Rubellia herself, who, reclining immediately above + Sextus, kept her eyes fixed almost all the time it lasted, upon his + luxuriant curls of dark hair, unless when she caused the young + damsel, her cup-bearer, to pour out to her wine in a goblet of + onyx, which she touched <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page60">[pg + 60]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>with her lips, and then handed to the + indifferent boy. When the supper was half over, the folding-doors + were again thrown open, and there entered a group of maidens and + beautiful youths, who danced before us to the music of the lute, + and scattered crowns of roses at the feet of Rubellia and her + guests. She herself placed one of them on the head of Sextus, and + another on that of his father, who lay on the other side of her, + and then caused a large cup of wine to be carried all around, + whereof each of us tasted, and drank to the health of the orator, + in whose honour the entertainment was made. The ladies that were + present imitated the example of the hostess, and crowned such as + were by them; but Sabinus and I, not being near enough to any of + them, received that courtesy from some of the dancing maidens. + Libations were poured out abundantly on the marble floor, and all + the gods were invoked to shower down their blessings on Rubellia, + and those that had been so fortunate as to serve her. Sweet strains + of music resounded through the tall pillars of the banqueting-room, + and the lamps burned heavily in an atmosphere overloaded with + perfumes.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It appeared to + me, from the beginning, that my friend Sabinus witnessed, not + without some feelings of displeasure, the excessive attentions + which Rubellia lavished on young Sextus; and I gathered, from the + way in which he every now and then looked towards them during the + supper, that, had the place permitted, he would not have allowed + such things to go on without some comment. But when we had left the + banqueting-room, and removed to another apartment, where, amidst + various entertainments of dancing, music, and recita<span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page61">[pg 61]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tion, Rubellia still retained close to + herself the heir of Licinius, the centurion made to himself + abundant amends for the previous restraint to which his temper had + been subjected. <span class="tei tei-q">“Confess now,”</span> said + he, <span class="tei tei-q">“that she is a lovely creature, and + that your British beauties are tame and insipid, when compared with + such a specimen of Roman fascination; and confess, withal, that + this curled boy is either the most ignorant, or the most + insusceptible of his sex. Good heavens! in what a different style + was she treated by the old magistrate, whose very bust there, in + the corner, looks quite blank and disconsolate with its great white + eyes, while she, that sate for so many months pale and weeping by + his bed-side, is thinking of nothing but to bestow all the wealth + he left her on a beardless stripling, who appears to regard the + bust and the beauty with almost equal indifference.—Alas! poor old + withered Leberinus, little did you imagine that so small a phial + would suffice to hold all her tears. My only wonder is, that she + still permits your marble image to occupy even a corner of her + mansion; but, no doubt, you will soon be sent on your travels. I + dare say, some cold pedestal in the garden will, ere long, be the + best birth you need look for.—Well, well, you see what fools we may + be made by the cunning of these pretty crocodiles. I trust my + dotage, when it does come, will not shew itself in the same shape + with that of my good old friend. I hope the ghost of the worthy + Prætor will not frown unseen the night she takes this Adonis to her + arms. If I were in his place, I should give her curtains a pretty + shake. By Hermes! it would not be a pretty monument and a flowery + epitaph that would make me lie still.”</span></p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg 62]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“How long is it,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“since this venerable magistrate died? Surely she has + allowed him the decency of a tenmonth’s grief, before she began to + give suppers, and perceive the beauty of Sextus?”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Whether it be a tenmonth ago or + not,”</span> replied the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“is + more than I can take upon me to decide; all I know is, that it + appears to me as if it were but yesterday that I supped here, (it + was just before I set off for Britain,) and saw the young lady + reclining, even at table, with those long black curls of her’s, in + the bosom of the emaciated Leberinus. By Jupiter! the old man would + not taste a drop of wine unless she kissed the cup—she coaxed every + morsel he swallowed down his throat, and clasped the garland round + his bald pate with her own fingers; ay, twice before that sleek + physician—that solemn-faced Greek, whom you see at this moment + talking with your kinsman, advised her to have him carried to his + bed. For all the gravity of his looks, I would lay a trifle, that + worthy Bœotian has his own thoughts about what is passing, as well + as I. But the worst-pleased face in the whole room is, I think, + that of old Rubellius himself yonder, who has just come in, + without, it is evident, being aware that any feast was going + forward. Without question, the crafty usurer is of opinion he might + have been invited. I promise you, I can interpret the glances of + that gray-headed extortioner; and well I may, for it is not the + first time I have had an opportunity of studying them. Ay, ay, + quoth he to himself, she may do as she will with the bonds of + Leberinus; but she might have remembered, that a codicil can be + easily tacked to the end of a living man’s + testament.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg + 63]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But, after all,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“one must admit, that if she married old Leberinus to + please her father, the widow has some right to choose her second + husband according to the pattern of her own fancy.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! by all means,”</span> answered he; + <span class="tei tei-q">“let her please herself; let her make a + fool of herself now, if she will. She may perhaps learn, some time + or other, that it is as possible to have too young a husband, as to + have too old a one.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Come + now,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“Sabinus, confess that + if she had selected some well-made, middle-aged man—some + respectable man—some man of note and distinction, you would have + judged less harshly of poor Rubellia.”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ah! you cunning dog,”</span> said he; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“who would have thought that you had brought so much + wickedness from that new world of yours? But do you really think + she will wed Sextus? The boy appears strangely cold. I should not + wonder, when all is done, if the match were more of the orator’s + seeking than his own.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“I can only + tell you,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“that I have + never heard Licinius mention any thing about it; and, I dare say, + Sextus would be very sorry to think of losing his liberty for the + sake of the wealth of Leberinus—ay, or for that of old Rubellius to + boot.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Young friend,”</span> quoth + he, <span class="tei tei-q">“you are not quite acquainted with the + way in which these matters are managed at Rome. If we had you six + weeks at the other side of the Viminal, we should teach you + better.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I know not how + long this sort of talk might have lasted; but Licinius put an end + to it by joining us, and soon engaged the worthy Centurion, and + several more of us, with some lively, but unintelligible discussion + on the merits of some new edict, of which none of us had + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page64">[pg 64]</span><a name="Pg064" + id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ever heard, or were likely + ever to hear any thing again. We were glad to escape from the + lawyer into another room, where some Greek slaves were performing a + sort of comic pantomime, that appeared to give more delight to old + Rubellius than any other of the spectators. As for Sextus, I saw + plainly that he was quite weary of the entertainment, and anxious + to get away; but we were obliged to remain till after Licinius was + gone, for it was evident that he wished his son to see out the + last. But no sooner had we heard his chariot drive off, than the + young man and I took leave of the lady, and withdrew. Sabinus + lingered a moment behind us, and then joined us in the vestibule, + from which, his course lying so far in the same direction as ours, + we all proceeded homewards on foot.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had proceeded + along the street of the Suburra for a considerable space, and were + already beneath the shade of the great Temple of Isis and Serapis, + (which stands on the northern side of the Esquiline Hill, nigh over + against the Amphitheatre of Vespasian,) when, from the opposite + side of the way, we were hailed by a small party of soldiers, who, + as it turned out, had been sent from the Prætorian camp in search + of Sabinus, and one of whom had now recognized his gait and + stature, notwithstanding the obscurity of the hour. The Centurion + went aside with the leader of these men for some moments, and then + informed us that it was very fortunate they had so easily + recognized him, as the business on which they had been sent was + such as did not admit of being negligently dealt with. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“To-morrow,”</span> said he, pointing to the + Amphitheatre before us, <span class="tei tei-q">“that glorious + edifice is to be the scene of one of the grandest shows + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span><a name="Pg065" + id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>exhibited by Trajan since his + accession to the empire. It is the anniversary of the day on which + he was adopted by Nerva, and the splendour of the spectacle will be + in proportion to the gratitude and veneration with which he at all + times regards the memory of that excellent benefactor. But there + are some parts of the exhibition that I am afraid old Nerva, could + he be present to behold them, would not regard with the same + feelings as his successor.”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Surely,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“the + beneficent Trajan will not stain the expression of his gratitude by + any thing unworthy of himself, or that could give displeasure to + Nerva?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> replied the + Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is not for me to talk about + any thing that Trajan chooses to do being unworthy of Trajan; but + you well know that Nerva would never suffer any of the Christians + to be molested during his reign, and now here are some of these + unhappy fanatics, that are to be compelled either to renounce their + faith in the face of the assembly to-morrow, or to die in the + arena. It is to inspect the condition of these unfortunates, who, I + know not for what reason, are confined in a dungeon below the + ramparts in the vicinity of our camp, and to announce to them the + final determination of their fate, that I, as Centurion of the + night, have now been summoned. If you are curious to see the men, + you are at liberty to go with me, and I shall be obliged to you for + your company.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My curiosity + having been excited in regard to the new faith and its adherents, I + was very desirous to accept of this offer. Nor did Sextus any + sooner perceive that such was my inclination, than he advised me to + gratify it, undertaking, at the same time, to satisfy his father, + in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span><a name= + "Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>case of any inquiry, + that I was in a place of safety, and under the protection of + Sabinus. With him, therefore, and with his Prætorians, I proceeded + along various streets which led us by the skirts of the Esquiline + and Viminal Hills, on to the region of the Mounds of Tarquin, over + against which, as you have heard, the great camp of those bands is + situated;—if indeed that ought of right to be called by the name of + a camp, which is itself a city of no slender dimensions, and built + with great splendour of architecture, spread out beyond the limits + of Rome, for the accommodation of that proud soldiery. There my + friend took me into his chamber, and furnished me with a cloak and + helmet, that I might excite no suspicion by accompanying him on his + errand. The watch-word of the night also was given me, <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Silent + faith</span></span>; and proceeding again, we shortly reached the + place where the Christians were lying.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page67">[pg 67]</span><a name="Pg067" + id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc16" id= + "toc16"></a> <a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VIII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Entering the + guard-room, we found it crowded with spearmen of Sabinus’s band, + some playing at dice, others carousing jovially, many wrapt up in + their mantles, and asleep upon the floor; while a few only were + sitting beneath the porch, with their spears in their hands, and + leaning upon their bucklers. From one of these, the Centurion, + having drawn him aside, made inquiry concerning the names and + condition of the prisoners, and whether as yet they had received + any intelligence as to the morrow. The soldier, who was a grave + man, well stricken in years, made answer, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that the men were free-born and of decent estate, and + that he had not heard of any thing else being laid to their charge, + excepting that which concerned their religion. Since they have been + here,”</span> he continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have been + several times set on watch over them, and twice have I lain with + one of them in his dungeon; yet have I heard no complaints from any + of them, for in all things they are patient. One of them only is to + suffer to-morrow—but for him I am especially concerned, for he was + known to me of old, having served often with me when I was a + horseman in the army of Titus, all through the war of Palestine, + and at the siege of Jerusalem.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page68">[pg 68]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And of what country is he?”</span> said Sabinus. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Is he also a Roman?”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, sir,”</span> answered the spearman, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“he is no Roman; but he was of a troop of the allies + that was joined often to our legion, and I have seen him bear + himself on the day of battle as well as any Roman. He is by birth a + Greek of the Syrian coast; but his mother was of the nation of the + Jews.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“And yet, although the son of + a Jewess, he was with us, say you, at the siege of + Jerusalem?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> + replied the man; <span class="tei tei-q">“and not he only, but many + others; for the Jews were divided against themselves; and of all + them that were Christians, not one abode in the city, or gave help + to defend it. As this man himself said, the oracles of the + Christians, and their prophets, had of old given warning that the + city must fall into the hands of Cæsar, by reason of the wickedness + of that people; therefore, when we set our camp against Jerusalem, + these all passed out from the city, with their wives and children, + and dwelt safely in the mountainous country until the fate was + fulfilled. But some of their young men fought in our camp, and did + good service, because the place was known to them, and they had + acquaintance with all the secrets of the Rock. Of these, this man + was one. He and all his household had departed from the ancient + religion of the Jews, and were believers in the doctrines of the + Christians, for which cause he is now to suffer; and of that, + although I have not spoken to him this evening, I think he has + already received some intelligence, for certain of his friends + passed in to him, and they covered their faces as they went in, as + if weeping.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Are these friends + still with him?”</span> said Sabinus. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> answered he, <span class="tei tei-q">“for + I must have seen them had <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg + 69]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>they come forth again. Without doubt, the two + women are still with him in his dungeon.”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Women?”</span> quoth Sabinus; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and of what condition think you they may be?”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“That I know not,”</span> replied the + soldier; <span class="tei tei-q">“for, as I have said, they were + muffled in their mantles. But one of them, at least, is a Roman, + for I heard her speak to him that is by the door of the + dungeon.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“How long is it,”</span> + said the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“since they went in to + the prisoner?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“More than an + hour,”</span> replied the soldier, looking at the water-clock that + stood beneath the porch; <span class="tei tei-q">“and if they be + Christians, they are not yet about to depart, for they never + separate without singing together, which is said to be their + favourite manner of worship.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He had scarcely + uttered these words, when the soldiers that were carousing within + the guard-room became silent, and we heard the voices of those that + were in the dungeon singing together in a sweet and lowly manner. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, sir!”</span> said the old soldier, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought it would be even so—there is not + a spearman in the band that would not willingly watch here a whole + night, could he be sure of hearing that melody. Well do I know that + soft voice—Hear now, how she sings by herself—and there again, that + deep strong note—that is the voice of the prisoner.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Hush!”</span> quoth the Centurion, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“heard you ever any thing half so divine? Are these + words Greek or Syrian?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“What the + words are I know not,”</span> said the soldier; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but I know the tune well.—I have heard it played many + a night with hautboy, clarion, and dulcimer, on the high walls of + Jerusalem, while the city was beleaguered.”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is some old Jewish tune then,”</span> said Sabinus; + <span class="tei tei-q">“I knew not those barbarians had had half + so much art.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg + 70]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Why, as for that, sir,”</span> replied the man, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I have been all over Greece and Egypt—to + say nothing of Italy—and I never heard any music like that music of + the Jews. When they came down to join the battle, their trumpets + sounded so gloriously, that we wondered how it was possible for + them ever to be driven back; and then, when their gates were + closed, and they sent out to beg their dead, they would play such + solemn awful notes of lamentation, that the plunderers stood still + to listen, and their warriors were delivered to them with all their + mail as they had fallen.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“And the + Christians also,”</span> said Sabinus, <span class="tei tei-q">“had + the same tunes?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh yes, sir—why, + for that matter, these very tunes may have been among them, for + aught we know, since the beginning of their nation. I have stood + sentinel with this very man, and seen the tears run down his cheeks + by the star-light, when he heard the music from the city, as the + Jewish captains were going their rounds upon the + battlements.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“But this, + surely,”</span> said the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“is no + warlike melody.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“I know + not,”</span> quoth the old soldier, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“whether it be or not—but I am sure it sounds not like + any music of sorrow,—and yet what plaintive tones are in the part + of that female voice!”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“The bass + sounds triumphantly, in good sooth.”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ay, sir, but that is the old man’s own voice—I am sure + he will keep a good heart to the end, even though they should be + singing their farewell to him. Well, the Emperor loses a good + soldier, the hour Tisias dies. I wish to Jupiter he had not been a + Christian, or had kept his religion to himself. But as for changing + now—you might as well think of persuading the Prince himself to be + a Jew.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“That last high strain, however,”</span> quoth Sabinus, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page71">[pg 71]</span><a name="Pg071" + id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“has + ended their singing. Let us speak to the women as they come out; + and if it be so that the man is already aware of what is to be done + to-morrow, I see not why we should trouble him with entering his + cell. He has but a few hours to live, and I would not willingly + disturb him.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“I hear them + coming,”</span> said the soldier. <span class="tei tei-q">“Then do + you meet them,”</span> said Sabinus, <span class="tei tei-q">“and + tell them that the Centurion wishes to speak to them ere they go + away—we will retire out of hearing of the guard.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With that he and + I withdrew to the other side of the way, over against the door of + the prison; and we stood there waiting for the women under a + fig-tree, close by the city wall. In a few minutes two persons, + arrayed as the soldier had described, drew near to us; and one of + them, without uncovering her countenance, said,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Master, we trust we have done no evil in visiting the + prisoners; had it been so, surely we should not have been permitted + to enter without question.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These words were + spoken in a voice tremulous, as if with grief rather than with + terror; but I could not help starting when I heard them. However, I + commanded myself, and heard in silence what Sabinus + replied.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Be not alarmed,”</span> said he; + <span class="tei tei-q">“there is no offence committed, for no + orders have been issued to prevent these men from seeing their + friends. I sent for you, not to find fault with what you have done, + but only to ask whether this prisoner has already been told that + the Emperor has announced his resolution concerning him, and that + he must die to-morrow, in the Amphitheatre of Vespasian, unless he + renounce his superstition.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“He + knows all,”</span> answered the same voice; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and is prepared for all.”</span></p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By heavens! Valerius,”</span> whispered Sabinus; + <span class="tei tei-q">“it is no mean person that speaks so—this + is the accent and the gesture of a Roman lady.”</span> Then raising + his voice, <span class="tei tei-q">“In that case there is no need + for my going into the dungeon; and yet, could I hope to say any + thing that might tend to make him change his purpose, I would most + gladly do so. The Emperor is as humane as he is just, and unless + when rebellious obstinacy shuts the gates of mercy, he is the last + that would consent to the shedding of any blood.—For this Tisias, + of whose history I have just been hearing something, I am in a + particular manner interested, and to save him, I wish only I had + power equal to my inclination. Is there no chance of convincing + <a name="corr072a" id="corr072a" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class= + "tei tei-corr">him?</span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“He is + already convinced.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Could his + friends do nothing?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<a name= + "corr072b" id="corr072b" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class= + "tei tei-corr">His</span> friends have been with him,”</span> said + the voice.—This last sentence was spoken so distinctly, that I knew + I could no longer be mistaken; and I was on the brink of speaking + out, without thinking of the consequences that might occur, when + she that had spoken, uttered a faint cry, and dropping on her knees + before Sabinus, said,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, sir! to us also + be merciful, and let us go hence ere any one behold + us!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Go in peace, lady,”</span> + answered the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“and henceforth be + prudent as well as kind;”</span> and they went away from us, and + were soon lost to our sight in the windings of the street.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We stood there + for some moments in silence, looking towards the place where they + disappeared. <span class="tei tei-q">“Strange superstition,”</span> + said Sabinus; <span class="tei tei-q">“what heroism dwells with + this madness!—you see how little these men regard their lives;—nay, + even women, and Roman women too—you see how their nature is changed + by it.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“It is, indeed, a most + strange spectacle,”</span> said I; <span class="tei tei-q">“but + what is to be the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg + 73]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>end + of it, if this spirit become diffused widely among the + people?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“In truth I know + not,”</span> answered the Centurion; <span class="tei tei-q">“as + yet we have heard of few who had once embraced this faith, + renouncing it out of fear for their lives.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“And in the days of Nero and Domitian,”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“were not many hundreds of them punished + even here in the capital?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You are + within the mark,”</span> said he; <span class="tei tei-q">“and not + a few of those who were sent into exile, because of their + Christianity, were, as you may have heard, of no ordinary + condition. Among these there were Flavius Clemens, the Consular, + and his wife, Domitilla; both of whom I have often seen in my + youth—both relations to the family of Vespasian—whom, + notwithstanding, all the splendour of the imperial blood could not + save from the common fate of their sect. But Nerva suffered all of + them to live in peace, and recalled such as were in exile, + excepting only Domitilla, whose fate has been regretted by all men; + but I suppose it was not at first judged safe to recal her, lest + any tumult should have been excited in her name, by those that + regretted (and I am sorry to say these were not a few) the wicked + license of which they had been deprived by the death of her + tyrannical kinsman, and the transition of the imperial dignity into + another line. She also with whom we have been speaking, is, I am + sure, a Roman lady of condition; and you may judge of her zeal, + when you see it brings her hither at midnight, to mingle tears and + prayers with those of an obscure Asiatic. Did you observe, that the + other female both walked and stood behind her.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I observed all this,”</span> answered I. But little + did Sabinus suspect that I had observed so much more than + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page74">[pg 74]</span><a name="Pg074" + id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>himself had done. Before + parting from him, I said I should still be gratified with being + permitted to see the prisoner; and although he declined entering + himself, he accordingly gave command that the door of his dungeon + should be opened for me, requesting me, at the same time, to + refrain from saying any thing more than was necessary for the + explaining the apparent purpose of my visit,—the communication, + namely, of Trajan’s decree.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + withdrew to his camp; and the same old spearman with whom we had + conversed at the Porch, carried a torch in his hand, and shewed me + the way into the dungeon.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Between the + first door and the second, which appeared to be almost entirely + formed of iron, there intervened a few broad steps of mason-work; + and upon the lowest of these, I stood waiting till he should open + the inner door. Several keys were applied before he discovered the + right one; but at last the heavy door swung away from before him so + speedily, that the air, rushing out of the vault, extinguished the + torch; insomuch, that we had no light excepting that which streamed + from an aperture high up in the wall of the dungeon itself; a + feeble ray of star-light alone—for the moon had, long ere this + time, been gone down—which, nevertheless, sufficed to shew us to + the prisoner, although we at first could see nothing of him.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Soldiers,”</span> said the old man, in a voice of + perfect calmness, <span class="tei tei-q">“for what reason are you + come?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“We come,”</span> said my + companion, <span class="tei tei-q">“by command of the Centurion, to + inform you of things which we would willingly not have to + tell—To-morrow Trajan opens the <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page75">[pg 75]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Amphitheatre of + Vespasian.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“My comrade,”</span> + said the prisoner, <span class="tei tei-q">“is it your voice I + hear? I knew all this already; and you know of old that I fear not + the face of death.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I know well, + Tisias, you fear not death; yet why, when there is no need, should + you cast away life? Think well, I beseech you, and reserve yourself + for a better day.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The dawn of that + better day, Romans, already begins to open upon my eyes. I see the + east red with the promise of its brightness. Would you have me + tarry in darkness, when I am invited to walk forth into the + light?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Your words rejoice + me,”</span> answered the spearman; <span class="tei tei-q">“and I + am sure all will rejoice in hearing that you have at length come to + think thus—Trajan himself will rejoice. You have but to say the + word, and you are free,”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You mean + kindly,”</span> said the old man, rising from his pallet, and + walking towards us as far as his fetters permitted; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but you are much mistaken—I have but to keep silence, + and I am free.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Alas! what mean + you? Do you know what you say? You must worship the gods in the + morning, else you die.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Evening, + and morning, and for ever, I must worship the God that made heaven + and earth. If I bow down to the idols of Trajan, I buy the life of + a day at the price of death everlasting. Tempt me not in your + kindness: I fell once. Great God, preserve me from falling! I have + bade farewell to my friends already. Leave me to spend these few + hours by myself.—Leave me to prepare the flesh for that from which + the spirit shrinks not.”</span> So saying, he extended his hand to + the spearman, and the two old men embraced each other before + me.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Prisoner,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“if + there be any thing in which <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page76">[pg 76]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>we can serve you, command our aid. We have + already done our duty; if we can also do any thing that may give + ease to your mind now, or comfort to your kindred, you have but to + speak.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> replied he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I see by the eagle wings on your helmet, + that you are one in authority, and I hear by your voice that you + are young. There is a certain thing, concerning which I had some + purpose to speak to this old brother.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Speak with confidence,”</span> said I; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“although I am a Roman, and bear all loyalty to Cæsar, + yet this Prætorian helmet is not mine, and I have but assumed it + for the sake of having access to your prison. I am no soldier of + Trajan: Whatever I can do for you without harm to others, speak, + and I will do it. I will swear to you——”</span> <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Nay, sir,”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“swear not—mock not the God of heaven, by invoking idol + or demon—I believe your word—but, since you will hear, there is no + need why any other should be witness to my + request.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I will retire,”</span> + said the other, <span class="tei tei-q">“and keep watch at the + door. I am but a poor spearman, and this young patrician can do + more than I.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Be it so,”</span> + said the prisoner, a second time embracing him; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I would not willingly expose you to any needless + danger; and yet I see not what danger there is in all that I have + to ask.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With this the + spearman withdrew; and being left alone with Tisias, I took his + hand, and sitting down beside him on his pallet, shortly explained + to him the circumstances under which I had come thither.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Young sir,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + know not what is about the sound of your voice, and the frankness + of your demeanour, that makes me feel confidence enough to intrust + you with a certain thing, which concerns not <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page77">[pg 77]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>myself, nor any hope of mine, for that + were little—but the interests of one that is far dearer to me than + I can express, and who, I hope, will live many happy days upon + earth, after I shall have sealed my belief in the message of God, + by blood that has of old been exposed a thousand times to all + mortal perils, for the sake of worthless things. But a very short + while ago, and I might have executed this thing for myself; but + weakness overcame me at the moment of parting.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“If it be any thing which you would have me convey to + any one, say where I may find the person,”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and be assured I shall deliver it in + safety.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> he proceeded, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + have here with me certain writings, which I have carried for these + twenty years continually in my bosom. Among these, is one of the + sacred books of the faith for which I am to die, and I would fain + have it placed in the hands of one to whom I know it will be + dearest of all for the sake of that which it contains; but, I hope, + dear also for the sake of him that bequeaths it. Will you seek out + a certain Roman lady, and undertake to give into her own hands, in + secret, the scroll which I shall give you?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I will do my endeavour,”</span> said I; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and if I cannot find means to execute your command, I + shall destroy the book with my own hands before I quit Rome—for my + stay here is uncertain.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“If you + cannot find means to do what I ask safely,”</span> he replied, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I do not bid you destroy the + book—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">that</span></span> is yours to do with as it + shall seem good to you—but I conjure you to read it before you + throw it away. Nay, even as it is, I conjure you to read it before + you seek to give it to her whose name I shall <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>mention.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Old man,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“almost I believe that I already know her name, and + more besides. If it be so that I have conjectured aright, be + assured that all you ask shall be fulfilled to the letter; be + assured also, that I would die with you to-morrow, rather than live + to be the cause or instrument of any evil thing to her that but now + visited you in your dungeon.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> cried the old man, starting up, + <span class="tei tei-q">“lay not this also, O Lord! upon my head. + Let the old bear witness—but let the young be spared, to serve thee + in happier years upon the earth!”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Be not afraid,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“if it was Athanasia, no one suspected it but myself; + and I have already told you that I would die rather than bring evil + upon her head.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> he answered, after a pause—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“it was, indeed, Athanasia. Who is it but she that + would have left the halls of nobles, and the couches of peace, to + breathe at midnight the air of a dungeon, that she might solace the + last moments of a poor man, and, save the bond of Christ, a + stranger! But if you have known her before, and spoken with her + before, then surely she must indeed be safe in your hands. You know + where she dwells—that I myself know not. Here is the scroll, from + which that noble maiden has heard my humble voice essay to expound + the words of eternal life. I charge you to approach her with + reverence, and give into her own hands my dying bequest; yet, as I + have said, deliver it not to her till you have yourself read what + it contains.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Christian,”</span> + said I, placing the writing in my bosom, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“have no fear—I will read your book, and ere two nights + have gone over my head, I shall find means to place it in the hands + of Athanasia; and now, fare<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg + 79]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>well.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, + not yet for the last time. Will you not come in the morning, and + behold the death of a Christian?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“what + will it avail that I should witness the shedding of your blood? The + Prince may have reason to regard you as an offender against the + state; but I have spoken with you in your solitude, and know that + your heart is noble. Would to Heaven, that by going thither I could + avert your fate!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Methinks, + sir,”</span> he replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“it may be + weakness—but yet methinks it would give me some farther comfort in + my death, to know that there was at least one Roman there, who + would not see me die without pity; and besides I must have you + constrain yourself, that you may be able to carry the tidings of my + departure. Her prayers will be with me, but not her eyes. You must + tell Athanasia the manner of my death.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“For that cause,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I will constrain myself, and be present in the + Amphitheatre.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Then, + farewell,”</span> said he; <span class="tei tei-q">“——and yet go + not. In whatsoever faith you live,—in whatsoever faith you die, the + blessing of an old man and a Christian can do you no harm.”</span> + So saying, the old man stood up, and leaning his hand on my head as + I sat, pronounced over me a blessing which I never shall forget. + <span class="tei tei-q">“The Lord bless thee—the Lord enlighten thy + darkness—the Lord plant his seed in thy kind heart—the Lord give + thee also to die the death of a Christian!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When he had said + so, he sat down again; and I departed greatly oppressed in spirit, + yet feeling, I know not how or why, as I would rather have lost + many merry days, than that dark and sorrowful hour. The soldiers in + the guard-room were so much engaged in <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page80">[pg 80]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>their different occupations, that they heeded + me not as, dropping my borrowed habiliments, I stept silently to + the gate; and I was soon out of sight of their flaming watch-fires, + and far from the sounds of their noisy mirth.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg 81]</span><a name="Pg081" + id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc18" id= + "toc18"></a> <a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IX.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Roman + streets were totally silent and deserted. It was the first time + that I had been in the presence of a human being, foreseeing + distinctly, and quietly waiting, the termination of his mortal + existence, and I could not help asking of myself, how, under + similar circumstances of terror, I should have been able to sustain + my spirits?—to what resources I should, in such a moment, look for + the support which seemed to have been vouchsafed so abundantly to + this old man; by what charm, in fine,—by what tenet of philosophy, + or by what hope of religion,—I should, in the midst of life, be + able to reconcile myself to a voluntary embrace of death! To avoid + disgrace, indeed, and dishonour, said I, I think I could be Roman + enough to dare the worst; but this poor man is willing to die, + rather than acknowledge, by one offering on the altar, the deities + in whose worship all his Greek ancestors have been trained; yet + who, except perhaps a few obscure individuals that have adopted the + same new superstition, would think this man dishonoured by + returning to the religion of his fathers? Deep, indeed, must be his + conviction of the truth of that which he professes to + believe—serious indeed must be his faith, and high his trust. What + if, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg 82]</span><a name= + "Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>after all, his faith + should be true, and his trust wise? And the gentle Athanasia!—She + too a Christian! Might not this mystery be hereafter explained to + me by her lips?</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Musing and + meditating thus, it was no wonder that I, who knew so little of + Rome, should have soon wandered from the straight way to the home + of my kinsman. But that I at last caught, at the turning of a + street, a glimpse of the Flavian Amphitheatre, which I had before + passed on my way from the feast of Rubellia, I might, perhaps, have + wandered long. I had some notion how that grand edifice was + situated with respect to the house of Licinius, and therefore moved + towards it immediately, intending to pass straight down from thence + into the Sacred Way. But when I came close to the Amphitheatre, I + found that, surrounded on all sides by a city of sleep and silence, + that region was already filled with all manner of noise and tumult, + in consequence of the preparations which had begun to be made for + the spectacles. The east hardly yet indicated dawn; but the torches + and lanterns of workmen and artificers were in motion every where. + On one side, the whole way was blocked up with a throng of waggons; + the conductors, almost all Ethiopians and Numidians, lashing each + other’s horses, and exchanging, in their barbarous tongues, + outcries of wrath and execration. The bellowings that resounded + from any of the waggons, which happened to be set in motion amidst + the throng, intimated that savage beasts were confined within them; + and when I had discovered this, and then regarded the prodigious + multitude of the vehicles, I cannot say what horror came over me at + thinking <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page83">[pg + 83]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>what cruel sights, and how lavish in cruelty, + were become the favourite pastimes of the most refined of nations. + I recognized the well-known short deep snort of the wild boar, and + the long hollow bark of the wolf; but a thousand fierce sounds, + mingled with these, were new to my ears. One voice, however, was so + grand in its notes of sullen rage, that I could not help asking a + soldier, who sate on horseback near me, from what monster it + proceeded. The man answered, that it was a lion; but then what + laughter arose among some of the rabble, that had overheard my + interrogation; and what contemptuous looks were thrown upon me by + the naked negroes, who sate grinning in the torch-light, on the + tops of their carriages! Then one or two of the soldiers would be + compelled to ride into the midst of the confusion, to separate some + of these wretches, fighting with their whips about precedence in + the approach; and it seemed to me that the horses could not away + with the strong sickly smell of the wild beasts; for they would + prance, and caper, and rear on end, and snort as if panic-struck, + and dart themselves towards the other side; while some of the + riders were thrown off in the midst of the tumult, and others, with + fierce and strong bits, compelled the frightened or infuriated + animals to endure the thing they abhorred—in their wrath and pride + forcing them even nearer than was necessary. In another quarter, + this close-mingled pile of carts and horses was surmounted by the + enormous heads of elephants, thrust up into the air, some of them + with their huge lithe trunks lashing and beating (for they, too, as + you have heard, would rather die than snuff in the breath of these + monsters of the woods,) while the tiara’d <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page84">[pg 84]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>heads of their riders would be seen tossed to + and fro by their contortions. What a cry of cursing, what cracking + of whips and cords, what blowing of horns, and whistling and + screaming; and all this mixed with what roaring and howling from + the savage creatures caged in darkness!</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I went, however, + for a moment, into the Amphitheatre, by a little side-way, where + admission was cheaply obtained. Here, as yet, all things were in + order, for the hour had not yet come for giving the wild beasts + entrance to the huge dens prepared for them. A few carpenters only + were seen in one corner, erecting a sort of low stage, and singing + merrily, of whom, when I made inquiry concerning the purpose of + that erection, one of these fellows also began to jeer; + <span class="tei tei-q">“Whence come you, good sir, that you do not + know a common scaffold when you see it? It is surely not the first + time that a Christian has had his head chopped off in the + Flavian?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“By Pluto, I am not so + sure about that matter,”</span> quoth another. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I don’t know whether any of the dogs were ever + beheaded here or not; if they have been, I can only say it was + better than they deserved.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“There + spoke a true man,”</span> cries a third. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, no; keep beheading for Romans—let citizens have + their own. Things are come to a pretty pass, when they shew us + nothing but tigers against tigers. By Jove, I would rather see one + of those misbelieving Atheists set right before the mouth of a true + Getulian lion’s cage, and hear his bones cracked ere all be over,—I + say, I would rather see that, than fifty of your mere beast + fights.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“After all,”</span> + rejoined the first, <span class="tei tei-q">“it must be allowed + that our Cæsar had a fine eye for the + Amphitheatre.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page85">[pg + 85]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“Who doubts + it?”</span> says the other. <span class="tei tei-q">“Rome has never + seen any thing that deserved to be called a show, since he was + killed by sneaking traitors. They say, Nero was still better at + that sort of work; but <span class="tei tei-q">‘let the skinless + Jew believe,’</span> as the saying is. I desire to see no better + sport than Domitian gave us the very week before his death. We + shall never live to see his like again!”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, boys,”</span> rejoins one of the rest; + <span class="tei tei-q">“no despairing! I had begun to think that + these good princes, as they call them, would never shew us a bit of + real sport again. Here, now, is at least something. Who can tell + what may follow? and, besides, if the worst come to the worst, we + shall still have lions against lions, tigers against tigers, + Dacians against Dacians, and now and then a Jew or a Christian, or + whatever you please to call him, exhibited <span lang="la" class= + "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="la"><span style= + "font-style: italic">solus</span></span> on such a stage as this. + Come, come, don’t make matters worse than they are.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ruffians + shewed that they knew well enough I was displeased, and I half + regretted, as I strode away from them, the want of that Prætorian + helmet, which would have preserved me from the insolence of their + mirth. However, I was well pleased to gain a distance at which I + could no longer be troubled with them, and walked with rapid steps + along the wide streets, over which morning was now beginning to + shine; while the air, agitated with a quick breeze, refreshed my + cheeks and temples—of which I had need, being heated with the glare + and noise, and, perhaps, faint, too, after the manner of the young, + from want of sleep.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was admitted + into the house by Dromo, who seemed to have been looking out for + me; for he opened the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg + 86]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>door almost before I had time to knock at it. + He regarded me as I entered with a very cunning face; insomuch, + that I comprehended without difficulty, he believed me to have + spent the night in some scene of debauch; but he, nevertheless, + attended me, without saying a word, into my chamber. He then + assumed a countenance of great reflection, and advised me, with + much appearance of friendly concern, to go to bed, even although I + could not stay long there; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“because,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“you + will feel much fresher when you get up; and let me tell you, you + must be up early, for I have already been with Licinius, who + intends to send Sextus with a present to Rubellia immediately after + breakfast; and you may be sure he will insist on your company, for + he can do nothing without you. Ah! had it not been for a certain + pretty creature, the young gentleman would not, I am confident, + have permitted you to be going the rounds in this way by yourself. + But I take it something amiss, and shall tell him so, that he did + not depute me (who am not particularly enamoured just at present) + to go with you, and take care of your safety. I only wonder how you + have got home so well as it is.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Indeed,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“good + Dromo, I cannot help wondering a little at that myself—for I have + been all through the city, and lost my way half-a-dozen times over, + and yet here you see I am.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The + more reason,”</span> quoth the slave, <span class="tei tei-q">“that + you should send some little offering to Mercury’s Temple over the + way, in the morning—a few sesterces will be sufficient—and if you + have no objections, I shall willingly take care of them for you. + Mercury is the guardian of all that travel about in the dark; and + besides, he is the special patron <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page87">[pg 87]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>of love expeditions. But to say the truth, you + are not the only person that owes a gift to that shrine; for the + worthy sage—Xerophrastes—he, too, has been a night-wanderer—and he + has not yet come in. I have my doubts whether, when he does so, he + will be as sober as you are; but I must take care to be at my post, + and admit him in silence, for the time is not yet come to uncloak + his doings. Trust me, this is not the only vagary I have set down + to his account—all in good time. But what says my master Valerius, + touching the offering to the great God Hermes?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I saw, by the + knave’s face, that it was necessary the sesterces should be + forthcoming. <span class="tei tei-q">“Here they are,”</span> said + I, <span class="tei tei-q">“good Dromo; and remember, that although + Mercury, among other things, is the god of thieves also, he will + not be well pleased if you curtail his offering.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Never mind,”</span> answered the varlet, + as he was shuffling out of the room, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Mercury and I understand each other of old. Go to bed, + and try to get a little of your own old British red into your + cheeks again; for Licinius has a hawk’s eye, and will be sure to + have his suspicions, if he sees you come down with such a haggard + look. Remember you have not a beard to cover half your face, and + all your iniquities.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So saying, he + left me to my couch, indeed, but not to slumber; for busy thoughts + kept me broad awake, till, after the lapse of perhaps an hour, + young Sextus entered my apartment, already arrayed with more than + usual elegance, to execute, however unwillingly, the message of his + father. He had in his hand a small casket of open ivory-work, which + he flung down on my bed, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Get up, + dear Valerius, and save me <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg + 88]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>at + least from the pain of going alone with these gewgaws. Would to + Heaven my father would marry her himself, and then I should have no + objection to carry as many caskets as he pleases. But do you get up + and assist me; and as we go along, you shall tell me what you have + seen and heard in company with your jovial Prætorian.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was soon + ready, and ascended, along with my young friend, the chariot which + Licinius had commanded to be ready. I told him, as we glided + through the streets, as much as I judged expedient; and, in + particular, when I perceived that our charioteer was making a + circuit, in order to avoid the neighbourhood of the Amphitheatre, I + could not help expressing to him the effect which had been produced + in my mind, by my casual inspection of the preparations. + <span class="tei tei-q">“I am afraid, then,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that you will scarcely be willing to + witness the exhibition itself; and yet I would fain have you to + overcome your aversion, both because, whatever you may think of + such things, it is not fitting that you should go from Rome without + once, at least, seeing how they are conducted; and more + particularly, because I much suspect Rubellia intends to be present + at the festival—in which case I should be sorry to be compelled to + attend upon her without you; and as to leaving her at the gate of + the Amphitheatre, that, you know, would be quite impossible, unless + I wished openly to contradict the wishes of my father.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I assured him he + should not want any comfort my presence could afford him; although + not without, at the same time, expressing my astonishment that he + should consider it at all probable that his dainty <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg 89]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Rubellia would choose to sit among the + spectators of an exhibition so abounding in circumstances of + cruelty, and, as I had understood, forbidden to her sex. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> answered he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“laws and edicts are made to be broken in such cases; + and as for the cruelty of the scene, there is scarcely a lady in + Rome that would be more scrupulous on that head than my widow. To + tell you the truth, one of the things that makes me most unwilling + to go, is the fear that Sempronia also may be there; and, perhaps, + when she sees me with Rubellia, give credence to some of the + reports which have been circulated (not without my father’s assent, + I think, if all were known,) about this odious marriage, which I + swear to you shall never take place, although Licinius were to + drive me from his door, and adopt a stranger.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sextus,”</span> I made answer, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“if Sempronia thinks there is any thing serious between + the widow and you, she must think you a pretty rascal, for the + violent love you made to herself at the Villa. But I am sure she + will easily perceive, by your countenance, that you do not regard + Rubellia, handsome as she is, with any extraordinary admiration; + whereas—if you were not conscious of it, I am sure she must have + been so—there was never a face of more passionate love than yours, + all the time you were in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">her</span></span> company. And, even now, the + very mention of her name calls a glow into your cheeks,—yes, and + even into your eyes,—that I think would flatter Rubellia, could she + excite such another, more than all the jewels of all the caskets + your father will ever send.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Distract me not, O Valerius!”</span> said the + youth,—<span class="tei tei-q">“distract me not with speaking of + that too lovely, and, I fear, too scornful <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page90">[pg 90]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>girl. Do you not perceive that we have at last + struck into the Suburra, and are quite near to Rubellia’s + house?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“It is so,”</span> said I, + looking out of the carriage, <span class="tei tei-q">“and I suspect + you are right in thinking she means to be present at the + Amphitheatre, for there is a crowd of urchins about her gate, and I + perceive a brilliant group of equipages has attracted them. She + purposes to go in all her splendour.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Good Heavens!”</span> replied he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I believe all the world is to be there. I never passed + so many chariots; and as for the rabble, see what a stream of heads + continues pouring down out of every alley. My only hope is, that + Rubellia may arrive too late for the best situations, and perhaps + disdain to witness the spectacle from any inferior part of the + Amphitheatre; and yet she must have interest, no doubt, to have + secured good accommodation beforehand.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were just in + time to meet Rubellia stepping from her portico with a gay cluster + of attendants. On seeing us, however, she beckoned with her finger, + and said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, are you come at last? Well, + I must take Valerius with myself, for I insist upon it that I shall + be best able to point out what is worthy of his notice; and you, + Sextus Licinius, come you also into my chariot; we will not + separate you from your Orestes.”</span> She said so with an air of + sprightly ease and indifference, and sprung into the carriage. An + elderly lady, with a broad merry face, went into it also, but there + was still room for Sextus and myself; and the rest of the party + followed in other vehicles that were waiting.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The crowd by + this time had so accumulated, that our horses could not advance but + at leisurely pace; but the noise of the multitude as they rushed + along, and the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg + 91]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>tumult of expectation visible on every + countenance, prevented us from thinking of any thing but the + festival. The variety, however, and great splendour of the + equipages, could not but attract my attention. Now it was an open + chariot, drawn by milk-white Thessalian horses, in which reclined + some gorgeous female, blazing with jewellery, with a cluster of + beautiful boys or girls administering odours to her nostril; and + perhaps some haughty Knight or Senator now and then offering the + refreshment of his flattery. Then, perhaps, would come rumbling + along, a close clumsy waggon, of the old-fashioned matronly sort, + stuck full with some substantial plebeian family—the fat, + comfortable-looking citizen, and his demure spouse, sitting well + back on their cushions, and having their knees loaded with an + exulting progeny of lads and lasses, whose faces would, every now + and then, be thrust half out of the window, in spite of the + mother’s tugging at their skirts. And then, again, a cry of + <span class="tei tei-q">“Place, place,”</span> and a group of + lictors, shoving every body aside with their rods, before the + litter of some dignified magistrate, who, from pride or gout, + preferred that species of motion to the jolting of a chariot. Such + a portly person as this would soon be hurried past us, but not + before we had time to observe the richness of the silken cushions + on which he lay extended, or the air of majesty with which he + submitted himself to the fan of the favoured freedman, whose + business it was to keep those authoritative cheeks free from the + contamination of common dust and flies. Anon, a jolly band of young + gallants, pushing their steeds along, to not a few of whom the fair + Rubellia would vouchsafe her salutation. <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page92">[pg 92]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>But wherever the carriage was stopped for an + instant, it was wonderful to see the number of old emaciated men, + and withered hags, that would make their way close up to the + windows, imploring wherewithal to obtain a morsel. The widow + herself leaned back on these occasions, as if to avoid the sight; + but she pointed to a bag of small coin that hung in a corner of the + chariot, and from it Sextus distributed to the one side, and I to + the other; and yet it was impossible to give to every one; we were + surrounded all the way with a mingled clamour of benedictions from + those that had received, and execrations from those that had got + nothing, and noisy ever-renewed solicitations from that + ever-swelling army of mendicants. At last, however, we arrived in + safety at the western gate—the same around which I had, the night + before, witnessed such tumultuous preparation. One of the officers + in waiting there, no sooner descried the equipage, than he caused a + space to be laid open for its approach, and himself advanced to + hand Rubellia into the interior, but she whispered to Sextus and + me, by no means to separate from her in the crowd.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span><a name="Pg093" + id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc20" id= + "toc20"></a> <a name="pdf21" id="pdf21"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER X.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Behold me, + therefore, in the midst of the Flavian Amphitheatre, and seated, + under the wing of the luxurious Rubellia, in a very convenient + situation. There was a general silence in the place, because + proclamation had just been made that the gladiators, with whose + combats the exhibition was to commence, were about to enter upon + the arena, and shew themselves in order to the people. As yet, + however, they had not come forth from that place of concealment to + which so many of their number would never return; so that I had + leisure to collect my thoughts, and survey for a moment, without + disturbance, the mighty and most motley multitude, piled above, + below, and on every side around me, from the lordly senators, on + their silken couches, along the parapet of the arena, up to the + impenetrable mass of plebeian heads which skirted the horizon, + above the topmost wall of the Amphitheatre itself. Such was the + enormous crowd of human beings, high and low, that when any motion + went through their assembly, the noise of their rising up or + sitting down might be likened to the sullen roaring of the sea, or + the rushing of a great night-wind in a forest. Not less than eighty + thousand human beings, they told me, were here met together. + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page94">[pg 94]</span><a name="Pg094" + id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Such a multitude could no + where be regarded, without inspiring a certain indefinable sense of + majesty; least of all, when congregated within the wide sweep of + such a glorious edifice, and surrounded on all sides with every + circumstance of ornament and splendour, befitting an everlasting + monument of Roman victory and imperial munificence. Judge, then, + with what eyes all this was surveyed by me, who had but of + yesterday emerged from a British valley—who had been accustomed all + my life to consider as among the most impressive of spectacles, the + casual passage of a few scores of legionaries through some dark + alley of a wood, or awe-struck village of barbarians.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Trajan himself + was already present—his ivory chair distinguished only by its + canopy from that of the other Consul who sate over against him; + tall and majestic in his demeanour; grave, sedate, and benign in + countenance, as you have seen in his medals and statues. He was + arrayed in a plain gown, and appeared to converse quite familiarly, + without affectation of condescension, with such Patricians as had + their places near him; among whom Sextus and Rubellia pointed out + many remarkable personages to my notice; as Adrian, afterwards + emperor; Pliny, the orator, a man of courtly presence, and lively, + agreeable aspect; and, above all, the historian Tacitus, the worthy + son-in-law of our Agricola, in whose pallid countenance I could + easily recognize the depth, but sought in vain to discover any + traces of the sternness of his genius. Of all the then proud names + that were whispered into my ear, could I recollect or repeat them + now, how few would awaken any interest in your minds! Those, + indeed, which I <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page95">[pg + 95]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>have mentioned, have an interest that will + never die. Would that the greatest and the best of them all were to + be remembered only for deeds of greatness and goodness!</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The proclamation + being repeated a second time, a door on the right hand of the arena + was laid open, and a single trumpet sounded, as it seemed to me, + mournfully, while the gladiators marched in with slow steps, each + man—naked, except being girt with a cloth about his loins—bearing + on his left arm a small buckler, and having a short straight sword + suspended by a cord around his neck. They marched, as I have said, + slowly and steadily; so that the whole assembly had full leisure to + contemplate the forms of the men; while those skilled in such + business were fixing, in their own minds, on such as they thought + most likely to be victorious, and laying wagers concerning their + chances of success, with as much unconcern as if they had been + contemplating irrational animals, or rather, indeed, I should say, + so many pieces of ingenious mechanism. The diversity of complexion + and feature exhibited among these devoted athletes, afforded at + once a majestic idea of the extent of the empire, and a terrible + one of the purposes to which that wide sway had often been made + subservient. The beautiful Greek, with a countenance of noble + serenity, and limbs after which the sculptors of his country might + have modelled their symbols of graceful power, walked side by side + with the yellow-bearded savage, whose gigantic muscles had been + nerved in the freezing waves of the Elbe or Ister, or whose thick + strong hair was congealed and shagged on his brow with the breath + of Scythian or <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page96">[pg + 96]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Scandinavian winters. Many fierce Moors and + Arabs, and curled Ethiopians, were there, with the beams of the + southern sun burnt in every various shade of swarthiness upon their + skins. Nor did our own remote island want her representatives in + the deadly procession, for I saw among the armed multitude—not + surely without some feelings of more peculiar interest—two or three + gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and shoulders bore uncouth marks of + blue and purple, so vivid in the tints, that I thought many months + could not have elapsed since they must have been wandering in wild + freedom along the native ridges of some Silurian or Caledonian + forest. As they moved around the arena, some of these men were + saluted by the whole multitude with noisy acclamations, in token, I + suppose, of the approbation wherewith the feats of some former + festival had deserved to be remembered. On the appearance of + others, groans and hisses were heard from some parts of the + Amphitheatre, mixed with contending cheers and huzzas from others + of the spectators. But by far the greater part were suffered to + pass on in silence;—this being in all likelihood the first—who + could tell whether it might not also be the last day of their + sharing in that fearful exhibition!</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Their masters + paired them shortly, and in succession they began to make proof of + their fatal skill. At first, Scythian was matched against + Scythian—Greek against Greek—Ethiopian against Ethiopian—Spaniard + against Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet with + blood streaming from the wounds of kindred hands. But these + combats, although abundantly bloody and terrible, were regarded + only as preludes to the serious <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page97">[pg 97]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>business of the day, which consisted of duels + between Europeans on the one side, and Africans on the other; + wherein it was the well-nigh intransgressible law of the + Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every pair of combatants + should die. Instead of shrinking from these more desperate + brutalities, the almost certainty of their termination seemed only + to make the assembly gaze on them with a more intense curiosity and + delight. Methinks I feel as if it were but of yesterday, + when,—sickened with the protracted terrors of a conflict, that + seemed as if it were never to have an end, although both the + combatants were already covered all over with hideous gashes,—I at + last bowed down my head, and clasped my hands upon my eyes. I had + scarcely done so, when Rubellia laid her hand upon my elbow, + whispering, <span class="tei tei-q">“Look, look, now look,”</span> + in a voice of low, steady impatience. I did look, but not to the + arena: No; it was upon the beautiful features of that woman’s face + that I looked, and truly it seemed to me as if they presented a + spectacle almost as fearful. I saw those rich lips parted, those + dark eyes extended, those smooth cheeks suffused with a steadfast + blush, that lovely bosom swelled and glowing; and I hated Rubellia, + for I knew not before how utterly beauty can be brutalized by the + throbbings of a cruel heart. But I looked round to escape from the + sight of her;—and the hundreds of females that I saw fixed with + equal earnestness on the same horrors, taught me, even at the + moment, to think with more charity of that pitiless gaze of + one.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At that instant + all were silent in contemplation of the breathless strife; + insomuch, that a groan, the first that had escaped from either of + the combatants, although <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg + 98]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>low + and suppressed, sounded distinctly amidst the deep hush, and being + constrained to turn once more downwards, I beheld that, at length, + one of the two had received the sword of his adversary quite + through his body, and had sunk upon the sand. A beautiful young man + was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, clustered in + glossy ringlets upon his neck and brows; but the sickness of his + wound was already visible on his drooping eye-lids, and his lips + were pale, as if the blood had rushed from them to the untimely + outlet. Nevertheless, the Moorish gladiator who had fought with him + had drawn forth again his weapon, and stood there awaiting in + silence the decision, whether at once to slay the defenceless + youth, or to assist in removing him from the arena, if perchance + the blood might be stopped from flowing, and some hope of recovery + even yet extended. There arose, on the instant, a loud voice of + contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man regarded the + multitude with a proud, contemptuous glance, being aware, without + question, that he had executed all things so as to deserve their + compassion, but aware, moreover, that even had that been freely + vouchsafed to him, it was too late. But the cruelty of their faces, + it may be, and the loudness of their cries, were a sorrow to him, + and filled his dying breast with loathing. Whether or not the + haughtiness of his countenance had been observed by them with + displeasure, I cannot say; but those who had cried out to give him + a chance of recovery, were speedily silent, and Cæsar looking + round, and seeing all the thumbs turned downwards, was constrained + to give the sign, and forthwith the young man, receiving again + without a struggle the sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, + breathed forth <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg + 99]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his + life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the place of guilt. + With that a joyous clamour was uplifted by many of those that + looked upon it, and the victorious Moor, being crowned with an ivy + garland, was carried in procession around the arena by certain + young men, who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of the + assembly. In the meantime, those that had the care of such things, + dragged away, with a filthy hook, the corpse of him that had been + slain; and then, raking up the sand over the blood that had fallen + from him, prepared the place, with indifferent countenances, for + some other tragedy,—while all around me, the spectators were seen + rising from their places, and saluting each other; and there was a + buzz of talking as universal as the silence had been during the + combat; some speaking of this thrust and that ward, and paying and + receiving money lost and won; some already discoursing of other + matters, as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; while others, + again, appeared to be entirely occupied with the martial music + which ever struck up majestically at such pauses, beating time upon + the benches before them, or joining their voices with the proud + notes of the trumpets and clarions. Rubellia talked gaily with + Sextus, inviting him to ridicule me with her, for the strangeness + of behaviour I had displayed.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun, by + this, had already mounted high in the heavens, and the glare became + so intolerable, that men could no longer fight on equal terms; + which being perceived, Cæsar gave command to look after the wild + beasts, and, in the meantime, (for I heard his voice distinctly,) + to give warning to the Flamens that they should have their altar + set forth.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name= + "Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc22" id= + "toc22"></a> <a name="pdf23" id="pdf23"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + XI.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon this, + Trajan, with those immediately about his person, withdrew; but + Rubellia told me he had only gone to the Palatine by the + subterraneous path, for the purpose of taking some refreshment, and + that there was no doubt he would return in time to witness the rest + of the spectacle. This example, however, was followed in some sort + by a great part of the spectators, for some departed altogether + from the Amphitheatre, while many more were seen moving from place + to place, crossing from one vomitory to another, and paying their + respects to different parties of friends, who had occupied places + at a distance from them during the combats. In the meantime, + servants of Trajan’s household were observed giving directions in + the arena to a great number of persons, who afterwards began to + distribute baskets of dried fish, bread, and other eatables, among + such as chose to accept of them; while viands of a more costly + description were introduced among the wealthy, by slaves and + freedmen of their own. Neither were the bearers of water-jars idle, + nor the street hawkers of fruit; least of all, those whose traffic + is in snow,—of whom, I believe, hundreds were scrambling in all + quarters over the benches, whistling shrilly, as is their method, + to announce the article in which they dealt.</p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Lady + Rubellia was not one of those who would ever leave her friends + destitute of the means of refreshment on such an occasion as this; + and accordingly two or three of her household were soon with us, + bearing jars of sweet-meats, baskets of fruit, flasks of wine, with + other appurtenances of a luxurious collation. We had scarcely begun + to taste of these things, when our attention was attracted by some + one striding, with great activity, from one row of benches to + another behind us, and looking round, I discovered the rosy + countenance of Sabinus, whose anxiety to join us was, as I + immediately suspected, the cause of this exertion. An ordinary + person would have sought some circuitous method of approach, rather + than attempt the sheer descent from one of the stone parapets which + rose immediately in our rear; but the brawny limbs of the Centurion + shrunk not from that adventurous leap, and, in a word, I soon found + him seated beside us, bowing and smiling to Rubellia with his usual + mixture of boldness and suavity. He delayed not from participation + in her delicacies; but lifting a goblet of Falernian, drank down, + without stopping, till he could see the foundation of its interior + gold. His fingers also soon became acquainted with the receptacles + of fruit and confectionary; and I was half-inclined to some + suspicion, that he might perhaps have remained in his original + situation, had he not chanced to observe the slaves of Rubellia, as + they came up the vomitory, with their comely-looking, + napkin-covered baskets upon their heads. As it was, his arrival was + acceptable, except perhaps to Rubellia, who I thought looked as if + she were not overmuch pleased with the interruption his mirthful + talk occasioned to the conver<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>sation on which she had been endeavouring to + fix the attention of young Licinius.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For that, + however, another interruption had been already prepared in another + part of the assembly, from which our Xerophrastes also had taken + cognizance of our position. There was such a crowd, however, + immediately below us, that I know not whether the philosopher would + ever have been able to make his way to the region where we sat, had + it not been that we heard his voice in disputation, and entreated + those that opposed his passage, if possible, to make room for him. + The first glimpse we had of his countenance, shewed us that the + squeeze had been giving him serious inconvenience, for the drops of + perspiration stood visible on his bald front. The persons whom he + was addressing, however, seemed to listen with such unconcern, that + it was impossible not to feel somewhat displeased with them, for + treating so disrespectfully one whom his venerable aspect might + have entitled to more courtesy. In vain did he represent to them, + (for we heard his strong voice distinctly every now and then,) that + it was not for the sake of any personal ease or convenience he was + desirous of penetrating into an upper part. In vain did he + reiterate <span class="tei tei-q">“My pupil”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“my disciple”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“my young + scholar, Sextus Licinius”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“the son + of Caius Licinius”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“the son of the + great orator Caius Licinius is there.”</span> In vain did he + enlarge upon the constancy of attention which philosophers owe to + those who are placed by the hands of parents under their + superintendence. No sooner, however, did Sextus and I begin to shew + the interest we took in his situation, than Sabinus raised himself + up on the bench, and called aloud on those that <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>surrounded the Stoic, with a voice of + much sternness and authority, to let him pass immediately at their + peril.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Many eyes were + forthwith turned towards us; and whether it were the dignity and + haughtiness of the Centurion’s voice and attitude, or that his garb + alone gave him much weight in the assembly, the resistance was + relaxed, and Xerophrastes enjoyed an opportunity of almost entirely + recovering his usual serenity of aspect before he reached us. The + first thing he did was to accept of a cup which I held out to him, + and then with much courtesy did he thank us all, but most the + Centurion, for the part he had taken in working out his deliverance + from the hands, as he expressed it, of those inhuman and illiterate + persons; <span class="tei tei-q">“while you,”</span> he continued, + <span class="tei tei-q">“brave warrior, have shewn that in your + breast, as in that of Epaminondas—of Alexander—and of your own + Julius—the reverence of the muses, and of divine philosophy, does + not disdain to inhabit with the ardour of active patriotism, and + the spirit-stirring delights of Mars.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“As for that,”</span> said Rubellia, with a smile, + <span class="tei tei-q">“all the world knows that Sabinus is quite + a philosopher—he was just beginning a very learned harangue when we + were attracted by your voice in the crowd; and you have the more + reason to thank him, because he was cut very unseasonably short, in + consequence of the distress in which we perceived you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most noble lady!”</span> replied the Stoic, + <span class="tei tei-q">“you know not how much you have delighted + me; from the first moment, indeed, that my eyes rested upon the + countenance of your heroic friend, I suspected that he had + subjected <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg + 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>himself to some other discipline besides that + of camps. I saw the traces of thought, lady—and serious + contemplation. The mind can never exercise its faculties, without + conveying some symptoms of those internal operations to the + external surface of the visage. The soul can never energize + habitually, without betraying its activity in the delicacy and + acumen, which the more elegant and susceptible parts of the + corporeal frame acquire during those elaborate and mysterious + processes of thought. I saw, therefore, and suspected. But what + thanks are not due to you, for having so agreeably confirmed me in + this happy suspicion! Of a surety, the noise and tumult of the camp + is not so well adapted for the theoretic or contemplative life, as + perfect leisure and retirement; yet, who shall doubt that the soul + of great energy can overcome all such disadvantages? Who shall + think that the spirit of Socrates did not eagerly philosophize + during the campaign he served?—Who shall say that the Stagyrite + must have suspended his acute, although imperfect investigations, + even although he had accompanied his royal pupil across the + Hellespont, and attended all the motions of his victorious army, + instead of staying at home to teach the youth of Greece?—Who, + finally,”</span> said he, casting his courteous eyes full on the + Prætorian, <span class="tei tei-q">“shall suspect but that this + generous warrior has been effectually advancing the growth of + philosophic science, within his own mind at least,—if not composing + works, in his intervals of leisure, destined hereafter to benefit + and instruct the world, even although he may have been attending + the flight of the Eagle from utmost Britain to the desert frontiers + of the Parthian?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nobody, + indeed,”</span> replied the spor<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>tive lady—<span class="tei tei-q">“nobody, + indeed, who has enjoyed any opportunity of being acquainted with + the Centurion, can have any doubt on that head.—Sabinus,”</span> + she continued, turning towards him, <span class="tei tei-q">“what + treatise are you at present engaged with? Come, now, speak out, and + truly;—are you still busy with your <span lang="grc" class= + "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc">περι της Φυσεως του οιστρου + βακχικου</span>,<a id="noteref_1" name="noteref_1" href= + "#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style= + "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a> that + you were quoting from the other night?—or are you deep in + <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">the delight of + contemplation</span></span>?’</span>—or——”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Not at all,”</span> quoth the Centurion, interrupting + her; <span class="tei tei-q">“I am only deep in <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">love</span></span>——”</span> Saying so, he + laid his hand in a very tender fashion upon his breast, and even, + as I thought, began to throw a little sentiment into his eyes; but + he had no opportunity of going on with his speech, for Xerophrastes + had no sooner heard him utter the word <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">love</span></span>, + than he immediately began to pour out a new rhapsody.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Love!”</span> quoth he; <span class="tei tei-q">“Ha! + love:—in good sooth, a noble subject, and one concerning which not + a few laudable treatises have been composed. Yet, without question, + much remains to be done in this matter; and I should be most proud + if the illustrious Sabinus would vouchsafe to me a perusal of his + speculations. Without question,”</span> he continued, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you have commenced with a proper definition and + division of the subject. You have distinguished betwixt what is + properly called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">love</span></span>, and the other more or less + kindred affections, with which hallucinating writers have too often + committed the error of confounding it. You have described, in the + first place, the difference between it and the <span lang="grc" + class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style= + "font-style: italic">Storgé</span></span> or natural affection + which parents have for their offspring—an <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>affection in which not a few of the irrational + tribes appear (if physiologists may be trusted) to be even superior + to the human race.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Hens, for + example,”</span> quoth the Centurion, with a face of infinite + gravity.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Even so—<span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">hens</span></span>,”</span> continued the + sage; <span class="tei tei-q">“an apt illustration.—I perceive, + indeed, lady,”</span> whispered he to Rubellia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that you have not deceived me concerning the + attainments of this your noble friend.—Hens—a most acute + illustration!—See you now, O Sextus!”</span> he went on, + <span class="tei tei-q">“it is not the characteristic of true + philosophy to despise those illustrations which are drawn from the + affairs of ordinary life, and the common surfaces of things. No: it + is rather her part to shew forth her own intrinsic excellence and + splendour, by raising that which is in itself low and customary, to + unexpected dignity, by her methods of felicitous application. See + you, now, with what unexampled skill this hero—this philosopher, I + should rather say—may I presume to add, this brother + philosopher?—has illustrated the nature of love in this treatise of + his, by introducing the domestic habits of your common household + fowl. Such things should not pass unheeded by the young aspirants + to learning, because these, more than any other circumstances, may + furnish them with encouragement to proceed in their course, by + shewing how many of the materials of philosophy lie every where + under the eyes of the most common traveller of the path of life; + and how assuredly it is the fault of the individual himself, if he + neglect the means of spiritual advancement, which are sure to be + afforded in whatever situation may chance to have been assigned to + him.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I beg your pardon for interrupting you,”</span> said + Ru<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name= + "Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>bellia; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but Sabinus has almost finished the grapes while you + have been speaking; and I would only just beg to suggest, that it + is the fault of the individual, Xerophrastes, if he neglects the + means of corporeal refreshment, which may yet be afforded to him by + what remains in the basket.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most kind lady,”</span> resumed he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“your benevolence is worthy of your nobility.—But you + know not how much the philosophy I have embraced, tends to lessen + the natural desire of man for such things as you allude + to—nevertheless,”</span> he continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + will not refuse to partake yet farther of your bounty; for I have + been sorely dealt with in the multitude, as yourselves + witnessed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So saying, he + took hold of the basket, and began to feel in the bottom of it, but + found very little to his purpose; for, to say the truth, the rest + of the party had been almost as eager in their attentions to it as + the Centurion. A few slender bunches, notwithstanding, were still + there, one of which the philosopher thrust into his mouth, and the + rest he concealed beneath one of the folds of his huge mantle, + until he should have made an end of his criticism. Meantime, the + natural language of the broad, jovial, unreflective countenance of + our worthy Centurion, seemed considerably at variance from the + notion of his attainments and pursuits, which this merry lady had + been instilling into the pedagogue. Rubellia herself, however, + appeared to enjoy the thing far more keenly than either Sextus or + I; insomuch, that I was afraid Xerophrastes would penetrate through + the joke she was playing off upon him, before he had given himself + his full swing in commen<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg + 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>dation of the Prætorian. But Sabinus, on his + side, was, as it seemed, of opinion, that he had already heard + enough of such disquisitions; for he had scarcely seen out the last + cup of Falernian, ere he began to give hints that he wished very + much to descend into the arena, for the purpose of observing the + animals about to be exhibited, while they were yet in their cages. + Xerophrastes, however, even when he had heard him signify this + desire, appeared still to be resolved on considering him as one of + the philosophic order of mankind; for he at once offered to + accompany him, saying, that the visit was of course intended for + the gratification of some scientific curiosity, and that therefore + he should think himself culpable did he neglect the + opportunity.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, then,”</span> quoth the good-natured Sabinus, + <span class="tei tei-q">“by all means prepare yourself for the + descent; but at least allow me to precede you, that there may be no + risk of untimely obstructions.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most assuredly, noble Centurion,”</span> replied + Xerophrastes, <span class="tei tei-q">“in this, as in all things, I + shall be proud to be enumerated among your followers. My pupil, + also,”</span> he added, <span class="tei tei-q">“and his friend, + will no doubt accompany us, that they may benefit by our discourse + on whatever may be subjected to observation.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Venerated friend,”</span> said Rubellia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“would you leave the ladies by themselves in the midst + of the Amphitheatre? I hope Sextus Licinius, at least, will + consider our weakness, and remain for our protection.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She laid her + hand on my companion’s arm, with a look which was decisive. Her + ancient crony whispered something about the impropriety of leaving + only one of the party to attend upon two females; but I took + advan<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name= + "Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tage of her low tone + to pretend ignorance of that hint, and rose with the Centurion.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Go quickly,”</span> said Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“for the interval must be well-nigh at an end; and if + those that have gone out begin to rush in again, you may have + difficulty in regaining your places.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Give fear to the winds,”</span> quoth Sabinus; + <span class="tei tei-q">“am not I with them, that know every + lion-feeder in Rome? No chance of the exhibition recommencing + without my having sufficient warning. It is not for nothing that I + have lost and won so many thousand sesterces in the Amphitheatre. + Would to Hercules as much respect were paid to experience every + where else, as in the Arena to your true old Better. Already, I + perceive that half a dozen of those knowing characters down below, + about the entrances to the dens, have detected me. They must fancy + my purse is in a poor state indeed, when I don’t seem to think it + worth while to take even a single peep at the cages. Come, worthy + brother in philosophy, and you, my fellow-voyager, let us be alert, + lest we arrive after Platæa.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We obeyed with + due alacrity, and, leaving the reluctant Sextus to his fate, + touched presently the margin of the arena. We had no sooner arrived + there, than an old skin-dried limping Numidian, with a bit of + lion’s hide fastened round his loins—one who, from his leanness and + blackness, had very much the appearance of having been baked to a + cinder, drew to the Centurion, with many nods and significant grins + of recognition. Sabinus, on his part, seemed noways backward to + acknowledge this acquaintance; but, on the contrary, began to talk + volubly with him in a strange sort of broken dialect, chiefly + composed, as I afterwards learned, <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>of Punic vocables. After this had lasted some + minutes, he took Xerophrastes and me by the hand, and seemed to + introduce us to the Numidian, who then desired us all to come down, + and he would conduct us to a place where we should see something + not unworthy of being seen. About to follow these directions, I + felt my gown seized from behind, and looking round, observed that + it was my faithful Briton, who, from the heat and confusion of his + aspect, appeared not to have come thither without a considerable + struggle. Sabinus seeing him, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Ah! my + old friend Boto, how have you come to this part of the + Amphitheatre? We must not leave you behind us, however: Of a + surety, you have never seen a lion—you shall descend along with + your master; and who knows but we may persuade Xerophrastes that + you also are a brother philosopher?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most noble Centurion,”</span> replied the grateful + slave, <span class="tei tei-q">“I saw you and my master from the + very topmost bench, where I have been sitting for these three hours + with Dromo, and I was determined to draw near to you, if it were + possible. To go from this place up to yonder quarter would perhaps + be impossible; but it is never a very difficult matter to go down + in this world; so, saving your reverence, I trundled myself over + the benches, and when heads were in my way, I trundled myself over + them too.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“It is well, good + Briton,”</span> quoth the Centurion—by this time we had crossed the + arena—<span class="tei tei-q">“and now prepare to exercise your + eyes as well as you already have exercised your limbs; for know, + that very near to you is the abode of nobler animals than even your + lord hath ever observed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With this the + African opened one of the iron doors <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>edging the arena, and having received some + money, admitted us to the sight of a long flight of marble steps, + which appeared to descend into the bowels of the earth, far below + the foundation of the Amphitheatre. <span class="tei tei-q">“Come + along, masters,”</span> quoth he; <span class="tei tei-q">“we had + better go down this way, for we shall have a better view of the + animals so, than on the other side. My master, Sabinus, will tell + you all, that old Aspar knows as much about these things as any + Numidian in the place.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed, + since friend Bisbal is gone,”</span> quoth the Centurion, + <span class="tei tei-q">“there is not another of these that is to + be compared to you.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> + replied Aspar, <span class="tei tei-q">“Bisbal was a great man; + there is not a feeder in Rome that is worthy to tie the latchet of + his sandals, if he were alive.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Why, as to that,”</span> said the other, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“old Bisbal was very seldom worth a pair of sandals + worth the tying, when he was alive; but, come on, we have no great + leisure for talking now, and Aspar shall shew a lion with any + Bisbal that ever wielded whip.—Come on.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We soon reached + a large vaulted place, apparently below the Amphitheatre, the sides + of which were almost entirely covered with iron-gratings,—while up + and down the open space were strolling many strange groupes of men, + connected in different capacities with the bloody spectacles of the + arena. On one hand, we saw some of the gladiators, who had already + been combating, walking to and fro with restless and agitated + steps, as if they had not yet been able to recover themselves from + the excitement into which their combats had thrown them. Even of + such as had been victorious, I observed that not a few partook in + all these symptoms of uneasiness; and the contrast thus exhibited + to the haughty mien of calmness they had so lately been displaying, + af<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name= + "Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fected me with a + strange sense of the irrational and inhuman life these unhappy + persons were condemned by folly or necessity to lead. The blood had + forsaken the lips and cheeks of others, and from the fixed stare of + their eyes, it appeared that their minds were entirely withdrawn + from every thing passing around them. Their limbs, so recently + nerved to the utmost show of vigour, were now relaxed and unstrung, + and they trod the marble floor with heavy and straggling feet. But + they that appeared to me to be in the most wretched state, were + such as, they told us, expected to be led forth shortly to contend + with the wild beasts, in whose immediate vicinity they were now + walking. The summons to battle with a human opponent calls into + action the fierceness and the pride of man; but he that has to + fight with a beast, how should he not be weighed down with the + sense of mortal degradation; how should the Reason that is in him + not fill him, in such a prospect, with dispiriting and humbling, + rather than with strengthening and stimulating thoughts? Howbeit, + the Centurion, although the most good-natured of mankind, being + rendered from custom quite callous to these things, immediately + entered into conversation with some of those unfortunates, in a + tone of coolness and unconcern that shocked me the more, because it + did not seem in the smallest degree to shock them. Among other + topics, he enlarged at much length to one of them upon the best + method of evading the attack of a tiger.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Look ye now,”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there are some that are always for taking things, as + they call it, in good time,—these will be pointing their swords + before the creature makes his spring; but I have seen what comes of + that, and so has old Aspar here, if he would be honest <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>enough to confess it. The true way is to + watch his eye when he is setting; let him fairly fix upon his mark, + and spring; but at the moment when he is taking his leap, then is + the time for the gladiator to start aside, and have at him with a + side-thrust. Your side-thrust is the only one I would lay an + <span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="la"><span style= + "font-style: italic">as</span></span> upon.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yea,”</span> quoth the grinning Aspar,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“it was always on your cool steady side-thrust, the + moment he had sprung, that the great Bisbal used to stake himself. + Ha! ha! I was fond of the side-thrust in my day myself; but I got a + scratch once—witness my poor leg, masters,—and since then I am a + poor feeder.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I was always clear + for the side-thrust,”</span> quoth Sabinus. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I never saw it fail but twice, and then, to be sure, + the men died; but they could have had no chance at all with the + frontguard; and it is always something,”</span> continued he, + clapping one of the poor expecting gladiators on the + back,—<span class="tei tei-q">“it is always something to have a + chance. Be sure you try him with the side-thrust, if it come to + your turn to-day.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The poor + creature—he also was an African—lifted up his head on being so + addressed, and shewed all his white teeth in a melancholy attempt + at a smile; but said not a word in reply, and forthwith became as + downcast as before. But the Centurion took little or no heed of the + manner in which his advice had been received. He contemplated the + man’s figure for a moment, as if to form some judgment concerning + the measure of his strength; and after doing the like in regard to + some of his companions, commanded Aspar to shew us where the prime + lions of the day were reposing.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Numidian + seized a long pole that was leaning <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>against one of the pillars of the vault, and + led us to a certain part of the grated wall, behind which was the + den, wherein six monstrous Atlantic lions were kept. I looked in + upon them with wonder, and not without dread, through the iron + net-work of the doors. An imperfect gleam of light descended from + above upon their tawny hides and glaring eyes. They, like the + gladiators, seemed also to be preparing for the combat; but not + like them in fear, nor in cold dewy tremors; for the deprivation of + food, which they had been made to suffer in prospect of the + exhibition, had roused all the energies of their savage natures; + insomuch, that a sulky and yearning rage seemed to spread through + every nerve and sinew of their gigantic frames, and to make them + paw their quadrangular prison with long and pliant strides. They + moved, however, as yet in total silence; so that Boto having fixed + his eyes upon them, took courage to approach the grate,—slowly, + nevertheless, and with a face that appeared to lengthen an inch for + every inch he advanced. But when he had almost touched the bars, + one of the huge lions came forward towards him, with something + between a growl and a sigh, which made Boto spring backward with + great and surprising agility, and with such force, that both he and + Xerophrastes, who happened unfortunately to have been standing a + little way behind him, were overthrown at all their length upon the + floor.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion, + and the limping old keeper, burst into laughter; but Xerophrastes + rising, and shaking his garment, said, with some warmth, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Think not, O Sabinus, that any sudden + start of fear has thus ridiculously stretched me upon the floor; + but attribute the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg + 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>mischance only to this rude offspring of + British earth, whose unreclaimed natural feelings are still + shamefully affected by natural causes.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Castor and Pollux,”</span> quoth the + Centurion,—<span class="tei tei-q">“you take every thing too + seriously, my friend.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I take it + not seriously,”</span> replied he, with admirable gravity. + <span class="tei tei-q">“My philosophy forbids me to do so; it has + steeled me against externals.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Has + it so, in faith!”</span> rejoined the Centurion. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I think some of your equanimity is, in fact, owing to + the trifling circumstance, that you have in reality received no + injury whatever from your tumble. And as to steeling, let me tell + you, I think the iron in the grated door there is much better + placed, than in the bosom of a philosopher; for, in the door, it + serves the purpose of preventing all harm; but if these animals + were once out, all the mental steel of which you boast would not + save every bone in your body from being cracked in the twanging of + a bow-string.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You speak,”</span> + replied Xerophrastes, <span class="tei tei-q">“as if you had + embraced the tenets of a sect not worthy of the lovers of + wisdom—You speak as if the artificial contrivances of human workmen + were all in all. An iron cage may confine wild beasts; but can + cages be made for all those misfortunes to which mankind are + liable, and against which the force of the mind is their only means + of defence? Can you cage the Eumenides, when they come to avenge a + life spent in ignoble indolence and degrading + luxury?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“In truth,”</span> replied + the Centurion with a smile, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have never + seen the Eumenides except once, and that was in the theatre of + Athens. But Boto, perhaps, has been more fortunate. Did you ever + see the Eumenides, good Boto?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“No, + master,”</span> replied, stupidly, the perplexed Boto, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I never was at the theatre.”</span></p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ye gods!”</span> exclaimed the Stoic, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“of a surety this Britain must have been the last spot + rescued from the dominion of Chaos!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But while we + were yet contemplating those enormous animals, and amused with the + awkward gestures of Boto, the trumpets were blown in the + Amphitheatre, and no sooner did the sound of them penetrate into + the vaults, than it was evident, from the bustle which ensued, that + the Emperor had returned to his place. With all speed, therefore, + did we reascend to the upper air, leaving the gladiators in the act + of mustering in their respective quarters of the gloomy vault; and + the feeders not less busied in preparing their beasts for the + expected combat. Had we not been under the protection of Sabinus, + we should have attempted in vain to regain our places; but he being + an acknowledged and current authority, known in every department of + the Amphitheatre, the door-keepers, and other functionaries, durst + refuse him nothing; room was made for us where no room appeared; + and, in a word, we shortly found ourselves once more seated by the + side of Rubellia and Sextus.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name= + "Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc24" id= + "toc24"></a> <a name="pdf25" id="pdf25"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + XII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The day was by + this time considerably advanced; and, in spite of the awnings + spread all over head, the rays of the sun were so powerful, that + the marble benches felt hot to the touch, wherever they were + exposed to them; and altogether there was such a glare and fervour + throughout the place, that my eyes began to be weary of gazing; and + very gladly would I have retired, rather than remain to see out the + rest of the exhibition. Nevertheless, there was no appearance of + any one having gone away in weariness; but, on the contrary, the + seats, and even the passages, seemed to be more crowded than they + had been in the anterior part of the morning.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The arena was + vacant, when I looked down upon it; but in a short time, a single + old man, who, as Rubellia told me, had, without doubt, been found + guilty of some atrocious wickedness, was led forth from a small + wicket on the one side, and presently his fetters being struck off, + those that conducted him retired, leaving him alone upon the sand. + The eyes of this malefactor refused at first to look steadfastly on + the objects around him, and it seemed to me that he had probably + been long confined in some dark place, so grievously did the + dazzling splendour, reflected from the floor and walls, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name= + "Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>appear to bewilder + and confound him. Nevertheless, after a brief space, he seemed in + some measure to recover himself, and assumed a posture of + resignation, leaning with one hand against the parapet, as if he + needed support to uphold himself. Pallid and extenuated were the + outlines of the old man’s visage, and his hair and beard exhibited + not a little of the squalidness attendant on long confinement; yet + there was something in the attitude, and even in the countenance, + which made me harbour the suspicion that he had not, at some former + period, been altogether unacquainted with the luxuries and + refinements of social life. The beauty, indeed, of the mould in + which his form had originally been cast, might, perhaps, have been + the sole cause of these casual demonstrations of elegance; yet it + was impossible not to regard the man with greater interest, by + reason of the contrast suggested between what he once perhaps had + been, and what he now was.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A feeling of the + same sort seemed to pervade many more in the assembly; and I heard + a continual whispering among those around me, as if there was a + general anxiety to learn something of the history of the man. No + one, however, appearing to be able to say any thing concerning + this, I kept my eyes fixed upon himself, awaiting the issue in + silence. Judge then, what was my surprise, when one of the heralds + of Trajan, having commanded that there should be silence in the + amphitheatre, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Let Tisias of Antioch + come forth, and answer to the things that shall be alleged against + him.”</span> To which the old man, that was alone in the arena, + immediately made reply,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Here am I—my name + is <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name= + "Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Tisias of + Antioch.”</span>—In vain, however, even after hearing the + well-remembered voice, did I attempt to persuade myself that the + face was such as I had pictured within myself; for, as to seeing + it, I have already told you that utter darkness prevailed in the + dungeon all the time I was there with him.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then arose the + Prefect of the city, who had his place immediately under the chair + of Cæsar, and said in a voice, which, although not loud, was heard + distinctly all through the Amphitheatre,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Tisias of Antioch, being accused of blasphemy and + contempt for the Gods, has been brought hither, either to refute + this charge, by doing homage at the altar of Jupiter Best and + Greatest; or, persisting in his rebellion, to suffer openly the + punishment which the laws have affixed to such perversity. Let him + remain where he is until the Flamens invite all to join in the + sacrifice.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tisias, hearing + these words, stept forth into the middle of the arena, and folding + his arms upon his breast, stood there composedly, without once + lifting up his eyes, either to the place from which the Prefect had + spoken, or to any other region of the Amphitheatre. The situation + in which he stood was such, that I commanded, where I sate, a full + and distinct view of every movement of the old man’s countenance, + and assuredly my eyes were in no danger of being directed away from + him. For a few moments there was perfect silence throughout the + assembly, until at length the same herald made proclamation for the + doors to be thrown open, that the priests of Jupiter might have + access. There was heard forthwith a noise, as of the turning of + some heavy machinery, and a part of the ground-work <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of the arena itself appeared to be + giving way, right over against that quarter in which Tisias had his + station. But of this the purpose was soon manifested, when there + arose from underneath into the space thus vacated, a wooden stage, + or platform, covered all over with rich carpetings, whereof the + centre was occupied by a marble altar, set forth already with all + the usual appurtenances of sacrifice, and surmounted on one side by + a gigantic statue of bronze, in which it was easy to recognize the + features of the great Phidian Jupiter. Neither had the altar any + sooner made its appearance there, and the sound of the machinery, + by which its great weight had been lifted, ceased to be heard, than + even as the herald had given command, the main gates of the + Amphitheatre were expanded, and thereby a free passage prepared for + the procession of the Flamens. With that, all those that were + present in the Amphitheatre, arose from their seats and stood up, + and a sweet symphony of lutes and clarions ushered in the sacred + band to the place appointed for them. And, first of all, there + marched a train of fifty beautiful boys, and then an equal number + of very young maidens, all, both boys and maidens, arrayed in white + tunics, and having their heads crowned with oaken garlands, and + bearing in their hands fresh branches of the oak tree, which, above + all the other trees of the forest, is, as you have heard and well + know, held dear and sacred to Jupiter. Then these youthful bands + were separated, and they arranged themselves, the boys on the + right, and the girls on the left hand of the altar, some of them + standing on the arena itself, and others on either side, upon the + steps of the platform whereon the altar was fixed; and + beauti<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name= + "Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ful, indeed, was + their array, and comely and guiltless were their looks; and much + modesty was apparent, both in the downcast eyes and closed lips, + with which some of them stood there to await the issue of their + coming, and in the juvenile admiration wherewith others of them + were regarding the wide and splendid assemblage around them; + insomuch, that I could not but feel within myself a certain dread + and fearfulness, when I saw the feet of so many tender and innocent + ones placed there upon the same hot and guilty sand, which had so + often drunk the blood of fierce beasts and cruel + malefactors—alas!—which had drunk the blood of the innocent + also—and which was yet to drink thereof abundantly.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And after them + there came in the priests themselves of Jupiter, arrayed in the + white garments of sacrifice, walking two by two, the oldest and + principal of them coming last. And behind them again, were certain + younger assistants, clothed also in white, who led by a cord of + silk inwrought with threads of silver, a milk-white steer, without + spot or blemish, whose horns were already gilt, and his broad brows + crowned with oak leaves and roses. And last of all entered the + Vestal Virgins, none of whom had ever before been seen by me, and + they also walked two by two; and no one could contemplate without + veneration the majesty of their demeanour. With broad fillets were + they bound around the forehead, and deep flowing veils hung down to + their feet, entirely covering their faces and their hands; + nevertheless, their dignity was apparent; and it was not the less + impressive, by reason of the great mystery in which all things + about them appeared to be enveloped.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Imagine, + therefore, to yourselves, how magnificent was the appearance of all + things, when youths and damsels, and priests and vestals, had taken + their places, according to the custom of their sacred observances; + and all that innumerable company of spectators yet standing up in + the amphitheatre, the choral-hymn was begun, in which every voice + there was united, except only that of Tisias the Christian. Now, it + was the soft low voices of the young maidens that sounded, and then + these would pause, and give place to the clearer and more piercing + notes of the boys that stood on the other side of the altar; then + again the priestesses of Vesta would break in from afar with their + equable harmony; and anon these in their turn ceasing, the Flamens + of Jupiter would lift up their strong deep chanting, until, at the + appointed signal from him that stood on the highest step of the + altar, with the cup of libation in his hand, the whole people that + were present burst in and joined in the rushing stream of the + burden, <span class="tei tei-q">“Jupiter,—Jupiter, hear us!—hear + us, Father of Gods and men!”</span> while the wine was poured out, + gushing red upon the marble, and the incense flung on high from + fifty censers, rolled its waves of smoke all over the surface of + the arena, and quite up to the gorgeous canopy of that resounding + Amphitheatre. Magnificent, indeed, was the spectacle, and majestic + the music; yet in the midst of it, how could I take away my eyes + from the pale and solitary old man, by reason of whose presence + alone all these things were so? With calm eyes did he regard all + the pageantry of those imperial rites,—with closed lips did he + stand amidst all the shouting multitudes. He bowed not his head; he + lifted not up his hand; neither would he bend his knee, when the + victim <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg + 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>was slain before the horns of the altar; + neither would he in any thing give semblance of being a partaker in + the worship.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length the + song ceased, and there was a proclamation again for deep silence; + and the Prefect of the city, addressing himself once more to + Tisias, spoke thus:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Impious and unhappy + man, with great clemency have all things been conducted as + concerning thee. When, after long imprisonment, and innumerable + exhortations in private and in public, thou hadst always rejected + every means of safety, and spurned from thee the pardon of those in + whose hands thy being is placed, yet, notwithstanding of all thine + obstinacy and continual rebellion, was it determined, that, in the + face of all the people, thou shouldst once more have free grace + offered to thee, provided only thou shouldst, when all the assembly + worshipped, join thy voice with them, and bow thy head also toward + the altar of Jupiter. Nevertheless all that now hear me shall bear + witness, that, with open and visible contumacy, thou hast rejected + this opportunity also of being reconciled unto the prince and the + empire,—that, when every knee bent, and every voice was lifted up, + thou alone hast stood upright, and thy lips alone have been closed. + If it be so, that, from some inflicted, rather than voluntary + perversion of mind, thou hast never yet been able to understand the + danger in which thou art placed, know now, that there remains no + hope at all for thee, except for a moment; and let the strong fear + of death open thine eyes, that thou mayst see where thou art, and + for what purpose thou hast been brought hither. Thou art a born + subject of Rome, and thy life can only be held by thee, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name= + "Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in virtue of + obedience to the laws. These are clearer upon nothing, than the + necessity that all men should acknowledge the deities of Rome; and + of good reason, since, if they be despised, and their authority set + at nought, by what means shall an oath be ratified, or a pledge + given; or how may the head, which counsels and protects, be assured + that the members shall not be lifted up against it? Let silence + remain in the assembly, and let Tisias of Antioch make his + election, whether he will give obedience, or suffer the penalty of + transgression.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then the + Prefect, and all those round about Trajan, sat down, and there was + a deep silence throughout the lower region, where, for the most + part, they of condition were placed; but when the rabble, that sat + above, beheld the stern and resolute countenance with which the old + man stood there upon the arena, it seemed as if they were enraged + beyond measure, and there arose among them a fierce uproar, and a + shouting of hatred; and, amidst groans and hisses, there was a cry + from innumerable voices of—<span class="tei tei-q">“Christian! + Christian!—Blasphemer! Blasphemer!—Atheist! Atheist!—A tiger! A + tiger!—Let loose a tiger upon the Christian!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nevertheless, + the old man preserved unmoved the steadfastness of his demeanour, + and lifting up his eyes to the place from whence the tumult + proceeded, regarded the ferocious multitude with a visage, not of + anger or of scornfulness, but rather of pity and calmness; + insomuch, that I perceived the nobles and senators were somewhat + ashamed of the outcry, and the Prefect of the city arose from his + place, and beckoned with his hand, until the people were weary of + shouting, and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg + 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>order was, in some measure, re-established in + the Amphitheatre.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then Tisias, + perceiving that silence once more prevailed, lifted up his hand, + and bowed himself before Trajan, and the great men of authority + that were near to his chair, and said, with a firm clear voice, in + the Roman tongue, <span class="tei tei-q">“My name, O Trajan, is + Tisias—the son of Androboulos. I am a native of Antioch, in Syria, + and have in all things, except only in what pertains to this cause, + observed throughout all the years of my life the statutes of the + empire, as they, by whose accusation I have been led hither, shall + themselves be constrained to bear witness for me this day. My + father was a Greek of Macedonian extraction, being descended from + one of those that came into Syria beneath the banners of the great + King Seleucus; but he took to wife a maiden of the Hebrew nation, + and in process of time became a proselyte to the faith of her + fathers. Nevertheless, he lived in trust and honour beneath the + governors appointed by those that were before you in the empire, + and brought up me and all his children to reverence, in all things + that are lawful, the authority of Cæsar. But as to the faith of the + true God, whose worshippers ye blindly and foolishly call atheists + and blasphemers, from that he neither swerved himself, nor would + permit any of those that were in his household to depart. Now, when + he had been a dweller for some time in Jerusalem, the great city of + the Jews, he began to examine into those things which were reported + publicly concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is also called the + Christ, of which things not a few that had been eye-witnesses were + then living in that city. And when <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>he had been satisfied from their testimony, + that those miracles, of which you have all heard, were in truth + performed in the sight of the people by Jesus, and had listened + unto the words of their teachers, and saw how they proved that the + old prophets of the Hebrews had foretold those wonderful works, he + perceived that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Christ of God, and + the great Deliverer that had been promised to that people, even + from the beginning of their nation. And he believed on him with all + his household; and I also, from a stripling, have, although + unworthy, been a Christian; for by that name were they first called + in Antioch, the city of my birth.</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But being brought into trouble by reason of his + religion, which the rulers of the Jews abhorred, my father + departed, after a time, from Jerusalem, and dwelt with my mother in + one of the villages of Palestine, until his death. Not long after + which time, the Jews rebelled against Cæsar, and the great war + began, which terminated in the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the + utter ruin of their nation. Now, when Vespasian first came with his + army into those regions, I, being without employment in the place + where we had our habitation, and having, moreover, taken up a + great, and perhaps a sinful, wrath against the Jews, on account of + the sufferings which my father had undergone among them, and of the + evils which, at their hands, our whole household had sustained, + joined myself to one of the bands of Syrian auxiliaries; and + although my mother entreated me, could not be persuaded to refrain + from following the camp of Cæsar with them. Of which thing it has + often since then repented me, and in which, <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>it may be, I still hold myself not to + have done altogether as was right; for if the Jews had offended + Cæsar, it was, indeed, a reasonable thing that Cæsar should visit + them with his vengeance; but, peradventure, it behoved not any of + them that were descended from the fathers of that people, to take + part in the warfare. Nevertheless, being then young, and, as I have + said, irritated by the sense of domestic injuries, I scrupled not + to fulfil in all things the duty of a soldier, and followed the + eagles of Vespasian and his son, even to the day when the lines + were drawn around the Holy City; and it was manifest, that the war + could have no end, but in the eternal overthrow of the power of the + Jews. Neither did the length of the siege weary me, or produce + within me any sort of unwillingness; but, on the contrary, so long + as the city was beleaguered, I remained with the band in which I + had numbered myself, and did in all labours such service as my + strength would permit. Even among the soldiers that have guarded my + prison, since I was led into Rome for the sake of that accusation + which has been brought against me in the matter of my belief,—even + among them, I have seen the faces of some that were my comrades in + that fierce war, and that long beleaguerment, who also, if they be + commanded, will not refuse to bear testimony before you, that all + these things are true, even as I have said, and that I was a + faithful soldier, both of Vespasian and of Titus, unto the last. + Neither, indeed, did I lay down arms immediately when Jerusalem had + been sacked, and the Temple burnt, according to the prediction of + Christ, but went with Cæsar along the sea-coast, and was present + with him all through the journeyings he <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>made in Egypt, even to the day when he made + his great festival at Alexandria, and crowned the Ox Apis with his + own hands, in the presence of all that people. On which day it was, + that, for the first time, I also was accused of being a Christian, + and at the command of Titus himself, was interrogated by one of the + rulers of the army.</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Now with shame and confusion of face must I + acknowledge, that on that day I, from desire of life, forgot myself + utterly, and being deserted of all steadfastness, went up to the + altar in presence of my judge, and offered gifts there, whereon I + was declared free of all blame; and even received honour and + commendation thereafter from them, on account of my services in the + war. But, from that day, my spirit sunk within me, and I knew not + what to do; I grew weary of all things, and determined to leave the + band in which I was serving, that I might seek out, if it were + possible, the habitation of my mother, and make atonement in secret + for the wickedness of which I, unhappy and fearful man, had been + guilty at Alexandria. Being absolved, therefore, from my oath of + service, on account of the length of time I had remained with the + army, I departed from Egypt, and, after a time, found out my mother + where she was dwelling in the mountainous country of Palestine, to + the north of Jerusalem. In going thither, however, I was + constrained to pass by the place where I had so long lain in your + camp, O Romans! and to look with my own eyes on the sorrowful + desolation of that ancient city, where so many holy prophets of the + Hebrews had ministered, and so many great kings reigned in the days + of the old time, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg + 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>when their nation flourished, and was chosen + and favoured of the Almighty. And it was then, indeed, that I first + began to repent me of having been present in the host of Titus, and + of having had a part in that terrible destruction; to which, when I + added the recollection of my own miserable timorousness at + Alexandria, great was my perplexity, and I fled across the + mountains with much speed, seeking in vain to fly from the stings + and unceasing torment of my own meditations, which nevertheless + continued ever more and more to sink into my spirit; insomuch, that + when I came into the place where my mother was dwelling, scarcely + could she recognize me, wasted and worn as I was with that + perpetual misery of shame and repentance. Without reproaches, + however, and indeed with great kindness, did she receive me into + her habitation, even although, as I have said, she had been much + offended with me because of my going up to the beleaguerment of the + city of her fathers. But when I, being humbled, made confession to + her and her household, and to all the faithful that were in that + place, of the grievous sin whereof I had been guilty in Egypt, both + she and all the rest of them busied themselves continually to + comfort me, and to assure me that there was yet hope, if my + repentance were sincere, and my resolution immovable never again to + yield myself to any similar temptation. One of them also, that had + been set apart to minister in holy things among the scattered + believers that dwelt up and down in that region, came not many days + after to the same place, and having publicly heard my confession, + admitted me once more to be a partaker with them in the mysteries + of the sanctuary. From which <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>day, O Trajan! I have never again been so far + deserted of myself, as to fall back into that miserable error, or + by any cowardly word of mine, to deny the faith that is in me, + which is the faith of the True God that made heaven and earth, and + of his Son Jesus Christ, whom he sent into the world to teach + loving-kindness, and long-suffering, and patience, among all + kindreds, and tongues, and nations of mankind; and to make + expiation, by the accursed death of the cross, for the evil and the + wickedness that is in the world. From which faith, should I now + depart, out of terror for that which, by your command, may befal me + in this place, of a surety no comfort could ever again come to me + in my mind, for I should be bowed down, and utterly miserable, out + of grief and shame; which as you yourself, O Cæsar, will admit and + acknowledge, is far worse than death itself, or any evil which the + body of man can sustain. Neither could I have any hope of being + reconciled unto the True God, whom I should have so, once and + again, denied; insomuch, that neither in life nor in death should I + be able to have any happiness;—for in life, what happiness is there + to him that is ashamed of himself?—and, in departing from life, + what comfort can be given to him, that, knowing the truth, hath + openly abjured the truth for the sake of a few, at the utmost, and + these most miserable and unhappy years? I am an old man, and my + near kindred and my friends are already dead, so that poor after + all, and not worthy to be mentioned, is the sacrifice on which I + have this day resolved. And as for you, O Romans, should I now make + shipwreck of my faith, and tell a lie to save my life before you, + with what contempt <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg + 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>would yourselves be constrained forthwith to + look upon me? Whosoever is wise among you, according to the + philosophy of the earth, would utterly despise me; and whosoever is + brave and steadfast of spirit, would think foul scorn that a + soldier of Titus should be so much afraid to die. Therefore, O + Trajan, am I resolved to endure all things rather than sacrifice to + your gods; and if such be your will, I will not refuse to die for + this cause, to which witness has already been borne in Rome by the + blood of holy Apostles, and other noble martyrs of + Christ.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man, + having said these words, bowed himself once more reverently before + Trajan, and then folding his arms in his cloak, appeared to await + whatever might be appointed. Steadfastly did I look upon his face + at that moment, to see whether it might exhibit no trace of + wavering, or at least, if pride barred irresolution, whether, + nevertheless, there might not appear some token of natural sorrow, + and human unwillingness to die; yet in vain did I scrutinize and + seek for any such symptoms of spiritual weakness; for although it + was visible that, with the exertion of so long standing and + speaking, to say nothing of thought and anxiety, his bodily + strength was much spent, still his eye preserved firmness, and his + brow remained serene; and the parched lips of the old man did not + once betray the least shadow of trembling. Methinks I see him even + now, as he then stood—his deep calm eyes sometimes turned upwards + to Trajan, but for the most part bent to the ground, beneath those + gray brows of his, whose dark shade rested upon his large solemn + eyelids. Upon his broad front, as he stooped, no hair appeared, but + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name= + "Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>long hoary ringlets, + clustered down on either side, mingling with the venerable, + although dishevelled beard, that lay upon his bosom. Heroic + meekness was enthroned visibly upon all his lineaments, and a + murmur began to run through the assembly, as if—even in a + Christian—it were not possible to contemplate such things without + admiration.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as they + afterwards related to me—for I myself was not indeed sufficiently + attentive to it—Trajan, who had as yet, during all the occurrences + of the day, preserved unmoved the majestic serenity of his + countenance, when he observed this last movement in the spirit of + the assembly, began all at once to be very indignant, that such + things should occur in such a place, in consequence of the + appearance merely, and the language, of a culprit and a Christian. + I confess it, that I was too much occupied with gazing on Tisias, + to have any leisure for remarking the particulars of the deportment + of any other person present—no, not even of Cæsar; yet such had + been the effect produced on me by the history which the old man + delivered of himself, that I indeed was not prepared at the moment + to find the strong arm of power directed ruthlessly, and + immediately against him. At least, said I to myself, the Prince + will institute an inquiry among all those now present in the + capital, who are likely to be able either to contradict + essentially, or to confirm, the narrative in which this man has + thought fit to embody his only defence. Many years indeed have + elapsed since the walls of Jerusalem were shattered by the engines + of Rome, and the golden gate of its antique temple refused to be + any protection against the furious soldiery of Titus. Yet surely + not a few of such as were present in <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>that proud host, must be still in life; yea, + not a few of them must be now present in the capital of the world. + The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, and beside + the ramparts underneath which this Christian was imprisoned, he + surely cannot be the only witness that remains to give testimony. + He at least there is, and we shall forthwith have him at least + confronted with Tisias.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such were my + thoughts within me; judge, therefore, what was my astonishment when + I heard the trumpet sound, and perceived that its note, without any + word being spoken, was at once received as a sufficient warning by + the priests and the vestals, and the youths and the damsels, and + all those that had in any way been connected with the service of + the altar, to retire from the place whereon they stood, and leave + the old man there alone, to await the issue of his destiny. + Immediately on the signal being given by the trumpet, did all these + begin to move away; but although in silence they had at first + marched into the Amphitheatre, they did not retire from it in + silence. Another hymn, on the contrary, in which also, as it + seemed, different parts were allotted for each different order of + singers, was begun to be sung by them even before they had moved + from the arena; and after the last of their procession had + disappeared behind the wide folding-doors of the Amphitheatre, we + still heard their voices chanting solemnly until they had entered + the great Temple of Isis and Serapis, which, as I have already + said, stands over against it, on the brink of the Esquiline. And + while all were yet listening to their singing, and to the harmony + of lutes and other sweet-<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg + 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>sounding instruments that accompanied their + voices, the slaves and other attendants removed every thing from + the arena, except only the altar and statue of Jupiter, which were + still left where they had been placed; insomuch, that ere they had + made an end of singing, and we of listening, the old man was left + alone there as at the beginning, when he first came forth.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But just when + deep silence once more prevailed, and expectation was most intense + concerning what should be at length commanded by Trajan, it fell + out so, that a little bald ape escaped through the bars of one of + the grated doors, which were along the boundary-wall of the arena, + and leaping forth upon the sand, began to skip up and down, + challenging, by all manner of foolish gestures, the attention of + those that sate over against it, leaning down from the parapet. And + immediately certain painted courtezans, that were sitting not far + from thence, with gilded breasts and bright-coloured garlands, and + all other gorgeous trappings of the degradation of harlotry, began + to throw down apples and nuts to the obscene creature, and to + testify much delight in the grimaces with which it received them, + hopping to and fro, and casting them away, and then catching them + up again, with continual gibbering and prating; and no sooner did + the rabble that were above perceive these things, than they all, as + with one consent, began to applaud; so that the vaulted vomitories + and wide arches of entrance, and all the marble walls, re-echoed + with every wild sound of carelessness and merriment. While, in the + meantime, the African feeders and naked gladiators, and all those + hangers-on of the Amphitheatre, whom we had seen in the dark places + below, hearing <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg + 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>now the sounds that had arisen among the + assembly, began to shew themselves in crowds from behind the same + grated doors through one of which the monkey had escaped, and to + partake in the mirth of the spectators, and to whistle upon the + creature, and to excite it to new caperings, by their outcries and + jeerings. It seemed as if the minds of all present were entirely + occupied with the pranks of this brute; and that almost it was + forgotten amidst the tumult, not only for what purpose all that + solemn and stately pageantry had just been exhibited before them; + but even that Tisias was still standing there upon the same + arena.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For myself, who + had never before looked upon any creature of this disgusting tribe, + and had gathered only some general notion of its appearance from + the treatises of the physiologists and the narratives of + travellers,—I could not, indeed, refuse to contemplate at first its + motions with some curiosity; but I knew not, after the scene had + lasted for a little space, whether to be more humbled within myself + by the monkey’s filthy mimickings of the form and attitudes of + mankind, or by the display of brutish heartlessness, which burst + forth from all that countless multitude, while gazing on that + spectacle of humiliation.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it was not + until my eye fell again on Tisias, who stood all this time solitary + and silent amidst the hub-bub, that my sorrow and indignation were + the greatest. There stood the old man even as before, with his arms + folded in his gown, and his eyes resting on the sand before him, + pale, calm, and unmoved in his meekness, even as if his ears had + not once received any sound of all the shoutings and the joyous + laughters of that unpitying <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>rabble, that had come there to behold him die. + Once, indeed—it was but once—I thought I could perceive that a + slight emotion of contempt wreathed for an instant his thin and + bloodless lips; but it seemed as if that were but the involuntary + and momentary passing over him of one proud thought, which he cast + from him immediately, as a thing unworthy of the resolute mind of + his integrity, choosing rather to array himself in the divine + armour of patience, than to oppose, with any weapon of human + passion, the insults heaped upon his head by the cruel callousness + of that degenerate congregation of men. And, whether it were that + the sight of all this did not affect me alone with such + reflections, or only that they in authority were afraid too much of + the day might be occupied with what formed so unseemly an addition + to the ordained business of the assembly, while the uproar of mirth + was yet at its height, certain of the lictors that were about the + consular chairs leapt down into the arena, and beat the monkey back + again among the feeders, and other base hirelings, that stood + behind the grated doors of which I have spoken. Whereupon there was + at once an end of the tumult, and the lictors having reascended to + their places, the eyes of all began once more to fix themselves + upon the Christian.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And he also, + when he perceived that it was so, and was sensible of the silence + that once more prevailed, it seemed as if he, too, were aware that + at last his appointed hour had come, and that he must needs prepare + himself in good earnest for the abiding of the issue. For, instead + of continuing steadfast in his place, as he had done during all the + time he had as yet been exposed there, <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>it appeared as if now at length, being + swallowed up in the contemplation of the approaching fate, he had + quite forgotten all the rules he had laid down to himself + concerning his behaviour. Not that he now lost remembrance of the + courage which hitherto he had manifested, or even, that any the + least symptom of changeableness was made visible upon his + countenance. But it seemed to me, of a truth, that of such things + as he had determined upon within himself before he came thither, + touching the mere external demeanour of his bodily frame, the + memory now, in this final moment of expectation, had somewhat + passed away; for Tisias stood still no longer on the centre of the + arena; but retaining his arms folded as they had been, and his eyes + fixed upon the sand, he began to pace rapidly to and fro, + traversing the open space whereon he alone now was, from side to + side, without once looking up, or exhibiting any token that he was + conscious of the presence of any man. By and by, nevertheless, in + the deeper knittings of his brows, and in the closer pressure of + his extenuated lips, and then again in the quivering of the nerves + and muscles upon the arms and legs of the old man, as he moved + before us, it was testified how keenly the spirit was at work + within; the strong soul wrestling, it may be, with some last + stirring temptations of the flesh, and the mind itself not + altogether refusing to betray its sympathy with the natural + shudderings of the body. But the moment that the herald of Trajan + commanded attention in the assembly, and that the Prefect of the + city began again to prepare himself for speaking, that moment did + the old man appear to return at once again entirely to himself; and + he fixed his eyes upon the <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Prefect with even the same steadfastness as + when he made his oration to Cæsar.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By all the gods,”</span> whispered Sabinus at that + moment, <span class="tei tei-q">“this is a true soldier of + Vespasian and Titus. He will die for this superstition with the + constancy of a Roman.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“With all the + constancy of a philosopher, say rather,”</span> quoth Xerophrastes, + who had overheard his whisper—<span class="tei tei-q">“yea, with + all the constancy of a philosopher. Of a surety, there must be some + lessons of nobility in this faith of the Jews.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Now, speak not, but look at the old man,”</span> + interrupted Rubellia; <span class="tei tei-q">“the signal is given + for the executioner.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And I looked, + and saw that the Prefect was standing up in his place, immediately + below the chair of Trajan, and immediately he began to speak; and + he said, first looking towards the people,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Let there be silence, and let no man stir in this + place until this matter be ended.”</span> And then addressing + himself, as it seemed, to Tisias,—<span class="tei tei-q">“With all + patience,”</span> proceeded he, <span class="tei tei-q">“have the + words which this man chose to utter in his defence, been listened + to; but it must be manifest to all men, that they contain no shadow + of apology, but rather afford the strongest confirmation of all + that had before been alleged. Instead of departing from his error, + or offering any extenuation of its magnitude, his words have tended + only to shew what was already well known to all that have had any + dealings with the adherents of this blasphemous sect; that their + obstinacy is as great as their atheism is perverse; and that no + clemency can, without blame, be extended to their wilfulness, and + to the scorn wherewith they are resolved to regard all things + sacred. Nevertheless, inquiry has been made, <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and confirmation has been given, by + those who were present in the wars of the Divine Titus, as to that + which this man hath said concerning his own service throughout the + glorious campaign of Palestine, and the siege of the city of the + Jews. For which service, it hath seemed right unto Cæsar, + Ever-Merciful, that no circumstance of needless shame be added to + the death by which this Christian must now expiate before all them + who have seen his contempt of the sacrifice of Jupiter, and heard + his words of blasphemy against all the gods, the guilt of which, it + is manifest to all, he hath been justly and necessarily accused. + Let those, therefore, who had been commanded to bring forth a + tiger, depart now with their beast, and let this man be beheaded + before the Altar of Jupiter; after which, for this day, the + assembly will disperse; for, until the morrow, the spectacle of the + wild animals, which the Prince hath prepared, must be + deferred.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Prefect made + his obeisance again to Cæsar, and sate down in his place, and + immediately one of the doors of the arena was flung open, and there + entered some slaves, bearing a wooden block upon their shoulders, + behind whom followed also certain ill-favoured blacks, out of the + company of African gladiators, one of whom carried bare in his hand + a long and heavy sword, the surface of which glittered brightly as + he moved, as if newly sharpened and burnished for the occasion. + Seeing all which fatal preparations, Tisias immediately flung aside + the long cloak in which hitherto his arms and all his body had been + wrapped; and after regarding those that had come in for a moment + with a steadfast eye, he turned himself to the place where the + Prefect was sitting, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg + 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as + if he had yet one word to say before he should submit himself to + the sword; whereupon the Prefect said,—<span class="tei tei-q">“If + the prisoner has yet any thing to offer, it is not too late for + mercy—Let him speak.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I have nothing more to offer, O Romans!”</span> + answered the old man, <span class="tei tei-q">“as concerning that + of which I have spoken. But since already some favour has been + extended to me by reason of my services in the army of Cæsar, + perhaps so neither will this be refused, that my body may be given + to such as shall ask for it, that it may be treated without + indignity after my soul is released.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is granted,”</span> replied the + Prefect.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Is there any thing + more?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man was + silent.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With that, the + block being already fixed upon the sand immediately in front of the + Altar of Jupiter, one of the Africans moved towards Tisias, as if + to conduct him to the place where it behoved him to kneel; but he, + observing what was his intention, forthwith prevented him, and + walked of himself steadily close up to him in whose hand the sword + was unsheathed. Being come thither, he immediately took his station + over against the block, and having for a moment placed his hand + upon his eyes, and moved his lips, as it seemed, in fervent + supplication, dropped his one knee on the ground, and stretched + forth his neck towards the block; but suddenly, after he had done + so, he sprung again upon his feet, and began to gaze with a keen + eye all around the assembly, as if he were in search of some one to + whom he had something yet to say. In vain, however, as it appeared, + did he make this endeavour; <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>for after a little space, he shook his head + despairingly, and gave over the steadfastness of his look. + Nevertheless, he lifted up his voice, and, surveying once more the + whole face of the Amphitheatre round about, from side to side, said + audibly,—<span class="tei tei-q">“There is one here who made last + night a promise to me in my dungeon. I cannot see him where he is; + but I conjure him to take good heed, and execute, as he is a man + and a Roman, all those things which he said to me he would + do.”</span> Now, when I heard him say so, I well knew within myself + that it was for me only his eye had been searching, and half did I + arise from my seat, that he might see I was there, and observe my + resolution to keep the faith I had plighted voluntarily to him in + his prison. But Sabinus, having watched my earnestness in + contemplating Tisias, and comprehending something of that which was + meant, held me firm upon the bench, whispering, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“As you regard me, Valerius, and as you regard your own + safety, be still.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Being thus + constrained, I neither rose up, nor made any attempt to attract the + attention of Tisias—for which forbearance, I confess to you, I have + since that day undergone the visitation of not a few bitter + thoughts—but remained steadily in my place, while the old man once + more addressed himself to kneel down upon the block that was before + him. Calmly now at length did he kneel, and with much composure did + he place himself. Yet, before the gladiator was ready to strike, he + lifted his head once again, and gazed upwards for a moment towards + heaven, with such a countenance of faith and hope, that there went + through all the assembly a murmur, as it were, and a stirring + breath of admira<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg + 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>tion. Then bowed he for the last time his gray + hairs, and almost before he had rested his neck upon the tree, the + strong sword of the African smote with merciful fierceness, and the + headless trunk falling backwards upon the sand, the blood spouted + forth in a gushing stream, and sprinkled all over with red drops + the base of the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the surface of + the marble altar, whereupon the sacrifice of the Flamens had been + offered.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The executioner + having made an end of his duty, wiped his sword from the blood of + the Christian, and advancing towards the seats of the magistrates, + claimed the largess that was due to him,—which when he had + received, as is the custom, he and all his attendants withdrew + immediately from the arena; the Emperor, at the same moment, and + the Consulars, and all they that were about him, departing also + from the assembly; and the whole Amphitheatre speedily being filled + with the clamours of an universal upbreaking and dispersion.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="pdf26" id="pdf26"></a> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name= + "Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc27" id= + "toc27"></a> <a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">BOOK II. CHAPTER + I.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I saw, my + friends, that you listened with not less of indignation, than of + astonishment, to the account which I yesterday gave you of a day + spent in the Amphitheatre of Vespasian. Neither did I expect that + it should be otherwise with young persons of ingenuous minds, whose + feelings have never been hardened by any experience of the life of + Rome.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And yet, when + you reflect a little more upon the matter, I think you will abate + something of the wonder you manifested on hearing of the fondness + of the Roman people for some of those cruel, ruthful spectacles. + You will admit, at least, that there is a certain natural + principle, on an exaggerated and morbid obedience to which, rather + than on any total and absolute departure from the laws of our mind, + much of that which excited so much of your astonishment and + indignation also may be supposed to depend. In and by myself, I + maintain it must always be a most interesting thing for a man to + witness, in whatever shape, the last moments of any human creature. + I mean not those merely corporeal struggles, in which there must + always be every thing to revolt, and <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>nothing to interest, because in them, it is + evident, the nobler part of our nature can have no share—the soul + being already swallowed up, and its divinity absorbed in the + intense convulsions of animal suffering. These are things on which + no eyes can gaze willingly, without indicating degradation of + spirit. But before that curtain falls, beyond which every one must + shudder to penetrate, there is a last terrible act of the real + tragedy, which must ever have power to fix the eyes with an + earnestness not the less deep, because of its being preceded by + some struggles of reluctance. We live in a state in which, however + we may clothe ourselves in the armour of levity, or with the more + effectual armour of occupation, it is impossible that the one + fearful idea of dissolution should not ever and anon come to scare + us with its terrors. We feel that we are walking over a soil, on + the most level and the most rugged parts of which it is equally + possible we may meet with the dark pit wherein it is our destiny to + stumble. How sudden, or how gradual soever the inevitable fall may + be, we well know we shall have little enough space to prepare + ourselves for the last leap, when we shall be fairly on the + declivity; and I maintain, once more, that it is a rational, no + less than a natural, curiosity, which leads us to seek to supply, + in some measure, this necessary defect, and to gather, if possible, + from witnessing the last moments of others, some hints which may be + of use to us when our own dark hour shall come. We see a being + standing on the edge of a precipice, to which the only thing we + know certainly, is, that we ourselves shall one day be brought; and + shall it be possible to feel no curiosity concerning the manner in + which he con<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg + 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>ducts himself on that giddy brink? That which + is denied to us in our own person, may, in part, be supplied in + his; and the eyes which dwell upon his features, while they are + filled with the overwhelming expectation of near approaching death, + make the closest approximation of which our nature admits to + penetrating the actual mysteries of the unseen region. For myself, + both wiser and better did I come away from all that mournful + spectacle. But perhaps I am joining together things which, after + all, had no necessary connection, when I ascribe to my + contemplation of the death of Tisias, and the other cruel sights + which, as it seemed, were regarded with indifference by the great + multitudes around me, so much of the change which, about this + period, my own spirit underwent.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The slumbers + which followed that busy day of novelties and terrors, were long + and heavy; for utterly worn out were both mind and body, and youth + hastened to repair the waste of its energies, by drinking deeply at + the great fountain of natural refreshment. Nevertheless, although + the hand of sleep had lain steadily upon me, when I awoke in the + already-confirmed light of morning, I found myself yet filled with + a confused and tremulous sense of excitation, as if the spirit had + disdained to be idle after having received so much food for + activity, and Fancy had still been garnishing the passive sphere of + the night with aerial representations of all the gorgeous and + solemn realities of the by-past day. I lay there ruminating amidst + the dispersing shadows of the mysterious world of dreams, and + scarcely as yet aware that a whole night had passed since I had + returned from the Amphitheatre, when I was at length roused to + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name= + "Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a sudden and complete + recollection of all things by the entrance of Boto.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My dear master,”</span> said he, making a sort of + start after he had come in, <span class="tei tei-q">“I was afraid + you would be angry with me for not coming to you sooner, but now I + perceive you have been as lazy as the rest of us. Why, surely, you + are not aware what time of day it is! What would my dear old lady + over the water say, if she heard of my young master lying in bed + till within three hours of noon? Oh, what a place is this you have + brought me to! Why, when I awake in the morning, the first thought + that comes into my head always is, What, Boto, and is it really + possible that all that wide roaring sea lies between you and the + green banks of quiet Anton? Is it truth, good truth, and neither + dream nor witching, that you, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">Boto</span></span>, are in <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rome</span></span>? + But I sometimes have to jump up, and take a look out of the window + before I am quite convinced; and then, to be sure, I know well + enough that I, who used always to dream about driving cattle to + Venta, and perhaps kissing a Brigian lass by the way, could never + dream of so many fine things unless I were really among them. Good + heavens! what a heap of stories I shall have to tell, when we get + safe back to Old Britain!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed, + Boto,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“you will be quite a + travelled man. Be sure you do not give yourself too many airs on + the occasion.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Travelled man, in + faith,”</span> replied the clown. <span class="tei tei-q">“I should + like to know, who it is that will be able to hold up his head with + me, when I am once fairly back again? Oh, how the old smith will be + humbled! He thought himself such a mighty person, because my old + master, your father, had taken him with him as far as Camolodunum, + and how <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg + 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>he + used to brag of what he had seen there; but now, I trow, Master + Pernorix will be fain to talk quietly about his journeys.—O Rome, + Rome! what fine things shall I have to tell them all about + Rome,—and the lions, and the monkeys, and Cæsar, and the elephants, + and the fighting men, and the Christian, and all the wonderful + sights we saw yesterday. But the worst of it is, that nobody will + ever be able to believe one half of what I shall tell them.—And + when does my dear Master Valerius think we shall be returning to my + old lady, and all the rest of them in Britain?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Of a truth, good Boto,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that is more than I can pretend to give you any notion + of; but I dare say, you shall have both time and opportunity to + pick up a few more marvels still before we go. In the meantime, you + are comfortable, I hope, in your quarters, and Dromo takes good + heed of you.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dromo,”</span> quoth + he, looking as arch as his massive features would admit + of,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dromo, indeed!—If I had nobody to + trust to but him, I should be very ill off. Dromo is a great man; + the young lord of the house has him up in his chamber every day to + talk with him by himself; and when he comes down again, or returns + from any of the errands he is sent out upon, there is no bearing + with him in the court-yard, where we are all huddled together. As + for the overseer, old Sarcalus, the freed-man, he has quite given + him up. Nobody dare speak about whipping him; he looks upon himself + as almost as important a person as his master, I believe, if the + truth were known; and yet I should not complain, for, after all, it + was Dromo that carried me yesterday to the + Amphitheatre.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, that was very + kind of Dromo—I should have <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>thought of it myself. And did he not see that + you got your supper snugly, when you came + back?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah! now, master, don’t make + them whip me—I see they have told you all.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“All!”</span> said I—<span class="tei tei-q">“I do + assure you they have told me nothing about you; but come, speak + out. It must be something very bad that would make me think of + having you whipt. You have only been three days in Rome—I shall + make allowance for a few vagaries, provided they be not very + extravagant.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then, Master + Caius,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“since they have + told you nothing beforehand, and you seem inclined to be so + good-natured with me, I shall e’en tell you all myself, and I hope + you won’t think me, after all, very much to + blame.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Speak out, my honest Boto, + and remember there is Dromo also to be examined, in case you keep + any thing back from me.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah! + master, but Dromo would not be so easily caught as poor Boto. Dromo + is a cunning man, and a close; and besides, they say he was born in + a city they call Crete, and the people of that place can’t speak a + word of truth, even although they were willing. Do not think any + thing at all about Dromo; but trust entirely to your own poor Boto, + and he will tell you every thing. Dromo is a sad dog.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I know not what + more he might have proceeded to say concerning Dromo, had not that + crafty Cretan, who, without question, had been listening all the + while behind the door, just at that moment glided in on very + delicate tiptoe, and coming close up behind the British slave, as + he stood in the act of haranguing me, smote him a smart fillip upon + the cheek with the back of his fingers, mimicking, at the same + time, the outlandish accent of the man, and repeating after him + into his tinkling <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg + 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>ears, the words, <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dromo is a sad + dog—Dromo is a cunning man, and a close—Dromo would not be so + easily caught as poor Boto</span></span>.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ha, ha! Master Valerius,”</span> then said he to me, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and so you would really take the trouble + to ask questions of this worthy man, when you had it in your power + to send for me? I thought it had not been for nothing that three + persons I could name entered upon a certain alliance—but ’tis all + one to the Cretan.—Both Sextus, and you, may manage your own + affairs for yourselves, if such be your pleasure.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I knew not on + this whether to be more amazed with the impudence of the Cretan, or + the confusion of poor Boto, who stood rubbing his cheek with a + strangely mingled aspect of sheepishness and sulkiness; but Dromo + soon put an end to the affair, by turning round with a face of + admirably feigned astonishment to my Briton, and saying, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Good heavens! Boto, are you still there? + Do you not perceive that your master and I have something to say to + each other in private? Begone, my good man—shall I never be able to + render you susceptible of the smallest polish?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These last words + being accompanied with a gentle push on the back, soon expelled + poor Boto, who, nevertheless, did not depart without casting + towards me a look of woful appeal over his shoulder. But I + perceiving plainly, in the midst of all his frolicsome behaviour, + that Dromo had really something to say to me; and suspecting, of + course, that the interest of Sextus might be concerned in what he + had to say, suffered my slave to withdraw in good earnest. Dromo, + after the door was shut, laid his finger upon his lip, and stood + still for a moment in an attitude of close attention; but + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name= + "Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the heavy heels of + the reluctant Briton were heard with great distinctness, lumbering + along the marble floor of the gallery; so, being satisfied that + there was no eavesdropping in the case, the varlet seated himself + forthwith in a posture of great familiarity on the nether end of my + couch, and, to judge from the expression of his countenance, seemed + evidently to be preparing himself for a disclosure of some + importance. At length, after not a few winks of much intelligence, + it was thus he began:—<span class="tei tei-q">“You may hear Boto’s + story, sir, at any time you please, and I dare say it will amuse + you; but, in the meantime, I must really have you attend to me, + for, without jesting, things are by no means in so fair a train as + I had thought for my young master; and if something effectual be + not speedily discovered, I am really at a loss to think how we + shall be able to get out of our difficulties, in such a manner as + may be either satisfactory to him, or creditable to my management. + But you had better get up and dress yourself, and while you are + doing so, I will tell you every thing.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I did as he bade + me, and then the Cretan proceeded:—<span class="tei tei-q">“As I + was coming out of the Amphitheatre yesterday, I happened to find + myself rubbing shoulders with a certain old fat Calabrian, whom I + had seen before about Rubellia’s house in the Suburra, and thinking + that no harm could possibly come of being civil to him, I began + immediately to ask his opinion of the spectacles. I wish you had + been there to see how much he was delighted with the attention I + paid him, and how he plumed himself on being admitted to talk on + such subjects with such a person as me; for the man himself is but + an ignorant fellow, and seems never to <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>have kept company but with the grooms and + hinds. From less to more, we began to be the greatest friends in + the world; and by the time we got to the Arch, it was evident that + we could not possibly part, without having a cup together to cement + the acquaintance. Well, we were just about to dive into one of the + wine-cellars there, below the gate-way, when I saw your friend Boto + standing by himself in the middle of the street, apparently quite + a-gaze and bewildered, and not able to form the smallest guess + which way he ought to take in order to reach home; and being a + good-natured fellow, in spite of all that has been said, I + immediately shouted out his name till he was compelled to hear me, + and then beckoned to him to come along with us, which indeed he did + without much coaxing.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well, Dromo,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and so all your great news is, that you have been + leading my Briton into one of your debauches? In truth, I think you + need not have made such an affectation of mystery + withal.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Stop now,”</span> quoth + he, cutting me short; <span class="tei tei-q">“if the slave be too + slow, I am sure the master’s quickness will make up for it.—Hear me + out before you begin commenting; such interruptions would bring the + Stagyrite himself to a stand. We were soon, all three of us, seated + in one of those snug little places, which if you have not yet seen, + you are ignorant of the most comfortable sight within all the four + walls of Rome,—a quiet cleanly little place,—three good hassocks + upon the floor, a handful of sausages, a plate of dried fish as + broad as the shield of Ajax, and a good old fashioned round-bellied + jolly jug of Surrentine in the midst of us. I dare say, there were + a hundred besides employed in the same <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>way in the house; but we shut the door, and + were as private as behind the altar of Vesta.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“A tempting scene, Dromo; and what use did you make of + your privacy?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“All in good time, + Master Valerius; you would have the apple before the egg. We had + scarcely emptied our first jug, ere the conversation between the + Calabrian and me took a turn that was not quite unnatural; for + slaves, however little you may trust them, will always be smelling + out something of the truth; and you may be sure, all this visiting, + and feasting, and riding about in chariots, and sitting together at + the Amphitheatre, has not been going on, without causing a good + deal of talk both in this house and the rich widow’s. The courtship + was of course the subject of our conversation, and I, pretending to + know nothing of it myself, except from the common report of the + slaves about our house, affected to consider it as highly probable, + that the fat Calabrian might have had much better opportunities + than mine of being informed how the affair really + stood.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And did he really seem to have any knowledge about + it?”</span> said I.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Not much—not much; but + still the man did tell me something that I think may turn out to be + well worth the knowing. <span class="tei tei-q">‘I am sure,’</span> + said I, (by this time Boto was fast asleep,)—<span class= + "tei tei-q">‘I am sure, if Rubellia won’t have my young master, it + won’t be for want of presents; for we all know he has already given + her a whole casket of rings and bracelets that belonged to his + mother, and he is sitting for his picture, which, they say, he is + to give her besides.’</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">‘And + <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">I</span></span> am sure,’</span> quoth the + Calabrian in return, <span class="tei tei-q">‘that if your young + master don’t have my lady, it won’t be for want of <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>presents neither; for she is the most + generous open-handed lady in the world, and that her worst enemies + will allow, although her father be an old rogue, and an usurer, as + all the town says he is. No, Dromo,’</span> continued he, + <span class="tei tei-q">‘nor will it be for want of philtres, nor + of charms, nor of any thing that soothsaying can procure; for, + between ourselves, my lady keeps up a constant traffic of late with + all that sort of gentry; and what the issue of it all may be, + Hecate only knows.’</span> Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him + speak of philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken up + my ears more keenly than ever.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dromo!”</span> said I; <span class="tei tei-q">“you + are not serious. You do not mean surely to make me think that you + believe in the efficacy of love-potions, or any such + quackeries?”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Quackeries! do you + call philtres quackeries? Why, there was a girl once gave myself a + philtre that kept me raving for six months.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“What sort of a looking girl was she, good + Dromo?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Bah!”</span> quoth he; + <span class="tei tei-q">“don’t expect to jeer me out of memory as + well as judgment. Heavens and earth! when did any body ever hear of + any body denying the efficacy of philtres? What an atheistical sort + of barbarians those Britons must be. I wonder you are not afraid of + some evil coming upon you. Remember Dian’s handful; remember the + fate of Actæon!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Good + Dromo,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“I suppose you also + suffered from peeping. But talk seriously; are you yourself a + dealer in philtres, that you are so anxious I should believe in + their power? Or what is your meaning?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My meaning is this,”</span> quoth he, with great + vehemence,—<span class="tei tei-q">“it is, that if Rubellia gives + Sextus such another <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg + 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>philtre as a certain cunning damsel gave me, + before I left pleasant Crete, to be a drudge and a packhorse here + in Rome, where a man may sweat all his life in another’s service + without being once thanked for his pains, and perhaps be laid out, + look ye, for a supper to the vultures at last, because no body will + treat his carcase to a blaze of old sticks,—I say, that if the Lady + Rubellia contrives to give Sextus such another philtre as that, the + game’s up, Master Valerius; and we may as well set about painting + the dead, as try to save him from her clutches. The man’s gone—he’s + as lost as Troy.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well, + Dromo,”</span> said I, for I perceived there was no use in fighting + it with him, <span class="tei tei-q">“and have you not been able to + hit upon any feasible scheme?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, + have you come to that at last? that is just what I have been + cudgelling my brains about for the last twelve hours. But if I do + hit upon any thing, I shall need assistance. In such cases, the + best judgment can do nothing by itself.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Fear not, Dromo,”</span> quoth I; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“if my assistance can do you any good, you well know + you can command it to the utmost.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Then prepare,”</span> replied the Cretan, rising up + with an air of much solemnity—<span class="tei tei-q">“then prepare + in good earnest; for, may Cerberus growl upon me, if I don’t find + out some scheme before another day goes over, and shew you all what + stuff I am made of. To think of entrapping Sextus without + consulting Dromo!—No, by Cretan Jove, she shall not accomplish + it—no, not even with a sea of philtres.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And, in the meantime,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“what must Sextus do with himself?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“He must not go near the Suburra; he must remain + closely at home; and as for tasting any thing at her house, or any + thing that comes from her—<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg + 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>by + heavens, if he does not take his oath against that—we may as well + leave him to his destiny. If he will but take good care for this + one day, I think there is every chance something may be hit upon + ere the morning. I have got my cue, and shall not be idle, I + promise you; but I undertake nothing, unless you swear to keep + Sextus safe, and at a distance from her, till + night-fall.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Good Dromo,”</span> + said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“make yourself easy on that score; + it will be a new circumstance indeed, if we find any difficulty in + persuading Sextus to stay a single day away from the + Suburra.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Persuading!”</span> quoth the slave; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“who ever heard of such a word as persuasion at such a + crisis as this? I tell you he <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">must</span></span> be kept away; and if no + other plan can be fallen on, I have a great mind to turn the key on + him and his pedagogue both together. I heard them hammering at + their lessons already as I came along—and that puts me in mind that + I have a very shrewd notion there is more between that bearded goat + of ours and this Rubellia, than any of us had been suspecting. + Unless that Calabrian lies—and I think lying is above his + sphere—this old rogue has been oftener in the Suburra of late than + we had any thought of. So help me Hermes! I believe Licinius has + been employing him to go his private messages to Rubellia—but that + is only one insult more, and I shall have my revenge all in a + lump.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I think it very likely,”</span> answered I, quietly, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that Licinius may have been employing + Xerophrastes in some such embassies; and, if I mistake not the + matter, he would feel himself quite as much in his element, + trotting along the Sacred Way, and so forth, on such <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>delicate errands for the father, as in + expounding musty parchments to the son.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“No matter for all that,”</span> quoth Dromo, rubbing + his hands; <span class="tei tei-q">“the more enemies the more + glory. Would Miltiades have been pleased had the Spartans + arrived?—Leave all to me—take you care only of Sextus, and I am not + afraid for any reinforcement that rascally rhetorician may bring + against me.”</span>—While he was saying so, the face of the Cretan + exhibited symptoms of incipient glee; and he concluded with + snapping his fingers, and uttering a short keen whistle, such as + you have heard from the lips of a hunter, when the dogs begin to + bay around a thicket.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Seeing his eyes + dance with the expectation of some bustling scene, I could not help + participating, in some measure, in the feelings of the Cretan; and, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Dear Dromo,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I beseech you, if it be possible, let me have a share + in whatever you resolve upon.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Watch well,”</span> replied he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“during the day, and you shall see what you shall see, + when the moon mounts above the Cœlian, and the hour for grubbing + among herbs and bones is come.—But now I hear some one coming—it is + Licinius.”</span>—Dromo, finger on lip, glided from the room. Nor + had his well-practised ears deceived him, for he scarcely vanished, + before my kinsman entered.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius,”</span> said he, saluting me affectionately, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought you were probably much fatigued + with your spectacles, so I desired that nobody should call you this + morning; but I met Boto in the hall, and hearing that you were + astir, I have come up, for I wish a little private conversation. + Shall we walk in the eastern portico, till Xerophrastes leaves + Sextus at liberty?”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He led the way + along the gallery, and in passing, we also heard the deep voice of + the rhetorician resounding among the pillars, and could even catch + a few of the magniloquent phrases with which he was feeding the + ears of his pupil. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, ay,”</span> says + Licinius, <span class="tei tei-q">“I wish, indeed, it were possible + to inspire the youth with some sense of what is due to the dignity + of principle, and how absurd it is to think of gratifying whims at + the expense of duty. But I fear the boy is incorrigible; and, + Caius, I am sorry to say, I suspect you have been looking on his + errors with a countenance rather of favour and of confirmation, + than, as I should have expected, of rebuke.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Licinius,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“you + know not how much you distress me. I could rather die than + encourage Sextus in any thing I thought evil; but, indeed, I have + seen nothing to make me imagine him capable of such + conduct.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, by Hercules,”</span> returned he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there is no occasion for so many words. I thought it + very odd that you went away so soon from the Forum the other day, + considering that you had never been there before; but I thought it + doubly and trebly remarkable that Sextus should have accompanied + you, when the case in hand affected the affairs of Rubellia. But I + have since found out that it was not the society of old Capito + which attracted him—no, my friend, nor yet the alarm of a thunder + storm that detained you at the villa. In a word, Valerius, I + strongly suspect that Sextus is carrying on an intrigue with a + young lady whom I never saw, but who, I am quite sure, will never + be mistress of a dozen lizards, and that this is the true cause of + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name= + "Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his reluctance + concerning a match, which, to say nothing of the pleasure it would + give to me, is the only means by which I can see any prospect of + the young man’s fortune being made, and the dignity of his family + kept up, after another effigy shall have been added to our hall. + Infatuated and headstrong boy! if he owes nothing to himself or to + me, is it possible that he can look upon that venerable line of + sages and heroes, without feeling shame in the degradation of his + own earth-stooping desires?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Without question,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you allude to the Lady Rubellia, whom, as I have heard + from various quarters, you are desirous of seeing wedded to + Sextus.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, Caius Valerius, it is indeed to her I allude; and + it is of the obstacle which—unwittingly, I doubt not—you yourself + have been throwing in the way of that union, that I have now to + make my complaint. Not such the service that I had expected from my + kinsman. Rubellia is descended from a noble family, and, both in + possession and expectation, her wealth is great. Two heavy fines + laid upon me by Domitian, and the expense at which I have + maintained my rank among the great patrons of Rome—these things + together have impoverished me, and to an extent not altogether + convenient. In this boy my hopes were placed; and see now how they + are all likely to be blasted for a dimpled cheek and a pair of + wanton eyes!—or rather, indeed, I should say, for the sake of the + malignant pleasure that is derived from thwarting my purposes; for, + if beauty were what the boy wanted, where should he find beauty + beyond Rubellia? Perhaps, Caius, I should, before this time, have + made <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name= + "Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>you acquainted with + my intentions from my own lips. But it is my own foolish indulgence + which has made my degenerate boy quite forget, not only what is the + duty of a son, but what is the power of a father.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I trust,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there is no need for all this seriousness. Sextus has + only laid aside the garb of a stripling; it is too much to be + despairing of his success in life, only because he is unwilling, at + a period so early, to enter upon a permanent connection. Is it + possible, that, if he really dislike Rubellia, you would wish to + see him marry her—only to divorce her, without question, as soon as + he should find it possible to do so without + inconvenience?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Handsome, rich, + noble, and almost as young as himself, why, in the name of all the + gods, for what cause should he divorce + Rubellia?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“he loves not Rubellia, nor will ever love + her; and if you cause your son to marry this woman, look you well + to it, that the unhappiness of both rest not on your head. + Handsome, rich, noble, and young she may be; but I am sure, she has + neither such a heart, nor such a mind, as should belong to the wife + of your Sextus. A luxurious woman is Rubellia, and I have seen her + find luxury in the contemplation of blood. Wed not Rubellia to your + son.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Peace, Valerius,”</span> he + answered; <span class="tei tei-q">“what boyish nonsense is this?—I + <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">will</span></span> wed Rubellia to my son; and + let him see to it, that he tempts me not farther with his + disobedience.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Licinius said + these last words in a voice of so much earnestness, that I knew not + well what answer to make to him; but while I was hesitating, one of + the little boys about the house, (I mean the children of the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name= + "Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>domestic slaves,) + said, <span class="tei tei-q">“If it please my lord, the same + senator that was here in the morning is waiting in the + hall.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Pontius Mamurra!”</span> + said the orator, leaving me.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I, for my part, + when I heard the name of the visiter, began to understand somewhat + of the channel through which my kinsman had been informed about + what had passed at the Suburban. I had no leisure, however, to + reflect long upon this hint; for I found Sextus waiting for me. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Come,”</span> he said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I was afraid I must set off without you. My father has + been looking on me this morning with such an aspect of displeasure + as I rarely before witnessed in him, and if I defer going to the + painter about this likeness, he will be altogether enraged at + supper-time. I know very well he means the ring, in which it is to + be placed, for another present to Rubellia; but notwithstanding, + what can I do? Any opposition to him in lesser matters would only + tend to bring on some final explanation about the great affair + itself, and that, whether it be weakness in me or not, I as yet + have no courage to encounter. The man must be expecting me; and I + am sure you will accompany me, for I have much need of you to keep + up my heart. Xerophrastes, indeed, has been desired to go with me; + but he will be no comfort, for I see plainly, from the drift of his + harangues, that he is enlisted against me. Dear Caius, I have + nobody in the whole world I can trust to but Dromo and + yourself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He had scarcely + said so, when we heard Xerophrastes pacing up and down with solemn + strides in the gallery; so I knew not how to excuse myself, + although I was very <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg + 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>anxious to have staid at home for another + purpose. Sextus had taken my gown from the nail; he threw it over + my shoulders before I had time to say any thing, and we were soon + on our way to his ungrateful destination.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name= + "Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc29" id= + "toc29"></a> <a name="pdf30" id="pdf30"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + II.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had to + traverse a considerable part of the city; for this painter was one + of those who exercise their art during the public hours of the day + in the baths of the Palatine, where, as you have heard, in the wide + circuit of the princely residence, abundant accommodation is set + forth for all such ingenious persons. We proceeded along the edge + of the river, and by the west of the Capitol, following the line of + that great Triumphal Way which has been witness of so many glorious + pageants; for so, they told me, we should most easily ascend into + the Cæsarian courts. But when we had come thither, we found the + whole open space, in front of the portico and stairs of Trajan, + occupied by a detachment of the Prætorian cohorts, drawn up in + splendid array to receive some promised donative; while the music, + and the clamours of their mustering, had collected enough of + spectators to render the passage onwards in some measure difficult. + We were constrained to form part of their attendance, and stood + gazing among the multitude. Even Xerophrastes caught some animation + from the brilliancy of the spectacle; and the enamoured and + perplexed Sextus himself, beating time on my shoulder, seemed to + have forgotten, for a moment, the anxieties of his + situation.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg + 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some horsemen, + however, riding along to keep the ground open in front of the + soldiery, compelled us to shift to the eastward, where many + chariots were drawn up—and in one of these Rubellia. The lady + looked paler than I had before seen her, and had not the air of + being in the smallest degree occupied with what was passing. I did + not think it necessary to take any notice of her being there to my + companions, and was willing, indeed, to keep myself turned away + from the place where she sat, in order to avoid our being + recognized. Yet there was something in her aspect and attitude, + that, as by a sort of fascination, drew my eyes to the spot I + wished to avoid. From time to time, therefore, I felt myself + constrained to regard the melancholy lady; and by and by, Sextus + perceived what it was that attracted my attention:—so I discovered, + although he said not a word, from a fervent pressure upon my arm as + I stood before him. At that moment there drew near a little ugly + old woman, with no covering upon her head but long coarse gray + clusters of hair hanging matted and twisted down upon her + shoulders, who lifted up a basket of trinkets, and presented it; + but Rubellia started on her seat, and, looking in the face of the + old creature, manifested signs of no trivial emotion; for her + colour returned with a sudden flush, and her eyes recovered all + their animation, and it was evident she had something to say which + could not regard the gaudy ornaments offered to her view. Whatever + it was, however, she did not occupy much time in saying it; for + scarcely a minute elapsed before the basket was lowered again, and + the old woman began to move towards another part of the crowd; on + which Rubellia sunk <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg + 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>back in her chariot, and appeared to relapse + into pensive abstraction.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Presently a low + voice croaking out, <span class="tei tei-q">“Rings, rings—amulets + and rings!”</span> amongst the crowd that stood immediately behind + me; and I perceived the same woman pushing her basket between + Xerophrastes and Sextus.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Noble + youth,”</span> quoth the hag, leering, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“lovely young gentleman—sweet Adonis, my charming lord, + do now look into old Pona’s basket—do take a look at Ponula’s rings + and amulets—her amulets and rings. Here is one that I could have + sold a hundred times, but I was determined to keep it till I should + see the prettiest young gentleman in Rome, and I will never go back + to Naples without selling it, after this day; for this little + amulet must be nobody’s but yours. You will break my heart, my + prince, if you buy not my beautiful amulet.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And what,”</span> said Sextus, blushing and laughing, + <span class="tei tei-q">“may be the virtues of your + amulet?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then laying her + yellow hand upon his shoulder, till she had made him stoop down so + that she might get close to his ear, she began to pour out, with + much mysterious volubility, all the story of its marvellous + potencies; but what she said even I could not know, only I heard + the words, <span class="tei tei-q">“Æthiopian, Æthiopian,”</span> + and <span class="tei tei-q">“Memnon, Memnon,”</span> and something + about <span class="tei tei-q">“not a pretty lady in Rome.”</span> + But just as the woman was most earnest in her whisper, and Sextus, + apparently at least, in listening, I found my gown plucked from + behind, and behold, there was Dromo, with a countenance tremulously + agitated, and white as a piece of dead parchment, pointing to his + young master and the old hag, and beseeching me to <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>separate them, by motions in nowise to + be mistaken. How he had come thither, or what was the cause of this + anxiety, I had no time to conjecture, for before I could say a + word, he began to bellow out,—<span class="tei tei-q">“The horses, + the horses—make room for the horses;”</span> and immediately those + that stood near him began to move a little, and then, the cry being + repeated, those that stood farther off mistaking the noise of their + feet for the approach of some new squadron, there arose a sort of + rushing among the crowd; and, in a twinkling, the voice of Pona was + heard grumbling and croaking at a distance from the place to which + our party were borne. Close, nevertheless, did the faithful Cretan + stick to us; and no sooner was quiet in some measure restored, and + the false alarm he had created at an end, than he whispered into my + ear, <span class="tei tei-q">“For the sake of all that is sacred, + let not that foul hag speak another word to my young master—I will + tell you more anon. Meantime, haste ye, haste ye. Make the best of + your speed to the Palatine; it will be much easier for you to push + your way thither, than it was for me to reach you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My friend being + already weary of the heat and the pressure, we were ready to take + advantage of an opening pointed out by the Cretan. It so happened, + however, that in the same commotion the chariot of Rubellia also + had changed its situation; for just as we had escaped, as I + thought, and were about to place our feet on the magnificent flight + of stairs that leads from the New Way to the Augustan Towers, there + came to us a lad of that lady’s household, who told us she was near + at hand, and desirous, if it so pleased us, of our company. Aware + that we were in sight, how could we disobey? We <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>found the lady in her chariot, but not + such as we had seen her before. On the contrary, the liveliness of + her aspect seemed now to be restored, and she received us with her + usual gaiety of address. <span class="tei tei-q">“Careless + men,”</span> said she, as we drew near; <span class="tei tei-q">“I + suppose I might have sat here till the Greek Kalends, before any + one of you would have observed me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most noble lady,”</span> quoth Xerophrastes, + <span class="tei tei-q">“bear it not indignantly, that amidst all + the confusion of men and horses, and trumpets and shoutings, our + attention was abstracted from that which was most worthy of notice. + My young friends deserve to be excused, since even I, who am not in + the habit of being much troubled by such vanities, was so + bewildered that I scarcely knew my right hand from my left, in this + human chaos.—Pardon, noble Rubellia; we have been unwitting + offenders.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And was it so?”</span> said the lady, not looking at + the Stoic.—<span class="tei tei-q">“But I did not call for you to + hear useless apologies. What new sight is it that attracts you to + the Palatine?—or is it only that you are desirous of exhibiting to + Valerius the old-established wonders of the place? In either case, + I have half a mind to accompany you. In spite of all they tell us + about the Golden House, I can scarcely think the Palatine shewed + more splendidly than it does now, even in the days of + Nero.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Indeed,”</span> said I, as we began to mount together + the broad slabbed steps which rise up, tier above tier, from the + portico on the street, to that which hangs on the brow—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Indeed, it is not easy for me to doubt that Rubellia + is in the right.”</span>—For now, on one side, were <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>all the pillars and arches of the Forum + stretched out below us, and, on the other, lay the great Circus, + topped with its obelisk; while before rose the gray cliffs of the + Capitoline, with their domes and proud pinnacles in the glow of + noontide—the space between, radiant with arms and banners. Even + Xerophrastes did not refrain from some ejaculations.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Illustrious Rome! how great is thy sublimity!”</span> + And then, after a pause, he repeated, in a voice of much majesty, + those verses from the Fury of Ajax:</p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Oh! might I + be where o’er the living deep</span> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Lies the broad shadow of the Sounian cliff, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Waving with all its glorious garniture, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Of rock-sprung foliage: from old Ocean’s side, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">That I might + look on Athens once again!”</span> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some of the + hints which had reached me concerning his nativity recurring to my + recollection, I could not help echoing his quotation with another + from the Æneid, about the wide tracts ploughed by the Thracians; of + which impertinence the sage took no notice.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor was + admiration diminished when, having gained the top of that massive + staircase, or rather, as I should say, hill of marble, we passed + beneath the sounding portal, the sole remnant of the original pile + of Augustus, and found ourselves within the first of those great + imperial quadrangles, by which the whole summit of that once so + variously and multitudinously peopled region is now occupied. The + light and airy porticoes—the domes—the princely towers—the + universal profusion of marble, brass, ivory, flaming gold, lavished + on arch, metope, and architrave—all conspired to dazzle the sight, + and I stood still to gaze.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Observe,”</span> said Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“those two equestrian statues of bronze on the left + hand. I have heard my father say that they mark the sites of two + houses, which, before Augustus began to enclose the whole Palatine + in his walls, were inhabited, the one by Cicero, the other by + Clodius; these are the only traces of their mansions.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“What grim-looking figures!”</span> said the lady; + <span class="tei tei-q">“yet, I dare say, they don’t cast half such + fierce looks on each other, as the predecessors you mention. I + should like to have seen the countenance of old Tully, the morning + he went down the hill to deliver his harangue for Milo.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I am glad,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that Sextus has told me this; for in reading those + famous philippics in time to come, I shall possess a new key to the + bitterness of their phraseology, knowing, as I do, that the two + lived just over the way from each other, and that the orator, when + his spirits were flagging, could derive a new reinforcement of + spleen from merely putting his head out of the + window.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“To hear you,”</span> says + Rubellia, <span class="tei tei-q">“one would think you were + studying the art of making philippics—I am afraid, that if it be + so, my joining your party may prove to have been but an ill-judged + thing; for if any of you be preparing to abuse me, my presence will + serve to sharpen your weapons.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“In + that case, however,”</span> interrupted the smiling Xerophrastes, + <span class="tei tei-q">“my noble lady will admit, that the + converse also will hold good, and that if praise be in meditation, + it will not be the feebler because the subject of the intended + panegyric has passed before our eyes.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most courteous of men,”</span> replied the lady, + <span class="tei tei-q">“who talks of the stiffness of the Porch? + To-day and yesterday you have paid me as many compliments as might + give a lesson to the gayest <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>trifler about these baths. If all,”</span> she + continued, (gazing as she spoke, with all her eyes upon + Sextus,)—<span class="tei tei-q">“if all were as profuse, I should + be unable to sustain the weight of their + civilities.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, Oh! generous + lady,”</span> quoth the sage again, <span class="tei tei-q">“it + must be remembered, that, as the poet has expressed it, there are + two kinds of shame—there is the wicked shame and the good shame. + Why should it be doubted, that a modest Verecundity, not unsuitable + to their age, has laid her finger on the lips of our young friends? + I swear by the Victrix of Ida, that your presence itself is that + which occasions their silence;—bear it not ill—bear it not + harshly—the young will learn—not every one has seen + Corinth.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“No, truly,”</span> + answered the laughing lady; <span class="tei tei-q">“but I doubt + whether they that have been so fortunate, have ever seen any thing + half so fine as what now awaits Valerius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She pointed to + the solemn Doric columns which sustain the portico of the famous + Temple of Apollo, whose shade lay far out upon the court before us; + and, passing between those brazen horsemen, we soon began to ascend + the steps that lead up to the shrine. Nor can I tell you how + delightful was the fragrant coolness, which reigned beneath the + influence of that massive canopy of marble, to us whose eyes had + been so long supporting the meridian blaze. We entered with slow + steps within the vestibule of the Temple, and stood there for some + space, enjoying in silence the soft breath of air that played + around the flowing fountains. Then passing on, the airy hall + received us; and I saw the statue of Phœbus presiding, like a + pillar of tender light, over the surrounding darkness of the + vaulted place; for, to the lofty shrine of the God of day no + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name= + "Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>light of day had + access, and there lay only a small creeping flame burning thin upon + his altar; but a dim and sweet radiance, like that of the stars in + autumn, was diffused all upon the statue, and the altar, and the + warlike trophies suspended in the inner recesses, from the sacred + tree of silver that stands in the centre; amidst the trembling + enamelled leaves and drooping boughs of which hung many lamps, + after the shape and fashion of pomegranates: and out of every + pomegranate flowed a separate gleam of that soft light, supplied + mysteriously through the stem of the silver tree.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There appeared + presently from behind the statue, a majestic woman, arrayed in long + white garments, and having a fillet of laurel leaves twined above + her veil. Venerable and stately was her mien, but haughty, rather + than serene, the aspect of her countenance. Without looking towards + us, she went up to the altar, and began to busy herself in trimming + the sacred fire, which, as I have said, exhibited only a lambent + flame. When, with many kneelings and other ceremonies, she had + accomplished this service, the priestess turned again, as if to + depart; and then first, as it seemed, observing the presence of + strangers, she stood still before the altar, and regarding us + attentively, began to recognize the Lady Rubellia; whom, forthwith + advancing, she saluted courteously, and invited to come with the + rest of us into her privacy, behind the shrine of the God.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She led the way, + Rubellia and the rest of us in her train, through several + folding-doors, and along many narrow passages all inlaid, on roof, + wall, and floor, with snow-white alabaster and rich mosaic work; + until at length we came to a little airy chamber, where three + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name= + "Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>young maidens were + sitting with their embroidering cushions, while one, taller than + the rest, whose back was placed towards us, knelt on the floor, + touching, with slow fingers, the strings of a Dorian lyre. Hearing + the sound of her music as we entered, we stood still in the + door-way, and the priestess, willing apparently that our approach + should remain unknown, advancing a step or two before us, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Sing on—I have trimmed the flame; but + remember, I pray you, that the precincts of Phœbus are not those of + Pluto, and let not your chant be of such funereal solemnity. We + solitaries have little need of depressing numbers.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dear friend,”</span> replied she that had been thus + addressed, without changing her attitude, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you must bear with my numbers such as they are; for if + you bid me sing only merry strains, I am afraid neither voice nor + fingers may be able well to obey you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These words were + spoken in a low and melancholy voice, which I well recognized. + Sextus, also, perceived who spoke; but when he looked at me to + signify this, I motioned to keep silence.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Then please yourself,”</span> said the priestess, + laying her hand on Athanasia’s shoulders; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but do sing, for I should fain have my maidens to hear + something truly of your music.”</span> With that she again applied + her fingers to the lyre, and stooping over it, began to play some + notes of prelude, less sorrowful than what we had at first heard. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, my dear girl,”</span> says the + priestess, <span class="tei tei-q">“you could not have chosen + better. Heavens! how many lordly choirs have I heard singing to + that old Delian air. There are a hundred hymns that may be sung to + it—give us whichsoever of them pleases your <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fancy the best.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I will try,”</span> replied the maiden, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“to sing the words you have heard before. If I + remember, you liked them.”</span> Then boldly at once, yet gently, + did her voice rush into the current of that ancient strain that you + have heard so often; but it was then that I myself for the first + time heard it.</p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The moon, the moon is thine, O night, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Not altogether dark art thou; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Her trembling crescent sheds its light, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Trembling and pale, upon thine ancient brow. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The moon is thine, and round her orb + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + A thousand sweet stars minister, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Whose twinkling rays dark wells absorb, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And all the wide seas drink them far and near. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Of gladness o’er the waters creep; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And there is glory on the slumbering deep + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Afar. Along the black hill’s side, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Right blithe of heart the wanderers go, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + While that soft radiance, far and wide, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Gleams on the winding streams and woods below. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And gaily for the fragile bark, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Through the green waves its path is shorn, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + When all the murmurs of the dark + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Cold sea lie calm’d beneath that gliding horn. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Yet hail, ye glittering streaks, that lie + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The eastern mountain tops upon! + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail, ye deep blushes of the sky, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + That speak the coming of the bridegroom sun! + </div> + </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name= + "Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail to the healing beam of day, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + That rouses every living thing! + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The forest gulphs confess thy sway, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And upon freshening branches glad birds sing. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And loathsome forms, that crept unseen + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Beneath the star-light faint and wan, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Cower in their brakes the thorns between, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Dreading that fervid eye, and its sure scan + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Triumphant. Welcome life and light! + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Sing rocks and mountains, plain and sea; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Fearful though lovely was the night; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail to more perfect beauty—hail to <span class="tei tei-hi" + style="text-align: left"><span style= + "font-size: 75%">THEE</span></span>! + </div> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Why stop you, Athanasia?”</span> said the priestess, + finding that here she paused,—<span class="tei tei-q">“why do you + rise up, and take your fingers from the lyre, before you sing out + the chorus?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“No more, dear + aunt—excuse me—no more. I have already sung all that I can,”</span> + replied Athanasia.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, then,”</span> says + she, <span class="tei tei-q">“if you be fatigued, sing not; but + join me, maidens, in the close—perhaps it rises too high for + Athanasia.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And with that + the ancient lady herself, joined by the three damsels that had been + embroidering, took up the strain, which, indeed, rose higher + towards its end</p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail to thee Phœbus, son of Jove, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Glorious Apollo, Lord of Light, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail, lovely in thy Delian grove, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And terrible on Delphos’ haunted height! + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail to thee here beneath the dome, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Great Phœbus, of thy Latian shrine; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + All hail from Cæsar and from Rome; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hail by thy dearest name, God Palatine! + </div> + </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name= + "Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as they were + singing the last verse of all, Rubellia also aided their melody + with a rich strong gushing voice, which rose far above all the + others; and the silent Athanasia turning round quickly, perceived, + not without manifestation of alarm, by how many strangers her song + had been overheard. On seeing who we were, she saluted Sextus and + myself with modest courtesy, amidst her confusion; and it may be + that my companion, as well as myself, blushed at the same moment; + for he could not see Athanasia without thinking of Sempronia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seemed as if + her confusion were not unconnected with some suspicion of having + been recognized near the Prætorian guard-house; for, after the + first glance, I in vain endeavoured to meet her eye; while on the + contrary, to Sextus she directed both looks and words, enough to + provoke visibly some not altogether benign movements in our + Rubellia. Such, at least, was my interpretation of the fair widow’s + aspect, and the tone of impatience in which she, after a minute or + two had passed, began to urge the propriety of our proceeding to + the part of the imperial edifice in which the painter was expecting + us.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The priestess of + Apollo hearing her say so, courteously offered to guide us beyond + the precincts of the temple, and our whole party were again in + motion; but Athanasia remained behind with the three young damsels, + and I, who walked last, saw her, ere the portal received me, + preparing again to handle the lyre, with fingers visibly trembling, + and a pale countenance, not as I thought unstained with some yet + more distinct traces of keen emotion. The sight of her agitation + fixed my footstep for a moment, and it was then that, <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on her casting a sudden glance round to + the place where I stood, I perceived truly that I had not been + mistaken, and that the tears were gathered within her eyelids. It + was no more, however, than one glance, for immediately she stooped + again, and, dashing her fingers along the chords of the instrument, + appeared to bury her thoughts in its harmony. I stood for a moment, + and then ashamed of myself, and troubled with her troubles and with + my own, I followed the rest into the great library which Augustus + placed beneath the protection of the Palatine Apollo. The priestess + parted from us at its entrance, after pointing out a low and + massive door of bronze on the right hand, within which, as she told + me, the remains of the Sybilline prophecies are preserved, unseen + by profane eyes, watched over perpetually by the guardians of the + place.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name= + "Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc31" id= + "toc31"></a> <a name="pdf32" id="pdf32"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + III.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had walked by + the side of my young friend, and behind the Stoic, (who, I think, + was expressing, in his pompous fashion, much admiration of the + singing of Rubellia,) along one or two of the great halls in which + the library is contained, before the novelty of the objects + surrounding me made any impression even on my eyes; and even after + these were in some measure engaged, my mind still continued to + dwell on that troubled aspect, and on the notes of the uncompleted + song. At length, however, the levity of youth, and natural + curiosity revived; and I began to be present, not in body merely, + in a place where there was much that might well interest the mind. + Far-receding rows of columns conducted my eyes into the + interminable recesses of that wide range of chambers, in which the + records of the thought and spirit of all past ages are piled up + together; and gazing on the loaded shelves which every where + ascended into the galleries, I could not but be affected with many + new emotions. I perused glorious names on the busts that seemed to + preside over the different compartments. The high filletted front + of Homer detained for the first time my contemplation; the eyes of + the divine old man, even in sculpture, distinctly <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and visibly blind, while the serenity + and sanctity of the towering forehead, revealed how the intense + perception at once of the lovely and the great could compensate for + visions of earthly beauty shut out. The mild Plato, and the + imperious Stagyrite—Pindar—Simonides—Alcæus—and I know not how many + more, succeeded as we passed along—each in his own sphere, reigning + by himself; yet all connected together by a certain common air of + greatness, like so many successive princes, or contemporary heroes + of the same mighty empire.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From this main + range, there diverged many lesser chambers, in which we saw + studious persons engaged, each seated by himself, and having his + eyes fixed on the parchment before him. Of these, some deigned not + to intimate by the smallest movement their perception that any one + had approached; but with others Xerophrastes exchanged, as he + walked, lofty salutation, and one or two even entered, for a + moment, into conversation with him. With one of these, indeed, (an + ancient of bitter aspect,) to such a length did the colloquy + extend, that we began to think we should never be able to get our + Stoic away from him; till, as our fortune would have it, it became + necessary for them to have a certain book for the purpose of + reference, and then Xerophrastes began to make inquiries concerning + Parmeno, who, as I gathered, must needs be one of those intrusted + with the care of the library.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I am afraid,”</span> said the other, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“if we must wait for him, we shall not be able to get + that work either to-day or to-morrow; for his pupil, the son of + Fabricius, is dead, and I suppose he will now change his quarters, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name= + "Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and be no longer seen + so often about these haunts of the muses.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> interrupted Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I met Fabricius in the Forum a few days ago, and he + told me his son was ill; but little did I imagine my dear companion + was so near his end! Is it indeed so?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> rejoined the other. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Rapid have been the shears of Atropos! It is but a few + moments since Agaso, the painter passed; and, he told me he had + been receiving orders to take a likeness, as well as he could, from + the corpse.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“If Agaso be so engaged,”</span> replied Xerophrastes, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I am afraid we need not expect to find him + neither in his usual place. Perhaps we had better make inquiry for + him at the dwelling of Fabricius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To this Sextus + assented; or rather, being lost in reflection concerning the death + of his friend, he suffered himself to be conducted by the Stoic. + Passing, therefore, through one or two more apartments, we issued + forth, and drew near to the vestibule of Fabricius’ house, who, as + they told me, was a noble Roman, having the chief superintendance + of the whole library, and an intimate friend of Licinius—one whose + domestic calamity could not fail to spread much affliction through + a wide circle of patrician kindred.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the + vestibule, we found assembled not a few of the young man’s + relations; but Xerophrastes immediately said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Behold Parmeno, he is the most afflicted; and what + wonder that it should be so?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the bier is set forth; the last rites are to be + performed this evening.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This Parmeno was + a striking figure. Seated close <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>by the bier, his head was involved in his + cloak, so that only his eyes and his nose could be seen, but these + of themselves expressed a decorous affliction; and the folds of the + cloak fell down over the rest of his person in great order and + dignity. On the pavement beside him was seen lying, half-unfolded, + a book inscribed with the name of Heraclitus, which he appeared to + have been reading. When Xerophrastes approached, this mourner + stretched forth his hand, and shook his head, but he did not say + any thing, nor even look towards the rest of us; and indeed to have + done so, would have disturbed the attitude in which he had placed + himself. Xerophrastes, on his part, received the proffered hand, + and shaking his head in response, said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, my Ionian friend, I may still bid thee hail and + live; but I must say farewell to the plant thou wast rearing. + Farewell to the youthful promise of Fabricius!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On hearing these + words, the sitting philosopher drew his mantle quite over his face, + and leant himself heavily against one of the fluted columns of the + vestibule, for he seemed to be much shaken. In the meantime Sextus + approached the bier, and contemplated his companion as he lay there + wreathed with melancholy garlands; his countenance bearing a + natural mixture of sadness and astonishment. Nor could I, who had + never before seen the young man, behold the spectacle without + similar emotions; for his age, as it seemed, could not have been + much different from my own, and the pale features were interesting, + their expression not less amiable than solemn.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said Sextus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the last time I saw him, how <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>differently did he appear! We rode out + together with some others to Tibur, and spent all the day there; + and as we returned by the moonlight, how joyous his conversation! + Methinks I yet hear him laughing and speaking. We parted at the + foot of the Capitoline, and never did I see him again till + now.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Oh, fate of man!”</span> quoth Xerophrastes; + <span class="tei tei-q">“how uncertain is life, how certain death! + Without doubt, young Fabricius had as little thought of dying as + any of your company; and yet, see now, he is arrayed for the last + time, and this juvenile gown, which he should so soon have laid + aside for the manly, is destined to be consumed with + him.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“A fine lad he was,”</span> cries one of the standers + by,—<span class="tei tei-q">“a fine lad, and an excellent horseman. + The Martian Field did not often behold such a rider in these + degenerate days of the Roman youth.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But while the + rest were still contemplating the bier, Xerophrastes, turning to + his brother philosopher, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Tell me + now, my learned friend, do you still, after this mournful event, + continue to reside with the elder Fabricius? Has that excellent man + any more sons to be educated, or will he retain you only for the + sake of the library, with which assuredly he will find few so + conversant as yourself?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To which Parmeno + replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“Your question, O Xerophrastes, + shews that clear judgment concerning the affairs of men, for which + you have always been celebrated. No, my friend, the gray-haired + Fabricius no longer requires my residence here; for he is about to + retire into one of his villas on the Campanian shore, and to bury + for ever his affliction in the privacy of <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>his woods. We are about to part, not without + mutual tears; and several Patricians have already been applying to + him for his influence with me, whom, although unworthy of so much + research, they earnestly covet, and wish to engage as the + instructor of their young men. I have been sitting here not unseen, + beside this my former charge, and each is impatient to solicit me + into his service.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Your reputation I well know is high,”</span> replied + Xerophrastes, <span class="tei tei-q">“and deservedly so; more + particularly, for that fine talent you have for giving metaphysical + interpretations of mythology, and for explaining the obscure + allegories of ancient poets. But for my own part, Parmeno, I find + not so much delight in abstract ideas, or in the passive + contemplation of the universe; but incline rather to study, as + heretofore, that part of philosophy which relates to action, and + the morality of duty.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, worthy Xerophrastes,”</span> returned he, with a + most languid serenity; <span class="tei tei-q">“and so far as I + understand, you sort well in this with the stirring disposition of + your friend Licinius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To which + Xerophrastes made answer:—<span class="tei tei-q">“My patron + Licinius is fond of action, and I of the rules of action. He says, + it is only in war, or in civil functions of a public nature, that a + person can prove himself a man. The rest, he says, is visionary, + and comes to nothing, or is a slumber of the mind in sensuality, + without thought.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Does he think, then,”</span> quoth Parmeno, his + wobegone countenance relaxing into a smile,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Does Licinius think, then, there is no sensuality in + perpetual action, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg + 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>and declamation and noise? To me such things + appear almost as trivial as the lazy enjoyments of Epicureans, + besides being harsh and disagreeable, and not unfrequently + ridiculous. But observe, O Xerophrastes! that I speak these things + as it were abstractly, and not by any means in disparagement of + Licinius, your excellent patron and friend.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To which the + stoic replied in astonishment—<span class="tei tei-q">“What is this + you have said? Do you assert that action is sensual?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then Parmeno, + lifting from the pavement the book which he had been reading, or + appearing to read, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“It is even so, + most erudite Xerophrastes. Indeed, I have always delighted in the + most primitive and remote doctrines handed down from antiquity; and + among others, in the riddles of this obscure Ephesian. Following + the scope of his philosophy, I am led to believe, that, so often as + the mind impels, or is impelled by other causes, it begins to lose + sight of pure knowledge, and becomes in danger of thinking that + every thing is vain, light, and evanescent, except what is + perceived by the senses. Heraclitus well says, that Love and Hatred + govern all things. Now, when the principle of Discord prevails, it + subjects all things to the dominion of action, and to the gross + perceptions of sense. But when that of Love is prevalent, it + emancipates the struggling chaos of things from the yearning of + compulsion, and from the darkness of sensual proximity; for, + between things that struggle immediately against each other, light + has no room to enter in and shine; and therefore it is, that, when + Love gains the ascendency, a new arrangement is produced—an + arrangement which, if I <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg + 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>may so express it, is more serene, + transparent, orderly and divine, and wherein things exist in safety + from the danger of mutual destruction.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a + preliminary cough:—<span class="tei tei-q">“My opinion,”</span> + replied Xerophrastes, <span class="tei tei-q">“coincides rather + with that of Empedocles. The immortal Sicilian thinks that Discord + is the only separating and arranging principle which marks the + boundaries between things, and enables them mutually to act and + repel, in such a way as to preserve order.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Nay, nay,”</span> interrupted Parmeno, his hands being + by this quite disentangled from his cloak, and his countenance + lighted up,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, nay, to such doctrine I + never shall assent. From Empedocles—even from Xerophrastes, I must + differ for ever on this head. The order of which you and the + Sicilian speak, is the order of darkness only, and of blind + force,—a kind of order in which fierceness and cruelty always + reign.”</span> But Xerophrastes continued:—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“And I farther concur with Empedocles in thinking, that + Love is a principle of which the predominance is more fit to turn + order into a chaos, than to produce the effects you have + described.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, speak not against + Love,”</span> quoth Parmeno—<span class="tei tei-q">“Speak not + against Love, nor believe that any respect is due to the dictates + of Empedocles, who taught the worst that can be taught by any + man—that is to say, the alternation of order and confusion + succeeding each other throughout all time. To seek for truth in + conceptions like these, is no better than to seek repose in the + bosom of Ætna.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“In reference to + that point,”</span> resumed Xerophrastes, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I agree with you in your disapprobation of Empedocles. + But when you say, that Love is the source of knowledge, you + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name= + "Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>much astonish me; for + I have always thought rather that its tendency is to bring + confusion upon the mind.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Once more,”</span> said Parmeno—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“once more, let me beseech you to say nothing against + love. You are thinking of the love of particular objects. You speak + of Cupid, and not of that heavenly Eros, who, so far from + enchaining, or tyrannizing over the mind, rather enables it to + escape into the tranquil freedom of far extended contemplation. But + what is contemplation without the knowledge of permanent forms, on + which the mind may find repose, and so keep itself from being + perplexed by the shifting aspects of the many-coloured universe? + And therefore it is, O Xerophrastes, that, sometimes laying aside + Heraclitus, I study the ancient verses of the poet, Xenophanes, who + shews, by the nature of abstract forms, that a certain unity + pervades all things. Xenophanes mused of old at Colophon, looking + through the blue ether of my native Ionia.—But why should I speak + thus at length? Alas! what is the occasion of our being here!—I + perceive the approach of the poet, who was to compose an + inscription for the urn of my dear Fabricius. Yonder also is the + architect, who comes with a design for the tomb. Oh! day of wo, + that I should sit in judgment concerning the epitaph and tomb of my + ingenuous youth!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is, indeed, true,”</span> replied Xerophrastes, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that even I, in the repercussions of our + talk, had well-nigh forgotten this unhappy occurrence; but, + perhaps, there is something not after all entirely excusable in our + giving so much superiority to the affairs of philosophical + discussion. Now, however, it is evident, that we must suspend our + colloquy—And who, I beseech you, above <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>all things, is he that now draws near to the + place of this mournful assembly, holding a horse in his hand. + Methinks I have seen his face before.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“That you have indeed, Master,”</span> quoth he that + had come up,—<span class="tei tei-q">“that you have; and no longer + ago than yesterday neither, if you will be pleased to give yourself + the trouble of recollecting. My name is Aspar—I am well known. If + but my excellent friend, the noble Centurion Sabinus, were here, + poor old Aspar would have no reason to complain of the want of a + good word.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Good morrow to you, Aspar,”</span> said Sextus; + <span class="tei tei-q">“but what is it that brings you hither just + at this moment? And for what purpose have you brought your horse + with you? for people of your sort do not in general ride in the + courts of the Palatine.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> quoth Aspar, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and is it you, who seem to have been one of the + contemporaries of that peerless youth—is it you that ask such a + question as this? I did not, in truth, imagine that there was any + friend of young Fabricius, who did not know his affection for + little Sora. There is not such another within twenty miles of the + Capitol; but I brought her hither merely out of regard for the + family. As for myself, I should never bear to look on her again + with pleasure, after knowing the sudden manner of his death. I wish + to Heaven the filly were fairly lodged in one of the paddocks of + the Lord Fabricius himself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Lead the animal round into the stables,”</span> says + Parmeno, <span class="tei tei-q">“and I doubt not care will be + taken of her.—Yonder comes one of the buffoons of the theatre;—he, + I doubt not, is here to disgrace, if he be permitted, this solemn + scene, with ranting quotations from the tragic <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>poets. Alas! alas! I cannot bear all + this: There also advance the officiators from the Temple of + Libitina; they have their cypress boughs ready in their hands. Oh, + my learned friend, I cannot sustain these things; let me be gone + into the mansion.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The admirer of + Heraclitus, picking up his scroll, and gathering together the folds + of his mantle, moved slowly into the house, Xerophrastes following + with similar gestures. Sextus and I also were about to take our + departure; and he, having procured from one of the slaves of the + house a myrtle garland, had already placed it upon the bier of the + young Fabricius, as the last testimonial of his concern; when there + drew near two young men, clad in long mantles of black, who, + solemnly embracing my friend, began to exchange with him many + expressions of grief.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While they were + thus engaged, Rubellia, who had been standing all this while a + little apart, sent a boy to inform us that the painter we were in + search of had at last made his appearance, and was anxious to + proceed with his portrait. I drew Sextus away, therefore, and soon + joined the lady and the artist; but as we were moving off thus, one + of the bystanding slaves, an old gray-headed man, came up and + whispered to Sextus, <span class="tei tei-q">“Sir, be not deceived; + these two nephews of my bereaved master are to me the most + disagreeable part of all this preparation. You have heard their + lamentation, and seen their sweeping raiment of mourning; but, be + sure, a principal subject of their reflection is the probability + that one or other of them must be adopted by Fabricius. Alas! alas! + so goes all between Lucina and Libitina. There was never a birth + nor a <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name= + "Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>marriage that did not + create some sorrow, nor a funeral procession that did not give rise + to some joy. Your rhetoricians talk, but what avails it all? Slaves + and masters are alike subjected to the evils of the world, and of + these death is both the last and the least.”</span></p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name= + "Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc33" id= + "toc33"></a> <a name="pdf34" id="pdf34"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IV.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agaso, the + painter, was a smart dapper little bandy-legged man of Verona, + dressed in a Grecian mantle, and endeavouring to look as much as + possible like a Greek. Had Xerophrastes not gone off with his + brother of Ionia, I have no doubt this man would have made his + presence a sufficient excuse for speaking nothing but Greek to us; + but, even as it was, his conversation was interlarded with an + abundant intermixture of that noble tongue. Nothing could be spoken + of which Agaso did not think fit to illustrate, either by the + narration of something he himself had seen or heard during his + residence at Athens, or, at least, by some quotation from the + Grecian poets. To judge from the square, and somewhat ponderous + formation of the man’s features, Nature had not designed him for + any of the most mercurial specimens of her workmanship; but he + contrived, notwithstanding, by perpetual shrugging and grimacing, + and, above all, by keeping his eyes and eyebrows continually in + motion, to give himself an air of no inconsiderable life and + vivacity.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hopping before + us with much alacrity, this artist conducted our steps through + eight or ten galleries, until at length a curtain being withdrawn, + which had covered <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg + 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>the space between two pilasters, we found + ourselves in a spacious apartment, which, from the courteousness + wherewith he bowed us into it, there could be no difficulty in + perceiving to be the customary sphere of his own exertions. It was + not altogether deserted even when we entered, but the removal of + the curtain attracted more of the loungers of the baths, and ere + Sextus was fairly fixed before the table of the painter, the modest + youth had the mortification to find himself surrounded with a very + crowd of knowing and curious physiognomies. The presence of these, + however, appeared not unwelcome to the master. On the contrary, + there arose between the little man, as he was preparing his + brushes, and those who had come to survey him at his work, such a + gabble of compliments, remarks, and disquisitions, that it seemed + to me as if he would have been disappointed had he not been + favoured with their attendance.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“How noble,”</span> cries one, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“is that portrait you have just been finishing of + Rupilius!—Heavens! with what felicity you have caught the air! + Methinks I see him about to enter the Basilica, when he knows that + some great cause is awaiting his decision. What solemnity in his + aspect! what grandeur in the gown!—How finely the purple of the + laticlave is made to harmonize with the colouring of the cheeks and + chin! What beautiful handling about the fingers with which he + grasps his tablets!—As for the head of the stylus, it is the very + eye of the picture.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Exquisite + indeed,”</span> quoth another; <span class="tei tei-q">“but who can + look at it, or at any thing else, in the same room with this little + jewel?—Heavens! what a beauty! who can it be? for I never + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name= + "Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>saw her either at the + Circus or the Amphitheatre. What an inimitable modesty!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The painter + heard this last piece of eulogy with an air of some embarrassment, + and at the same time looked very cunningly towards the person who + had uttered it. But the Lady Rubellia tossed her head, and + whispered to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“Pretty she may be, though + I cannot say that style of dressing the hair is at all adapted for + such features; but for modesty! hem. I asked Agaso two or three + days ago who it was, and he told me—guess!—it is a little Spanish + girl, whom that august-looking person, with the grand laticlave, + and the purple cheeks and chin, and the glittering stylus, thought + fit to bring home with him when he was relieved from the hard + duties of the Pro-prætorship. I dare say, he takes care she shall + not be seen either at Circus or Amphitheatre; and, indeed, I think + it is sufficient impudence to shew her likeness in the company of + so many portraits of respectability.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My dear lady,”</span> quoth the painter, who overheard + somewhat, <span class="tei tei-q">“for the sake of all that is + sacred, no word of this again! Wait, at least, till the canvass for + the Augurship be over. There are always so many to exaggerate and + misrepresent.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Exaggerate, indeed! + I think Rupilius ought to be ashamed of himself; and at his time of + life too. I think you said he was just the same age with my + uncle?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> says the + painter, <span class="tei tei-q">“he must be of that standing; and + I think he went to Spain just about the period of your + marriage.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Filthy old + fellow,”</span> quoth she, very quickly; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and this is the treasure he has brought home with him! + I have a great mind to tell his wife.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Hush, hush,”</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>said Agaso, <span class="tei tei-q">“this is + the very day Rupilius spoke of bringing her to see his own + portrait; and, indeed, I am sure that is the Senator’s cough. I + rely on your prudence.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And the portly + original of the laticlaved portrait walked into the room, having + his gown and every part of his dress arranged as represented in the + picture; although in the living countenance it was easy to discover + a few lines and spots which had been omitted in the copy. By his + side moved a short woman, arrayed in the extremity of costly + attire, whose swarthy complexion did not, in spite of cosmeticism, + harmonize very well with the bright golden ringlets of her + Sicambrian peruque; while behind the pair came a thin damsel, whose + lineaments exhibited a sort of faint shadow of the same visage, the + rudiments of which had been so abundantly filled up in that of the + rubicund magistrate. The ex-pro-prætor, after saluting Agaso, stood + still with dignity in the midst of the apartment, while the fond + daughter, rushing close up to his picture, could with difficulty + affix any limits to her expressions of satisfaction:—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“O Jupiter! look at the ring. It is the very ring he + wears!—the very images are engraved upon it; one can see the three + Graces. I never saw such a picture—when will it be brought + home?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Hush, hush, now, + Primula,”</span> quoth the mother. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is + certainly a likeness; but why will artists, now-a-days, always + paint people older than they are? And besides, it wants something + of his expression. Don’t you think so yourself, sir?”</span> + (turning to the painter) <span class="tei tei-q">“Rupilius has + surely been looking very gloomily when he + sat.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg + 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On this the + painter, leaving Sextus, advanced to her side, and after a pause of + some moments, spent in contemplating alternately his own work and + the original, said, with a courteous simper, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“How much am I indebted to you, most noble lady, for + this visit, and these judicious remarks! I only wish you had + accompanied the senator, for then, without question, his + countenance would have worn the look you desiderate; and I perhaps + might have more easily succeeded in catching it, being aided by + your suggestions. I hope it may yet be + amended.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“How modest he is!”</span> + ejaculated the spouse. <span class="tei tei-q">“A single sitting + will suffice, I am sure. We shall come some day when you are quite + alone, and I will sit by you, and talk to Rupilius all the + while.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Delightful!”</span> replied + the artist; <span class="tei tei-q">“how happy shall I be in such + an opportunity of improving both the picture and myself! We must + positively prevail on the senator to give us this one sitting + more.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Never ask his + consent,”</span> quoth the matron, smiling upon her lord; + <span class="tei tei-q">“leave the whole matter to me. The picture + is for me. And besides, if he were to refuse, I know how I should + be certain to overcome him; for he has asked me to sit to you + myself, and you know if I were to persist in sitting with my gloomy + face, as he has with his, we should soon bring him to his right + reason.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Your</span></span> + gloomy face, noble lady!”</span> replied the artist, strutting back + a pace or two. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am afraid, if that is the + charm by which alone he is to be softened, we must give up all our + hopes.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I protest,”</span> says the + lady, <span class="tei tei-q">“I believe you will keep me laughing + all the time I sit. And pray now, what dress do you think I should + wear? Prima says, I ought certainly to be in green; <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>but I was thinking, that perhaps a + yellow byssine would suit me better. But I shall send over half a + dozen robes, and then we can choose whichever seems to be the best. + One thing only I am quite resolved upon, and that is, that I shall + have my golden chain, with the miniature of the Pro-prætor—the + Senator, I mean—at the end of it.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Nothing could be in finer taste,”</span> he made + answer; <span class="tei tei-q">“and if my lady should think of + green, or purple, or any dark colour for the gown, the rings of the + chain and the setting of the miniature would have the richest + effect.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“And do, my dear + mother,”</span> interrupted Prima; <span class="tei tei-q">“and do + have on the sapphire tiara when you sit to Agaso. Or what would you + think of having your own hair simply like this lady here? What a + beauty!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“A smart little girl, + indeed,”</span> quoth the mother. <span class="tei tei-q">“I think + I should know that face. Is she Roman, Agaso?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, not a Roman,”</span> answered the artist; + <span class="tei tei-q">“nor do I think my lady can ever have met + with her. But perhaps my Lord Rupilius may, for she is a + Spaniard.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agaso turned + with a smile to the Senator; but he, scarcely appearing to look at + the picture, answered, with great gravity, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I think I have seen the countenance before; and + perhaps it was in my province. The face is certainly a pretty one; + but nothing so very extraordinary.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“They may say what they like,”</span> observed the + spouse, drawing herself up; <span class="tei tei-q">“but there is + no such thing as a really urbane air to be got out of + Rome.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meantime, in + another part of the room, some other picture appeared to be + exciting a scarcely inferior measure of curiosity. On approaching + the party, I perceived that this was a sketch, in chalk only, of + the head <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg + 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>and shoulders of an old man; and when I had + gained an opportunity of more nearly surveying it, I recognized + without difficulty the features of Tisias of Antioch. The greater + number of those who were looking on it, seemed also to have been + present at his death; for I heard pointed out by them with + exactness the parts in which the resemblance had been most + successfully taken. The beauty of the old man’s lineaments, and the + serenity of his aspect, they all admired; and while they were loud + in praising these, Agaso himself also joined them, saying, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, so you have found out my old + Christian! How did you get hold of him? for I meant it not to be + seen till I had lain on a little of the colour. But is it not a + fine study?—is it not a noble head? I think I shall introduce it in + the picture I am painting for Pliny. The subject is the sacrifice + of Iphigenia. I went to the Amphitheatre,”</span> he continued, + <span class="tei tei-q">“rather late, without expecting any thing + particular; but it immediately struck me that he might be turned to + some account. I made several little sketches of him, for it was a + long time ere it was over; and this is from the one I took just + after he had made his oration. His hands and feet were singularly + fine, I thought. Here,”</span> said he, turning over the leaves of + his tablets—<span class="tei tei-q">“here you have him in a variety + of shapes!—the muscles shewed powerfully when he knelt;—there, + again, you have his fingers as they were folded on his breast—not + much flesh, but the lines good—veins well expressed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But about this + time the great bell rung in the tower above the Baths, and the + greater part of the young loungers soon dispersed themselves; some + to fence or wrestle—others to play in the tennis-court—others to + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name= + "Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ride in the + Hippodrome, in preparation for the bath. So Agaso, being left alone + with Sextus, Rubellia, and myself, had at length leisure to proceed + with his portrait of the youth.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Much did the + lady and the painter discourse, and many merry things were said by + them both; but all they said could not entirely remove the + embarrassment fixed on the countenance of Sextus; nor, of a truth, + did he present himself with much advantage before the artist. + Rubellia, nevertheless, sate over against him with looks of no + severe criticism; and I doubt not she would have remained to the + end of the sitting, had not one of her household come with a + message, which, as it seemed, rendered necessary her departure. It + struck me, that the messenger answered very well to Dromo’s + description of the fat Calabrian with whom he and Boto had been + drinking; but of this I said nothing to Sextus.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was near the + hour of supper before we were dismissed, and we found Licinius + already about to enter his eating chamber.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name= + "Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc35" id= + "toc35"></a> <a name="pdf36" id="pdf36"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER V.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The orator + received us with less coldness than I could have expected. I + suppose his knowledge that our morning had been spent in Rubellia’s + company, had in some measure softened his feelings of jealousy + towards his son; and perhaps he had given me credit for advice, to + the merit of which I had no claim. But he remained not long at + table after supper was concluded, being summoned to discourse in + private with a client:—so that Sextus and I were left to spend the + evening as it might please ourselves; for as to Xerophrastes, he + had not as yet made his appearance, and we took it for granted he + had remained at the mansion of Fabricius, for the purpose of + consoling with philosophical controversies his bereaved brother of + Ionia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We retired, + therefore, into the apartment of my young friend; but he could not + read a page without coming upon some verse which made him throw + down the scroll to ruminate on the charms of his Sempronia. When he + took up his lute, his fingers seemed to evoke only the most + melancholy sounds. It was only in the exercise of the foil, that he + succeeded in banishing from his thoughts the troubles of his + situation; but both of us having contended till <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>we were breathless, were soon compelled + to sit down, and then the unhappy boy’s exhausted body seemed to + communicate a new debility to his mind. We sat for the most part in + silence, (for I soon found that I could not say any thing capable + of interesting him,) until the shades of evening had quite darkened + the chamber, and then we walked together, not less silently, in the + adjoining open gallery, until the moon had arisen from above the + tall poplars around the Pantheon and Baths of Agrippa, and diffused + her radiance over all the beautiful gardens and noble edifices that + lay beneath us down to the brink of the river. Lassitude of spirit + then, if not expectation of sleep, rendered Sextus desirous of + retiring to his couch; so, having exhorted the youth to wrestle + with his grief, and to call hope to his aid, I at length left him + to himself. But as for me, I had as yet no feeling of weariness, + and, besides, I remembered the promise I had made to Dromo in the + morning.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was very much + surprised, indeed, that the Cretan had not as yet come to me, and + made inquiry concerning him of Boto; but hearing that the man was + absent from the house, I thought from this there was the more + likelihood of his being engaged in some scheme, the result of which + I should by and by learn from his own lips. I dismissed my Briton, + therefore, and prepared to read by my watch-light, and while I was + considering what I should read, I remembered the scroll I had + received from Tisias, which forthwith I took from the place in + which I had locked it up on the morning of the preceding day. There + fell from out of it, as I unfolded it, a letter sealed, but without + any superscription. This I of course considered as meant only + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name= + "Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>for the eye of + Athanasia; so I kissed the parchment her fingers were destined to + touch, and, before I began to read, restored it to its + receptacle.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">More than one of + you, my young friends, have already heard me speak, on another + occasion, of the impression which that night’s reading made upon my + mind, and been told, from my own lips, what book it was that was + contained in the scroll of Tisias; the rest of you will judge for + yourselves with what astonishment it was that I, who had at the + best expected to unfold some obscure treatise of Asiatic lore, some + semi-barbarous exposition of mystical riddles, found myself engaged + in the perusal of a plain and perspicuous narrative of facts, + written evidently by a man of accomplishment and learning, and in + Greek of which the most elegant penman of these times could have + had no occasion to be ashamed. In a word, it was the Gospel of the + holy physician St Luke which had been put into my hands; and at + this day I am still grateful that this was the first of the + Christian books which I had an opportunity of seeing; for such had + been my education, that I am afraid others, not less worthy of the + true faith, might have repelled me by the peculiarities of their + composition, as well as by the acquaintance with many things, to me + then entirely unknown, which they take for granted in the style of + their commencement. Here, however, there was enough only of + mystery, the more effectually to stimulate my curiosity, while the + eagerness with which I engaged myself in its gratification, was + abundantly repaid from the beginning, both by the beauty of the + simple narrative itself, and the sublimity of the conceptions + embodied and evolved in its course.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Considering the + book which I was reading, as one merely of human origin and + invention, I could not help regarding it with such admiration, that + it appeared to me above all things wonderful, I had never seen it + mentioned by any of the writers of the age, or heard it spoken of + by any of those who, in my presence, since I came to Rome, had + talked concerning the faith and doctrines of the persecuted + Christians. But this was not all. At least, said I to myself, there + is something here which deserves to be inquired into and examined. + Of things such as these, if told falsely, it must needs have + been—nay, it must still be, easy to prove the falsehood. It is + impossible that, in the days of Tiberius, any such events should + have occurred in Palestine, without being more or less submitted to + the inspection of Roman eyes. This is no wild tale, handed down + from the dark ages of a barbarous race. Here I have a Roman + Centurion described as among the witnesses of this man’s miraculous + power, and acknowledging the divinity of his benevolence. Here, at + least, must have been one spectator without prejudices, otherwise + than against this Prophet of Nazareth. Of a surety, the legends of + Rome herself contain many tales which demand a much greater measure + of indulgence; since the wonders they narrate appear to have been + oftentimes attended with no beneficial consequences, either to + individuals or to the state; whereas here the occasion seems always + to have been such as might justify the interference of supernatural + might. The power of this person seems to have been exerted only for + good; and his precepts are full of such godlike loftiness as + neither Socrates, nor Plato, nor any of those Greek sages, who + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name= + "Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>bowed in reverence to + the hoary wisdom of Egypt and India, would have disdained to + admire.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The doubts, + suspicions, and distrusts, with which such thoughts were + mingled,—the under-current of reluctance with which I felt myself + all along contending,—were such as you may more easily imagine than + I can describe.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the narrative + went on, however, you will have no difficulty in supposing that my + attention became more and more rivetted, and that, occupied with + the strange events and sublime scenes it unfolds—and agitated by + turns with the pity, the wonder, the terror, and the admiration + that matchless story must ever awaken,—I had forgotten every thing + beyond the page of the volume on which my finger was fixed.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was only the + rustling of Dromo’s cloak against the edge of my chair, that made + me aware my privacy was disturbed. His hands seemed to be busied in + tightening his girdle even before he was able to speak, and the + first words he uttered, were—<span class="tei tei-q">“Come, + sir—this is no time for study. I have acquaintance with some of the + soldiers at the Capene Gate, and they will let us pass through; but + they are relieved at the next watch, and then we shall have no + chance.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“And why,”</span> said I, + hastily thrusting the scroll into my bosom—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“why, Dromo, or for what purpose should we desire to + pass through the Capene Gate at the dead hour of + night?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Come,”</span> said he; + <span class="tei tei-q">“there is no time for explanation. It is + simply because it is the dead hour of night that we must pass + through the gate; for it would do nobody any good to pass through + at any other time. Come—or abandon Sextus to his + fate.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg + 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus adjured, I + could not oppose any obstacle to his zeal. The chained porter was + lying asleep across the threshold; but Dromo had already found + means to have the door opened, so he leaped lightly over the man, + and I imitated his agility. The Cretan then locked the gate on the + outside, by means of a key which he carried in his bosom; and I + followed his rapid steps without farther question.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This cunning + varlet, (who seemed, indeed, to move as if he had a natural + aversion to every open place,) threaded one obscure lane after + another, keeping always, where the moonlight had any access, to the + dark side of the way; a person better skilled than myself might + well have been somewhat puzzled; as for me, I had not the least + conception whither I was going. Close, however, did I adhere to + him; and we reached the Capene Port, which is on the south side of + the city, not many bow-shots from the Anio, before I could have + imagined it possible to traverse so great a space.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here Dromo told + me to wait for him a single moment, and stepped down into a cellar, + in which a light was burning; but he staid not long, and when he + returned to me, I observed that his style of walking was more + clumsy than usual, which, indeed, was not to be wondered at, + considering that he had now to carry, not only himself, but two + huge skins of wine, intended, as I at once suspected, for the + purpose of facilitating our passage. I told him my suspicion in a + whisper; but he made no answer, except by handing to me one of his + burdens. So laden, we crept on as well as we could to the portal, + beneath the shadow of which two Prætorians were pacing, their + armour ringing audibly upon <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>them amidst the silence of the night.—Silently + did the well-oiled hinges turn, and very silently stooping did we + step beneath the lintel of the Capene Gate, which as silently was + again made fast.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we advanced + among the funereal monuments which line the Appian Way on either + side, Dromo stood still every now and then for a moment, as if to + listen; but whatever he might have heard, or expected to hear, I + perceived nothing, except here and there the howl of a dog, or the + lazy hooting of the night-owl, from the top of some of the old + cypresses that rose between us and the moon.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At last he + seemed to catch the sound he had been expecting, for he started + suddenly; and laying his finger on his lip, crept to the + parapet.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ground + behind was more desolate of aspect than any part of that which we + had traversed—stoney and hard, with here and there tufts of + withered fern; and immediately below the wall two human figures + were visible. The one was sitting on the ground, wrapped in a dark + cloak which entirely concealed the countenance: the other was a + half-naked boy, holding in a string a little new-shorn lamb, which + with one of his hands he continually caressed. But forthwith the + sitter arose, and throwing away the cloak, displayed the gray + tangled tresses of an old woman, and two strong boney arms, one of + which was stretched forth with an impatient gesture towards the + stripling, while the other was pointed upwards to the visible moon. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Strike,”</span> said she, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“strike deeply—beware lest the blood tinge your feet or + your hands;”</span>—and I recognized at once the voice of the same + Pona that had <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg + 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>attracted my notice in the morning, at the + foot of the Palatine.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The boy drew + forth instantly a knife from his bosom, whose glittering blade was + buried in the throat of the yearling, and it was then first that I + perceived a small ditch dug between the boy and the woman, into + which, the lamb’s throat being held over it, the blood was made to + drop from the wound. So surely had the blow been given, that not + one bleat escaped from the animal, and so deeply, that the blood + flowed in a strong stream, dashing audibly upon the bottom of the + trench. And while it was dropping, the old woman muttering a sort + of chant to Hecate, as I gathered, showered from her girdle I know + not what of bones or sticks, mingled with leaves and roots, which + afterwards she seemed to be stirring about in the blood with one of + the tall strong stems of the fern that grew there. The wildness of + her gestures was such, that I could not doubt she had herself some + faith in the efficacy of the foul charms to which she had resorted; + nor could I see her stirring that trench of innocent blood, without + remembering the still more ruthless charms, whose practice the + poets of Italy have ascribed to such hoary enchantresses. The + dreariness of the midnight wind, too, as it whistled along the bare + and steril soil around us, and the perpetual variations in the + light, by reason of the careering of those innumerable clouds, and + the remembrance of the funereal purposes for which, as it seemed, + all this region was set apart—the whole of this together produced, + I know not how, a certain pressure upon my spirits, and I confess + to you, I felt, kneeling there by the side of my now trembling + Cretan, as if I owed him no <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>great thanks for having brought me that night + beyond the Capene Gate.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seemed as if + the goddess, to whom the witch’s song had been addressed, did not + listen to it with favourable ear; for the clouds gathered + themselves more thickly than ever, while the wind howled only more + loudly among the tombs, and the half-scared owl sent up a feebler + hooting. Notwithstanding, the old woman continued fixed in the same + attitude of expectation, and the stripling still held the well-nigh + drained throat of his lamb above the trench. By degrees, however, + the patience of both seemed to be exhausted; and there arose + between them an angry altercation. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Infernal brat of Hades!”</span> quoth the witch, + <span class="tei tei-q">“look ye, if you have not stained your + filthy hands, and if the thirsty shadows be not incensed, because + you have deprived them of some of the sweet blood which they + love!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Curse not me, + mother,”</span> replied the boy—<span class="tei tei-q">“Did you + think, in truth, that the blood of a stolen lamb would ever + propitiate Hecate?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Imp!”</span> + quoth she, <span class="tei tei-q">“Hold thy peace, or I will try + whether no other blood may make the charm work + better!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Beware!”</span> quoth the + boy, leaping backwards—<span class="tei tei-q">“beware what you do! + I am no longer so weak that I must bear all your blows.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Stop,”</span> cried I, <span class="tei tei-q">“for + there are eyes that you think not of, to take note of your + wickedness;”</span> and in my vehemence I shook one of the great + loose stones that were on the top of the wall, which rolled down + and bounded into the ditch beside them; and the woman, huddling her + cloak over her head, began to run swiftly away from us, along the + wall over which we were leaning. The boy only stood still for a + moment, and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg + 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>looked upwards towards the place where we + were, and then he also fled, but in the opposite direction; and + Dromo said to me in a very piteous whisper, but not till both were + out of sight,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven and earth! was ever + such madness as to scare the witch from her incantation? Alas! for + you and for me, sir—and, most of all, alas for Sextus—for I fear me + after this we shall have no luck in counteracting the designs of + Rubellia.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Rubellia! what? can you possibly imagine Rubellia to + have any thing to do with this madness?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Imagine?”</span> quoth he; <span class="tei tei-q">“do + you need to be told, that if things had gone well with that woman + and her ditch, we should never have been able to preserve Sextus + from her clutches?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By the rod of Hermes, good Dromo!”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“this will never do. I shall believe much + on your credit, but not things quite so extravagant as + this.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He made no reply + save a long, incredulous, and, I think, contemptuous whistle, which + seemed to reach the ears of every owl between us and the Appian; + with such a hooting and screeching did they echo its note from + every cypress. And when Dromo heard that doleful concert, his dread + redoubled within him, for he shook from head to foot, while I held + his arm in mine; until, at last, he seemed to make one violent + effort, and springing on his feet, said—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, Master Valerius, let us behave after all like + men!”</span>—I smiled when he said so—<span class="tei tei-q">“The + hour has not yet come, if my Calabrian friend is to be trusted, at + which the lady was to visit Pona in her dwelling. It is but daring + a little more. If she has seen and known us already, then nothing + can endanger us farther; and if she hath not, we may <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>escape again.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well spoken,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“most shrewd Dromo, and like yourself; but what is it + that you would have us to do?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The + first thing,”</span> he replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“is what + has already been too long delayed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Cretan + produced from under his cloak a long fictitious beard, which he + immediately proceeded to fix upon his own face with a string. A + thin tall cap of black cloth was next brought forth, which he + fastened in like manner around his brows; and a little piece of + chalk, with which he once or twice rubbed over his black bushy + eye-brows, completed a disguise beneath which I should certainly + have sought in vain to discover any trace of the natural + countenance of Dromo. In short, after a few changes in the folding + of his cloak, there stood before me a figure so venerably + mysterious, that had I met it unawares at midnight, in the + neighbourhood of so many tombs, I am not sure, although of no + superstitious temper, that I could have regarded it without + awe.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come now, good Master,”</span> quoth he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you are taller than I, pluck me a branch from the + nearest tree, and I think you shall confess I make a decent + Soothsayer.”</span> In this it was easy to gratify him; for there + was an old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs were so dry + with age, that I soon abstracted a very proper wand for him. After + receiving which, he stood for a moment leaning on it in a dignified + fashion, as if to rehearse an attitude worthy of his new vocation; + and then said—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well, sir, I think if the + Lady Rubellia comes now, we shall be tolerably prepared for her. + But I have no disguise for you; therefore, the moment you hear a + footstep, be sure you wrap your <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>face in your gown, and stand behind me, for so + shall you best consult both your own concealment, and the dignity + of this Assyrian. There is no other way by which she can come from + the Suburra, therefore we might stay very well where we are; but I + think it might be still better to await her coming where there are + either tombs or larger trees to cast a shade over our equipage, in + case the moon should take it into her head to be more kind to us + than she was to Pona.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“By all + means,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“most venerable + man—and besides, the wind is rather chilly, therefore I shall be + well pleased to have shelter as well as shade.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You shall have both,”</span> quoth he; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there is a thick grove of pines only a little way on. + I believe there is a very grand tomb in the midst of them, in case + you should prefer to sit under it.—By the bye,”</span> he + continued, after some little pause, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is + odd enough that it should be so; but I believe it is the very place + where all that race of the Sempronii, to which a certain young + damsel belongs, have been burnt and buried ever since Rome was a + city. You cannot see their tomb yet; but that is only from the + thickness of the trees, some of which are, I suppose, even older + than itself. Now I remember me, it was just there that they set up + two winters ago the funeral pile of old Caius—I mean the father of + the Lady Athanasia, whom you saw at Capito’s villa. They are a very + noble race, and although none of the richest now-a-days, there is + not a prouder in Rome. I saw the procession at that old man’s + funeral myself, and I think the images of his ancestors that they + carried before him, would have reached half way from hence to the + Great Road. Grim, dusty figures, I trow they were; <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>but I doubt not there had been many a + haughty captain among them when they were alive.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These words were + spoken as we were moving onwards towards this same grove of pines, + and before he had made an end of speaking, we could clearly hear + the wind sighing among their branches, and along the dry + underground. And on coming to them I found that he had said truly + there was a tomb in the midst of them, for a very noble, high, + circular tower was indeed there, which, from the grayness of its + walls, and luxuriance of ivy, had the appearance of being at least + as ancient as any of the surrounding trees. The only method of + access to the inside, seemed to be by means of a winding stair, + which rose on the exterior from the ground to the summit—a method + not unusual in Roman sepulchres—and it was on one of the steps of + this stair that I seated myself, where, between the shaded wall on + the one side, and the pine branches on the other, I was effectually + concealed. As for Dromo, I know not whether it was that he coveted + not exactly such close proximity to the stones of such an edifice; + but instead of ascending with me, he took up a position beside one + of the largest pines over against me.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Although the + moon had got rid of her clouds, and the sky, where any of it could + be seen, was abundantly brilliant, the natural darkness of that + funereal grove was such, that very little difference could be + produced in the midst of it by any variation on the face of any + nightly luminary. The tower itself received some of the moonbeams + on its carved surface; but its contemporary trees participated not + in any such illumination,—one solemn shade covering all things + beneath the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg + 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>influence of their growth. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I can scarcely see you, Dromo,”</span> said I; + <span class="tei tei-q">“but I think that speck must be your beard, + and if so, I beg you would tell me what it is you really have in + view by all this preparation? Do you expect me to stay here on a + tomb-stone all night, merely because you wish to have an + opportunity of terrifying poor Rubellia by some ghost-like howl or + other when she passes you?—which, by the way, it seems by no means + certain she will do at all. Or what is your + purpose?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Hush!”</span> was his + answer; <span class="tei tei-q">“ask no questions, but hem thrice + if you hear a footstep—for young ears are the keenest.”</span> + Accordingly silence was kept so strictly, that, in spite of the + chillness of the stone on which I sate, I presently fell into a + sort of dozing slumber.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By degrees, + however,—nor, considering the hour and the fatigue I had undergone, + is it wonderful that it should have been so,—my sleep must have + become sufficiently profound, for I did not at first, on waking + from it, very well remember either where I was, or for what purpose + I had come thither. And, indeed, I have little doubt my slumbers + might have continued till day-break, but for the interruption I am + now to mention.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And yet it + seemed as if even in my sleep I had been prepared for this by some + strange anticipation, for although it was a near sound of singing + voices that dispelled my slumbers, and made me start from the stone + on which I had placed myself, I could not help feeling as if that + sound were not altogether new to me;—whether it were that the + half-sensible ear had been already ministering indistinctly to the + dreaming spirit, or that some purely fantastic prelude had been + vouch<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name= + "Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>safed to the real + music. I started up suddenly, that much is certain, and listened + with astonishment, yet not altogether with such surprise as might + have been expected to attend a transition so hasty from sleep to + waking, and from silence to the near neighbourhood of sounds at + once so strange and so sweet. With breathless curiosity, + nevertheless, with awe, and not entirely I think without terror, + did I listen to the notes which seemed to ascend out of the + habitation of the noble dead into the nightly air—wild, yet solemn, + as if breathed from the bosom of a stately repose and a pensive + felicity; insomuch, that almost I persuaded myself I was hearing + the forbidden sounds of another world, and the thought came over + me,—yet almost I think at that moment without farther disturbing + me,—what fearful interpretations the old poets have affixed to such + untimely communion, and how the superstition of all antiquity has + shrunk from its omen.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My first + impulse, after a moment had elapsed, was to call on Dromo, and I + did so, at first in a low whisper, and then two or three times more + loudly—but all equally in vain, for no answer was returned; and + though I strained my eyes in gazing on the place where I had last + seen him, yet there I could perceive no trace whatever of any human + figure. The moonlight indeed shewed with more distinctness than + before the tall stem of the old pine-tree against which he had been + leaning; but no motion, nor the least appearance of whiteness, + could either my eyes or my imagination discover there. I might + easily, you will say, have stept across the road, and entirely + satisfied myself; but I know not well <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>what it was that nailed me to the place where + I stood, and prevented me even from once thinking of doing so. The + calm sepulchral music, my friends, still continued to stream from + the recess of the mausoleum, and painless awe held me there, as if + by a charm incontrollable. I gazed upwards, and beheld the moon + riding above the black pine tops, in a now serene and cloudless + heaven. The wind also had passed away, as it appeared, with the + clouds it had agitated. The bird of night was asleep on her unseen + bough; and all was silent as death, except only the dwelling of the + departed; and a certain indescribable delight was beginning, as I + gazed and listened, to be mixed with the perturbation wherewith at + first I had been inspired.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And I know not + how long I might have stood so, but while I was yet listening to + this mysterious music, there was mingled with its expiring cadence + the sound of a heavy footstep on the staircase above me, and + looking up, I perceived in the moonlight the figure of a man, clad + in a white gown, but having a naked sword stretched forth in his + hand, immediately over the place whereon I was standing. I obeyed + the first natural impulse, and leaped downwards swiftly on seeing + him; but this availed me nothing, for he also leaped, and almost + before my feet had touched the ground, I felt the grasp of his hand + upon my shoulder, and that so strongly, that I perceived plainly + there was as little possibility of escape as of resistance. I made + therefore no farther effort, but suffered him to do with me as he + pleased; and he, on his part, said not a single word, but still + retaining his hold, pointed with his sword to the same steps from + which I had descended, and com<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>pelled me to mount them before him, up to the + very summit of the round tower.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Why is this, sir?”</span> said I; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and whither do you conduct me?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Peace,”</span> was all his answer; and, in like manner + as he had made me climb the exterior, so also he compelled me to + begin the descent of a similar flight of steps, which led down from + an aperture above, into the interior of the edifice. And although I + must confess to you that I obeyed not this silent guidance without + considerable fear, yet I strove as well as I could to control + myself. I moved with a step in which I think not there could be + perceived any trembling.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yet you will + admit that even had I been master at that moment of less firmness, + I might have been excusable; for looking down, I perceived that a + lamp was burning in the midst of the sepulchral tower far below me, + and saw sitting around it a company of eight or ten persons, at + whose mercy, it was quite visible, I must be placed. Neither, if I + might judge from the demeanour of the person that was bringing me + into their assembly, did there appear to be any great room for + dependance on them; for, as to themselves, not one of them looked + up towards me as I was stepping down, and being wrapped in their + cloaks, I had no means of discovering what manner of persons they + were. The way in which I had been treated, however, by one of their + number, was a sufficient evidence, either that they conceived + themselves to have been injured by my being there, or that they + were capable of taking some undue advantage of my helpless + condition. The calmness of their attitudes, and the recollection of + the sounds <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg + 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>that I had heard, inclined me to the former of + these suppositions; and when I perceived that not one of them + stirred, even till I had reached the lowmost step of the interior + staircase, in this, without question, I already felt myself + considerably strengthened.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Behold,”</span> said my guide, as I at length touched + the marble floor of the mausoleum itself—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Behold proof, and that living, that my suspicions were + not quite so groundless as you were pleased to imagine. Here is a + man whom I found listening, even on the very steps of this tower. + It is for you to decide what shall be done with the + eaves-dropper.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With this the + whole company sprung at once to their feet, and I perceived + evidently, from the surprise expressed in their looks and + attitudes, that until that moment not one of them had been aware of + my approach. I was about to speak, and declare my innocence of any + treachery, or even of any knowledge concerning the purpose of their + meeting; but before I could do so, one of them, and I think the + oldest of all that were present, having in an instant recovered the + tranquillity which my arrival had disturbed, said to me in a voice + of the utmost gentleness, <span class="tei tei-q">“Young man, what + has brought thee hither, or who sent thee? Art thou indeed a spy, + and was it thy purpose to betray our assembly?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“I know + nothing of your assembly, or of its purpose; I fell asleep by + accident on the outside of this tower, and, when I awoke, the music + that I heard detained me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Examine the stripling,”</span> quoth he that had + conducted me—<span class="tei tei-q">“examine his + person.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“His looks belie + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name= + "Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him,”</span> replied + the senior, <span class="tei tei-q">“if you have cause for + suspicion. But if you will it so, search the young man.”</span> And + with that my guide, laying his unsheathed sword upon a table, or + altar of black marble, proceeded to search my garments, and finding + in my bosom the scroll which I had received from Tisias, he glanced + on it for a moment, and then handing it to the senior, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Now, sirs, doubt ye if ye + will.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Before heaven—it is the book + of the holy Luke!”</span> said the other; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“this is indeed suspicious. How came this scroll into + thy hands, young man? Art thou aware that one of the books of the + Christians has been found in thy bosom?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I know it,”</span> said I; <span class="tei tei-q">“it + is one of the books of their faith, and I have read in it this + evening for the first time.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Then + thou art not thyself a Christian?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I received the book from one Christian,”</span> said + I, waiving the question; <span class="tei tei-q">“and I made + promise to deliver it into the hands of + another?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Name the Christian who + gave thee this book!”</span> said my stern guide.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Tisias of Antioch,”</span> I replied; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the same who died yesterday in the + Amphitheatre.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> quoth + he, again; <span class="tei tei-q">“and I suppose it was there he + gave it to you. Every one knows the name of Tisias. Name, if you + please, the person to whom you are to deliver the + book.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You shall pardon me,”</span> + said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“that I will not. You may call me + an eaves-dropper, if you will; but you shall find I am no traitor. + It is a Roman—a noble Roman lady to whom I must give this book; and + I would not tell you her name although you should slaughter me here + in this tomb, which I have entered living and without + guilt.”</span> And having said this, I folded my arms, and stood + still, abiding their will.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But scarcely had + I finished these words, ere I felt a small trembling hand laid upon + my shoulder, and looking round, I perceived Athanasia herself, who + whispered into my ear,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius, was the + book for me? If so, you may say it boldly, and I will vouch for + your word.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“For you, lady,”</span> + I answered in the same tone, <span class="tei tei-q">“and for none + other. You well know that I was present in his prison the night + before his death; so far at least you can confirm what I have + said.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said she, addressing the old man that had + before questioned me, <span class="tei tei-q">“I know this young + man: and I believe what he has said, and will be answerable for his + fidelity. It was he that went in to our friend the other night in + his prison, and the book was intrusted to him by the old man, that + it might be given into my hands. His name is Valerius—Caius + Valerius—and he is by birth a noble Roman.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Say you so, lady?”</span> interrupted my original + conductor; <span class="tei tei-q">“then I ask his pardon. I have + wronged Caius Valerius; but both you and he must forgive me, for it + must be confessed he was found in a very extraordinary + situation.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> I replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + have nothing to complain of. I perceive that I am present in an + assembly of Christians; but he shall do me much wrong that thinks I + bear any enmity to them,—or, from all that I have yet seen or read, + to the faith which they profess. I have read part of that + book,”</span> I continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“for I made + promise to Tisias that I should do so before giving it to + Athanasia; and I trust I shall still be permitted by her to read + more of it before it is finally demanded from + me.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, read it!”</span> said + Athanasia, gently again whis<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>pering to me. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh yes, + read the book, Valerius, and may God enlighten the reader.”</span> + And so saying, she herself took up the scroll from the table on + which it was lying, and gave it again into my hands.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“There was also a letter for you,”</span> said I, + receiving it, <span class="tei tei-q">“but that I left at + home.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“No matter,”</span> said + Athanasia, <span class="tei tei-q">“you shall give me the letter + and the book both together hereafter.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In the meantime,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I suppose it were better I should retire.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Young sir,”</span> said the senior, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that is as you please; in a little while we shall all + be moving towards the city. Stay with us till then, if such be your + will; that which you may hear, can at least do you no harm. + Already, I doubt not, you have seen enough to despise the ignorant + calumnies of our enemies.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When he had said + so, the old man walked to the side of the sepulchre, and took out + from behind one of the urns that stood there, (ranged in their + niches,) a small casquet, which, returning, he placed before him on + the marble table. Then, opening the casquet, he brought forth a + silver goblet, and a salver containing some little pieces of bread; + and, untying from his neck a massive cross of gold, he set that + also on the table, between the cup and the salver. In brief, the + Christian priest, (for such, as you already see, he was,) had + finished his preparation, and was about to commence the + administration of the blessed Eucharist. And when all the rest were + kneeling before the table, Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, + beckoned to me to kneel by her side; and so indeed I would have + done in my ignorance, had not the priest himself pointed to + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name= + "Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a station a few yards + behind the lady, to which, accordingly, I drew back—apart from + those who were to be privileged with the participation of those + holy symbols.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Scarcely had + they composed themselves in their places, and listened to the first + words of the appointed service, when I, standing there by myself, + thought, unless my ears deceived me, there must be some one on the + outer stair-case of the tower; and my eyes instinctively, I + suppose, were fixed upon the aperture, which, as I have told you, + was in the high roof above the circle of the niched walls. Here, + however, when I first looked, there was nothing to be seen, but the + round spot of the sky, far up in the midst of the marble roof; but + while I was looking steadfastly, that space was suddenly + diminished; and a dog bayed, and at the same moment a voice which I + well knew, screamed, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have them—I hold + them—let them burst the net if they can.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The cry of Pona + disturbed effectually the Christian priest, and the whole of those + that were with him. Rising up hastily from their knees, they stood + all together around the table, while the old man, having kissed + both the cup and the cross, restored them as quickly as he could to + the casket from which they had been taken. But while the priest was + doing this, he that found me on the stair appearing to revert into + his suspicion, and looking sternly upon me where I stood, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Is this then the innocence which we + spared! Is this the noble Roman for whom Athanasia pledged herself? + Speak, brethren, what shall be done to this traitor, by whom, even + more than by those dogs of the tombs, it is a shame for us that we + have been <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg + 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>hunted?”</span> Saying so, the man lifted up + his sword again, and it seemed as if he would have smitten me to + the ground without farther question. But Athanasia threw herself + swiftly between him and me. <span class="tei tei-q">“For shame, + Cotilius,”</span> said she; <span class="tei tei-q">“such + suspiciousness is unworthy of a Roman knight.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“You say well, noble damsel,”</span> quoth the old + priest, interrupting her; <span class="tei tei-q">“but you might + say also that such cruelty is unworthy of a soldier of Christ. + Peace, peace, children; there is no evil in the youth, nor, if + there were, would it be our part to avenge it.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While he was + saying this, three or four blazing torches were thrust down into + the place from above, and Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, + said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Look up, Caius, I see helmets.—Alas! + am I not already here? why, if they will slay me, should they drag + me away now from the tomb of my fathers?”</span> I felt the + trembling of her hands, and she leaned upon my shoulder. I know + not, I will confess to you, whether at that moment I tasted more of + pleasure or of pain.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But by this time + several of the soldiers had already begun to descend into the + tower, and before another minute had elapsed, we found ourselves + surrounded by the flame of their torches. And he that seemed to + lead the party, after counting us one by one, said, turning to his + companions, <span class="tei tei-q">“Well, an old woman has told + the truth for once—here are even more I think than she warned us + of.—Come along, worthy people, you must not keep the Tribune + waiting for you all night, and our watch is well-nigh expired + already. Come, mount the stair—it will take a good half hour yet, I + believe, to <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg + 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>lodge you all safely in the Tullian—And do + you,”</span> he added, laying his hand on the hilt of Cotilius’ + sword—<span class="tei tei-q">“do you, brave sir, allow me to save + you the trouble of carrying this bauble.”</span> Nor was the stern + knight so foolish as to dispute the command; but having yielded up + his sword, he forthwith began to ascend, one or two spearmen + preceding him with their torches. The priest followed, and so did + the rest; the last being Athanasia and myself.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On every side + around the old tower, when I looked from the summit of it, I + perceived foot soldiers drawn up in a double line, while the road + along which I had come with Dromo, was occupied by a band of + horsemen, one of whom moved forward when he saw us descending, as + if to take cognizance of the number and quality of the surprised + assembly. His long cloak being muffled about his ears as he sate, + and the shadow of his helmet falling deeply, I did not at first + suspect who it was; but he had not counted half the party to the + superior Officer behind him, ere I recognized him from the sound of + his voice; and who, think ye, should it be but my good friend + Sabinus?</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion, + when his eye detected me, checked his horse so sharply that the + animal bounded into the air; and, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius!”</span> quoth he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“ha! by the life of Cæsar, what is the meaning of this? + Valerius in a Christian synagogue! By all the gods, there must be + some mistake.”</span> But before I, in my confusion, could make any + answer to these exclamations, his eye chanced to glance on + Athanasia, who, trembling, still retained the support of my arm; + whereupon, <span class="tei tei-q">“Ha! ha!”</span> said he, in a + quite different tone of voice, <span class="tei tei-q">“there is a + lady in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg + 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>the case.”</span> And then, stooping in his + seat, he whispered, half laughing, into my ear, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“My most hypocritical smooth-face, you shall see what + is the consequence of bringing these transatlantic pranks of yours + to Rome. By Hercules, you wild dog, it may cost you some little + trouble to get out of this scrape.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having said so, + he turned his horse, and rejoining the troop, appeared to enter + into close conversation with him who sate at the head of the line. + Of what my friend said, I could catch nothing more than certain + vehement oaths, while, all the time, the Tribune (for such he was) + continued to shake his head, in a way significant at once of doubt + and determination. The end was, that he pointed with his sword; and + Sabinus forced his horse backwards, at one plunge, into the place + from which he had advanced.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our party were + immediately separated one from another. I saw the priest lifted on + a mule and hurried away towards the city, with a horseman on each + hand of him. The fiery Cotilius, and one or two more, were + compelled to follow, with similar attendance, in the same + direction; others, again, had their horses’ heads turned more to + the westward—but all departed at speed, and were soon lost to my + view among the projections of the tombs. The last that remained to + be disposed of were Athanasia and myself, and for a moment I had + some hope that we might perhaps be intrusted to the same guards; + but this hope was in vain, and after I perceived that it was so, + scarcely even was time permitted to me for bidding her farewell. To + kiss her hand, and to whisper a single word of parting hope into + her ear, was all I could do. A tear rolled from her <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>cheek and fell upon my hand; yet she + smiled faintly upon me, and <span class="tei tei-q">“Hope,”</span> + said she—<span class="tei tei-q">“yes, dear Valerius, Hope and + Faith both go with me.”</span> And with that the pale maiden was + separated from the arm to which she had trusted, and I saw her also + mounted and borne away rapidly. A moment after, I found myself, in + like manner, seized and lifted upon a horse, and almost before I + could look around me, we had escaped from the flare of the torches, + and the crowd of the soldiery, and were stretching at a rapid pace, + I knew not whither, although I suspected, from the width of the + road, that we had regained the Appian.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But I have + forgotten to mention to you, that just at the moment when they were + lifting Athanasia upon the mule that was to bear her from my sight, + my eye caught a glimpse of the witch Pona, who was sitting at the + root of one of the pine-trees, close to the tower. And behind her + stood, leaning against the tree, a figure wrapped in a rich red + cloak, which I suspected to be a female also, but could not be + certain, because the countenance was concealed in the folds of the + garment. To this person, whoever it might be, the witch turned + round eagerly, while the soldiers were carrying off Athanasia. I + saw no more, for, as I have told you, immediately afterwards I also + was carried away.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name= + "Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc37" id= + "toc37"></a> <a name="pdf38" id="pdf38"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VI.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our hasty pace + had not borne us to any great distance from the place where all + these things occurred, ere the sky, which, as ye have heard, had + all that night been sufficiently variable, began to exhibit + appearances which my two companions interpreted as significant of + the approach of one of those nocturnal storms, to which, at that + season of the year, the fair heaven of Italy is peculiarly subject. + That they apprehended somewhat of this sort, I perceived from their + looks, as they stopped for a moment to draw the hoods of their + mantles over their brazen helmets; for words they uttered none, + either to me or to each other, until our journey drew near its + close. For me, however, the numberless agitations through which I + had passed in the course of the few preceding hours, had, I + suppose, communicated an unnatural measure of ardour to my boyish + blood; for neither did I feel the night-breeze chill me as we + rushed through it, nor partook, in any sort, of the desire my + companions testified to cover themselves from the rain, which + seemed to be about to discharge itself out of all those black and + lowering clouds now gathered above our heads from every region of + the heavens. When, on the contrary, the first heavy drops fell, I + bared my <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg + 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>forehead with the eagerness of one who, in a + parched region, comes suddenly upon the margin of a well-spring. + Nor did this sensation subside even after the storm had thickened + to the utmost, and the dusty roads had drunk abundantly of the + plashing rain. The strong wind blew with redoubled coolness upon my + moistened neck—the rain-drops dashed on my hot hands; and I + perceived, that, as is the nature of those animals, the thunder + which was mustering in the air, filled my horse one moment with + dread, and the next with a blind fierceness. At last the thunder + shouted over-head, and its echoes spread wide and far on either + side, until they seemed to be absorbed to the left in the remote + depths of the Appenine, and on the right hand in the measureless + bosom of the Western Sea—of which, as we galloped along the hill + side, the broad lightning (unless my fancy deceived me) revealed + ever and anon a distant and melancholy glimpse.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had passed a + hill covered with towns, villages, and stately mansions, (which I + afterwards learned was no other than the famous Alban,) ere the + storm subsided beneath the influence of the reddening dawn. Yet + even then we slackened not our pace, although the horses were by + this time not a little exhausted with the swiftness of their + motion, and the weight of their wet riders. On rode we in the + growing light of the morning; but I perceived ere long that we had + left the wide and magnificent Appian Way, and were pursuing the + line of a narrower road, which seemed to carry us more and more + westward.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We halted for a + moment on the brow of a declivity, where three paths separated; and + I perceived that <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg + 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>among my guides there was some little + uncertainty as to which of these it behoved them to follow. While + they were muttering together, I looked and beheld at length the + wide sea heaving far below, over what appeared to me to be a forest + as mighty as I had ever seen in my native island.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Old hoary oaks + leaned on either hand quite over the narrow path-way, into which + (after their brief pause of consultation) my conductors directed + our course. Here and there, such a shield had those huge leafy + boughs extended over the road, that the dust rose from amongst the + feet of our horses as if all that night not one drop of rain had + fallen there; although elsewhere, in the absence of such mighty + trees, the water lying across the path in pools testified + abundantly that the tempest had not spared the forest any more than + the champaign. Vast waving gulfs of bay and ilex, with here and + there some solitary pine raising itself proudly in the midst, + seemed to stretch away on either hand between the groves of those + gigantic oaks.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The path we + followed carried us ever deeper and deeper into the bosom of the + woods; and, at length, so buried were we in the windings of their + stifling shade, that I had lost all notion of the direction in + which I was moving; until, after two or three hot hours, weary man + and jaded horse were, I believe, equally delighted with snuffing + once more the open current of the air. We reached not the edge of + the forest, however, before I could hear distinctly the dashing of + the Mediterranean waves; and the last ascent we climbed laid open + to my view a long sweep of the rolling waters, and their rocky + coast garnished every where with the richness of super<span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>incumbent woods. Far, very far, in the + distant north, I thought I could recognize some of the stately + towers of Ostium, bosomed apparently within the billows over which + they presided. All between was one wide waste of wood and rock, + save here and there a watch-tower perched on the margin, and + whitened half-way up with the foam of the yet uncalmed sea.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then, nor ever + could I look upon the waters of the great deep, without something + of that filial yearning which seems so natural to every native of + our sea-girt island. But neither could I contrast the condition in + which I now approached it, with the gay and hopeful mood in which I + had so lately left it behind me, without many thoughts more sad and + serious than as yet had frequently visited my bosom. What a strange + brood of visions had passed before my eyes, since, but a few days + before, I stept for the first time, light of heart, beneath the + shadow of those far-off bulwarks! What new emotions had arisen, in + the interval! How had every sense been gratified! how had every + dream of imagination been exceeded! Yet what a void had been + revealed within!—Alas! said I to myself, why is it that I have been + subjected to all these novelties? Had I not done better to have + remained, after all, where life flowed ever calmly—where affection + hung over me like a protecting buckler, and my soul could sleep in + the security of unbroken faith! But this was only for a moment. The + thoughts of Athanasia haunted me more deeply and more firmly. I + thought over every word she had spoken—every look of hers rose up + in succession, with all the vividness of a beautiful and a troubled + dream. I seemed to feel, as if she were yet present beside me, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name= + "Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the trembling of her + pale fingers upon my shoulder—I kissed the hand on which her + parting tear had fallen, as if it were yet wet with the dear + moisture. When I thought of the perils in which she must now be + enveloped—of the pains she must have suffered—must at that moment + be suffering,—it was as if I could have burst bands of iron, like + flax, from off my hands. When a glimpse of the darker future opened + before me, I shuddered, and, urging my poor horse onwards in the + recklessness of total abstraction, I perceived that even my guides + pitied the agony of my despair.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name= + "Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc39" id= + "toc39"></a> <a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We stopped + before one of the watch-towers which, as I have told you, I had + seen scattered along the edge of the sea. But this, when we came up + to it, appeared larger than I had expected to find any of them. The + narrow way, alongst which we had been riding, brought us close to + its gate, on the side towards the land; but the rock shelving + rapidly on the other side, gave it the semblance, at a little + distance, of being suspended over the waves.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was a + building of rude, and apparently very antique structure, the under + part square, but the upper circular; as is, for the most part, the + old Roman fashion in such erections. And this, indeed, I doubt not, + might have stood there long enough to have shewn a beacon, when + some fleet of Syracuse or Carthage darkened the blue sea over + against the Lestrigonian bay renowned in old song, or the + snow-white promontory of Gaieta.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One of the + soldiers dismounted, and began to knock rather violently at the + door; but some little time elapsed ere any sound from within + responded to the clamour he raised. At last a hard and withered + face made its appearance at a little opening above the door, and + then the helmets passed, I suppose, for a sufficient warrant, for + in a twinkling we heard the bolts creaking; the old <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>postern was soon set ajar, and forth + stepped the venerable keeper. Imagine a tall, skinny man of + threescore years, with a face as dry and yellow as ye have seen on + the outside of a pye, and hair as white as ever the skill of a + confectioner could represent, and legs bearing the same proportion + to the feet, which the shaft of Saturn’s scythe usually does to its + blade. Clothe the nether part of this figure in Dacian, or Gaulish + breeches, throw a somewhat threadbare cloak over his shoulders, and + to finish the outfit, deck his head with a casque of the Macedonian + cut, that is to say, sitting close above the ears, and topped with + a bristling plume of horse hair. The Warder stood with dignity, and + listened with gravity, while one of my Prætorians whispered his + message. On its conclusion, he shrugged his shoulders, and + regarding me with a glance made up, I think, in pretty equal + proportions, of surprise and contempt, signified by the motion of + his hand that we might all three enter. He whistled at the same + moment, and there came forth a comely damsel, who, with many + blushes and smiles, took possession of the reins of our + horses.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Stand there,”</span> quoth he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“stand there, little Cestia, and see if + there be never a handful of corn to be got for the prince’s + cattle,—stand there, and we shall be with you again anon.”</span> + And then he also whispered something into the maiden’s ear, and I + saw her looking at me from under her eyelids with an expression of + very uncommon curiosity. Two or three curly-pated urchins, of + different sizes, joined her at the same moment, and to them, in her + turn, the maiden whispered; whereupon the eldest of the children + retreating behind her, eyed me earnestly along the skirt of her + tunic, while the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg + 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>younger ones continued to gaze where they + were, with looks of open stupidity and wonder. Of all this I could + make nothing at the moment, but when we had got fairly into the + inside of the tower, I heard the children whispering to each other, + <span class="tei tei-q">“A Christian! A Christian! A Jew! A + Jew!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The lower part + of the tower, into which I had now been conducted, seemed to form + nothing more than one huge, bare, and quadrangular apartment, + serving, I supposed (and rightly) at once as hall and vestibule to + the upper chambers contained within the walls. A small flight of + steps, in one of the corners, seemed to afford the only means of + access to what was above; but from the position of a door + immediately below these, it was we inferred that there were vaults + under ground. Close beside this door there stood, upon a very rude + pedestal, a still more rude bust, either of Jupiter, of Apollo, or + of Hercules. The workmanship was such, that I could not be very + certain which of the family it was intended to represent, nor + whether the principal appendage was a club, a lyre, a bow, or a + thunder-bolt; but it did not escape my observation, that the old + keeper crept as close as he could to the sacred stone, as soon as I + stepped over the threshold.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One of the + little boys that had come out to the door on our arrival, busied + himself in setting forth a wooden board, whereon he placed in great + order a huge piece of yellow cheese, and a heap of crisp white + cakes of rye. A large jug of water also garnished the mess; but + there seemed to be a little less of diligence, or more of + difficulty, about the wine. After some pause, however, the mistress + of the garrison appeared. A string of amber <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>beads floated to and fro on the ocean of + her bosom. She had fine golden bracelets on her arms too, but they + were only half seen, being almost buried in fat; and she wore a + flaxen wig, which did not entirely conceal the dark bristles below. + At the girdle of the amazon hung, on the right side, the much + desiderated bunch of keys, being balanced on the left by a dagger + and toothpick case, almost of equal dimensions.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Will <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">you</span></span> drink to Cæsar, young + man?”</span> cried the matron, ere the sitting had been much + prolonged; <span class="tei tei-q">“will you drink honestly to the + Emperor, in case you also have a full cup given you? and, by the + by, I think you must have almost as much need of it as the + rest.”</span> And, with this courteous invitation, I heard her + whisper to one of my guards,—<span class="tei tei-q">“By Jove, ’tis + a proper lad, after all; is this true that they have told me of + him? Why, I believe, the young man has a red edge to his gown. What + is his name? who is he?”</span>—I heard him answer,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“By the life of Cæsar, you know as much about him as + any of us. There was a whole cluster taken last night a little way + beyond the Capene-Gate, and he was one; but what they were about, + or who he is, I know not, only he is certainly somebody, for I saw + our Centurion salute him.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I saw + him with Sabinus,”</span> whispered the other—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I am quite sure of it, the last day the Amphitheatre + was open; they sate together, and appeared + familiar.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I pray you, sir,”</span> + quoth the lady, raising her voice,—<span class="tei tei-q">“I pray + you fill your cup, and here I pledge you to our better + acquaintance. You shake your head—well. But what must be, must; and + while you are with us, we may at least be good + friends.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Thanks,”</span> said I, + complying with her com<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg + 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>mand; <span class="tei tei-q">“Here, then, is + health to all present; and fair health to the great Trajan, says no + one here more heartily than I.”</span>—I drank off the wine, and + setting down the goblet, I believe I said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Excellent, by Jove,”</span> or something of that sort; + for they all started when they heard what I said, and the old woman + called out lustily, <span class="tei tei-q">“Fill him another cup + to the brim, whether he be Christian or not. The young man at least + swears by the gods, and drinks to Cæsar.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The old man,”</span> observed one of the + soldiers,—<span class="tei tei-q">“he that was killed the other day + in the Amphitheatre—he might have saved his head, even at the last + moment, if he would have done as much.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well, well,”</span> quoth she again; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“let every one mind his own matters. Husband, bring + down your book, and let the new-comer enter his name with his own + hand.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having drained + his cup, the keeper rose, and ere long returned with a musty scroll + of parchment, which, having blown away the dust from it, he + presented to me. I glanced over the record, and found in it the + names of various persons, all apparently entered in their own + handwriting; and most of them, as I could perceive, bearing date in + the troublous reign of Domitian. The last was that of Marcus + Protius Lamontanus, who, as it seemed, had been set free from his + confinement immediately on the accession of Nerva; and immediately + under this I wrote my own name, with that of my birthplace. The + keeper read, and said, <span class="tei tei-q">“So preserve me the + power of Jove! A Valerius! and born in Britain! Can you be the son + of the same Valerius who was Centurion in the ninth legion under + Agricola?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You have guessed + rightly—I am the same.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Then + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name= + "Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the more is the + pity,”</span> he replied, in a grave voice, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that you should have entered, in such a case as this, + the dwelling of one that was a true soldier beneath the eagle of + your father. But forgive me if in any thing we have been + disrespectful.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“There is no + occasion,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“for any such + apology. I am here as a prisoner, and have been treated with all + courtesy beyond what a prisoner could expect.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By Hercules!”</span> interrupted the spouse, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought I had some knowledge of the + face—Well, I hope ten years hence he will be as fine a man as his + father was the day he slew the Caledonian giant, and tumbled him + from his chariot in front of all the line—yes, in sight of Galgacus + himself. It was the same day,”</span> said she, turning to her + lord, <span class="tei tei-q">“that you were taken prisoner, and + driven away into the woods.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“As + witness these marks,”</span> quoth the man; and with that he + stripped open his tunic, and displayed part of his breast, stamped + with various figures of blue and yellow, after the northern + fashion, and bearing withal the traces of two formidable + wounds.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The woman + redoubled her kindness; but not wishing to interrupt festivity, I + soon requested her to shew me the place where I was to be confined. + And, indeed, as you may imagine, I had by this time not a little + need of repose.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Both she and her + husband accordingly rose to usher me to my prison. I gave money to + the soldiers, and requested them to inform Sabinus of the place to + which I had been conveyed; but did not choose to write any thing, + either to him or to Licinius, until I should have had a little time + for reflection.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name= + "Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc41" id= + "toc41"></a> <a name="pdf42" id="pdf42"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VIII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My fatigue + brought speedy sleep; and so profound, that before I again unclosed + my eyes, the calm sea was already purple below me, and the sun + about to set. But neither purple sea, nor golden sky, nor all the + divine tranquillity of the evening air, could sooth my mind into + repose, after I had once awaked to a sense of the situation into + which I had been brought—I should say rather of the situation in + which Athanasia was placed. For myself, I could not in seriousness + fear any calamity worthy of the name,—if such should come, it must + be my business to wrestle with it as I might. But to think of her, + young, beautiful, innocent; and of all to which she might be + exposed amidst the rude hands in which I had left her!</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some time had + passed before my attention was attracted by a conversation carried + on in the chamber below me, in which you will not be surprised that + I should have felt myself interested, even although the distance + was such that I could not distinguish one word that was said. I + knew from the first moment that it was impossible I should be + mistaken—I was perfectly certain it was Sabinus himself, who was + talking with the old woman; and I at once suspected that the worthy + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name= + "Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Centurion, having + learned from the soldiers who carried me off, to what place they + had conveyed me, had undertaken this speedy journey, for the + purpose of comforting me in my confinement. The kindness with which + he had treated me from the beginning of our acquaintance had been + such, that I could have no occasion to wonder at his exerting + himself to discover me; but I confess this alacrity was more than I + had been prepared for, and I waited only for the moment when he + should enter my apartment to throw myself upon his bosom, and + intrust all my troubles to him, as to a friend and a brother. There + was something, however, which I could not at all comprehend in the + merriment which seemed to be reigning below on his arrival. Peals + of female laughter interrupted the uniform hearty tone of the + Centurion’s voice; and the feeble treble of the old Warder himself + was stretched ever and anon in attempt at a chuckle.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At last in they + came, and Sabinus, embracing me affectionately, thrust into my hand + a piece of parchment, which I perceived to be nothing less than an + order for my immediate release. Then taking off his riding-cap, and + rubbing with his handkerchief his most audacious and + soldier-looking brows, <span class="tei tei-q">“My dear + boy,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I see you are going + to thank me—but wound not modesty by fine speeches. There was war + before Helen—have a better care another time, and don’t pay Rome + such a poor compliment, as to say that you can find nobody to charm + you but a Christian damsel, and no place for flirtation but a + gloomy tomb lined with urns and lachrymatories. My honest friend + here was quite frightened with the idea of having such <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>an unbelieving reprobate as they said + you were, under the same roof with her children. But now her fears + are dispelled, for good souls are always tolerant to the little + vagaries of young blood; so thank your hostess, my lad, kiss her + hand, take one cup to the hearth of the old tower, and tighten your + girdle.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well!”</span> quoth the woman; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“who should have thought when the soldiers brought him + in with such mystery, that it was all for kissing by moonlight! I + protest to Venus, they would have made me believe he had been + caught eating an infant; but still I cannot quite pardon him. + Well—well—we must e’en take good hope he will mend ere he + dies.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Die?”</span> cried the Centurion; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“do you talk of dying to one that has scarcely yet + begun to live!—Come, come, Caius, I hope, after all, you may never + get into a worse scrape.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And if I do,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I hope I shall always be equally fortunate in my + jailers.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By the beard of Jove!”</span> quoth Sabinus, + <span class="tei tei-q">“it needs no great skill to see that you + have been fortunate in that respect. I swear that, if the truth + were known, you are almost as unwilling to leave this tower now, as + you were last night to be torn away from another.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Oh, Master Kæso,”</span> quoth she again, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“when will you have done with your joking? Well, your + father loved a jest in his time himself; but now he, I suppose, is + quiet enough. And he, good old man, how does he wear?—Can he still + sit in his porch of a fine morning, and listen to the news, as he + used to do, with his cup at his knee?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I trust the old grasshopper can still chirp when the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name= + "Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sun shines. But to + tell you the truth, it is long since I have seen him; and if this + young blade has no objection, I mean to pay him a visit this very + night. I am only just come home from Britain, and have not yet had + leisure to salute my Lares.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I said something + about being anxious to return as soon as possible to Rome; but the + Centurion answered me with another shout, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, come; she’s safe enough. I suppose you think + every one gets out of jail as easily as yourself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found it was + out of the question to disapprove of any of the schemes of Sabinus; + so, having saluted the hostess, and flung my purse to her children, + (who, by the way, still regarded me with looks of apprehension,) I + accompanied him with a good grace to the gate. I made inquiry + before I went forth concerning the old jailer likewise; but I could + easily gather from the expression of face with which his wife + accompanied her indistinct reply, that he had, long before that + time, reached a state in which she felt little desire to exhibit + him. The Centurion whistled as he stepped across the threshold, and + there forthwith drew near a soldier, wearing the Prætorian helmet, + (now sufficiently familiar to my sight,) and leading in his hand + three horses. In the rear, I recognized, not without satisfaction, + the busy countenance of my friend Dromo, whose ass did not appear + quite so eager to join the party as its rider. A few sturdy thumps, + however, at last brought the Cretan close to us, who saluted me + with great appearance of joy, and then whispered into my ear, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Great Jove! we must keep silence for the + present. What a story I have to tell; and I suppose there is one to + hear <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name= + "Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>likewise—but all in + good season. We must not crack nuts before monkeys. I have a letter + for you,”</span> he added, <span class="tei tei-q">“from Sextus, + and another from Licinius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + sprung on his trusty war-horse, who seemed to rejoice in the + feeling of his weight; and we were soon in motion. I asked no + questions either about the course or distance, but rode by his side + so silently, that he bestowed on me many good-natured rebukes, for + suffering a little affair of love to distress me so greatly. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Cheer up now,”</span> quoth he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and do not make me repent of carrying you + to my father’s house, by shewing the old man, who has had enough of + troubles, such a countenance as must make him think of Orcus, even + although he did not know himself to be near its gates. It is more + than a year since I have seen him.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This sort of + speech he repeated so often, that I thought the best way would be + to tell him frankly the true history of the adventure, from whose + immediate consequences he had delivered me. I told him, therefore, + every thing about both Tisias and Athanasia, and, indeed, kept + nothing from him in the whole matter, except only what referred to + the impression made on my own mind by what I had read of the + Christian book,—for, as to this subject, it was one which I totally + despaired of being able to make him in any measure comprehend,—and + besides, the state of my own mind was still so uncertain in regard + to it, and my information so imperfect, that I could not trust + myself with speaking of it to any one, until I should have had + leisure for more both of reading and of reflection.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He preserved + silence for some minutes, and then said, <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“In truth, Caius, you + have distressed me. I thought it was merely some little frolic born + of an hour, to be forgotten in a day; but I cannot refuse you my + sympathy. Would I had more to offer!”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dear Sabinus,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I know not how to thank you. You saw me but a few days + ago the merriest young fellow that ever trod the pavement of + Rome—happy in the moments that passed, and full of glad hopes for + all that were to come; but now I feel myself quite changed. Almost + I wish I had never left my British fields; and yet I should never + have seen Athanasia.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Poor + fellow!”</span> quoth he, laying his hand on the mane of my horse, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I perceive there is, indeed, no trifling + in your case. Compose yourself; whatever chances there may be in + your favour will never be bettered by despondence.”</span> He + paused a little, and proceeded—<span class="tei tei-q">“The worst + of the whole is this new bitterness against these Christians. + Except during Nerva’s time, there was always some punishment to be + feared by them, in case of being detected; but there was a way of + managing things in almost every case, and people were well enough + disposed to grant immunities which were always attended with some + good to the Fisk. Nero and Domitian, to be sure, acted + otherwise—but these were madmen; and even they did so only by fits + and starts. But now, when a prince like Trajan has taken up the + matter, it is no wonder that one should consider it more seriously. + One cannot help fancying he must have had some good reason before + he began—that is one thing; and having once begun, he is not the + man to drop it lightly—which is a more weighty consideration. Do + you think there is positively no chance of her giving <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>up this dream, when she finds what it + has exposed her to?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“No,”</span> said I; <span class="tei tei-q">“I am sure + she will not, nor can I wish it would be otherwise with + her.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> he resumed, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + enter into your feelings so far, my friend, even on that point. I + cannot imagine you to have been so deeply smitten with a girl of a + flighty unsteady character. But then this is not a case to be + judged of on common principles. It is no light thing to be exposed + to such examinations as are now set afoot for these people; and if + she behaves herself so resolutely as you seem to expect, what is + the end of it? I consider it highly probable—for there is no + friendship in uncandid speaking—that, in spite of all her friends + can do, they will banish her at the very least; scarcely dare I + speak of it, but even worse than banishment has heretofore befallen + Romans—ay, Roman ladies too,—and these as high in birth and place + as Athanasia.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My dear Sabinus,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“do not imagine that now for the first time all these + things are suggested to me. Imagine rather, how, unable for a + moment to expel them from my mind, I have spent these miserable + hours. Her friends, too, what must not be their alarm!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The thing was so done,”</span> quoth the Centurion, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that I think it is impossible it should + have made much noise as yet. If there was in the family no + suspicion that the lady had any connection with these people, they + must be in perfect perplexity. I lay my life they take it for + granted she has had some private intrigue, and has gone off with + her lover.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg + 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“when + they hear the truth, it will be still worse than this in their + eyes. Yet it appears fit that no time should be lost in making them + acquainted with the real state of the case. O Sabinus, I foresee + that in all these things I shall have need of your counsel and your + help.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You shall have them both, my dear boy,”</span> said + he,—<span class="tei tei-q">“you shall have them both to the + uttermost. But there is no question at all about the propriety of + telling the relations all you know. Licinius is probably well + acquainted with them. I am almost sorry for having prevented your + immediate return to the city; and yet one night will soon be + over.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But Athanasia herself——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ah! that indeed is a point of some difficulty. It was + merely from having remembered who the men were that rode off with + you, that I was enabled to learn so soon whither you yourself had + been conveyed. But the party consisted of a few men out of almost + every one of our cohorts,—those, in short, that were on duty, + scattered up and down in different parts of the city; and I may not + find it very easy to discover who had the care of any other + individual.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But Athanasia——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“True,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I had + not thought of it. There was but one female besides herself. That + will furnish a clue. You may rely on it, I shall easily find out + the place to which they have taken her; but then where, and at what + distance that may be, Heaven only knows; for it seemed as if every + prisoner were to be carried to a separate place of confinement. At + all events, even if we knew where she is, we could do nothing at + present. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg + 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Come, cheer up, now you have unburdened + yourself of all this load. I shall be ready to start as early as + ever you please in the morning.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By this time the + moon was in full splendour, and nothing could be more beautiful + than the scenery of the native place of Sabinus, as we drew near to + its precincts. A little gentle stream, which kissed our path, did + not desert us as we entered the village, but murmured all through + its humble street. Street, indeed, I should not say; for there were + dwelling-houses on the one side only, the other being occupied with + gardens, in the midst of which I saw the Doric portico of a small + temple. In front of this a bridge crossed the stream, and there we + were met by a troop of maidens, who seemed to be moving toward the + sacred place with some purpose of devotion, for they were singing + in alternate measures, and in their hands they carried garlands. + Some recognized Sabinus, and, without interrupting their chant, + saluted him with their laughing eyes. We halted our horses, and saw + them proceed all together into the hallowed enclosure, which they + did, not by means of the bridge, although they were close by it, + but by wading hand in hand through the stream below; whose pebbles, + as it appeared from the evenness of their motion, dared not to + offer any violence to the delicate feet that trod upon them. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Happy creatures,”</span> said I to the + Centurion; <span class="tei tei-q">“of a surety they think these + moonbeams shine on nothing but glad faces like their own. Alas! + with what heart does poor Athanasia at this moment contemplate this + lovely heaven!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, + Valerius,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“if people were + not to be contented with their own share of sorrow, would the + world, think ye, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg + 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>be + worth living in? I hope Athanasia herself will ere long sing again + by the moonlight.—But stop, here is my own old haunt, the abode of + our village barber, and now I think of it, perhaps it might be as + well that you and Dromo should remain here for a moment, till I + ride on to the house, and let them know you are coming, for the + sudden sight of strange faces might alarm the old folks at this + hour.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He had scarcely + said so, when the tonsor himself, hearing, I suppose, the sound of + our horses’ feet, ran out with his razor and basin in his hand, to + see what might be the matter. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, good + Virro,”</span> quoth the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“with + joy do I once more behold your face. Well, the girls still sing, + and Virro still shaves; so every thing, without question, goes + well.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The Centurion + himself!”</span> replies the barber; <span class="tei tei-q">“so + Venus smile upon me, it is Kæso Sabinus, who I began to think would + never come back again.—Here, boy, bring out a cup of the best. + Alight, I pray you—well, at least, you shall kiss the rim of the + goblet.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I will,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I promise you, my good friend, and that in + a minute or two; but I must first salute my father; and, in the + meantime, I leave with you in pledge, good Virro, my excellent + friend here, and the most knowing Cretan that ever landed at + Brundusium.—Dismount, Valerius, I shall be with you again ere Virro + can half smoothen the chin of Dromo, which even this morning shewed + no small need of trimming.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well, + well,”</span> said the tonsor, <span class="tei tei-q">“eagles will + have their own way. Be speedy.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + had set the spur to his charger; and we, in obedience to his + command, submitted ourselves <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>to the guidance of the oily-faced little + barber. A stripling was already holding two horses at the door, but + another came out and took care of our animals, and we entered, + exchanging courteous salutations, the tonsorial penetralia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They were + occupied by as various and talkative a company, as the imagination + of Lucilius ever assembled in such a place. In the middle of the + room, which was spacious, though low-roofed, hung a huge shield of + brass, with a dozen mouths of flame blazing around the edge of its + circumference, close beside which sat a man with a napkin tucked + about his neck, the one side of whose visage, still besmeared with + a thick coat of lather, testified that the curiosity of Virro had + induced him to abandon a yet uncompleted job. The half-trimmed + physiognomy, however, displayed no sign of impatience, and the + barber himself seemed not to think any apology necessary, for he + resumed his operations with an air of great cheerfulness, saying, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Neighbours all, here is Kæso Sabinus, that + is now the Centurion, come once more to gladden the old village + with his merry face, and that, I promise you, is prettily tanned + since we knew him first.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This piece of + news appeared not a little to interest several of those who were + sitting under the tonsor’s roof. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ha!”</span> said one, <span class="tei tei-q">“the + noble Centurion! Well, has he brought home a wife with him at last? + for the talk was, that he had been seen at the Amphitheatre, paying + great court to one of the richest ladies in Rome.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“A wife?”</span> says Virro, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“no, no, centurions and barbers can do without wives. + But if he is to have one, I shall be happy to hear she is rich; for + centurions, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg + 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>after all, sometimes carry most of their + silver upon their helmets, as we do most of our brass on our + basins.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed,”</span> said I, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I never heard of it before.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“If it please you, friend,”</span> said another of + them, <span class="tei tei-q">“is this the same Sabinus that has + lately been in Britain?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Britain,”</span> quoth an ancient dame; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I never heard that name before—Britain! I know it + not—I know not where he hath been, but they told me it was over the + sea, perhaps in Palestine.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Tut, + dame,”</span> interrupted the barber, (who was now busy on Dromo,) + <span class="tei tei-q">“you think every one goes to Palestine, + because your own boy carried a spear with Titus; but you know they + ruined the city, and killed all the Jews and Christians, and there + is no occasion for sending Centurions thither + now.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Killed all the Jews and + Christians, said you?”</span> quoth another. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I think the old dame has the better of you as to that + point at least, Virro. Not Trajan himself will ever be able to kill + them all; the superstition spreads like a pestilence. It was but + last night that a hundred of them were taken together in one place, + eating human flesh.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Human + flesh!”</span> quoth the barber. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, ye + gods, why do ye endure such barbarians!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Human flesh!”</span> echoed Dromo, springing from his + seat, and I looked at him, and saw that the barber in his horror + had made in truth a deep incision upon the cheek of the poor man. + The blood, oozing from the cut, had already traced a river of + crimson upon the snowy surface of his well-soaped chin. It was this + that had deranged the philosophic composure and customary phlegm of + my Cretan; and no wonder; but the enthusiastic tonsor took no + notice of what had occurred.—<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“Great Jove,”</span> + he proceeded, and he pointed to the roof with his razor as he + spake—<span class="tei tei-q">“Great Jove! I adjure thee! are all + thy lightnings spent; is there never a thunderbolt + remaining?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In the meantime,”</span> quoth one of the bystanders, + <span class="tei tei-q">“they are in the hand not of Jove, but of + Trajan, and he, I think, cannot now be accused of treating these + wretches with too much lenity. You have all heard of that + Tisias?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“We have,”</span> cried + another; <span class="tei tei-q">“but what was a single individual + to this great assembly? what a sight will it be the day they are + all executed!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I think,”</span> said the same person who had inquired + whether our Centurion were the Sabinus that had been in + Britain,—<span class="tei tei-q">“I think you are overrating the + numbers of that assembly. I heard of no more than a + dozen.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This stranger + (for such he seemed) had probably taken that day a considerable + journey, for his tunic and boots were covered with dust. He was + attired in the plainest manner, but notwithstanding, there was + something about him which gave one the idea of rank superior to the + company in which he was seated; and his complexion was so dark that + I could not help thinking to myself,—I am not the only provincial + in the room; here is certainly some well-born African or + Asiatic.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You have not told me, however,”</span> said he, after + a pause, <span class="tei tei-q">“whether or not this be the + Sabinus that was lately in Britain.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is + the same; I myself came in the same ship with him, but a few days + ago. He is a Centurion in the Prætorian Bands.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> replied the stranger, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I guessed in truth, it must be the same; for I + remember no other of that <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg + 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>rank bearing the same + name.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“If you are acquainted with + him,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“you may have an + opportunity of seeing him immediately, for I expect him here every + moment to conduct me to his father’s villa, which is hard + by.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> quoth the barber, who by this time had + ended, without fresh misadventure, the trimming of the + Cretan—<span class="tei tei-q">“well, I hope he will stay for a + moment when he does come, and then we shall be sure to hear the + truth as to this story about the Christian assembly. They may talk + as they please, but may Jove devote me, if I had Cæsar’s ring upon + my finger for one night, this should be the last of + them.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“And how, friend,”</span> + said the stranger, <span class="tei tei-q">“by what means, if I may + ask you, should you propose so speedily to do away with this + fast-spreading abomination?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Look + ye, sirs,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I would place + myself thus in my tribunal”</span>—(he took his seat at a little + table, beside a goblet of wine, as he spake,) <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I would seat myself thus in the midst of a field, as + Cato and the great Censors of old used to do. I would cause Rome to + be emptied—man, woman, and child should pass before me; and every + one that did not acknowledge the gods as he passed, by all the + gods! he should sprawl upon a tree in presence of all the people. + What avails watching, prying, spying, and surprising? I should make + shorter work of it, I trow.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You may say what you will,”</span> said one who had + not before spoken, <span class="tei tei-q">“I cannot bring myself + to believe every thing I hear concerning their + superstition.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, + goldsmith,”</span> quoth the barber, <span class="tei tei-q">“you + were always fond of having an opinion of your own; and, pray, what + is it that you have had occasion to know about the <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Christians, more than the rest of us who + hear you? If you mean that you have seen some of them die bravely + in the Amphitheatre, why, that we have all heard of at least, and I + think nobody disputes it.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“No, + master barber,”</span> replied he, <span class="tei tei-q">“that is + not what I was thinking of. I have seen your common thief-knave, + when he knew he could do no better, brace you his nerves for the + extremity, and die like a Hercules. I would rather judge of a man + by his living than his dying.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“True,”</span> rejoins Virro; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and pray, what have you got to tell us about the life, + then, of the Christians?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Not + much,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“you shall hear. My + old mother (peace to her manes) was passing the Salarian one day + last year, and there came by a hot-headed spark, driving four + abreast in a chariot as fiercely as Nero in the Circus. He called + out, that I believe, but the dame was deaf, and whether he tried to + pull up, I know not, but the horses trod upon her as she fell. + Another of the same sort came close behind, and I have been told + they were running a race; but however that might be, on they both + passed like a whirlwind, and my poor mother was left by herself + among the flying dust. But the gods had mercy on her; they sent a + kind heart to her aid. She was carried into one of the stateliest + villas on that side of Tiber, and tended for six weeks by a noble + lady, as if she had been not my mother, but her own; and this lady, + friends—by Jove I suspected it not for long after—this lady was a + Christian; but I shall not say how I found it out, nor would I + mention the thing at all but among honest men. But where were these + you spoke of taken?—I should like to know who they + were.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“They were taken,”</span> said the stranger, + <span class="tei tei-q">“not far from <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>the Appian Way, within one of the old + monuments there,—a monument, it is said, of the + Sempronii.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Of the + Sempronii?”</span> cried the goldsmith, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Phœbus Apollo shield us!”</span> and from that moment + he became as silent as hitherto he had been communicative.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The swarthy + stranger, the silence yet continuing, arose from his seat, laid a + piece of money upon the table, and moved towards the door. The + barber also rose up, but he said to him, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sit still, I pray you, my friend;”</span> at the same + time beckoning with his finger to the goldsmith, who, with a very + dejected countenance, followed him into the street. What passed + between them there, we perceived not; but the artificer re-entered + not the chamber till some moments after we had heard the departing + tread of the stranger’s horses. When he did come in again, he had + the appearance of being in great confusion.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name= + "Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc43" id= + "toc43"></a> <a name="pdf44" id="pdf44"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IX.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shortly after + Sabinus reappeared, and bidding adieu to our tonsor, we walked with + him towards the paternal mansion,—and we soon reached it; for, as I + have already said, it was but a little way out from the + village.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The dwelling was + modest enough, having no external ornament but a single portico, + with a few statues ranged between its pillars. We entered by this + portico, and found the feeble old man sitting by himself in an + apartment immediately adjacent, wherein the beams of the moon, + having partial access, were mingled with the subdued light of a + painted lamp suspended from the ceiling. The father of my friend + had all the appearance of sinking apace; yet he received me with an + air, not of cheerfulness, but of kindness. The breeze found + admission through the open pillars, and his countenance exhibited + in its wan and faint lines the pleasure with which the coolness + affected him. Beside him were placed baskets of roses, gathered + from the abundance of his gardens. The young Vernæ, who from time + to time brought in these flowers, came into the chamber with a + decent appearance of sobriety and concern; but they were never long + gone before we could hear them <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>laughing again at their play.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Poor children,”</span> quoth the old man; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“why should they trouble themselves with thinking of + the not remote victim of Orcus?”</span>—To which the Centurion + replied, somewhat softening that loud and cheerful tone with which + he was accustomed to address all persons—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Courage, my dear father, you must not speak so. + Cerberus, I perceive, has only been making an ineffectual snap at + you, and you will be growing younger after all this.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At which the old + man shook his head, without any external sign of emotion, and + replied, in a low monotonous voice,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Younger in the wrong way, my boy; for I become every + day smaller in body, and feebler, and less able to do any thing to + help myself. Nor am I unconscious that I have seen my due + proportion of time. And yet, oh! fast sliding gentle brook, which I + see between these paternal trees—I am still loath to exchange thee + for Styx, and to lose the cheerful and sacred light of the sun and + moon. I wish only I were once more able to repair with thy stream + to the banks of father Tiber, that I might salute the good Emperor, + who has been so kind to my son, and who would treat even an old + broken-down, and long-retired soldier, like myself, with more + favour than is to be expected from Rhadamanthus. As clouds let down + their drops, so the many-peopled earth lets fall dismissed ghosts + upon the Stygian shore.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While he was + saying things in the same strain, an ancient Egyptian, who seemed + to have the chief management of every thing, came into the chamber, + and after desiring some of the boys to bring forth refreshments, + took his place on a low stool by the foot of his master’s + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name= + "Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>couch. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come, Tarna,”</span> said the Centurion, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“what has become of all your philosophy? Why do you not + inspire our friend with less of gloominess? Why is it that you do + not bring out for his use some of those old stories, with which, + when I was young, you were more willing to treat my ears than they + were to attend?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> said the invalid, before the Egyptian + could make any answer,—<span class="tei tei-q">“I liked well to + listen to his Epicurean theories when I was able to walk about the + fields; but now I would rather have him be silent. Do not trouble + me any more, good Tarna, with any of your speeches. Allow me to + believe as all my fathers did, and to contemplate not only the + sepulchre in which their urns are placed, but the same dim regions + in which many dear shades expect the greeting of a + descendant.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“To me,”</span> said the slave modestly, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“it still seems, that by the rushing shower of atoms + which moves every where through space, the mind is soothed, as by + the sound of a great river carrying continually the watery + offspring of the mountains into the bosom of ocean. The mind, sirs, + appears to me to be calmed by the contemplation of infinity, even + as the ear of an Egyptian sleeper is calmed by the eternal music of + rolling Nilus. It mingles itself with that which it contemplates; + it perceives—it feels itself to be a liquid part of that vast + endless stream of universal being: a part which has been casually + arrested and detained, but which will soon mingle again and be + scattered away in a thousand fragments, to wander, no one knows + whither, through the great all-receiving void—not to lose + existence, for in that my dear master entirely <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>misunderstands me—but to cease from + feeling as a Sabinus, or a Tarna.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man kept + regarding his Egyptian with a placid smile; but I could not help + interposing: <span class="tei tei-q">“What is this you have said? + Do you assert that I can cease to be Valerius, to feel as Valerius, + and yet not lose my existence? Can I <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">be</span></span>, and + yet not be <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">myself</span></span>?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most easily,”</span> replied he; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the divided fragments may move about for a thousand + years, before it befall any of them to be stopped in some future + combination of atoms. These, it is manifest, only tremble and + suffer when they form part of a soul, but are immediately released + from all pain or mischance, when this confinement and cohesion are + at an end, and they, being dispersed, regain liberty and wander + about singly, as of yore; for, as our great dispeller of delusion + says—When death is, we are not. If, therefore, Sabinus shrinks from + the fear of death, it is an idle fear. Does he not perceive that + when death arrives, Sabinus is no longer to be found. Whatever its + effects may be, they must affect not him, but an army of + innumerable disjointed essences, in no one of which could he by any + means be able to recognize himself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“To make a short story out of a very long one,”</span> + interrupted the Centurion; <span class="tei tei-q">“life, you + think, is not worthy of the name of existence—that being so, it is + no wonder you should think lightly of death.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Mistake me not,”</span> quoth the sage; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“no—life <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">is</span></span> existence; I not only admit + that, but I assert that it is the business of every man, and the + sole true object of wisdom, to render life, while it endures, + pleasant. Earthly pleasure consists in a bland juxta-position of + atoms <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name= + "Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>necessarily, though + not permanently, connected; the removal of pain implies that + quiescence which pervades the nobleness of the unenclosed + <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-variant: small-caps">All</span></span>. To exist in this + shape, we are compelled; it is our business to render our existence + as near an approach to felicity as we may.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Fill your cup, Tarna,”</span> quoth the Centurion; + <span class="tei tei-q">“I am no great philosopher, yet methinks I + can see the drift of this part of your story. Fill up your goblet, + most venerable Epicurean, and see (if it be not below your + dignity,) whether the atoms, which, by a fortuitous and temporary + juxta-position have formed your throat, will not feel their corners + very philosophically softened by the rushing of a little rivulet of + good Falernian—one cup of which, saving your presence, I hold to be + more worthy of wetting my guttural atoms, than all the water that + ever sported its music between Memphis and Alexandria.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While the slave + and the Centurion were thus discoursing, the old man appeared to + taste, as it were, the pleasure of a renovated existence, in + contemplating the brown health and strong muscular fabric of the + inheritor of his name. The hearty masculine laugh with which my + friend usually concluded his observations, was, I take leave to + think, richer music to his ears than ever Egyptian heard in the + dark rollings of the Nile, or Epicurean dreamt of in the airy dance + of atoms. I suspect he was more reconciled to the inevitable stroke + of fate, by considering that he was to leave such a representative + behind him, than by any argument which his own superstition, or the + philosophy of his attendant, could suggest. In return for this + obvious <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg + 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>admiration, the Centurion, without question, + manifested every symptom of genuine affection. Yet, I think, the + instinctive consciousness of his own strength made the piety of the + robust son assume an air more approaching to that of patronage, + than might have been altogether becoming. If such a fault there + were, however, it escaped the notice of the invalid, who continued, + till Tarna insisted upon his retiring, to gaze upon my friend, and + listen to his remarks, with looks of exultation.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + withdrew with his father, so that I was left alone with Tarna for + some time; and it was then that, in my juvenile simplicity, I could + not help expressing my surprise at finding in servile condition a + man possessed of such acquirements as his, and addicted to such + pursuits.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It would argue little,”</span> he replied, + <span class="tei tei-q">“in favour of such pursuits, if they tended + only to make me repine at the place which has been allotted me—no + matter whether by the decree of fate, or the caprice of fortune. + And after all, I am not of opinion that any such external + circumstances can much affect the real happiness of any one. Give + to him that has been born a slave, what men are pleased to call his + freedom; in a few weeks he will become so much accustomed to the + boon, that he will cease to think of it. Heap wealth upon him; to + wealth also he will gradually become habituated. Rank—power—with + all it is the same. It is in the mind only that the seat of + happiness is placed; and there it never can be, unless in + companionship with thoughts that look down upon, and despise being + affected by trifling things.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255" id="Pg255" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And are such,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the views of all those who follow your + sect?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I wish it were so,”</span> he replied; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“but ere you remain long in the city, you will meet + with not a few, philosophers only in the name, who, having small + means of subsistence, but being desirous of leading a luxurious and + agreeable life, become teachers of such doctrines as may accord + best with the vicious inclinations of those who are most likely to + entertain them. These persons assume too often the name of + Epicureans. They are seen every where at feasts crowned with + myrtle, and fawning upon gouty senators; and whenever a boar’s-head + appears, they are sure to call it worthy of Meleager. Their + conversation is made up of stale jests about Charon and his boat, + and the taking of Auguries; and, when finally inebriated, they roll + upon the ground like those animals, to whom, in consequence of the + proceedings of such hypocritical pretenders, the ignorant have + dared too often to liken the wisest of mankind. Such things I + disdain—I am satisfied to remain, as I was born, in the rank of + Æsop, Epictetus, Terence.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By this time the + Centurion had returned. He had a lamp in his hand; and he + interrupted our conversation. <span class="tei tei-q">“Come, we + start betimes, Caius; and you too, my sweet cock of Cyrene, I think + you had better fold your wings, and compose yourself upon your + roost.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Oh, enviable + temperament! said I to myself—you liken the slave to a bird. + Methinks yourself are more deserving of the simile. The light and + the air of heaven are sufficient to make you happy—your wings + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name= + "Pg256" id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>are ever strong—their + flight ever easy—and the rain of affliction glides off them as fast + as it falls. Sleep softly, kind heart. It is only the troubles of a + friend that can ever disturb your serenity.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page257">[pg 257]</span><a name= + "Pg257" id="Pg257" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc45" id= + "toc45"></a> <a name="pdf46" id="pdf46"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER X.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was in bed + before Dromo interrupted my reflections by saying, in a low tone of + considerable confidence, <span class="tei tei-q">“And now, Master + Valerius, do you still continue, as much as two days ago, to + disbelieve in philtres and despise enchantresses? You see what, + with all my precaution, has come of this connection between + Rubellia and the Neapolitan.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In truth, Dromo,”</span> I replied, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“it is visible that Pona had some share in leading the + soldiers to the Sempronian Sepulchre; but I am doubtful if that had + any thing to do with the private affairs of the lady Rubellia. As + to that matter, I confess myself entirely in the + dark.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dark indeed,”</span> quoth + he, <span class="tei tei-q">“must your observation have been, if + you have yet to learn that, but for that accursed witch, nothing of + all this had befallen; but if there be an edict against the + Christians, there are twenty laws against sorcery; and that both + Pona and she that consulted her shall know well ere long, if they + do not as yet know it; or may Cretan change places with + Bœotian!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Say on, good + Dromo,”</span> I replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“I am all ears; + and as you appear to have been all eyes, I shall probably soon be + more enlightened.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I am + glad to find that you are <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page258">[pg + 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in + a mood to listen to me decently. You remember where I took my + station when you mounted those unfortunate steps upon the tower. I + had not stood there many minutes before I heard somebody + approaching; and having no doubt it was Rubellia, I was preparing + myself for giving her such a salutation as I thought would put a + speedy end to her wandering for that night. On came the steps, but + no Rubellia. No; it was Xerophrastes himself; and although he had + laid aside the Greek mantle, and donned a boatman’s black cloak for + the nonce, I promise you I knew his stately gait well enough + beneath all these new trappings. It was no part of my job, however, + to attempt frightening the stoic.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“And so you let him pass without doing any + thing?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I did; I confess I gave one + or two groans after he had gone on a few paces, but I did not + observe him much quicken his walk, and I believe, to do the man + justice, he set it all down to the wind rustling among the trees. + But I thought not much of him at all, to speak the truth; for, said + I to myself, Well, if it be as I have suspected for these two + blessed days, and this master long-beard is really in league with + the widow, the chances are, she herself is not far behind him. I + lay by, therefore, and expected in silence till I should hear + another tread; and in the meantime I spoke to you once or twice + across the path, but you made me no answer, for which you know your + own reasons.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“The reason,”</span> + said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“was a very simple one, I assure + you. I had fallen asleep, and no wonder, for you know how long I + had been a watcher.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> + said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I guessed as much, and it was + nothing but the born tenderness of my dispo<span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name="Pg259" id="Pg259" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>sition, which made me cease from offering you + any disturbance. I thought I should surely be enough single-handed + for the widow; and besides, in case of need, I knew your waking + would always be in my power.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Admirably reasoned, Dromo,”</span> said I; + <span class="tei tei-q">“and so it seems no need came, for you + certainly never awakened me; for which I may thank the bonds from + which the Centurion’s kindness has just set me free. But you have + atoned abundantly—I pray you, get on with your tale.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Presently,”</span> he resumed, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I heard footsteps, indeed, my good master, and not + footsteps alone, but voices; and I moved from the place as hastily + as I could, till I came to a tree, the branches of which, springing + low on the trunk, offered an opportunity for mounting, which I + should have been a Bœotian indeed had I neglected. I mounted, and + hiding myself as well as I could among the boughs, awaited the + arrival of the party, which consisted—ay, stare if you will—of + Xerophrastes and the widow, walking in front, in earnest talk by + themselves,—and the Neapolitan in the rear. They halted, and though + they spoke low, I could hear them distinctly.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“And what, in the name of Heaven, said + they?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘Are you sure,’</span> said + the widow, <span class="tei tei-q">‘that this is indeed the girl + whom Sextus went to see at the Villa? Can there be no + mistake?’</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">‘Mistake, lady, there is + none,’</span> replied the Stoic. <span class="tei tei-q">‘Pona was + at the villa with her basket, and she saw them all walking together + in the garden.’</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">‘And this little + Christian,’</span> said the lady as if to herself, <span class= + "tei tei-q">‘it is she that has cost me all this <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name="Pg260" id="Pg260" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>trouble! It is for this Athanasia that I + have been insulted as never woman was by man, and they are both + here in the tower!’</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">‘They are, + lady,’</span> quoth the witch; <span class="tei tei-q">‘they are + both in the tower, for I saw her go in by her self first, and then + in went some dozen of those muffled blasphemers, and, last of all, + went in he himself. I saw him not enter indeed, but I swear to you, + that I saw him here not twenty paces from hence, and he had with + him that cunning slave of his, (meaning myself, sir,) whose ugly + face, (the foul woman added,) I would know although it were + disguised beneath all the washes that were ever mixed in the + seething-pots of Calabria.’</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">‘But + what,’</span> interrupted our long-beard, <span class= + "tei tei-q">‘what will Licinius say? At least, my lady and my + friend Pona will take good care that no suspicion rests upon me. + Sextus is a silly boy, without taste, judgment, or discretion; but + Licinius is acute and powerful.’</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">‘Fear not,’</span> said Rubellia; <span class= + "tei tei-q">‘fear not, dear Xerophrastes. Nobody shall appear in + the matter except Pona, and she tells you she has already given + warning at the Capene Gate. There are always a hundred men + stationed on the Cœlian. Nothing can save them!’</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“These words were scarcely out of her mouth, ere the + soldiers were heard approaching. Xerophrastes ascended with great + agility a tree just over against mine; Rubellia retreated among the + pines; and Pona alone awaited the guard. I would have periled a + limb to have been able to give you the alarm; but little did I + suspect, that had I sought you where I left you, I should have + sought in vain.—How, I pray you, did you contrive to get into the + accursed tower?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I told him I + should give him the story another time <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page261">[pg 261]</span><a name="Pg261" id="Pg261" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>at full length, and mentioned briefly what had + occurred. And then the Cretan proceeded with his narrative.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I leave you to guess, Valerius, how my heart beat when + I saw the witch lead the soldiers straight to the place where I + supposed you were still sitting—with what anxiety I saw the tower + surrounded—its tenants brought out,—with what astonishment I saw + you led out, the last of their number.—I had neither time to think + by what means all this had happened, nor the least power to + interfere. I saw you all mounted—guarded—borne away. Whither they + carried you, I was unable to make the smallest conjecture. I saw + Sabinus speak to you, and then I had hope,—but that too failed. In + brief, I did not venture from my tree till the whole assembly, not + forgetting Xerophrastes, had departed; and you may judge what a + story I had to tell Sextus when I reached home.</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Instead of waiting to ponder and hesitate, as he used + to do when his own matters perplexed him, he went from me straight + to his father. But before they had done with their conversation, + Sabinus himself arrived, and he was immediately taken into the same + chamber where they were. Licinius and he went out together soon + afterwards, and I think they walked towards the Palatine; but + whithersoever they went, they had a good deal of work before them, + for the day had advanced considerably before they returned. The + Centurion’s horses were brought to the door shortly after; my + master desired me to accompany him; and gave me letters for you, + which I had almost forgotten to deliver.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such was the + story of the faithful Cretan. The letter of Licinius I have still + preserved:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg + 262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Since our Sabinus desires that I should write to you, + although his own kindness renders it unnecessary that I should do + so, I cannot refuse. I understand little, my Valerius, of what has + brought you into this condition, from which, not without difficulty + overcome, you are, notwithstanding, speedily to be delivered. I + guess, that hastiness of various sorts, not, however, entirely + without excuse in a person of your age, has been the means of + implicating you in the affairs of a sect, equally unworthy of your + communication, whether you consider the country in which their + superstition originated, or the barbarities with which it is + stained. But even for beauty, my young friend, it becomes not a + Roman, least of all a Valerius, to forget what is due to the laws + of Rome, and the will of the Prince. Consider with yourself how + nearly you have escaped serious evil. Return to us, and forget what + has passed, except for the lesson it must teach you. Of Rubellia + and Xerophrastes I am unwilling to believe, without farther + examination, what has been told me by my slave Dromo. We shall + speak of that and other matters, when (which I hope will be early + to-morrow) you once more give me the pleasure of seeing you. I have + then much to say. Farewell.”</span></p> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263" + id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="pdf47" id= + "pdf47"></a> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <a name="toc48" id="toc48"></a> <a name="pdf49" id="pdf49"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">BOOK III. CHAPTER + I.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Day was far + advanced before the Centurion and myself once more drew near to the + city. When we reached the first declivity beyond the Anio, the sun + was about to sink behind the Janicular. The innumerable sounds of + the capital, blended together into one mighty whisper, seemed only + to form part of the natural music of the air, and might almost have + been confounded with the universal hum of insects. We rode slowly + down the hill, the base of which is ever darkened by the solemn + groves of the Appian.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We advanced in + silence through that region of melancholy magnificence. I scarcely + knew whether I should be able of myself to recognize, among so many + similar edifices, the mausoleum of the Sempronii, and some feeling + rendered me unwilling to put any questions concerning it to + Sabinus.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But while we + were moving leisurely, we heard of a sudden a clang of cymbals + among the trees, a little to the right hand, and the Centurion, + saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“What company can this be?”</span> + led the way down a narrow path branching from the main road. This + path was winding and dusky, being edged on either side with + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg 264]</span><a name= + "Pg264" id="Pg264" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>pines and cypresses, + so that for some space we saw nothing; and the cymbals having + ceased again, the Centurion said, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + suppose it is some funeral; they have probably completed every + thing, and have seen out the last gleam among the embers. Let us + get on, for perhaps we may be kept back by their procession, if + they are already returning.”</span> We quickened our pace + accordingly, till a sharp turning of the road discovered to us a + great number of persons who were standing silent, as if in + contemplation of some ceremony. Several persons on horseback + seemed, like ourselves, to have had their progress interrupted; but + they were sitting quietly, and making no complaint. The silence of + the whole assembly was indeed such, that Sabinus motioned to me to + ask no questions, adding, in a whisper, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Take off your cap; it is some religious rite—every + body is uncovered.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion, + however, was not a person to be stopped thus, without wishing to + understand farther the cause of the interruption. The one side of + the road was guarded by a high wall, to the top of which a number + of juvenile spectators had climbed;—the other by a ditch of great + breadth, and full of water, beyond which was a grove of trees; and + I saw him eyeing the ditch, as if considering whether, by passing + it, it might not be possible, without disturbing the crowd, to get + nearer the object of their attention, or at least to make progress + in our journey. At last he beckoned to me to follow him, and the + bold equestrian at one leap passed easily. I imitated the example, + and so did the Prætorian soldier, his attendant, who had now come + up to us; but as for Dromo, he was obliged to remain + behind.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg + 265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ere we reached + the bottom of the declivity, I perceived that we had come close to + the Sempronian monument, and that the ceremony, whatever it might + be, was taking place in front of the tower. We gave our horses to + the soldier, and contrived to gain the bank over against it—the + same place, in fact, where the Cretan slave had taken his station + among the pine-trees, on the night when all those things occurred + of which I have spoken to you. Like him, we placed ourselves as + quietly as we could behind the trees, and, indeed, for our purpose, + there could have been no better situation. We were contented, + however, to occupy it as much as possible without attracting + observation; for it was evident, in spite of the curiosity that + detained so great a multitude near at hand, there must be something + mysterious or ominous of nature in that which was taking place, + since not one of the crowd had dared to come forward, so as to be + within hearing of the officiators.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And these, + indeed, were a melancholy group. For men, and women, and children + of every age, to the number it may be of an hundred, appeared all + standing together in garments of black; while, in the midst of + them, and immediately by the base of the tower, two or three veiled + priests, with their necessary assistants, seemed to be preparing + for sacrifice a black bull, whose hoofs spurned the dust as they + held him, and his gilded horns glittered in the light of the + declining sun. Sabinus no sooner discovered the arrangement of the + solemn company, than he whispered to me, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Be sure, these are all the kindred of the Sempronii. + Without question they have come to purify the mausoleum, and + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page266">[pg 266]</span><a name= + "Pg266" id="Pg266" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to avert the + vengeance of the violated Manes. Behold,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that stately figure, close to the head of + the animal on the right hand; that, I know, is Marcia Sempronia, + Priestess of Apollo. Without doubt, these by her are her + brothers.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Some of her near relations they must be,”</span> I + made answer; <span class="tei tei-q">“for observe you that girl + whose face is wrapped in her mourning veil, and whose sobs are + audible through all its folds? I had one glimpse of her + countenance, and I am sure it is young Sempronia, the cousin and + companion of Athanasia,—the daughter of Lucius the + senator.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Poor girl,”</span> replied Sabinus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“from my heart I pity her. They are all joining hands, + that the nearest of the kindred touching the priest, his deed may + appear manifestly to be the deed of all.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At this moment, + one of the officiators sounded a few mournful notes upon a trumpet. + The priest who held the axe, clave at one blow the front of the + bull. The blood streamed, and wine streamed with it abundantly upon + the base of the mausoleum; and then, while we were yet gazing on + the convulsions of the animal, the trumpet sounded a second time, + and the whole company sung together, the priest leading them.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The shadows of + the tower and of the pine trees lay strongly upon them, and I + thought there was something of a very strange contrast between the + company and their chant, on the one hand, and the beautiful + sculptures, full of all the emblems of life and happiness, on the + other, with which, according to the gay dreams of Grecian fancy, + the walls of the funereal edifice itself had here and there been + garnished. Fauns, and torch-<span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page267">[pg 267]</span><a name="Pg267" id="Pg267" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>bearing nymphs, and children crowned with + garlands, and wreathed groups and fantastic dances, seemed to + enliven almost to mockery the monumental marbles; but one felt the + real gloominess both of death and of superstition, in the attitudes + and accents of the worshippers. It was thus they sung:—</p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Ye Gods infernal! hear us from the gloom + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Of venerable depths remote, unseen; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hear us, ye guardians of the stained tomb, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Majestic Pluto—and thou, Stygian Queen, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + On the dark bosom leaning of great Dis— + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Thou reconciled Star of the <a name="corr267" id="corr267" + class="tei tei-anchor" style= + "text-align: left"></a><span class="tei tei-corr" style= + "text-align: left">Abyss</span>. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Blood, not for you, unholy hands have poured, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Ye heard the shriek of your insulted shrine; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Barbarian blasphemies, and rites abhorred, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Pollute the place that hath been long divine; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Borne from its wounded breast an atheist cry + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hath pierced the upper and the nether sky. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + With blood of righteous sacrifice again + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The monumental stone your suppliants lave. + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Behold the dark-brow’d bull—Behold him slain! + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Accept, ye powers of the relenting grave, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The sable current of that vital stream; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And let the father’s hope upon the children gleam. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And ye, that in the ever dusky glades + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Of Hades, wandering by Cocytus’ shore, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Ancestral spirits—melancholy shades— + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + With us the tresspass of the tomb deplore; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Oh! intercede—that terror and disgrace + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + May not possess (as now) your resting-place. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + What though the liquid serpent of the deep + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Between lie coil’d in many a glittering ring: + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Not unobserved of your pale eyes we weep, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Nor to deaf ears this doleful chant we sing; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Strong is the voice of blood through night to go, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Through night and hell, and all the realms below. + </div> + </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page268">[pg 268]</span><a name= + "Pg268" id="Pg268" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Then hear us, kindred spirits—stately Sire + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And pensive Mother! wheresoe’er ye glide; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + If ever solemn pile and soaring fire + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In freedom sped you to the Stygian tide,— + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Have pity on your children: let the breath + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Of living sorrow melt the frozen ear of death. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + For Her that, sprung like us from your high line, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hath mingled in the sacrifice of guilt, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Ye know that angry star, her natal sign, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + To expiate whose curse this blood is spilt; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + If not suffices this atoning blood, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Oh, steep the thought of her in Lethe’s flood. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Beneath that current lazy and serene, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In whose unfathomable waters lie + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The slumbering forms of horrors that have been + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky— + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + With long forgotten curse and murder old, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Steep that lost daughter’s errors manifold. + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns. + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Despise not our lustrations of your urns, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes! + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Above the children of your lineage born, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hover not, awful ghosts, in anger and in scorn. + </div> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These words were + sung, as I have said, by the whole of this kindred there assembled + together; the first part of them distinctly, though not loudly; but + the last verses in a note so low, that no one, unless quite near, + (like ourselves,) could have comprehended their meaning. But as for + the young Sempronia, when they came to that part of the chant in + which reference was so particularly made to Athanasia, not only did + her lips refuse to join in the words, but her agitation was such + that I thought the poor maiden would have screamed <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>outright, had she not been controlled by + the eye, and the hand also, of her aunt the Priestess. Sobs, + however, and low hysterical groans, could not be stifled; and at + last so great was her agony, that even the haughty Priestess was + compelled to give way to it.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Bring water,”</span> said she; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“dash ye water upon the foolish thing: methinks it + seems almost as if she had partaken in the frenzy of her + unhappy——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And before she + could finish the sentence, one or two of the females that were + present did take hold of Sempronia, and began, seeing there was no + water nearer at hand, to bear her slender form towards the small + stream of which I have already spoken, and which flowed immediately + behind the clump of pine trees, amongst which the Centurion and I + were standing.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She was quite + passive in their hands; and they dragged her without resistance or + difficulty to the place where we were standing; but they could not + pass without seeing us: and no sooner did the eyes of Sempronia + fall upon me, than she burst by one unexpected effort from the arms + of those that were sustaining her, and ere I or any one could + suspect what she was to do, there lay she at my feet, clinging with + her arms around my knees. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, + Valerius,”</span> said she—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear + Valerius, they curse Athanasia! Where is my Athanasia? whither have + they taken her? Oh, tell me, that I may go to her—that I may go to + comfort Athanasia!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Peace!”</span> said, before I could answer, the + Priestess of Apollo—<span class="tei tei-q">“Peace, mad, wretched + thing,—has infatuation blasted the whole of our line?”</span> And + she seized Sempronia by the arm, and compelled her to spring from + her knees. But the maiden still clung by her <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>hands to me, and continued, with looks + and words of misery, to demand from me that knowledge which, alas! + I would myself have given so much to possess. Sabinus, however, + smote me on the shoulder, as if to make me recollect myself; and I + had resolution enough not to betray the feelings with which I + listened to Sempronia’s frantic supplication.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“What is this, sir?”</span> then said the + Priestess—<span class="tei tei-q">“What is it that you know of + Athanasia? and why is it that you have presumed to witness the + secret sacrifice of a noble race?—Speak—or is there no meaning in + this poor girl’s frenzy? And yet, methinks I have seen you before, + and that, too, in the presence of——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It was,”</span> said I, hastily—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“it was indeed in the presence of Athanasia; but that + circumstance, if you please to remember, was altogether accidental. + I was with the lady Rubellia when you found her in the Temple of + Apollo——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> said she, <span class="tei tei-q">“it was + that same day when she refused to name the name of Phœbus in his + own precincts! Ha! little did I imagine what thoughts were in her + breast—else might we at least have been spared this open + degradation. And yet you, methinks, saluted Athanasia.—What is your + name, sir?—Know you, in truth, whither the lady Athanasia has been + conveyed?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“He was with her!—he was with her!”</span> exclaimed + Sempronia,—<span class="tei tei-q">“he was with her in the tower + when the soldiers came.—O Valerius! tell me where she is now,—into + what dungeon have they cast my friend—my sister——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ha!”</span> quoth the Priestess, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“he was with her in the + tower!—Romans—kinsmen—Lucius—Marcus—hear <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>ye this? I charge ye, seize upon this + treacherous blasphemer!—It is he that has deceived Athanasia; and + now must he come here to taint the smoke of our sacrifice, and + pollute our prayers with his presence.—Seize him!”</span>—And she + herself grasped my cloak as she spake—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Seize, I charge ye, this accursed + Christian!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But Sabinus, + when he saw the Priestess thus furious, stept forward, and said to + her kinsmen, who were standing in perplexity behind her, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Sirs, I beseech you, be not you also + carried away with this madness.—My friend here knows nothing of the + lady Athanasia, except that she was borne away by soldiers from the + very place where we are standing. I myself witnessed it also, being + here with the Prætorians. Valerius is no more a Christian than she + who accuses him.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I know not, sirs, how we are to understand all + this,”</span> said one of the Sempronii, in a calm voice. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Is this young man the same Valerius who is + living in the house of Licinius?—Yet it must be he. I have been + with Licinius this very day; and if this be he, whatever he may + have known before, I am sure he knows nothing of where Athanasia is + now,—and, sister, I am well assured he is no Christian.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is the same, sir,”</span> said Sabinus. + <span class="tei tei-q">“He is the same Caius Valerius of whom you + spake, and I am Sabinus, a Centurion of the Prætorians.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“We have all heard of your name,”</span> said + Sempronius, respectfully; <span class="tei tei-q">“I perceive there + is some mistake in all this matter. If it please you, let us walk + aside, and understand each other.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So saying, he + withdrew Sabinus to a little distance, and beckoned to me to + accompany him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius,”</span> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg 272]</span><a name= + "Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>said the old man, + when he perceived that we were out of hearing, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I crave you, in the first place, to forget all this + trouble which has been occasioned to you by the violence of my + daughter, on the one hand, and of my sister on the other. They are + women; and, for different reasons, the violence of both is + excusable. I have been for a considerable part of this day with + Licinius, and have heard from him enough to satisfy me how + guiltlessly you yourself have been involved in this affair; and + your speedy liberation from confinement is more than enough to + confirm my belief of all that he said. Yet there is much which I do + not understand. I pray you speak openly, and fear nothing—you have, + indeed, nothing to fear. Was it in consequence of any private + meeting with my niece—nay, I mean not to suspect you of any thing + amiss—in one word, how was it that you happened to be taken into + custody with that unhappy girl?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> I replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“you + are a noble Roman, and the near kinsman of Athanasia. You have a + right to put these questions, and whatever reluctance I may have to + overcome, I feel that I have no right to refuse an answer.”</span> + And so I told Sempronius, plainly and distinctly, the story both of + my unwilling entrance into the mausoleum, and of my forcible + abduction from it. In short, I saw no reason to conceal any thing + from the person who was most likely to be able to serve Athanasia, + if any thing to serve her were possible.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is well,”</span> he said; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you speak as becomes a man of the Valerian blood. But + as for poor Athanasia, I swear to you I cannot yet bring myself to + believe that she hath in reality been privy to such things as have + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name= + "Pg273" id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>been discovered + concerning these Christians.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Discovered!”</span> said I. <span class="tei tei-q">“I + pray you, what has been discovered concerning them? If you allude + to any of the wild stories that are circulated about their + religion, you may depend upon it, it is all mere madness to believe + a word of it. I have read in their sacred books myself, and I swear + to you, that, so far as I have seen, nothing can be more simple, + benign, humane, than the morality inculcated by their + leader.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Young man,”</span> he answered, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I was not thinking of their creed, which, for aught I + know or care, may be sublime enough; for there was always a + mysterious sort of philosophy current among those old Asiatic + nations. But I speak of the designs of these men; in one word, I + speak of their conspiracy.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Conspiracy!—What? How? Against whom? I will pledge my + life, no conspiracy was sheltered beneath yon tower that night. I + swear to you, they are simple people, and were thinking of nothing + but their worship.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Worship!”</span> quoth he; <span class="tei tei-q">“I + promise you it will not be so easy to persuade me that Cotilius has + suddenly become a man of so much piety, either to our gods, or to + the deities (if they have any) of the Christians.—What, Cotilius? + By Jove, Rome does not hold at this moment a more bold, daring, + godless rascal. You may as soon try to make me believe that + Capaneus came to Thebes with a hymn in his mouth. No, no—the sworn + friend of Domitian will not easily gain credit for his new-sprung + sanctity.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Cotilius? That was the + very name of the man that seized me, as I have told + you.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I should have guessed as + much,”</span> said he;—<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I promise you, + how little soever Athanasia might have known, secrets they had; + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg 274]</span><a name= + "Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and Cotilius was well + aware at what peril they should be revealed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The late example,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“must indeed have alarmed him.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“What,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“do you + speak of that fanatic Syrian? You know little of Cotilius. No, + no—had the worst of his fears been the necessity to worship all the + deities between Euphrates and Rhine, he would have slept + soundly.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“But surely,”</span> said + I, <span class="tei tei-q">“you do not believe that Athanasia had + any knowledge of the man’s secret designs, if he had any. He may + have used Christianity, or desired to use it, as a weapon against + the State; but be certain, neither she nor any of those really + attached to their religion, had any notion of his + purpose.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It may be so, indeed,”</span> he + answered;—<span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven grant it may. As for + Cotilius, I will speak to you more at length of him anon. I will + bid adieu to my sister, and take order about my daughter; and then, + if it so please you, we shall walk together to the + city.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To this I + agreed, but Sabinus rode on to the camp of the Prætorians. He + whispered to me, however, that unless he were most necessarily + detained, he should be, ere long, at the house of Licinius.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“To you,”</span> said the Senator, as we went on, + <span class="tei tei-q">“who have so lately come from your island, + the whole of this expiatory spectacle is probably quite new; but I + am sure Sabinus could not have been aware what was its purpose, + otherwise he would not have been guilty of so grievously offending + the feelings of my sister, and some of the rest of my kindred, by + remaining a witness of these most private rites. The Priestess is + indeed inconsolable, and her grief has set half her other passions + in motion like<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg + 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>wise. Athanasia was as dear to her as if she + had been her daughter; so, in truth, she was to us all, ever since + her parents died. But Cotilius, this knave Cotilius, has, I fear, + blasted her hopes and ours.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“It + occurs to me,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“and I should + have mentioned it to you before, that there seemed to be no great + understanding between this Cotilius and Athanasia. She was + evidently displeased with many things he both said and did; and he, + on his part, did not appear to relish her + interference.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“True,”</span> he + continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“you have already hinted as + much; and I assure you, these are some of the circumstances in the + whole case that tend most to excite my hopes. Great Heavens! what + would Caius have said had he dreamt that his orphan was to be + suspected of having sympathy with any of the dark designs of that + shame to Roman knighthood! But you, of course, are a stranger to + this man’s history.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“With its end, + at least,”</span> I replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is like we + may all be soon enough acquainted.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven + grant we have not cause too deeply to remember it! but I have known + him from the beginning. I told you already that he was in great + favour with Domitian.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“And the + reverse, of course,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“both + with Nerva and Trajan.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> he continued, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and with reason; for in all the disturbances which + occurred on the accession of the last sovereign, and, in + particular, in those foul intrigues among the Prætorians, which at + one time brought Nerva’s own life into immediate danger and + compelled him to bare his neck to the soldiery at his gate, this + Cotilius was more than suspected to have had a deep concern. When + Petronius and Par<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg + 276]</span><a name="Pg276" id="Pg276" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>thenius<a id="noteref_2" name="noteref_2" + href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style= + "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a> were + hacked in pieces, it needed no great witchcraft to detect some of + the moving spirits that produced their catastrophe; but proof there + was none at the time; and even had there been proof enough, the + good old man would have been too timid to act upon it. These + things, however, could not be forgotten either by Nerva or his + successor. Hitherto, the strong hand has repressed every rebellious + motion; but be sure that no man ever lived more an object of + suspicion, than this man has done ever since Nerva adopted + Trajan.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And you think,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that, among other intrigues, it had occurred to this + man to make his own use of the Christians; despised and persecuted + though they be, there can, indeed, be no doubt that their numbers + are considerable, and that their faith is a strong bond of + cohesion.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“It is even so,”</span> said the Senator. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“But as yet the treason even of Cotilius rests on + suspicion only, and report; and, after all, even if he were proved + guilty of having nourished such schemes, the account you give of + what you saw and heard at their assembly, inspires me with + considerable doubts whether he can be supposed to have ever as yet + ventured to invite their participation;—unless, indeed, they + practised deception while you were with them. The moment I heard of + what had happened, I went to the Palatine, in hopes of <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>attaining either assistance from + Urbicus, or mercy, if that were all we could look for, from Trajan. + But Urbicus could give me no satisfaction, except that my niece was + in a solitary and safe place. The charges, he said, against one of + the leaders (he meant Cotilius) were heavy; and until these were + sifted, it was impossible that access could be afforded to any one + who had been thrown into confinement. The Emperor had shewn unusual + symptoms of anxiety, and had even, so he hinted, been in person + investigating the matter at a distance from the city, during great + part of the preceding night and day. To tell you the truth, + Valerius, till this thing fell out, I was wont to consider the new + violence about the Christians as somewhat unworthy of the enlarged + intellect of Trajan: it had not occurred to me, how easily the + resources of such a superstition might be enlisted in the cause of + discontent.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Of course,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“nothing will be done in regard to Athanasia until all + circumstances have been examined.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Done!”</span> said he; <span class="tei tei-q">“has + not enough been done already to justify almost in a man more than + you have seen among our women? Has not a whole family been + disgraced? Has not the mausoleum of their fathers been prostituted + for the unholy purposes of this barbarian sect? If the Senate + should be summoned, with what countenance should I shew myself + among my friends?—Unhappy girl! How little did she know in what + trouble she was to involve those that love her the + best.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By this time we + had come within sight of the house of Licinius, and the Senator + took leave, with a promise that I should see him on the + morrow.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page278">[pg + 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found Sextus + alone in his chamber, where he embraced me with all the ardour of + juvenile affection. <span class="tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“my dear Caius, at any other time I might + have found fault with you for taking so great a part in my griefs, + and yet keeping so many of your own to yourself. But if it be + indeed as Sempronia has said, I should be a strange friend to + choose this hour for complaining of such trifles as regard only + myself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sextus,”</span> I replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“it + was only because of the greatness of your own distresses that I + concealed from your kindness any of mine.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My Valerius,”</span> he answered, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“we shall talk at length to-morrow; at present, I have + only time to say, that the misfortune of Athanasia was communicated + to Sempronia almost immediately, by an old freedwoman, who had been + in the habit of attending her when she went from home in secret, + and who, going to the mausoleum to accompany her on her return, + arrived there just in time to see what befel her. She saw you also, + (how she knew who you were, I know not,) and when she had told her + story to Sempronia, the poor girl, before speaking even with her + father, sent for me to come to her in the gardens. I did so; all + that passed I need not repeat; but I hope my advice was the right + one. At all events, I acted for the best, and my father, who is now + aware of every thing, seemed to approve of what I had done. O + Valerius! were Athanasia free, and you happy, many things have + occurred to make me much more at ease than when you left us. My + father is evidently shocked with what Dromo told about Rubellia; + and as for Xerophrastes, he had not once spoken to him either + yesterday or to-day. Indeed, <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>neither of them have been much here. My father + is continually exerting himself concerning Athanasia; and + Xerophrastes, I suppose, is afraid of a discovery. As for me, I am + sorry I must leave you, for I promised to meet Sempronia; and + although I have nothing to tell her, I cannot fail in my + appointment. She must have returned before this time from the + mausoleum, where an expiatory sacrifice was to be made at + sunset.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sabinus by this + time had hastened to me once more, according to his kind promise. I + told him that my kinsman was not at home, and that I proposed, in + the meantime, accompanying his son a part of the way towards the + Suburban of Capito. The Centurion insisted on going with us, + saying, that he could not think of returning to the camp without + having spoken with Licinius.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page280">[pg 280]</span><a name= + "Pg280" id="Pg280" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc50" id= + "toc50"></a> <a name="pdf51" id="pdf51"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + II.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion, + in virtue of his office, had free access to the gardens of Trajan; + so he led us by both a more delightful and a nearer path towards + the Salarean Gate. Young Sextus then quitted us; and we returned + slowly through the beautiful groves of the Imperial Villa, in hopes + of finding my kinsman by the time we should reach his mansion. But + as we were walking very quietly along one of the broad green + terraces, we heard voices in an adjoining alley, separated from us + by luxuriant thickets of myrtle, and Sabinus, whispering to me, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Hush, let us see what we have got + here,”</span> insinuated himself with great dexterity among the + verdant shrubs. I followed him with as little noise as was + possible, and having found a convenient peeping place, we soon + perceived two figures at some little distance from us in the + moonlight.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Come, Sabinus,”</span> I + whispered, <span class="tei tei-q">“they are lovers perhaps—I don’t + see what right we have to overhear.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Peace,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“if + you stir, they will detect us, and it is nothing unless it be + known.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With some + reluctance I remained where I was; but my scruples were at an end + the moment I perceived who they were.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Most noble, most illustrious lady,”</span> said + Xerophrastes, <span class="tei tei-q">“this matter has indeed been + conducted unfortunately, yet no reason see I why you should give + way to so many groundless apprehensions. The only thing, after all, + that you have lost, if indeed you have lost it, is the good opinion + of Licinius; for, as to that foolish boy——”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Name him not,”</span> replied Rubellia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“name not the stripling. Surely madness alone can + account for my behaviour.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Madness!”</span> quoth the Stoic; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“yes, truly, and who, at certain moments, is free from + such madness? As Euripides has expressed it, Venus, if she come in + wisdom, is the wisest; if otherwise, the most frenzied of + influences. The greatest have not been exempt from such + visitations. Banish it from your heart, noble lady, or replace it + by something more worthy of your discernment. There is, I think, + but one pair of eyes in Rome that could have been blind to such + perfections.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“O + Xerophrastes!”</span> said she, <span class="tei tei-q">“speak not + to me of perfections. Alas! I was born under a deceitful star—a + star of apparent splendour and real misery.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Noble lady,”</span> he replied, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I swear to you that what tincture of philosophy I have + imbibed, is unable to sustain my serenity when I hear such words + from your lips. You are surrounded by all that externals can + minister. It is your part to compose your mind, and then how should + it be possible for you to taste of unhappiness? Think no more of + that boy.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The philosopher + took her hand with an air of the deepest sympathy, and at the same + time drew the end of his mantle over his face, as if to conceal the + extent of his participation in her distresses.—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas! lady, this is, after all, a miserable world. + There is no <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg + 282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>rest but in the affections, and behold how + they are harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of life. + Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison is every where; + and it is all one course of being wounded to be cured, and being + cured only to be more easily wounded again.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our friend + continued in an attitude of pensive contemplation. The moonbeams + fell full on his high brow and the large massy features of his + countenance, and on the robust limbs which emerged from below the + stately folds of his mantle; and I could not help thinking that + there was something almost heroic, which I had never before + remarked, in the whole of his appearance. Rubellia kept her eyes + fixed steadfastly upon him.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I should have known nothing of it,”</span> he resumed, + <span class="tei tei-q">“had I never deserted my paternal valley + for the vain pleasures of Athens, and the magnificence of + Rome.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“You repent,”</span> said + she, <span class="tei tei-q">“that you ever visited Italy? I pray + you deal with me openly. If it be your wish to leave Rome, speak, + and I shall put it in your power to retire to Greece as handsomely + as you could ever have hoped to do from the family of Licinius. Of + wealth, as you well know, I have enough both for myself and for my + faithful friends, among whom, be sure, I place you in the first + rank. Control your feelings, I pray you once more—and speak + freely.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hastily and + fervently he pressed his lip upon the beautiful hand of Rubellia, + and whispered something into her ear. She started, and I think + blushed in the moonlight; but neither seemed offended very deeply + with what he had said, nor with the gesture he had + used.<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name= + "Pg283" id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Softly, softly,”</span> whispered the Centurion, + <span class="tei tei-q">“be not ashamed, fair lady, of the love of + thy servant.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But (whether the + echo of his Horatian parody had reached her ear or not, I cannot + tell,) scarcely had these words been uttered, ere Rubellia started + from her seat, and began to move pretty quickly down the shaded + alley, as if towards the entrance of the gardens. Xerophrastes sate + still for a moment, even after the lady had arisen, covering his + eyes, and part of his broad forehead with his hands, as if buried + in his own thoughts too deeply to be with ease affected with a + sense of things passing around him. Then, at last, he arose, and + uttering an exclamation of surprise, walked after the noble dame, + taking heed, however, (it did not escape our observation,) to + arrange, as he rapidly followed her, the massive folds of his + mantle into a graceful drapery.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sabinus + restrained himself till they were beyond the reach of his voice; + but he then made himself ample amends. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ha!”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“is this + to be the end? Most pensive ghost of Leberinus, is this to be thy + successor?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Good heavens!”</span> + said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“Sabinus, do you think it possible + she should make the pedagogue her husband—she that was but + yesterday so desperately enamoured of the beautiful young + Sextus?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“My dear islander,”</span> + quoth the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“do you remember the + story of a certain beautiful boy, called + Adonis?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“To be sure,”</span> said + I, <span class="tei tei-q">“who is ignorant of the story of Adonis, + or of the beautiful verses of Bion—</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I weep for + fair Adonis—for Adonis is no more,</span> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Dead is the fair Adonis—his beauty I deplore; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + His white thigh with a tusk of white the greenwood monster + tore, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span class= + "tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And now I weep Adonis—for + Adonis is no more.’</span> ”</span> + </div> + </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page284">[pg 284]</span><a name= + "Pg284" id="Pg284" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Well spouted,”</span> quoth the soldier; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and with an excellent gravity: But think you Venus + never altered the burden of her ditty? Have you never heard of Mars + the blood-stained, the destroyer of men, the leveller of city + walls—nor of Anchises, the Dardan shepherd, wiser in his generation + than one who inherited both his station and his opportunity; no, + nor even of Vulcan, the cunning Artificer, the Lord of the One-eyed + Hammerers, the Lemnian, the Chain-maker, the Detector, the awkward + Cup-bearer, whose ministration, as honest Homer confesses, fills + Olympus with inextinguishable laughter. Have you heard of all + these, and I take it of a few more besides; and yet do you talk as + if Venus, after the white boar’s tusk had pierced the white thigh + of her Adonis, had made no use of her beautiful girdle, but to wipe + the tears from her pretty eyes withal?—her girdle, of which, heaven + pity your memory, I know not how many blessed ages after Adonis had + fallen, the same faithful bard said,</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + ‘In it is stored whate’er can love inspire: + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In it is tender passion, warm desire, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Fond lovers’ soft and amorous intercourse; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The endearing looks and accents that can fire + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + The soul with passionate love’s resistless force, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + ’Gainst which the wisest find in wisdom no resource.’ + </div> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">I was there the night she espoused Leberinus, and I + pitied her very sincerely, when I saw the pretty creature lifted + over the old man’s threshold in her yellow veil, which I could not + help thinking concealed more sighs, if not more blushes, than are + usual on such occasions. But I promise you the glare of her new + torches shall affect me with different + emotions.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg + 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such talk passed + as we were leaving the gardens of Trajan. But as we advanced into + the more peopled region, we found the streets full of clamour, + insomuch that quiet discourse could no longer be carried on. The + evening was one of the most lovely I had ever seen, and the moon + was shedding a soft and yellow light upon the lofty towers and + trees, and upon all that long perspective of pillars and porticos. + Yet groups of citizens were seen running to and fro with torches in + their hands; while many more were stationary in impenetrable + crowds, which had the air, as it seemed to us, of being detained in + the expectation of some spectacle. Accordingly we had not jostled + on much farther, ere there arose behind us a peal of what seemed to + me martial music; but my companion, as soon as the sounds reached + him, warned me that a procession of the priests of Cybele must be + at hand.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At last they + came quite close to us, and passed on dancing around the image of + the Goddess, and singing the chaunt of Atys. A path being opened + for them by the crowd all along, they made no halt in their + progress, but went on at the same pace, some of them leaping high + from the ground as they dashed their cymbals, and others dancing + lowly while they blew the long Phrygian trumpets and crooked horns + of brass. The image itself was seated in a brazen chariot, to which + brazen lions also were fastened, the whole being borne on the + shoulders of some of the assistants. Behind it came others, beating + great hollow drums; and then again more, leaping, and dancing, and + singing, like those who preceded it. They were all clad in long + Asiatic vests, with lofty tiaras; and their countenances, as well + as <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name= + "Pg286" id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>their voices, + intimated sufficiently that they were ministers of the same order + to which the hapless Atys had belonged. Yet nothing but enthusiasm + and triumph could be discovered in their manner of singing that + terrible hymn.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They had not + advanced much beyond the spot where we were standing, ere they + stopped of a sudden, and, placing the chariot and image of Cybele + between the pillars of one of the porticos that run out into the + street, began a more solemn species of saltation. When they had + finished this dance also, and the more stately and measured song of + supplication with which it was accompanied, the priests then turned + to the multitude, and called upon all those who reverenced the + Didymæan mysteries, to approach and offer their gifts. Immediately + the multitude that were beyond formed themselves into a close + phalanx, quite across the street, and torches being conveyed into + the hands of such as stood in the foremost rank, there was left in + front of the image an open space, brightly illuminated, for the + convenience, as it seemed, of those who might come forward to carry + their offerings to the foot of the statue. And, indeed, it appeared + as if these were not likely to be few in number; for the way being + quite blocked up by those torch-bearers, no one could hope to pass + on easily without giving something, or to pass at all without being + observed. Not a few chariots, therefore, and litters also, having + been detained, the persons seated in these vehicles seemed to be + anxious, as soon as possible, to present their offerings, that the + path onward might be cleared to them by command of the priests. It + was necessary, however, as it turned out, that each person + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name= + "Pg287" id="Pg287" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in advancing to the + chariot of Cybele, should imitate the motions practised by the + Galli themselves; and this circumstance, as may be imagined, was + far from being the most acceptable part of the ceremony to some of + those who had thus been arrested. A few of the common sort, both + men and women, stepped boldly into the open ring, and with great + appearance of joy went through the needful gesticulations. But, at + first, none of the more lordly tenants of the chariots and litters + seemed to be able to prevail on themselves to follow the example. + At length, however, the impatience even of these dignified persons + began to overcome their reluctance; one and another red-edged gown + was seen to float in lofty undulations across the torch-lighted + stage, and when a handful of coin was heard to ring upon the basin + of the Goddess, doubt not the priests half-cracked their cheeks in + blowing horn and trumpet, and clattered upon their great tambarines + as violently as if they had made prize of another Atys. But how did + the Centurion chuckle when he observed that one of the next + chariots was no other than that of Rubellia herself, and perceived + that she and the Stoic were now about to pass onwards like the + rest, at the expense of exhibiting their agility before the + multitude.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Jove in heaven!”</span> cried he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I thought the garden scene was all in all; but this is + supreme! Behold how the sturdy Thracian tucks up his garment, and + how, nodding to the blows of the tambarine, he already meditates + within himself the appropriate convolutions. And the pretty widow! + by the girdle of Venus, she also is pointing her trim toe, and, + look ye! better and better, do you not see that she has given her + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name= + "Pg288" id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>veil to the Stoic, + that so she may perform the more expeditely?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At this moment, + some one from behind laid hold of my arm, and whispered my name. I + looked round, and perceived an old man, wrapped in a very large and + deep mantle, the folds of which, however, were so arranged that I + could see very little of his features. Stepping a pace or two + backwards, he beckoned to me with his hand. I hesitated; but his + gesture being repeated, I also entered within the shade of the + pillars, and then he, dropping his mantle on his shoulders, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius, do you not remember me? We met + last at the tomb of the Sempronii.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“At the tomb of the Sempronii!”</span> said I; and + recognized, indeed, the features of the Christian priest, who had + treated me on that eventful evening with so much courtesy; but my + wonder was great to find him in such a situation; for I had seen + him conveyed away between armed guards, and I could not imagine by + what means he, of all others, should have so soon regained his + freedom. He observed my astonishment, and said, in a low voice, + <span class="tei tei-q">“My friend, perhaps I might have as much + reason to be surprised with seeing you here, as you have in seeing + me. But follow me into this house, where we may communicate what + has occurred.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The hope of + perhaps hearing something concerning Athanasia determined me. I + cast a look towards Sabinus, and saw him attentively engaged in + witnessing the performance; and hoping that he might continue to + amuse himself so for a few minutes longer, I permitted the old man + to lead me into the vestibule. The slaves, who were waiting there, + seemed to receive him <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg + 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>with much respect. He passed them, saying, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Do not trouble yourselves—I shall rejoin + your master;”</span> and shortly ushered me into a chamber situated + over the hall of entrance, where a grave personage was reclining by + the open window. He perceived not our approach till we had come + close up to his couch, for he was occupied with what was going on + without. When the old man accosted him, and said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Pontius, I have been successful. Here is my friend, + Caius Valerius,”</span> the stranger rose up, and saluted me with + kindness. <span class="tei tei-q">“Caius Valerius,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“will pardon me for being desirous of + seeing him here, when he learns that I was one of his father’s + oldest friends, and served with him many campaigns both in Germany + and Britain. I should have been ill pleased had I heard that you + had been in Rome, and departed without my having an opportunity of + retracing, as I now do, the image of my comrade.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had to answer + not a few questions concerning the situation of my mother and + myself, before I could lead the conversation into the channel I + desired; and at length, indeed, it was not so much any thing I + said, as the readiness of the priest himself, which gave to it that + direction; for the first pause that occurred in the discourse + between Pontius and myself, he filled up, by saying, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“And now, will Valerius pardon me for asking, if he has + ever looked again into the narrative of Luke, or whether his + curiosity, in regard to these matters, has been entirely satisfied + by the adventures of one unfortunate night?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The manner in + which Pontius regarded me when the priest said this, left me no + doubt that he was at least favourably inclined to the opinions of + the Christians; <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg + 290]</span><a name="Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>so + I answered without hesitation, <span class="tei tei-q">“My + curiosity, instead of being satisfied by what I saw that evening, + received new strength; but you may easily believe that the troubles + in which I was involved, and still more the troubles with which I + know others yet to be surrounded, have hitherto taken away from me + both the means and the power of gratifying my curiosity as I would + wish.—But tell me, I pray you, by what means is your imprisonment + at an end?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“My friend,”</span> + replied the priest, <span class="tei tei-q">“you speak naturally + but rashly. I believe you yourself are the only one of those + surprised in the tower, whose imprisonment has as yet terminated. + Yet hope, good hope is not absent,—above all, I trust there is no + reason to despair concerning that dear child who interfered in your + behalf, when a bold, and, I fear me, a false man, had drawn his + weapon to your peril. As for me, I have but gained the liberty of + an hour or two, and long ere dawn I shall be restored again to my + fetters.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Your fetters!”</span> + said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“am I to understand, that, by the + connivance of a Roman jailor, you are this night at liberty to + perambulate the streets of Rome?”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Young man,”</span> answered the priest, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“he is a Christian.”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Even for his sake,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the name is honourable.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I + pray you speak not things which may hereafter give pain to your + memory. Already you have read something of the life of <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-variant: small-caps">One</span></span>, for whose sake our + name is indeed honourable—of Him I trust you shall ere long both + read and think more; but how shall I bless God, that threw my lot, + since captivity it was to be, into a place where such authority was + to have the superintendence of me? Yet more, how shall <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg 291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I be sufficiently grateful, that She, in + all things so delicate, although in nothing fearful, has shared the + same blessing?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Heavens,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“what + do I hear!—Is Athanasia indeed lodged in the same prison with + yourself, and may she also go abroad thus freely?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Think not,”</span> he replied, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that I embrace such freedom for any purposes of mine + own. What I do for the service to which I am bound, think not that + Athanasia will ever desire to do for herself. She abides her time + patiently where the lot hath been cast for her; in due season, if + such be the will of the Lord, she shall regain that in truth, of + which this is but the shadow.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“God grant our prayer,”</span> said Pontius, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and not ours only, but the prayer of all + that know her, and have heard of this calamity!—Whatever the + exertions of her family and their friends can accomplish, most + surely shall not be awanting. Would that those who are linked to + her by ties yet more sacred had the power, as they have the will, + to serve her! Yet Hope must never be rejected. The investigations + of this very night may produce the true accomplices of Cotilius; + and then Trajan will be satisfied that the Christians stand + guiltless of that treason.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas!”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“if this + faith be a crime, how can any one hope to follow it without being + continually liable to accidents as unfortunate? In Rome, at all + events, what madness is it thus to tempt the fate which impends + over the discovery of that which it must be so difficult, so + impossible to conceal?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The aged Priest + laid his finger on his lips, and pointed to the window. I listened, + and heard distinctly the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg + 292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>shrill voices of the mutilated dancers, as + they brake forth above the choral murmurs of the drums and cymbals, + and I perceived that the bloody legend of Atys was once more the + subject of their song.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ancient + waited till the voices were drowned again in the clamour of the + instruments, and then said to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“Young + man, do you know to what horrid story these words of theirs refer? + Do you know what sounds all these are designed to imitate? Do you + know what terror—what flight—what blood—what madness are here set + forth in honour of a cruel demon—or rather, I should say, for the + gain of these miserable and maimed hirelings? Do you know all these + things, and yet give counsel of flight and of cowardice to me, upon + whose head the hand of Christ’s holy apostle hath been laid? Read, + dear Valerius, read and ponder well.—My prayers, and the prayers of + one that is far purer than me—they are ever with you. But now since + I have introduced you to Pontius, why should I delay here any + longer? He, both for your father’s sake and for your own, and for + that of the faith, (of which you have had some glimpses) will + abundantly aid you in all things. Deal not coldly nor distantly + with him. I commit you into his hands, as a brand to be snatched + from the burning.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pontius reached + forth his hand and grasped mine in token of acquiescence in all the + old man expressed. He, by and by, looking into the street, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“These jugglers have now departed to their + dens, and the gaping multitudes have dispersed. But I still see one + person walking up and down, as if expecting somebody; and it seems + to me that it is the same, Valerius, who <span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page293">[pg 293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>was in your company.”</span> I perceived that + it was indeed Sabinus, whistling to himself on the bright side of + the pavement. I therefore bade them adieu, saying, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dear father, when shall I see you again, and when + shall I hear farther of Athanasia?”</span>—The old man pausing for + a moment, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“To-morrow at noontide be + in the Forum, over against the statue of Numa. You will there find + tidings.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + plainly intimated that he took it for granted I had been engaged in + something which I wished to keep from his knowledge; but such + affairs made no great impression on him; and after laughing out his + laugh, he bade me farewell by the portico of Licinius.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg 294]</span><a name= + "Pg294" id="Pg294" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc52" id= + "toc52"></a> <a name="pdf53" id="pdf53"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + III.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the morning I + found my kinsman and his son extremely uneasy, in consequence of + the absence of Xerophrastes, who had not returned during the night; + but Sabinus came in while they were talking to me, and narrated, + without hesitation, all he had seen and heard both in the garden of + Trajan, and at the procession of the Galli. Young Sextus could + scarcely be restrained by respect for his father, from expressing, + rather too openly, his satisfaction in the course which the affairs + of the disappointed lady appeared to be taking; while the orator + muttered words which I thought boded not much of good to the + ambitious pedagogue. The Centurion alone regarded all these things + as matters of mere amusement, or so at least he seemed to regard + them; for, as I have already hinted, I was not without my + suspicion, that he was at bottom by no means well pleased with the + contemplation of the future splendour of the Stoic.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, after + many jests had been exchanged between Sextus and the Centurion + concerning this incongruous amour, Licinius said, he was in so far + much relieved by what he had heard, as it satisfied him that both + the widow and Xerophrastes were now otherwise <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg 295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>occupied, than in prosecuting their + designs against the niece of his friend Capito.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I myself,”</span> he continued, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“was all yesterday, as well as the day before, exerting + every means in my power for her extrication from this unfortunate + confinement. Cotilius, without question, has indeed been a traitor; + but I believe the Prince himself is, by this time, well inclined to + absolve, not only the young lady, but by far the greater part of + those who were taken with her, from any participation in his + traitorous designs. The charge, however, of which it rests with + them alone to exculpate themselves, is one of a nature so serious, + that it is impossible to contemplate without much anxiety the pain + to which so many families—above all, the noble and excellent + Sempronii—may still be exposed. But this day Cotilius will, in all + likelihood, pay the last penalty of <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">his</span></span> + crimes—and then we shall see what intercession may avail. Would to + heaven there were any one who could obtain access to the deluded + lady, and prevail with her to do that which would be more effectual + than I can hope any intercession to prove. This infatuation—this + dream—this madness—is, indeed, a just source of fear; and yet, why + should we suppose it to be already so deeply confirmed in a breast + young, ingenuous, so full, according to report, of every thing + modest and submissive? Surely this affectionate girl cannot be + insensible to the affliction of those who love her.—But you still + shake your head, Valerius; well, it is in our hands to do what we + can; as for the issue, who can hope to divert Trajan from doing + that which he believes to be just? Our best hope is in his + justice——”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg + 296]</span><a name="Pg296" id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And in his clemency,”</span> interrupted the + Centurion; <span class="tei tei-q">“you will scarcely persuade me + that Cæsar can meditate any thing serious concerning a young + beauty, who has been guilty of nothing but a little superstition + and enthusiasm. Nobody will confound her case with that of any + obstinate old fanatic. In the meantime, what avails it to distress + ourselves more than is necessary? Licinius is able to do something; + and as for Valerius, the best thing he can do is to get on + horseback, and go with Sextus and myself to inspect the cohorts + that have arrived from Calabria.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Young Sextus, on + all occasions fond of military spectacles, embraced this proposal; + and fain would they both have prevailed on me to accede to it + likewise. I knew, however, that it would be impossible, if I + accompanied them, to keep my appointment with the old Christian; + and that I was resolved on no account to forego. I therefore + retired to my chamber, there to await the approach of the hour; and + spent the time till it drew near, in perusing once more the volume + which had been restored to me by Athanasia. This volume, and the + letter which I have before mentioned, I placed together in my + bosom, before I went forth into the city.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I entered the + Forum, and found it, as formerly thronged with multitudes of busy + litigants and idle spectators. A greater concourse, indeed, than + was usual, crowded not it only, but the avenues to it, and the + neighbouring streets, by reason of a solemn embassy from the + Parthian, which was to have audience that day in the Senate. But I, + for my part, having discovered the statue of Numa Pompilius, + resolved to abide <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page297">[pg + 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>by + it, lest, being mingled in the tumult of the expecting multitudes, + I should, by any mischance, escape the notice of the old man, who, + I doubted not, meant to seek me there in person. The time, however, + went on—senator after senator entered the temple—and, at last, the + shouts of the people announced that Trajan had arrived. And + immediately after he had gone in, the pomp of the embassy appeared, + and every eye was fixed upon the long line of slaves, laden with + cloth of gold and rich merchandise, and upon the beautiful troop of + snow-white horses, which pawed the ground, in magnificent + caparisons, before the gate of the Senate-house. But while all were + intent upon the spectacle, I observed a little fair-haired girl + standing over against me, who, after looking at me for some + moments, said with great modesty, <span class="tei tei-q">“Sir, if + you be Caius Valerius, I pray you, follow me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I followed her + in silence up the hanging stairs, and, in a word, had soon reached + the level of the Capitol, from whence, looking back, I could + perceive the whole array of the forensic multitudes far below me. + The child paused for a moment at the summit, and then, still saying + nothing, conducted me across two magnificent squares, and round + about the Temple of Jupiter, until, at length, she stopped at one + of the side doors of an edifice, which, from the manner in which it + was guarded, I already suspected to be the Mammertine.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The girl + knocked, and he who kept the gate, saluting her cheerfully, allowed + us to pass without question into the interior of the prison. My + companion tripped before me along many passages, till we reached at + length a chamber which was arranged in such a manner that I + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg 298]</span><a name= + "Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>could with difficulty + believe it to belong to a place of punishment.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here I was soon + joined by the old priest, (whose name, if I have not before + mentioned it, was Aurelius Felix,) together with a mild-looking man + of middle age, whom he desired me to salute as the keeper of the + prison, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Here, Valerius, is that + Silo, of whom yesterday evening you spake with so great admiration. + But I hope the benevolence of a Christian will ere long cease to be + an object of so much wonder in your eyes.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My father,”</span> said the jailer, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“methinks you yourself say too much about such little + things. But, in the meantime, let us ask Valerius if he has heard + any thing of what has been determined by Cæsar.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I answered by + telling what I had just heard from Licinius; upon which the + countenance of the old man was not a little lightened; but Silo + fixed his eyes upon the ground, and seemed to regard the matter + very seriously. He said, however, after a pause, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“So far, at least, it is well. Let us hope that the + calumnies which have been detected, may turn more and more of + discredit upon those that have gone abroad concerning that which is + dearer to you, my father, and to all your true companions, than any + thing of what men call their own. But, alas! these, after all, are + but poor tidings for our dear young lady.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Fear not,”</span> answered Aurelius: <span class= + "tei tei-q">“have I not told you already oftentimes, that strength + of heart goes not with bone and sinew, and that my gentle child is + prepared for all things? She also well knows that the servant is + not greater than the master.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299" id="Pg299" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man + motioned to us to remain where we were, and withdrew. I sate for + some minutes by the side of Silo, who was, indeed, manifestly much + troubled, until at length the same modest little damsel opened the + door, and addressing the jailer as her father, asked leave to + conduct me to Aurelius.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The child led + me, therefore, into the adjoining chamber, and tapped gently at a + door on the other side of it. The voice of the old priest bade us + come in, and Athanasia arose with him to receive me. She was + dressed in a white tunic, her hair braided in dark folds upon her + forehead; her countenance was calm, and, but for the paleness of + her lips, I should have said that her gravity scarcely partook of + sadness. When, however, we had exchanged our salutations, it was + evident that some effort had been necessary for this appearance of + serenity; for when she spoke to me her voice trembled in every + tone, and, as she stooped to caress my young guide, who had sate + down by her feet, I saw the tear that had been gathering drop + heavily, and lose itself among the bright clusters of the little + damsel’s hair. I took her unresisting hand, and imitated as best I + could the language of consolation. But it seemed as if my poor + whispers only served to increase the misery. She covered her face + with her hands, and sobs and tears were mingled together, and the + blood glowed red in her neck, in the agony of her lamentation.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old priest + was moved at first scarcely less than myself by this sorrowful + sight. Yet the calmness of age deserted him not long, and after a + moment there remained nothing on his countenance but the gravity + and tenderness of compassion. He arose from his seat, <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and walked quietly towards the end of + the apartment, from which when he returned, after a brief space, + there was an ancient volume open in his hand. And standing near us, + he began to read aloud, in the Greek tongue, words which were then + new, and which have ever since been in a peculiar manner dear to + me.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">God is our refuge and + strength; a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we + fear though the earth be removed; though the mountains be carried + into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be + troubled; though the mountains shake with the swelling + thereof.</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia took + her hands from her face, and gradually composing herself, looked + through her tears upon the old man as he proceeded.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">There is a river, the + streams whereof shall make glad the city of God; the holy place of + the tabernacles of the Most High.</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">God is in the midst + of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right + early.</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The heathen raged; + the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice; the earth + melted.</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Lord of Hosts is + with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.</span></span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The blood had + mounted in the countenance of Aurelius, ere he reached these last + words. The tears also had been dried up on the pale cheek of + Athanasia; and although her voice was not heard, I saw that her + lips moved fervently along with those of the priest. Even in me, + ignorant of their source, the words of the royal prophet produced I + know not what of buoyance and emotion, and perhaps my lips, too, + had involuntarily essayed to follow them; for when he <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>paused from his reading, the old man + turned to me with a face full of benignity, and said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, Valerius, it is even so; Homer, Pindar, + Æschylus—these, indeed, can stir the blood; but it is such poetry + as this that alone can sooth in sorrow, and strengthen in the hour + of tribulation. Your vain-glorious Greeks called all men barbarians + but themselves; and yet these words, and thousands not less + precious than these, consoled the afflictions, and ennobled the + triumphs of the chosen race of Israel long, long years, ere ever + the boasted melody of Ionian or Doric verse had been heard of. From + this alone, young man, you may judge what measure of candour + inhabits along with the disdain of our proud enemies:—how fairly, + without question, or opportunity of defence, the charge of + barbarity is heaped upon what they are pleased to call our + <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">superstition</span></span>;—how wisely the + learned and the powerful of the earth have combined in this league + against the truth which they know not,—of which they fear or + despise the knowledge. Surely the truth is mighty, and the gates of + hell shall not prevail against her.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But, alas! my dear father,”</span> said Athanasia, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I fear me this is not the place, nor the + situation, in which Valerius might be most likely to listen to your + words. It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing of our + present danger, has rendered him even more cautious than he was + before.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And who, my dear child,”</span> he replied + hastily,—<span class="tei tei-q">“and who is he that shall dare to + blame caution, or to preach, above all in such things as these, the + rashness that is of folly? Valerius will not believe that we, like + the miserable creatures whose impious songs he heard <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>last night, are studious only of working + upon the fears of the ignorant, and harassing, with dark and lying + dreams, the imaginations of the simple. <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Here</span></span> + are no wild stories of blood-thirsty deities, and self-sacrificing + maniacs. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">Here</span></span> is that which Socrates + vainly sought by all the ingenuity of reason. <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Here</span></span> is + that of which some faint and mysterious anticipations would appear + to have been shadowed forth in the visions of Plato. <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Here</span></span> is + that which, as that Mighty Martyr who died in this very city hath + said, innumerable prophets and kings of the old time desired to + see, and yet saw not. Do nothing rashly, young man; but it is + possible, as you yourself well know, that this may be the last + opportunity I shall ever have of speaking with you; and therefore, + before we part, I must needs charge you solemnly, that henceforth, + if your knowledge increase not, the sin shall be upon your head. I + charge you, Valerius, that when you return to your island, you blot + not from your memory the things that you have seen and heard in + this great city of light and of darkness. Examine—judge—ask aid, + and aid shall not be refused you. I take Athanasia to witness, that + I have given you the warning that is needful.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Oh, sir!”</span> said Athanasia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I am sure it shall not be in vain that you have done + so. I am sure Valerius will never forget this hour——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She gazed in my + face, and a tear was again visible, yet on all her countenance + there was no other semblance of passion. The venerable Aurelius + clasping his thin hands together, whispered,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Would to God that I were here alone! Shall the axe be + laid to the root of the fair young tree that hath but begun to + blossom, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg + 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>when so many old trunks stand around withered + with the lightnings, and sore broken by the winds?—The will of the + Lord be done!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Amen!”</span> said Athanasia, taking the old man by + the hand, and smiling, I think, more cheerfully than I had yet seen + her—<span class="tei tei-q">“My dear father, I fear you yourself, + after all, are teaching Valerius to take but a sad farewell of + us.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas! my child,”</span> he replied, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“he must have a hard heart that could look unmoved on + that sweet face in this hour of sadness. But we are in the hands of + a greater than Trajan. If so it please Him, all may yet go well + with us even here upon the earth. You may live to see many happy + years among your kindred—and I, (the old man smiled most serenely,) + and for me, my gray hairs may be laid in bloodless dust. Whatever + awaits us, blessed be the name of the Lord!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So saying, the + old man retired from the chamber, and once more I was left alone in + the presence of Athanasia. I took from my bosom the book and the + letter which I had placed there, and laid them upon her knee. She + broke the seal, and read hastily what Tisias had written, and then + concealed the scroll within her tunic, saying, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Alas! Valerius, little did the brave old soldier + suspect how soon his peril was to be mine—Will you permit me like + him to make you my messenger?—will you seek out my cousin, my + sister, and tell Sempronia in what condition you have found me?—no, + not in what you found—but in what you now see me. Will you go, + Valerius, and speak comfort to my poor friend? Her pity, at least, + I am sure is mingled with no angry thoughts; and yet she only has + reason to complain, for <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg + 304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>her secret thoughts were not hid from me, and, + alas! I concealed mine from her.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I have already seen her,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“and you do her no more than justice. But, indeed, + Sempronius himself thinks of you even as gently as his + daughter.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I doubt it not, Valerius; but, alas! there are many + others besides these; and I know not what relic of weakness it is, + but methinks I could have borne the worst more easily, had it not + been for what I picture to myself of their resentment. Alas! I am + cut off for ever from the memory of my kindred.”</span> She threw + open the lattice, as if that she might inhale the free air, and her + eyes wandered to and fro over all the magnificent prospect that lay + stretched out below us,—the temples and high porticos of the + Forum—the gleaming battlements and long arcades of the Palatine—the + baths, and theatres, and circuses between and the river—Tiber + winding away among fields and groves—and the sky of Italy extending + over all things its arch of splendour. When the trumpets were blown + by the gate of the Senate-house, the sound floated upwards to us as + gently as if it had been borne over the waters. The shouts of the + multitude were faintly re-echoed from the towers and the rocks. The + princely pageant shewed like a pomp of pigmies; spear, and helmet, + and eagle glittered together, almost like dews upon the distant + herbage. Athanasia rested her eye once more upon the wide range of + the champaign, where fields and forests were spread out in + interminable succession—away towards the northern region and the + visible mountains. She raised her hand, and said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius, your home lies far away yonder. I must + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name= + "Pg305" id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>give you something + which you shall promise me to carry with you, and preserve in + memory—of Rome.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Before I had + time to make any answer, she had taken out of a casket that stood + beside us, a scroll of parchment, bound with a silk ribbon, which + she immediately put into my hands, and—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“To-morrow,”</span> said she, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius, our fate, they tell us, must at length be + determined;—if we share the fate of Tisias, the last gift of Tisias + shall be yours. If, however, any mercy be extended to us, I cannot + part with that memorial of a dying martyr. I must keep to myself + the old man’s favourite volume, for it was for me he had designed + it. But I have made a copy of the same book for yourself. I have + written it since I came hither, Valerius, and you must not despise + it because the Mammertine has not furnished the finest of + materials. Take this, Valerius, and take with it my thanks—my + prayers. I know you will not forget my message to my dear + sister.—Sextus and she—may many happy days be theirs—and + yours.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I kissed the sad + gift, and placed it in my bosom.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Valerius,”</span> she said, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“dry up your tears. You weep for me because I am a + Christian; forget not that the Roman blood flows in my veins, and + think not that its current is chilled, because I have forsworn the + worship of idol and demon, and am in peril for the service of The + Living God.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Athanasia!”</span> said I,—<span class="tei tei-q">“I + weep for you, but not for you alone. I ask nothing—I hope + nothing—but I could not bear to part with you thus, and not to tell + you that when I part from you, I bid farewell to all things. Pardon + me—once more pardon me.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A single flush + of crimson passed over her face, and I saw her lips move, but the + syllables died ere they were uttered. She continued for a moment + gazing on me, pale, and trembling; and then at last she fell upon + my neck and wept—not audibly—but I felt her tears.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia was + still folded to my bosom in that strange agony of sorrow and of + confidence, when Silo, the jailer, entered the apartment, abrupt + and breathless.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Oh, sir!”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“your sufferings are mine—but it is necessary that you + should leave us, and on the instant, for the Prefect is already at + the gate, and unquestionably he will examine every part of the + prison; and should you be recognized as the person who was taken in + the Mausoleum, you see plainly to what suspicions it might give + rise. Come then, sir, and let me secure your escape—we shall take + care to warn you of whatever occurs, and we shall send for you, if + there be opportunity.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia + recovered herself almost instantly, when she heard what Silo + said.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“We shall meet again,”</span> said I.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Once more,”</span> she replied—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“at least once more, Valerius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And I tore + myself away from her; and the jailer having once again committed me + to the guidance of his child, I was in a few moments conducted to + the same postern by which I had been introduced. In a word, I found + myself in the court of the Capitol, at the instant when the + Prefect, with all his attendants, was entering by the main gate of + the Mammertine.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name= + "Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc54" id= + "toc54"></a> <a name="pdf55" id="pdf55"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IV.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On reaching + home, I was told that Licinius was still absent; and found at the + same time a billet upon the table, which informed me that Sabinus + had carried Sextus with him to his quarters, and that both expected + I would join them there immediately upon my return. I knew not how + to refuse compliance, and yet I could not bear the thought of being + so far from the <a name="corr307" id="corr307" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">Capitol</span>, in + case of any message being sent to me from the prison. Since I could + do no better, however, I charged Boto to remain in my apartment + till sunset, and bring me, without delay, any letter or messenger + that might arrive in my absence. Should none such appear within + that space, I gave him a note, which I desired him to deliver into + the hands of Silo; and having, as I thought, furnished him with + sufficient directions how to discharge this commission, I myself + took the path to the Prætorian Camp, where I thought it very + probable that I might gather some new intelligence as to + Cotilius.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Prætorian + who had accompanied Sabinus at my release from the rustic tower, + recognized me at the gate, and conducted me immediately to the + Centurion, who, to my surprise and displeasure, had directed that I + should be ushered without delay to, not his own apart<span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg 308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ment, but the general table. Here I was + received most courteously, however, and hoping the feast was nearly + over, took my place near my friend.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Several of those + high-fed warriors who had more than once disposed of the empire, + were reclining upon rich couches around the board; and their + effeminate exterior would, perhaps, have made them less formidable + in my eyes, had I not remembered the youth of the great Cæsar, the + Parthian retreat of Antony, and the recent death of Otho.<a id= + "noteref_3" name="noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class= + "tei tei-noteref"><span style= + "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a> There + were present, besides, a few casual visiters like ourselves; among + others, a sleek Flamen, who reclined on the right hand of the + presiding Tribune, and a little bald Greek, who seemed to think it + incumbent upon himself to fill up every pause in the conversation, + by malicious anecdotes or sarcasms, of which last it was easy to + see that the Flamen opposite was a favourite subject. Neither wit + nor impiety, however, could make speedy impression upon the + smooth-faced Flamen, who seemed to think, if one might judge from + his behaviour, that the most acceptable service he could render to + the deities, was to do full and devout justice to the gifts of + their benevolence.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A very animated + discussion concerning the review of the newly-arrived cohorts, + (which, I have told you, had taken place that morning by the river + side,) relieved for some time the patient Flamen from the attacks + of this irreverent person, and engaged the zealous participation of + those who had hitherto been the most silent of the company. + Sabinus, among the rest, was ready <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309" id="Pg309" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>with a world of remarks upon the equipments, + the manœuvres, the merits, and the demerits of the troops in + question; but something he said was quite at variance with the + sentiments of one of his brother Centurions, who disputed with him + rather warmly than successfully for a few moments, and at last + ended with saying,—<span class="tei tei-q">“But why should I take + so much trouble to discuss the point with you, who, we all know, + were thinking of other matters, and saw not much more of the review + than if you had been a hundred miles off from it?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Centurion + coloured a little, and laughed, as it seemed to me, with rather + less heartiness than usual; but the disputant pursuing his + advantage, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, you may laugh if you + will; but do you think we are all blind, or do you suppose we are + not acquainted with certain particulars? Well, some people dislike + the Suburra, but for my part I agree with Sabinus; I think it is + one of the genteelest places in Rome, and that there are some of + the snuggest houses in it too—and if old men will die, for me, I + protest, I don’t see why young men should not succeed them.”</span> + The Centurion laughed again, and natural ruddiness of complexion + was, I thought, scarcely quite sufficient to account for the flush + on his countenance, as he listened to these innuendos. But the + master of the feast cut the matter short, by saying that he had a + health to propose, and that he expected all present should receive + it with honour.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Here,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“is to the fair lady Rubellia, who is never + absent when the Prætorians turn out, and may all things fair and + fortunate attend her now and hereafter.”</span> I whispered to + Sabinus,—<span class="tei tei-q">“My friend, I think you have + really some reason for blushing. If <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>you had no pity on Xerophrastes, you might at + least have had some for the pretty widow.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He made no + answer to this, and looked, if possible, more confused than ever; + but, just at that moment, a soldier came in, and delivered a billet + to the presiding Tribune, who handed it to Sabinus immediately + after he had read it, and said, loud enough to be heard by all + those who sate near him, <span class="tei tei-q">“I wish the Prince + would give some of this work to these new comers. But, indeed, I + wonder what Lictors are good for now-a-days; but every thing that + these Christians are any way concerned in seems to be a matter of + importance.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sabinus, having + read the billet, handed it back again to the Tribune, and said + aloud, <span class="tei tei-q">“<span lang="la" class= + "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="la"><span style= + "font-style: italic">Exit</span></span> Cotilius!—Who would not be + of the chorus at the falling of that curtain?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Tribune + shrugged his shoulders, whispered something into the ear of the + messenger, and then, dashing more wine into his cup, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Rome will never be a quiet place, nor the + Prætorian helmet a comfortable head-piece, till these barbarians be + extirpated.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Flamen + tossed off a full goblet, and, smiting with his hand upon the + table, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“There spake a true Roman, and + a worshipper of the Gods. I rejoice to find that there is still + some religion in the world; for, what with skulking Jews on the one + hand, and bold blasphemous Cyrenæans on the other, so help me + Jupiter, the general prospect is dark enough!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In my opinion,”</span> quoth the bald Greek, putting + on an air of some gravity, <span class="tei tei-q">“the Jews will + have the better of the Cyrenæans. Indeed, I should not be much + surprised to see this Christian superstition supplant every + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name= + "Pg311" id="Pg311" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>other.”</span> The + Flamen half started from his couch. <span class="tei tei-q">“You + observe, gentlemen,”</span> proceeded the Greek,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“what great advantage any new superstition has over any + thing of the same sort that is old. We all know, for example, that + Isis and Cybele have for many years past left comparatively few + worshippers to Mars, Apollo,—even to Jupiter. It is lamentable; but + it is true. I have heard that unless on some very great day, a gift + is now quite a rarity upon the altar of any of the true ancient + deities of Rome. Egypt and Mount Ida have done this; and why should + not Palestine succeed as well as either? In the meantime, the + enlightened contemplate every different manifestation of the + superstitious principle with equal indifference; and, I confess to + you, I have been a little surprised to perceive how far Trajan is + from imitating their example. But that Chæronæan master of his, + that Plutarch, was always an old woman; and I fear the Prince has + not been able to shake off the impression of his ridiculous + stories.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Hush!”</span> quoth the master of the day, + <span class="tei tei-q">“if it please you, nothing can be said here + against either Trajan or his friends; and, as for Plutarch, he was + one of the pleasantest fellows that I ever met with.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sabinus, + desirous of restoring the harmony of the assembly, called forthwith + on a musical senior, to join him in a song. The gentleman required + solicitation, but at last announced his consent to attempt the + female part in the duet of Horace and Lydia. Sabinus, always ready, + began to roar out the tender words of regret and expostulation + which the most elegant of poets has ascribed to himself; and the + delicate squeaking response of our wrinkled Lydia formed an + agreeable contrast.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg + 312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All, in short, + were once more in perfect good humour, when another soldier + appeared behind the couch of the president, and handed to him what + seemed to be another billet of the same complexion. He tossed the + paper as before to my friend, who looked very serious as he read + it.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Caius,”</span> he whispered, + <span class="tei tei-q">“an additional guard is ordered to the + Palatine—and the reason is said to be that the rest of the + Christian prisoners are to be examined, within an hour, by the + Emperor himself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had scarcely + had a moment to compose myself, when one of the slaves in + attendance signified that a person wished to speak with me in the + anti-chamber. It was Dromo.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> + said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have no time for explanation. + Silo wishes to see you—I left Boto with him at the + Mammertine.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we walked + from the camp, Sabinus, with his guard, passed without noticing me; + and I received some explanations which I must give to you very + briefly. Boto, mistrusting his recollection of my instructions, had + requested Dromo to assist him in finding his way to the Mammertine; + and the Cretan had come to be witness of a scene, which, in spite + of his sarcastic disposition, he could not narrate without tokens + of sympathy. I mentioned to you that my faithful slave, in coming + with me to Rome, had indulged the hope of meeting once more with a + brother, who many years before had been carried off from Britain. I + smiled when the poor man expressed confidence that he should find + out this ere he had been many days in the metropolis of the world. + But now, in truth, a fortunate accident had recompensed much + ill-regulated search. He had found his brother, and he had found + him in the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page313">[pg + 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>Mammertine. That very brother was Silo, to + whose kindness I, and one dearer than myself, had been so deeply + indebted. The Cretan, himself a slave and an exile, had partaken in + the feelings of the long-lost brothers, and hastened to bring me + from the camp, that Boto might be spared the pain of immediately + parting from Silo.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name= + "Pg314" id="Pg314" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc56" id= + "toc56"></a> <a name="pdf57" id="pdf57"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER V.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had hurried + along the darkening streets, and up the ascent of the Capitoline, + scarce listening to the story of the Cretan. On reaching the + summit, we found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already + occupied by detachments of foot. I hastened to the Mammertine—and + before the postern opened to admit us, the Prætorian squadron had + drawn up at the great gate. Sabinus beckoned me to him. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Caius,”</span> said he, stooping on his + horse, <span class="tei tei-q">“would to heaven I had been spared + this duty! Cotilius comes forth this moment, and then we go back to + the Palatine; and I fear—I fear we are to guard thither your + Athanasia. If you wish to enter the prison, quicken your + steps.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had scarcely + entered the inner-court, ere Sabinus also, and about a score of his + Prætorians, rode into it. Silo and Boto were standing together; and + both had already hastened towards me; but the jailer, seeing the + Centurion, was constrained to part from me with one hurried + word:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Pity me, for I also am most + wretched. But you know the way—here, take this key—hasten to my + dear lady, and tell her what commands have come.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alas! I said I + to myself, of what tidings am I doomed <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page315">[pg 315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>ever to be the messenger!—but she was alone; + and how could I shrink from any pain that might perhaps alleviate + hers? I took the key, glided along the corridors, and stood once + more at the door of the chamber in which I had parted from + Athanasia. No voice answered to my knock; I repeated it three + times, and then, agitated with indistinct apprehension, hesitated + no longer to open it. No lamp was burning within the chamber, but + from without there entered a wavering glare of deep + saffron-coloured light, which shewed me Athanasia extended on her + couch. Its ominous and troubled hue had no power to mar the image + of her sleeping tranquillity. I hung over her for a moment, and was + about to disturb that slumber—perhaps the last slumber of peace and + innocence—when the chamber-walls were visited with a yet deeper + glare. <span class="tei tei-q">“Caius,”</span> she whispered, as I + stepped from beside the couch; <span class="tei tei-q">“why do you + leave me? stay, Valerius.”</span> I looked back, but her eye-lids + were still closed; the same calm smile was upon her dreaming lips. + The light streamed redder and more red. All in an instant became as + quiet without as within. I approached the window, and saw Cotilius + standing in the midst of the court; Sabinus and Silo near him; the + horsemen drawn up on either side, and a soldier close behind + resting upon an unsheathed sword. I saw the keen blue eye as fierce + as ever. I saw that the blood was still fervid in his cheeks: for + the complexion of this man was of the same bold and florid + brightness so uncommon in Italy, which you have seen represented in + the pictures of Sylla, and even the blaze of the torches seemed to + strive in vain to heighten its natural scarlet. The soldier had + lifted his sword, and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg + 316]</span><a name="Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>my + eye was fixed, as by fascination, when suddenly a deep voice was + heard amidst the deadly silence—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Cotilius!—look up, Cotilius!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aurelius, the + Christian priest, standing at an open window, not far distant from + that at which I was placed, stretched forth his fettered hand as he + spake:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Cotilius! I charge thee, look upon + the hand from which the blessed water of baptism was cast upon thy + head. I charge thee, look upon me, and say, ere yet the blow be + given, upon what hope thy thoughts are fixed?—Is this sword bared + against the rebel of Cæsar, or a martyr of Jesus?—I charge thee, + speak; and for thy soul’s sake speak truly.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A bitter motion + of derision passed over his lips, and he nodded, as if impatiently, + to the Prætorian. Instinctively I turned me from the spectacle, and + my eye rested again upon the couch of Athanasia—but not upon the + vision of her tranquillity. The clap with which the corpse fell + upon the stones had, perhaps, reached the sleeping ear, and we know + with what swiftness thoughts chase thoughts in the wilderness of + dreams. So it was that she started at the very moment when the blow + was given; and she whispered—for it was still but a deep + whisper—<span class="tei tei-q">“Spare me, Trajan, Cæsar, + Prince—have pity on my youth—strengthen, strengthen me good + Lord!—Fie! fie! we must not lie to save life. Felix—Valerius—come + close to me, Caius—Fie! let us remember we are Romans—’Tis the + trumpet——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Prætorian + trumpet sounded the march in the court below, and Athanasia, + starting from her sleep, gazed wildly around the reddened chamber. + The blast of the trumpet was indeed in her ear—and Valerius + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg 317]</span><a name= + "Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>hung over her—but + after a moment the cloud of the broken dream passed away, and the + maiden smiled as she extended her hand to me from the couch, and + began to gather up the ringlets that floated all down upon her + shoulder. She blushed and smiled mournfully, and asked me hastily + whence I came, and for what purpose I had come; but before I could + answer, the glare that was yet in the chamber seemed anew to be + perplexing her: and she gazed from me to the red walls, and from + them to me again: and then once more the trumpet was blown, and + Athanasia sprung from her couch. I know not in what terms I was + essaying to tell her what was the truth, but I know that ere I had + said many words, she discovered my meaning. For a moment she looked + deadly pale, in spite of all the glare of the torch-beams; but she + recovered herself, and said in a voice that sounded almost as if it + came from a light heart,—<span class="tei tei-q">“But Caius, I must + not go to Cæsar, without having at least a garland on my head. Stay + here, Valerius, and I shall be ready anon—quite ready.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seemed to me + as if she were less hasty than she had promised, yet many minutes + elapsed not ere she returned. She plucked a blossom from her hair + as she drew near to me, and said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Take it: + you must not refuse one token more; this also is a sacred gift. + Caius, you must learn never to look upon it without kissing these + red streaks—these blessed streaks of the Christian + flower.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I took the + flower from her hand, and pressed it to my lips; and I remembered + that the very first day I saw Athanasia, she had plucked such an + one, when apart from all the rest, in the gardens of Capito. I told + her <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg 318]</span><a name= + "Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>what I remembered; + and it seemed as if the little circumstance had called up all the + image of peaceful days; for once more sorrowfulness gathered upon + her countenance. If the tear was ready, however, it was not + permitted to drop; and Athanasia returned again to her flower.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Do you think there are any of them in Britain?”</span> + said she; <span class="tei tei-q">“or do you think that they would + grow there? You must go to my dear uncle, and he will not deny you, + when you tell him that it is for my sake he is to give you some of + his. They call it the Passion-flower—’tis an emblem of an awful + thing. Caius, these purple streaks are like trickling drops; and + here, look ye, they are all round the flower. Is it not very like a + bloody crown upon a pale brow? I will take one of them in my hand, + too, Caius; and methinks I shall not disgrace myself when I look + upon it, even though Trajan should be frowning upon me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had not the + heart to interrupt her; but heard silently all she said, and I + thought she said the words quickly and eagerly, as if she feared to + be interrupted.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old priest + came into the chamber while she was yet speaking so, and said very + composedly, <span class="tei tei-q">“Come, my dear child, our + friend has sent again for us, and the soldiers have been waiting + already some space, who are to convey us to the Palatine. Come, + children, we must part for a moment—perhaps it may be but for a + moment—and Valerius may remain here till we return to him. Here, at + least, dear Caius, you shall have the earliest tidings, and the + surest.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The good man + took Athanasia by the hand, and she, smiling now at length more + serenely than ever, said <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page319">[pg + 319]</span><a name="Pg319" id="Pg319" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>only, <span class="tei tei-q">“Farewell, then, + Caius, for a little moment!”</span> And so, drawing her veil over + her face, she passed away from before me, giving, I think, more + support to the ancient Aurelius than, in her turn, she received + from him. I began to follow them, but the priest waved his hand as + if to forbid me:—the door closed after them, and I was alone.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page320">[pg 320]</span><a name= + "Pg320" id="Pg320" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc58" id= + "toc58"></a> <a name="pdf59" id="pdf59"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VI.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I know not, my + friends, how to proceed with the narrative of what followed. + Thoughts, passions, fears, hopes, succeeding so rapidly, give to + that strange night, when I look back upon it through the vista of + years, the likeness of some incoherent, agonizing dream. Much, + without doubt, of what passed within my own mind I have forgotten; + but it seems to me as if what I saw or heard were still present in + the distinctness of reality. That chamber in the Mammertine! Its + walls are before me blazing with the reflection of torch-light, and + then again, all dim and shadowy—the stars shining feebly upon them + from the twilight sky—every thing around lonely and silent, except + the voice of Silo’s little maiden,—bewailing no doubt in her + privacy the departure of Athanasia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her father after + a little time rejoined me. <span class="tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> + said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“all is now quiet here; will you + walk with me towards the Palatine, that we may at least be near to + know what is reported of their proceedings? My brother will stay + here till we return.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We soon had + descended from the Capitoline, passed through the silent Forum, and + gained the brow of the opposite eminence, where, as shortly before + at the Mam<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page321">[pg + 321]</span><a name="Pg321" id="Pg321" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>mertine, all was light and tumult. Every court + was guarded with soldiery, and groups of busy men were passing + continually about the imperial gates and porticos. Silo led me + round and round the buildings, till we reached what seemed an + abandoned wing. <span class="tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“you do not know more familiarly the house + in which you were born and reared, than I do every corner within + these wide walls. But I have not crossed the threshold since the + day Cæsar died.—I was the slave of Domitian, and he gave me my + freedom.—He was kind to his household.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We entered + beneath a small portico—and Silo drew a key from his bosom. The + lock, after two or three trials, yielded to its pressure. A large + empty hall received us, the circumference of which was scarcely + visible by the light of the newly-risen moon, streaming down from a + cupola.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another and + another sombre chamber we in like manner traversed, till at length + Silo opened one so comparatively light, that I started back, + apprehending we had intruded farther than he intended. A second + glance, however, seemed to indicate that we were still in the + region of desolation, for a statue lay in the midst of the floor, + one of its limbs snapped over, as if it had fallen and been + permitted to remain.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Where are we, Silo?”</span> I whispered, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“what means this unnatural light among so many symptoms + of confusion?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said the freedman, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“this is the place in which alone Domitian used to eat + and sleep, and walk about for the last months of his life, when he + was jealous of all men; and he contrived these walls, covered all + over <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page322">[pg 322]</span><a name= + "Pg322" id="Pg322" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with the shining + Ethiopian stone, that no one might be able to approach him without + being discovered. Even when a slave entered, he would start as if + every side of the chamber had been invaded by some host of men; + fifty different reflections of one trembling eunuch. It was, they + say, behind this shattered piece of marble that he ran when he had + felt the first treacherous blow. Yonder in the corner is the couch + he slept upon, and he had always a dagger under his head, and he + called to the little page that was waiting upon him to fetch it + from the place; but the scabbard only remained; and then in came + Parthenius and Claudianus, and the gladiator, and the rest, who + soon finished what the cunning Stephanus had begun. Let us go + on;—we have not yet reached the place to which I wished to bring + you—but it is not far off now.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With this Silo + walked to the end of the melancholy chamber, and pressing upon a + secret spring, where no door was apparent, opened the way into a + room, darker and smaller than any of those through which we had + come. He then said to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“Now, sir, you + must not venture upon one whisper more—you touch on the very heart + of Domitian’s privacy. It is possible that the place I have been + leading you to may have been shut up—it may exist no longer; but + the state in which all things are found here makes me think it more + likely that Trajan has never been master of its secret. And in that + case, we shall be able both to see and to hear, without being + either seen or heard, exactly as Domitian used to do, when there + was any council held either in the Mars or the Apollo.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I started at the + boldness of the project which now, <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page323">[pg 323]</span><a name="Pg323" id="Pg323" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>for the first time, I understood; but Silo + laid his finger on his lip again,—cautiously lifted up a piece of + the dark-red cloth with which this chamber was hung,—and essayed + another spring in the pannelling beneath. Total darkness appeared + to be beyond; but the jailer motioning to me to remain for a moment + where I was, and to keep up the hanging, glided boldly into the + recess. I wondered how he should tread so lightly, that I could not + perceive the least echo; but this no longer surprised me, when I + had the sign to follow. The floor felt beneath my foot as if it + were stuffed like a pillow; and, after I had dropped the hanging, + every thing was totally dark, as it had at first appeared to me, + except only at certain points, separate and aloft, which let in + gleams of light, manifestly artificial. Silo, taking hold of me by + the hand, conducted me up some steps towards the nearest of these + tiny apertures; and, as I approached it, I heard distinctly the + voices of persons talking together in the room beyond. I did not + draw my breath, you may well believe, with much boldness; but my + eye was soon fixed at one of the crevices, and, after the first + dazzle was over, I saw clearly. Silo took his station by my side, + gazing through another of these loop-holes, which, that you may + understand every thing, were evidently quite concealed among the + rich carved-work of an ivory cornice.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The chamber was + lighted by three tall candelabra of silver, close beside one of + which was placed a long table covered with an infinity of scrolls + and tablets. One person, who had his back turned towards us, was + writing, and two others, in one of whom I instantly <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page324">[pg 324]</span><a name="Pg324" id="Pg324" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>recognized the Emperor, were walking up + and down on the other side.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, Palma,”</span> said Trajan, for it was that old + favourite whom he addressed—<span class="tei tei-q">“I have made up + my mind as to this matter. I shall never permit any curious + inquisition as to private opinion. Every man has a right, without + question, to think—to believe—exactly what pleases him; and I shall + concede as much in favour of every woman, Palma, if you will have + it so. But it is totally a different affair, when the fact, no + matter how, is forced upon my knowledge, that a subject, no matter + who or what he be—a subject of the Roman empire, refuses to comply + with the first, the elemental, and the most essential of the laws. + The man—aye or the woman—that confesses in my presence contempt for + the deities whom the commonwealth acknowledges in every step of its + procedure—that person is a criminal; and I cannot dismiss him + unpunished, without injuring the commonwealth by the display of + weakness in its chief. As for these poor fanatics themselves, it is + the penalty of my station that I must control my + feelings.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“But you are satisfied, my lord,”</span> said Palma, + <span class="tei tei-q">“that these people are quite innocent as to + Cotilius’s designs; and as it was upon that suspicion they were + apprehended, perhaps it may be possible——”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, Palma,”</span> interrupted the Prince; + <span class="tei tei-q">“quite possible and quite easy, provided + they will condescend to save themselves by the most trivial + acknowledgment of the sort which, I repeat to you, I do and must + consider as absolutely necessary. And women too—and girls + forsooth—I suppose you would have me wait till the <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page325">[pg 325]</span><a name="Pg325" id="Pg325" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>very urchins on the street were + gathering into knots to discuss the nature of the Gods.—Do you + remember what Plato says?”</span>—</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, my lord, I do not know to what you + refer.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Why, Plato says that nobody can ever understand any + thing accurately about the Deity, and that, if he could, he would + have no right to communicate his discoveries to others; the passage + is in the Timæus, and Tully has translated it besides. And is it to + be endured that these modest fanatics are to do every hour what the + Platos and the Ciceros spoke of in such terms as these? I think you + carry your tolerance a little farther than might have been expected + from a disciple of the Academy.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I despise them, my lord, as much as yourself; but, to + tell you the truth, it is this young lady that moves me to speak + thus—and I crave your pardon, if I have spoken with too much + freedom.—Her father was one of the best soldiers Titus + had.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The more is the pity, Palma. Have you ever seen the + girl yourself? Did you give orders that she should be brought + hither? I have not the least objection that you should have half an + hour, or an hour if you will, to talk with her quietly; perhaps + your eloquence may have the effect we desire.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I doubt it, my lord, I greatly doubt it,”</span> he + replied; <span class="tei tei-q">“but, indeed, I know not whether + she be yet here—Did you not send to the Mammertine?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The man writing + at the table, to whom this interrogation was addressed, said, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I believe, sir, both this lady and the old + man that was in the same prison are now in attendance.”</span> And + upon this Trajan and Palma <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page326">[pg 326]</span><a name="Pg326" id="Pg326" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>retired together towards the farther end of + the apartment, where they conversed for some minutes in a tone so + low, that I could not understand any thing of what was said. Trajan + at length turned from his favourite with an air, as I thought, of + some little displeasure, and said aloud, coming back into the + middle of the room,—<span class="tei tei-q">“I know it is so; but + what is that to the affair in hand? I am very sorry for the + Sempronii, but I doubt if even they would be so unreasonable as you + are.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Will you not see the poor girl yourself, + Cæsar?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You do not need to be told, that my seeing her would + only make it more difficult for me to do that, which, seeing or not + seeing her, I know to be my duty. Do you accept of my proposal? Are + you willing to try the effect of your own persuasion? I promise + you, if you succeed, I shall rejoice not less heartily than + yourself; but it is rather too much to imagine that I am personally + to interfere about such an affair as this—an affair which, the more + I think of it, seems to me to be the more perfectly contemptible. + Nay, do not suppose it is this poor girl I am talking of—I mean the + whole of this Jewish, this Christian affair, which does indeed + appear to me to be the most bare-faced absurdity, that ever was + permitted to disturb the tranquillity of the empire. A mean and + savage nation have but just suffered the penalty of obstinacy and + treachery alike unequalled, and from them—from the scattered embers + of this extinguished fire, we are to allow a new flame to be + kindled—ay, and that in the very centre of Rome. I tell you, that + if my own hand were to be scorched in the cause, I would disperse + this combustion to the winds of heaven; I tell you, that I stand + here <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page327">[pg 327]</span><a name= + "Pg327" id="Pg327" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Cæsar, and that I + would rather be chained to the oar, than suffer, while the power to + prevent it is mine, the tiniest speck to be thrown upon the Roman + majesty. By all the Gods, Palma, it is enough to make a man sick to + think of the madness that is in this world, and of the iron + arguments by which we are compelled to keep those from harming us, + that at first sight of them excite no feeling but our pity. But I + am weary of these very names of Palestine—Jew—Christian. Go to this + foolish girl, and try what you can make of her; I give you fair + warning—no breeders of young Christians here.”</span></p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page328">[pg 328]</span><a name= + "Pg328" id="Pg328" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc60" id= + "toc60"></a> <a name="pdf61" id="pdf61"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cornelius Palma, + after the Prince retired, was apparently for some space busied with + his reflections. He then talked in a whispering manner with the + secretary, and moved towards an extremity of the chamber. But the + moment Silo perceived this, he plucked my sleeve, and drew me to + the other end of our closet, where, as I have told you, the light + had admittance in a similar manner. Here another of the imperial + apartments was visible in equal distinctness; and in it appeared + Athanasia and her friend, as waiting now at length in entire + composure the moment when they should be summoned.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Palma entering, + both rose, and he, returning their salutation, remained before them + for a moment in silence, his eyes fixed on Athanasia. It was to + Aurelius, nevertheless, that his first words were + addressed:—<span class="tei tei-q">“From what has been reported of + your behaviour at the execution of Cotilius, I fear there is + nothing to be gained by speaking to <span class= + "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">you</span></span>, + concerning the only means by which your own safety can yet be + secured. You are obstinate, old man, in your + superstition?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Noble Palma,”</span> + said the priest, <span class="tei tei-q">“contempt is the only + thing I fear from men. But I thank my <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page329">[pg 329]</span><a name="Pg329" id="Pg329" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>God, that it is the only thing I have it in my + power to avoid.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“I will not argue + with you,”</span> answered Palma, pointing to a door near + him:—<span class="tei tei-q">“It was not with any purpose of + bending you, that I undertook this painful office. I desire to + speak in freedom with one whose case is, I trust, less + hopeless.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man, + pointing to his fetters, said meekly, <span class="tei tei-q">“Let + them guard me whither it pleases you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> said Athanasia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I pray you let Aurelius remain; imagine not that I + shall either hear or answer less freely because of my friend’s + presence.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“He will, at least, retire to the other end of the + chamber,”</span> said Palma—<span class="tei tei-q">“and interfere + no farther.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The priest drew + back;—Athanasia, on her part, seeing that Palma hesitated, and + seemed at a loss how to begin, said to him in a tone of modest + composure:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Noble sir, if your purpose be + indeed as kind as I think it is, I pray you spare me at least the + pain that is needless, and spare yourself what I am sure is painful + to you. You see my youth and my sex, and it is not unnatural for + you to think as you do; but know that my faith is fixed, and that I + hope I shall not be deserted, when I strive even at the last moment + to do it no dishonour.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“This gray beard,”</span> said Palma, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“has made you, then, thoroughly a + Christian?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I would it were so,”</span> she answered—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“I would to God it were so!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Lady,”</span> resumed Palma, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“we have knowledge both of your father’s high + character, and of your own amiable dispositions. If you persist in + this manner, you will give grief to Cæsar; and as for your family, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page330">[pg 330]</span><a name= + "Pg330" id="Pg330" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>have you yet + seriously considered into what misery they must be + plunged?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Sir,”</span> she replied, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“this is cruel kindness. I have considered all + things.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Young maiden,”</span> continued Palma, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the touch of the physician’s knife is painful, yet his + hand must not falter. But I have sent for those, who, I hope, may + speak more effectually.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Senator + turned from the pedestal on which he had been leaning, and walked + to the door over against where Aurelius was sitting: and after a + moment had elapsed, there entered, even as I had anticipated, both + her uncles, Lucius and Velius. Behind them came, wrapped in her + consecrated veil, the Priestess of Apollo; and last of all, gazing + wildly around, her apparel disordered, the friend of her youth, the + sister of her bosom,—she to whom in all things, save one, + Athanasia’s heart had ever been laid open. The two Patricians + advanced, deeply dejected, towards the place where Athanasia stood + waiting their approach. The stately Priestess, walking yet more + slowly, lifted the veil from her face, which was pale and calm as + marble. But when the youthful companion at last rested her eye upon + her friend, and the fettered hands clasped together on that bosom, + she rushed past them all, and was folded in a cold embrace; for + though Athanasia pressed Sempronia to her bosom, I saw also that + she trembled from head to foot, and that her eyes were riveted on + those who approached with seriousness more terrible than the + passion of young sympathy.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Athanasia,”</span> said Lucius, taking her by the + hand, <span class="tei tei-q">“look not upon us thus; we come as to + a daughter.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page331">[pg + 331]</span><a name="Pg331" id="Pg331" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dearest,”</span> said old Velius, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“listen to thy true friends. Do you put more faith in + the words of strangers than in the blood of kindred—the affection + of your father’s brothers—the guardians of his dear + orphan?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Wo is me!”</span> said Athanasia—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“O God, strengthen me! Why, oh, why am I forced to + wound these kind hearts! Have pity upon me, have pity upon me—you + know not what you speak of, else you would all be + silent.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Weep,”</span> said the Priestess; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“weep, and weep largely. There is yet time to repent. + Abjure this madness; let the last of your tears be shed upon the + altars of your paternal Gods, and they also will be merciful. Nay, + tremble not when you hear my voice, Athanasia. I love you as + tenderly as the rest, and if you have deceived me also, I have long + since pardoned.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Priestess + kissed her forehead; and she bowed her head, weeping at length + audibly. But Athanasia speedily recovered herself, and gently + removing the hands of Sempronia, stood erect again in the + midst.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dear friends,”</span> said she, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the moments you have to be with me are numbered; what + avails it that they should be spent in words that can have no + effect? I have been baptized in the name of the one true God—I have + partaken of the symbols of the Christian mystery—and I have no more + power to bring myself out of this peril, than he that stands in the + front rank—without sword or buckler—deprived of all things but his + honour.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Athanasia!”</span> said Velius, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“alas! my dear girl, what madness is this? Do you hold + yourself wiser than all the wise men, and all the good, and all the + great men <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page332">[pg + 332]</span><a name="Pg332" id="Pg332" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>that have ever lived in Rome? Do you deem + yourself able to penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of + the earth have retreated with humility? Consider with + yourself—remember the modesty that might be becoming in your tender + years—and, I must speak the truth, your ignorance.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Oh, sir!”</span> she answered, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“believe not that I have been brought into this place, + because of my being puffed up with emptiness of conceit. I know + well that I am a poor, young, unlearned creature; but God gives not + according to our deserts; and because I am poor and ignorant, must + I therefore reject the promise of his riches, and the great light + that has been manifested to me,—which, would to God it had also + been to you, despite the perils which a dark world has thrown + around it.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“O Athanasia!”</span> said young Sempronia, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I know the secrets of your heart, although + you have kept from me some of them. Think, dear sister, of all the + love that we bear to you—and, oh! think of Valerius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The more, then, is the sacrifice!”</span> said + Athanasia. <span class="tei tei-q">“Caius Valerius also is a + Christian—at least I hope in God he will soon be sealed into our + brotherhood.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Amen! amen!”</span> said Aurelius.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Priestess + turned round when he uttered this, and observing that he also was + fettered, <span class="tei tei-q">“Blasphemer!”</span> cried she, + <span class="tei tei-q">“behold the end of your frenzy. Your eyes + are dim, your clay is already yearning, it may be, to be sprinkled + into ashes; but behold your victim. Ye Gods that see all things, + have mercy upon the errors of deceived, ensnared, murdered youth! + Hoary Apostate! feeble though you be, may strength be given to you + in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page333">[pg 333]</span><a name= + "Pg333" id="Pg333" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>anger, that you may + taste the full struggle and the true agony. May you be strong to + wrestle, that you may fall slowly, and feel your fall! Would to the + Gods, just and merciful, that you might struggle and fall + alone!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Rash woman,”</span> said the manacled Saint, + <span class="tei tei-q">“most surely your last wish is mine. But + why is it that you have come hither with cruel words, to imbitter + equally the last moments of a life that is dear to you, and a life + that you despise? You speak of ignorance and of deceit. Little know + ye who are the deceived. We are the servants of the living God, + whose light will soon shine abroad among the nations, and quench + glimmering tapers, fashioned with the hands of men, with which, + hitherto, ye have sat contented amidst darkness. Cæsar may bind and + slay—but think ye that the spirit is his to do with it what he + will? Think ye that chains and dungeons, and the sword of man can + alter the course of things that are to be, or shake from its + purpose the will of Him, in whom, blind and ignorant, ye refuse to + behold the image of the Maker of all—shutting eyes, and ears, and + your proud hearts; and blaspheming against the God of heaven, whose + glory ye ascribe to stocks and stones, and to the ghosts of wicked + and bloody tyrants, long since mouldered into dust,—and to the sun, + and the moon, and the stars of the sky, which God set there to rule + the day and the night, even as he lets loose his winds to scatter + the leaves of the forest, and to lift up the waves of the great + deep?—Leave us, I beseech you.—The young and the old are alike + steadfast, for God is our strength, and he bestows it on them that + ask for it in the name of the Redeemer.”</span></p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page334">[pg 334]</span><a name="Pg334" id="Pg334" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Peace, thou accursed!”</span> said the Priestess; + <span class="tei tei-q">“I serve the altar, and came not hither to + hear the Gods of heaven and earth insulted by the lips of hardened + impiety.—Athanasia! will you go with us, or will you stay here, and + partake the fate of this madman?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“O God!”</span> cried the maiden; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“how shall I speak that they may at length hear + me!—Friends—dear friends—if you have any love, any compassion, I + pray you kiss me once, and bid me farewell kindly, and lay my ashes + in the sepulchre of my fathers—beside the urn of my mother. Fear + not that I will disturb the repose of the place—I shall die in + anger against no one, and I shall have rest at length when I am + relieved from this struggle. Pardon, if in any thing besides I ever + gave you pain—remember none of my offences but this—think of me + kindly. And go now, dear friends; kiss my lips in love, and leave + me to bear that which must be borne, since there is no escape but + in lying, and in baseness, and in utter perdition here and + hereafter. May the Lord strengthen his day soon, and may ye all + bless the full light, although now ye are startled by the redness + of the dawn! Farewell—kiss me, Velius—kiss me, Lucius—my aunt also + will kiss me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They did kiss + her, and tears were mingled with their embraces; and they said no + more, but parted from her where she was. Palma himself lifted the + desolate Sempronia from the ground, and he and her father carried + her away senseless, her tresses sweeping the pavement as they + moved.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prisoners + were alone. <span class="tei tei-q">“The moment is come,”</span> + said Silo; <span class="tei tei-q">“now, sir, prepare yourself to + risk every thing where every thing may be + gained.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page335">[pg + 335]</span><a name="Pg335" id="Pg335" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He did not + whisper this, but spake the words boldly; and ere I could either + answer any thing, or form any guess as to his meaning, he had + leaped down from my side, and thrown open another secret spring. + Silo rushed in, and I followed him. It was all done so rapidly, + that I scarce remember how. I cannot, indeed, forget the wild and + vacant stare of Athanasia, the cry which escaped from her lips, nor + the fervour with which she sunk into my embrace. But all the rest + is a dream. The door closed swiftly behind us;—swiftly I ran, + bearing the maiden in my arms through all the long course of those + deserted chambers. Door after door flew open before us. All alike, + breathless and speechless, we ran on. We reached the last of the + chambers, the wide and echoing saloon, ere my heart had recovered + from the first palpitation of surprise; and a moment after we + breathed once more the free air of heaven.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Stop not,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“for + the sake of God. Hasten, Silo, it is you that must guide + us.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ha!”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“already have they perceived it? Great God! + after all, is it in vain?”</span> We heard shout echoing shout, and + the clapping of doors. <span class="tei tei-q">“Treachery, + treachery! Escape, escape!”</span>—and trumpet and horn mingled in + the clamour of surprise, wrath, terror. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Ride, ride,”</span> screamed a voice high over all the + tumult—<span class="tei tei-q">“ride this instant—guard every + avenue—search every corner—the wing of Domitian!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“We are lost,”</span> said Silo;—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“we can never reach the gate.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“To the Temple of Apollo!”</span> said I; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“the Priestess will shelter Athanasia.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Thank God,”</span> whispered Silo, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there is one chance <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page336">[pg 336]</span><a name="Pg336" id="Pg336" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>more.”</span>—And so we began again to run + swiftly, keeping close beneath the shaded wall of the edifice, and + then threading many narrow passages of the hanging gardens of + Adonis, we reached indeed the adjoining court of the Palatine, and + found ourselves, where all was as yet silent and undisturbed, under + the sacred portico. The great gate was barred. Athanasia herself + pointed out a postern, and we stood within the temple.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was filled as + before, (for here the alternations of day and night made no + difference,) with the soft and beautiful radiance proceeding from + the tree of lamps. But the fire on the altar burned high and clear, + as if recently trimmed, and behind its blaze stood one of the + ministering damsels. Her hand held the chain of the censer, and she + was swinging it slowly, while the clouds of fragrant smoke rolled + high up above the flames;—and the near light, and the intervening + smoke, and the occupation with which she was busied, prevented her + from at first perceiving what intrusion had been made on the + solitude of the place. Athanasia ran on, and clasping the knees of + the astonished girl with her fettered hands, began to implore her + by the memory of old affection and companionship, and for the sake + of all that was dear to her, to give escape, if escape were + possible—at least to give concealment. The girl had dropped the + censer from her hand, and seemed utterly confused, and unable to + guess the meaning of what she saw and heard. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Lady!”</span> cried Silo, falling by the side of + Athanasia—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, lady! stand not here + considering, for this is the very moment of utmost peril. Behold + these fetters—they tell you from what her flight hath + been.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page337">[pg + 337]</span><a name="Pg337" id="Pg337" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The girl grasped + the hands of Athanasia, and gazed upon the manacles, and still + seemed quite amazed and stupified; and while Silo was renewing his + entreaties, we heard suddenly some one trying to open the postern + which the freedman had fastened behind us. Once and again a violent + hand essayed to undo the bolt, and then all was quiet again. And in + a moment after, the great gate was itself thrown open, and the + Priestess entered, followed by her two brothers, who supported + between them the yet faint and weeping young Sempronia.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a moment + Athanasia had rushed across the temple, and knelt down with her + forehead to the ground, close by where the feet of her haughty + kinswoman were planted.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Unhappy!”</span> said she; <span class="tei tei-q">“by + what magic do I behold you here? How have you escaped? and why—oh! + why fled hither? Think ye, that here, in the Temple of Apollo, the + priestess of an insulted God can give shelter to blasphemy flying + from the arms of justice? Ha! and he, too, is here!—Outcast! how + durst thou? Speak, unhappy Athanasia—every thing is dark, and I see + only that you have brought hither——”</span>—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Friends, friends—oh! blame them not,”</span> + interrupted the maiden—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! blame them not + for venturing all to save me. Oh! help us, and help speedily—for + they search every where, and they may speedily be here.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Here?”</span> cried the priestess—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“who, I pray you? Ha! run, fly, bolt the door. If Cæsar + speaks, I answer.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ring of + arms, and voices of angry men, were heard distinctly approaching. + In a moment more we could hear them talking together beneath the + very portico, and trying, in their turn, to thrust open the massive + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page338">[pg 338]</span><a name= + "Pg338" id="Pg338" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>valves of the temple. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Who calls there?”</span> cried the + Priestess—<span class="tei tei-q">“Who calls and knocks? If a + suppliant approaches, let him come as a + suppliant.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Castor! We are no + suppliants,”</span> answered a rough voice:—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dead or alive, you must give up our pretty Christians. + Come, come, my sly masters; yield, yield, there is no flying from + Cæsar.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Peace, insolent!”</span> quoth the + Priestess—<span class="tei tei-q">“peace, and begone! This is the + Temple of Apollo, and ye shall find no Christians here. Turn, rude + man, and dread the arm that guarded Delphos!”</span> And saying so, + she at length lifted up Athanasia, and moved towards the other + extremity of the fane, where, as I had occasion once to tell you + before, the private chamber of the Priestess was situated on the + right hand beyond the statue of Apollo. In passing the image she + halted an instant, laid her hand on her eyes, and kissed its feet, + with a murmur of supplication; but that was her only utterance: and + the rest gave none.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She thus led us + across the chamber in which, on a former day, I had heard Athanasia + sing; and in like manner, having taken a lamp in her hand, on + through the long passages which conduct towards the receptacle + wherein the Sybilline prophecies are said to be preserved. She + opened the door which she had, on that earlier day, told me led + into the repository of those mysterious scrolls. Two inner doors + appeared before us; that to the left she opened likewise, and we + perceived, descending from its threshold, a dark flight of steps, + as if down into the centre of the rock.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Here,”</span> said she, as she paused, and held the + lamp over the gloomy perspective—<span class="tei tei-q">“here, at + last, I leave <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page339">[pg + 339]</span><a name="Pg339" id="Pg339" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>you, having already done too much, whether I + think of the God I serve, or of Trajan, or of myself. But for the + blood of kindred not little may be dared. Go with her, since you + have come with her. More I cannot do. Here—take this lamp; the door + at the bottom is fastened only from within; let it fall behind you, + and make what speed you may.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“One thing,”</span> said Silo, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“had better be done ere you depart;”</span> and so, + very adroitly, he, by means of his jailer’s key, relieved both of + them from their fetters. He then whispered, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Go no farther, Valerius; you may rest assured that no + one suspects us.”</span> I saw that he designed to return into the + courts of the Palatine, and so proceed homewards, as if ignorant of + every thing that had occurred. The good freedman had no other + course to pursue, either in duty to himself or to his family. But + for me, all my cares were here. I squeezed by the hand both Lucius + and Velius, and both warmly returned my pressure. The Priestess + gave the lamp into my hand, and the door was shut upon us; and we + began, with hearts full of thankfulness, but not yet composed + enough to taste of lightness—with thankfulness uppermost in our + confused thoughts, and with no steady footsteps, to descend into + the unknown abyss.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page340">[pg 340]</span><a name= + "Pg340" id="Pg340" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc62" id= + "toc62"></a> <a name="pdf63" id="pdf63"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + VIII.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The steps were + abrupt and narrow; but in a few minutes our feet became accustomed + to them, and we descended rapidly. After we had done so for some + time, we found ourselves in a low chamber of oblong form, in the + midst of which an iron stake was fixed into the floor, having + chains of ponderous workmanship attached to its centre, and over + against it, a narrow chair of the same metal, it also immoveable. I + asked Athanasia to repose herself here for a moment; for it was + evident that the tumultuous evening had much worn out her strength. + But she said, shuddering, <span class="tei tei-q">“No, not here, + Valerius; I never saw this place before, but the aspect of it + recals to me fearful stories. Here, wo is me, many a poor wretch + has expiated offences against the dignity of the shrine, and the + servants of its Demon. My father knows, I doubt not, some humble + Christian roof, beneath which we may be safe until the first search + be over. Let us breathe at least the open air, and He who has + hitherto helped will not desert us.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“No, my children,”</span> said Aurelius; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“let us not linger here. Christian roofs, indeed, are + known to me, both humble and lofty; but how to know how far + suspicion may already have extended?—or why should we run any + needless risk of bringing others into peril, <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page341">[pg 341]</span><a name="Pg341" id="Pg341" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>having by God’s grace escaped ourselves, + when all hope as to this life had been utterly taken away? Let us + quit these foul precincts—let us quit them speedily—but let us not + rashly be seen in the busy city. There is a place known to me, (and + Athanasia also has visited it heretofore,) where safety, I think, + may be expected, and where, if danger do come, it shall find no + unnecessary victim. Let us hasten to the Esquiline.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Thanks, father!”</span> said Athanasia; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there no one will seek us: there best shall our + thanksgivings and our prayers be offered. We will rest by the + sepulchre of our friend, and Valerius will go into the city, and + procure what things are needful.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We began the + descent of another flight of steps, beyond the dark chamber. This + terminated at length in a door, the bolts of which being withdrawn, + we found ourselves beneath the sky of night, at the extremity of + one of the wooded walks that skirt the southern base of the + Palatine—the remains of the Assyrian magnificence which had once + connected the Golden House of Nero with the more modest structures + of his predecessors. I wrapped Athanasia in my cloak, and walked + beside her in my tunic; and Aurelius conducted us by many windings, + avoiding as far as was possible the glare of the Suburra, all round + about the edge of the city, to the gardens which hang over the wall + by the great Esquiline Gate.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Is it here,”</span> said I, when he + paused—<span class="tei tei-q">“is it in the midst of this + splendour that you hope to find a safe obscurity?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Have patience,”</span> replied the old man; + <span class="tei tei-q">“you are a stranger:—and yet you speak what + I should have heard <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page342">[pg + 342]</span><a name="Pg342" id="Pg342" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>without surprise from many that have spent all + their days in Rome. Few, indeed, ever think of entering a region + which is almost as extensive as the city itself, and none, I think, + are acquainted with all its labyrinths.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So saying, the + priest led the way into one of the groves. Its trees formed a dense + canopy overhead; nor could we pass without difficulty among the + close-creeping undergrowth. At length we reached the centre of the + wide thicket, and found a small space of soil comparatively bare. + The light of moon and star plunged down there among the surrounding + blackness of boughs, as into some deep well, and shewed the + entrance of a natural grotto, which had, indeed, all the appearance + of oblivion and utter desertedness. <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Confess,”</span> said he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“that I did not deceive you. But there is no hurry now; + let me taste once more the water of this forgotten + spring.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had not + observed a small fountain hard by the mouth of the grotto, which, + in former days, had evidently been much cared for, although now + almost all its surface was covered with leaves. The marble margin + shewed dim with moss; nor had a statue just within the entrance of + the grot escaped this desolation. Damp herbage obscured its + recumbent limbs, and the Parian stone had lost its brightness. + <span class="tei tei-q">“You can scarcely see where the inscription + was,”</span> said Aurelius, <span class="tei tei-q">“for the + letters are filled up or effaced; but I remember when many admired + it, and I can still repeat the lines—</span></p> + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + ‘Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And to the murmur of these waters sleep; + </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page343">[pg + 343]</span><a name="Pg343" id="Pg343" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Ah! spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + And drink in silence, or in silence lave.’<a id="noteref_4" + name="noteref_4" href="#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref" + style="text-align: left"><span style= + "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">Little did they, who graved this command, conjecture + how well it was to be obeyed. But there should be another + inscription.—Ay, here it is,”</span> said he, stepping on a long + flat piece of marble among the weeds. I was advancing to examine + the stone, but the old man stopped me:—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“What avails it to spell out the record? Do you + remember the story of Asinius? It was within this very cavern that + the man was butchered;<a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href= + "#note_5"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style= + "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a> and now + you see both he and his monument are alike sinking into + forgetfulness. I believe, however, the monument itself must bear + the blame in part; for I have heard my father say that he had been + told this was a favourite fountain until that + slaughter.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia + meantime had sat down by the grotto, and was laving her forehead + with the water of the solitary fountain. Aurelius, too, dipped his + hands in the well, and tasted of the water, and then turning to me, + he said, with a grave smile, <span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius, + methinks you are religious in your regard for the slumbers of the + nymph.”</span> He whispered something into the ear of Athanasia, + and received an answer from her in the same tone, ere he + proceeded:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Draw near—fear not that I shall + do any thing rashly—we owe all things <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page344">[pg 344]</span><a name="Pg344" id="Pg344" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>to your love—we know we do; but speak + plainly.—Do you indeed desire to be admitted into the fellowship of + the true Faith? Let not the symbol of regeneration be applied + hastily. Without doubt, great were my joy might my hands be + honoured to shed the blessed water of baptism upon the brow of dear + Valerius.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Caius,”</span> said Athanasia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I know God has touched your heart; why should this be + delayed any longer? You have shared the perils of the faithful. + Partake with them in good as in evil. Hesitate no longer; God will + perfect what hath been so begun.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Dearest friends!”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“if I hesitate, it is only because I doubt if I am yet + worthy. Surely I believe that this is the right faith, and that + there is no God but He whom you worship.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Acceptable is humility in the sight of Heaven,”</span> + said the priest; and he rose up from the place where he had been + sitting, and began, standing by the margin of the well, to pour out + words of thanksgiving and supplication, such as I have never heard + equalled by any lips but his. The deep calm voice of the holy man + sounded both sweet and awful in the breathless air of midnight. The + tall black trees stood all around, like a wall, cutting us off from + the world, and from the thoughts of the world; and the moon, steady + in the serene sky, seemed to shower down light and beauty upon + nothing in all the wide earth, but that little guarded space of our + seclusion. I stepped into the cool water of the fountain. The old + man stooped over me, and sprinkled the drops upon my forehead, and + the appointed words were repeated. Aurelius kissed my brow, as I + came forth from the water, and Athanasia also drew slowly + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page345">[pg 345]</span><a name= + "Pg345" id="Pg345" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>near, and then + hastily she pressed my forehead with trembling lips.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We sate down + together by the lonely well; and we sate in silence, for I could + not be without many thoughts partaken by none but myself, at the + moment when I had thus, in the face of God and man, abjured the + faith of all my fathers, and passed into the communion of the + despised and persecuted Few; nor did either the priest or Athanasia + essay to disturb my meditations.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There were + moments (for I must not conceal from you my weakness) in which I + could scarcely help suspecting that I had done something that was + wrong. I thought of my far distant mother; and I could not reflect + without pain upon the feelings with which I had every reason to + suppose that she, kind as she was, and merciful in all things, + would have contemplated the scene which had passed. I thought of my + dead parent too; and that was yet more serious and awful. The + conviction of my own mind, in obedience to which I had acted, + relieved me, however, from any feelings of self-reproach.—My father + is dead, said I to myself—He died in ignorance, and he has not been + judged according to the light, which never shone upon him. But + now—Oh, yes! it must be so—the darkness has passed from before his + eyes; and, if the spirits of the departed ever visit, in the dim + hours of silence, those who were dear to them upon this earth, + surely his venerable shade stood by smiling while the forehead of + his son was laved with these blessed waters.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meantime, + minutes—hours, perhaps, glided away, while troubled, and solemn, + and tender thoughts thus occupied by turns my bosom. The old priest + sate by <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page346">[pg + 346]</span><a name="Pg346" id="Pg346" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>me, his arms folded on his breast, gazing + upwards upon the spangled glories of the firmament. Athanasia was + on the other side, close by the statue of the Sleeping Naiad. From + time to time, she too would fix her eyes for a moment upon the + untroubled beauty of the moon; and then, stooping over the brink of + the fountain, once and again I saw its calm dark waters rippled + beneath her by the dropping of a tear.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My children,”</span> said, at length, Aurelius, + <span class="tei tei-q">“methinks more sadness is amongst us than + might suit the remembrance of what Providence has done for us, + since the sun that went down upon fear and sorrow is about to rise + upon many fair hopes. I am old; the world lies behind me, save a + remnant I know not how brief. It lies all before you, and you have + a light whereby to look upon it, which my early day wanted. I trust + that soon, very soon, ye shall both be far from this city—I say + both, for I know well, go where ye may, ye will go together. As for + me, my lot is cast here, and here I will remain. Caius, you must + leave us betimes—you must return into the city, and consult with + your friends and hers, how best Athanasia may be conveyed safely + beyond the bounds of Italy. Cæsar, indeed, rules every where; but + at a distance from Rome suspicion is, at least, less watchful; and + there is no precept given by which ye are bound to seek unnecessary + perils.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Aurelius,”</span> said I—<span class="tei tei-q">“dear + father, think not but that I have already been considering all + these things anxiously. As soon as I have seen you safely placed + within the retreat of which you have spoken, I shall hasten to + Licinius, my kinsman, who already, indeed, must be feeling no small + anxiety from my absence. I <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page347">[pg 347]</span><a name="Pg347" id="Pg347" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>shall speak with him, and with both the + Sempronii. My own errand to the capital I value as nothing, and I + shall be ready on the instant, if Athanasia herself will consent to + partake my voyage.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Yes, Caius,”</span> said the father—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“this child of God will be your wife, and ye will both + serve the Lord many days, amidst the quiet valleys of your far off + island.—Nay, daughter, do not weep, for these are not common days, + and you must follow without fear the path which God’s providence + points out. Before ye go, my children, I myself shall join your + hands in the name of our God.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athanasia heard + his words, and saw me gaze upon his face, but she made no reply, + except by the tears which Aurelius rebuked, and a timid, yet grave + and serious pressure, with which she, when he had made an end of + speaking, returned the fervid pressure of my hand upon hers.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Children,”</span> said the old man, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“there is no need of words when hearts are open—the + tears that ye have shed together are the best earnest of the vows + that ye shall ere long, I trust, pronounce. Yet, let no rashness + attend your steps. The dawn must now be near, and Athanasia and I + had better retire into our protecting covert. Valerius will leave + us, and return at eventide. Till then, fasting and praying, we + shall give thanks for our deliverance, and ask the aid that alone + is precious for the time that yet remains.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had, + fortunately, brought all the way with me the lamp which lighted our + steps down the mysterious staircase, from the shrine of Apollo. + Some little oil still remained within it, and Aurelius soon struck + a light, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page348">[pg + 348]</span><a name="Pg348" id="Pg348" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>and, taking it in his hand, began to enter + before us the dark cavern, by the mouth of which we had all this + while been sitting. You, perhaps, have never heard of those strange + excavations, the whole extent of which has probably never been + known to any one person, but which appear, indeed, as the priest + had said, to be almost co-extensive with the great city beneath + which they are placed. For what purpose they were at first dug, is + a subject which has long exercised the conjectures of those fond of + penetrating into the origin of things, and the customs of + antiquity. By some it is supposed, that in such caverns, winding + far away into unseen recesses, the first rude inhabitants of Italy, + like the Troglodytes of Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, had fixed their + miserable abodes. Others assert, that they owe their origin merely + to the elder builders of the visible Rome, who, to avoid marring + the surface of the earth, were contented to bring their materials + of sand, clay, and stone, from these subterraneous labyrinths, + which so grew with the progress of diligence, and with the + extension of the city itself. Perhaps both conjectures may have + some foundation in truth; but be that as it may, there is no + question, that, in succeeding times, these catacombs had been + widened and extended, to serve as places of burial for the mortal + remains of the poor citizens. And now is it to be wondered at, that + here, in regions so obscure and dismal, the persecuted adherents of + the Faith should have frequently sought not only resting-places for + the bodies of their dead, but even shelter for themselves, amidst + the terror of those relentless days? Hither, more than once, the + aged priest said, he had fled to escape the pursuit of his + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page349">[pg 349]</span><a name= + "Pg349" id="Pg349" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>enemies—here once + more he hoped the shield of safety would lie over his peril—here, + at last, by whatever death he should die, his brethren had promised + to lay his bones in the earth, beside Tisias of Antioch, and many + more that, in the bloody times of Nero and Domitian, had already, + in the sight of all that heartless city, merited the crown, and the + spotless robe, and the palm-branch of martyrdom, by patient + endurance of the last insolence of man.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our father, + therefore, held the lamp before us, and we entered those gloomy + regions, wherein alone the servants of the Son of God could at that + troubled era esteem themselves in safety from the hot pursuit of + contemptuous power. We passed along beneath the arches of the + rock-hewn roof, and between the endless winding walls, on either + side of which appeared many humble inscriptions, recording the + virtues of the departed and the regrets of the surviving poor. Of + these last, however, as it appeared, all must long since have been + gathered to the ashes of those they lamented, for there was no + semblance of any new monument among all that we observed, and most + of them, to judge from the shape of the letters upon them, must + have been set up at least as long ago as the period of Asinius. + After traversing many of these subterraneous galleries, we came, at + last, to one more low-roofed than the rest, into which Aurelius + struck aside, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Here Tisias lies, + but no inscription marks the place where a martyr finds repose. + Here is the spot; with my own hands I lent feeble help in digging + the grave. Athanasia, too, knows it well, for she also did not fear + to assist in rendering the last honours to that soldier of + Christ.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page350">[pg + 350]</span><a name="Pg350" id="Pg350" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A flat thin + stone, without mark or epitaph, indicated the spot.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Father,”</span> said Athanasia, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“let me rest here. I am weary and worn—but here I shall + fear no evil. Conduct Caius back to the grotto; it is time he + should go.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus leaving her + by the funeral-stone, Aurelius and I retraced our steps to the + mouth of the catacomb.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Already,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“the + sky is red eastward—walk cautiously through the gardens, and regain + with all speed the house of your kinsman. Go, my son; may all + blessings attend your steps. Come back at the rising of the moon, + and cast a stone into the fountain, and I shall be within hearing. + Go, and fear not.”</span></p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page351">[pg 351]</span><a name= + "Pg351" id="Pg351" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc64" id= + "toc64"></a> <a name="pdf65" id="pdf65"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style= + "font-size: 120%; font-style: normal">CHAPTER + IX.</span></span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I passed without + disturbance through the gardens of the Esquiline, and the streets + of the city, in which no one was as yet moving, except a few + rustics driving asses laden with herbs to the market-place. When I + reached the house of my kinsman, however, it was evident that sleep + did not prevail within its gates; lights were visible in the + vestibule, and there I found several of the slaves sitting in + conversation. My own could not conceal the extravagance of his + satisfaction on seeing me enter among them in safety; so that I had + no doubt his brother had informed him, in so far at least, of what + had passed after our leaving him in the Mammertine. Dromo received + me also with warm demonstrations of joy, and conducted me to the + chamber of Licinius, in which, with the orator himself, were + Sextus, pale with watching, Sabinus, still habited in military + attire, with a goblet of wine before him on the table, and Lucius + Sempronius, who was reclining at some little distance from the + rest. It was he that eagerly began to question me; and I perceived + from the style in which he spoke, that all present had already been + made aware of the manner in which Athanasia had been withdrawn from + the council-chamber. A few words informed them <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page352">[pg 352]</span><a name="Pg352" id="Pg352" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of what had followed after we quitted + the Temple of Apollo.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I thank the gods,”</span> said + Sempronius,—<span class="tei tei-q">“so far at least it goes + well—but if this strictness, of which the Centurion speaks, shall + be adhered to, there still must be no small difficulty about + conveying her beyond the city.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In truth,”</span> quoth Sabinus, after a little pause, + <span class="tei tei-q">“I am afraid this is scarcely a matter in + regard to which I should be consulted. I know not but already I + have done several things that could not be quite reconciled with my + duty. I shall, in all probability, be set on the watch myself, and + if so—much as I must regret the necessity—it certainly will be most + necessary for me to discharge what is committed to my trust. Is + there no possibility, think you, of inventing some impenetrable + disguise? Depend on it, it is quite impossible the young lady + should remain any where in Rome, without being ere long discovered. + The first thing is to have her safe beyond the + city-walls.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“I myself,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“shall embark instantly for Britain. Sempronius, + Athanasia must go with me—Surely it may be possible to have her + carried unobserved to the shore.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You!”</span> said Licinius—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“you embark instantly for Britain?—You know not what + you speak; your law-suit has been determined this very afternoon. + Every thing that Cneius left is your own.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“O Jove!”</span> cried Sabinus, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“did ever mortal receive such news with such a face! + But come, here is health to the heir of the Valerii, and may this + Massic choke me, if I love him not the better for his + gravity.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page353">[pg + 353]</span><a name="Pg353" id="Pg353" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Would to heaven!”</span> said Sempronius, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“our young friend had loved under other auspices! No, + Valerius must stay and take possession, destined, as I hope he is, + to equal, under the favour of the gods, the noblest name in his + lineage. My dear niece—let us trust she may be concealed somewhere + in safety from the pursuit. Separated from this fanatic crew, she + will, ere long, without question, abandon the dreams they have + filled her mind withal; and on some happier day, our friend may + perhaps have no reason either to fear or to blush, for lifting her + over the threshold of the Valerii.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I drew near to + the old man, and, receiving his embrace, whispered into his ear, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Sempronius, you speak generously; but know + that this very evening I also have become a Christian.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Heavens!”</span> cried he, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“what limits shall be affixed to this contagion! Rash + boy! have you not seen already to what consequences this must + lead?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“What?”</span> says Licinius—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“what new calamity is this? Have my ears deceived me? + Speak, dear Caius—for the sake of all the blood in your veins—you + have not embraced this frenzy?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My friends,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“why should I speak to one, when all of you are, I well + know, alike interested? In all things else I bow to age and + understanding so much above my own; but here I have thought for + myself, and my faith is fixed.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Licinius heard + me with a countenance of painful and anxious emotion. In the eye of + young Sextus I saw a tear ready to start, and his whole aspect was + that of one sad and bewildered. Sempronius leaned his brow upon his + hand, and turned himself away from me. But as <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page354">[pg 354]</span><a name="Pg354" id="Pg354" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>for the Centurion, he preserved his + usual air; and after a moment, all the rest continuing silent, + said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Valerius, I have been in love ere + now, and perhaps am not out of the scrape at present; but you have + thrown a new light upon the matter. What do you fancy to be the + great merits of the present age, that it should be treated with + more favour than all that have gone before it? And, if you come to + speak of the Jews, every body knows they are a most pitiful, mean, + knavish set of creatures. They were always by the ears among + themselves; but I think it is rather too much that they should have + the credit of bringing their betters (by which I mean all the world + besides) into confusion. You are but green yet; all this will blow + over anon, and you will laugh more heartily than any one else when + you think of your weakness. But look up, good friend, I don’t think + you are listening to me.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“My dear Sabinus,”</span> said I, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“I do listen, but I think it is rather to the gay + Prætorian, than to the patient friend I had expected to find in + you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come!”</span> said he again, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“you take every thing so seriously. If you are resolved + to be a Christian, I am very sorry for it; but even that shall not + stand between me and a true friend. I hope you will soon see the + thing as I do—I know you will; but, in the meantime, Valerius, you + may count upon me.”</span>—And the kind man squeezed my hand with + his customary fervour.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He then turned + round to the rest of our friends, and began to propose for their + consideration a dozen different schemes of escape, that had already + suggested themselves to his imagination.</p><span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page355">[pg 355]</span><a name="Pg355" id="Pg355" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Licinius took + advantage of the first pause, to suggest that the Centurion seemed + in a hurry to get rid of me. He then passed into an account of the + speech he had delivered on the preceding afternoon before the Court + of the Centumvirs, and of the unhesitating manner, so gratifying to + his feelings, in which its judgment had been pronounced. For some + moments, in his detail of these proceedings, he seemed almost to + have lost sight of the present situation and views of the person + most interested in their termination. But when, in the progress of + his story, he came to enlarge upon the magnificence of my new + possessions—the domains in Africa—the rich farms in Sicily—the + numerous slaves engaged in their cultivation—the Spanish silver + mine—and, last of all, the splendours of the great villa upon the + banks of the Tiber—it was not difficult to perceive that he could + scarcely restrain his indignation at the purpose I had been + expressing. <span class="tei tei-q">“And such,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“are the realities which our young friend + quits for the reasons he has mentioned! Well, every man must judge + for himself. If it must be so, let it be so.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I heard him + patiently to the end, and then said, <span class="tei tei-q">“You + have well summed up the whole matter, my dear Licinius. It must + indeed be so. I go immediately to Britain, and I trust she—for whom + I would leave all these things, were they greater than they + are—shall, by the aid of your kindness, go with me in safety. There + is one request only which I have, in addition to all this, to lay + before you; and that you may hear it the more patiently, it does + not concern myself.</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“In a word, then,”</span> I continued, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“should happier days arrive, I hope once more to be + among you here in Rome. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page356">[pg + 356]</span><a name="Pg356" id="Pg356" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>The wealth which, thanks to your zeal, + Licinius, is this day mine, can be of little use to me in the + British valley, to which, for the present, I retire. Above all, + this beautiful villa of which you speak,—why, because for a time I + am unable to occupy it, should the mansion of my fathers stand + empty, when there are others among their descendants, who lie not + under the same necessity of exile? Till I am enabled to breathe in + freedom the air of Italy, I trust Licinius will consent to let + Sextus represent me in my villa. There, too, I hope Sempronius will + permit his daughter to be. It will give pleasure to Athanasia, to + think that those halls contain the dearest of our friends. When we + come back, if ever we do so, they will not grudge to make room for + us beneath the same roof with themselves. Licinius—Sempronius—what + say you?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They were both + silent for a moment; but Sabinus was at hand to answer for + them:—<span class="tei tei-q">“By all Olympus! I shall knock down + any man henceforth, that in my presence abuses Christianity as a + destruction of men’s hearts. Let it be, good friends, as our Caius + says. I know, Sextus, I have at least your voice upon my side. Let + it be so; and, for heaven’s sake, let it be immediately. A wedding + is the very thing to divert attention from these troubles in both + kindreds.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our conversation + was interrupted by Dromo, who told me that Silo the jailer had come + to see me, and was below in the hall. There I found the humane man, + with his little daughter in his hand, and walked aside with him + into the inner portico of the house. I told him how the escape, for + which his zeal alone was to be thanked, had been terminated—and to + what <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page357">[pg 357]</span><a name= + "Pg357" id="Pg357" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>resolution I had now + come;—and then inquired whether no suspicion had been attached to + himself, in consequence of his absence from the Capitoline. Having + assured me that he had no reason to think so,—<span class= + "tei tei-q">“The oath which I had taken to Trajan,”</span> said he, + <span class="tei tei-q">“prevented me from adopting the simpler + course of setting open for our dear friends the gates of the + Mammertine; and I trust that I did not offend against that oath by + acting as I did, after they had been taken away for the time from + my keeping. But both they and you must be aware of the pain which I + suffered during their confinement, and of the dangers which I have + encountered by their escape. I am resolved no more to be subject to + such struggles. I cannot preserve my faith as a Christian, and my + honour as a servant of Trajan. This very day I resign my charge in + the Mammertine; this very night, if it so please you, I am ready to + accompany you and my dear young lady, in your flight to + Britain.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I need not say + with what gladness I heard this proposal. Returning to my friends, + I informed them of what I had just heard, and perceiving now at + last that there was no chance of diverting me from my project, they + entered, like true friends, into serious consultation respecting + the best method of carrying my project into execution. The aid of + Silo, who had already given such proofs both of presence of mind, + and of prudence, and courage, was regarded by them as of the + highest importance. He was shortly summoned to take part in our + deliberation, and it was resolved, that after resigning in a formal + manner the office he held, and transferring his property for the + present into the custody of Licinius, <span class="tei tei-pb" id= + "page358">[pg 358]</span><a name="Pg358" id="Pg358" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>he should forthwith repair to Ostium, and + there hire and put in readiness, for immediate use, a small vessel, + the lightest he could find, in which the fugitive party might + transport themselves at least as far as Corsica. To this the + zealous Silo without hesitation assented. It was agreed that he + should have the mariners on their benches by the coming on of + night, and that he himself should be waiting for us by a certain + ruined tower, which stands conspicuously by the river side, about a + mile and a half above Ostium. We left it to Silo himself, to stock + the bark with any merchandise which he might deem best adapted to + deceive the superintendents of the haven.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Partly from the + necessity of making provision of various kinds for this voyage, but + still more in consequence of the law-suit, with the termination of + which you have just been made acquainted, I had no leisure that + day, from which to work out unnecessary pain either for myself or + for others. I had to assist Licinius in looking over an infinity of + deeds, and to superintend the drawing out of others. In the next + place, I had to go to the Forum for the purpose of manumitting some + slaves, (such a largess being naturally expected); and while I was + occupied with this, need I tell you, that my own poor Briton was + not forgotten? Licinius having, at the joint request of Sextus and + myself, accorded that morning to the Cretan also the well-merited + gift of his liberty, Boto and Dromo were seen strutting about the + Forum together for some moments, each arrayed in that worshipful + cap which had formed the most prominent object in their day-dreams + of felicity. I shall not trouble you with need<span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page359">[pg 359]</span><a name="Pg359" id="Pg359" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>less particulars. Let it suffice, that + the greater part of the day was thus spent in unavoidable + business.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Towards evening, + I stole privately from my kinsman’s house, being willing to avoid a + formal farewell, and repaired to Sabinus, who received me with very + lively emotion. What he dwelt upon most fervently, however, was the + probability—the certainty he seemed to esteem it—that a persecution + of this nature could not be long persisted in by such a prince as + Trajan; and the pleasure with which, that being all at an end, he + should see me come back to Rome, and take due possession of the + inheritance of my fathers. After expatiating most fluently for some + minutes on the expected delights of that day, he paused suddenly, + and then added, in a tone of some little hesitation, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“And as for me, I wonder in what state you shall find + me. Rich or poor—married or single—Centurion or Tribune—one thing + is certain, that I shall, in all circumstances, be not a little + rejoiced to see you.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“You had better marry, my good captain,”</span> said + I.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Marry! me to marry? I have not the least thought of + such a thing. You did not put any faith, did you, in the raillery + of those waggish fellows of yesterday?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“A little—a very little, Sabinus.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Poh! poh! now you are jesting.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And much, very much, Sabinus, in the conscious looks + of a certain blushing Centurion, yesterday.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Come,”</span> quoth he, <span class="tei tei-q">“there + is more cunning in these British eyes than I ever should have + dreamt of. Fill your cup to the brim, boy, and since you are to + leave us so speedily, I shall have no secrets for you. I have seen + service;—true, but what of that? I have kept a <span class= + "tei tei-pb" id="page360">[pg 360]</span><a name="Pg360" id="Pg360" + class="tei tei-anchor"></a>light heart in all my campaigns. But my + day, it must be confessed, begins to wear a little, a very little, + towards the evening; and, Castor! if you allow supper-time to slip + over, I don’t know but you must go to bed with a light stomach. Now + or never was the word, my boy; and the widow is mine + own.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And Xerophrastes?”</span> said I.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“And as for the most sagacious and venerable + Xerophrastes, why, to tell you the truth, I see nothing for him but + that he should allow his beard to curl as it pleases, drop his long + cloak over his ambitious pair of shanks, forswear moonlight, + purchase for himself a dark lantern instead, and see whether he + can’t find, within the four walls of Rome, an honest Greek, and a + constant widow, to make one blessed wedding withal. That is my + advice to the Stoic—Stoic no longer—but, if there be hoops upon a + tub, the most cynical of all Cynics.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When it was at + last necessary that I should move—<span class="tei tei-q">“Dear + Caius,”</span> said the Centurion, <span class="tei tei-q">“you + know the Prefect has set a price on their heads, and I promise you + it is such a temptation as no virtue, that keeps watch beneath any + common prætorian breast-plate, could well be trusted to wrestle + with. But hope, and dare. And here, take once more this helmet, and + cloak, and sword, and with them share the password of the + night.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sabinus then + gave private orders to one of his troop, and walked with me towards + the Esquiline.—But why should I linger over what little remains of + this story? Why pain you with the parting which I witnessed between + my Athanasia and the holy Aurelius, after<span class="tei tei-pb" + id="page361">[pg 361]</span><a name="Pg361" id="Pg361" class= + "tei tei-anchor"></a>wards numbered among the martyrs of + Christ?—Behold us at last issued from the Catacombs, and mounted on + the trusty horses which our friend had caused to be waiting at no + great distance from the thicket that clothed their entrance. Behold + us arrived without interruption at the Ostian Gate of Rome.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The soldiers on + guard challenged us cheerily as we came up to them.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“The word, comrades?”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">Titus!</span></span>”</span> quoth the + Centurion.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“Pass on—whom bear you with you, comrades!”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“A Christian—a Christian prisoner,”</span> said I.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“By Jove, that’s worth gold to you, brother,”</span> + quoth the guard.—<span class="tei tei-q">“Open the gate there;—pass + on, friends. I hope I shall have luck one day myself.”</span></p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + FINIS.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 5.40em"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, + EDINBURGH.</span></p> + </div> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-back" style= + "margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <hr class="doublepage" /> + + <div id="footnotes" class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <a name="toc66" id="toc66"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span style="font-size: 173%">Footnotes</span></h1> + + <dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes"> + <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href= + "#noteref_1">1.</a></dt> + + <dd class="tei tei-notetext"><span class="tei tei-q">“Concerning + the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus.”</span></dd> + + <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href= + "#noteref_2">2.</a></dt> + + <dd class="tei tei-notetext">These were the principal + conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. They were afterwards + butchered by the Prætorians, who regretted the tyrant; and it was + supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that slaughter, and its + shameful consequences to himself, (for he was compelled, among + other insults, to return public thanks to the butchers,) that + Nerva called to his aid the personal vigour and high military + genius of Trajan.</dd> + + <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href= + "#noteref_3">3.</a></dt> + + <dd class="tei tei-notetext"> + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style= + "text-align: left; margin-left: 11.00em"> + ——Catonem + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho. + </div> + </div> + </dd> + + <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href= + "#noteref_4">4.</a></dt> + + <dd class="tei tei-notetext"> + So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines: + + <div class="tei tei-lg" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis, + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Dormio, dum blandæ sentio murmur aquæ; + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace. + </div> + </div> + </dd> + + <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href= + "#noteref_5">5.</a></dt> + + <dd class="tei tei-notetext">Asinius autem brevi illo tempore + quasi in hortulos in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= + "font-style: italic">arenarias</span></span> quasdam juxta portam + Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.—Cic. <span class= + "tei tei-title"><span style="font-style: italic">Pro + Cluent.</span></span></dd> + </dl> + </div> + </div> + <hr class="doublepage" /> + + <div class="boxed tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="pdf67" id="pdf67"></a><a name="toc68" id="toc68"></a> + + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= + "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"> + <span style="font-size: 173%">Transcriber’s Note</span></h1> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Variations in + hyphenation (e.g. <span class="tei tei-q">“eyebrows”</span>, + <span class="tei tei-q">“eye-brows”</span>; <span class= + "tei tei-q">“godlike”</span>, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“god-like”</span>) have not been changed.</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Other changes, + which have been made to the text:</p> + + <table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style= + "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> + <tbody> + <tr class="tei tei-labelitem"> + <th class="tei tei-label"></th> + + <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr072a" class= + "tei tei-ref">page 72</a>, question mark added after + <span class="tei tei-q">“him”</span>, quote mark added before + <a href="#corr072b" class="tei tei-ref"><span class= + "tei tei-q">“His”</span></a></td> + </tr> + + <tr class="tei tei-labelitem"> + <th class="tei tei-label"></th> + + <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr267" class= + "tei tei-ref">page 267</a>, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Aybss”</span> changed to <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Abyss”</span></td> + </tr> + + <tr class="tei tei-labelitem"> + <th class="tei tei-label"></th> + + <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr307" class= + "tei tei-ref">page 307</a>, <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Capito”</span> changed to <span class= + "tei tei-q">“Capitol”</span></td> + </tr> + </tbody> + </table> + </div> + <hr class="doublepage" /> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <div id="pgfooter" class="tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <pre class="pre tei tei-div" style= + "margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"> +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERIUS. 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After +threescore years spent in this remote province of an +empire, happy, for the most part, in the protection of +enlightened, just, and benevolent princes, I remember, +far more accurately than things which occurred only a +few months ago, the minutest particulars of what I +saw and heard while I sojourned, young and a stranger, +among the luxuries and cruelties of the capital of the +world, as yet imperfectly recovered from the effects of +the flagitious tyranny of the last of the Flavii. +</p> + +<pb n="2"/><anchor id="Pg002"/> + +<p> +My father, as you have heard, came with his legion +into this island, and married a lady of native blood, +some years before the first arrival of Agricola. In the +wars of that illustrious commander, during the reigns +of Vespasian and Titus, he had the fortune to find +opportunities of distinguishing himself; but when his +general was recalled, by the jealousy of Domitian, he +retired from public life, and determined to spend the +remainder of his days in peace, on the lands which +belonged to him in right of his wife here in Britain. +He laid the foundations of the house in which I have +now the pleasure of receiving you; and here, in the +cultivation of his fields, and in the superintendence of +my education, he found sufficient employment for an +active, though no longer an ambitious mind. Early in +the reign of Trajan he died. Never did either Roman +or British dwelling lament a more generous master. +</p> + +<p> +I cannot pretend to regret the accident which immediately +afterwards separated me from a gentle mother—never +to see her more upon the earth. Yet deeply +was the happiness of my returning hour stained by +that privation. It is the common rule of nature, that +our parents should precede us to the grave; and it is also +her rule, that our grief for them should not be of such +power as to prevent us from entering, after they are +gone, into a zealous participation both of the business +and the pleasures of life. Yet, in after years, the +memory of that buried tenderness rises up ever and +anon, and wins rather than warns us to a deliberate +contemplation of our own dissolution. +</p> + +<p> +Towards the end of the winter following the death +of my father, there arrived letters which engaged +<pb n="3"/><anchor id="Pg003"/>anxious consideration. They were from members of +his family, none of whom either my mother or myself +had seen. It was explained, especially by Caius +Licinius, the lawyer, (who was near of kin to our +house,) that by the death of a certain Patrician, Cneius +Valerius by name, I had become legally entitled to +a very considerable fortune, to claim and take possession +of which, demanded my immediate presence in +the metropolis. My rights, said this jurist, were indeed +called in question by another branch of the family, but +were I on the spot, his professional exertions, with +whatever interest he or any of his friends could command, +should be at my service, for the sake of my +father and of my name. +</p> + +<p> +The love of travel had never before been excited in +my bosom; but now that I knew I was so soon to +embark for Italy, the delights which I might there +hope to experience came crowding upon my imagination. +The dark and pine-clad banks of my native +Anton, said I, shall now be exchanged for that golden-waved +Tiber, of which so many illustrious poets have +sung. Instead of moving here among the ill-cemented +and motley fabric of an insulated colony, and seeing +only the sullen submission of barbarians on the one +hand, or the paltry vanity of provincial deputies on the +other, I shall tread the same ground with the rulers of +the earth, and wear, among native Romans, the gown +of my ancestors. I shall behold the Forum, which has +heard the eloquence of Cicero and Hortensius; I shall +ascend to the Capitol, where Cæsar triumphed; I shall +wander in the luxurious gardens of Sallust, or breathe +the fresh air in the fields of Cato: I shall gaze upon the +<pb n="4"/><anchor id="Pg004"/>antique majesty of temples and palaces, and open my +eyes on all that art and nature have been able to heap +together through eight centuries, for the ornament of +the chosen seat of wisdom and valour. +</p> + +<p> +A single trusty slave was selected to accompany me. +It was not certainly on account of his accomplishments +that Boto had been chosen for this duty; for although +he had lived all his days in the vicinity of the colonists +at Venta, there was scarcely a person within the bounds +of the British Belgæ that spoke worse Latin. He was, +however, a man of natural sagacity, possessing shrewd +discernment concerning whatever things had fallen +under his customary observation; and he shewed no +symptom either of diffidence respecting his qualifications +for this new office, or of regret at being separated from +those in whose company many years of gentle servitude +had glided over his sun-burnt countenance. It was +reported to me, that he invited several of our rustics to +drink with him in one of the out-houses, where his exultation +knew no limits. He was going to Rome, for his +young master very well knew he could never get on in +such a journey without the helping eye and hand of +Boto; and he had a brother in Italy already, (he had +gone over with a distinguished legionary some ten years +before,) and from him (for he would of course meet +with him as soon as our arrival should be known) he +would receive all requisite information concerning the +doings of the great city. The usefulness which, he +doubted not, I should be constrained to acknowledge in +his manifold qualifications, would, without all question, +entitle him to some signal reward—perhaps nothing +less than manumission on his return. +</p> + +<pb n="5"/><anchor id="Pg005"/> + +<p> +Two days passed more quickly than any I ever +remember to have spent amidst a strange mixture of +mirth, and sorrow, and noisy preparation. +</p> + +<p> +Where that single tall naked pine now stands buffeted +by the wind, then grew a thick grove, of which that +relic alone survives. It was there that I turned round +to gaze once more on the quiet verdure of these paternal +fields, and our small pastoral stream glistening here and +there beneath the shady covert of its margin. +</p> + +<p> +I had at first intended to cross over to Gaul, and +traversing that province, enter Italy, either by the +route of the Alps, in case we could procure convenient +guides and companions, or by some vessel sailing from +Marseilles or Forum Julii to Ostium. But the advice +of one of my neighbours, who had himself been a great +traveller, made me alter this plan, and resolve to commit +myself to the care of an experienced mariner who +was just about to sail for Italy, by the way of the pillars +of Hercules, in a vessel laden chiefly with tin; and on +reaching the Clausentum, I found this man, with several +passengers, ready for the voyage. +</p> + +<p> +For the first three or four days, I was so afflicted by the +motion of the vessel, that I could bestow little attention +on any external object; my eyes were so confused and +dazzled, that I saw nothing beyond the corner of the deck +on which I had caused my carpets to be laid; and a few +ejaculations to Castor and Pollux were all the articulate +sounds that I uttered. By degrees, however, the weight +of my depression began to be alleviated; and at intervals, +more particularly during the night watches, if I +was not altogether in possession of myself, I was at +least well enough to enjoy a sort of giddy delight in +<pb n="6"/><anchor id="Pg006"/>watching the billows as they rose and retreated from +the prow. There were moments, also, in which the +behaviour of Boto, under this new species of calamity, +could furnish me, as it had already done the more +hardy of my fellow-voyagers, with store of mirth. +Near us frequently, upon the deck, sat a Captain of +the Prætorian Bands, who, more than any other of +these, displayed a florid complexion and cheerful eye, +unalterable by the fluctuation of the waters. This +Sabinus had served in all the wars of Agricola, and +accompanied him even in his perilous circumnavigation +of the islands which lie scattered to the north of Britain. +He had also gone back to Rome with his commander, +not, like him, to extenuate imperial jealousy by the +affectation of indolence, but to seek for new occupation +on some other disturbed frontier of the Empire. In +Syria and Cappadocia he had spent some years; after +which, he had attended the Emperor himself through +Mæsia and Illyricum, and all those countries he traversed +and retraversed, during that shameful contest in +which so many Roman eagles were made the prey of +barbarous enemies, and which terminated at last in +that cowardly treaty, by which Domitian granted a +diadem to Decebalus, and condescended to place the +Roman Senate among the tributaries of a Dacian. Our +friend had also strutted his part in that gorgeous triumph, +or rather succession of triumphs, by which the defeated +and disgraced Prince, on his return from the Ister, +mocked the eyes and ears of the incredulous and indignant +Romans. In a word, he had partaken in all kinds +of fortune, good and evil, and preserved his rubicundity +and equanimity unaltered in them all. Having attained +<pb n="7"/><anchor id="Pg007"/>to a situation of some dignity, he had now been visiting +Britain on a special message from the new Emperor, +and was returning in the hope that no future accident +of fortune, or princely caprice, would ever again make +it necessary for him to quit the shows and festivities of +the capital. +</p> + +<p> +This good-natured man sat down beside my suffering +peasant, endeavouring to withdraw his attention from +the pangs of his sickness, by pointing out the different +boats which came in view as we held on from the +Gobæan rocks, keeping close to the shore as we went, +in order to shun, as well as we could, the customary +fury of the Aquitanic Ocean. <q>Behold these fishing-vessels,</q> +he would cry, <q>which have undoubtedly been +upon the coast of Rutupia for oysters, or it may be +about the mouth of yonder Ligoris for turbot, and are +now stretching all their canvass to get home with their +booty to Italy. Smooth be your winds and fair your +passage, oh rare fish!</q> To which the downcast Boto +would reply, <q>Lavish not, oh master, your good wishes +upon the mute fish, which have been tossed about all +their lives, but reserve them rather for me (unhappy) +who am thus tormented in an unnatural and intolerable +manner;</q> or perhaps, <q>Speak not, I beseech you, of +oysters, or of turbot, or of any other eatable, for I believe +I shall never again feel hungry, so grievously are all my +internal parts discomposed. Oh, that I had never left +my native fields, and bartered the repose of my whole +body for the vain hope of gratification to my eyes!</q> +</p> + +<p> +By degrees, however, custom reconciled all of us to +the motion of the bark, and the weather being calm +during the greater part of the voyage, I enjoyed, at my +<pb n="8"/><anchor id="Pg008"/>leisure, the beauties, both of the sea, and of the shores +alongst which we glided. From time to time, we put +in for water and other necessaries, to various sea-ports +of the Spanish Peninsula; but our stay was never so +long at any place as to admit of us losing sight of our +vessel. Our chief delight, indeed, consisted in the softness +and amenity of the moonlight nights we spent in +sailing along the coasts of Mauritania,—now the dark +mountains of the family of Atlas throwing their shadows +far into the sea—and anon, its margin glittering with +the white towers of Siga, or Gilba, or Cartenna, or +some other of the rich cities of that old Carthaginian +region. On such nights it was the custom of all the +passengers to be congregated together upon the deck, +where the silent pleasures of contemplation were, from +time to time, interrupted by some merry song chanted +in chorus by the mariners, or perhaps some wild barbarian +ditty, consecrated by the zeal of Boto to the +honour of some ancient indigenous hero of the North. +Nor did our jovial Prætorian disdain to contribute now +and then to the amusement of the assembly, by some +boisterous war-song, composed, perhaps, by some light-hearted +young spearman, which our centurion might +have learned by heart, without any regular exertion, +from hearing it sung around many a British and Dacian +watch-fire. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we contrived to pass the time in a cheerful +manner, till we reached the Lilybæan promontory. We +tarried there two days to refit some part of our rigging, +and then stretched boldly across the lower sea, towards +the mouth of the Tiber. We were becalmed, however, +for a whole day and night, after we had come within +<pb n="9"/><anchor id="Pg009"/>sight of the Pharos of Ostium, where, but for the small +boats that came out to us with fresh fish and fruit, we +should have had some difficulty in preserving our patience; +for, by this time, our stock of wine was run to +the last cup, and nothing remained to be eat but some +mouldy biscuit which had survived two voyages between +Italy and Britain. During this unwelcome delay, the +Prætorian endeavoured to give me as much information +as he could about the steps necessary to be +pursued on my arrival in the city. But, to say truth, +his experience had lain chiefly among martial expeditions +and jovial recreations, so that I could easily +perceive he was no great master of the rules of civil life. +From him, however, I was glad to find, that the reputation +of Licinius was really as great at Rome as it had +been represented in our province; and, indeed, he treated +me with a yet greater measure of attention after he was +informed of my relationship to that celebrated jurist. +</p> + +<p> +Early in the morning, a light breeze sprung up from +the west, and with joyful acclamations the sails were +once again uplifted. The number of mariners on board +was insufficient for impelling the heavily laden vessel +altogether by the force of oars, but now they did not +refuse to assist the favouring breeze with strenuous and +lively exertion. The Prætorian cheered and incited +them by his merry voice, and even the passengers were +not loath to assist them in this labour. My slave, among +the rest, joined in the toil; but his awkwardness soon +relieved him from his seat on the bench; a disgrace +which he would have shared with his master, had I +been equally officious. +</p> + +<p> +Ere long, we could trace with exactness those +enor<pb n="10"/><anchor id="Pg010"/>mous structures by which the munificence of Augustus +had guarded and adorned that great avenue of nations +to the imperial city. Those mountains of marble, projected +on either side into the deep, surpassed every +notion I had formed of the extent to which art may +carry its rivalry of nature. Their immovable masses +were garnished here and there with towers and battlements, +on which the Prætorian pointed out to me the +frame-work of those terrible catapults, and other engines +of warfare, of which no specimens have ever been +seen in Britain. +</p> + +<p> +No sooner had we stept upon the shore, than we were +surrounded by a great throng of hard-favoured persons, +who pulled us by the cloak, with innumerable interrogations +and offers of service. Among these, the varieties +of form, complexion, and accent, were such, that we +could not regard them without especial wonder; for it +appeared as if every tribe and language under heaven +had sent some representative to this great seaport of +Rome. The fair hair and blue eye of the Gaul or German, +might here be seen close by the tawny skin of the +Numidian or Getulian slave, or the shining blackness +of the Ethiopian visage. The Greek merchant was +ready, with his Thracian bondsman carrying his glittering +wares upon his back; the usurer was there, with +his arms folded closely in his mantle; nor was the +Chaldean or Assyrian soothsayer awanting, with his air +of abstraction and his flowing beard. +</p> + +<p> +Boto, as if alarmed with the prevailing bustle, and +fearful lest some untoward accident should separate us, +kept close behind me, grasping my gown. But our good +friend Sabinus did not long leave us in this perplexity; +<pb n="11"/><anchor id="Pg011"/>for, having hastily engaged the master of a small barge +to carry him to Rome, he insisted that I should partake +of this easy method of conveyance. We found the +vessel small but convenient, furnished with a red awning, +under which cushions and carpets were already +stretched out for our repose. The oars were soon in +motion, and we began to emerge from among the forest +of masts with a rapidity which astonished me; for the +multitude of vessels of all sizes, continually crossing and +re-crossing, was so great, that at first I expected every +moment some dangerous accident might occur. +</p> + +<p> +By degrees, however, such objects failed to keep alive +my attention; the sleeplessness of the preceding night, +and the abundance of an Ostian repast, conspiring to +lull me into a gentle doze, which continued for I know +not what space. I awoke, greatly refreshed, and found +we had made considerable progress; for the continual +succession of stately edifices already indicated the vicinity +of the metropolis. The dark green of the venerable +groves, amidst which the buildings were, for the most +part, embosomed, and the livelier beauties of the parterres +which here and there intervened between these +and the river, afforded a soft delight to my eyes, which +had so long been fatigued with the uniform flash and +dazzle of the Mediterranean waves, and the roughness +of the sea-beaten precipices. The minute and elaborate +cultivation every where visible, the smoothness of the +shorn turf on the margin, the graceful foliage of the +ancient planes and sycamores,—but, above all, the sublimity +of the porticos and arcades, and the air of established +and inviolable elegance which pervaded the +whole region, kept my mind in pleasurable wonder. +<pb n="12"/><anchor id="Pg012"/>Here and there, a gentle winding conducted us through +some deep and massy shade of oaks and elms; whose +branches, stretching far out from either side, diffused a +sombre and melancholy blackness almost entirely over +the face of Tiber. Loitering carelessly, or couched +supinely, beneath some of these hoary branches, we +could see, from time to time, the figure of some stately +Roman, or white-robed lady, with her favourite scroll +of parchment in her hand. The cool and glassy rippling +of the water produced a humming music of stillness in +the air, which nothing disturbed, save only the regular +dash of the oars, and, now and then, the deep and +strenuous voice of our cautious helmsman. Anon would +ensue some glimpse of the open champaign, descending +with all its wealth of golden sheaves to the very brink +of the river—or, perhaps, the lively courts of a farmyard +stretching along the margin of some tributary +streamlet—or some long expanse of level meadow, with +herds of snow-white heifers. I could not gaze upon the +rich and splendid scene without reverting, with a strange +mixture of emotions, to the image of this my native +land; its wild forests, shaggy with brushwood and unprofitable +coppice, through which of old the enormous +wild deer stalked undisturbed, except by the adder of +the grass, or the obscene fly of the thicket; its little +patches of corn and meadow, laboriously rescued from +the domain of the wild beast, and rudely fortified +against his continual incursions;—the scattered hamlets +of this Brigian valley, and my own humble villa—then +humbler than it is now. Trees, and temples, and +gardens, and meadows, and towns, and villages, were, +ere long, lost in one uniform sobriety of twilight; and +<pb n="13"/><anchor id="Pg013"/>it was already quite dark, when the centurion, pointing +to the left bank, said, <q>Behold the Gardens of Cæsar: +beyond, is the Portian Gate, and the street of the Rural +Lares. In a few moments we shall see the lights of the +Sublician Bridge, and be in the city.</q> At these words I +started up, and gazing forward, could penetrate through +the mists of evening into the busy glare of a thousand +streets and lanes, opening upon the river. The old +wall was already visible; where, after having swept +round the region towards the Vatican and Janicular +Hills, it brings the last of its turrets close down to the +Tiber, over against the great dock-yards by the Field +of Brutus. +</p> + +<p> +Through a forest of triremes, galleys, and all sorts of +craft, we then shot on to the bridge—beneath the centre +arch of which our steersman conducted us. Beyond, +such was the hum of people on the quays, and such the +star-like profusion of lights reflected in the water, that +we doubted not we had already reached the chief seat +of the bustle of Rome. On, however, we still held our +course, till the theatre of Marcellus rose like a mountain +on our right. It was there that we ran our bark into +the shore, not far from the little bridge—the third as +you ascend the river—which conducts to the Island +and the Temple of Æsculapius. While our friend was +settling matters with the master, and the attendants +were bringing out our baggage, I stood by myself on +the elevated quay. Here a long tier of reflected radiance +bespoke, it may be, the vicinity of some splendid portico—of +palace, or temple, or bath, or theatre; there a +broad and steady blaze of burning red, indicated the +abode of artizans, resolved, as it seemed, on carrying +<pb n="14"/><anchor id="Pg014"/>their toil into the bosom of the night. Between—some +speck of lustre betrayed, perhaps, the lamp of the solitary +student, or the sober social hour of some peaceful +family, assembled around the hearth of their modest +lares. Behold me then, said I, in the capital of the +globe; but were I to be swallowed up this moment in +the waves of Tiber, not one of all these lights would be +dimmed. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="2" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="15"/><anchor id="Pg015"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter II"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter II"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER II.</hi></head> + +<p> +Being told that my relation had his residence at no +great distance, the friendly Sabinus insisted upon escorting +me thither in safety. We walked, therefore, along +two or three proud streets, which brought us near to +the Pantheon of Agrippa, and there the house was +easily pointed out to us; its porch decorated with +recent palm-branches, which the Centurion said must +have been placed there by the joyful hands of some +fortunate client. Here having thanked this kind person, +and left honest Boto among the crowd of slaves in +the vestibule, I was speedily conducted into the presence +of the Patrician. +</p> + +<p> +I found him in a small upper chamber, lighted by a +single silver lamp suspended from the roof, enjoying, +as it appeared, repose and relaxation after the exertions +of the day. He was reclining when I entered; and +although supper was long over, some fruits and other +trifling things still remained on the board. At table +with him there was no one present, excepting a Greek +of solemn aspect, whom he introduced to me as the +superintendent of his son’s education, and Sextus +himself, a modest and ingenuous youth, who sat at +the lower extremity of his father’s couch. He was +<pb n="16"/><anchor id="Pg016"/>indeed a very mild and amiable young man, and I +had more pleasure, after a space, in surveying his features, +than the more marked lineaments of the other +two. At first, however, nothing riveted my attention +so much as the energetic physiognomy of the Senator. +The forepart of his head was already quite bald, although +the darkness of the short curls behind testified +that age was not the cause of this deformity. His eyes +were black and rapid, and his eyebrows vibrated in a +remarkable manner, not only when he spoke, but even +when he was silent; indicating, as it appeared, by their +transitions, every new train of thought and imagination +within his mind. His style of conversation was quick +and fervid, and his gestures vehement as he spake; it +being apparent, that, from restlessness and vanity of +disposition, he was continually exercising a needless +measure of mental activity and anxiety. Not satisfied +with his own sufficient richness of ideas, no thought +could be expressed which he did not immediately seize +upon, and explain, even to him by whom it had been +first suggested, with much fluency and earnestness of +illustration. On the other hand, the guest, who wore +a long beard reaching to his girdle, preserved in all +things an uncommon demureness of manner, restraining +every salient movement of his mind, and watching, +with the gravity of a Numa, the glancing eyes and +sharp features of his patron. A roll of yellow parchment +graced his left hand, but the other was employed +in selecting from the table such articles as were most +agreeable to his palate. Licinius, although meagre in +person, and at that time parched with declamation, +seemed to live in such a state of intellectual excitement, +<pb n="17"/><anchor id="Pg017"/>that he thought little either of eating or drinking; +therefore, the Athenian, resigning, for the most part, +his share of the conversation, amused himself, in exchange, +with the more trivial gratifications abandoned +to him by his host. Nor, if one might draw any conclusion +from his complexion and figure, was this the +first occasion on which Xerophrastes had exercised that +species of humility. +</p> + +<p> +When Licinius had inquired of me concerning my +native place, and also given a few words to the affairs +which had brought me to the city, his conversation +was naturally directed to subjects more new to me, if +not more interesting to him. <q>You would observe,</q> +said he, <q>the palm branches at my door. They were +won to-day by a five hours’ harangue before the Centumviri. +It is only in contests such as these that men +of my order have now any opportunity to exercise +themselves, and preserve some remembrance of those +ancient worthies and great public characters that once +adorned the state. To these things, therefore, young +kinsman, I entirely devote myself; nor aim, like other +citizens of rank, at passing the day in diversion, and +ending it with luxuries. At supper my table is furnished +with moderate fare, while in other houses I +know not how many roasted boars and pompous sturgeons +have been regaling with the rich perfume of their +sauces and stuffing, guests who love the meat more than +the man who gives it. This learned person knows how +laborious is my course of life, and what an impatient +crowd awaits my appearance every morning. His +pupil will, I hope, tread in the same steps, and afford +to a future generation the image of the former Licinius.</q> +<pb n="18"/><anchor id="Pg018"/>With these, and the like discourses, he occupied our +ears till it was time to retire; and then intimated that +he had allotted to me an apartment which he expected +I would continually occupy during my residence in the +city. But being informed that I had a British slave +with me, he insisted on having this man sent for, that +he might see him, as he expressed it, before the genuine +unsophisticated barbarian had been corrupted by keeping +company with the cunning menials of the metropolis. +Whereupon, it was commanded that Boto should +come up, and he was forthwith ushered in by a certain +leering varlet, with rings in his ears, whose face resembled +some comic mask in the habitual archness of +its malicious and inquisitive look. +</p> + +<p> +Not few were the bows and scrapes with which my +Briton entered these penetralia; nor was the astonishment +inconsiderable with which the orator regarded +Boto. <q>So, friend,</q> said Licinius,—<q>and you have +ventured to come to Rome, without so much as shaving +your beard?</q> But the merry and good-natured tone +in which these words were uttered, having somewhat +reassured the bashful rustic, he gave a sly side-look +towards the philosopher, (who, I think, had never +once glanced at him,) and replied to Licinius, <q>Pardon +me, O master, for coming thus into your presence; +but I knew not, till Dromo told me, that beards +were worn in Rome only by goats and the wisest of +mankind.</q> The words of the barbarian amused the +orator—but, turning round to his own slave, <q>Ah! +Dromo,</q> said he, <q>do I already recognize the effects of +your teaching?—beware the whip, corrupt not this +good Briton, at your peril.</q> He then asked of Boto +<pb n="19"/><anchor id="Pg019"/>various questions concerning his recent voyage; to all +of which he made answers after his own fashion, sufficiently +sagacious. Great contempt, however, was depicted +on the face of the silent stoic during this conversation; +which he, no doubt, looked upon as a very +unworthy condescension on the part of Licinius; till at +last, having, in a leisurely manner, poured out the last +of the flagon, Xerophrastes arose from his couch and +departed. As he withdrew, he unfortunately struck +his knee on the corner of the table, which elicited from +his stubborn features a sudden contortion. This, however, +he immediately smoothed of, twisting his involuntary +stoop into an obeisance to the Senator. +</p> + +<p> +Young Sextus conducted me to my chamber; and we +conversed together with easy juvenile confidence for +some time before he left me. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="3" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="20"/><anchor id="Pg020"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter III"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter III"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER III.</hi></head> + +<p> +My sleep was sound and sweet; nevertheless, when +the morning began to dawn, I was awakened by its +first glimmerings, and found that my thoughts became +at once too busy to admit of a return to slumber. I +therefore arose, and went to walk in an open gallery, +with which my chamber was connected. This gallery +commanded a prospect of a great part of the city, which +at that hour appeared no less tranquil than stately, +nothing being in motion except a few small boats gliding +here and there upon the river. Neither as yet had +any smoke begun to darken the atmosphere; so that +all things were seen in a serene and steady light, the +shadows falling broadly westward over streets and +squares—but pillars, and obelisks, and arches, rising +up every where with unsullied magnificence into the +bright air of the morning. The numerous poplars and +other lofty trees of the gardens, also, seemed to be rejoicing +in the hour of dew and silence; so fresh and +cheerful was the intermixture of their branches among +the piles of white and yellow marble. Near at hand, +over the groves of the Philoclean Mansion, I could see +the dome of the Pantheon, all burnished with living +gold, and the proud colonnades of the Flaminian Circus, +<pb n="21"/><anchor id="Pg021"/>loaded with armies of brazen statues. Between these +and the river, the theatres of Pompey and Marcellus, +and I know not how many temples, were visible. Across +a more crowded region, to the westward, my eye ascended +to the cliffs and towers of the Capitol; while, +still farther removed from me, (although less elevated in +natural situation,) the gorgeous mansion of the Emperor +was seen, lifted up, like some new and separate city, +upon its enormous fabric of arcades. Behind me, the +Flavian Amphitheatre, the newest and the most majestic +of all Roman edifices, detained the eye for a space +from all that lay beyond it—the splendid mass of the +Esquiline—and those innumerable aqueducts which lie +stretched out, arch after arch, and pillar after pillar, +across the surrounding plain. +</p> + +<p> +As I stood upon a projecting balcony, I heard some +person stepping softly along the floor, and, being +screened by some pillars, looked back into the gallery +without subjecting myself to observation in return. +The noise, I found, was occasioned by one of the slaves +of Licinius, (the same I had remarked over night,) who +had an air of anxious vigilance on this occasion, looking +about from side to side as if afraid of being detected in +some impropriety. I heard him tap at one of the apartments +adjoining my own, and young Sextus, opening +the door, eagerly asked, <q>Well, Dromo, good Dromo, +what news?—Have you seen or heard any thing of her?—Speak +low, I beseech you, and remember that my +preceptor is near.</q> <q>Which preceptor?</q> replied Dromo; +<q>count me your best, and I will teach you how to +manage all besides.</q>—<q>Hush!</q> whispered the young +man; <q>he may be astir with these eternal +parchments.</q><pb n="22"/><anchor id="Pg022"/>—<q>Be easy,</q> returned the slave; <q>I have found out +facts which will serve to bridle that tongue at any +time.</q>—<q>Dromo,</q> said Sextus, <q>have a care; remember +the thong of sleek leather which hangs at the foot +of the stair-case; and many is the time I have saved +you from it; for which you may, perhaps, have to +thank the beauty of her who has rendered you necessary +to me, as much as my own good nature. But +no more idle words at present—what have you to tell +me?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have just been down,</q> answered he, <q>to the +herb-market. I had made my bargain, and was coming +away, when I met one of old Capito’s men, driving an +ass laden with articles from the country. So I asked +if he was carrying a present to his master’s brother. +He said he had brought nothing for Lucius but a letter; +and that he believed its purport was to invite the two +young ladies, to come out to-day and enjoy the beauty +of the season. I no sooner got this information, than +I ran hither as swiftly as my legs would carry me. +You can easily go out, as if by chance, to pay your +respects to the Patrician.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah, Sempronia!</q> sighed Sextus, <q>shall I approach +you at last?—What will she think when she sees me +there?—Oh, how will she speak to me?</q> +</p> + +<p> +While he was uttering these words, Dromo suddenly +started, and came peeping on tiptoe towards the place +where I stood. I stepped from behind my pillar, and +said to the astonished youth, <q>Fear not, Sextus, that +I shall intermeddle with your secrets, or make any use +of what I have accidentally overheard. But I wish you +would satisfy my curiosity, and inform me who is this +<pb n="23"/><anchor id="Pg023"/>lady, and what may be the meaning of all this concealment?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Here Dromo, perceiving that his young master was a +good deal confused, came forward and said, <q>From +observing your looks last night, when I was making a +handle of yon barbarian to torture our friend of the +porch, I think you are a good-natured person, who +would not willingly bring any of us into trouble. The +truth is, that Licinius wishes my young master here to +marry a certain lady, who has already had wet eyes +over the ashes of a first husband; but who is of noble +birth, and very rich. Now Sextus, being only eighteen, +does not like this great lady so well as she likes him; +and has, in fact, lost his heart elsewhere.</q>—<q>Dromo,</q> +answered I, taking young Sextus by the hand as I +spoke, <q>this is a pretty common sort of story; but I +shall take no side till I have seen both of the ladies; +and the sooner your ingenuity can bring that about, +the more shall I be beholden to you.</q>—<q>We shall +try,</q> replied the slave, observing that I had overcome +the reluctance of the lover; <q>but in the meantime I +observe that the clients are beginning to assemble in +the porch, to await the forthcoming of Licinius. Go, +therefore, and get some breakfast, for, by and by, you +will both be expected to accompany the Senator to the +Forum, to hear him plead; which, between ourselves, +will be a six hours’ job for you, unless you manage +matters dexterously.</q> +</p> + +<p> +This hint produced a visible effect on Sextus; but +we went down together immediately to an apartment, +where some bread and grapes were prepared for us; +and there, with much ingenuousness, he opened his +<pb n="24"/><anchor id="Pg024"/>heart to me. But what surprised me most of all, was +to hear, that although he had been enamoured of Sempronia +for several months, and was well acquainted +with several of her relations, he had never yet seen her, +except at certain places of public resort, nor enjoyed +any opportunity of making known his passion. +</p> + +<p> +While I was expressing my astonishment at this circumstance, +we were interrupted by Xerophrastes, who +came to inform us that Licinius, having already descended +into the hall, was about to issue forth, and desirous of +my company, if no other occupation detained me. We +accordingly followed the philosopher, and found his +patron where he had indicated, pacing to and fro, in +the highest state of excitation, like a generous steed +about to scour the field of battle. The waxen effigies +of his ancestors stood at one end of the hall, some of +them defaced with age; and upon these he frequently +fixed his ardent eyes. Seeing me enter, he immediately +cried out, <q>Come hither, young friend, and I shall +presently conduct you to a scene worthy, above all +others, of the curiosity of a stranger.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With this, arranging his gown, and putting himself +into a dignified attitude, he ordered the porter, who +stood chained by the door, to throw wide its massy +valves; which being done, the litigants and consulters, +who were without, received the orator with acclamations, +and surrounded him on all sides. Some of the +poorer ones, I observed kissing the hem of his garment, +and dodging wistfully at his elbows, without ever attracting +a word or look from him; while those of a +higher class came forward more familiarly, seeking to +impress particular circumstances upon his memory, and +<pb n="25"/><anchor id="Pg025"/>paying him compliments on the appearance he had +made the day before in the Centumviral Court. Encircled +by this motley group, he walked towards the +great Forum, followed at a little distance by Sextus, +the preceptor, myself, and some freedmen of his household. +In moving on, we passed, by accident, the door +of another great pleader, by name Bruttianus, who +stood there attended in a similar manner. When he +perceived Licinius, this man took from his door-post a +green palm-branch, and waved it towards us in a vaunting +manner; but our friend, saluting him courteously, +cried out, with his sharp and cutting voice, <q>We shall +try it again.</q> Whereon Xerophrastes, immediately +stepping up to his patron, began thus, <q>How this vain-glorious +person exposes himself!—he is certainly a weak +man; and his tones, by Hermes, are more detestable +than those of an African fowl.</q>—At which words, +Sextus tipped me the wink; but I did not observe that +Licinius was at all displeased with them. Yet, soon +after, Bruttianus having overtaken us, the processions +were joined, and the two pleaders walked the rest of +the way together in a loving manner, exchanging complimentary +speeches; to which Xerophrastes listened +with edifying gravity of visage. +</p> + +<p> +At length we entered that venerable space, every +yard of whose surface is consecrated to the peculiar +memory of some great incident in the history of Rome. +Young Sextus allowed me to contemplate for some +time, with silent wonder, the memorable objects which +conspired to the decoration of this remarkable place; +but after the first gaze of astonishment was satisfied, +proceeded to point out, in order, the names and uses of +<pb n="26"/><anchor id="Pg026"/>the principal structures which rose on every side over +its porticos—above all, of its sublime temples—into +whose cool and shady recesses the eye could here and +there penetrate through the open valves. Nor did the +ancient rostrum from which Tully had declaimed, escape +our observation—nor within its guarding rail of silver, +the rising shoots of the old mysterious fig-tree of Romulus—nor +the rich tesselated pavement which covered +the spot that had once yawned an abyss before the +steady eye of Curtius—nor the resplendent Milliary +pillar which marked the centre of the place. In a word, +had the gathering crowds permitted, I could have willingly +spent many hours in listening to the explanation +of such magnificent objects; but these, and the elevated +voice of Licinius, who was just beginning his harangue, +soon compelled me to attend to things of another description. +</p> + +<p> +Within one of the proud ranges of arcade, on the +side nearest to the Capitoline stairs, a majestic Patrician +had already taken his seat on an elevated tribunal—his +assessors being arranged on a lower bench by his side, +and the orators and clients congregated beneath. When +I heard the clear and harmonious periods of my kinsman; +when I observed with what apparent simplicity +he laid his foundations in a few plain facts and propositions; +with what admirable art he upreared from these +a superstructure of conclusions, equally easy as unexpected; +when he had conducted us to the end of his +argument, and closed with a burst of passionate eloquence, +in which he seemed to leave even himself +behind him, I could not but feel as if I had now for +the first time contemplated the practised strength of +<pb n="27"/><anchor id="Pg027"/>intellect. Yet I have lived to discover that the talent +which so greatly excited my wonder is often possessed +from nature, or acquired through practice, in a measure +which at that time would have afforded me scarcely +inferior delight, by men of no extraordinary rank. +</p> + +<p> +The keen and lively gestures of the fervid Licinius, +whose soul seemed to speak out of every finger he +moved, and who appeared to be altogether immersed +in the cause he pleaded, were succeeded by the solemn +and somewhat pompous stateliness of Bruttianus, who +made a brief pause between every two sentences, as if +he were apprehensive that the mind of the judge could +not keep pace with the stream of his illustrations, and +looked round ever and anon upon the spectators with a +placid and assured smile, rather, as it seemed to me, to +signify his approbation of their taste in applauding +him, than his own pleasure in their applauses. Nevertheless, +he also was a splendid speaker, and his affectation +displeased the more, because it was evidently +unworthy of his understanding. While he was speaking, +I observed that the Stoic preceptor was frequently +shifting his place among the crowd, and muttering +every where expressions of high contempt. But this +did not disgust me so much as the fixed attitude of +ecstasy in which he listened to the discourse of his own +patron, and the pretended involuntary exclamations of +his delight. <q>Oh, admirable cadence!</q> he would say, +<q>I feel as if I were draining a honey-comb. Oh, harmonious +man, where have I, or any other person here, +sucked in such sweetness!</q> These absurd phrases, +however, were caught up forthwith, and repeated by +the numerous young men who hung upon the skirts of +<pb n="28"/><anchor id="Pg028"/>the orator, and seemed, indeed, to be drinking in nectar +from the speech, if one might judge from their countenances. +From their taking notes in their tablets from +time to time, and from the knowing looks they assumed +at the commencement of every new chain of argument, +I guessed that these might be embryo jurisconsults, +preparing themselves by their attendance for future +exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I +listened to their conversation at the close of every +speech, I thought I could perceive in their tones and +accents, studied mimicry of the natural peculiarities of +Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other orators. Altogether, +the scene was as full of amusement as of novelty, and +I could willingly have remained to the end of the discussion. +But my eyes chanced to fall upon young +Sextus, and I could not but see that his mind was +occupied in matters remote from the business of the +Forum. He stood with his arms folded in his gown, +and his eyes fixed upon the ground, only lifting them +up from time to time with an impatient air towards a +side entrance, or to observe by the shadows on the porticos +what progress the sun was making. +</p> + +<p> +Perceiving, at length, that Xerophrastes had his back +turned to us, and that his father was engaged with his +tablets, he plucked me by the sleeve. I understood his +meaning, and followed him quickly through the crowd; +nor did we look back till we had left the noise of the +Forensic assembly entirely behind us. <q>I am depriving +you,</q> he said, <q>of no great gratification, for that old +creature is, indeed, possessed of much natural shrewdness, +but he is bitter from observing that his reputation +is rather eclipsed by younger people, and looks like +<pb n="29"/><anchor id="Pg029"/>some worn-out and discarded cat, grinning from the +top of the wall at the dalliance of some sleeker rival. +You could find no delight in the angry sneerings of +such an envious person; and his age would prevent +you, at the same time, from willingly giving way to +contemptuous emotions. I will be your guide to the +villa. But if any questions be asked on our return, +you can say I was anxious to shew you something of +the other regions of the city.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He hurried me through noble streets, and past innumerable +edifices, before each of which I would gladly +have paused. Nevertheless, seeing him wrapped up in +anxious thoughts, I did not oppose myself to his inclinations; +and ere long, having passed the Hill of Gardens, +I found that we had gained the eastern limit of +the city. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="4" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="30"/><anchor id="Pg030"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IV.</hi></head> + +<p> +A sharp walk of about an hour and a half on the +Salarean Way, brought us within sight of the Suburban +of Capito. +</p> + +<p> +A lofty wall protected the fields of this retirement +from the intrusive eyes of passengers. We entered by +a small side-door, and found ourselves, as if by some +magical delusion, transported from the glare of a Roman +highway, into the depth and silence of some primeval +forest. No nicely trimmed path conducted our feet. +Every thing had at least the appearance of being left +as nature had formed it. The fern rustled beneath us +as we moved; the ivy was seen spreading its careless +tresses from tree to tree; the fawn bounded from the +thicket. By degrees, however, the gloom lessened, till +at length, over an open space of lawn, we perceived the +porch of entrance, and a long line of colonnade. We +passed under the porch, and across a paved court where +a fountain was playing, into the great hall, which commanded +all the other side of the place—a noble prospect +of elaborate gardens gradually rising into shady hills, +and lost in a distance of impenetrable wood. +</p> + +<p> +Here a freedman attended us, who informed us that +Capito had retired into a sequestered part of the grounds +<pb n="31"/><anchor id="Pg031"/>with some friends from the city; but that if we chose +we could easily join him there. We assented, and, +following his guidance, ere long traversed no narrow +space of luxuriant cultivation. From one perfumed +terrace we descended to another; till, having reached a +certain green and mossy walk, darkened by a natural +arching of vines and mulberries, the freedman pointed +to a statue at the farther end, and told us it stood over +against the entrance of his master’s summer-house. +When we reached the statue, however, we could perceive +no building. The shaded avenue terminated in +face of a precipitous rock, from which there fell a small +stream that was received in a massive basin, where +the waters foamed into spray without transgressing the +margin. A thousand delicious plants and far-sought +flowers clustered around the base of the rock and the +brink of the fountain, and the humming of innumerable +bees mingled with the whispers of the stream. We +stood for a moment uncertain whether we should move +on or retire, when we heard one calling to us from +beyond; and passing to the other side of the basin, +descried, between the rock and the falling water, a +low entrance into what seemed to be a natural cave or +grotto. We stooped, and found ourselves within one +of the most luxurious retirements ever haunted by +the foot of Dryad. A sparry roof hung like a canopy +of gems and crystals over a group of sculptured Nymphs +and Fawns, which were placed on a rustic pedestal +within a circular bath shaped out of the living stone. +Around the edge of the waveless waters that slumbered +in this green recess, were spread carpets rich with the +dyes of Tyrian art, whereon Capito was reposing with +<pb n="32"/><anchor id="Pg032"/>his friends. He received Sextus with kindness, and me +with politeness, introducing us both to his companions, +who were three in number—all of them, like himself, +advanced in years, and two of them wearing long beards, +though their demeanour was destitute of any thing like +the affected stateliness of our friend Xerophrastes. These +two, as our host informed us, were Greeks and Rhetoricians—the +third, a Patrician of the house of the +Pontii, devoted, like himself, to the pursuits of philosophy +and the pleasures of a literary retirement. +</p> + +<p> +They were engaged, when we joined them, in a conversation +which had sprung from the perusal of some new +metaphysical treatise. One of the Greeks, the more +serene-looking of the pair, was defending its doctrines +with earnestness of manner, although in a low and measured +cadence of voice; the other espoused the opposite +side, with quickness of utterance and severe animation +of look; while the two lordly Romans seemed to be contenting +themselves, for the most part, with listening, +although it was not difficult to perceive from their +countenances, that the one sided in opinion with the +Stoic, and Capito himself with the Epicurean. +</p> + +<p> +They all arose presently, and proceeded to walk together, +without interrupting the conversation, along the +same shaded avenue which Sextus and myself had +already traversed. He and I moved along with them, +but a little in their rear—my companion being still +too much abstracted to bestow his attention on what +they were saying; while I myself, being but little an +adept in such mysteries, amused myself rather with the +exterior and manners of the men, than with the merits +of the opinions they were severally defending. The +<pb n="33"/><anchor id="Pg033"/>Greeks were attired in the graceful costume of their +country, which was worn, however, far more gracefully +by the Epicurean than his brother,—the materials of +his robe being delicate, and its folds arranged with +studied elegance, whereas the coarse garment of the +Stoic had apparently engaged less attention. Nevertheless, +there was a more marked difference between the +attire of Capito and that of Pontius Mamurra; for the +former was arrayed in a tunic of the whitest cloth, +beneath which appeared fine linen rollers, swathing his +thighs and legs, to protect them, as I supposed, from +the heat and the insects, and a pair of slippers, of dark +violet-coloured cloth, embroidered with silver flowers; +while the other held his arms folded in the drapery of +an old but genuine toga, which left his yet strong and +sinewy nether limbs exposed to the weather, all except +what was covered by his tall black sandals and their +senatorian crescents. +</p> + +<p> +As we passed on, our host from time to time directed +the attention of his visiters, more particularly of the +two Greeks, to the statues of bronze and marble, which +were placed at convenient intervals along the terraces +of his garden. The symmetry of these figures, and the +graceful simplicity of their attitudes, inspired me with +I know not what of calm and soothing pleasure such +as I had never before tasted, so that I thought I could +have lingered for ever amidst these haunts of philosophic +luxury. The images were, for the most part, portraits +of illustrious men—Greeks, Romans—sages and heroes; +but beautiful female forms were not wanting, nor majestic +representations of gods and demi-gods, and all the +ethereal imaginations of the Grecian poets. Seeing the +<pb n="34"/><anchor id="Pg034"/>name of Jupiter inscribed upon one of the pedestals, I +paused for a moment to contemplate the glorious personification +of might and wisdom, depositing, at the +same time, a handful of roses at the feet of the statue—upon +which I could observe that my behaviour furnished +some mirth to the Epicurean Demochares; +while, on the contrary, Euphranor, the disciple of +the Porch, approved of what I did, and rebuked his +companion for saying any thing that might even by +possibility disturb the natural piety of an innocent +youth. But the Roman Stoic stood by with a smile of +stately scorn; and utter indifference was painted on the +countenance of Capito. At another time, Sextus having +staid behind to examine the beauties of a certain statue +of Diana, which represented the goddess stretched out +in careless slumber on the turf, with a slender grayhound +at her feet, the Epicurean began to rally me on +having a taste inferior to that of my friend, whose +devotion, he said, could not be blamed, being paid to +an exquisite imitation of what the great Nature of +things had decreed should ever be the most agreeable of +all objects in the eyes of a person of his age.—<q>Whereas +you,</q> continued he, <q>appear to be more occupied with +deep-hung eye-brows, ambrosial beards, and fantastic +thunderbolts, and the other exuberances of Homeric +imagination.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To this reproach I made no reply, but Capito immediately +began to recite some verses of a Hymn of Calimachus, +in which both the Greeks joined him; nor +could any thing be more delightful than the harmonious +numbers. A sudden exclamation of my friend, however, +interrupted them, and Capito, looking up a long +<pb n="35"/><anchor id="Pg035"/>straight pathway, said, <q>Come, Valerius, we shall see +whether you or Sextus is the more gallant to living +beauties, for here come my nieces. I assure you, I +know not of which of them I am the more proud; but +Sempronia has more of the Diana about her, so it is +probable she may find a ready slave in our Sextus.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We advanced, and the uncle, having tenderly saluted +them, soon presented us to their notice. Sextus blushed +deeply when he found himself introduced to Sempronia, +while in her smile, although she looked at him as if +to say she had never seen him before, I thought I could +detect a certain half-suppressed something of half-disdainful +archness—the colour in her cheeks, at the same +time, being not entirely unmoved. She was, indeed, a +very lovely girl, and in looking on her light dancing +play of features, I could easily sympathize with the +young raptures of my friend. Her dress was such as +to set off her charms to the utmost advantage, for the +bright green of her Byssine robe, although it would +have been a severe trial to any ordinary complexion, +served only to heighten the delicious brilliancy of hers. +A veil, of the same substance and colour, richly embroidered +with flowers of silver tissue, fell in flowing drapery +well-nigh to her knees. Her hair was almost entirely +concealed by this part of her dress, but a single braid +of the brightest nut-brown was visible low down on +her polished forehead. Her eyes were black as jet, and +full of a nymph-like vivacity. +</p> + +<p> +The other, Athanasia, was not a dazzling beauty. Taller +than her cousin, and darker-haired, but with eyes rather +light than otherwise, of a clear, somewhat melancholy +gray—with a complexion paler than is usual in Italy, +<pb n="36"/><anchor id="Pg036"/>a demeanour hovering between cheerfulness and innocent +gravity, and attired with a vestal simplicity in the +old Roman tunic, and cloak of white cloth—it is possible +that most men might have regarded her less than +the other. A single star of diamonds, planted high up +among her black hair, was the only ornament she +wore. +</p> + +<p> +At the request of the younger lady, we all returned +to the grotto, in the neighbourhood of which, as I have +already mentioned, our tasteful host had placed the +rarest of his exotic plants, some of which Sempronia +was now desirous of inspecting. As we paced again +slowly over those smooth-shaven alleys of turf, and +between those rows of yews and box, clipped into regular +shapes, which abounded in this more artificial region, +the conversation, which the appearance of the cousins +had disturbed, was resumed; although, as out of regard +to their presence, the voices of the disputants preserved +a lower and milder tone than before. I must confess, +however, that mild as was the manner of the discourse, +I could not help being somewhat astonished, that a +polite Roman could permit such topics to be discussed +in the hearing of females; above all, that he did not +interpose to prevent Demochares from throwing out so +many sarcastic reflections concerning the deities whose +statues decorated the garden. A beautiful Mercury, +in particular, which we all paused to admire, elicited +many observations, that I could easily see were far +from being agreeable to the fair cousins. But greatest +of all was my wonder at the behaviour of Capito himself, +who, after we had again entered that delightful +grotto, turned himself to me as if peculiarly, and began +<pb n="37"/><anchor id="Pg037"/>a deliberate and ingenious piece of declamation concerning +the tenets of his favourite philosophy;—such +as the fortuitous concourse of atoms, the transitory and +fluctuating nature of all things, and the necessity of +snatching present enjoyments, as nothing permanent +can be discovered whereon to repose the mind. With +great elegance, indeed, did he enlarge on these golden +theories, nor did he fail to intersperse his discourse with +many exquisite verses from Lucretius and other poetical +followers of his sect. Such, however, was the earnestness +of his declamation, that I could not help believing +him to be quite sincere to what he said, and asked him, +not without anxiety, whether he had all his life been +an Epicurean, or whether it was only of late that he +had espoused that discipline. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Valerius,</q> said he, <q rend="post: none">the question is not discreditable +to your tender age and provincial education. To be born +wise, Fate or Heaven has denied to the human race. It +is their privilege to win wisdom for themselves; the fault +is their own, if they do not die wise. When the stripling +enters upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes are +around him, and he moves onward in the buoyancy of +conscious power. The pride of young existence is the +essence and extract of all his innumerable sensations. +Rejoicing in the feeling of the real might that is, it is his +delight to think—to dream—of might existing and +exerted as for ever. New to the material, but still more +to the moral world, he believes in the stability of all +things whose transitory nature has not been exhibited +before him. New to the tricks of mankind, he believes +that to be said truly, which, why it should be said falsely, +he is unable to conjecture. For him, superstition has +<pb n="38"/><anchor id="Pg038"/>equal potency to darken the past, and illuminate the +future. At that early period, when ignorance is of +itself sufficient to produce a certain happiness, the ambition +is too high to admit such doctrines as I have no +shame in avowing. But time moves on, and every +hour some tender plant is crushed beneath his tread. +The spirit clings long to its delusions. The promise +that is destroyed to-day springs into life to-morrow in +some new shape; and Hope, like some warring deity of +your poets, bleeds and sickens only to revive again. But +disappointment at length gathers to itself the vigour of +an enduring form. The horizon becomes colder around +us—the soul waxes faint and more faint within. It is +then that man begins to recognize the true state, not +of his own nature alone, but of all things that surround +him—that having tasted much of evil, he is taught to +feel the value of good—and weaning himself from vain-glorious +dreams, learns the great lesson of wisdom, to +enjoy the moments as they pass—to snatch some solid +pleasure, at least, amidst a world of vision and imagination; +so, in a word, as the poet has expressed it, he +may not have reason to complain in the hour of death +that he has never lived.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In me,</q> he continued, <q>you behold one that has +gone through the experience necessary to produce an +entire acquiescence in these doctrines. I am one of +those, Valerius, who have resolved to concentrate, after +this fashion, the whole of my dreams upon the hour +that is. There are not wanting, indeed, here and elsewhere, +persons who profess the same theories, only in +the view of finding excuse and shelter for the practice +of vice. But till it be proved that the practice of vice +<pb n="39"/><anchor id="Pg039"/>is the best means of enjoyment, in vain shall it be +asserted that our doctrine is essentially adverse to +virtue. The mistakes or the misdeeds of individuals +must be estimated for nothing; for where is the doctrine +that may not be shewn to have been defended by +impure livers? The founder of our sect is acknowledged, +by its most virulent enemies, to have been the +most blameless of men, and they, I must take leave to +believe, can never be sincere friends of virtue, who +doubt, that he who is a true worshipper of pleasure, may +also be the worshipper of virtue.</q> +</p> + +<p> +There was a certain something, as I thought, more +like suppressed melancholy than genuine hilarity, in +the expression of the old man’s face, as well as in the +tone of his voice, while he gave utterance to these +sentiments; nor did any of those present appear +desirous of protracting the argument; although I did +not imagine from their looks that any of them had +altered their opinion. What, however, I could not +help remarking in a particular manner, was the gentle +regret painted in the countenance of the elder niece, +while Capito was speaking. The maiden sate over +against him all the while, her cheek supported on her +left hand, with an expression of tender affection. From +time to time, indeed, she cast her eye upward with a +calm smile, but immediately resumed her attitude of +pensive abstraction. Her uncle took her hand in his +when he had done speaking, and kissed it gently, as if +to apologize for having said any thing disagreeable to +her. She smiled again upon the sceptic, and walked by +herself, (for I could not help following her with my +eye,) down into a dark walk of pines that branched off +<pb n="40"/><anchor id="Pg040"/>at the right hand from the entrance into the grotto. +There I saw her stoop and pluck a pale flower. This +she placed in her bosom, and then rejoined us with +a more cheerful aspect; after which, we all walked +towards the villa. Nor did it escape my notice, that, +although Sempronia appeared willing to avoid Sextus +as we went, it always happened, by some accident or +other, that he was nearer to her than any other person +of the company. +</p> + +<p> +They were both at a little distance behind the rest of +the party, when Euphranor addressed himself to me, +saying, <q>Is not this youth, your companion, the same +that is under the guidance of a certain Xerophrastes?</q>—<q>The +same,</q> said I, <q>and a wary, sage-looking +Athenian is his tutor. I believe he also is of the Porch.</q>—<q>No +doubt,</q> interrupted Demochares; <q>he has a +beard that Zeno might have been proud of, and walks +as if he conceived himself to be the chief pillar of the +Porch, if not the Porch itself.</q>—<q>Who shall prevent +Demochares from having his jest?</q> replied Euphranor. +<q>The man is by birth a Thessalian, and his gutturals +still remind one strongly of his native hills.</q>—I would +gladly have heard more of it, but he was interrupted +by the nearer approach of the rest. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="5" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="41"/><anchor id="Pg041"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter V"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter V"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER V.</hi></head> + +<p> +Before the hour of taking the bath, we exercised +ourselves for some time in the tennis-court, where I +could not but admire, especially after having heard +Capito philosophise, the vigour and agility displayed +by him as well as his companions. I was then conducted +into the baths, where, after being washed and +perfumed in the most luxurious manner, I was arrayed +in an elegant supper-garment by one of the slaves of +our host. At table we were joined again by the ladies, +who both reclined on the same couch with their +uncle. Three comely youths attended us, in short +tunics, and girt with napkins of fine linen; but, +during the repast, an ancient female slave stood in +silence behind the couch of the young ladies. A small +fountain of alabaster played between two tall candelabra +of the same material, at the farther end of the apartment; +and a young damsel stood beside them, swinging +slowly from time to time a silver censer, from which +clouds of delicate odour rolled up to the mirrored roof. +</p> + +<p> +In all things the feast was splendid; but there was +no appearance of useless or vain ostentation. Every +thing was conducted in a style of great calmness and +order, without the least formality. The repast +inter<pb n="42"/><anchor id="Pg042"/>rupted not the conversation, which went on in a manner +to me equally instructive as entertaining; although I +must confess the presence of Athanasia sometimes rendered +me inattentive to what was spoken. I could +not divest myself of the idea, that some unknown circumstance +was pressing on the mind of the fair creature, +and that when she smiled upon those who addressed +her, it was sometimes to conceal her ignorance of that +which had been said. +</p> + +<p> +Being asked by Capito, I endeavoured, among other +things, to inform him and his friends, as far as I could, +concerning the then condition of this island, which, +more particularly after the exploits of Agricola, had +come to be a subject of some interest. In return, the +chief topics which then occupied the capital were discussed +by them, as I perceived, in a great measure on +my account; and I listened with delight to the praises, +which they all agreed on bestowing on the new Emperor. +Many anecdotes were narrated, which tended to +strengthen the feelings of admiration, with which I had +already been accustomed to contemplate his character. +But others were told, as the conversation went on, which +I could not so easily reconcile with the idea I had formed +of him. +</p> + +<p> +For example, I was somewhat disturbed with what +they told me concerning his treatment of the Christians, +who, as we understood in Britain, had been suffered to +live in tranquillity ever since Nerva acceded to the +empire. But now, from the circumstances related, it +appeared that the mild and humane Trajan had taken +up, in regard to this sect, the whole aversion of Domitian; +every day some cruel catastrophe was made known +<pb n="43"/><anchor id="Pg043"/>of some person who had adopted their tenets. Being +ignorant of the nature of those tenets, and having heard +only in general terms that they were of Jewish origin, +dark, and mystical, I was at a loss to account for the +extreme hatred of the Prince, or rather for his condescending +to give himself so much trouble concerning a +matter so obscure and seemingly trifling. +</p> + +<p> +Capito, however, assured me, that although I might +have good occasion to wonder at the steps taken by the +Emperor, it would no longer be said by any one, that the +progress of the Christian sect deserved to be considered +as a matter either of obscurity, or of no consequence. +<q>On the contrary,</q> said he, <q>from what you have just +heard of the numbers and quality of those that have +lately suffered various punishments, you cannot hesitate +to admit that the head of the empire has been +justified in considering it as a subject worthy his +attention.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We have adopted the gods of many nations,</q> said +Pontius Mamurra, <q>nor do I see why, because the Jews +have been unfortunate in a contest with Rome, we should +take it for granted that theirs are unworthy of respect. +If, however, as we have heard asserted, he who embraces +this creed becomes an infidel in regard to the deities of +Rome, I say Cæsar does well in refusing toleration to +the intolerant superstition. Domitian was a tyrant, +and a monster of humanity; the late prince was wise +and good; and yet it may be, that, in regard to these +Christians, the principle of Domitian’s conduct was +right in the main, and that of Nerva’s wrong. But you, +Capito, regard both sides of the question, I have no +doubt, with the same indifference.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="44"/><anchor id="Pg044"/> + +<p> +<q>I hope,</q> replied Capito, <q>I shall never regard with +indifference any question, in which the interest of the +empire and the honour of Trajan are concerned. But +if you mean only that I am indifferent about the nature +of this Syrian superstition, you are in the right. I have +no knowledge of its dogmas, nor desire to have. I presume +they have their share of that old eastern barbarity, +in the shady places of which the elder Greeks used to +think they could discover the outlines of something +really grand and majestic.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It may be so,</q> said Mamurra; <q>but if the superstition +be found dangerous to the state, the Prince does +well in repressing its progress. That is the only question +of which I spake.</q>—<q>There is, indeed, no other,</q> +said Capito; <q>I thought of none.</q>—<q>And how do you +answer it, dear uncle?</q> said Athanasia, (lifting herself +up, for the first time, to take part in the conversation.)—<q>Nay, +my love,</q> said the old man, <q>to answer that +is the business of Cæsar, and of the Senate. I only +regret, that blood should be shed, and citizens exiled; +above all, in the reign of a just and merciful Prince.—Sempronia,</q> +continued he, <q>what is that strange story +your father was telling about one of the daughters of +Serennius?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>They only allege,</q> replied Sempronia, with a smile, +<q>that Tertulla had a flirtation with a handsome young +Greek, and the Greek happened to be a Christian,—and +she was converted by the Greek,—and she was +found out in going with him to some secret assembly +of these people, in a vault by the Vatican Hill,—and +her father has been glad to send her to Corsica, partly +to escape the lawyers, and partly, I suppose, in hopes +<pb n="45"/><anchor id="Pg045"/>that the quietness of the island, and the absence of +handsome young Christians, may perhaps, in time, +restore poor Tertulla to her right mind—This is all. +Do you think that a strange story, uncle?</q> <q>Not, if +it be exactly as you have told it, Sempronia. What +says Athanasia?</q> Athanasia answered gravely, that +she was sorry for Tertulla, and had never heard any +thing of the young Greek before. +</p> + +<p> +By this time, the increasing darkness of the chamber +had warned me that we ought to be thinking of our +return. I had more than once looked towards Sextus, but +he refused to meet my eye. When I was on the point of +speaking, Sempronia, starting from her couch, exclaimed, +that she was sure there was thunder in the skies; and +presently flash after flash gleamed along the horizon. All +sat silent, as if awe-struck; but Sempronia was the +only one that seemed to be in terror from the tempest. +Nevertheless, my eyes rested more on Athanasia, who +looked paler than she had done, although her countenance +preserved its serenity. <q>How awful,</q> said I, +<q>is the voice of Jupiter!</q> Athanasia folded her arms +upon her bosom, and lifting her eyes to heaven, said in +a whisper,—<q>How awful is the voice of God!</q> She +then dropt her hand on the end of her couch, and half +unconsciously taking hold of it in mine, I asked her if +she was afraid. <q>No,</q> said she, <q>I am not afraid, but +the heaviness of the air makes me faint, and I never +can listen to thunder without feeling something extraordinary +within me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Capito said, he could not think of our going into the +city that evening, and that we must all make up our +minds to remain in the villa. The countenance of +<pb n="46"/><anchor id="Pg046"/>Sextus brightened up, and he looked to me as if to ask +my assent. I was easily persuaded, and our host despatched +a messenger to inform Licinius of the cause of +our absence. The old man then led us into another +apartment, which was richly furnished with books and +paintings. Here he read for some time out of one of +the poets, to a party, none of whom, I am afraid, were +very attentive in listening to him, till, the hour of rest +being come, we were conducted to our several apartments, +Sextus and myself, indeed, being lodged in the +same chamber. +</p> + +<p> +We were no sooner left alone than I began to rally +my friend on the beauty of his mistress, and the earnest +court he had been paying her. The youth listened with +blushes of delight to her praises, but seemed not to have +the least idea that he had been so fortunate as to make +any impression on her mind. On the contrary, he +scarcely appeared to be aware of having done any thing +to attract attention from her, and expressed astonishment +when I assured him, that his behaviour had been +such as could not possibly admit of more than one +explanation in the eyes of a person so quick and vivacious +as the lovely Sempronia. +</p> + +<p> +After we had both retired to our beds, and the lights +were extinguished, we still continued for some time to +talk over the incidents of our visit, and the future +prospects of Sextus and his love; until at length sleep +overpowered us in easy bonds, and agreeable dreams +followed, I doubt not, in the hearts of us both, the +thoughts and sights of a delightful day. Mine surely +were delightful, for they were all of Athanasia. Yet, +even in the visions of the night, I could never gaze +<pb n="47"/><anchor id="Pg047"/>on her face without some strange impression of mystery. +I saw her placid smile—I heard the sweet low cadence +of her voice—but I felt, and I could not feel it without +a certain indescribable anxiety, that her deep thoughts +were far away. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="6" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="48"/><anchor id="Pg048"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VI.</hi></head> + +<p> +I awoke early, and drew near to the bed of Sextus; +but seeing that he was fast asleep, and that a quiet +smile was on his lips, I could not think of awakening +him. The sun shone bright into the apartment, and I +resolved to walk forth and breathe the balmy air of the +garden. +</p> + +<p> +The moisture was still heavy on the green paths, and +the birds were singing among glittering leaves; the +god-like statues stood unscathed in their silent beauty. +I walked to and fro, enjoying the enchantment of the +scene;—a new feeling of the beauty of all things +seemed to have been breathed into my soul; and the +pensive grace of Athanasia hovered over my imagination, +like some presiding genius of the groves. +</p> + +<p> +I found myself near the favourite grotto, and had +stood over against its entrance for some space, contemplating +the augmented stream as it fell from the superincumbent +rock, and regretting the ravage which the +nightly tempest had made among the delicate flowers +round its basin. Twice I thought I heard the murmurs +of a voice, and twice I persuaded myself that it was +only the rippling of the waters; but the third time I +was satisfied that some person must be near. I passed +<pb n="49"/><anchor id="Pg049"/>between the water and the rock, and beheld the fair +creature that had been occupying so many of my +thoughts, kneeling far within the grotto, as it seemed, +in supplication. To disturb her by advancing farther, +would have been impious; to retire, without the risk +of disturbing her, almost impossible; but I remained +there fixed to the spot, without perhaps considering all +these things as I should have done. The virgin modesty +of her attitude was holy in my eyes, and the thought +never occurred to me, that I might be doing wrong in +permitting myself to witness the simple devotions of +Athanasia. <q>Great God, listen to my prayers,</q> was +all I understood of what she said; but she whispered +for some moments in a lowly and fervent tone, and I +saw that she kissed something with her lips ere she arose +from her knees. She then plunged her hands into the +well, by whose brink she had knelt, and turned round +to the light. <q>Athanasia, forgive me,</q> was already on +my lips; but on seeing me, she uttered a faint cry and +fell prostrate upon the marble. I rushed forward, lifted +up her head, and laved water from the fountain, till I +saw her lips tremble. At last she opened her eyes, and +after gazing on me wildly for a moment, she gathered +her strength, and stood quite upright, supporting herself +against the wall of the grotto. <q>Great heavens!</q> cried +I, <q>in what have I offended, that I should be rendered +the cause of affliction to Athanasia? Speak, lady, and +say that you forgive me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I thought,</q> said she, with a proud calmness, <q>that +Valerius was of Roman—of Patrician blood. What +brings him to be a spy upon the secret moments of a +Patrician maiden?</q>—Then bursting into a tone of +<pb n="50"/><anchor id="Pg050"/>unutterable fervour, <q>Speak,</q> said she, <q>young man, +what have you heard? How long have you stood here? +Am I betrayed?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Witness, heaven and earth!</q> cried I, kneeling, +<q>and witness every god, that I have heard nothing, +except to know that you were praying. I have only +seen you kneeling, and been guilty of gazing on your +beauty.</q> <q>You heard not the words of my prayer?</q> +said she. <q>No, not its words, Athanasia, nor any +thing of its purpose.</q> <q>Do you swear this to me, +young man?</q> <q>Yes, I swear by Jupiter and by Rome—as +I am a man and a Roman, I know not, neither +do I desire to know, any thing of what you said. Forgive +me for the fault of my indiscretion—you have no +other to forgive.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia paused for a moment, and then resuming +more of her usual tone of voice, (although its accents +were still somewhat disturbed and faltering,) said to +me, <q>Valerius, since the thing is so, I have nothing to +forgive. It is you that must pardon me for my suspicion.</q> +<q>Distress me not, Athanasia,</q> said I, <q>by +speaking such words.</q> <q>From this hour, then,</q> said +she, <q>what has passed here is forgotten. We blot it +from our memories;</q>—and with that, as if in token +of the paction, she extended to me her hand. I kissed +it as I knelt, and swore that all things were safe with +me; but added, as I arose, <q>that I was afraid I should +be promising more than I should be able to perform,—did +I say I should be able to forget any hour, or any +place, where I had seen Athanasia.</q> <q>Nay,</q> said she, +<q>no compliment, or I shall begin to suspect you of +insincerity.</q> I was then about to withdraw from the +<pb n="51"/><anchor id="Pg051"/>grotto; but seeing a scroll of parchment lying at the +feet of Athanasia, I stooped, and presented it to her, +saying, <q>I was afraid she might forget it.</q> She took +it eagerly, and saying, <q>Of that there was no danger,</q> +placed it in her bosom, within the folds of her tunic. +She was then gathering up her black tresses, and fastening +them hastily on the back part of her head, when +we heard the sound of footsteps not far off, and beckoning +to me to remain where I was, she darted from me, and +in a moment vanished among the trees. I waited for +a few minutes, and then stepping forth, beheld her +walking at a distance, beside her sister, in the direction +of the villa. They were soon lost among the paths, +and I returned alone into the grotto. +</p> + +<p> +I sat down beside the dark well, wherein she had +dipt her hands, and mused in a most disturbed mood +on all the particulars of this strange and unexpected +interview. Every motion of her features—every modulation +of her voice, was present with me; I had +gathered them all into my heart, and I felt that I must +cherish them there for ever. From the first moment I +saw her, my eyes had been constrained to gaze upon +her with an interest quite novel to me; but now I +knew that she could not smile, without making my +heart faint within me, and that the least whisper of +her voice was able to bring tears into mine eyes. Now +I thought of my own unworthiness, and could not help +saying to myself, <q>Why should a poor ignorant provincial, +such as I am, be torturing myself with the +thoughts of such a creature as this?</q> Then, again, +some benign glance of hers would return before me, +and I could not help having some faint hopes, that her +<pb n="52"/><anchor id="Pg052"/>innocent heart might be won to me by faithful unwearied +love. But what always threw me back into +despair, was the recollection of the mystery that I knew +hung over her mind, although what it was I could not +know. That she had been saying something in her +prayers which could not be overheard without betraying +her, she had herself confessed. What could be this +secret, so cherished in dread, and in darkness?—A +crime?—No crime could sully the clear bosom of her +innocence. No consciousness of guilt could be concealed +beneath that heavenly visage. But perhaps she had +been made the confidante of some erring,—some unhappy +friend. Perhaps, in her prayer, she had made +mention of another’s name, and implored the pardon +of another’s guilt. Last of all, why might it not be so, +that the maiden loved, and was beloved again; that +she might have some reason to regard any casual betrayal +of her affection as a calamity; and that, having +uttered the name of her lover in her secret supplications, +her terrors might all have been occasioned by her +apprehensions of my having overheard it? And yet +there was something in the demeanour of Athanasia, +that I could not bring myself to reconcile entirely with +any one of these suppositions. Had she feared that I had +overheard any confession of guilt,—even of the guilt +of another,—surely some semblance of shame would +have been mingled with her looks of terror. Had she +apprehended only the discovery of an innocent love, +surely her blushes would have been deeper, and her +boldness less. Yet the last solution of the difficulty +was that which haunted me the most powerfully. +</p> + +<p> +When I came forth into the open air, I perceived +<pb n="53"/><anchor id="Pg053"/>that the sun was already high in heaven, and proceeded +in haste towards the villa, not doubting that Sextus +and Capito would be astonished by the length of my +absence. I found them and the ladies walking under +the northern colonnade, having returned, as they told +me, from a fruitless search after me through almost +the whole of the garden. I looked to Athanasia, as +if to signify that she well knew where I might have +been found; but, although I saw that she understood +my meaning, she said nothing in explanation. Sextus +drew me aside shortly after, and told me, that his +father had sent to inform him, that our presence was +necessary in the city before supper-time, to attend +a great entertainment which was to be given that +evening by the lady whose cause he had successfully +pleaded in the Forum on the preceding day; which +lady, I now for the first time learned, was no other +than the same Marcia Rubellia, to whom his father was +very anxious the youth should be married. The success +of this pleading had increased very much the wealth +of the lady, and, of course, as Sextus well knew, the +anxiety of Licinius for the proposed union; and to +remain at the villa any longer, was, he said, entirely +impossible, since he already suspected his father had +not been quite pleased with him for leaving the Forum +the day before, without staying to hear out a cause in +which his duty, if not his inclination, ought to have +made him feel so greatly interested. +</p> + +<p> +We bade adieu, therefore, to our kind host and the +young ladies, not without more reluctance than either +of us durst express, and ready promises to return soon +again to the villa. We found Dromo and Boto waiting +<pb n="54"/><anchor id="Pg054"/>for us at the gate, the former of whom looked unutterable +things, while the latter appeared to be as +joyful in seeing me again, as if we had been parted +for a twelvemonth. The two slaves were mounted on +asses, but they led horses for our conveyance; so we +mounted with all speed, and were soon beyond the +beautiful enclosures of Capito. As soon as we were +fairly out of sight of the house, Dromo began to ply +Sextus with innumerable questions about the result of +the visit, all of them in bad Greek; that, as he said, +there might be no chance of what passed being understood +by the Druid; for by that venerable designation, +he informed us, the primitive Boto had already come to +be best known in the vestibule of Licinius. <q>Ah!</q> +quoth he, <q>there is no need for many words; I am +sure my young master has not been behindhand with +himself. If he has, it is no fault of mine, however. I +put Opportunity into his hands, and she, you know, as +the poets say, has only one lock of hair, and that is in +front.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Sextus being very shy of entering into particulars, I +found myself obliged to take upon me the satisfying of +the curiosity of this inquisitive varlet, which I did in a +manner that much astonished Sextus, who by no means +suspected, that in the midst of my own attention to the +other cousin, I had been able to take so much notice of +what passed between him and Sempronia. However, +the gentle youth took a little raillery all in good part, +and we laughed loudly in unison at the triumphant +capers which the whip of Dromo made his poor ass +exhibit, in testimony of his satisfaction with the progress +which all things appeared to be making. We +<pb n="55"/><anchor id="Pg055"/>reached the city about three hours after noon, and were +told by the slaves in attendance, that Xerophrastes +had gone out some time before, and that Licinius +was already busy in arraying himself for the feast of +Rubellia. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="7" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="56"/><anchor id="Pg056"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VII.</hi></head> + +<p> +Her mansion was situated about the middle of the +Suburra, in a neighbourhood nowise splendid, and itself +distinguished, on the side fronting to the street, by no +uncommon marks of elegance or opulence. A plain +brick wall covered almost the whole of the building from +the eye of the passenger; and what was seen deserved +the praise of neatness, rather than of magnificence. +Nevertheless, the moment one had passed the gate, and +entered the court, one could not help perceiving, that +taste and wealth had been alike expended abundantly +on the residence; for the broad terrace and gallery +behind were lavishly adorned, the one with sculpture +and the other with paintings; and the gardens, which +these overlooked, appeared to be both extensive and +elaborate. +</p> + +<p> +We were conducted through several pillared halls, +and then up a wide staircase, of somewhat sombre +magnificence, into the chamber where the company +were already in part assembled, and busy in offering +their congratulations to the mistress of the feast. She +was so much engaged with their flatteries that she did +not at first perceive our entrance; but as soon as she +knew who had come, the chief part of her attention +<pb n="57"/><anchor id="Pg057"/>was divided between her victorious advocate and his +blushing son. +</p> + +<p> +Rapidly as we have been advancing in our imitation +of the manners of the capital, our island, most unquestionably, +has never yet displayed any thing that could +sustain the smallest comparison with what then met +my eyes in the stately saloon of this widow. The +group around her was gay and various, and she was +worthy of forming its centre; young and handsome, +dressed in a style of the utmost splendour, her deportment +equally elegant and vivacious. Her complexion +was of that clear rich brown which lends to the eye a +greater brilliancy than the most exquisite contrast of +red and white; and over which the blood, when it does +come into the face, diffuses at once the warmest and the +deepest of blushes. Her hair appeared to be perfectly +black, unless where the light, streaming from behind, +gave an edging of glossy brown to the thick masses +of her curls. Her robe of crimson silk was fastened by +a girdle, which seemed to consist of nothing but rubies +and emeralds, strung upon threads of gold. She wore +a tiara that rose high above her tresses, and was all +over resplendent with flowers woven in jewellery; +and around her delicate wrists and ankles were twined +broad chains of virgin gold, interspersed with alternate +wreaths of sapphire. Her form was the perfection of +luxury; and although I have said that her deportment +was in general lively and brilliant, yet there was a soft +seriousness that every now and then settled in her eyes, +which gave her, for a moment, a look of melancholy +that seemed to me more likely to be in harmony with +the secret nature of her disposition. I watched her in +<pb n="58"/><anchor id="Pg058"/>particular when she spoke to Sextus; her full rich-toned +voice was then merry, and her large eyes sparkled; but +when she was engaged with any other person, she could +not help gazing on the beautiful youth in silence; and +then it was that her countenance wore its deepest expression +of calmness—I had almost said, of sadness. +</p> + +<p> +I had been gazing on her, I know not how long, +from another part of the room, when I heard a hearty +chuckle from behind me, and thought I could not be +unacquainted with the voice. Looking round, I saw, +not without delight, the stately figure of my Prætorian +Captain, Sabinus, whose cheerful eye soon distinguished +me, and who forthwith came up to salute me in the +most friendly manner. I introduced him to Licinius +and Sextus, the former of whom expressed himself as +being much gratified with the attention the centurion +had shewn to me during our voyage; so that I felt +myself, as it were, no longer a stranger in the place; +and the lutes and trumpets at that moment announcing +that supper was ready to be served up, I took care to +keep close to Sabinus, and to place myself near him on +the couch. +</p> + +<p> +The room in which the feast was prepared, communicated +by a pair of brazen folding doors, richly +sculptured, with that in which the company had assembled; +but from it, although the sun had not yet gone +down, all light was excluded, excepting what streamed +from golden candelabra, and broad lamps of bronze +suspended overhead from the high and painted ceiling. +The party might consist of about twenty, who reclined +along one demi-circular couch, the covers of which were +of the softest down, and the frame-work inlaid with +<pb n="59"/><anchor id="Pg059"/>ivory;—the part of the room enclosed by its outline +being occupied with the table, and an open space to +which the attendants had free access. We had no +sooner taken our seats than a crowd of slaves entered, +carrying large boards upon their heads, which being +forthwith arranged on the table, were seen to be loaded +with dishes of gold and silver, and all manner of drinking +vessels, also with vases of rare flowers, and urns of +perfume. But how did the countenance of Sabinus +brighten, when the trumpet sounded a second time as +if from below, and the floor of the chamber was suddenly, +as it were, pierced in twain, and the pealing +music ushered up a huge roasted boar, all wreathed +with stately garnishings, and standing erect on his +golden platform as on a chariot of triumph! <q>Ah! +my dear boy,</q> cries he, <q>here comes the true king of +beasts, and only legitimate monarch of the woods. +What should we not have given for a slice of him when +we were pent up, half-starved and fainting, in that +abominable ship of ours?—All hail, most potent conqueror! +but whether Germanic or Asiatic be thy proper +title, I shall soon know, when that expert Ionian has +daintily carved and divided thee.</q> But why should +I attempt to describe to you the particulars of the +feast? Let it suffice, that whatever idea I had formed of +Roman profusion was surpassed, and that the splendour +of the entertainment engaged the attention of all except +Rubellia herself, who, reclining immediately above +Sextus, kept her eyes fixed almost all the time it lasted, +upon his luxuriant curls of dark hair, unless when she +caused the young damsel, her cup-bearer, to pour out +to her wine in a goblet of onyx, which she touched +<pb n="60"/><anchor id="Pg060"/>with her lips, and then handed to the indifferent boy. +When the supper was half over, the folding-doors were +again thrown open, and there entered a group of maidens +and beautiful youths, who danced before us to the music +of the lute, and scattered crowns of roses at the feet of +Rubellia and her guests. She herself placed one of +them on the head of Sextus, and another on that of his +father, who lay on the other side of her, and then caused +a large cup of wine to be carried all around, whereof +each of us tasted, and drank to the health of the orator, +in whose honour the entertainment was made. The +ladies that were present imitated the example of the +hostess, and crowned such as were by them; but Sabinus +and I, not being near enough to any of them, received +that courtesy from some of the dancing maidens. +Libations were poured out abundantly on the marble +floor, and all the gods were invoked to shower down +their blessings on Rubellia, and those that had been so +fortunate as to serve her. Sweet strains of music resounded +through the tall pillars of the banqueting-room, +and the lamps burned heavily in an atmosphere +overloaded with perfumes. +</p> + +<p> +It appeared to me, from the beginning, that my +friend Sabinus witnessed, not without some feelings +of displeasure, the excessive attentions which Rubellia +lavished on young Sextus; and I gathered, from the +way in which he every now and then looked towards +them during the supper, that, had the place permitted, +he would not have allowed such things to go on without +some comment. But when we had left the banqueting-room, +and removed to another apartment, where, amidst +various entertainments of dancing, music, and +recita<pb n="61"/><anchor id="Pg061"/>tion, Rubellia still retained close to herself the heir +of Licinius, the centurion made to himself abundant +amends for the previous restraint to which his temper +had been subjected. <q>Confess now,</q> said he, <q>that +she is a lovely creature, and that your British beauties +are tame and insipid, when compared with such a specimen +of Roman fascination; and confess, withal, that +this curled boy is either the most ignorant, or the most +insusceptible of his sex. Good heavens! in what a +different style was she treated by the old magistrate, +whose very bust there, in the corner, looks quite blank +and disconsolate with its great white eyes, while she, +that sate for so many months pale and weeping by his +bed-side, is thinking of nothing but to bestow all the +wealth he left her on a beardless stripling, who appears +to regard the bust and the beauty with almost equal +indifference.—Alas! poor old withered Leberinus, little +did you imagine that so small a phial would suffice to +hold all her tears. My only wonder is, that she still +permits your marble image to occupy even a corner of +her mansion; but, no doubt, you will soon be sent on +your travels. I dare say, some cold pedestal in the +garden will, ere long, be the best birth you need look +for.—Well, well, you see what fools we may be made +by the cunning of these pretty crocodiles. I trust my +dotage, when it does come, will not shew itself in the +same shape with that of my good old friend. I hope +the ghost of the worthy Prætor will not frown unseen +the night she takes this Adonis to her arms. If I +were in his place, I should give her curtains a pretty +shake. By Hermes! it would not be a pretty monument +and a flowery epitaph that would make me lie still.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="62"/><anchor id="Pg062"/> + +<p> +<q>How long is it,</q> said I, <q>since this venerable +magistrate died? Surely she has allowed him the +decency of a tenmonth’s grief, before she began to +give suppers, and perceive the beauty of Sextus?</q> +<q>Whether it be a tenmonth ago or not,</q> replied +the Centurion, <q>is more than I can take upon me to +decide; all I know is, that it appears to me as if it were +but yesterday that I supped here, (it was just before I +set off for Britain,) and saw the young lady reclining, +even at table, with those long black curls of her’s, in the +bosom of the emaciated Leberinus. By Jupiter! the +old man would not taste a drop of wine unless she +kissed the cup—she coaxed every morsel he swallowed +down his throat, and clasped the garland round his bald +pate with her own fingers; ay, twice before that sleek +physician—that solemn-faced Greek, whom you see at +this moment talking with your kinsman, advised her +to have him carried to his bed. For all the gravity of +his looks, I would lay a trifle, that worthy Bœotian has +his own thoughts about what is passing, as well as I. +But the worst-pleased face in the whole room is, I think, +that of old Rubellius himself yonder, who has just come +in, without, it is evident, being aware that any feast +was going forward. Without question, the crafty usurer +is of opinion he might have been invited. I promise +you, I can interpret the glances of that gray-headed +extortioner; and well I may, for it is not the first +time I have had an opportunity of studying them. +Ay, ay, quoth he to himself, she may do as she will +with the bonds of Leberinus; but she might have remembered, +that a codicil can be easily tacked to the +end of a living man’s testament.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="63"/><anchor id="Pg063"/> + +<p> +<q>But, after all,</q> said I, <q>one must admit, that if +she married old Leberinus to please her father, the +widow has some right to choose her second husband +according to the pattern of her own fancy.</q> <q>Oh! by +all means,</q> answered he; <q>let her please herself; let +her make a fool of herself now, if she will. She may +perhaps learn, some time or other, that it is as possible +to have too young a husband, as to have too old a one.</q> +<q>Come now,</q> said I, <q>Sabinus, confess that if she had +selected some well-made, middle-aged man—some respectable +man—some man of note and distinction, you +would have judged less harshly of poor Rubellia.</q> +<q>Ah! you cunning dog,</q> said he; <q>who would have +thought that you had brought so much wickedness from +that new world of yours? But do you really think she +will wed Sextus? The boy appears strangely cold. I +should not wonder, when all is done, if the match were +more of the orator’s seeking than his own.</q> <q>I can +only tell you,</q> said I, <q>that I have never heard Licinius +mention any thing about it; and, I dare say, +Sextus would be very sorry to think of losing his +liberty for the sake of the wealth of Leberinus—ay, +or for that of old Rubellius to boot.</q> <q>Young friend,</q> +quoth he, <q>you are not quite acquainted with the way +in which these matters are managed at Rome. If we +had you six weeks at the other side of the Viminal, we +should teach you better.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I know not how long this sort of talk might have +lasted; but Licinius put an end to it by joining us, and +soon engaged the worthy Centurion, and several more +of us, with some lively, but unintelligible discussion on +the merits of some new edict, of which none of us had +<pb n="64"/><anchor id="Pg064"/>ever heard, or were likely ever to hear any thing again. +We were glad to escape from the lawyer into another +room, where some Greek slaves were performing a sort +of comic pantomime, that appeared to give more delight +to old Rubellius than any other of the spectators. As +for Sextus, I saw plainly that he was quite weary of +the entertainment, and anxious to get away; but we +were obliged to remain till after Licinius was gone, for +it was evident that he wished his son to see out the last. +But no sooner had we heard his chariot drive off, than +the young man and I took leave of the lady, and withdrew. +Sabinus lingered a moment behind us, and then +joined us in the vestibule, from which, his course lying +so far in the same direction as ours, we all proceeded +homewards on foot. +</p> + +<p> +We had proceeded along the street of the Suburra for +a considerable space, and were already beneath the shade +of the great Temple of Isis and Serapis, (which stands +on the northern side of the Esquiline Hill, nigh over +against the Amphitheatre of Vespasian,) when, from +the opposite side of the way, we were hailed by a small +party of soldiers, who, as it turned out, had been sent +from the Prætorian camp in search of Sabinus, and one +of whom had now recognized his gait and stature, notwithstanding +the obscurity of the hour. The Centurion +went aside with the leader of these men for some moments, +and then informed us that it was very fortunate +they had so easily recognized him, as the business on +which they had been sent was such as did not admit of +being negligently dealt with. <q>To-morrow,</q> said he, +pointing to the Amphitheatre before us, <q>that glorious +edifice is to be the scene of one of the grandest shows +<pb n="65"/><anchor id="Pg065"/>exhibited by Trajan since his accession to the empire. +It is the anniversary of the day on which he was adopted +by Nerva, and the splendour of the spectacle will be in +proportion to the gratitude and veneration with which +he at all times regards the memory of that excellent +benefactor. But there are some parts of the exhibition +that I am afraid old Nerva, could he be present to behold +them, would not regard with the same feelings as +his successor.</q> <q>Surely,</q> said I, <q>the beneficent Trajan +will not stain the expression of his gratitude by any thing +unworthy of himself, or that could give displeasure to +Nerva?</q> <q>Nay,</q> replied the Centurion, <q>it is not for +me to talk about any thing that Trajan chooses to do +being unworthy of Trajan; but you well know that +Nerva would never suffer any of the Christians to be +molested during his reign, and now here are some of +these unhappy fanatics, that are to be compelled either +to renounce their faith in the face of the assembly to-morrow, +or to die in the arena. It is to inspect the +condition of these unfortunates, who, I know not for +what reason, are confined in a dungeon below the ramparts +in the vicinity of our camp, and to announce to +them the final determination of their fate, that I, as +Centurion of the night, have now been summoned. If +you are curious to see the men, you are at liberty to +go with me, and I shall be obliged to you for your +company.</q> +</p> + +<p> +My curiosity having been excited in regard to the new +faith and its adherents, I was very desirous to accept of +this offer. Nor did Sextus any sooner perceive that such +was my inclination, than he advised me to gratify it, +undertaking, at the same time, to satisfy his father, in +<pb n="66"/><anchor id="Pg066"/>case of any inquiry, that I was in a place of safety, and +under the protection of Sabinus. With him, therefore, +and with his Prætorians, I proceeded along various streets +which led us by the skirts of the Esquiline and Viminal +Hills, on to the region of the Mounds of Tarquin, over +against which, as you have heard, the great camp of +those bands is situated;—if indeed that ought of right +to be called by the name of a camp, which is itself a +city of no slender dimensions, and built with great +splendour of architecture, spread out beyond the limits +of Rome, for the accommodation of that proud soldiery. +There my friend took me into his chamber, and furnished +me with a cloak and helmet, that I might excite +no suspicion by accompanying him on his errand. The +watch-word of the night also was given me, <hi rend="italic">Silent faith</hi>; +and proceeding again, we shortly reached the place +where the Christians were lying. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="8" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="67"/><anchor id="Pg067"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VIII.</hi></head> + +<p> +Entering the guard-room, we found it crowded with +spearmen of Sabinus’s band, some playing at dice, others +carousing jovially, many wrapt up in their mantles, +and asleep upon the floor; while a few only were sitting +beneath the porch, with their spears in their hands, and +leaning upon their bucklers. From one of these, the +Centurion, having drawn him aside, made inquiry +concerning the names and condition of the prisoners, +and whether as yet they had received any intelligence +as to the morrow. The soldier, who was a grave +man, well stricken in years, made answer, <q>that the +men were free-born and of decent estate, and that he +had not heard of any thing else being laid to their +charge, excepting that which concerned their religion. +Since they have been here,</q> he continued, <q>I have +been several times set on watch over them, and twice +have I lain with one of them in his dungeon; yet have +I heard no complaints from any of them, for in all +things they are patient. One of them only is to suffer +to-morrow—but for him I am especially concerned, for +he was known to me of old, having served often with +me when I was a horseman in the army of Titus, all +through the war of Palestine, and at the siege of Jerusalem.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="68"/><anchor id="Pg068"/> + +<p> +<q>And of what country is he?</q> said Sabinus. <q>Is +he also a Roman?</q> <q>No, sir,</q> answered the spearman, +<q>he is no Roman; but he was of a troop of the allies +that was joined often to our legion, and I have seen +him bear himself on the day of battle as well as any +Roman. He is by birth a Greek of the Syrian coast; +but his mother was of the nation of the Jews.</q> <q>And +yet, although the son of a Jewess, he was with us, say +you, at the siege of Jerusalem?</q> <q>Even so,</q> replied the +man; <q>and not he only, but many others; for the +Jews were divided against themselves; and of all them +that were Christians, not one abode in the city, or gave +help to defend it. As this man himself said, the oracles +of the Christians, and their prophets, had of old given +warning that the city must fall into the hands of Cæsar, +by reason of the wickedness of that people; therefore, +when we set our camp against Jerusalem, these all +passed out from the city, with their wives and children, +and dwelt safely in the mountainous country until the +fate was fulfilled. But some of their young men fought +in our camp, and did good service, because the place +was known to them, and they had acquaintance with +all the secrets of the Rock. Of these, this man was one. +He and all his household had departed from the ancient +religion of the Jews, and were believers in the doctrines +of the Christians, for which cause he is now to suffer; +and of that, although I have not spoken to him this +evening, I think he has already received some intelligence, +for certain of his friends passed in to him, and +they covered their faces as they went in, as if weeping.</q> +<q>Are these friends still with him?</q> said Sabinus. +<q>Yes,</q> answered he, <q>for I must have seen them had +<pb n="69"/><anchor id="Pg069"/>they come forth again. Without doubt, the two women +are still with him in his dungeon.</q> <q>Women?</q> quoth +Sabinus; <q>and of what condition think you they may +be?</q> <q>That I know not,</q> replied the soldier; <q>for, +as I have said, they were muffled in their mantles. But +one of them, at least, is a Roman, for I heard her speak +to him that is by the door of the dungeon.</q> <q>How +long is it,</q> said the Centurion, <q>since they went in to +the prisoner?</q> <q>More than an hour,</q> replied the +soldier, looking at the water-clock that stood beneath +the porch; <q>and if they be Christians, they are not +yet about to depart, for they never separate without +singing together, which is said to be their favourite +manner of worship.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He had scarcely uttered these words, when the soldiers +that were carousing within the guard-room became +silent, and we heard the voices of those that were in the +dungeon singing together in a sweet and lowly manner. +<q>Ah, sir!</q> said the old soldier, <q>I thought it would +be even so—there is not a spearman in the band that +would not willingly watch here a whole night, could he +be sure of hearing that melody. Well do I know that +soft voice—Hear now, how she sings by herself—and +there again, that deep strong note—that is the voice of +the prisoner.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hush!</q> quoth the Centurion, <q>heard you ever any +thing half so divine? Are these words Greek or Syrian?</q> +<q>What the words are I know not,</q> said the soldier; +<q>but I know the tune well.—I have heard it played many +a night with hautboy, clarion, and dulcimer, on the +high walls of Jerusalem, while the city was beleaguered.</q> +<q>It is some old Jewish tune then,</q> said Sabinus; <q>I +knew not those barbarians had had half so much art.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="70"/><anchor id="Pg070"/> + +<p> +<q>Why, as for that, sir,</q> replied the man, <q>I have been +all over Greece and Egypt—to say nothing of Italy—and +I never heard any music like that music of the +Jews. When they came down to join the battle, +their trumpets sounded so gloriously, that we wondered +how it was possible for them ever to be driven back; +and then, when their gates were closed, and they sent +out to beg their dead, they would play such solemn +awful notes of lamentation, that the plunderers stood +still to listen, and their warriors were delivered to them +with all their mail as they had fallen.</q> <q>And the +Christians also,</q> said Sabinus, <q>had the same tunes?</q> +<q>Oh yes, sir—why, for that matter, these very tunes +may have been among them, for aught we know, since +the beginning of their nation. I have stood sentinel +with this very man, and seen the tears run down his +cheeks by the star-light, when he heard the music from +the city, as the Jewish captains were going their rounds +upon the battlements.</q> <q>But this, surely,</q> said the +Centurion, <q>is no warlike melody.</q> <q>I know not,</q> +quoth the old soldier, <q>whether it be or not—but I am +sure it sounds not like any music of sorrow,—and yet +what plaintive tones are in the part of that female +voice!</q> <q>The bass sounds triumphantly, in good +sooth.</q> <q>Ay, sir, but that is the old man’s own voice—I +am sure he will keep a good heart to the end, even +though they should be singing their farewell to him. +Well, the Emperor loses a good soldier, the hour Tisias +dies. I wish to Jupiter he had not been a Christian, +or had kept his religion to himself. But as for changing +now—you might as well think of persuading the +Prince himself to be a Jew.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>That last high strain, however,</q> quoth Sabinus, +<pb n="71"/><anchor id="Pg071"/><q>has ended their singing. Let us speak to the women +as they come out; and if it be so that the man is already +aware of what is to be done to-morrow, I see not why +we should trouble him with entering his cell. He has +but a few hours to live, and I would not willingly disturb +him.</q> <q>I hear them coming,</q> said the soldier. +<q>Then do you meet them,</q> said Sabinus, <q>and tell +them that the Centurion wishes to speak to them ere +they go away—we will retire out of hearing of the +guard.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With that he and I withdrew to the other side of the +way, over against the door of the prison; and we stood +there waiting for the women under a fig-tree, close by +the city wall. In a few minutes two persons, arrayed +as the soldier had described, drew near to us; and one +of them, without uncovering her countenance, said,—<q>Master, +we trust we have done no evil in visiting the +prisoners; had it been so, surely we should not have +been permitted to enter without question.</q> +</p> + +<p> +These words were spoken in a voice tremulous, as if +with grief rather than with terror; but I could not +help starting when I heard them. However, I commanded +myself, and heard in silence what Sabinus +replied.—<q>Be not alarmed,</q> said he; <q>there is no +offence committed, for no orders have been issued +to prevent these men from seeing their friends. I sent +for you, not to find fault with what you have done, but +only to ask whether this prisoner has already been told +that the Emperor has announced his resolution concerning +him, and that he must die to-morrow, in the +Amphitheatre of Vespasian, unless he renounce his +superstition.</q>—<q>He knows all,</q> answered the same +voice; <q>and is prepared for all.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="72"/><anchor id="Pg072"/> + +<p> +<q>By heavens! Valerius,</q> whispered Sabinus; <q>it is +no mean person that speaks so—this is the accent and +the gesture of a Roman lady.</q> Then raising his voice, +<q>In that case there is no need for my going into the +dungeon; and yet, could I hope to say any thing that +might tend to make him change his purpose, I would +most gladly do so. The Emperor is as humane as he is +just, and unless when rebellious obstinacy shuts the +gates of mercy, he is the last that would consent to the +shedding of any blood.—For this Tisias, of whose history +I have just been hearing something, I am in a +particular manner interested, and to save him, I wish +only I had power equal to my inclination. Is there no +chance of convincing <anchor id="corr072a"/><corr sic="him">him?</corr></q>—<q>He is already convinced.</q>—<q>Could +his friends do nothing?</q>—<q><anchor id="corr072b"/><corr sic="quote mark missing">His</corr> friends +have been with him,</q> said the voice.—This last sentence +was spoken so distinctly, that I knew I could no +longer be mistaken; and I was on the brink of speaking +out, without thinking of the consequences that might +occur, when she that had spoken, uttered a faint cry, +and dropping on her knees before Sabinus, said,—<q>Oh, +sir! to us also be merciful, and let us go hence ere any +one behold us!</q>—<q>Go in peace, lady,</q> answered the +Centurion, <q>and henceforth be prudent as well as +kind;</q> and they went away from us, and were soon +lost to our sight in the windings of the street. +</p> + +<p> +We stood there for some moments in silence, looking +towards the place where they disappeared. <q>Strange +superstition,</q> said Sabinus; <q>what heroism dwells with +this madness!—you see how little these men regard their +lives;—nay, even women, and Roman women too—you +see how their nature is changed by it.</q>—<q>It is, indeed, a +most strange spectacle,</q> said I; <q>but what is to be the +<pb n="73"/><anchor id="Pg073"/>end of it, if this spirit become diffused widely among the +people?</q>—<q>In truth I know not,</q> answered the Centurion; +<q>as yet we have heard of few who had once +embraced this faith, renouncing it out of fear for their +lives.</q>—<q>And in the days of Nero and Domitian,</q> +said I, <q>were not many hundreds of them punished +even here in the capital?</q>—<q>You are within the mark,</q> +said he; <q>and not a few of those who were sent into +exile, because of their Christianity, were, as you may +have heard, of no ordinary condition. Among these +there were Flavius Clemens, the Consular, and his wife, +Domitilla; both of whom I have often seen in my youth—both +relations to the family of Vespasian—whom, +notwithstanding, all the splendour of the imperial blood +could not save from the common fate of their sect. But +Nerva suffered all of them to live in peace, and recalled +such as were in exile, excepting only Domitilla, whose +fate has been regretted by all men; but I suppose it +was not at first judged safe to recal her, lest any tumult +should have been excited in her name, by those that +regretted (and I am sorry to say these were not a few) +the wicked license of which they had been deprived by +the death of her tyrannical kinsman, and the transition +of the imperial dignity into another line. She also with +whom we have been speaking, is, I am sure, a Roman +lady of condition; and you may judge of her zeal, +when you see it brings her hither at midnight, to mingle +tears and prayers with those of an obscure Asiatic. Did +you observe, that the other female both walked and +stood behind her.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I observed all this,</q> answered I. But little did +Sabinus suspect that I had observed so much more than +<pb n="74"/><anchor id="Pg074"/>himself had done. Before parting from him, I said I +should still be gratified with being permitted to see the +prisoner; and although he declined entering himself, +he accordingly gave command that the door of his +dungeon should be opened for me, requesting me, at the +same time, to refrain from saying any thing more than +was necessary for the explaining the apparent purpose +of my visit,—the communication, namely, of Trajan’s +decree. +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion withdrew to his camp; and the same +old spearman with whom we had conversed at the +Porch, carried a torch in his hand, and shewed me the +way into the dungeon. +</p> + +<p> +Between the first door and the second, which appeared +to be almost entirely formed of iron, there intervened a +few broad steps of mason-work; and upon the lowest +of these, I stood waiting till he should open the inner +door. Several keys were applied before he discovered +the right one; but at last the heavy door swung away +from before him so speedily, that the air, rushing out of +the vault, extinguished the torch; insomuch, that we +had no light excepting that which streamed from an +aperture high up in the wall of the dungeon itself; a +feeble ray of star-light alone—for the moon had, long +ere this time, been gone down—which, nevertheless, +sufficed to shew us to the prisoner, although we at first +could see nothing of him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Soldiers,</q> said the old man, in a voice of perfect +calmness, <q>for what reason are you come?</q>—<q>We +come,</q> said my companion, <q>by command of the Centurion, +to inform you of things which we would willingly +not have to tell—To-morrow Trajan opens the +<pb n="75"/><anchor id="Pg075"/>Amphitheatre of Vespasian.</q>—<q>My comrade,</q> said the +prisoner, <q>is it your voice I hear? I knew all this +already; and you know of old that I fear not the face +of death.</q>—<q>I know well, Tisias, you fear not death; +yet why, when there is no need, should you cast away +life? Think well, I beseech you, and reserve yourself +for a better day.</q>—<q>The dawn of that better day, +Romans, already begins to open upon my eyes. I see +the east red with the promise of its brightness. Would +you have me tarry in darkness, when I am invited +to walk forth into the light?</q>—<q>Your words rejoice +me,</q> answered the spearman; <q>and I am sure all will +rejoice in hearing that you have at length come to think +thus—Trajan himself will rejoice. You have but to +say the word, and you are free,</q>—<q>You mean kindly,</q> +said the old man, rising from his pallet, and walking +towards us as far as his fetters permitted; <q>but you +are much mistaken—I have but to keep silence, and I +am free.</q>—<q>Alas! what mean you? Do you know +what you say? You must worship the gods in the +morning, else you die.</q>—<q>Evening, and morning, and +for ever, I must worship the God that made heaven and +earth. If I bow down to the idols of Trajan, I buy the +life of a day at the price of death everlasting. Tempt +me not in your kindness: I fell once. Great God, +preserve me from falling! I have bade farewell to my +friends already. Leave me to spend these few hours by +myself.—Leave me to prepare the flesh for that from +which the spirit shrinks not.</q> So saying, he extended +his hand to the spearman, and the two old men embraced +each other before me. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Prisoner,</q> said I, <q>if there be any thing in which +<pb n="76"/><anchor id="Pg076"/>we can serve you, command our aid. We have already +done our duty; if we can also do any thing that may +give ease to your mind now, or comfort to your kindred, +you have but to speak.</q>—<q>Sir,</q> replied he, <q>I see by +the eagle wings on your helmet, that you are one in +authority, and I hear by your voice that you are young. +There is a certain thing, concerning which I had some +purpose to speak to this old brother.</q>—<q>Speak with +confidence,</q> said I; <q>although I am a Roman, and +bear all loyalty to Cæsar, yet this Prætorian helmet is +not mine, and I have but assumed it for the sake of +having access to your prison. I am no soldier of Trajan: +Whatever I can do for you without harm to others, +speak, and I will do it. I will swear to you——</q> +<q>Nay, sir,</q> said he, <q>swear not—mock not the God of +heaven, by invoking idol or demon—I believe your +word—but, since you will hear, there is no need why +any other should be witness to my request.</q>—<q>I will +retire,</q> said the other, <q>and keep watch at the door. I +am but a poor spearman, and this young patrician +can do more than I.</q>—<q>Be it so,</q> said the prisoner, a +second time embracing him; <q>I would not willingly +expose you to any needless danger; and yet I see not +what danger there is in all that I have to ask.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With this the spearman withdrew; and being left +alone with Tisias, I took his hand, and sitting down +beside him on his pallet, shortly explained to him the +circumstances under which I had come thither. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Young sir,</q> said he, <q>I know not what is about +the sound of your voice, and the frankness of your +demeanour, that makes me feel confidence enough to +intrust you with a certain thing, which concerns not +<pb n="77"/><anchor id="Pg077"/>myself, nor any hope of mine, for that were little—but +the interests of one that is far dearer to me than I can +express, and who, I hope, will live many happy days +upon earth, after I shall have sealed my belief in the +message of God, by blood that has of old been exposed +a thousand times to all mortal perils, for the sake of +worthless things. But a very short while ago, and I +might have executed this thing for myself; but weakness +overcame me at the moment of parting.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>If it be any thing which you would have me +convey to any one, say where I may find the person,</q> +said I, <q>and be assured I shall deliver it in +safety.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> he proceeded, <q>I have here with me certain +writings, which I have carried for these twenty years +continually in my bosom. Among these, is one of the +sacred books of the faith for which I am to die, and I +would fain have it placed in the hands of one to whom +I know it will be dearest of all for the sake of that +which it contains; but, I hope, dear also for the sake +of him that bequeaths it. Will you seek out a certain +Roman lady, and undertake to give into her own hands, +in secret, the scroll which I shall give you?</q>—<q>I will +do my endeavour,</q> said I; <q>and if I cannot find means +to execute your command, I shall destroy the book with +my own hands before I quit Rome—for my stay here +is uncertain.</q>—<q>If you cannot find means to do what +I ask safely,</q> he replied, <q>I do not bid you destroy the +book—<hi rend="italic">that</hi> is yours to do with as it shall seem good +to you—but I conjure you to read it before you throw +it away. Nay, even as it is, I conjure you to read it +before you seek to give it to her whose name I shall +<pb n="78"/><anchor id="Pg078"/>mention.</q>—<q>Old man,</q> said I, <q>almost I believe that +I already know her name, and more besides. If it be +so that I have conjectured aright, be assured that all +you ask shall be fulfilled to the letter; be assured also, +that I would die with you to-morrow, rather than live +to be the cause or instrument of any evil thing to her +that but now visited you in your dungeon.</q>—<q>Alas!</q> +cried the old man, starting up, <q>lay not this also, O +Lord! upon my head. Let the old bear witness—but +let the young be spared, to serve thee in happier years +upon the earth!</q>—<q>Be not afraid,</q> said I, <q>if it was +Athanasia, no one suspected it but myself; and I have +already told you that I would die rather than bring +evil upon her head.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> he answered, after a pause—<q>it was, indeed, +Athanasia. Who is it but she that would have left the +halls of nobles, and the couches of peace, to breathe at +midnight the air of a dungeon, that she might solace +the last moments of a poor man, and, save the bond of +Christ, a stranger! But if you have known her before, +and spoken with her before, then surely she must indeed +be safe in your hands. You know where she dwells—that +I myself know not. Here is the scroll, from which +that noble maiden has heard my humble voice essay to +expound the words of eternal life. I charge you to +approach her with reverence, and give into her own +hands my dying bequest; yet, as I have said, deliver it +not to her till you have yourself read what it contains.</q>—<q>Christian,</q> +said I, placing the writing in my +bosom, <q>have no fear—I will read your book, and ere +two nights have gone over my head, I shall find means +to place it in the hands of Athanasia; and now, +fare<pb n="79"/><anchor id="Pg079"/>well.</q>—<q>Nay, not yet for the last time. Will you +not come in the morning, and behold the death of a +Christian?</q>—<q>Alas!</q> said I, <q>what will it avail that +I should witness the shedding of your blood? The +Prince may have reason to regard you as an offender +against the state; but I have spoken with you in your +solitude, and know that your heart is noble. Would +to Heaven, that by going thither I could avert your +fate!</q>—<q>Methinks, sir,</q> he replied, <q>it may be weakness—but +yet methinks it would give me some farther +comfort in my death, to know that there was at least +one Roman there, who would not see me die without +pity; and besides I must have you constrain yourself, +that you may be able to carry the tidings of my departure. +Her prayers will be with me, but not her eyes. +You must tell Athanasia the manner of my death.</q>—<q>For +that cause,</q> said I, <q>I will constrain myself, and +be present in the Amphitheatre.</q>—<q>Then, farewell,</q> +said he; <q>——and yet go not. In whatsoever faith +you live,—in whatsoever faith you die, the blessing of +an old man and a Christian can do you no harm.</q> So +saying, the old man stood up, and leaning his hand on +my head as I sat, pronounced over me a blessing which +I never shall forget. <q>The Lord bless thee—the Lord +enlighten thy darkness—the Lord plant his seed in +thy kind heart—the Lord give thee also to die the +death of a Christian!</q> +</p> + +<p> +When he had said so, he sat down again; and I +departed greatly oppressed in spirit, yet feeling, I know +not how or why, as I would rather have lost many +merry days, than that dark and sorrowful hour. The +soldiers in the guard-room were so much engaged in +<pb n="80"/><anchor id="Pg080"/>their different occupations, that they heeded me not as, +dropping my borrowed habiliments, I stept silently to +the gate; and I was soon out of sight of their flaming +watch-fires, and far from the sounds of their noisy +mirth. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="9" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="81"/><anchor id="Pg081"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IX.</hi></head> + +<p> +The Roman streets were totally silent and deserted. +It was the first time that I had been in the presence of +a human being, foreseeing distinctly, and quietly waiting, +the termination of his mortal existence, and I could +not help asking of myself, how, under similar circumstances +of terror, I should have been able to sustain my +spirits?—to what resources I should, in such a moment, +look for the support which seemed to have been +vouchsafed so abundantly to this old man; by what +charm, in fine,—by what tenet of philosophy, or by +what hope of religion,—I should, in the midst of life, +be able to reconcile myself to a voluntary embrace of +death! To avoid disgrace, indeed, and dishonour, said +I, I think I could be Roman enough to dare the worst; +but this poor man is willing to die, rather than acknowledge, +by one offering on the altar, the deities in whose +worship all his Greek ancestors have been trained; yet +who, except perhaps a few obscure individuals that have +adopted the same new superstition, would think this +man dishonoured by returning to the religion of his +fathers? Deep, indeed, must be his conviction of the +truth of that which he professes to believe—serious +indeed must be his faith, and high his trust. What if, +<pb n="82"/><anchor id="Pg082"/>after all, his faith should be true, and his trust wise? +And the gentle Athanasia!—She too a Christian! +Might not this mystery be hereafter explained to me by +her lips? +</p> + +<p> +Musing and meditating thus, it was no wonder that +I, who knew so little of Rome, should have soon wandered +from the straight way to the home of my kinsman. +But that I at last caught, at the turning of a +street, a glimpse of the Flavian Amphitheatre, which I +had before passed on my way from the feast of Rubellia, +I might, perhaps, have wandered long. I had some +notion how that grand edifice was situated with respect +to the house of Licinius, and therefore moved towards +it immediately, intending to pass straight down from +thence into the Sacred Way. But when I came close +to the Amphitheatre, I found that, surrounded on all +sides by a city of sleep and silence, that region was +already filled with all manner of noise and tumult, in +consequence of the preparations which had begun to be +made for the spectacles. The east hardly yet indicated +dawn; but the torches and lanterns of workmen and +artificers were in motion every where. On one side, +the whole way was blocked up with a throng of waggons; +the conductors, almost all Ethiopians and Numidians, +lashing each other’s horses, and exchanging, in +their barbarous tongues, outcries of wrath and execration. +The bellowings that resounded from any of the +waggons, which happened to be set in motion amidst +the throng, intimated that savage beasts were confined +within them; and when I had discovered this, and +then regarded the prodigious multitude of the vehicles, +I cannot say what horror came over me at thinking +<pb n="83"/><anchor id="Pg083"/>what cruel sights, and how lavish in cruelty, were +become the favourite pastimes of the most refined of +nations. I recognized the well-known short deep snort +of the wild boar, and the long hollow bark of the wolf; +but a thousand fierce sounds, mingled with these, were +new to my ears. One voice, however, was so grand in +its notes of sullen rage, that I could not help asking a +soldier, who sate on horseback near me, from what +monster it proceeded. The man answered, that it was +a lion; but then what laughter arose among some of +the rabble, that had overheard my interrogation; and +what contemptuous looks were thrown upon me by the +naked negroes, who sate grinning in the torch-light, on +the tops of their carriages! Then one or two of the +soldiers would be compelled to ride into the midst of +the confusion, to separate some of these wretches, fighting +with their whips about precedence in the approach; +and it seemed to me that the horses could not away +with the strong sickly smell of the wild beasts; for they +would prance, and caper, and rear on end, and snort as +if panic-struck, and dart themselves towards the other +side; while some of the riders were thrown off in the +midst of the tumult, and others, with fierce and strong +bits, compelled the frightened or infuriated animals to +endure the thing they abhorred—in their wrath and +pride forcing them even nearer than was necessary. In +another quarter, this close-mingled pile of carts and +horses was surmounted by the enormous heads of elephants, +thrust up into the air, some of them with their +huge lithe trunks lashing and beating (for they, too, as +you have heard, would rather die than snuff in the +breath of these monsters of the woods,) while the tiara’d +<pb n="84"/><anchor id="Pg084"/>heads of their riders would be seen tossed to and fro by +their contortions. What a cry of cursing, what cracking +of whips and cords, what blowing of horns, and whistling +and screaming; and all this mixed with what +roaring and howling from the savage creatures caged +in darkness! +</p> + +<p> +I went, however, for a moment, into the Amphitheatre, +by a little side-way, where admission was +cheaply obtained. Here, as yet, all things were in order, +for the hour had not yet come for giving the wild beasts +entrance to the huge dens prepared for them. A few +carpenters only were seen in one corner, erecting a sort +of low stage, and singing merrily, of whom, when I +made inquiry concerning the purpose of that erection, one +of these fellows also began to jeer; <q>Whence come you, +good sir, that you do not know a common scaffold when +you see it? It is surely not the first time that a Christian +has had his head chopped off in the Flavian?</q>—<q>By +Pluto, I am not so sure about that matter,</q> quoth +another. <q>I don’t know whether any of the dogs were +ever beheaded here or not; if they have been, I can +only say it was better than they deserved.</q>—<q>There +spoke a true man,</q> cries a third. <q>No, no; keep beheading +for Romans—let citizens have their own. +Things are come to a pretty pass, when they shew us +nothing but tigers against tigers. By Jove, I would +rather see one of those misbelieving Atheists set right +before the mouth of a true Getulian lion’s cage, and +hear his bones cracked ere all be over,—I say, I would +rather see that, than fifty of your mere beast fights.</q>—<q>After +all,</q> rejoined the first, <q>it must be allowed that +our Cæsar had a fine eye for the +Amphitheatre.</q>—<pb n="85"/><anchor id="Pg085"/><q>Who doubts it?</q> says the other. <q>Rome has never +seen any thing that deserved to be called a show, since +he was killed by sneaking traitors. They say, Nero +was still better at that sort of work; but <q>let the skinless +Jew believe,</q> as the saying is. I desire to see no +better sport than Domitian gave us the very week before +his death. We shall never live to see his like again!</q>—<q>Come, +boys,</q> rejoins one of the rest; <q>no despairing! +I had begun to think that these good princes, as +they call them, would never shew us a bit of real sport +again. Here, now, is at least something. Who can +tell what may follow? and, besides, if the worst come +to the worst, we shall still have lions against lions, +tigers against tigers, Dacians against Dacians, and now +and then a Jew or a Christian, or whatever you please +to call him, exhibited <foreign lang="la" rend="italic">solus</foreign> on such a stage as this. +Come, come, don’t make matters worse than they are.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The ruffians shewed that they knew well enough I +was displeased, and I half regretted, as I strode away +from them, the want of that Prætorian helmet, which +would have preserved me from the insolence of +their mirth. However, I was well pleased to gain a +distance at which I could no longer be troubled with +them, and walked with rapid steps along the wide +streets, over which morning was now beginning to +shine; while the air, agitated with a quick breeze, +refreshed my cheeks and temples—of which I had +need, being heated with the glare and noise, and, perhaps, +faint, too, after the manner of the young, from +want of sleep. +</p> + +<p> +I was admitted into the house by Dromo, who seemed +to have been looking out for me; for he opened the +<pb n="86"/><anchor id="Pg086"/>door almost before I had time to knock at it. He regarded +me as I entered with a very cunning face; insomuch, +that I comprehended without difficulty, he +believed me to have spent the night in some scene of +debauch; but he, nevertheless, attended me, without +saying a word, into my chamber. He then assumed a +countenance of great reflection, and advised me, with +much appearance of friendly concern, to go to bed, even +although I could not stay long there; <q>because,</q> said +he, <q>you will feel much fresher when you get up; and +let me tell you, you must be up early, for I have already +been with Licinius, who intends to send Sextus with a +present to Rubellia immediately after breakfast; and +you may be sure he will insist on your company, for he +can do nothing without you. Ah! had it not been for +a certain pretty creature, the young gentleman would +not, I am confident, have permitted you to be going +the rounds in this way by yourself. But I take it +something amiss, and shall tell him so, that he did not +depute me (who am not particularly enamoured just +at present) to go with you, and take care of your safety. +I only wonder how you have got home so well as it is.</q>—<q>Indeed,</q> +said I, <q>good Dromo, I cannot help wondering +a little at that myself—for I have been all +through the city, and lost my way half-a-dozen times +over, and yet here you see I am.</q>—<q>The more reason,</q> +quoth the slave, <q>that you should send some little +offering to Mercury’s Temple over the way, in the +morning—a few sesterces will be sufficient—and if +you have no objections, I shall willingly take care of +them for you. Mercury is the guardian of all that travel +about in the dark; and besides, he is the special patron +<pb n="87"/><anchor id="Pg087"/>of love expeditions. But to say the truth, you are +not the only person that owes a gift to that shrine; for +the worthy sage—Xerophrastes—he, too, has been a +night-wanderer—and he has not yet come in. I have +my doubts whether, when he does so, he will be as sober +as you are; but I must take care to be at my post, and +admit him in silence, for the time is not yet come to +uncloak his doings. Trust me, this is not the only +vagary I have set down to his account—all in good +time. But what says my master Valerius, touching the +offering to the great God Hermes?</q> +</p> + +<p> +I saw, by the knave’s face, that it was necessary the +sesterces should be forthcoming. <q>Here they are,</q> +said I, <q>good Dromo; and remember, that although +Mercury, among other things, is the god of thieves also, +he will not be well pleased if you curtail his offering.</q> +<q>Never mind,</q> answered the varlet, as he was shuffling +out of the room, <q>Mercury and I understand each other +of old. Go to bed, and try to get a little of your own +old British red into your cheeks again; for Licinius +has a hawk’s eye, and will be sure to have his suspicions, +if he sees you come down with such a haggard +look. Remember you have not a beard to cover half +your face, and all your iniquities.</q> +</p> + +<p> +So saying, he left me to my couch, indeed, but not +to slumber; for busy thoughts kept me broad awake, +till, after the lapse of perhaps an hour, young Sextus +entered my apartment, already arrayed with more than +usual elegance, to execute, however unwillingly, the +message of his father. He had in his hand a small +casket of open ivory-work, which he flung down on +my bed, saying, <q>Get up, dear Valerius, and save me +<pb n="88"/><anchor id="Pg088"/>at least from the pain of going alone with these gewgaws. +Would to Heaven my father would marry her +himself, and then I should have no objection to carry +as many caskets as he pleases. But do you get up and +assist me; and as we go along, you shall tell me what +you have seen and heard in company with your jovial +Prætorian.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I was soon ready, and ascended, along with my young +friend, the chariot which Licinius had commanded to +be ready. I told him, as we glided through the streets, +as much as I judged expedient; and, in particular, +when I perceived that our charioteer was making a +circuit, in order to avoid the neighbourhood of the +Amphitheatre, I could not help expressing to him the +effect which had been produced in my mind, by my +casual inspection of the preparations. <q>I am afraid, +then,</q> said he, <q>that you will scarcely be willing to +witness the exhibition itself; and yet I would fain +have you to overcome your aversion, both because, +whatever you may think of such things, it is not fitting +that you should go from Rome without once, at least, +seeing how they are conducted; and more particularly, +because I much suspect Rubellia intends to be present +at the festival—in which case I should be sorry to be +compelled to attend upon her without you; and as to +leaving her at the gate of the Amphitheatre, that, you +know, would be quite impossible, unless I wished openly +to contradict the wishes of my father.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I assured him he should not want any comfort +my presence could afford him; although not without, +at the same time, expressing my astonishment that +he should consider it at all probable that his dainty +<pb n="89"/><anchor id="Pg089"/>Rubellia would choose to sit among the spectators of +an exhibition so abounding in circumstances of cruelty, +and, as I had understood, forbidden to her sex. <q>Nay,</q> +answered he, <q>laws and edicts are made to be broken +in such cases; and as for the cruelty of the scene, +there is scarcely a lady in Rome that would be +more scrupulous on that head than my widow. To +tell you the truth, one of the things that makes me +most unwilling to go, is the fear that Sempronia also +may be there; and, perhaps, when she sees me with +Rubellia, give credence to some of the reports which +have been circulated (not without my father’s assent, +I think, if all were known,) about this odious marriage, +which I swear to you shall never take place, although +Licinius were to drive me from his door, and adopt a +stranger.</q>—<q>Sextus,</q> I made answer, <q>if Sempronia +thinks there is any thing serious between the widow and +you, she must think you a pretty rascal, for the violent +love you made to herself at the Villa. But I am sure she +will easily perceive, by your countenance, that you do +not regard Rubellia, handsome as she is, with any +extraordinary admiration; whereas—if you were not +conscious of it, I am sure she must have been so—there +was never a face of more passionate love than +yours, all the time you were in <hi rend="italic">her</hi> company. And, +even now, the very mention of her name calls a glow +into your cheeks,—yes, and even into your eyes,—that +I think would flatter Rubellia, could she excite such +another, more than all the jewels of all the caskets +your father will ever send.</q>—<q>Distract me not, O +Valerius!</q> said the youth,—<q>distract me not with +speaking of that too lovely, and, I fear, too scornful +<pb n="90"/><anchor id="Pg090"/>girl. Do you not perceive that we have at last struck +into the Suburra, and are quite near to Rubellia’s +house?</q>—<q>It is so,</q> said I, looking out of the carriage, +<q>and I suspect you are right in thinking she means to +be present at the Amphitheatre, for there is a crowd of +urchins about her gate, and I perceive a brilliant group +of equipages has attracted them. She purposes to go +in all her splendour.</q>—<q>Good Heavens!</q> replied he, +<q>I believe all the world is to be there. I never passed +so many chariots; and as for the rabble, see what a +stream of heads continues pouring down out of every +alley. My only hope is, that Rubellia may arrive too +late for the best situations, and perhaps disdain to +witness the spectacle from any inferior part of the Amphitheatre; +and yet she must have interest, no doubt, +to have secured good accommodation beforehand.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We were just in time to meet Rubellia stepping from +her portico with a gay cluster of attendants. On seeing +us, however, she beckoned with her finger, and said, +<q>Oh, are you come at last? Well, I must take Valerius +with myself, for I insist upon it that I shall be best +able to point out what is worthy of his notice; and +you, Sextus Licinius, come you also into my chariot; +we will not separate you from your Orestes.</q> She said +so with an air of sprightly ease and indifference, and +sprung into the carriage. An elderly lady, with a broad +merry face, went into it also, but there was still room +for Sextus and myself; and the rest of the party followed +in other vehicles that were waiting. +</p> + +<p> +The crowd by this time had so accumulated, that our +horses could not advance but at leisurely pace; but the +noise of the multitude as they rushed along, and the +<pb n="91"/><anchor id="Pg091"/>tumult of expectation visible on every countenance, +prevented us from thinking of any thing but the +festival. The variety, however, and great splendour +of the equipages, could not but attract my attention. +Now it was an open chariot, drawn by milk-white +Thessalian horses, in which reclined some gorgeous +female, blazing with jewellery, with a cluster of +beautiful boys or girls administering odours to her +nostril; and perhaps some haughty Knight or Senator +now and then offering the refreshment of his flattery. +Then, perhaps, would come rumbling along, a close +clumsy waggon, of the old-fashioned matronly sort, +stuck full with some substantial plebeian family—the +fat, comfortable-looking citizen, and his demure spouse, +sitting well back on their cushions, and having their +knees loaded with an exulting progeny of lads and +lasses, whose faces would, every now and then, be +thrust half out of the window, in spite of the mother’s +tugging at their skirts. And then, again, a cry of +<q>Place, place,</q> and a group of lictors, shoving every +body aside with their rods, before the litter of some +dignified magistrate, who, from pride or gout, preferred +that species of motion to the jolting of a chariot. Such +a portly person as this would soon be hurried past us, +but not before we had time to observe the richness of +the silken cushions on which he lay extended, or the air +of majesty with which he submitted himself to the fan +of the favoured freedman, whose business it was to keep +those authoritative cheeks free from the contamination +of common dust and flies. Anon, a jolly band of young +gallants, pushing their steeds along, to not a few of +whom the fair Rubellia would vouchsafe her salutation. +<pb n="92"/><anchor id="Pg092"/>But wherever the carriage was stopped for an instant, +it was wonderful to see the number of old emaciated +men, and withered hags, that would make their way +close up to the windows, imploring wherewithal to +obtain a morsel. The widow herself leaned back on +these occasions, as if to avoid the sight; but she pointed +to a bag of small coin that hung in a corner of the +chariot, and from it Sextus distributed to the one side, +and I to the other; and yet it was impossible to give to +every one; we were surrounded all the way with a +mingled clamour of benedictions from those that had +received, and execrations from those that had got nothing, +and noisy ever-renewed solicitations from that +ever-swelling army of mendicants. At last, however, +we arrived in safety at the western gate—the same +around which I had, the night before, witnessed such +tumultuous preparation. One of the officers in waiting +there, no sooner descried the equipage, than he caused +a space to be laid open for its approach, and himself +advanced to hand Rubellia into the interior, but she +whispered to Sextus and me, by no means to separate +from her in the crowd. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="10" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="93"/><anchor id="Pg093"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter X"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter X"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER X.</hi></head> + +<p> +Behold me, therefore, in the midst of the Flavian +Amphitheatre, and seated, under the wing of the luxurious +Rubellia, in a very convenient situation. There +was a general silence in the place, because proclamation +had just been made that the gladiators, with whose combats +the exhibition was to commence, were about to +enter upon the arena, and shew themselves in order to +the people. As yet, however, they had not come forth +from that place of concealment to which so many of +their number would never return; so that I had leisure +to collect my thoughts, and survey for a moment, without +disturbance, the mighty and most motley multitude, +piled above, below, and on every side around me, +from the lordly senators, on their silken couches, along +the parapet of the arena, up to the impenetrable mass +of plebeian heads which skirted the horizon, above the +topmost wall of the Amphitheatre itself. Such was the +enormous crowd of human beings, high and low, that +when any motion went through their assembly, the +noise of their rising up or sitting down might be likened +to the sullen roaring of the sea, or the rushing of a great +night-wind in a forest. Not less than eighty thousand +human beings, they told me, were here met together. +<pb n="94"/><anchor id="Pg094"/>Such a multitude could no where be regarded, without +inspiring a certain indefinable sense of majesty; least +of all, when congregated within the wide sweep of such +a glorious edifice, and surrounded on all sides with every +circumstance of ornament and splendour, befitting an +everlasting monument of Roman victory and imperial +munificence. Judge, then, with what eyes all this was +surveyed by me, who had but of yesterday emerged +from a British valley—who had been accustomed all +my life to consider as among the most impressive of +spectacles, the casual passage of a few scores of legionaries +through some dark alley of a wood, or awe-struck village +of barbarians. +</p> + +<p> +Trajan himself was already present—his ivory chair +distinguished only by its canopy from that of the other +Consul who sate over against him; tall and majestic in +his demeanour; grave, sedate, and benign in countenance, +as you have seen in his medals and statues. He +was arrayed in a plain gown, and appeared to converse +quite familiarly, without affectation of condescension, +with such Patricians as had their places near him; +among whom Sextus and Rubellia pointed out many +remarkable personages to my notice; as Adrian, afterwards +emperor; Pliny, the orator, a man of courtly +presence, and lively, agreeable aspect; and, above all, +the historian Tacitus, the worthy son-in-law of our +Agricola, in whose pallid countenance I could easily +recognize the depth, but sought in vain to discover any +traces of the sternness of his genius. Of all the then +proud names that were whispered into my ear, could I +recollect or repeat them now, how few would awaken +any interest in your minds! Those, indeed, which I +<pb n="95"/><anchor id="Pg095"/>have mentioned, have an interest that will never die. +Would that the greatest and the best of them all were +to be remembered only for deeds of greatness and goodness! +</p> + +<p> +The proclamation being repeated a second time, a +door on the right hand of the arena was laid open, and +a single trumpet sounded, as it seemed to me, mournfully, +while the gladiators marched in with slow steps, +each man—naked, except being girt with a cloth about +his loins—bearing on his left arm a small buckler, and +having a short straight sword suspended by a cord +around his neck. They marched, as I have said, slowly +and steadily; so that the whole assembly had full +leisure to contemplate the forms of the men; while +those skilled in such business were fixing, in their own +minds, on such as they thought most likely to be victorious, +and laying wagers concerning their chances of +success, with as much unconcern as if they had been +contemplating irrational animals, or rather, indeed, I +should say, so many pieces of ingenious mechanism. +The diversity of complexion and feature exhibited +among these devoted athletes, afforded at once a majestic +idea of the extent of the empire, and a terrible +one of the purposes to which that wide sway +had often been made subservient. The beautiful Greek, +with a countenance of noble serenity, and limbs after +which the sculptors of his country might have modelled +their symbols of graceful power, walked side by side +with the yellow-bearded savage, whose gigantic muscles +had been nerved in the freezing waves of the Elbe or +Ister, or whose thick strong hair was congealed and +shagged on his brow with the breath of Scythian or +<pb n="96"/><anchor id="Pg096"/>Scandinavian winters. Many fierce Moors and Arabs, +and curled Ethiopians, were there, with the beams of +the southern sun burnt in every various shade of swarthiness +upon their skins. Nor did our own remote +island want her representatives in the deadly procession, +for I saw among the armed multitude—not surely +without some feelings of more peculiar interest—two +or three gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and shoulders +bore uncouth marks of blue and purple, so vivid in the +tints, that I thought many months could not have +elapsed since they must have been wandering in wild +freedom along the native ridges of some Silurian or +Caledonian forest. As they moved around the arena, +some of these men were saluted by the whole multitude +with noisy acclamations, in token, I suppose, of the +approbation wherewith the feats of some former festival +had deserved to be remembered. On the appearance of +others, groans and hisses were heard from some parts of +the Amphitheatre, mixed with contending cheers and +huzzas from others of the spectators. But by far the +greater part were suffered to pass on in silence;—this +being in all likelihood the first—who could tell whether +it might not also be the last day of their sharing +in that fearful exhibition! +</p> + +<p> +Their masters paired them shortly, and in succession +they began to make proof of their fatal skill. At first, +Scythian was matched against Scythian—Greek against +Greek—Ethiopian against Ethiopian—Spaniard against +Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet +with blood streaming from the wounds of kindred hands. +But these combats, although abundantly bloody and +terrible, were regarded only as preludes to the serious +<pb n="97"/><anchor id="Pg097"/>business of the day, which consisted of duels between +Europeans on the one side, and Africans on the other; +wherein it was the well-nigh intransgressible law of the +Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every pair of +combatants should die. Instead of shrinking from these +more desperate brutalities, the almost certainty of their +termination seemed only to make the assembly gaze on +them with a more intense curiosity and delight. Methinks +I feel as if it were but of yesterday, when,—sickened +with the protracted terrors of a conflict, that +seemed as if it were never to have an end, although both +the combatants were already covered all over with +hideous gashes,—I at last bowed down my head, and +clasped my hands upon my eyes. I had scarcely done +so, when Rubellia laid her hand upon my elbow, whispering, +<q>Look, look, now look,</q> in a voice of low, steady +impatience. I did look, but not to the arena: No; it +was upon the beautiful features of that woman’s face +that I looked, and truly it seemed to me as if they presented +a spectacle almost as fearful. I saw those rich +lips parted, those dark eyes extended, those smooth +cheeks suffused with a steadfast blush, that lovely bosom +swelled and glowing; and I hated Rubellia, for I knew +not before how utterly beauty can be brutalized by the +throbbings of a cruel heart. But I looked round to +escape from the sight of her;—and the hundreds of +females that I saw fixed with equal earnestness on the +same horrors, taught me, even at the moment, to think +with more charity of that pitiless gaze of one. +</p> + +<p> +At that instant all were silent in contemplation of +the breathless strife; insomuch, that a groan, the first +that had escaped from either of the combatants, although +<pb n="98"/><anchor id="Pg098"/>low and suppressed, sounded distinctly amidst the deep +hush, and being constrained to turn once more downwards, +I beheld that, at length, one of the two had +received the sword of his adversary quite through his +body, and had sunk upon the sand. A beautiful young +man was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, +clustered in glossy ringlets upon his neck and brows; +but the sickness of his wound was already visible on his +drooping eye-lids, and his lips were pale, as if the blood +had rushed from them to the untimely outlet. Nevertheless, +the Moorish gladiator who had fought with him +had drawn forth again his weapon, and stood there +awaiting in silence the decision, whether at once to +slay the defenceless youth, or to assist in removing him +from the arena, if perchance the blood might be stopped +from flowing, and some hope of recovery even yet extended. +There arose, on the instant, a loud voice of +contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man +regarded the multitude with a proud, contemptuous +glance, being aware, without question, that he had executed +all things so as to deserve their compassion, but +aware, moreover, that even had that been freely vouchsafed +to him, it was too late. But the cruelty of their +faces, it may be, and the loudness of their cries, were a +sorrow to him, and filled his dying breast with loathing. +Whether or not the haughtiness of his countenance had +been observed by them with displeasure, I cannot say; +but those who had cried out to give him a chance +of recovery, were speedily silent, and Cæsar looking +round, and seeing all the thumbs turned downwards, +was constrained to give the sign, and forthwith the +young man, receiving again without a struggle the +sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, breathed forth +<pb n="99"/><anchor id="Pg099"/>his life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the +place of guilt. With that a joyous clamour was uplifted +by many of those that looked upon it, and the victorious +Moor, being crowned with an ivy garland, was carried +in procession around the arena by certain young men, +who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of +the assembly. In the meantime, those that had the +care of such things, dragged away, with a filthy hook, +the corpse of him that had been slain; and then, raking +up the sand over the blood that had fallen from him, +prepared the place, with indifferent countenances, for +some other tragedy,—while all around me, the spectators +were seen rising from their places, and saluting +each other; and there was a buzz of talking as universal +as the silence had been during the combat; some speaking +of this thrust and that ward, and paying and +receiving money lost and won; some already discoursing +of other matters, as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; +while others, again, appeared to be entirely +occupied with the martial music which ever struck up +majestically at such pauses, beating time upon the +benches before them, or joining their voices with the +proud notes of the trumpets and clarions. Rubellia talked +gaily with Sextus, inviting him to ridicule me with her, +for the strangeness of behaviour I had displayed. +</p> + +<p> +The sun, by this, had already mounted high in the +heavens, and the glare became so intolerable, that men +could no longer fight on equal terms; which being perceived, +Cæsar gave command to look after the wild +beasts, and, in the meantime, (for I heard his voice +distinctly,) to give warning to the Flamens that they +should have their altar set forth. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="11" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="100"/><anchor id="Pg100"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter XI"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter XI"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER XI.</hi></head> + +<p> +Upon this, Trajan, with those immediately about his +person, withdrew; but Rubellia told me he had only +gone to the Palatine by the subterraneous path, for the +purpose of taking some refreshment, and that there was +no doubt he would return in time to witness the rest +of the spectacle. This example, however, was followed +in some sort by a great part of the spectators, for some +departed altogether from the Amphitheatre, while many +more were seen moving from place to place, crossing +from one vomitory to another, and paying their respects +to different parties of friends, who had occupied places +at a distance from them during the combats. In the +meantime, servants of Trajan’s household were observed +giving directions in the arena to a great number of +persons, who afterwards began to distribute baskets of +dried fish, bread, and other eatables, among such as +chose to accept of them; while viands of a more costly +description were introduced among the wealthy, by +slaves and freedmen of their own. Neither were the +bearers of water-jars idle, nor the street hawkers of +fruit; least of all, those whose traffic is in snow,—of +whom, I believe, hundreds were scrambling in all quarters +over the benches, whistling shrilly, as is their +method, to announce the article in which they dealt. +</p> + +<pb n="101"/><anchor id="Pg101"/> + +<p> +The Lady Rubellia was not one of those who would +ever leave her friends destitute of the means of refreshment +on such an occasion as this; and accordingly two +or three of her household were soon with us, bearing +jars of sweet-meats, baskets of fruit, flasks of wine, with +other appurtenances of a luxurious collation. We had +scarcely begun to taste of these things, when our attention +was attracted by some one striding, with great +activity, from one row of benches to another behind us, +and looking round, I discovered the rosy countenance +of Sabinus, whose anxiety to join us was, as I immediately +suspected, the cause of this exertion. An ordinary +person would have sought some circuitous method +of approach, rather than attempt the sheer descent from +one of the stone parapets which rose immediately in +our rear; but the brawny limbs of the Centurion shrunk +not from that adventurous leap, and, in a word, I soon +found him seated beside us, bowing and smiling to Rubellia +with his usual mixture of boldness and suavity. +He delayed not from participation in her delicacies; but +lifting a goblet of Falernian, drank down, without +stopping, till he could see the foundation of its interior +gold. His fingers also soon became acquainted with the +receptacles of fruit and confectionary; and I was half-inclined +to some suspicion, that he might perhaps have +remained in his original situation, had he not chanced +to observe the slaves of Rubellia, as they came up the +vomitory, with their comely-looking, napkin-covered +baskets upon their heads. As it was, his arrival was +acceptable, except perhaps to Rubellia, who I thought +looked as if she were not overmuch pleased with the +interruption his mirthful talk occasioned to the +conver<pb n="102"/><anchor id="Pg102"/>sation on which she had been endeavouring to fix the +attention of young Licinius. +</p> + +<p> +For that, however, another interruption had been +already prepared in another part of the assembly, from +which our Xerophrastes also had taken cognizance of +our position. There was such a crowd, however, immediately +below us, that I know not whether the philosopher +would ever have been able to make his way to +the region where we sat, had it not been that we heard +his voice in disputation, and entreated those that opposed +his passage, if possible, to make room for him. +The first glimpse we had of his countenance, shewed us +that the squeeze had been giving him serious inconvenience, +for the drops of perspiration stood visible on his +bald front. The persons whom he was addressing, however, +seemed to listen with such unconcern, that it was +impossible not to feel somewhat displeased with them, +for treating so disrespectfully one whom his venerable +aspect might have entitled to more courtesy. In vain +did he represent to them, (for we heard his strong voice +distinctly every now and then,) that it was not for the +sake of any personal ease or convenience he was desirous +of penetrating into an upper part. In vain did he +reiterate <q>My pupil</q>—<q>my disciple</q>—<q>my young +scholar, Sextus Licinius</q>—<q>the son of Caius Licinius</q>—<q>the +son of the great orator Caius Licinius is there.</q> +In vain did he enlarge upon the constancy of attention +which philosophers owe to those who are placed by the +hands of parents under their superintendence. No +sooner, however, did Sextus and I begin to shew the +interest we took in his situation, than Sabinus raised +himself up on the bench, and called aloud on those that +<pb n="103"/><anchor id="Pg103"/>surrounded the Stoic, with a voice of much sternness +and authority, to let him pass immediately at their +peril. +</p> + +<p> +Many eyes were forthwith turned towards us; and +whether it were the dignity and haughtiness of the +Centurion’s voice and attitude, or that his garb alone +gave him much weight in the assembly, the resistance +was relaxed, and Xerophrastes enjoyed an opportunity +of almost entirely recovering his usual serenity of aspect +before he reached us. The first thing he did was to +accept of a cup which I held out to him, and then with +much courtesy did he thank us all, but most the Centurion, +for the part he had taken in working out his +deliverance from the hands, as he expressed it, of those +inhuman and illiterate persons; <q>while you,</q> he continued, +<q>brave warrior, have shewn that in your breast, +as in that of Epaminondas—of Alexander—and of +your own Julius—the reverence of the muses, and of +divine philosophy, does not disdain to inhabit with the +ardour of active patriotism, and the spirit-stirring delights +of Mars.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>As for that,</q> said Rubellia, with a smile, <q>all the +world knows that Sabinus is quite a philosopher—he +was just beginning a very learned harangue when we +were attracted by your voice in the crowd; and you +have the more reason to thank him, because he was cut +very unseasonably short, in consequence of the distress +in which we perceived you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Most noble lady!</q> replied the Stoic, <q>you know +not how much you have delighted me; from the first moment, +indeed, that my eyes rested upon the countenance +of your heroic friend, I suspected that he had subjected +<pb n="104"/><anchor id="Pg104"/>himself to some other discipline besides that of camps. +I saw the traces of thought, lady—and serious contemplation. +The mind can never exercise its faculties, +without conveying some symptoms of those internal +operations to the external surface of the visage. The +soul can never energize habitually, without betraying +its activity in the delicacy and acumen, which the more +elegant and susceptible parts of the corporeal frame +acquire during those elaborate and mysterious processes +of thought. I saw, therefore, and suspected. But what +thanks are not due to you, for having so agreeably confirmed +me in this happy suspicion! Of a surety, the +noise and tumult of the camp is not so well adapted for +the theoretic or contemplative life, as perfect leisure +and retirement; yet, who shall doubt that the soul of +great energy can overcome all such disadvantages? Who +shall think that the spirit of Socrates did not eagerly +philosophize during the campaign he served?—Who +shall say that the Stagyrite must have suspended his +acute, although imperfect investigations, even although +he had accompanied his royal pupil across the Hellespont, +and attended all the motions of his victorious +army, instead of staying at home to teach the youth of +Greece?—Who, finally,</q> said he, casting his courteous +eyes full on the Prætorian, <q>shall suspect but that this +generous warrior has been effectually advancing the +growth of philosophic science, within his own mind at +least,—if not composing works, in his intervals of leisure, +destined hereafter to benefit and instruct the world, +even although he may have been attending the flight of +the Eagle from utmost Britain to the desert frontiers of +the Parthian?</q>—<q>Nobody, indeed,</q> replied the +spor<pb n="105"/><anchor id="Pg105"/>tive lady—<q>nobody, indeed, who has enjoyed any +opportunity of being acquainted with the Centurion, +can have any doubt on that head.—Sabinus,</q> she continued, +turning towards him, <q>what treatise are you at +present engaged with? Come, now, speak out, and +truly;—are you still busy with your <foreign lang="grc">περι της Φυσεως του οιστρου βακχικου</foreign>,<note place="foot"><q>Concerning the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus.</q></note> that you were quoting from the other +night?—or are you deep in <q><hi rend="italic">the delight of contemplation</hi>?</q>—or——</q>—<q>Not +at all,</q> quoth the Centurion, +interrupting her; <q>I am only deep in <hi rend="italic">love</hi>——</q> Saying +so, he laid his hand in a very tender fashion upon +his breast, and even, as I thought, began to throw a +little sentiment into his eyes; but he had no opportunity +of going on with his speech, for Xerophrastes +had no sooner heard him utter the word <hi rend="italic">love</hi>, than he +immediately began to pour out a new rhapsody. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Love!</q> quoth he; <q>Ha! love:—in good sooth, a +noble subject, and one concerning which not a few +laudable treatises have been composed. Yet, without +question, much remains to be done in this matter; and +I should be most proud if the illustrious Sabinus would +vouchsafe to me a perusal of his speculations. Without +question,</q> he continued, <q>you have commenced with +a proper definition and division of the subject. You +have distinguished betwixt what is properly called <hi rend="italic">love</hi>, +and the other more or less kindred affections, with which +hallucinating writers have too often committed the error +of confounding it. You have described, in the first +place, the difference between it and the <foreign lang="grc" rend="italic">Storgé</foreign> or natural +affection which parents have for their offspring—an +<pb n="106"/><anchor id="Pg106"/>affection in which not a few of the irrational tribes +appear (if physiologists may be trusted) to be even +superior to the human race.</q>—<q>Hens, for example,</q> +quoth the Centurion, with a face of infinite gravity.—<q>Even +so—<hi rend="italic">hens</hi>,</q> continued the sage; <q>an apt illustration.—I +perceive, indeed, lady,</q> whispered he to +Rubellia, <q>that you have not deceived me concerning +the attainments of this your noble friend.—Hens—a +most acute illustration!—See you now, O Sextus!</q> +he went on, <q>it is not the characteristic of true philosophy +to despise those illustrations which are drawn +from the affairs of ordinary life, and the common surfaces +of things. No: it is rather her part to shew forth +her own intrinsic excellence and splendour, by raising +that which is in itself low and customary, to unexpected +dignity, by her methods of felicitous application. See +you, now, with what unexampled skill this hero—this +philosopher, I should rather say—may I presume to +add, this brother philosopher?—has illustrated the +nature of love in this treatise of his, by introducing the +domestic habits of your common household fowl. Such +things should not pass unheeded by the young aspirants +to learning, because these, more than any other circumstances, +may furnish them with encouragement to proceed +in their course, by shewing how many of the materials +of philosophy lie every where under the eyes of +the most common traveller of the path of life; and how +assuredly it is the fault of the individual himself, if he +neglect the means of spiritual advancement, which are +sure to be afforded in whatever situation may chance to +have been assigned to him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beg your pardon for interrupting you,</q> said +Ru<pb n="107"/><anchor id="Pg107"/>bellia; <q>but Sabinus has almost finished the grapes +while you have been speaking; and I would only just +beg to suggest, that it is the fault of the individual, +Xerophrastes, if he neglects the means of corporeal refreshment, +which may yet be afforded to him by what +remains in the basket.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Most kind lady,</q> resumed he, <q>your benevolence +is worthy of your nobility.—But you know not how +much the philosophy I have embraced, tends to lessen +the natural desire of man for such things as you allude +to—nevertheless,</q> he continued, <q>I will not refuse to +partake yet farther of your bounty; for I have been +sorely dealt with in the multitude, as yourselves witnessed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +So saying, he took hold of the basket, and began to +feel in the bottom of it, but found very little to his +purpose; for, to say the truth, the rest of the party had +been almost as eager in their attentions to it as the +Centurion. A few slender bunches, notwithstanding, +were still there, one of which the philosopher thrust +into his mouth, and the rest he concealed beneath one +of the folds of his huge mantle, until he should have +made an end of his criticism. Meantime, the natural +language of the broad, jovial, unreflective countenance +of our worthy Centurion, seemed considerably at variance +from the notion of his attainments and pursuits, +which this merry lady had been instilling into the pedagogue. +Rubellia herself, however, appeared to enjoy +the thing far more keenly than either Sextus or I; +insomuch, that I was afraid Xerophrastes would penetrate +through the joke she was playing off upon him, +before he had given himself his full swing in +commen<pb n="108"/><anchor id="Pg108"/>dation of the Prætorian. But Sabinus, on his side, +was, as it seemed, of opinion, that he had already heard +enough of such disquisitions; for he had scarcely seen +out the last cup of Falernian, ere he began to give hints +that he wished very much to descend into the arena, +for the purpose of observing the animals about to be +exhibited, while they were yet in their cages. Xerophrastes, +however, even when he had heard him signify +this desire, appeared still to be resolved on considering +him as one of the philosophic order of mankind; for +he at once offered to accompany him, saying, that +the visit was of course intended for the gratification +of some scientific curiosity, and that therefore he +should think himself culpable did he neglect the +opportunity. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come, then,</q> quoth the good-natured Sabinus, <q>by +all means prepare yourself for the descent; but at least +allow me to precede you, that there may be no risk of +untimely obstructions.</q>—<q>Most assuredly, noble Centurion,</q> +replied Xerophrastes, <q>in this, as in all things, +I shall be proud to be enumerated among your followers. +My pupil, also,</q> he added, <q>and his friend, will no +doubt accompany us, that they may benefit by our discourse +on whatever may be subjected to observation.</q>—<q>Venerated +friend,</q> said Rubellia, <q>would you leave +the ladies by themselves in the midst of the Amphitheatre? +I hope Sextus Licinius, at least, will consider +our weakness, and remain for our protection.</q> +</p> + +<p> +She laid her hand on my companion’s arm, with a +look which was decisive. Her ancient crony whispered +something about the impropriety of leaving only one of +the party to attend upon two females; but I took +advan<pb n="109"/><anchor id="Pg109"/>tage of her low tone to pretend ignorance of that hint, +and rose with the Centurion. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go quickly,</q> said Sextus, <q>for the interval must +be well-nigh at an end; and if those that have gone out +begin to rush in again, you may have difficulty in regaining +your places.</q>—<q>Give fear to the winds,</q> quoth +Sabinus; <q>am not I with them, that know every lion-feeder +in Rome? No chance of the exhibition recommencing +without my having sufficient warning. It is +not for nothing that I have lost and won so many thousand +sesterces in the Amphitheatre. Would to Hercules +as much respect were paid to experience every where +else, as in the Arena to your true old Better. Already, +I perceive that half a dozen of those knowing characters +down below, about the entrances to the dens, have detected +me. They must fancy my purse is in a poor +state indeed, when I don’t seem to think it worth while +to take even a single peep at the cages. Come, worthy +brother in philosophy, and you, my fellow-voyager, let +us be alert, lest we arrive after Platæa.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We obeyed with due alacrity, and, leaving the reluctant +Sextus to his fate, touched presently the margin of +the arena. We had no sooner arrived there, than an +old skin-dried limping Numidian, with a bit of lion’s +hide fastened round his loins—one who, from his leanness +and blackness, had very much the appearance of +having been baked to a cinder, drew to the Centurion, +with many nods and significant grins of recognition. +Sabinus, on his part, seemed noways backward to +acknowledge this acquaintance; but, on the contrary, +began to talk volubly with him in a strange sort of +broken dialect, chiefly composed, as I afterwards learned, +<pb n="110"/><anchor id="Pg110"/>of Punic vocables. After this had lasted some minutes, +he took Xerophrastes and me by the hand, and seemed +to introduce us to the Numidian, who then desired us +all to come down, and he would conduct us to a place +where we should see something not unworthy of being +seen. About to follow these directions, I felt my gown +seized from behind, and looking round, observed that it +was my faithful Briton, who, from the heat and confusion +of his aspect, appeared not to have come thither +without a considerable struggle. Sabinus seeing him, +said, <q>Ah! my old friend Boto, how have you come +to this part of the Amphitheatre? We must not leave +you behind us, however: Of a surety, you have never +seen a lion—you shall descend along with your master; +and who knows but we may persuade Xerophrastes that +you also are a brother philosopher?</q>—<q>Most noble +Centurion,</q> replied the grateful slave, <q>I saw you and +my master from the very topmost bench, where I have +been sitting for these three hours with Dromo, and I +was determined to draw near to you, if it were possible. +To go from this place up to yonder quarter would perhaps +be impossible; but it is never a very difficult +matter to go down in this world; so, saving your +reverence, I trundled myself over the benches, and when +heads were in my way, I trundled myself over them +too.</q>—<q>It is well, good Briton,</q> quoth the Centurion—by +this time we had crossed the arena—<q>and now +prepare to exercise your eyes as well as you already +have exercised your limbs; for know, that very near +to you is the abode of nobler animals than even your +lord hath ever observed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With this the African opened one of the iron doors +<pb n="111"/><anchor id="Pg111"/>edging the arena, and having received some money, +admitted us to the sight of a long flight of marble steps, +which appeared to descend into the bowels of the earth, +far below the foundation of the Amphitheatre. <q>Come +along, masters,</q> quoth he; <q>we had better go down +this way, for we shall have a better view of the animals +so, than on the other side. My master, Sabinus, will +tell you all, that old Aspar knows as much about these +things as any Numidian in the place.</q>—<q>Indeed, since +friend Bisbal is gone,</q> quoth the Centurion, <q>there is +not another of these that is to be compared to you.</q>—<q>Ah!</q> +replied Aspar, <q>Bisbal was a great man; there +is not a feeder in Rome that is worthy to tie the latchet +of his sandals, if he were alive.</q>—<q>Why, as to that,</q> +said the other, <q>old Bisbal was very seldom worth a +pair of sandals worth the tying, when he was alive; +but, come on, we have no great leisure for talking now, +and Aspar shall shew a lion with any Bisbal that ever +wielded whip.—Come on.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We soon reached a large vaulted place, apparently +below the Amphitheatre, the sides of which were almost +entirely covered with iron-gratings,—while up and +down the open space were strolling many strange +groupes of men, connected in different capacities with +the bloody spectacles of the arena. On one hand, we saw +some of the gladiators, who had already been combating, +walking to and fro with restless and agitated steps, as +if they had not yet been able to recover themselves from +the excitement into which their combats had thrown +them. Even of such as had been victorious, I observed +that not a few partook in all these symptoms of uneasiness; +and the contrast thus exhibited to the haughty +mien of calmness they had so lately been displaying, +af<pb n="112"/><anchor id="Pg112"/>fected me with a strange sense of the irrational and inhuman +life these unhappy persons were condemned by folly +or necessity to lead. The blood had forsaken the lips and +cheeks of others, and from the fixed stare of their eyes, it +appeared that their minds were entirely withdrawn from +every thing passing around them. Their limbs, so recently +nerved to the utmost show of vigour, were now +relaxed and unstrung, and they trod the marble floor +with heavy and straggling feet. But they that appeared +to me to be in the most wretched state, were such as, +they told us, expected to be led forth shortly to contend +with the wild beasts, in whose immediate vicinity +they were now walking. The summons to battle with a +human opponent calls into action the fierceness and the +pride of man; but he that has to fight with a beast, +how should he not be weighed down with the sense of +mortal degradation; how should the Reason that is in +him not fill him, in such a prospect, with dispiriting +and humbling, rather than with strengthening and +stimulating thoughts? Howbeit, the Centurion, although +the most good-natured of mankind, being rendered from +custom quite callous to these things, immediately entered +into conversation with some of those unfortunates, +in a tone of coolness and unconcern that shocked me +the more, because it did not seem in the smallest degree +to shock them. Among other topics, he enlarged at +much length to one of them upon the best method of +evading the attack of a tiger. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Look ye now,</q> said he, <q>there are some that are +always for taking things, as they call it, in good time,—these +will be pointing their swords before the creature +makes his spring; but I have seen what comes of +that, and so has old Aspar here, if he would be honest +<pb n="113"/><anchor id="Pg113"/>enough to confess it. The true way is to watch his eye +when he is setting; let him fairly fix upon his mark, +and spring; but at the moment when he is taking his +leap, then is the time for the gladiator to start aside, +and have at him with a side-thrust. Your side-thrust +is the only one I would lay an <foreign lang="la" rend="italic">as</foreign> upon.</q>—<q>Yea,</q> +quoth the grinning Aspar,—<q>it was always on your +cool steady side-thrust, the moment he had sprung, that +the great Bisbal used to stake himself. Ha! ha! I was +fond of the side-thrust in my day myself; but I got a +scratch once—witness my poor leg, masters,—and +since then I am a poor feeder.</q>—<q>I was always clear +for the side-thrust,</q> quoth Sabinus. <q>I never saw it +fail but twice, and then, to be sure, the men died; but +they could have had no chance at all with the frontguard; +and it is always something,</q> continued he, +clapping one of the poor expecting gladiators on the +back,—<q>it is always something to have a chance. Be +sure you try him with the side-thrust, if it come to +your turn to-day.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The poor creature—he also was an African—lifted +up his head on being so addressed, and shewed all his +white teeth in a melancholy attempt at a smile; but +said not a word in reply, and forthwith became as downcast +as before. But the Centurion took little or no heed +of the manner in which his advice had been received. +He contemplated the man’s figure for a moment, as if +to form some judgment concerning the measure of his +strength; and after doing the like in regard to some of +his companions, commanded Aspar to shew us where +the prime lions of the day were reposing. +</p> + +<p> +The Numidian seized a long pole that was leaning +<pb n="114"/><anchor id="Pg114"/>against one of the pillars of the vault, and led us to a +certain part of the grated wall, behind which was the +den, wherein six monstrous Atlantic lions were kept. +I looked in upon them with wonder, and not without +dread, through the iron net-work of the doors. An imperfect +gleam of light descended from above upon their +tawny hides and glaring eyes. They, like the gladiators, +seemed also to be preparing for the combat; but not +like them in fear, nor in cold dewy tremors; for the +deprivation of food, which they had been made to suffer +in prospect of the exhibition, had roused all the energies +of their savage natures; insomuch, that a sulky and +yearning rage seemed to spread through every nerve and +sinew of their gigantic frames, and to make them paw +their quadrangular prison with long and pliant strides. +They moved, however, as yet in total silence; so that +Boto having fixed his eyes upon them, took courage to +approach the grate,—slowly, nevertheless, and with a +face that appeared to lengthen an inch for every inch +he advanced. But when he had almost touched the +bars, one of the huge lions came forward towards him, +with something between a growl and a sigh, which +made Boto spring backward with great and surprising +agility, and with such force, that both he and Xerophrastes, +who happened unfortunately to have been +standing a little way behind him, were overthrown at +all their length upon the floor. +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion, and the limping old keeper, burst +into laughter; but Xerophrastes rising, and shaking +his garment, said, with some warmth, <q>Think not, O +Sabinus, that any sudden start of fear has thus ridiculously +stretched me upon the floor; but attribute the +<pb n="115"/><anchor id="Pg115"/>mischance only to this rude offspring of British earth, +whose unreclaimed natural feelings are still shamefully +affected by natural causes.</q>—<q>Castor and Pollux,</q> +quoth the Centurion,—<q>you take every thing too +seriously, my friend.</q>—<q>I take it not seriously,</q> replied +he, with admirable gravity. <q>My philosophy +forbids me to do so; it has steeled me against externals.</q>—<q>Has +it so, in faith!</q> rejoined the Centurion. <q>I +think some of your equanimity is, in fact, owing to the +trifling circumstance, that you have in reality received +no injury whatever from your tumble. And as to +steeling, let me tell you, I think the iron in the grated +door there is much better placed, than in the bosom of +a philosopher; for, in the door, it serves the purpose of +preventing all harm; but if these animals were once +out, all the mental steel of which you boast would not +save every bone in your body from being cracked in +the twanging of a bow-string.</q>—<q>You speak,</q> replied +Xerophrastes, <q>as if you had embraced the tenets of a +sect not worthy of the lovers of wisdom—You speak as +if the artificial contrivances of human workmen were all +in all. An iron cage may confine wild beasts; but can +cages be made for all those misfortunes to which mankind +are liable, and against which the force of the mind is +their only means of defence? Can you cage the Eumenides, +when they come to avenge a life spent in ignoble +indolence and degrading luxury?</q>—<q>In truth,</q> replied +the Centurion with a smile, <q>I have never seen the +Eumenides except once, and that was in the theatre of +Athens. But Boto, perhaps, has been more fortunate. +Did you ever see the Eumenides, good Boto?</q> <q>No, +master,</q> replied, stupidly, the perplexed Boto, <q>I never +was at the theatre.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="116"/><anchor id="Pg116"/> + +<p> +<q>Ye gods!</q> exclaimed the Stoic, <q>of a surety this +Britain must have been the last spot rescued from the +dominion of Chaos!</q> +</p> + +<p> +But while we were yet contemplating those enormous +animals, and amused with the awkward gestures of Boto, +the trumpets were blown in the Amphitheatre, and no +sooner did the sound of them penetrate into the vaults, +than it was evident, from the bustle which ensued, that +the Emperor had returned to his place. With all speed, +therefore, did we reascend to the upper air, leaving the +gladiators in the act of mustering in their respective +quarters of the gloomy vault; and the feeders not less +busied in preparing their beasts for the expected combat. +Had we not been under the protection of Sabinus, +we should have attempted in vain to regain our places; +but he being an acknowledged and current authority, +known in every department of the Amphitheatre, the +door-keepers, and other functionaries, durst refuse him +nothing; room was made for us where no room appeared; +and, in a word, we shortly found ourselves +once more seated by the side of Rubellia and Sextus. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="12" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="117"/><anchor id="Pg117"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter XII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter XII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER XII.</hi></head> + +<p> +The day was by this time considerably advanced; +and, in spite of the awnings spread all over head, the +rays of the sun were so powerful, that the marble +benches felt hot to the touch, wherever they were exposed +to them; and altogether there was such a glare and +fervour throughout the place, that my eyes began to be +weary of gazing; and very gladly would I have retired, +rather than remain to see out the rest of the exhibition. +Nevertheless, there was no appearance of any one having +gone away in weariness; but, on the contrary, the seats, +and even the passages, seemed to be more crowded than +they had been in the anterior part of the morning. +</p> + +<p> +The arena was vacant, when I looked down upon +it; but in a short time, a single old man, who, as +Rubellia told me, had, without doubt, been found guilty +of some atrocious wickedness, was led forth from a +small wicket on the one side, and presently his fetters +being struck off, those that conducted him retired, leaving +him alone upon the sand. The eyes of this malefactor +refused at first to look steadfastly on the objects around +him, and it seemed to me that he had probably been +long confined in some dark place, so grievously did the +dazzling splendour, reflected from the floor and walls, +<pb n="118"/><anchor id="Pg118"/>appear to bewilder and confound him. Nevertheless, +after a brief space, he seemed in some measure to recover +himself, and assumed a posture of resignation, +leaning with one hand against the parapet, as if he +needed support to uphold himself. Pallid and extenuated +were the outlines of the old man’s visage, and his +hair and beard exhibited not a little of the squalidness +attendant on long confinement; yet there was something +in the attitude, and even in the countenance, +which made me harbour the suspicion that he had +not, at some former period, been altogether unacquainted +with the luxuries and refinements of social +life. The beauty, indeed, of the mould in which his +form had originally been cast, might, perhaps, have +been the sole cause of these casual demonstrations of +elegance; yet it was impossible not to regard the man +with greater interest, by reason of the contrast suggested +between what he once perhaps had been, and what he +now was. +</p> + +<p> +A feeling of the same sort seemed to pervade many +more in the assembly; and I heard a continual whispering +among those around me, as if there was a general +anxiety to learn something of the history of the man. +No one, however, appearing to be able to say any thing +concerning this, I kept my eyes fixed upon himself, +awaiting the issue in silence. Judge then, what was +my surprise, when one of the heralds of Trajan, having +commanded that there should be silence in the amphitheatre, +said, <q>Let Tisias of Antioch come forth, and +answer to the things that shall be alleged against him.</q> +To which the old man, that was alone in the arena, +immediately made reply,—<q>Here am I—my name is +<pb n="119"/><anchor id="Pg119"/>Tisias of Antioch.</q>—In vain, however, even after hearing +the well-remembered voice, did I attempt to persuade +myself that the face was such as I had pictured within +myself; for, as to seeing it, I have already told you that +utter darkness prevailed in the dungeon all the time I +was there with him. +</p> + +<p> +Then arose the Prefect of the city, who had his place +immediately under the chair of Cæsar, and said in a +voice, which, although not loud, was heard distinctly +all through the Amphitheatre,—<q>Tisias of Antioch, +being accused of blasphemy and contempt for the Gods, +has been brought hither, either to refute this charge, by +doing homage at the altar of Jupiter Best and Greatest; +or, persisting in his rebellion, to suffer openly the punishment +which the laws have affixed to such perversity. +Let him remain where he is until the Flamens invite +all to join in the sacrifice.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Tisias, hearing these words, stept forth into the +middle of the arena, and folding his arms upon his +breast, stood there composedly, without once lifting up +his eyes, either to the place from which the Prefect had +spoken, or to any other region of the Amphitheatre. +The situation in which he stood was such, that I commanded, +where I sate, a full and distinct view of every +movement of the old man’s countenance, and assuredly +my eyes were in no danger of being directed away from +him. For a few moments there was perfect silence +throughout the assembly, until at length the same +herald made proclamation for the doors to be thrown +open, that the priests of Jupiter might have access. +There was heard forthwith a noise, as of the turning of +some heavy machinery, and a part of the ground-work +<pb n="120"/><anchor id="Pg120"/>of the arena itself appeared to be giving way, right over +against that quarter in which Tisias had his station. +But of this the purpose was soon manifested, when +there arose from underneath into the space thus vacated, +a wooden stage, or platform, covered all over with rich +carpetings, whereof the centre was occupied by a marble +altar, set forth already with all the usual appurtenances +of sacrifice, and surmounted on one side by a gigantic +statue of bronze, in which it was easy to recognize the +features of the great Phidian Jupiter. Neither had the +altar any sooner made its appearance there, and the +sound of the machinery, by which its great weight had +been lifted, ceased to be heard, than even as the herald +had given command, the main gates of the Amphitheatre +were expanded, and thereby a free passage prepared +for the procession of the Flamens. With that, +all those that were present in the Amphitheatre, arose +from their seats and stood up, and a sweet symphony +of lutes and clarions ushered in the sacred band to the +place appointed for them. And, first of all, there +marched a train of fifty beautiful boys, and then an +equal number of very young maidens, all, both boys +and maidens, arrayed in white tunics, and having their +heads crowned with oaken garlands, and bearing in +their hands fresh branches of the oak tree, which, above +all the other trees of the forest, is, as you have heard +and well know, held dear and sacred to Jupiter. Then +these youthful bands were separated, and they arranged +themselves, the boys on the right, and the girls on the +left hand of the altar, some of them standing on the +arena itself, and others on either side, upon the steps of +the platform whereon the altar was fixed; and +beauti<pb n="121"/><anchor id="Pg121"/>ful, indeed, was their array, and comely and guiltless +were their looks; and much modesty was apparent, +both in the downcast eyes and closed lips, with which +some of them stood there to await the issue of their +coming, and in the juvenile admiration wherewith +others of them were regarding the wide and splendid +assemblage around them; insomuch, that I could not +but feel within myself a certain dread and fearfulness, +when I saw the feet of so many tender and innocent +ones placed there upon the same hot and guilty sand, +which had so often drunk the blood of fierce beasts and +cruel malefactors—alas!—which had drunk the blood +of the innocent also—and which was yet to drink +thereof abundantly. +</p> + +<p> +And after them there came in the priests themselves +of Jupiter, arrayed in the white garments of sacrifice, +walking two by two, the oldest and principal of them +coming last. And behind them again, were certain +younger assistants, clothed also in white, who led by a +cord of silk inwrought with threads of silver, a milk-white +steer, without spot or blemish, whose horns were +already gilt, and his broad brows crowned with oak +leaves and roses. And last of all entered the Vestal +Virgins, none of whom had ever before been seen by +me, and they also walked two by two; and no one +could contemplate without veneration the majesty of +their demeanour. With broad fillets were they bound +around the forehead, and deep flowing veils hung down +to their feet, entirely covering their faces and their +hands; nevertheless, their dignity was apparent; and +it was not the less impressive, by reason of the great +mystery in which all things about them appeared to +be enveloped. +</p> + +<pb n="122"/><anchor id="Pg122"/> + +<p> +Imagine, therefore, to yourselves, how magnificent +was the appearance of all things, when youths and +damsels, and priests and vestals, had taken their places, +according to the custom of their sacred observances; +and all that innumerable company of spectators yet +standing up in the amphitheatre, the choral-hymn was +begun, in which every voice there was united, except +only that of Tisias the Christian. Now, it was the soft +low voices of the young maidens that sounded, and then +these would pause, and give place to the clearer and +more piercing notes of the boys that stood on the other +side of the altar; then again the priestesses of Vesta +would break in from afar with their equable harmony; +and anon these in their turn ceasing, the Flamens of +Jupiter would lift up their strong deep chanting, +until, at the appointed signal from him that stood on +the highest step of the altar, with the cup of libation in +his hand, the whole people that were present burst in +and joined in the rushing stream of the burden, <q>Jupiter,—Jupiter, +hear us!—hear us, Father of Gods and +men!</q> while the wine was poured out, gushing red +upon the marble, and the incense flung on high from +fifty censers, rolled its waves of smoke all over the surface +of the arena, and quite up to the gorgeous canopy +of that resounding Amphitheatre. Magnificent, indeed, +was the spectacle, and majestic the music; yet in the +midst of it, how could I take away my eyes from the +pale and solitary old man, by reason of whose presence +alone all these things were so? With calm eyes did he +regard all the pageantry of those imperial rites,—with +closed lips did he stand amidst all the shouting multitudes. +He bowed not his head; he lifted not up his +hand; neither would he bend his knee, when the victim +<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/>was slain before the horns of the altar; neither would +he in any thing give semblance of being a partaker in +the worship. +</p> + +<p> +At length the song ceased, and there was a proclamation +again for deep silence; and the Prefect of the city, +addressing himself once more to Tisias, spoke thus:—<q>Impious +and unhappy man, with great clemency have +all things been conducted as concerning thee. When, +after long imprisonment, and innumerable exhortations +in private and in public, thou hadst always rejected +every means of safety, and spurned from thee the pardon +of those in whose hands thy being is placed, yet, +notwithstanding of all thine obstinacy and continual +rebellion, was it determined, that, in the face of all the +people, thou shouldst once more have free grace offered +to thee, provided only thou shouldst, when all the +assembly worshipped, join thy voice with them, and +bow thy head also toward the altar of Jupiter. Nevertheless +all that now hear me shall bear witness, that, +with open and visible contumacy, thou hast rejected +this opportunity also of being reconciled unto the prince +and the empire,—that, when every knee bent, and +every voice was lifted up, thou alone hast stood upright, +and thy lips alone have been closed. If it be so, that, +from some inflicted, rather than voluntary perversion +of mind, thou hast never yet been able to understand +the danger in which thou art placed, know now, that +there remains no hope at all for thee, except for a moment; +and let the strong fear of death open thine eyes, +that thou mayst see where thou art, and for what purpose +thou hast been brought hither. Thou art a born +subject of Rome, and thy life can only be held by thee, +<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/>in virtue of obedience to the laws. These are clearer +upon nothing, than the necessity that all men should +acknowledge the deities of Rome; and of good reason, +since, if they be despised, and their authority set at +nought, by what means shall an oath be ratified, or a +pledge given; or how may the head, which counsels +and protects, be assured that the members shall not be +lifted up against it? Let silence remain in the assembly, +and let Tisias of Antioch make his election, whether +he will give obedience, or suffer the penalty of transgression.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then the Prefect, and all those round about Trajan, +sat down, and there was a deep silence throughout the +lower region, where, for the most part, they of condition +were placed; but when the rabble, that sat above, +beheld the stern and resolute countenance with which +the old man stood there upon the arena, it seemed as if +they were enraged beyond measure, and there arose +among them a fierce uproar, and a shouting of hatred; +and, amidst groans and hisses, there was a cry from innumerable +voices of—<q>Christian! Christian!—Blasphemer! +Blasphemer!—Atheist! Atheist!—A tiger! +A tiger!—Let loose a tiger upon the Christian!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Nevertheless, the old man preserved unmoved the +steadfastness of his demeanour, and lifting up his eyes +to the place from whence the tumult proceeded, regarded +the ferocious multitude with a visage, not of +anger or of scornfulness, but rather of pity and calmness; +insomuch, that I perceived the nobles and senators +were somewhat ashamed of the outcry, and the Prefect +of the city arose from his place, and beckoned with +his hand, until the people were weary of shouting, and +<pb n="125"/><anchor id="Pg125"/>order was, in some measure, re-established in the Amphitheatre. +</p> + +<p> +Then Tisias, perceiving that silence once more prevailed, +lifted up his hand, and bowed himself before +Trajan, and the great men of authority that were near +to his chair, and said, with a firm clear voice, in the +Roman tongue, <q rend="post: none">My name, O Trajan, is Tisias—the +son of Androboulos. I am a native of Antioch, in +Syria, and have in all things, except only in what pertains +to this cause, observed throughout all the years of +my life the statutes of the empire, as they, by whose +accusation I have been led hither, shall themselves be +constrained to bear witness for me this day. My father +was a Greek of Macedonian extraction, being descended +from one of those that came into Syria beneath the +banners of the great King Seleucus; but he took to wife +a maiden of the Hebrew nation, and in process of time +became a proselyte to the faith of her fathers. Nevertheless, +he lived in trust and honour beneath the +governors appointed by those that were before you in +the empire, and brought up me and all his children to +reverence, in all things that are lawful, the authority +of Cæsar. But as to the faith of the true God, whose +worshippers ye blindly and foolishly call atheists and +blasphemers, from that he neither swerved himself, nor +would permit any of those that were in his household +to depart. Now, when he had been a dweller for some +time in Jerusalem, the great city of the Jews, he began +to examine into those things which were reported publicly +concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is also called +the Christ, of which things not a few that had been +eye-witnesses were then living in that city. And when +<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/>he had been satisfied from their testimony, that those +miracles, of which you have all heard, were in truth +performed in the sight of the people by Jesus, and had +listened unto the words of their teachers, and saw how +they proved that the old prophets of the Hebrews had +foretold those wonderful works, he perceived that Jesus +of Nazareth was indeed the Christ of God, and the great +Deliverer that had been promised to that people, even +from the beginning of their nation. And he believed +on him with all his household; and I also, from a stripling, +have, although unworthy, been a Christian; for +by that name were they first called in Antioch, the city +of my birth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">But being brought into trouble by reason of his +religion, which the rulers of the Jews abhorred, my +father departed, after a time, from Jerusalem, and +dwelt with my mother in one of the villages of Palestine, +until his death. Not long after which time, the +Jews rebelled against Cæsar, and the great war began, +which terminated in the overthrow of Jerusalem, and +the utter ruin of their nation. Now, when Vespasian +first came with his army into those regions, I, being +without employment in the place where we had our +habitation, and having, moreover, taken up a great, and +perhaps a sinful, wrath against the Jews, on account of +the sufferings which my father had undergone among +them, and of the evils which, at their hands, our whole +household had sustained, joined myself to one of the +bands of Syrian auxiliaries; and although my mother +entreated me, could not be persuaded to refrain from +following the camp of Cæsar with them. Of which +thing it has often since then repented me, and in which, +<pb n="127"/><anchor id="Pg127"/>it may be, I still hold myself not to have done altogether +as was right; for if the Jews had offended Cæsar, it +was, indeed, a reasonable thing that Cæsar should visit +them with his vengeance; but, peradventure, it behoved +not any of them that were descended from the fathers +of that people, to take part in the warfare. Nevertheless, +being then young, and, as I have said, irritated by +the sense of domestic injuries, I scrupled not to fulfil +in all things the duty of a soldier, and followed the +eagles of Vespasian and his son, even to the day when +the lines were drawn around the Holy City; and it +was manifest, that the war could have no end, but +in the eternal overthrow of the power of the Jews. +Neither did the length of the siege weary me, or produce +within me any sort of unwillingness; but, on the +contrary, so long as the city was beleaguered, I remained +with the band in which I had numbered myself, and +did in all labours such service as my strength would +permit. Even among the soldiers that have guarded +my prison, since I was led into Rome for the sake of +that accusation which has been brought against me in +the matter of my belief,—even among them, I have +seen the faces of some that were my comrades in that +fierce war, and that long beleaguerment, who also, if they +be commanded, will not refuse to bear testimony before +you, that all these things are true, even as I have said, +and that I was a faithful soldier, both of Vespasian and +of Titus, unto the last. Neither, indeed, did I lay down +arms immediately when Jerusalem had been sacked, +and the Temple burnt, according to the prediction of +Christ, but went with Cæsar along the sea-coast, and +was present with him all through the journeyings he +<pb n="128"/><anchor id="Pg128"/>made in Egypt, even to the day when he made his +great festival at Alexandria, and crowned the Ox Apis +with his own hands, in the presence of all that people. +On which day it was, that, for the first time, I also was +accused of being a Christian, and at the command of +Titus himself, was interrogated by one of the rulers of +the army.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now with shame and confusion of face must I +acknowledge, that on that day I, from desire of life, +forgot myself utterly, and being deserted of all steadfastness, +went up to the altar in presence of my judge, +and offered gifts there, whereon I was declared free +of all blame; and even received honour and commendation +thereafter from them, on account of my +services in the war. But, from that day, my spirit +sunk within me, and I knew not what to do; I grew +weary of all things, and determined to leave the band +in which I was serving, that I might seek out, if it +were possible, the habitation of my mother, and make +atonement in secret for the wickedness of which I, unhappy +and fearful man, had been guilty at Alexandria. +Being absolved, therefore, from my oath of service, on +account of the length of time I had remained with the +army, I departed from Egypt, and, after a time, found +out my mother where she was dwelling in the mountainous +country of Palestine, to the north of Jerusalem. +In going thither, however, I was constrained to pass by +the place where I had so long lain in your camp, O +Romans! and to look with my own eyes on the sorrowful +desolation of that ancient city, where so many +holy prophets of the Hebrews had ministered, and so +many great kings reigned in the days of the old time, +<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/>when their nation flourished, and was chosen and favoured +of the Almighty. And it was then, indeed, that +I first began to repent me of having been present in the +host of Titus, and of having had a part in that terrible +destruction; to which, when I added the recollection +of my own miserable timorousness at Alexandria, great +was my perplexity, and I fled across the mountains +with much speed, seeking in vain to fly from the stings +and unceasing torment of my own meditations, which +nevertheless continued ever more and more to sink into +my spirit; insomuch, that when I came into the place +where my mother was dwelling, scarcely could she recognize +me, wasted and worn as I was with that perpetual +misery of shame and repentance. Without reproaches, +however, and indeed with great kindness, did she receive +me into her habitation, even although, as I have +said, she had been much offended with me because of +my going up to the beleaguerment of the city of her +fathers. But when I, being humbled, made confession +to her and her household, and to all the faithful that +were in that place, of the grievous sin whereof I had +been guilty in Egypt, both she and all the rest of them +busied themselves continually to comfort me, and to +assure me that there was yet hope, if my repentance +were sincere, and my resolution immovable never again +to yield myself to any similar temptation. One of them +also, that had been set apart to minister in holy +things among the scattered believers that dwelt up +and down in that region, came not many days after +to the same place, and having publicly heard my confession, +admitted me once more to be a partaker with +them in the mysteries of the sanctuary. From which +<pb n="130"/><anchor id="Pg130"/>day, O Trajan! I have never again been so far deserted +of myself, as to fall back into that miserable +error, or by any cowardly word of mine, to deny the +faith that is in me, which is the faith of the True +God that made heaven and earth, and of his Son Jesus +Christ, whom he sent into the world to teach loving-kindness, +and long-suffering, and patience, among all +kindreds, and tongues, and nations of mankind; and to +make expiation, by the accursed death of the cross, for +the evil and the wickedness that is in the world. From +which faith, should I now depart, out of terror for that +which, by your command, may befal me in this place, +of a surety no comfort could ever again come to me in +my mind, for I should be bowed down, and utterly +miserable, out of grief and shame; which as you yourself, +O Cæsar, will admit and acknowledge, is far worse +than death itself, or any evil which the body of man +can sustain. Neither could I have any hope of being +reconciled unto the True God, whom I should have so, +once and again, denied; insomuch, that neither in life +nor in death should I be able to have any happiness;—for +in life, what happiness is there to him that is +ashamed of himself?—and, in departing from life, what +comfort can be given to him, that, knowing the truth, +hath openly abjured the truth for the sake of a few, at +the utmost, and these most miserable and unhappy +years? I am an old man, and my near kindred and +my friends are already dead, so that poor after all, and +not worthy to be mentioned, is the sacrifice on which I +have this day resolved. And as for you, O Romans, +should I now make shipwreck of my faith, and tell a +lie to save my life before you, with what contempt +<pb n="131"/><anchor id="Pg131"/>would yourselves be constrained forthwith to look upon +me? Whosoever is wise among you, according to the +philosophy of the earth, would utterly despise me; and +whosoever is brave and steadfast of spirit, would think +foul scorn that a soldier of Titus should be so much +afraid to die. Therefore, O Trajan, am I resolved to +endure all things rather than sacrifice to your gods; and +if such be your will, I will not refuse to die for this +cause, to which witness has already been borne in +Rome by the blood of holy Apostles, and other noble +martyrs of Christ.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The old man, having said these words, bowed himself +once more reverently before Trajan, and then folding his +arms in his cloak, appeared to await whatever might be +appointed. Steadfastly did I look upon his face at that +moment, to see whether it might exhibit no trace of +wavering, or at least, if pride barred irresolution, +whether, nevertheless, there might not appear some +token of natural sorrow, and human unwillingness to +die; yet in vain did I scrutinize and seek for any such +symptoms of spiritual weakness; for although it was +visible that, with the exertion of so long standing +and speaking, to say nothing of thought and anxiety, +his bodily strength was much spent, still his eye preserved +firmness, and his brow remained serene; and +the parched lips of the old man did not once betray the +least shadow of trembling. Methinks I see him even +now, as he then stood—his deep calm eyes sometimes +turned upwards to Trajan, but for the most part bent +to the ground, beneath those gray brows of his, whose +dark shade rested upon his large solemn eyelids. Upon +his broad front, as he stooped, no hair appeared, but +<pb n="132"/><anchor id="Pg132"/>long hoary ringlets, clustered down on either side, +mingling with the venerable, although dishevelled beard, +that lay upon his bosom. Heroic meekness was enthroned +visibly upon all his lineaments, and a murmur +began to run through the assembly, as if—even in a +Christian—it were not possible to contemplate such +things without admiration. +</p> + +<p> +But as they afterwards related to me—for I myself +was not indeed sufficiently attentive to it—Trajan, who +had as yet, during all the occurrences of the day, preserved +unmoved the majestic serenity of his countenance, +when he observed this last movement in the spirit of +the assembly, began all at once to be very indignant, +that such things should occur in such a place, in consequence +of the appearance merely, and the language, of +a culprit and a Christian. I confess it, that I was too +much occupied with gazing on Tisias, to have any leisure +for remarking the particulars of the deportment of any +other person present—no, not even of Cæsar; yet such +had been the effect produced on me by the history which +the old man delivered of himself, that I indeed was not +prepared at the moment to find the strong arm of power +directed ruthlessly, and immediately against him. At +least, said I to myself, the Prince will institute an inquiry +among all those now present in the capital, who are likely +to be able either to contradict essentially, or to confirm, +the narrative in which this man has thought fit to embody +his only defence. Many years indeed have elapsed +since the walls of Jerusalem were shattered by the engines +of Rome, and the golden gate of its antique temple refused +to be any protection against the furious soldiery of +Titus. Yet surely not a few of such as were present in +<pb n="133"/><anchor id="Pg133"/>that proud host, must be still in life; yea, not a few of +them must be now present in the capital of the world. +The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, +and beside the ramparts underneath which this +Christian was imprisoned, he surely cannot be the only +witness that remains to give testimony. He at least +there is, and we shall forthwith have him at least confronted +with Tisias. +</p> + +<p> +Such were my thoughts within me; judge, therefore, +what was my astonishment when I heard the +trumpet sound, and perceived that its note, without +any word being spoken, was at once received as a sufficient +warning by the priests and the vestals, and the +youths and the damsels, and all those that had in +any way been connected with the service of the altar, +to retire from the place whereon they stood, and leave +the old man there alone, to await the issue of his +destiny. Immediately on the signal being given by +the trumpet, did all these begin to move away; but +although in silence they had at first marched into the +Amphitheatre, they did not retire from it in silence. +Another hymn, on the contrary, in which also, as it +seemed, different parts were allotted for each different +order of singers, was begun to be sung by them even +before they had moved from the arena; and after the +last of their procession had disappeared behind the wide +folding-doors of the Amphitheatre, we still heard their +voices chanting solemnly until they had entered the +great Temple of Isis and Serapis, which, as I have +already said, stands over against it, on the brink of the +Esquiline. And while all were yet listening to their +singing, and to the harmony of lutes and other +sweet-<pb n="134"/><anchor id="Pg134"/>sounding instruments that accompanied their voices, +the slaves and other attendants removed every thing +from the arena, except only the altar and statue of Jupiter, +which were still left where they had been placed; +insomuch, that ere they had made an end of singing, +and we of listening, the old man was left alone there as +at the beginning, when he first came forth. +</p> + +<p> +But just when deep silence once more prevailed, and +expectation was most intense concerning what should +be at length commanded by Trajan, it fell out so, that +a little bald ape escaped through the bars of one of the +grated doors, which were along the boundary-wall of +the arena, and leaping forth upon the sand, began to +skip up and down, challenging, by all manner of foolish +gestures, the attention of those that sate over against it, +leaning down from the parapet. And immediately +certain painted courtezans, that were sitting not far +from thence, with gilded breasts and bright-coloured +garlands, and all other gorgeous trappings of the degradation +of harlotry, began to throw down apples and +nuts to the obscene creature, and to testify much delight +in the grimaces with which it received them, hopping +to and fro, and casting them away, and then catching +them up again, with continual gibbering and prating; +and no sooner did the rabble that were above perceive +these things, than they all, as with one consent, began +to applaud; so that the vaulted vomitories and wide +arches of entrance, and all the marble walls, re-echoed +with every wild sound of carelessness and merriment. +While, in the meantime, the African feeders and naked +gladiators, and all those hangers-on of the Amphitheatre, +whom we had seen in the dark places below, hearing +<pb n="135"/><anchor id="Pg135"/>now the sounds that had arisen among the assembly, +began to shew themselves in crowds from behind the +same grated doors through one of which the monkey +had escaped, and to partake in the mirth of the spectators, +and to whistle upon the creature, and to excite it +to new caperings, by their outcries and jeerings. It +seemed as if the minds of all present were entirely occupied +with the pranks of this brute; and that almost +it was forgotten amidst the tumult, not only for what +purpose all that solemn and stately pageantry had just +been exhibited before them; but even that Tisias was +still standing there upon the same arena. +</p> + +<p> +For myself, who had never before looked upon any +creature of this disgusting tribe, and had gathered +only some general notion of its appearance from the +treatises of the physiologists and the narratives of travellers,—I +could not, indeed, refuse to contemplate at +first its motions with some curiosity; but I knew not, +after the scene had lasted for a little space, whether to +be more humbled within myself by the monkey’s filthy +mimickings of the form and attitudes of mankind, or +by the display of brutish heartlessness, which burst +forth from all that countless multitude, while gazing +on that spectacle of humiliation. +</p> + +<p> +But it was not until my eye fell again on Tisias, who +stood all this time solitary and silent amidst the hub-bub, +that my sorrow and indignation were the greatest. +There stood the old man even as before, with his arms +folded in his gown, and his eyes resting on the sand before +him, pale, calm, and unmoved in his meekness, even as +if his ears had not once received any sound of all the +shoutings and the joyous laughters of that unpitying +<pb n="136"/><anchor id="Pg136"/>rabble, that had come there to behold him die. Once, +indeed—it was but once—I thought I could perceive that +a slight emotion of contempt wreathed for an instant his +thin and bloodless lips; but it seemed as if that were +but the involuntary and momentary passing over him of +one proud thought, which he cast from him immediately, +as a thing unworthy of the resolute mind of his integrity, +choosing rather to array himself in the divine armour +of patience, than to oppose, with any weapon of human +passion, the insults heaped upon his head by the cruel +callousness of that degenerate congregation of men. +And, whether it were that the sight of all this did not +affect me alone with such reflections, or only that they +in authority were afraid too much of the day might be +occupied with what formed so unseemly an addition +to the ordained business of the assembly, while the +uproar of mirth was yet at its height, certain of the +lictors that were about the consular chairs leapt down +into the arena, and beat the monkey back again among +the feeders, and other base hirelings, that stood behind +the grated doors of which I have spoken. Whereupon +there was at once an end of the tumult, and +the lictors having reascended to their places, the eyes +of all began once more to fix themselves upon the +Christian. +</p> + +<p> +And he also, when he perceived that it was so, and +was sensible of the silence that once more prevailed, it +seemed as if he, too, were aware that at last his appointed +hour had come, and that he must needs prepare himself +in good earnest for the abiding of the issue. For, instead +of continuing steadfast in his place, as he had done +during all the time he had as yet been exposed there, +<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/>it appeared as if now at length, being swallowed up in +the contemplation of the approaching fate, he had quite +forgotten all the rules he had laid down to himself concerning +his behaviour. Not that he now lost remembrance +of the courage which hitherto he had manifested, +or even, that any the least symptom of changeableness +was made visible upon his countenance. But it seemed +to me, of a truth, that of such things as he had determined +upon within himself before he came thither, +touching the mere external demeanour of his bodily +frame, the memory now, in this final moment of expectation, +had somewhat passed away; for Tisias stood +still no longer on the centre of the arena; but retaining +his arms folded as they had been, and his eyes fixed +upon the sand, he began to pace rapidly to and fro, +traversing the open space whereon he alone now was, +from side to side, without once looking up, or exhibiting +any token that he was conscious of the presence of any +man. By and by, nevertheless, in the deeper knittings +of his brows, and in the closer pressure of his extenuated +lips, and then again in the quivering of the nerves and +muscles upon the arms and legs of the old man, as he +moved before us, it was testified how keenly the spirit +was at work within; the strong soul wrestling, it may +be, with some last stirring temptations of the flesh, and +the mind itself not altogether refusing to betray its +sympathy with the natural shudderings of the body. +But the moment that the herald of Trajan commanded +attention in the assembly, and that the Prefect of the +city began again to prepare himself for speaking, that +moment did the old man appear to return at once again +entirely to himself; and he fixed his eyes upon the +<pb n="138"/><anchor id="Pg138"/>Prefect with even the same steadfastness as when he +made his oration to Cæsar. +</p> + +<p> +<q>By all the gods,</q> whispered Sabinus at that moment, +<q>this is a true soldier of Vespasian and Titus. He will +die for this superstition with the constancy of a Roman.</q>—<q>With +all the constancy of a philosopher, say rather,</q> +quoth Xerophrastes, who had overheard his whisper—<q>yea, +with all the constancy of a philosopher. Of a +surety, there must be some lessons of nobility in this +faith of the Jews.</q>—<q>Now, speak not, but look at the +old man,</q> interrupted Rubellia; <q>the signal is given +for the executioner.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And I looked, and saw that the Prefect was standing +up in his place, immediately below the chair of Trajan, +and immediately he began to speak; and he said, first +looking towards the people,—<q>Let there be silence, +and let no man stir in this place until this matter be +ended.</q> And then addressing himself, as it seemed, to +Tisias,—<q>With all patience,</q> proceeded he, <q>have +the words which this man chose to utter in his defence, +been listened to; but it must be manifest to all men, +that they contain no shadow of apology, but rather +afford the strongest confirmation of all that had before +been alleged. Instead of departing from his error, or +offering any extenuation of its magnitude, his words +have tended only to shew what was already well known +to all that have had any dealings with the adherents of +this blasphemous sect; that their obstinacy is as great +as their atheism is perverse; and that no clemency can, +without blame, be extended to their wilfulness, and +to the scorn wherewith they are resolved to regard all +things sacred. Nevertheless, inquiry has been made, +<pb n="139"/><anchor id="Pg139"/>and confirmation has been given, by those who were +present in the wars of the Divine Titus, as to that +which this man hath said concerning his own service +throughout the glorious campaign of Palestine, and the +siege of the city of the Jews. For which service, it +hath seemed right unto Cæsar, Ever-Merciful, that no +circumstance of needless shame be added to the death +by which this Christian must now expiate before all +them who have seen his contempt of the sacrifice of +Jupiter, and heard his words of blasphemy against all +the gods, the guilt of which, it is manifest to all, he +hath been justly and necessarily accused. Let those, +therefore, who had been commanded to bring forth a +tiger, depart now with their beast, and let this man be +beheaded before the Altar of Jupiter; after which, for +this day, the assembly will disperse; for, until the +morrow, the spectacle of the wild animals, which the +Prince hath prepared, must be deferred.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Prefect made his obeisance again to Cæsar, and +sate down in his place, and immediately one of the doors +of the arena was flung open, and there entered some +slaves, bearing a wooden block upon their shoulders, +behind whom followed also certain ill-favoured blacks, +out of the company of African gladiators, one of whom +carried bare in his hand a long and heavy sword, the +surface of which glittered brightly as he moved, as if +newly sharpened and burnished for the occasion. Seeing +all which fatal preparations, Tisias immediately flung +aside the long cloak in which hitherto his arms and all +his body had been wrapped; and after regarding those +that had come in for a moment with a steadfast eye, he +turned himself to the place where the Prefect was sitting, +<pb n="140"/><anchor id="Pg140"/>as if he had yet one word to say before he should submit +himself to the sword; whereupon the Prefect said,—<q>If +the prisoner has yet any thing to offer, it is not too +late for mercy—Let him speak.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have nothing more to offer, O Romans!</q> answered +the old man, <q>as concerning that of which I +have spoken. But since already some favour has been +extended to me by reason of my services in the army of +Cæsar, perhaps so neither will this be refused, that my +body may be given to such as shall ask for it, that it +may be treated without indignity after my soul is released.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is granted,</q> replied the Prefect.—<q>Is there any +thing more?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The old man was silent. +</p> + +<p> +With that, the block being already fixed upon the +sand immediately in front of the Altar of Jupiter, one +of the Africans moved towards Tisias, as if to conduct +him to the place where it behoved him to kneel; but +he, observing what was his intention, forthwith prevented +him, and walked of himself steadily close up to +him in whose hand the sword was unsheathed. Being +come thither, he immediately took his station over +against the block, and having for a moment placed his +hand upon his eyes, and moved his lips, as it seemed, +in fervent supplication, dropped his one knee on the +ground, and stretched forth his neck towards the block; +but suddenly, after he had done so, he sprung again +upon his feet, and began to gaze with a keen eye all +around the assembly, as if he were in search of some +one to whom he had something yet to say. In vain, +however, as it appeared, did he make this endeavour; +<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/>for after a little space, he shook his head despairingly, +and gave over the steadfastness of his look. Nevertheless, +he lifted up his voice, and, surveying once more +the whole face of the Amphitheatre round about, from +side to side, said audibly,—<q>There is one here who +made last night a promise to me in my dungeon. I +cannot see him where he is; but I conjure him to take +good heed, and execute, as he is a man and a Roman, +all those things which he said to me he would do.</q> +Now, when I heard him say so, I well knew within +myself that it was for me only his eye had been searching, +and half did I arise from my seat, that he might see I +was there, and observe my resolution to keep the faith +I had plighted voluntarily to him in his prison. But +Sabinus, having watched my earnestness in contemplating +Tisias, and comprehending something of that +which was meant, held me firm upon the bench, whispering, +<q>As you regard me, Valerius, and as you regard +your own safety, be still.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Being thus constrained, I neither rose up, nor made +any attempt to attract the attention of Tisias—for +which forbearance, I confess to you, I have since that +day undergone the visitation of not a few bitter thoughts—but +remained steadily in my place, while the old +man once more addressed himself to kneel down upon +the block that was before him. Calmly now at length +did he kneel, and with much composure did he place +himself. Yet, before the gladiator was ready to strike, +he lifted his head once again, and gazed upwards for a +moment towards heaven, with such a countenance of +faith and hope, that there went through all the assembly +a murmur, as it were, and a stirring breath of +admira<pb n="142"/><anchor id="Pg142"/>tion. Then bowed he for the last time his gray hairs, +and almost before he had rested his neck upon the tree, +the strong sword of the African smote with merciful +fierceness, and the headless trunk falling backwards +upon the sand, the blood spouted forth in a gushing +stream, and sprinkled all over with red drops the base +of the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the surface of +the marble altar, whereupon the sacrifice of the Flamens +had been offered. +</p> + +<p> +The executioner having made an end of his duty, +wiped his sword from the blood of the Christian, and +advancing towards the seats of the magistrates, claimed +the largess that was due to him,—which when he had +received, as is the custom, he and all his attendants +withdrew immediately from the arena; the Emperor, +at the same moment, and the Consulars, and all they +that were about him, departing also from the assembly; +and the whole Amphitheatre speedily being filled with +the clamours of an universal upbreaking and dispersion. +</p> + +</div> +</div><div type="book" n="2"> +<!--<index index="toc" level1="Book II"/>--> +<index index="pdf" level1="Book II"/> +<div type="chapter" n="1" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="143"/><anchor id="Pg143"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Book II. Chapter I"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter I"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">BOOK II. CHAPTER I.</hi></head> + +<p> +I saw, my friends, that you listened with not less of +indignation, than of astonishment, to the account which +I yesterday gave you of a day spent in the Amphitheatre +of Vespasian. Neither did I expect that it +should be otherwise with young persons of ingenuous +minds, whose feelings have never been hardened by any +experience of the life of Rome. +</p> + +<p> +And yet, when you reflect a little more upon the +matter, I think you will abate something of the wonder +you manifested on hearing of the fondness of the Roman +people for some of those cruel, ruthful spectacles. You +will admit, at least, that there is a certain natural principle, +on an exaggerated and morbid obedience to which, +rather than on any total and absolute departure from the +laws of our mind, much of that which excited so much of +your astonishment and indignation also may be supposed +to depend. In and by myself, I maintain it must always +be a most interesting thing for a man to witness, in +whatever shape, the last moments of any human creature. +I mean not those merely corporeal struggles, in +which there must always be every thing to revolt, and +<pb n="144"/><anchor id="Pg144"/>nothing to interest, because in them, it is evident, the +nobler part of our nature can have no share—the soul +being already swallowed up, and its divinity absorbed +in the intense convulsions of animal suffering. These +are things on which no eyes can gaze willingly, without +indicating degradation of spirit. But before that curtain +falls, beyond which every one must shudder to +penetrate, there is a last terrible act of the real tragedy, +which must ever have power to fix the eyes with an +earnestness not the less deep, because of its being preceded +by some struggles of reluctance. We live in a +state in which, however we may clothe ourselves in the +armour of levity, or with the more effectual armour of +occupation, it is impossible that the one fearful idea of +dissolution should not ever and anon come to scare us +with its terrors. We feel that we are walking over a +soil, on the most level and the most rugged parts of +which it is equally possible we may meet with the dark +pit wherein it is our destiny to stumble. How sudden, +or how gradual soever the inevitable fall may be, we +well know we shall have little enough space to prepare +ourselves for the last leap, when we shall be fairly on +the declivity; and I maintain, once more, that it is a +rational, no less than a natural, curiosity, which leads +us to seek to supply, in some measure, this necessary +defect, and to gather, if possible, from witnessing the +last moments of others, some hints which may be of +use to us when our own dark hour shall come. We see +a being standing on the edge of a precipice, to which the +only thing we know certainly, is, that we ourselves +shall one day be brought; and shall it be possible to feel +no curiosity concerning the manner in which he +con<pb n="145"/><anchor id="Pg145"/>ducts himself on that giddy brink? That which is denied +to us in our own person, may, in part, be supplied in +his; and the eyes which dwell upon his features, while +they are filled with the overwhelming expectation of +near approaching death, make the closest approximation +of which our nature admits to penetrating the actual +mysteries of the unseen region. For myself, both wiser +and better did I come away from all that mournful +spectacle. But perhaps I am joining together things +which, after all, had no necessary connection, when I +ascribe to my contemplation of the death of Tisias, and +the other cruel sights which, as it seemed, were regarded +with indifference by the great multitudes around me, +so much of the change which, about this period, my +own spirit underwent. +</p> + +<p> +The slumbers which followed that busy day of novelties +and terrors, were long and heavy; for utterly worn +out were both mind and body, and youth hastened to +repair the waste of its energies, by drinking deeply at +the great fountain of natural refreshment. Nevertheless, +although the hand of sleep had lain steadily upon +me, when I awoke in the already-confirmed light of +morning, I found myself yet filled with a confused and +tremulous sense of excitation, as if the spirit had disdained +to be idle after having received so much food for +activity, and Fancy had still been garnishing the passive +sphere of the night with aerial representations of +all the gorgeous and solemn realities of the by-past day. +I lay there ruminating amidst the dispersing shadows +of the mysterious world of dreams, and scarcely as yet +aware that a whole night had passed since I had returned +from the Amphitheatre, when I was at length roused to +<pb n="146"/><anchor id="Pg146"/>a sudden and complete recollection of all things by the +entrance of Boto. +</p> + +<p> +<q>My dear master,</q> said he, making a sort of start +after he had come in, <q>I was afraid you would be angry +with me for not coming to you sooner, but now I perceive +you have been as lazy as the rest of us. Why, +surely, you are not aware what time of day it is! What +would my dear old lady over the water say, if she heard +of my young master lying in bed till within three hours +of noon? Oh, what a place is this you have brought me +to! Why, when I awake in the morning, the first thought +that comes into my head always is, What, Boto, and is it +really possible that all that wide roaring sea lies between +you and the green banks of quiet Anton? Is it truth, +good truth, and neither dream nor witching, that you, +<hi rend="italic">Boto</hi>, are in <hi rend="italic">Rome</hi>? But I sometimes have to jump up, +and take a look out of the window before I am quite convinced; +and then, to be sure, I know well enough that +I, who used always to dream about driving cattle to +Venta, and perhaps kissing a Brigian lass by the way, +could never dream of so many fine things unless I were +really among them. Good heavens! what a heap of +stories I shall have to tell, when we get safe back to +Old Britain!</q>—<q>Indeed, Boto,</q> said I, <q>you will be +quite a travelled man. Be sure you do not give yourself +too many airs on the occasion.</q>—<q>Travelled man, +in faith,</q> replied the clown. <q>I should like to know, +who it is that will be able to hold up his head with me, +when I am once fairly back again? Oh, how the old +smith will be humbled! He thought himself such a +mighty person, because my old master, your father, had +taken him with him as far as Camolodunum, and how +<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/>he used to brag of what he had seen there; but now, I +trow, Master Pernorix will be fain to talk quietly about +his journeys.—O Rome, Rome! what fine things shall +I have to tell them all about Rome,—and the lions, +and the monkeys, and Cæsar, and the elephants, and +the fighting men, and the Christian, and all the wonderful +sights we saw yesterday. But the worst of it +is, that nobody will ever be able to believe one half +of what I shall tell them.—And when does my dear +Master Valerius think we shall be returning to my old +lady, and all the rest of them in Britain?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Of a truth, good Boto,</q> said I, <q>that is more than I +can pretend to give you any notion of; but I dare say, +you shall have both time and opportunity to pick up a few +more marvels still before we go. In the meantime, you +are comfortable, I hope, in your quarters, and Dromo +takes good heed of you.</q>—<q>Dromo,</q> quoth he, looking +as arch as his massive features would admit of,—<q>Dromo, +indeed!—If I had nobody to trust to but +him, I should be very ill off. Dromo is a great man; +the young lord of the house has him up in his chamber +every day to talk with him by himself; and when he +comes down again, or returns from any of the errands +he is sent out upon, there is no bearing with him in +the court-yard, where we are all huddled together. As +for the overseer, old Sarcalus, the freed-man, he has +quite given him up. Nobody dare speak about whipping +him; he looks upon himself as almost as important +a person as his master, I believe, if the truth were known; +and yet I should not complain, for, after all, it was +Dromo that carried me yesterday to the Amphitheatre.</q>—<q>Ay, +that was very kind of Dromo—I should have +<pb n="148"/><anchor id="Pg148"/>thought of it myself. And did he not see that you got +your supper snugly, when you came back?</q>—<q>Ah! +now, master, don’t make them whip me—I see they +have told you all.</q>—<q>All!</q> said I—<q>I do assure you +they have told me nothing about you; but come, speak +out. It must be something very bad that would make +me think of having you whipt. You have only been +three days in Rome—I shall make allowance for a few +vagaries, provided they be not very extravagant.</q>—<q>Well, +then, Master Caius,</q> quoth he, <q>since they +have told you nothing beforehand, and you seem inclined +to be so good-natured with me, I shall e’en tell you all +myself, and I hope you won’t think me, after all, very +much to blame.</q>—<q>Speak out, my honest Boto, and +remember there is Dromo also to be examined, in case +you keep any thing back from me.</q>—<q>Ah! master, +but Dromo would not be so easily caught as poor Boto. +Dromo is a cunning man, and a close; and besides, they +say he was born in a city they call Crete, and the people +of that place can’t speak a word of truth, even although +they were willing. Do not think any thing at all about +Dromo; but trust entirely to your own poor Boto, and +he will tell you every thing. Dromo is a sad dog.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I know not what more he might have proceeded to +say concerning Dromo, had not that crafty Cretan, who, +without question, had been listening all the while behind +the door, just at that moment glided in on very +delicate tiptoe, and coming close up behind the British +slave, as he stood in the act of haranguing me, smote him +a smart fillip upon the cheek with the back of his fingers, +mimicking, at the same time, the outlandish accent +of the man, and repeating after him into his tinkling +<pb n="149"/><anchor id="Pg149"/>ears, the words, <hi rend="italic">Dromo is a sad dog—Dromo is a cunning +man, and a close—Dromo would not be so easily caught as +poor Boto</hi>.—<q>Ha, ha! Master Valerius,</q> then said he +to me, <q>and so you would really take the trouble to +ask questions of this worthy man, when you had it in +your power to send for me? I thought it had not been +for nothing that three persons I could name entered +upon a certain alliance—but ’tis all one to the Cretan.—Both +Sextus, and you, may manage your own affairs +for yourselves, if such be your pleasure.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I knew not on this whether to be more amazed with +the impudence of the Cretan, or the confusion of poor +Boto, who stood rubbing his cheek with a strangely +mingled aspect of sheepishness and sulkiness; but Dromo +soon put an end to the affair, by turning round with a +face of admirably feigned astonishment to my Briton, +and saying, <q>Good heavens! Boto, are you still there? +Do you not perceive that your master and I have something +to say to each other in private? Begone, my +good man—shall I never be able to render you susceptible +of the smallest polish?</q> +</p> + +<p> +These last words being accompanied with a gentle +push on the back, soon expelled poor Boto, who, nevertheless, +did not depart without casting towards me a +look of woful appeal over his shoulder. But I perceiving +plainly, in the midst of all his frolicsome behaviour, +that Dromo had really something to say to me; +and suspecting, of course, that the interest of Sextus +might be concerned in what he had to say, suffered my +slave to withdraw in good earnest. Dromo, after the +door was shut, laid his finger upon his lip, and stood +still for a moment in an attitude of close attention; but +<pb n="150"/><anchor id="Pg150"/>the heavy heels of the reluctant Briton were heard with +great distinctness, lumbering along the marble floor of +the gallery; so, being satisfied that there was no eavesdropping +in the case, the varlet seated himself forthwith +in a posture of great familiarity on the nether end of +my couch, and, to judge from the expression of his +countenance, seemed evidently to be preparing himself +for a disclosure of some importance. At length, after +not a few winks of much intelligence, it was thus he +began:—<q>You may hear Boto’s story, sir, at any time +you please, and I dare say it will amuse you; but, in +the meantime, I must really have you attend to me, +for, without jesting, things are by no means in so fair +a train as I had thought for my young master; and if +something effectual be not speedily discovered, I am +really at a loss to think how we shall be able to get out +of our difficulties, in such a manner as may be either +satisfactory to him, or creditable to my management. +But you had better get up and dress yourself, and while +you are doing so, I will tell you every thing.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I did as he bade me, and then the Cretan proceeded:—<q>As +I was coming out of the Amphitheatre yesterday, +I happened to find myself rubbing shoulders with +a certain old fat Calabrian, whom I had seen before +about Rubellia’s house in the Suburra, and thinking +that no harm could possibly come of being civil to him, +I began immediately to ask his opinion of the spectacles. +I wish you had been there to see how much +he was delighted with the attention I paid him, and +how he plumed himself on being admitted to talk on +such subjects with such a person as me; for the man +himself is but an ignorant fellow, and seems never to +<pb n="151"/><anchor id="Pg151"/>have kept company but with the grooms and hinds. +From less to more, we began to be the greatest friends +in the world; and by the time we got to the Arch, it +was evident that we could not possibly part, without +having a cup together to cement the acquaintance. +Well, we were just about to dive into one of the wine-cellars +there, below the gate-way, when I saw your +friend Boto standing by himself in the middle of the +street, apparently quite a-gaze and bewildered, and not +able to form the smallest guess which way he ought to +take in order to reach home; and being a good-natured +fellow, in spite of all that has been said, I immediately +shouted out his name till he was compelled to hear me, +and then beckoned to him to come along with us, which +indeed he did without much coaxing.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well, Dromo,</q> said I, <q>and so all your great news +is, that you have been leading my Briton into one of +your debauches? In truth, I think you need not have +made such an affectation of mystery withal.</q>—<q>Stop +now,</q> quoth he, cutting me short; <q>if the slave be too +slow, I am sure the master’s quickness will make up +for it.—Hear me out before you begin commenting; +such interruptions would bring the Stagyrite himself +to a stand. We were soon, all three of us, seated in +one of those snug little places, which if you have not +yet seen, you are ignorant of the most comfortable sight +within all the four walls of Rome,—a quiet cleanly +little place,—three good hassocks upon the floor, a +handful of sausages, a plate of dried fish as broad as the +shield of Ajax, and a good old fashioned round-bellied +jolly jug of Surrentine in the midst of us. I dare say, +there were a hundred besides employed in the same +<pb n="152"/><anchor id="Pg152"/>way in the house; but we shut the door, and were as +private as behind the altar of Vesta.</q>—<q>A tempting +scene, Dromo; and what use did you make of your +privacy?</q>—<q>All in good time, Master Valerius; you +would have the apple before the egg. We had scarcely +emptied our first jug, ere the conversation between the +Calabrian and me took a turn that was not quite unnatural; +for slaves, however little you may trust them, +will always be smelling out something of the truth; +and you may be sure, all this visiting, and feasting, and +riding about in chariots, and sitting together at the +Amphitheatre, has not been going on, without causing +a good deal of talk both in this house and the rich +widow’s. The courtship was of course the subject of +our conversation, and I, pretending to know nothing of +it myself, except from the common report of the slaves +about our house, affected to consider it as highly probable, +that the fat Calabrian might have had much +better opportunities than mine of being informed how +the affair really stood.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And did he really seem to have any knowledge +about it?</q> said I.—<q>Not much—not much; but still +the man did tell me something that I think may turn +out to be well worth the knowing. <q>I am sure,</q> said I, +(by this time Boto was fast asleep,)—<q>I am sure, if +Rubellia won’t have my young master, it won’t be for +want of presents; for we all know he has already given +her a whole casket of rings and bracelets that belonged +to his mother, and he is sitting for his picture, which, +they say, he is to give her besides.</q>—<q>And <hi rend="italic">I</hi> am sure,</q> +quoth the Calabrian in return, <q>that if your young +master don’t have my lady, it won’t be for want of +<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/>presents neither; for she is the most generous open-handed +lady in the world, and that her worst enemies +will allow, although her father be an old rogue, and +an usurer, as all the town says he is. No, Dromo,</q> +continued he, <q>nor will it be for want of philtres, nor +of charms, nor of any thing that soothsaying can procure; +for, between ourselves, my lady keeps up a constant +traffic of late with all that sort of gentry; and +what the issue of it all may be, Hecate only knows.</q> +Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him speak of +philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken +up my ears more keenly than ever.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dromo!</q> said I; <q>you are not serious. You do +not mean surely to make me think that you believe in +the efficacy of love-potions, or any such quackeries?</q> +<q>Quackeries! do you call philtres quackeries? Why, +there was a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept +me raving for six months.</q>—<q>What sort of a looking +girl was she, good Dromo?</q>—<q>Bah!</q> quoth he; <q>don’t +expect to jeer me out of memory as well as judgment. +Heavens and earth! when did any body ever hear of +any body denying the efficacy of philtres? What an +atheistical sort of barbarians those Britons must be. I +wonder you are not afraid of some evil coming upon +you. Remember Dian’s handful; remember the fate +of Actæon!</q>—<q>Good Dromo,</q> said I, <q>I suppose you +also suffered from peeping. But talk seriously; are +you yourself a dealer in philtres, that you are so anxious +I should believe in their power? Or what is your +meaning?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My meaning is this,</q> quoth he, with great vehemence,—<q>it +is, that if Rubellia gives Sextus such another +<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/>philtre as a certain cunning damsel gave me, before I +left pleasant Crete, to be a drudge and a packhorse here +in Rome, where a man may sweat all his life in another’s +service without being once thanked for his pains, and +perhaps be laid out, look ye, for a supper to the vultures +at last, because no body will treat his carcase to a blaze +of old sticks,—I say, that if the Lady Rubellia contrives +to give Sextus such another philtre as that, the game’s +up, Master Valerius; and we may as well set about +painting the dead, as try to save him from her clutches. +The man’s gone—he’s as lost as Troy.</q>—<q>Well, +Dromo,</q> said I, for I perceived there was no use in +fighting it with him, <q>and have you not been able to +hit upon any feasible scheme?</q>—<q>Ay, have you come +to that at last? that is just what I have been cudgelling +my brains about for the last twelve hours. But if I do +hit upon any thing, I shall need assistance. In such +cases, the best judgment can do nothing by itself.</q>—<q>Fear +not, Dromo,</q> quoth I; <q>if my assistance can +do you any good, you well know you can command it +to the utmost.</q>—<q>Then prepare,</q> replied the Cretan, +rising up with an air of much solemnity—<q>then prepare +in good earnest; for, may Cerberus growl upon +me, if I don’t find out some scheme before another day +goes over, and shew you all what stuff I am made of. +To think of entrapping Sextus without consulting +Dromo!—No, by Cretan Jove, she shall not accomplish +it—no, not even with a sea of philtres.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, in the meantime,</q> said I, <q>what must Sextus +do with himself?</q>—<q>He must not go near the Suburra; +he must remain closely at home; and as for tasting any +thing at her house, or any thing that comes from +her—<pb n="155"/><anchor id="Pg155"/>by heavens, if he does not take his oath against that—we +may as well leave him to his destiny. If he will +but take good care for this one day, I think there is +every chance something may be hit upon ere the morning. +I have got my cue, and shall not be idle, I promise +you; but I undertake nothing, unless you swear +to keep Sextus safe, and at a distance from her, till +night-fall.</q>—<q>Good Dromo,</q> said I, <q>make yourself +easy on that score; it will be a new circumstance +indeed, if we find any difficulty in persuading Sextus +to stay a single day away from the Suburra.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Persuading!</q> quoth the slave; <q>who ever heard +of such a word as persuasion at such a crisis as this? I +tell you he <hi rend="italic">must</hi> be kept away; and if no other plan +can be fallen on, I have a great mind to turn the key +on him and his pedagogue both together. I heard them +hammering at their lessons already as I came along—and +that puts me in mind that I have a very shrewd +notion there is more between that bearded goat of ours +and this Rubellia, than any of us had been suspecting. +Unless that Calabrian lies—and I think lying is above +his sphere—this old rogue has been oftener in the +Suburra of late than we had any thought of. So help +me Hermes! I believe Licinius has been employing +him to go his private messages to Rubellia—but that is +only one insult more, and I shall have my revenge all +in a lump.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I think it very likely,</q> answered I, quietly, <q>that +Licinius may have been employing Xerophrastes in +some such embassies; and, if I mistake not the matter, +he would feel himself quite as much in his element, +trotting along the Sacred Way, and so forth, on such +<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/>delicate errands for the father, as in expounding musty +parchments to the son.</q>—<q>No matter for all that,</q> +quoth Dromo, rubbing his hands; <q>the more enemies +the more glory. Would Miltiades have been pleased +had the Spartans arrived?—Leave all to me—take you +care only of Sextus, and I am not afraid for any reinforcement +that rascally rhetorician may bring against +me.</q>—While he was saying so, the face of the Cretan +exhibited symptoms of incipient glee; and he concluded +with snapping his fingers, and uttering a short +keen whistle, such as you have heard from the lips of a +hunter, when the dogs begin to bay around a thicket. +</p> + +<p> +Seeing his eyes dance with the expectation of some +bustling scene, I could not help participating, in some +measure, in the feelings of the Cretan; and, <q>Dear +Dromo,</q> said I, <q>I beseech you, if it be possible, let +me have a share in whatever you resolve upon.</q>—<q>Watch +well,</q> replied he, <q>during the day, and you +shall see what you shall see, when the moon mounts +above the Cœlian, and the hour for grubbing among +herbs and bones is come.—But now I hear some one +coming—it is Licinius.</q>—Dromo, finger on lip, +glided from the room. Nor had his well-practised ears +deceived him, for he scarcely vanished, before my kinsman +entered. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Valerius,</q> said he, saluting me affectionately, <q>I +thought you were probably much fatigued with your +spectacles, so I desired that nobody should call you this +morning; but I met Boto in the hall, and hearing that +you were astir, I have come up, for I wish a little private +conversation. Shall we walk in the eastern portico, +till Xerophrastes leaves Sextus at liberty?</q> +</p> + +<pb n="157"/><anchor id="Pg157"/> + +<p> +He led the way along the gallery, and in passing, we +also heard the deep voice of the rhetorician resounding +among the pillars, and could even catch a few of the +magniloquent phrases with which he was feeding the +ears of his pupil. <q>Ay, ay,</q> says Licinius, <q>I wish, +indeed, it were possible to inspire the youth with some +sense of what is due to the dignity of principle, and how +absurd it is to think of gratifying whims at the expense +of duty. But I fear the boy is incorrigible; and, +Caius, I am sorry to say, I suspect you have been +looking on his errors with a countenance rather of +favour and of confirmation, than, as I should have +expected, of rebuke.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Licinius,</q> said I, <q>you know not how much you +distress me. I could rather die than encourage Sextus +in any thing I thought evil; but, indeed, I have seen +nothing to make me imagine him capable of such +conduct.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come, by Hercules,</q> returned he, <q>there is no occasion +for so many words. I thought it very odd that +you went away so soon from the Forum the other day, +considering that you had never been there before; but +I thought it doubly and trebly remarkable that Sextus +should have accompanied you, when the case in hand +affected the affairs of Rubellia. But I have since found +out that it was not the society of old Capito which +attracted him—no, my friend, nor yet the alarm of +a thunder storm that detained you at the villa. In a +word, Valerius, I strongly suspect that Sextus is carrying +on an intrigue with a young lady whom I never +saw, but who, I am quite sure, will never be mistress +of a dozen lizards, and that this is the true cause of +<pb n="158"/><anchor id="Pg158"/>his reluctance concerning a match, which, to say nothing +of the pleasure it would give to me, is the only +means by which I can see any prospect of the young +man’s fortune being made, and the dignity of his +family kept up, after another effigy shall have been +added to our hall. Infatuated and headstrong boy! if +he owes nothing to himself or to me, is it possible that +he can look upon that venerable line of sages and +heroes, without feeling shame in the degradation of +his own earth-stooping desires?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Without question,</q> said I, <q>you allude to the Lady +Rubellia, whom, as I have heard from various quarters, +you are desirous of seeing wedded to Sextus.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, Caius Valerius, it is indeed to her I allude; +and it is of the obstacle which—unwittingly, I doubt +not—you yourself have been throwing in the way +of that union, that I have now to make my complaint. +Not such the service that I had expected from +my kinsman. Rubellia is descended from a noble +family, and, both in possession and expectation, her +wealth is great. Two heavy fines laid upon me by +Domitian, and the expense at which I have maintained +my rank among the great patrons of Rome—these +things together have impoverished me, and to an extent +not altogether convenient. In this boy my hopes +were placed; and see now how they are all likely to +be blasted for a dimpled cheek and a pair of wanton +eyes!—or rather, indeed, I should say, for the sake of +the malignant pleasure that is derived from thwarting +my purposes; for, if beauty were what the boy wanted, +where should he find beauty beyond Rubellia? Perhaps, +Caius, I should, before this time, have made +<pb n="159"/><anchor id="Pg159"/>you acquainted with my intentions from my own +lips. But it is my own foolish indulgence which +has made my degenerate boy quite forget, not only +what is the duty of a son, but what is the power of a +father.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I trust,</q> said I, <q>there is no need for all this seriousness. +Sextus has only laid aside the garb of a stripling; +it is too much to be despairing of his success in life, only +because he is unwilling, at a period so early, to enter +upon a permanent connection. Is it possible, that, if +he really dislike Rubellia, you would wish to see him +marry her—only to divorce her, without question, as +soon as he should find it possible to do so without inconvenience?</q>—<q>Handsome, +rich, noble, and almost +as young as himself, why, in the name of all the gods, +for what cause should he divorce Rubellia?</q>—<q>Sir,</q> +said I, <q>he loves not Rubellia, nor will ever love her; +and if you cause your son to marry this woman, look +you well to it, that the unhappiness of both rest not on +your head. Handsome, rich, noble, and young she +may be; but I am sure, she has neither such a heart, +nor such a mind, as should belong to the wife of your +Sextus. A luxurious woman is Rubellia, and I have +seen her find luxury in the contemplation of blood. +Wed not Rubellia to your son.</q>—<q>Peace, Valerius,</q> +he answered; <q>what boyish nonsense is this?—I <hi rend="italic">will</hi> +wed Rubellia to my son; and let him see to it, that he +tempts me not farther with his disobedience.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Licinius said these last words in a voice of so much +earnestness, that I knew not well what answer to make +to him; but while I was hesitating, one of the little +boys about the house, (I mean the children of the +<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/>domestic slaves,) said, <q>If it please my lord, the same +senator that was here in the morning is waiting in +the hall.</q>—<q>Pontius Mamurra!</q> said the orator, +leaving me. +</p> + +<p> +I, for my part, when I heard the name of the +visiter, began to understand somewhat of the channel +through which my kinsman had been informed +about what had passed at the Suburban. I had no +leisure, however, to reflect long upon this hint; for I +found Sextus waiting for me. <q>Come,</q> he said, <q>I +was afraid I must set off without you. My father has +been looking on me this morning with such an aspect +of displeasure as I rarely before witnessed in him, and +if I defer going to the painter about this likeness, he +will be altogether enraged at supper-time. I know +very well he means the ring, in which it is to be placed, +for another present to Rubellia; but notwithstanding, +what can I do? Any opposition to him in lesser matters +would only tend to bring on some final explanation +about the great affair itself, and that, whether it be +weakness in me or not, I as yet have no courage to +encounter. The man must be expecting me; and I +am sure you will accompany me, for I have much need +of you to keep up my heart. Xerophrastes, indeed, has +been desired to go with me; but he will be no comfort, +for I see plainly, from the drift of his harangues, that +he is enlisted against me. Dear Caius, I have nobody +in the whole world I can trust to but Dromo and +yourself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He had scarcely said so, when we heard Xerophrastes +pacing up and down with solemn strides in the gallery; +so I knew not how to excuse myself, although I was very +<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/>anxious to have staid at home for another purpose. +Sextus had taken my gown from the nail; he threw it +over my shoulders before I had time to say any thing, +and we were soon on our way to his ungrateful destination. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="2" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="162"/><anchor id="Pg162"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter II"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter II"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER II.</hi></head> + +<p> +We had to traverse a considerable part of the city; +for this painter was one of those who exercise their art +during the public hours of the day in the baths of the +Palatine, where, as you have heard, in the wide circuit +of the princely residence, abundant accommodation is +set forth for all such ingenious persons. We proceeded +along the edge of the river, and by the west of the +Capitol, following the line of that great Triumphal +Way which has been witness of so many glorious pageants; +for so, they told me, we should most easily ascend +into the Cæsarian courts. But when we had come +thither, we found the whole open space, in front of the +portico and stairs of Trajan, occupied by a detachment +of the Prætorian cohorts, drawn up in splendid array to +receive some promised donative; while the music, and +the clamours of their mustering, had collected enough +of spectators to render the passage onwards in some +measure difficult. We were constrained to form part of +their attendance, and stood gazing among the multitude. +Even Xerophrastes caught some animation from the +brilliancy of the spectacle; and the enamoured and +perplexed Sextus himself, beating time on my shoulder, +seemed to have forgotten, for a moment, the anxieties +of his situation. +</p> + +<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/> + +<p> +Some horsemen, however, riding along to keep the +ground open in front of the soldiery, compelled us to +shift to the eastward, where many chariots were drawn +up—and in one of these Rubellia. The lady looked +paler than I had before seen her, and had not the air of +being in the smallest degree occupied with what was +passing. I did not think it necessary to take any notice +of her being there to my companions, and was willing, +indeed, to keep myself turned away from the place +where she sat, in order to avoid our being recognized. +Yet there was something in her aspect and attitude, that, +as by a sort of fascination, drew my eyes to the spot I +wished to avoid. From time to time, therefore, I felt +myself constrained to regard the melancholy lady; and +by and by, Sextus perceived what it was that attracted +my attention:—so I discovered, although he said not +a word, from a fervent pressure upon my arm as I stood +before him. At that moment there drew near a little +ugly old woman, with no covering upon her head but +long coarse gray clusters of hair hanging matted and +twisted down upon her shoulders, who lifted up a basket +of trinkets, and presented it; but Rubellia started on +her seat, and, looking in the face of the old creature, +manifested signs of no trivial emotion; for her colour +returned with a sudden flush, and her eyes recovered +all their animation, and it was evident she had something +to say which could not regard the gaudy ornaments +offered to her view. Whatever it was, however, +she did not occupy much time in saying it; for +scarcely a minute elapsed before the basket was lowered +again, and the old woman began to move towards +another part of the crowd; on which Rubellia sunk +<pb n="164"/><anchor id="Pg164"/>back in her chariot, and appeared to relapse into pensive +abstraction. +</p> + +<p> +Presently a low voice croaking out, <q>Rings, rings—amulets +and rings!</q> amongst the crowd that stood +immediately behind me; and I perceived the same +woman pushing her basket between Xerophrastes and +Sextus.—<q>Noble youth,</q> quoth the hag, leering, +<q>lovely young gentleman—sweet Adonis, my charming +lord, do now look into old Pona’s basket—do take a +look at Ponula’s rings and amulets—her amulets and +rings. Here is one that I could have sold a hundred +times, but I was determined to keep it till I should see +the prettiest young gentleman in Rome, and I will +never go back to Naples without selling it, after this +day; for this little amulet must be nobody’s but yours. +You will break my heart, my prince, if you buy not +my beautiful amulet.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And what,</q> said Sextus, blushing and laughing, +<q>may be the virtues of your amulet?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then laying her yellow hand upon his shoulder, till she +had made him stoop down so that she might get close to +his ear, she began to pour out, with much mysterious +volubility, all the story of its marvellous potencies; but +what she said even I could not know, only I heard the +words, <q>Æthiopian, Æthiopian,</q> and <q>Memnon, Memnon,</q> +and something about <q>not a pretty lady in Rome.</q> +But just as the woman was most earnest in her whisper, +and Sextus, apparently at least, in listening, I found +my gown plucked from behind, and behold, there was +Dromo, with a countenance tremulously agitated, and +white as a piece of dead parchment, pointing to his +young master and the old hag, and beseeching me to +<pb n="165"/><anchor id="Pg165"/>separate them, by motions in nowise to be mistaken. +How he had come thither, or what was the cause of this +anxiety, I had no time to conjecture, for before I could +say a word, he began to bellow out,—<q>The horses, the +horses—make room for the horses;</q> and immediately +those that stood near him began to move a little, and +then, the cry being repeated, those that stood farther off +mistaking the noise of their feet for the approach of some +new squadron, there arose a sort of rushing among the +crowd; and, in a twinkling, the voice of Pona was heard +grumbling and croaking at a distance from the place to +which our party were borne. Close, nevertheless, did +the faithful Cretan stick to us; and no sooner was quiet +in some measure restored, and the false alarm he had +created at an end, than he whispered into my ear, <q>For +the sake of all that is sacred, let not that foul hag speak +another word to my young master—I will tell you +more anon. Meantime, haste ye, haste ye. Make the +best of your speed to the Palatine; it will be much +easier for you to push your way thither, than it was +for me to reach you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +My friend being already weary of the heat and the +pressure, we were ready to take advantage of an opening +pointed out by the Cretan. It so happened, however, +that in the same commotion the chariot of Rubellia +also had changed its situation; for just as we had escaped, +as I thought, and were about to place our feet on the +magnificent flight of stairs that leads from the New Way +to the Augustan Towers, there came to us a lad of that +lady’s household, who told us she was near at hand, and +desirous, if it so pleased us, of our company. Aware +that we were in sight, how could we disobey? We +<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/>found the lady in her chariot, but not such as we had +seen her before. On the contrary, the liveliness of her +aspect seemed now to be restored, and she received us +with her usual gaiety of address. <q>Careless men,</q> said +she, as we drew near; <q>I suppose I might have sat here +till the Greek Kalends, before any one of you would +have observed me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Most noble lady,</q> quoth Xerophrastes, <q>bear it not +indignantly, that amidst all the confusion of men and +horses, and trumpets and shoutings, our attention was +abstracted from that which was most worthy of notice. +My young friends deserve to be excused, since even +I, who am not in the habit of being much troubled by +such vanities, was so bewildered that I scarcely knew +my right hand from my left, in this human chaos.—Pardon, +noble Rubellia; we have been unwitting +offenders.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And was it so?</q> said the lady, not looking at the +Stoic.—<q>But I did not call for you to hear useless apologies. +What new sight is it that attracts you to the +Palatine?—or is it only that you are desirous of exhibiting +to Valerius the old-established wonders of the +place? In either case, I have half a mind to accompany +you. In spite of all they tell us about the Golden +House, I can scarcely think the Palatine shewed more +splendidly than it does now, even in the days of +Nero.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Indeed,</q> said I, as we began to mount together the +broad slabbed steps which rise up, tier above tier, from +the portico on the street, to that which hangs on the +brow—<q>Indeed, it is not easy for me to doubt that +Rubellia is in the right.</q>—For now, on one side, were +<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/>all the pillars and arches of the Forum stretched out +below us, and, on the other, lay the great Circus, topped +with its obelisk; while before rose the gray cliffs of the +Capitoline, with their domes and proud pinnacles in the +glow of noontide—the space between, radiant with +arms and banners. Even Xerophrastes did not refrain +from some ejaculations.—<q>Illustrious Rome! how great +is thy sublimity!</q> And then, after a pause, he repeated, +in a voice of much majesty, those verses from the Fury +of Ajax: +</p> + +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">Oh! might I be where o’er the living deep</q></l> +<l>Lies the broad shadow of the Sounian cliff,</l> +<l>Waving with all its glorious garniture,</l> +<l>Of rock-sprung foliage: from old Ocean’s side,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">That I might look on Athens once again!</q></l> +</lg> + +<p> +Some of the hints which had reached me concerning +his nativity recurring to my recollection, I could not help +echoing his quotation with another from the Æneid, +about the wide tracts ploughed by the Thracians; of +which impertinence the sage took no notice. +</p> + +<p> +Nor was admiration diminished when, having gained +the top of that massive staircase, or rather, as I should +say, hill of marble, we passed beneath the sounding +portal, the sole remnant of the original pile of Augustus, +and found ourselves within the first of those great +imperial quadrangles, by which the whole summit of +that once so variously and multitudinously peopled +region is now occupied. The light and airy porticoes—the +domes—the princely towers—the universal profusion +of marble, brass, ivory, flaming gold, lavished on +arch, metope, and architrave—all conspired to dazzle +the sight, and I stood still to gaze. +</p> + +<pb n="168"/><anchor id="Pg168"/> + +<p> +<q>Observe,</q> said Sextus, <q>those two equestrian statues +of bronze on the left hand. I have heard my father +say that they mark the sites of two houses, which, +before Augustus began to enclose the whole Palatine in +his walls, were inhabited, the one by Cicero, the other by +Clodius; these are the only traces of their mansions.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>What grim-looking figures!</q> said the lady; <q>yet, +I dare say, they don’t cast half such fierce looks on each +other, as the predecessors you mention. I should like +to have seen the countenance of old Tully, the morning +he went down the hill to deliver his harangue for Milo.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am glad,</q> said I, <q>that Sextus has told me this; +for in reading those famous philippics in time to come, +I shall possess a new key to the bitterness of their +phraseology, knowing, as I do, that the two lived just +over the way from each other, and that the orator, when +his spirits were flagging, could derive a new reinforcement +of spleen from merely putting his head out of the +window.</q>—<q>To hear you,</q> says Rubellia, <q>one would +think you were studying the art of making philippics—I +am afraid, that if it be so, my joining your party +may prove to have been but an ill-judged thing; for if +any of you be preparing to abuse me, my presence will +serve to sharpen your weapons.</q>—<q>In that case, however,</q> +interrupted the smiling Xerophrastes, <q>my noble +lady will admit, that the converse also will hold good, +and that if praise be in meditation, it will not be the +feebler because the subject of the intended panegyric +has passed before our eyes.</q>—<q>Most courteous of men,</q> +replied the lady, <q>who talks of the stiffness of the +Porch? To-day and yesterday you have paid me as +many compliments as might give a lesson to the gayest +<pb n="169"/><anchor id="Pg169"/>trifler about these baths. If all,</q> she continued, (gazing +as she spoke, with all her eyes upon Sextus,)—<q>if all +were as profuse, I should be unable to sustain the weight +of their civilities.</q>—<q>Nay, Oh! generous lady,</q> quoth +the sage again, <q>it must be remembered, that, as the +poet has expressed it, there are two kinds of shame—there +is the wicked shame and the good shame. Why +should it be doubted, that a modest Verecundity, not +unsuitable to their age, has laid her finger on the lips of +our young friends? I swear by the Victrix of Ida, that +your presence itself is that which occasions their silence;—bear +it not ill—bear it not harshly—the young will +learn—not every one has seen Corinth.</q>—<q>No, truly,</q> +answered the laughing lady; <q>but I doubt whether +they that have been so fortunate, have ever seen any +thing half so fine as what now awaits Valerius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +She pointed to the solemn Doric columns which sustain +the portico of the famous Temple of Apollo, whose +shade lay far out upon the court before us; and, passing +between those brazen horsemen, we soon began to +ascend the steps that lead up to the shrine. Nor can +I tell you how delightful was the fragrant coolness, +which reigned beneath the influence of that massive +canopy of marble, to us whose eyes had been so long +supporting the meridian blaze. We entered with slow +steps within the vestibule of the Temple, and stood +there for some space, enjoying in silence the soft breath +of air that played around the flowing fountains. Then +passing on, the airy hall received us; and I saw the +statue of Phœbus presiding, like a pillar of tender +light, over the surrounding darkness of the vaulted +place; for, to the lofty shrine of the God of day no +<pb n="170"/><anchor id="Pg170"/>light of day had access, and there lay only a small creeping +flame burning thin upon his altar; but a dim and +sweet radiance, like that of the stars in autumn, was +diffused all upon the statue, and the altar, and the warlike +trophies suspended in the inner recesses, from the +sacred tree of silver that stands in the centre; amidst +the trembling enamelled leaves and drooping boughs of +which hung many lamps, after the shape and fashion +of pomegranates: and out of every pomegranate flowed +a separate gleam of that soft light, supplied mysteriously +through the stem of the silver tree. +</p> + +<p> +There appeared presently from behind the statue, a +majestic woman, arrayed in long white garments, and +having a fillet of laurel leaves twined above her veil. +Venerable and stately was her mien, but haughty, rather +than serene, the aspect of her countenance. Without +looking towards us, she went up to the altar, and began +to busy herself in trimming the sacred fire, which, as I +have said, exhibited only a lambent flame. When, +with many kneelings and other ceremonies, she had +accomplished this service, the priestess turned again, as +if to depart; and then first, as it seemed, observing the +presence of strangers, she stood still before the altar, +and regarding us attentively, began to recognize the +Lady Rubellia; whom, forthwith advancing, she +saluted courteously, and invited to come with the rest +of us into her privacy, behind the shrine of the God. +</p> + +<p> +She led the way, Rubellia and the rest of us in her +train, through several folding-doors, and along many +narrow passages all inlaid, on roof, wall, and floor, with +snow-white alabaster and rich mosaic work; until at +length we came to a little airy chamber, where three +<pb n="171"/><anchor id="Pg171"/>young maidens were sitting with their embroidering +cushions, while one, taller than the rest, whose back +was placed towards us, knelt on the floor, touching, +with slow fingers, the strings of a Dorian lyre. Hearing +the sound of her music as we entered, we stood still in +the door-way, and the priestess, willing apparently that +our approach should remain unknown, advancing a step +or two before us, said, <q>Sing on—I have trimmed the +flame; but remember, I pray you, that the precincts of +Phœbus are not those of Pluto, and let not your chant +be of such funereal solemnity. We solitaries have little +need of depressing numbers.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dear friend,</q> replied she that had been thus addressed, +without changing her attitude, <q>you must +bear with my numbers such as they are; for if you bid +me sing only merry strains, I am afraid neither voice +nor fingers may be able well to obey you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +These words were spoken in a low and melancholy +voice, which I well recognized. Sextus, also, perceived +who spoke; but when he looked at me to signify this, +I motioned to keep silence. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then please yourself,</q> said the priestess, laying her +hand on Athanasia’s shoulders; <q>but do sing, for I +should fain have my maidens to hear something truly +of your music.</q> With that she again applied her fingers +to the lyre, and stooping over it, began to play some +notes of prelude, less sorrowful than what we had at +first heard. <q>Ay, my dear girl,</q> says the priestess, +<q>you could not have chosen better. Heavens! how +many lordly choirs have I heard singing to that old +Delian air. There are a hundred hymns that may be +sung to it—give us whichsoever of them pleases your +<pb n="172"/><anchor id="Pg172"/>fancy the best.</q>—<q>I will try,</q> replied the maiden, +<q>to sing the words you have heard before. If I remember, +you liked them.</q> Then boldly at once, yet gently, +did her voice rush into the current of that ancient strain +that you have heard so often; but it was then that I +myself for the first time heard it. +</p> + +<lg> +<l>The moon, the moon is thine, O night,</l> +<l>Not altogether dark art thou;</l> +<l>Her trembling crescent sheds its light,</l> +<l>Trembling and pale, upon thine ancient brow.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The moon is thine, and round her orb</l> +<l>A thousand sweet stars minister,</l> +<l>Whose twinkling rays dark wells absorb,</l> +<l>And all the wide seas drink them far and near.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles</l> +<l>Of gladness o’er the waters creep;</l> +<l>Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles,</l> +<l>And there is glory on the slumbering deep</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Afar. Along the black hill’s side,</l> +<l>Right blithe of heart the wanderers go,</l> +<l>While that soft radiance, far and wide,</l> +<l>Gleams on the winding streams and woods below.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And gaily for the fragile bark,</l> +<l>Through the green waves its path is shorn,</l> +<l>When all the murmurs of the dark</l> +<l>Cold sea lie calm’d beneath that gliding horn.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Yet hail, ye glittering streaks, that lie</l> +<l>The eastern mountain tops upon!</l> +<l>Hail, ye deep blushes of the sky,</l> +<l>That speak the coming of the bridegroom sun!</l> +</lg> + +<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/> + +<lg> +<l>Hail to the healing beam of day,</l> +<l>That rouses every living thing!</l> +<l>The forest gulphs confess thy sway,</l> +<l>And upon freshening branches glad birds sing.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And loathsome forms, that crept unseen</l> +<l>Beneath the star-light faint and wan,</l> +<l>Cower in their brakes the thorns between,</l> +<l>Dreading that fervid eye, and its sure scan</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Triumphant. Welcome life and light!</l> +<l>Sing rocks and mountains, plain and sea;</l> +<l>Fearful though lovely was the night;</l> +<l>Hail to more perfect beauty—hail to <hi rend="small">THEE</hi>!</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<q>Why stop you, Athanasia?</q> said the priestess, finding +that here she paused,—<q>why do you rise up, and +take your fingers from the lyre, before you sing out the +chorus?</q>—<q>No more, dear aunt—excuse me—no +more. I have already sung all that I can,</q> replied +Athanasia.—<q>Nay, then,</q> says she, <q>if you be fatigued, +sing not; but join me, maidens, in the close—perhaps +it rises too high for Athanasia.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And with that the ancient lady herself, joined by +the three damsels that had been embroidering, took up +the strain, which, indeed, rose higher towards its end +</p> + +<lg> +<l>Hail to thee Phœbus, son of Jove,</l> +<l>Glorious Apollo, Lord of Light,</l> +<l>Hail, lovely in thy Delian grove,</l> +<l>And terrible on Delphos’ haunted height!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Hail to thee here beneath the dome,</l> +<l>Great Phœbus, of thy Latian shrine;</l> +<l>All hail from Cæsar and from Rome;</l> +<l>Hail by thy dearest name, God Palatine!</l> +</lg> + +<pb n="174"/><anchor id="Pg174"/> + +<p> +But as they were singing the last verse of all, Rubellia +also aided their melody with a rich strong gushing voice, +which rose far above all the others; and the silent +Athanasia turning round quickly, perceived, not without +manifestation of alarm, by how many strangers her +song had been overheard. On seeing who we were, she +saluted Sextus and myself with modest courtesy, amidst +her confusion; and it may be that my companion, as +well as myself, blushed at the same moment; for he +could not see Athanasia without thinking of Sempronia. +</p> + +<p> +It seemed as if her confusion were not unconnected +with some suspicion of having been recognized near +the Prætorian guard-house; for, after the first glance, +I in vain endeavoured to meet her eye; while on the +contrary, to Sextus she directed both looks and words, +enough to provoke visibly some not altogether benign +movements in our Rubellia. Such, at least, was my +interpretation of the fair widow’s aspect, and the tone +of impatience in which she, after a minute or two had +passed, began to urge the propriety of our proceeding +to the part of the imperial edifice in which the painter +was expecting us. +</p> + +<p> +The priestess of Apollo hearing her say so, courteously +offered to guide us beyond the precincts of the temple, +and our whole party were again in motion; but +Athanasia remained behind with the three young damsels, +and I, who walked last, saw her, ere the portal +received me, preparing again to handle the lyre, with +fingers visibly trembling, and a pale countenance, not +as I thought unstained with some yet more distinct +traces of keen emotion. The sight of her agitation +fixed my footstep for a moment, and it was then that, +<pb n="175"/><anchor id="Pg175"/>on her casting a sudden glance round to the place where +I stood, I perceived truly that I had not been mistaken, +and that the tears were gathered within her eyelids. +It was no more, however, than one glance, for immediately +she stooped again, and, dashing her fingers along +the chords of the instrument, appeared to bury her +thoughts in its harmony. I stood for a moment, and +then ashamed of myself, and troubled with her troubles +and with my own, I followed the rest into the great +library which Augustus placed beneath the protection of +the Palatine Apollo. The priestess parted from us at its +entrance, after pointing out a low and massive door of +bronze on the right hand, within which, as she told me, +the remains of the Sybilline prophecies are preserved, +unseen by profane eyes, watched over perpetually by +the guardians of the place. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="3" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="176"/><anchor id="Pg176"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter III"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter III"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER III.</hi></head> + +<p> +I had walked by the side of my young friend, and +behind the Stoic, (who, I think, was expressing, in his +pompous fashion, much admiration of the singing of +Rubellia,) along one or two of the great halls in which +the library is contained, before the novelty of the objects +surrounding me made any impression even on my eyes; +and even after these were in some measure engaged, my +mind still continued to dwell on that troubled aspect, +and on the notes of the uncompleted song. At length, +however, the levity of youth, and natural curiosity +revived; and I began to be present, not in body merely, +in a place where there was much that might well interest +the mind. Far-receding rows of columns conducted +my eyes into the interminable recesses of that wide +range of chambers, in which the records of the thought +and spirit of all past ages are piled up together; and +gazing on the loaded shelves which every where +ascended into the galleries, I could not but be affected +with many new emotions. I perused glorious names +on the busts that seemed to preside over the different +compartments. The high filletted front of Homer +detained for the first time my contemplation; the +eyes of the divine old man, even in sculpture, distinctly +<pb n="177"/><anchor id="Pg177"/>and visibly blind, while the serenity and sanctity of the +towering forehead, revealed how the intense perception +at once of the lovely and the great could compensate +for visions of earthly beauty shut out. The mild Plato, +and the imperious Stagyrite—Pindar—Simonides—Alcæus—and +I know not how many more, succeeded +as we passed along—each in his own sphere, reigning +by himself; yet all connected together by a certain +common air of greatness, like so many successive +princes, or contemporary heroes of the same mighty +empire. +</p> + +<p> +From this main range, there diverged many lesser +chambers, in which we saw studious persons engaged, +each seated by himself, and having his eyes fixed on +the parchment before him. Of these, some deigned not to +intimate by the smallest movement their perception that +any one had approached; but with others Xerophrastes +exchanged, as he walked, lofty salutation, and one or +two even entered, for a moment, into conversation with +him. With one of these, indeed, (an ancient of bitter +aspect,) to such a length did the colloquy extend, that +we began to think we should never be able to get +our Stoic away from him; till, as our fortune would +have it, it became necessary for them to have a certain +book for the purpose of reference, and then Xerophrastes +began to make inquiries concerning Parmeno, who, as +I gathered, must needs be one of those intrusted with +the care of the library. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am afraid,</q> said the other, <q>if we must wait for +him, we shall not be able to get that work either to-day +or to-morrow; for his pupil, the son of Fabricius, is +dead, and I suppose he will now change his quarters, +<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/>and be no longer seen so often about these haunts of +the muses.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> interrupted Sextus, <q>I met Fabricius in the +Forum a few days ago, and he told me his son was ill; +but little did I imagine my dear companion was so near +his end! Is it indeed so?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even so,</q> rejoined the other. <q>Rapid have been +the shears of Atropos! It is but a few moments since +Agaso, the painter passed; and, he told me he had been +receiving orders to take a likeness, as well as he could, +from the corpse.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>If Agaso be so engaged,</q> replied Xerophrastes, <q>I +am afraid we need not expect to find him neither in his +usual place. Perhaps we had better make inquiry for +him at the dwelling of Fabricius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To this Sextus assented; or rather, being lost in reflection +concerning the death of his friend, he suffered +himself to be conducted by the Stoic. Passing, therefore, +through one or two more apartments, we issued +forth, and drew near to the vestibule of Fabricius’ house, +who, as they told me, was a noble Roman, having the +chief superintendance of the whole library, and an intimate +friend of Licinius—one whose domestic calamity +could not fail to spread much affliction through a wide +circle of patrician kindred. +</p> + +<p> +At the vestibule, we found assembled not a few of the +young man’s relations; but Xerophrastes immediately +said, <q>Behold Parmeno, he is the most afflicted; and +what wonder that it should be so?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> said Sextus, <q>the bier is set forth; the last +rites are to be performed this evening.</q> +</p> + +<p> +This Parmeno was a striking figure. Seated close +<pb n="179"/><anchor id="Pg179"/>by the bier, his head was involved in his cloak, so +that only his eyes and his nose could be seen, but these +of themselves expressed a decorous affliction; and +the folds of the cloak fell down over the rest of his +person in great order and dignity. On the pavement +beside him was seen lying, half-unfolded, a book inscribed +with the name of Heraclitus, which he appeared +to have been reading. When Xerophrastes approached, +this mourner stretched forth his hand, and shook +his head, but he did not say any thing, nor even look +towards the rest of us; and indeed to have done so, +would have disturbed the attitude in which he had +placed himself. Xerophrastes, on his part, received +the proffered hand, and shaking his head in response, +said, <q>Yes, my Ionian friend, I may still bid thee hail +and live; but I must say farewell to the plant thou +wast rearing. Farewell to the youthful promise of +Fabricius!</q> +</p> + +<p> +On hearing these words, the sitting philosopher drew +his mantle quite over his face, and leant himself heavily +against one of the fluted columns of the vestibule, for +he seemed to be much shaken. In the meantime Sextus +approached the bier, and contemplated his companion +as he lay there wreathed with melancholy garlands; +his countenance bearing a natural mixture of sadness +and astonishment. Nor could I, who had never before +seen the young man, behold the spectacle without similar +emotions; for his age, as it seemed, could not have been +much different from my own, and the pale features +were interesting, their expression not less amiable than +solemn. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> said Sextus, <q>the last time I saw him, how +<pb n="180"/><anchor id="Pg180"/>differently did he appear! We rode out together with +some others to Tibur, and spent all the day there; and +as we returned by the moonlight, how joyous his conversation! +Methinks I yet hear him laughing and +speaking. We parted at the foot of the Capitoline, and +never did I see him again till now.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Oh, fate of man!</q> quoth Xerophrastes; <q>how +uncertain is life, how certain death! Without doubt, +young Fabricius had as little thought of dying as any +of your company; and yet, see now, he is arrayed for +the last time, and this juvenile gown, which he should +so soon have laid aside for the manly, is destined to be +consumed with him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A fine lad he was,</q> cries one of the standers by,—<q>a +fine lad, and an excellent horseman. The Martian +Field did not often behold such a rider in these degenerate +days of the Roman youth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But while the rest were still contemplating the bier, +Xerophrastes, turning to his brother philosopher, said, +<q>Tell me now, my learned friend, do you still, after +this mournful event, continue to reside with the elder +Fabricius? Has that excellent man any more sons to +be educated, or will he retain you only for the sake of +the library, with which assuredly he will find few so +conversant as yourself?</q> +</p> + +<p> +To which Parmeno replied, <q>Your question, O Xerophrastes, +shews that clear judgment concerning the +affairs of men, for which you have always been celebrated. +No, my friend, the gray-haired Fabricius no +longer requires my residence here; for he is about to +retire into one of his villas on the Campanian shore, +and to bury for ever his affliction in the privacy of +<pb n="181"/><anchor id="Pg181"/>his woods. We are about to part, not without mutual +tears; and several Patricians have already been +applying to him for his influence with me, whom, +although unworthy of so much research, they earnestly +covet, and wish to engage as the instructor of their +young men. I have been sitting here not unseen, beside +this my former charge, and each is impatient to +solicit me into his service.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Your reputation I well know is high,</q> replied +Xerophrastes, <q>and deservedly so; more particularly, +for that fine talent you have for giving metaphysical +interpretations of mythology, and for explaining the +obscure allegories of ancient poets. But for my own +part, Parmeno, I find not so much delight in abstract +ideas, or in the passive contemplation of the universe; +but incline rather to study, as heretofore, that part of +philosophy which relates to action, and the morality of +duty.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, worthy Xerophrastes,</q> returned he, with a +most languid serenity; <q>and so far as I understand, +you sort well in this with the stirring disposition of +your friend Licinius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To which Xerophrastes made answer:—<q>My patron +Licinius is fond of action, and I of the rules of action. +He says, it is only in war, or in civil functions of a +public nature, that a person can prove himself a man. +The rest, he says, is visionary, and comes to nothing, +or is a slumber of the mind in sensuality, without +thought.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Does he think, then,</q> quoth Parmeno, his wobegone +countenance relaxing into a smile,—<q>Does Licinius +think, then, there is no sensuality in perpetual action, +<pb n="182"/><anchor id="Pg182"/>and declamation and noise? To me such things appear +almost as trivial as the lazy enjoyments of Epicureans, +besides being harsh and disagreeable, and not unfrequently +ridiculous. But observe, O Xerophrastes! that +I speak these things as it were abstractly, and not by +any means in disparagement of Licinius, your excellent +patron and friend.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To which the stoic replied in astonishment—<q>What +is this you have said? Do you assert that action is +sensual?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then Parmeno, lifting from the pavement the book +which he had been reading, or appearing to read, said, +<q>It is even so, most erudite Xerophrastes. Indeed, I +have always delighted in the most primitive and remote +doctrines handed down from antiquity; and among +others, in the riddles of this obscure Ephesian. Following +the scope of his philosophy, I am led to believe, +that, so often as the mind impels, or is impelled by +other causes, it begins to lose sight of pure knowledge, +and becomes in danger of thinking that every thing is +vain, light, and evanescent, except what is perceived by +the senses. Heraclitus well says, that Love and Hatred +govern all things. Now, when the principle of Discord +prevails, it subjects all things to the dominion of action, +and to the gross perceptions of sense. But when that +of Love is prevalent, it emancipates the struggling +chaos of things from the yearning of compulsion, and +from the darkness of sensual proximity; for, between +things that struggle immediately against each other, +light has no room to enter in and shine; and therefore +it is, that, when Love gains the ascendency, a new +arrangement is produced—an arrangement which, if I +<pb n="183"/><anchor id="Pg183"/>may so express it, is more serene, transparent, orderly +and divine, and wherein things exist in safety from the +danger of mutual destruction.</q> +</p> + +<p> +After a preliminary cough:—<q>My opinion,</q> replied +Xerophrastes, <q>coincides rather with that of Empedocles. +The immortal Sicilian thinks that Discord is +the only separating and arranging principle which +marks the boundaries between things, and enables +them mutually to act and repel, in such a way as to +preserve order.</q>—<q>Nay, nay,</q> interrupted Parmeno, +his hands being by this quite disentangled from his +cloak, and his countenance lighted up,—<q>Nay, nay, +to such doctrine I never shall assent. From Empedocles—even +from Xerophrastes, I must differ for ever +on this head. The order of which you and the Sicilian +speak, is the order of darkness only, and of blind force,—a +kind of order in which fierceness and cruelty +always reign.</q> But Xerophrastes continued:—<q>And I +farther concur with Empedocles in thinking, that Love +is a principle of which the predominance is more fit to +turn order into a chaos, than to produce the effects you +have described.</q>—<q>Nay, speak not against Love,</q> +quoth Parmeno—<q>Speak not against Love, nor believe +that any respect is due to the dictates of Empedocles, +who taught the worst that can be taught by any +man—that is to say, the alternation of order and confusion +succeeding each other throughout all time. To +seek for truth in conceptions like these, is no better than +to seek repose in the bosom of Ætna.</q>—<q>In reference +to that point,</q> resumed Xerophrastes, <q>I agree with +you in your disapprobation of Empedocles. But when +you say, that Love is the source of knowledge, you +<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/>much astonish me; for I have always thought rather +that its tendency is to bring confusion upon the mind.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Once more,</q> said Parmeno—<q>once more, let me +beseech you to say nothing against love. You are +thinking of the love of particular objects. You speak +of Cupid, and not of that heavenly Eros, who, so far +from enchaining, or tyrannizing over the mind, rather +enables it to escape into the tranquil freedom of far +extended contemplation. But what is contemplation +without the knowledge of permanent forms, on which +the mind may find repose, and so keep itself from being +perplexed by the shifting aspects of the many-coloured +universe? And therefore it is, O Xerophrastes, that, +sometimes laying aside Heraclitus, I study the ancient +verses of the poet, Xenophanes, who shews, by the +nature of abstract forms, that a certain unity pervades +all things. Xenophanes mused of old at Colophon, looking +through the blue ether of my native Ionia.—But +why should I speak thus at length? Alas! what is the +occasion of our being here!—I perceive the approach +of the poet, who was to compose an inscription for the +urn of my dear Fabricius. Yonder also is the architect, +who comes with a design for the tomb. Oh! day of +wo, that I should sit in judgment concerning the epitaph +and tomb of my ingenuous youth!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is, indeed, true,</q> replied Xerophrastes, <q>that +even I, in the repercussions of our talk, had well-nigh +forgotten this unhappy occurrence; but, perhaps, there +is something not after all entirely excusable in our giving +so much superiority to the affairs of philosophical +discussion. Now, however, it is evident, that we must +suspend our colloquy—And who, I beseech you, above +<pb n="185"/><anchor id="Pg185"/>all things, is he that now draws near to the place of +this mournful assembly, holding a horse in his hand. +Methinks I have seen his face before.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>That you have indeed, Master,</q> quoth he that had +come up,—<q>that you have; and no longer ago than +yesterday neither, if you will be pleased to give yourself +the trouble of recollecting. My name is Aspar—I +am well known. If but my excellent friend, the noble +Centurion Sabinus, were here, poor old Aspar would +have no reason to complain of the want of a good word.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Good morrow to you, Aspar,</q> said Sextus; <q>but +what is it that brings you hither just at this moment? +And for what purpose have you brought your horse +with you? for people of your sort do not in general ride +in the courts of the Palatine.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> quoth Aspar, <q>and is it you, who seem to +have been one of the contemporaries of that peerless +youth—is it you that ask such a question as this? +I did not, in truth, imagine that there was any friend +of young Fabricius, who did not know his affection +for little Sora. There is not such another within +twenty miles of the Capitol; but I brought her hither +merely out of regard for the family. As for myself, I +should never bear to look on her again with pleasure, +after knowing the sudden manner of his death. I wish +to Heaven the filly were fairly lodged in one of the +paddocks of the Lord Fabricius himself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lead the animal round into the stables,</q> says Parmeno, +<q>and I doubt not care will be taken of her.—Yonder +comes one of the buffoons of the theatre;—he, +I doubt not, is here to disgrace, if he be permitted, this +solemn scene, with ranting quotations from the tragic +<pb n="186"/><anchor id="Pg186"/>poets. Alas! alas! I cannot bear all this: There also +advance the officiators from the Temple of Libitina; +they have their cypress boughs ready in their hands. +Oh, my learned friend, I cannot sustain these things; +let me be gone into the mansion.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The admirer of Heraclitus, picking up his scroll, and +gathering together the folds of his mantle, moved slowly +into the house, Xerophrastes following with similar +gestures. Sextus and I also were about to take our +departure; and he, having procured from one of the +slaves of the house a myrtle garland, had already placed +it upon the bier of the young Fabricius, as the last +testimonial of his concern; when there drew near two +young men, clad in long mantles of black, who, solemnly +embracing my friend, began to exchange with him many +expressions of grief. +</p> + +<p> +While they were thus engaged, Rubellia, who had +been standing all this while a little apart, sent a boy +to inform us that the painter we were in search of had +at last made his appearance, and was anxious to proceed +with his portrait. I drew Sextus away, therefore, +and soon joined the lady and the artist; but as we +were moving off thus, one of the bystanding slaves, +an old gray-headed man, came up and whispered to +Sextus, <q>Sir, be not deceived; these two nephews of +my bereaved master are to me the most disagreeable +part of all this preparation. You have heard their +lamentation, and seen their sweeping raiment of mourning; +but, be sure, a principal subject of their reflection +is the probability that one or other of them must be +adopted by Fabricius. Alas! alas! so goes all between +Lucina and Libitina. There was never a birth nor a +<pb n="187"/><anchor id="Pg187"/>marriage that did not create some sorrow, nor a funeral +procession that did not give rise to some joy. Your +rhetoricians talk, but what avails it all? Slaves and +masters are alike subjected to the evils of the world, and +of these death is both the last and the least.</q> +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="4" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="188"/><anchor id="Pg188"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IV.</hi></head> + +<p> +Agaso, the painter, was a smart dapper little bandy-legged +man of Verona, dressed in a Grecian mantle, and +endeavouring to look as much as possible like a Greek. +Had Xerophrastes not gone off with his brother of +Ionia, I have no doubt this man would have made his +presence a sufficient excuse for speaking nothing but +Greek to us; but, even as it was, his conversation was +interlarded with an abundant intermixture of that noble +tongue. Nothing could be spoken of which Agaso did +not think fit to illustrate, either by the narration of +something he himself had seen or heard during his residence +at Athens, or, at least, by some quotation from +the Grecian poets. To judge from the square, and +somewhat ponderous formation of the man’s features, +Nature had not designed him for any of the most mercurial +specimens of her workmanship; but he contrived, +notwithstanding, by perpetual shrugging and grimacing, +and, above all, by keeping his eyes and eyebrows continually +in motion, to give himself an air of no inconsiderable +life and vivacity. +</p> + +<p> +Hopping before us with much alacrity, this artist +conducted our steps through eight or ten galleries, until +at length a curtain being withdrawn, which had covered +<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/>the space between two pilasters, we found ourselves in +a spacious apartment, which, from the courteousness +wherewith he bowed us into it, there could be no difficulty +in perceiving to be the customary sphere of his +own exertions. It was not altogether deserted even +when we entered, but the removal of the curtain attracted +more of the loungers of the baths, and ere Sextus +was fairly fixed before the table of the painter, the +modest youth had the mortification to find himself +surrounded with a very crowd of knowing and curious +physiognomies. The presence of these, however, appeared +not unwelcome to the master. On the contrary, +there arose between the little man, as he was preparing +his brushes, and those who had come to survey him at +his work, such a gabble of compliments, remarks, and +disquisitions, that it seemed to me as if he would have +been disappointed had he not been favoured with their +attendance. +</p> + +<p> +<q>How noble,</q> cries one, <q>is that portrait you have +just been finishing of Rupilius!—Heavens! with what +felicity you have caught the air! Methinks I see him +about to enter the Basilica, when he knows that some +great cause is awaiting his decision. What solemnity +in his aspect! what grandeur in the gown!—How +finely the purple of the laticlave is made to harmonize +with the colouring of the cheeks and chin! What +beautiful handling about the fingers with which he +grasps his tablets!—As for the head of the stylus, it is +the very eye of the picture.</q>—<q>Exquisite indeed,</q> +quoth another; <q>but who can look at it, or at any +thing else, in the same room with this little jewel?—Heavens! +what a beauty! who can it be? for I never +<pb n="190"/><anchor id="Pg190"/>saw her either at the Circus or the Amphitheatre. What +an inimitable modesty!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The painter heard this last piece of eulogy with an +air of some embarrassment, and at the same time looked +very cunningly towards the person who had uttered it. +But the Lady Rubellia tossed her head, and whispered +to me, <q>Pretty she may be, though I cannot say that +style of dressing the hair is at all adapted for such +features; but for modesty! hem. I asked Agaso two +or three days ago who it was, and he told me—guess!—it +is a little Spanish girl, whom that august-looking +person, with the grand laticlave, and the purple cheeks +and chin, and the glittering stylus, thought fit to bring +home with him when he was relieved from the hard +duties of the Pro-prætorship. I dare say, he takes care +she shall not be seen either at Circus or Amphitheatre; +and, indeed, I think it is sufficient impudence to shew +her likeness in the company of so many portraits of +respectability.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My dear lady,</q> quoth the painter, who overheard +somewhat, <q>for the sake of all that is sacred, no word +of this again! Wait, at least, till the canvass for the +Augurship be over. There are always so many to +exaggerate and misrepresent.</q>—<q>Exaggerate, indeed! +I think Rupilius ought to be ashamed of himself; and +at his time of life too. I think you said he was just +the same age with my uncle?</q>—<q>Yes,</q> says the +painter, <q>he must be of that standing; and I think he +went to Spain just about the period of your marriage.</q>—<q>Filthy +old fellow,</q> quoth she, very quickly; <q>and +this is the treasure he has brought home with him! I +have a great mind to tell his wife.</q>—<q>Hush, hush,</q> +<pb n="191"/><anchor id="Pg191"/>said Agaso, <q>this is the very day Rupilius spoke of +bringing her to see his own portrait; and, indeed, I am +sure that is the Senator’s cough. I rely on your prudence.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And the portly original of the laticlaved portrait +walked into the room, having his gown and every part +of his dress arranged as represented in the picture; +although in the living countenance it was easy to discover +a few lines and spots which had been omitted in +the copy. By his side moved a short woman, arrayed +in the extremity of costly attire, whose swarthy complexion +did not, in spite of cosmeticism, harmonize very +well with the bright golden ringlets of her Sicambrian +peruque; while behind the pair came a thin damsel, +whose lineaments exhibited a sort of faint shadow of +the same visage, the rudiments of which had been so +abundantly filled up in that of the rubicund magistrate. +The ex-pro-prætor, after saluting Agaso, stood +still with dignity in the midst of the apartment, +while the fond daughter, rushing close up to his picture, +could with difficulty affix any limits to her expressions +of satisfaction:—<q>O Jupiter! look at the ring. +It is the very ring he wears!—the very images are +engraved upon it; one can see the three Graces. I +never saw such a picture—when will it be brought +home?</q>—<q>Hush, hush, now, Primula,</q> quoth the +mother. <q>It is certainly a likeness; but why will +artists, now-a-days, always paint people older than +they are? And besides, it wants something of his expression. +Don’t you think so yourself, sir?</q> (turning +to the painter) <q>Rupilius has surely been looking very +gloomily when he sat.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="192"/><anchor id="Pg192"/> + +<p> +On this the painter, leaving Sextus, advanced to her +side, and after a pause of some moments, spent in contemplating +alternately his own work and the original, +said, with a courteous simper, <q>How much am I indebted +to you, most noble lady, for this visit, and these +judicious remarks! I only wish you had accompanied +the senator, for then, without question, his countenance +would have worn the look you desiderate; and I perhaps +might have more easily succeeded in catching it, +being aided by your suggestions. I hope it may yet be +amended.</q>—<q>How modest he is!</q> ejaculated the +spouse. <q>A single sitting will suffice, I am sure. We +shall come some day when you are quite alone, and I +will sit by you, and talk to Rupilius all the while.</q>—<q>Delightful!</q> +replied the artist; <q>how happy +shall I be in such an opportunity of improving both +the picture and myself! We must positively prevail +on the senator to give us this one sitting more.</q>—<q>Never +ask his consent,</q> quoth the matron, smiling +upon her lord; <q>leave the whole matter to me. The +picture is for me. And besides, if he were to refuse, I +know how I should be certain to overcome him; for he +has asked me to sit to you myself, and you know if I +were to persist in sitting with my gloomy face, as he +has with his, we should soon bring him to his right +reason.</q>—<q><hi rend="italic">Your</hi> gloomy face, noble lady!</q> replied +the artist, strutting back a pace or two. <q>I am afraid, +if that is the charm by which alone he is to be softened, +we must give up all our hopes.</q>—<q>I protest,</q> says the +lady, <q>I believe you will keep me laughing all the time +I sit. And pray now, what dress do you think I should +wear? Prima says, I ought certainly to be in green; +<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/>but I was thinking, that perhaps a yellow byssine would +suit me better. But I shall send over half a dozen robes, +and then we can choose whichever seems to be the best. +One thing only I am quite resolved upon, and that is, +that I shall have my golden chain, with the miniature +of the Pro-prætor—the Senator, I mean—at the end +of it.</q>—<q>Nothing could be in finer taste,</q> he made +answer; <q>and if my lady should think of green, or +purple, or any dark colour for the gown, the rings of +the chain and the setting of the miniature would have +the richest effect.</q>—<q>And do, my dear mother,</q> interrupted +Prima; <q>and do have on the sapphire tiara when +you sit to Agaso. Or what would you think of having +your own hair simply like this lady here? What a +beauty!</q>—<q>A smart little girl, indeed,</q> quoth the +mother. <q>I think I should know that face. Is she +Roman, Agaso?</q>—<q>No, not a Roman,</q> answered the +artist; <q>nor do I think my lady can ever have met +with her. But perhaps my Lord Rupilius may, for she +is a Spaniard.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Agaso turned with a smile to the Senator; but he, +scarcely appearing to look at the picture, answered, with +great gravity, <q>I think I have seen the countenance +before; and perhaps it was in my province. The face +is certainly a pretty one; but nothing so very extraordinary.</q>—<q>They +may say what they like,</q> observed +the spouse, drawing herself up; <q>but there is no such +thing as a really urbane air to be got out of Rome.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Meantime, in another part of the room, some other +picture appeared to be exciting a scarcely inferior measure +of curiosity. On approaching the party, I perceived +that this was a sketch, in chalk only, of the head +<pb n="194"/><anchor id="Pg194"/>and shoulders of an old man; and when I had gained an +opportunity of more nearly surveying it, I recognized +without difficulty the features of Tisias of Antioch. The +greater number of those who were looking on it, seemed +also to have been present at his death; for I heard +pointed out by them with exactness the parts in which +the resemblance had been most successfully taken. The +beauty of the old man’s lineaments, and the serenity of +his aspect, they all admired; and while they were loud +in praising these, Agaso himself also joined them, saying, +<q>Oh, so you have found out my old Christian! +How did you get hold of him? for I meant it not to be +seen till I had lain on a little of the colour. But is it +not a fine study?—is it not a noble head? I think I +shall introduce it in the picture I am painting for Pliny. +The subject is the sacrifice of Iphigenia. I went to the +Amphitheatre,</q> he continued, <q>rather late, without +expecting any thing particular; but it immediately +struck me that he might be turned to some account. I +made several little sketches of him, for it was a long +time ere it was over; and this is from the one I took +just after he had made his oration. His hands and feet +were singularly fine, I thought. Here,</q> said he, turning +over the leaves of his tablets—<q>here you have him +in a variety of shapes!—the muscles shewed powerfully +when he knelt;—there, again, you have his fingers +as they were folded on his breast—not much flesh, but +the lines good—veins well expressed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But about this time the great bell rung in the tower +above the Baths, and the greater part of the young +loungers soon dispersed themselves; some to fence or +wrestle—others to play in the tennis-court—others to +<pb n="195"/><anchor id="Pg195"/>ride in the Hippodrome, in preparation for the bath. +So Agaso, being left alone with Sextus, Rubellia, and +myself, had at length leisure to proceed with his portrait +of the youth. +</p> + +<p> +Much did the lady and the painter discourse, and +many merry things were said by them both; but all +they said could not entirely remove the embarrassment +fixed on the countenance of Sextus; nor, of a +truth, did he present himself with much advantage +before the artist. Rubellia, nevertheless, sate over +against him with looks of no severe criticism; and I +doubt not she would have remained to the end of the +sitting, had not one of her household come with a message, +which, as it seemed, rendered necessary her departure. +It struck me, that the messenger answered very +well to Dromo’s description of the fat Calabrian with +whom he and Boto had been drinking; but of this I +said nothing to Sextus. +</p> + +<p> +It was near the hour of supper before we were dismissed, +and we found Licinius already about to enter +his eating chamber. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="5" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="196"/><anchor id="Pg196"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter V"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter V"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER V.</hi></head> + +<p> +The orator received us with less coldness than I could +have expected. I suppose his knowledge that our +morning had been spent in Rubellia’s company, had +in some measure softened his feelings of jealousy towards +his son; and perhaps he had given me credit for advice, +to the merit of which I had no claim. But he remained +not long at table after supper was concluded, being +summoned to discourse in private with a client:—so that +Sextus and I were left to spend the evening as it might +please ourselves; for as to Xerophrastes, he had not as +yet made his appearance, and we took it for granted he +had remained at the mansion of Fabricius, for the purpose +of consoling with philosophical controversies his +bereaved brother of Ionia. +</p> + +<p> +We retired, therefore, into the apartment of my +young friend; but he could not read a page without +coming upon some verse which made him throw +down the scroll to ruminate on the charms of his +Sempronia. When he took up his lute, his fingers +seemed to evoke only the most melancholy sounds. +It was only in the exercise of the foil, that he succeeded +in banishing from his thoughts the troubles +of his situation; but both of us having contended till +<pb n="197"/><anchor id="Pg197"/>we were breathless, were soon compelled to sit down, +and then the unhappy boy’s exhausted body seemed to +communicate a new debility to his mind. We sat for +the most part in silence, (for I soon found that I could +not say any thing capable of interesting him,) until the +shades of evening had quite darkened the chamber, and +then we walked together, not less silently, in the adjoining +open gallery, until the moon had arisen from +above the tall poplars around the Pantheon and Baths +of Agrippa, and diffused her radiance over all the beautiful +gardens and noble edifices that lay beneath us down +to the brink of the river. Lassitude of spirit then, if not +expectation of sleep, rendered Sextus desirous of retiring +to his couch; so, having exhorted the youth to wrestle +with his grief, and to call hope to his aid, I at length +left him to himself. But as for me, I had as yet no +feeling of weariness, and, besides, I remembered the +promise I had made to Dromo in the morning. +</p> + +<p> +I was very much surprised, indeed, that the Cretan +had not as yet come to me, and made inquiry concerning +him of Boto; but hearing that the man was +absent from the house, I thought from this there was +the more likelihood of his being engaged in some scheme, +the result of which I should by and by learn from his +own lips. I dismissed my Briton, therefore, and prepared +to read by my watch-light, and while I was considering +what I should read, I remembered the scroll I +had received from Tisias, which forthwith I took from +the place in which I had locked it up on the morning +of the preceding day. There fell from out of it, as I +unfolded it, a letter sealed, but without any superscription. +This I of course considered as meant only +<pb n="198"/><anchor id="Pg198"/>for the eye of Athanasia; so I kissed the parchment her +fingers were destined to touch, and, before I began to +read, restored it to its receptacle. +</p> + +<p> +More than one of you, my young friends, have already +heard me speak, on another occasion, of the impression +which that night’s reading made upon my mind, and +been told, from my own lips, what book it was that was +contained in the scroll of Tisias; the rest of you will +judge for yourselves with what astonishment it was that +I, who had at the best expected to unfold some obscure +treatise of Asiatic lore, some semi-barbarous exposition +of mystical riddles, found myself engaged in the perusal +of a plain and perspicuous narrative of facts, written +evidently by a man of accomplishment and learning, +and in Greek of which the most elegant penman of +these times could have had no occasion to be ashamed. +In a word, it was the Gospel of the holy physician St +Luke which had been put into my hands; and at this +day I am still grateful that this was the first of the +Christian books which I had an opportunity of seeing; +for such had been my education, that I am afraid others, +not less worthy of the true faith, might have repelled +me by the peculiarities of their composition, as well +as by the acquaintance with many things, to me then +entirely unknown, which they take for granted in the +style of their commencement. Here, however, there +was enough only of mystery, the more effectually to +stimulate my curiosity, while the eagerness with which +I engaged myself in its gratification, was abundantly +repaid from the beginning, both by the beauty of the +simple narrative itself, and the sublimity of the conceptions +embodied and evolved in its course. +</p> + +<pb n="199"/><anchor id="Pg199"/> + +<p> +Considering the book which I was reading, as one +merely of human origin and invention, I could not help +regarding it with such admiration, that it appeared to +me above all things wonderful, I had never seen it +mentioned by any of the writers of the age, or heard it +spoken of by any of those who, in my presence, since +I came to Rome, had talked concerning the faith and +doctrines of the persecuted Christians. But this was +not all. At least, said I to myself, there is something +here which deserves to be inquired into and examined. +Of things such as these, if told falsely, it must needs +have been—nay, it must still be, easy to prove the +falsehood. It is impossible that, in the days of Tiberius, +any such events should have occurred in Palestine, +without being more or less submitted to the inspection +of Roman eyes. This is no wild tale, handed down +from the dark ages of a barbarous race. Here I have +a Roman Centurion described as among the witnesses +of this man’s miraculous power, and acknowledging +the divinity of his benevolence. Here, at least, must +have been one spectator without prejudices, otherwise +than against this Prophet of Nazareth. Of a surety, the +legends of Rome herself contain many tales which +demand a much greater measure of indulgence; since +the wonders they narrate appear to have been oftentimes +attended with no beneficial consequences, either +to individuals or to the state; whereas here the occasion +seems always to have been such as might justify the +interference of supernatural might. The power of this +person seems to have been exerted only for good; and +his precepts are full of such godlike loftiness as neither +Socrates, nor Plato, nor any of those Greek sages, who +<pb n="200"/><anchor id="Pg200"/>bowed in reverence to the hoary wisdom of Egypt and +India, would have disdained to admire. +</p> + +<p> +The doubts, suspicions, and distrusts, with which +such thoughts were mingled,—the under-current of +reluctance with which I felt myself all along contending,—were +such as you may more easily imagine than +I can describe. +</p> + +<p> +As the narrative went on, however, you will have no +difficulty in supposing that my attention became more +and more rivetted, and that, occupied with the strange +events and sublime scenes it unfolds—and agitated by +turns with the pity, the wonder, the terror, and the +admiration that matchless story must ever awaken,—I +had forgotten every thing beyond the page of the +volume on which my finger was fixed. +</p> + +<p> +It was only the rustling of Dromo’s cloak against the +edge of my chair, that made me aware my privacy was +disturbed. His hands seemed to be busied in tightening +his girdle even before he was able to speak, and +the first words he uttered, were—<q>Come, sir—this is +no time for study. I have acquaintance with some of +the soldiers at the Capene Gate, and they will let us +pass through; but they are relieved at the next watch, +and then we shall have no chance.</q>—<q>And why,</q> said +I, hastily thrusting the scroll into my bosom—<q>why, +Dromo, or for what purpose should we desire to pass +through the Capene Gate at the dead hour of night?</q>—<q>Come,</q> +said he; <q>there is no time for explanation. +It is simply because it is the dead hour of night that +we must pass through the gate; for it would do nobody +any good to pass through at any other time. Come—or +abandon Sextus to his fate.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="201"/><anchor id="Pg201"/> + +<p> +Thus adjured, I could not oppose any obstacle to his +zeal. The chained porter was lying asleep across the +threshold; but Dromo had already found means to have +the door opened, so he leaped lightly over the man, and +I imitated his agility. The Cretan then locked the +gate on the outside, by means of a key which he carried +in his bosom; and I followed his rapid steps without +farther question. +</p> + +<p> +This cunning varlet, (who seemed, indeed, to move +as if he had a natural aversion to every open place,) +threaded one obscure lane after another, keeping always, +where the moonlight had any access, to the dark side +of the way; a person better skilled than myself might +well have been somewhat puzzled; as for me, I had +not the least conception whither I was going. Close, +however, did I adhere to him; and we reached the +Capene Port, which is on the south side of the city, not +many bow-shots from the Anio, before I could have +imagined it possible to traverse so great a space. +</p> + +<p> +Here Dromo told me to wait for him a single moment, +and stepped down into a cellar, in which a light was +burning; but he staid not long, and when he returned +to me, I observed that his style of walking was more +clumsy than usual, which, indeed, was not to be wondered +at, considering that he had now to carry, not +only himself, but two huge skins of wine, intended, as +I at once suspected, for the purpose of facilitating our +passage. I told him my suspicion in a whisper; but +he made no answer, except by handing to me one of +his burdens. So laden, we crept on as well as we could +to the portal, beneath the shadow of which two Prætorians +were pacing, their armour ringing audibly upon +<pb n="202"/><anchor id="Pg202"/>them amidst the silence of the night.—Silently did the +well-oiled hinges turn, and very silently stooping did +we step beneath the lintel of the Capene Gate, which +as silently was again made fast. +</p> + +<p> +As we advanced among the funereal monuments +which line the Appian Way on either side, Dromo stood +still every now and then for a moment, as if to listen; +but whatever he might have heard, or expected to hear, +I perceived nothing, except here and there the howl of a +dog, or the lazy hooting of the night-owl, from the top +of some of the old cypresses that rose between us and +the moon. +</p> + +<p> +At last he seemed to catch the sound he had been +expecting, for he started suddenly; and laying his +finger on his lip, crept to the parapet. +</p> + +<p> +The ground behind was more desolate of aspect than +any part of that which we had traversed—stoney and +hard, with here and there tufts of withered fern; and +immediately below the wall two human figures were +visible. The one was sitting on the ground, wrapped +in a dark cloak which entirely concealed the countenance: +the other was a half-naked boy, holding in +a string a little new-shorn lamb, which with one of +his hands he continually caressed. But forthwith the +sitter arose, and throwing away the cloak, displayed +the gray tangled tresses of an old woman, and two +strong boney arms, one of which was stretched forth +with an impatient gesture towards the stripling, while +the other was pointed upwards to the visible moon. +<q>Strike,</q> said she, <q>strike deeply—beware lest the +blood tinge your feet or your hands;</q>—and I recognized +at once the voice of the same Pona that had +<pb n="203"/><anchor id="Pg203"/>attracted my notice in the morning, at the foot of the +Palatine. +</p> + +<p> +The boy drew forth instantly a knife from his bosom, +whose glittering blade was buried in the throat of the +yearling, and it was then first that I perceived a small +ditch dug between the boy and the woman, into which, +the lamb’s throat being held over it, the blood was +made to drop from the wound. So surely had the blow +been given, that not one bleat escaped from the animal, +and so deeply, that the blood flowed in a strong stream, +dashing audibly upon the bottom of the trench. And +while it was dropping, the old woman muttering a sort +of chant to Hecate, as I gathered, showered from her +girdle I know not what of bones or sticks, mingled +with leaves and roots, which afterwards she seemed to +be stirring about in the blood with one of the tall +strong stems of the fern that grew there. The wildness +of her gestures was such, that I could not doubt she had +herself some faith in the efficacy of the foul charms to +which she had resorted; nor could I see her stirring +that trench of innocent blood, without remembering +the still more ruthless charms, whose practice the poets +of Italy have ascribed to such hoary enchantresses. The +dreariness of the midnight wind, too, as it whistled +along the bare and steril soil around us, and the perpetual +variations in the light, by reason of the careering +of those innumerable clouds, and the remembrance of +the funereal purposes for which, as it seemed, all this +region was set apart—the whole of this together produced, +I know not how, a certain pressure upon my +spirits, and I confess to you, I felt, kneeling there by the +side of my now trembling Cretan, as if I owed him no +<pb n="204"/><anchor id="Pg204"/>great thanks for having brought me that night beyond +the Capene Gate. +</p> + +<p> +It seemed as if the goddess, to whom the witch’s song +had been addressed, did not listen to it with favourable +ear; for the clouds gathered themselves more thickly +than ever, while the wind howled only more loudly +among the tombs, and the half-scared owl sent up a +feebler hooting. Notwithstanding, the old woman continued +fixed in the same attitude of expectation, and +the stripling still held the well-nigh drained throat of +his lamb above the trench. By degrees, however, the +patience of both seemed to be exhausted; and there +arose between them an angry altercation. <q>Infernal +brat of Hades!</q> quoth the witch, <q>look ye, if you have +not stained your filthy hands, and if the thirsty shadows +be not incensed, because you have deprived them of +some of the sweet blood which they love!</q>—<q>Curse +not me, mother,</q> replied the boy—<q>Did you think, +in truth, that the blood of a stolen lamb would ever +propitiate Hecate?</q>—<q>Imp!</q> quoth she, <q>Hold thy +peace, or I will try whether no other blood may make +the charm work better!</q>—<q>Beware!</q> quoth the boy, +leaping backwards—<q>beware what you do! I am no +longer so weak that I must bear all your blows.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Stop,</q> cried I, <q>for there are eyes that you think +not of, to take note of your wickedness;</q> and in my +vehemence I shook one of the great loose stones that +were on the top of the wall, which rolled down and +bounded into the ditch beside them; and the woman, +huddling her cloak over her head, began to run swiftly +away from us, along the wall over which we were +leaning. The boy only stood still for a moment, and +<pb n="205"/><anchor id="Pg205"/>looked upwards towards the place where we were, and +then he also fled, but in the opposite direction; and +Dromo said to me in a very piteous whisper, but not +till both were out of sight,—<q>Heaven and earth! was +ever such madness as to scare the witch from her incantation? +Alas! for you and for me, sir—and, most of +all, alas for Sextus—for I fear me after this we shall +have no luck in counteracting the designs of Rubellia.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rubellia! what? can you possibly imagine Rubellia +to have any thing to do with this madness?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Imagine?</q> quoth he; <q>do you need to be told, +that if things had gone well with that woman and +her ditch, we should never have been able to preserve +Sextus from her clutches?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>By the rod of Hermes, good Dromo!</q> said I, <q>this +will never do. I shall believe much on your credit, but +not things quite so extravagant as this.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He made no reply save a long, incredulous, and, I +think, contemptuous whistle, which seemed to reach +the ears of every owl between us and the Appian; with +such a hooting and screeching did they echo its note +from every cypress. And when Dromo heard that doleful +concert, his dread redoubled within him, for he +shook from head to foot, while I held his arm in mine; +until, at last, he seemed to make one violent effort, and +springing on his feet, said—<q>Come, Master Valerius, +let us behave after all like men!</q>—I smiled when he +said so—<q>The hour has not yet come, if my Calabrian +friend is to be trusted, at which the lady was to visit +Pona in her dwelling. It is but daring a little more. +If she has seen and known us already, then nothing can +endanger us farther; and if she hath not, we may +<pb n="206"/><anchor id="Pg206"/>escape again.</q>—<q>Well spoken,</q> said I, <q>most shrewd +Dromo, and like yourself; but what is it that you would +have us to do?</q>—<q>The first thing,</q> he replied, <q>is +what has already been too long delayed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Cretan produced from under his cloak a long +fictitious beard, which he immediately proceeded to fix +upon his own face with a string. A thin tall cap of +black cloth was next brought forth, which he fastened +in like manner around his brows; and a little piece of +chalk, with which he once or twice rubbed over his +black bushy eye-brows, completed a disguise beneath +which I should certainly have sought in vain to discover +any trace of the natural countenance of Dromo. In +short, after a few changes in the folding of his cloak, +there stood before me a figure so venerably mysterious, +that had I met it unawares at midnight, in the neighbourhood +of so many tombs, I am not sure, although of +no superstitious temper, that I could have regarded it +without awe. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come now, good Master,</q> quoth he, <q>you are taller +than I, pluck me a branch from the nearest tree, +and I think you shall confess I make a decent Soothsayer.</q> +In this it was easy to gratify him; for there +was an old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs +were so dry with age, that I soon abstracted a very +proper wand for him. After receiving which, he stood +for a moment leaning on it in a dignified fashion, +as if to rehearse an attitude worthy of his new vocation; +and then said—<q>Well, sir, I think if the Lady +Rubellia comes now, we shall be tolerably prepared for +her. But I have no disguise for you; therefore, the +moment you hear a footstep, be sure you wrap your +<pb n="207"/><anchor id="Pg207"/>face in your gown, and stand behind me, for so shall +you best consult both your own concealment, and the +dignity of this Assyrian. There is no other way by +which she can come from the Suburra, therefore we +might stay very well where we are; but I think it +might be still better to await her coming where there +are either tombs or larger trees to cast a shade over our +equipage, in case the moon should take it into her head +to be more kind to us than she was to Pona.</q>—<q>By +all means,</q> said I, <q>most venerable man—and besides, +the wind is rather chilly, therefore I shall be well pleased +to have shelter as well as shade.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You shall have both,</q> quoth he; <q>there is a thick +grove of pines only a little way on. I believe there is +a very grand tomb in the midst of them, in case you +should prefer to sit under it.—By the bye,</q> he continued, +after some little pause, <q>it is odd enough that it should +be so; but I believe it is the very place where all that +race of the Sempronii, to which a certain young damsel +belongs, have been burnt and buried ever since Rome +was a city. You cannot see their tomb yet; but that is +only from the thickness of the trees, some of which are, +I suppose, even older than itself. Now I remember +me, it was just there that they set up two winters ago +the funeral pile of old Caius—I mean the father of the +Lady Athanasia, whom you saw at Capito’s villa. They +are a very noble race, and although none of the richest +now-a-days, there is not a prouder in Rome. I saw +the procession at that old man’s funeral myself, and I +think the images of his ancestors that they carried before +him, would have reached half way from hence to +the Great Road. Grim, dusty figures, I trow they were; +<pb n="208"/><anchor id="Pg208"/>but I doubt not there had been many a haughty captain +among them when they were alive.</q> +</p> + +<p> +These words were spoken as we were moving onwards +towards this same grove of pines, and before he had +made an end of speaking, we could clearly hear the +wind sighing among their branches, and along the dry +underground. And on coming to them I found that he +had said truly there was a tomb in the midst of them, +for a very noble, high, circular tower was indeed there, +which, from the grayness of its walls, and luxuriance +of ivy, had the appearance of being at least as ancient +as any of the surrounding trees. The only method of +access to the inside, seemed to be by means of a winding +stair, which rose on the exterior from the ground to +the summit—a method not unusual in Roman sepulchres—and +it was on one of the steps of this stair that +I seated myself, where, between the shaded wall on +the one side, and the pine branches on the other, I +was effectually concealed. As for Dromo, I know not +whether it was that he coveted not exactly such close +proximity to the stones of such an edifice; but instead +of ascending with me, he took up a position beside one +of the largest pines over against me. +</p> + +<p> +Although the moon had got rid of her clouds, and the +sky, where any of it could be seen, was abundantly +brilliant, the natural darkness of that funereal grove +was such, that very little difference could be produced +in the midst of it by any variation on the face of any +nightly luminary. The tower itself received some of +the moonbeams on its carved surface; but its contemporary +trees participated not in any such illumination,—one +solemn shade covering all things beneath the +<pb n="209"/><anchor id="Pg209"/>influence of their growth. <q>I can scarcely see you, +Dromo,</q> said I; <q>but I think that speck must be your +beard, and if so, I beg you would tell me what it is you +really have in view by all this preparation? Do you +expect me to stay here on a tomb-stone all night, +merely because you wish to have an opportunity of +terrifying poor Rubellia by some ghost-like howl or +other when she passes you?—which, by the way, it +seems by no means certain she will do at all. Or what +is your purpose?</q>—<q>Hush!</q> was his answer; <q>ask +no questions, but hem thrice if you hear a footstep—for +young ears are the keenest.</q> Accordingly silence +was kept so strictly, that, in spite of the chillness of +the stone on which I sate, I presently fell into a sort of +dozing slumber. +</p> + +<p> +By degrees, however,—nor, considering the hour and +the fatigue I had undergone, is it wonderful that it +should have been so,—my sleep must have become sufficiently +profound, for I did not at first, on waking from +it, very well remember either where I was, or for what +purpose I had come thither. And, indeed, I have little +doubt my slumbers might have continued till day-break, +but for the interruption I am now to mention. +</p> + +<p> +And yet it seemed as if even in my sleep I had been +prepared for this by some strange anticipation, for +although it was a near sound of singing voices that dispelled +my slumbers, and made me start from the stone +on which I had placed myself, I could not help feeling +as if that sound were not altogether new to me;—whether +it were that the half-sensible ear had been +already ministering indistinctly to the dreaming spirit, +or that some purely fantastic prelude had been +vouch<pb n="210"/><anchor id="Pg210"/>safed to the real music. I started up suddenly, that +much is certain, and listened with astonishment, yet +not altogether with such surprise as might have been +expected to attend a transition so hasty from sleep to +waking, and from silence to the near neighbourhood +of sounds at once so strange and so sweet. With +breathless curiosity, nevertheless, with awe, and not +entirely I think without terror, did I listen to the +notes which seemed to ascend out of the habitation +of the noble dead into the nightly air—wild, yet +solemn, as if breathed from the bosom of a stately +repose and a pensive felicity; insomuch, that almost I +persuaded myself I was hearing the forbidden sounds +of another world, and the thought came over me,—yet +almost I think at that moment without farther +disturbing me,—what fearful interpretations the old +poets have affixed to such untimely communion, and +how the superstition of all antiquity has shrunk from +its omen. +</p> + +<p> +My first impulse, after a moment had elapsed, was to +call on Dromo, and I did so, at first in a low whisper, and +then two or three times more loudly—but all equally +in vain, for no answer was returned; and though +I strained my eyes in gazing on the place where I +had last seen him, yet there I could perceive no trace +whatever of any human figure. The moonlight indeed +shewed with more distinctness than before the tall stem +of the old pine-tree against which he had been leaning; +but no motion, nor the least appearance of whiteness, +could either my eyes or my imagination discover there. +I might easily, you will say, have stept across the road, +and entirely satisfied myself; but I know not well +<pb n="211"/><anchor id="Pg211"/>what it was that nailed me to the place where I stood, +and prevented me even from once thinking of doing so. +The calm sepulchral music, my friends, still continued +to stream from the recess of the mausoleum, and painless +awe held me there, as if by a charm incontrollable. +I gazed upwards, and beheld the moon riding above the +black pine tops, in a now serene and cloudless heaven. +The wind also had passed away, as it appeared, with +the clouds it had agitated. The bird of night was asleep +on her unseen bough; and all was silent as death, except +only the dwelling of the departed; and a certain +indescribable delight was beginning, as I gazed and +listened, to be mixed with the perturbation wherewith +at first I had been inspired. +</p> + +<p> +And I know not how long I might have stood so, +but while I was yet listening to this mysterious music, +there was mingled with its expiring cadence the sound +of a heavy footstep on the staircase above me, and looking +up, I perceived in the moonlight the figure of a +man, clad in a white gown, but having a naked sword +stretched forth in his hand, immediately over the place +whereon I was standing. I obeyed the first natural +impulse, and leaped downwards swiftly on seeing him; +but this availed me nothing, for he also leaped, and +almost before my feet had touched the ground, I felt +the grasp of his hand upon my shoulder, and that so +strongly, that I perceived plainly there was as little +possibility of escape as of resistance. I made therefore +no farther effort, but suffered him to do with me as he +pleased; and he, on his part, said not a single word, +but still retaining his hold, pointed with his sword to +the same steps from which I had descended, and +com<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/>pelled me to mount them before him, up to the very +summit of the round tower. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why is this, sir?</q> said I; <q>and whither do you +conduct me?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peace,</q> was all his answer; and, in like manner as +he had made me climb the exterior, so also he compelled +me to begin the descent of a similar flight of steps, +which led down from an aperture above, into the interior +of the edifice. And although I must confess to you +that I obeyed not this silent guidance without considerable +fear, yet I strove as well as I could to control +myself. I moved with a step in which I think not +there could be perceived any trembling. +</p> + +<p> +Yet you will admit that even had I been master at +that moment of less firmness, I might have been excusable; +for looking down, I perceived that a lamp +was burning in the midst of the sepulchral tower far +below me, and saw sitting around it a company of +eight or ten persons, at whose mercy, it was quite visible, +I must be placed. Neither, if I might judge from +the demeanour of the person that was bringing me into +their assembly, did there appear to be any great room +for dependance on them; for, as to themselves, not one +of them looked up towards me as I was stepping down, +and being wrapped in their cloaks, I had no means of +discovering what manner of persons they were. The +way in which I had been treated, however, by one of +their number, was a sufficient evidence, either that +they conceived themselves to have been injured by my +being there, or that they were capable of taking some +undue advantage of my helpless condition. The calmness +of their attitudes, and the recollection of the sounds +<pb n="213"/><anchor id="Pg213"/>that I had heard, inclined me to the former of these +suppositions; and when I perceived that not one of +them stirred, even till I had reached the lowmost step +of the interior staircase, in this, without question, I +already felt myself considerably strengthened. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold,</q> said my guide, as I at length touched the +marble floor of the mausoleum itself—<q>Behold proof, +and that living, that my suspicions were not quite so +groundless as you were pleased to imagine. Here is a +man whom I found listening, even on the very steps of +this tower. It is for you to decide what shall be done +with the eaves-dropper.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With this the whole company sprung at once to their +feet, and I perceived evidently, from the surprise expressed +in their looks and attitudes, that until that +moment not one of them had been aware of my +approach. I was about to speak, and declare my innocence +of any treachery, or even of any knowledge concerning +the purpose of their meeting; but before I +could do so, one of them, and I think the oldest of all +that were present, having in an instant recovered the +tranquillity which my arrival had disturbed, said to me +in a voice of the utmost gentleness, <q>Young man, what +has brought thee hither, or who sent thee? Art thou +indeed a spy, and was it thy purpose to betray our +assembly?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> said I, <q>I know nothing of your assembly, or +of its purpose; I fell asleep by accident on the outside +of this tower, and, when I awoke, the music that I +heard detained me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Examine the stripling,</q> quoth he that had conducted +me—<q>examine his person.</q>—<q>His looks belie +<pb n="214"/><anchor id="Pg214"/>him,</q> replied the senior, <q>if you have cause for suspicion. +But if you will it so, search the young man.</q> +And with that my guide, laying his unsheathed sword +upon a table, or altar of black marble, proceeded to +search my garments, and finding in my bosom the scroll +which I had received from Tisias, he glanced on it for +a moment, and then handing it to the senior, said, +<q>Now, sirs, doubt ye if ye will.</q>—<q>Before heaven—it +is the book of the holy Luke!</q> said the other; <q>this is +indeed suspicious. How came this scroll into thy hands, +young man? Art thou aware that one of the books of +the Christians has been found in thy bosom?</q>—<q>I +know it,</q> said I; <q>it is one of the books of their faith, +and I have read in it this evening for the first time.</q>—<q>Then +thou art not thyself a Christian?</q>—<q>I received +the book from one Christian,</q> said I, waiving the question; +<q>and I made promise to deliver it into the hands +of another?</q>—<q>Name the Christian who gave thee this +book!</q> said my stern guide.—<q>Tisias of Antioch,</q> I +replied; <q>the same who died yesterday in the Amphitheatre.</q>—<q>Yes,</q> +quoth he, again; <q>and I suppose it +was there he gave it to you. Every one knows the +name of Tisias. Name, if you please, the person to +whom you are to deliver the book.</q>—<q>You shall pardon +me,</q> said I, <q>that I will not. You may call me +an eaves-dropper, if you will; but you shall find I am +no traitor. It is a Roman—a noble Roman lady to +whom I must give this book; and I would not tell you +her name although you should slaughter me here in this +tomb, which I have entered living and without guilt.</q> +And having said this, I folded my arms, and stood still, +abiding their will. +</p> + +<pb n="215"/><anchor id="Pg215"/> + +<p> +But scarcely had I finished these words, ere I felt a +small trembling hand laid upon my shoulder, and looking +round, I perceived Athanasia herself, who whispered +into my ear,—<q>Valerius, was the book for me? If so, +you may say it boldly, and I will vouch for your word.</q>—<q>For +you, lady,</q> I answered in the same tone, <q>and +for none other. You well know that I was present in +his prison the night before his death; so far at least +you can confirm what I have said.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> said she, addressing the old man that had +before questioned me, <q>I know this young man: and I +believe what he has said, and will be answerable for his +fidelity. It was he that went in to our friend the other +night in his prison, and the book was intrusted to him +by the old man, that it might be given into my hands. +His name is Valerius—Caius Valerius—and he is by +birth a noble Roman.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Say you so, lady?</q> interrupted my original conductor; +<q>then I ask his pardon. I have wronged Caius +Valerius; but both you and he must forgive me, for it +must be confessed he was found in a very extraordinary +situation.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even so,</q> I replied, <q>I have nothing to complain +of. I perceive that I am present in an assembly of +Christians; but he shall do me much wrong that thinks +I bear any enmity to them,—or, from all that I have +yet seen or read, to the faith which they profess. I +have read part of that book,</q> I continued, <q>for I made +promise to Tisias that I should do so before giving it to +Athanasia; and I trust I shall still be permitted by her +to read more of it before it is finally demanded from +me.</q>—<q>Oh, read it!</q> said Athanasia, gently again +whis<pb n="216"/><anchor id="Pg216"/>pering to me. <q>Oh yes, read the book, Valerius, and +may God enlighten the reader.</q> And so saying, she +herself took up the scroll from the table on which it +was lying, and gave it again into my hands.—<q>There +was also a letter for you,</q> said I, receiving it, <q>but that +I left at home.</q>—<q>No matter,</q> said Athanasia, <q>you +shall give me the letter and the book both together +hereafter.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the meantime,</q> said I, <q>I suppose it were better +I should retire.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Young sir,</q> said the senior, <q>that is as you please; +in a little while we shall all be moving towards the city. +Stay with us till then, if such be your will; that which +you may hear, can at least do you no harm. Already, +I doubt not, you have seen enough to despise the ignorant +calumnies of our enemies.</q> +</p> + +<p> +When he had said so, the old man walked to the +side of the sepulchre, and took out from behind one +of the urns that stood there, (ranged in their niches,) +a small casquet, which, returning, he placed before him +on the marble table. Then, opening the casquet, he +brought forth a silver goblet, and a salver containing +some little pieces of bread; and, untying from his neck +a massive cross of gold, he set that also on the table, +between the cup and the salver. In brief, the Christian +priest, (for such, as you already see, he was,) had +finished his preparation, and was about to commence +the administration of the blessed Eucharist. And when +all the rest were kneeling before the table, Athanasia, +laying her hand upon my arm, beckoned to me to +kneel by her side; and so indeed I would have done +in my ignorance, had not the priest himself pointed to +<pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/>a station a few yards behind the lady, to which, accordingly, +I drew back—apart from those who were to be +privileged with the participation of those holy symbols. +</p> + +<p> +Scarcely had they composed themselves in their +places, and listened to the first words of the appointed +service, when I, standing there by myself, thought, +unless my ears deceived me, there must be some one +on the outer stair-case of the tower; and my eyes instinctively, +I suppose, were fixed upon the aperture, +which, as I have told you, was in the high roof above +the circle of the niched walls. Here, however, when I +first looked, there was nothing to be seen, but the round +spot of the sky, far up in the midst of the marble roof; +but while I was looking steadfastly, that space was +suddenly diminished; and a dog bayed, and at the +same moment a voice which I well knew, screamed, <q>I +have them—I hold them—let them burst the net if +they can.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The cry of Pona disturbed effectually the Christian +priest, and the whole of those that were with him. +Rising up hastily from their knees, they stood all +together around the table, while the old man, having +kissed both the cup and the cross, restored them as +quickly as he could to the casket from which they +had been taken. But while the priest was doing this, +he that found me on the stair appearing to revert +into his suspicion, and looking sternly upon me where +I stood, said, <q>Is this then the innocence which we +spared! Is this the noble Roman for whom Athanasia +pledged herself? Speak, brethren, what shall be done +to this traitor, by whom, even more than by those dogs +of the tombs, it is a shame for us that we have been +<pb n="218"/><anchor id="Pg218"/>hunted?</q> Saying so, the man lifted up his sword again, +and it seemed as if he would have smitten me to the +ground without farther question. But Athanasia threw +herself swiftly between him and me. <q>For shame, +Cotilius,</q> said she; <q>such suspiciousness is unworthy +of a Roman knight.</q>—<q>You say well, noble damsel,</q> +quoth the old priest, interrupting her; <q>but you might +say also that such cruelty is unworthy of a soldier of +Christ. Peace, peace, children; there is no evil in the +youth, nor, if there were, would it be our part to +avenge it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +While he was saying this, three or four blazing +torches were thrust down into the place from above, +and Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, said, +<q>Look up, Caius, I see helmets.—Alas! am I not +already here? why, if they will slay me, should they +drag me away now from the tomb of my fathers?</q> I +felt the trembling of her hands, and she leaned upon +my shoulder. I know not, I will confess to you, +whether at that moment I tasted more of pleasure or +of pain. +</p> + +<p> +But by this time several of the soldiers had already +begun to descend into the tower, and before another +minute had elapsed, we found ourselves surrounded by +the flame of their torches. And he that seemed to lead +the party, after counting us one by one, said, turning +to his companions, <q>Well, an old woman has told the +truth for once—here are even more I think than she +warned us of.—Come along, worthy people, you must +not keep the Tribune waiting for you all night, and our +watch is well-nigh expired already. Come, mount the +stair—it will take a good half hour yet, I believe, to +<pb n="219"/><anchor id="Pg219"/>lodge you all safely in the Tullian—And do you,</q> he +added, laying his hand on the hilt of Cotilius’ sword—<q>do +you, brave sir, allow me to save you the trouble +of carrying this bauble.</q> Nor was the stern knight so +foolish as to dispute the command; but having yielded +up his sword, he forthwith began to ascend, one or two +spearmen preceding him with their torches. The priest +followed, and so did the rest; the last being Athanasia +and myself. +</p> + +<p> +On every side around the old tower, when I looked +from the summit of it, I perceived foot soldiers drawn +up in a double line, while the road along which I had +come with Dromo, was occupied by a band of horsemen, +one of whom moved forward when he saw us descending, +as if to take cognizance of the number and quality +of the surprised assembly. His long cloak being muffled +about his ears as he sate, and the shadow of his helmet +falling deeply, I did not at first suspect who it was; +but he had not counted half the party to the superior +Officer behind him, ere I recognized him from the sound +of his voice; and who, think ye, should it be but my +good friend Sabinus? +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion, when his eye detected me, checked +his horse so sharply that the animal bounded into the +air; and, <q>Valerius!</q> quoth he, <q>ha! by the life of +Cæsar, what is the meaning of this? Valerius in a +Christian synagogue! By all the gods, there must be +some mistake.</q> But before I, in my confusion, could +make any answer to these exclamations, his eye chanced +to glance on Athanasia, who, trembling, still retained +the support of my arm; whereupon, <q>Ha! ha!</q> said +he, in a quite different tone of voice, <q>there is a lady in +<pb n="220"/><anchor id="Pg220"/>the case.</q> And then, stooping in his seat, he whispered, +half laughing, into my ear, <q>My most hypocritical +smooth-face, you shall see what is the consequence of +bringing these transatlantic pranks of yours to Rome. +By Hercules, you wild dog, it may cost you some little +trouble to get out of this scrape.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Having said so, he turned his horse, and rejoining +the troop, appeared to enter into close conversation with +him who sate at the head of the line. Of what my +friend said, I could catch nothing more than certain +vehement oaths, while, all the time, the Tribune (for +such he was) continued to shake his head, in a way +significant at once of doubt and determination. The +end was, that he pointed with his sword; and Sabinus +forced his horse backwards, at one plunge, into the place +from which he had advanced. +</p> + +<p> +Our party were immediately separated one from +another. I saw the priest lifted on a mule and hurried +away towards the city, with a horseman on each hand +of him. The fiery Cotilius, and one or two more, were +compelled to follow, with similar attendance, in the +same direction; others, again, had their horses’ heads +turned more to the westward—but all departed at speed, +and were soon lost to my view among the projections +of the tombs. The last that remained to be disposed +of were Athanasia and myself, and for a moment I +had some hope that we might perhaps be intrusted +to the same guards; but this hope was in vain, and +after I perceived that it was so, scarcely even was time +permitted to me for bidding her farewell. To kiss her +hand, and to whisper a single word of parting hope into +her ear, was all I could do. A tear rolled from her +<pb n="221"/><anchor id="Pg221"/>cheek and fell upon my hand; yet she smiled faintly +upon me, and <q>Hope,</q> said she—<q>yes, dear Valerius, +Hope and Faith both go with me.</q> And with that the +pale maiden was separated from the arm to which she +had trusted, and I saw her also mounted and borne +away rapidly. A moment after, I found myself, in +like manner, seized and lifted upon a horse, and almost +before I could look around me, we had escaped from +the flare of the torches, and the crowd of the soldiery, +and were stretching at a rapid pace, I knew not whither, +although I suspected, from the width of the road, that +we had regained the Appian. +</p> + +<p> +But I have forgotten to mention to you, that just at +the moment when they were lifting Athanasia upon the +mule that was to bear her from my sight, my eye caught +a glimpse of the witch Pona, who was sitting at the root +of one of the pine-trees, close to the tower. And behind +her stood, leaning against the tree, a figure wrapped in +a rich red cloak, which I suspected to be a female also, +but could not be certain, because the countenance +was concealed in the folds of the garment. To this +person, whoever it might be, the witch turned round +eagerly, while the soldiers were carrying off Athanasia. +I saw no more, for, as I have told you, immediately +afterwards I also was carried away. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="6" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="222"/><anchor id="Pg222"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VI.</hi></head> + +<p> +Our hasty pace had not borne us to any great distance +from the place where all these things occurred, ere the +sky, which, as ye have heard, had all that night been +sufficiently variable, began to exhibit appearances +which my two companions interpreted as significant of +the approach of one of those nocturnal storms, to which, +at that season of the year, the fair heaven of Italy is +peculiarly subject. That they apprehended somewhat +of this sort, I perceived from their looks, as they stopped +for a moment to draw the hoods of their mantles over +their brazen helmets; for words they uttered none, either +to me or to each other, until our journey drew near +its close. For me, however, the numberless agitations +through which I had passed in the course of the few +preceding hours, had, I suppose, communicated an unnatural +measure of ardour to my boyish blood; for +neither did I feel the night-breeze chill me as we rushed +through it, nor partook, in any sort, of the desire my +companions testified to cover themselves from the rain, +which seemed to be about to discharge itself out of all +those black and lowering clouds now gathered above +our heads from every region of the heavens. When, on +the contrary, the first heavy drops fell, I bared my +<pb n="223"/><anchor id="Pg223"/>forehead with the eagerness of one who, in a parched +region, comes suddenly upon the margin of a well-spring. +Nor did this sensation subside even after the storm had +thickened to the utmost, and the dusty roads had drunk +abundantly of the plashing rain. The strong wind blew +with redoubled coolness upon my moistened neck—the +rain-drops dashed on my hot hands; and I perceived, +that, as is the nature of those animals, the thunder +which was mustering in the air, filled my horse one +moment with dread, and the next with a blind fierceness. +At last the thunder shouted over-head, and its +echoes spread wide and far on either side, until they +seemed to be absorbed to the left in the remote depths +of the Appenine, and on the right hand in the measureless +bosom of the Western Sea—of which, as we +galloped along the hill side, the broad lightning (unless +my fancy deceived me) revealed ever and anon a +distant and melancholy glimpse. +</p> + +<p> +We had passed a hill covered with towns, villages, +and stately mansions, (which I afterwards learned was +no other than the famous Alban,) ere the storm subsided +beneath the influence of the reddening dawn. +Yet even then we slackened not our pace, although the +horses were by this time not a little exhausted with the +swiftness of their motion, and the weight of their wet +riders. On rode we in the growing light of the morning; +but I perceived ere long that we had left the wide and +magnificent Appian Way, and were pursuing the line +of a narrower road, which seemed to carry us more and +more westward. +</p> + +<p> +We halted for a moment on the brow of a declivity, +where three paths separated; and I perceived that +<pb n="224"/><anchor id="Pg224"/>among my guides there was some little uncertainty as +to which of these it behoved them to follow. While +they were muttering together, I looked and beheld at +length the wide sea heaving far below, over what appeared +to me to be a forest as mighty as I had ever seen +in my native island. +</p> + +<p> +Old hoary oaks leaned on either hand quite over the +narrow path-way, into which (after their brief pause of +consultation) my conductors directed our course. Here +and there, such a shield had those huge leafy boughs +extended over the road, that the dust rose from amongst +the feet of our horses as if all that night not one drop +of rain had fallen there; although elsewhere, in the +absence of such mighty trees, the water lying across the +path in pools testified abundantly that the tempest had +not spared the forest any more than the champaign. +Vast waving gulfs of bay and ilex, with here and there +some solitary pine raising itself proudly in the midst, +seemed to stretch away on either hand between the +groves of those gigantic oaks. +</p> + +<p> +The path we followed carried us ever deeper and +deeper into the bosom of the woods; and, at length, so +buried were we in the windings of their stifling shade, +that I had lost all notion of the direction in which I +was moving; until, after two or three hot hours, weary +man and jaded horse were, I believe, equally delighted +with snuffing once more the open current of the air. +We reached not the edge of the forest, however, before +I could hear distinctly the dashing of the Mediterranean +waves; and the last ascent we climbed laid open to my +view a long sweep of the rolling waters, and their rocky +coast garnished every where with the richness of +super<pb n="225"/><anchor id="Pg225"/>incumbent woods. Far, very far, in the distant north, +I thought I could recognize some of the stately towers +of Ostium, bosomed apparently within the billows over +which they presided. All between was one wide waste +of wood and rock, save here and there a watch-tower +perched on the margin, and whitened half-way up with +the foam of the yet uncalmed sea. +</p> + +<p> +Then, nor ever could I look upon the waters of the +great deep, without something of that filial yearning +which seems so natural to every native of our sea-girt +island. But neither could I contrast the condition in +which I now approached it, with the gay and hopeful +mood in which I had so lately left it behind me, +without many thoughts more sad and serious than as +yet had frequently visited my bosom. What a strange +brood of visions had passed before my eyes, since, but a +few days before, I stept for the first time, light of heart, +beneath the shadow of those far-off bulwarks! What +new emotions had arisen, in the interval! How had +every sense been gratified! how had every dream of +imagination been exceeded! Yet what a void had been +revealed within!—Alas! said I to myself, why is it +that I have been subjected to all these novelties? Had +I not done better to have remained, after all, where life +flowed ever calmly—where affection hung over me like +a protecting buckler, and my soul could sleep in the +security of unbroken faith! But this was only for a +moment. The thoughts of Athanasia haunted me more +deeply and more firmly. I thought over every word she +had spoken—every look of hers rose up in succession, +with all the vividness of a beautiful and a troubled dream. +I seemed to feel, as if she were yet present beside me, +<pb n="226"/><anchor id="Pg226"/>the trembling of her pale fingers upon my shoulder—I +kissed the hand on which her parting tear had fallen, as +if it were yet wet with the dear moisture. When I +thought of the perils in which she must now be enveloped—of +the pains she must have suffered—must at +that moment be suffering,—it was as if I could have +burst bands of iron, like flax, from off my hands. +When a glimpse of the darker future opened before me, +I shuddered, and, urging my poor horse onwards in the +recklessness of total abstraction, I perceived that even +my guides pitied the agony of my despair. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="7" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="227"/><anchor id="Pg227"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VII.</hi></head> + +<p> +We stopped before one of the watch-towers which, +as I have told you, I had seen scattered along the edge +of the sea. But this, when we came up to it, appeared +larger than I had expected to find any of them. The +narrow way, alongst which we had been riding, brought +us close to its gate, on the side towards the land; but +the rock shelving rapidly on the other side, gave it the +semblance, at a little distance, of being suspended over +the waves. +</p> + +<p> +It was a building of rude, and apparently very antique +structure, the under part square, but the upper circular; +as is, for the most part, the old Roman fashion in such +erections. And this, indeed, I doubt not, might have +stood there long enough to have shewn a beacon, when +some fleet of Syracuse or Carthage darkened the blue sea +over against the Lestrigonian bay renowned in old song, +or the snow-white promontory of Gaieta. +</p> + +<p> +One of the soldiers dismounted, and began to knock +rather violently at the door; but some little time elapsed +ere any sound from within responded to the clamour +he raised. At last a hard and withered face made its +appearance at a little opening above the door, and then +the helmets passed, I suppose, for a sufficient warrant, +for in a twinkling we heard the bolts creaking; the old +<pb n="228"/><anchor id="Pg228"/>postern was soon set ajar, and forth stepped the venerable +keeper. Imagine a tall, skinny man of threescore +years, with a face as dry and yellow as ye have seen on +the outside of a pye, and hair as white as ever the skill +of a confectioner could represent, and legs bearing the +same proportion to the feet, which the shaft of Saturn’s +scythe usually does to its blade. Clothe the nether part +of this figure in Dacian, or Gaulish breeches, throw a +somewhat threadbare cloak over his shoulders, and to +finish the outfit, deck his head with a casque of the +Macedonian cut, that is to say, sitting close above the +ears, and topped with a bristling plume of horse hair. +The Warder stood with dignity, and listened with +gravity, while one of my Prætorians whispered his +message. On its conclusion, he shrugged his shoulders, +and regarding me with a glance made up, I think, in +pretty equal proportions, of surprise and contempt, +signified by the motion of his hand that we might all +three enter. He whistled at the same moment, and +there came forth a comely damsel, who, with many +blushes and smiles, took possession of the reins of our +horses.—<q>Stand there,</q> quoth he, <q>stand there, little +Cestia, and see if there be never a handful of corn to be +got for the prince’s cattle,—stand there, and we shall +be with you again anon.</q> And then he also whispered +something into the maiden’s ear, and I saw her looking +at me from under her eyelids with an expression of very +uncommon curiosity. Two or three curly-pated urchins, +of different sizes, joined her at the same moment, and +to them, in her turn, the maiden whispered; whereupon +the eldest of the children retreating behind her, eyed +me earnestly along the skirt of her tunic, while the +<pb n="229"/><anchor id="Pg229"/>younger ones continued to gaze where they were, with +looks of open stupidity and wonder. Of all this I could +make nothing at the moment, but when we had got +fairly into the inside of the tower, I heard the children +whispering to each other, <q>A Christian! A Christian! +A Jew! A Jew!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The lower part of the tower, into which I had now +been conducted, seemed to form nothing more than one +huge, bare, and quadrangular apartment, serving, I supposed +(and rightly) at once as hall and vestibule to the +upper chambers contained within the walls. A small +flight of steps, in one of the corners, seemed to afford +the only means of access to what was above; but from +the position of a door immediately below these, it was +we inferred that there were vaults under ground. +Close beside this door there stood, upon a very rude +pedestal, a still more rude bust, either of Jupiter, of +Apollo, or of Hercules. The workmanship was such, +that I could not be very certain which of the family it +was intended to represent, nor whether the principal +appendage was a club, a lyre, a bow, or a thunder-bolt; +but it did not escape my observation, that the old keeper +crept as close as he could to the sacred stone, as soon as +I stepped over the threshold. +</p> + +<p> +One of the little boys that had come out to the door +on our arrival, busied himself in setting forth a wooden +board, whereon he placed in great order a huge piece of +yellow cheese, and a heap of crisp white cakes of rye. +A large jug of water also garnished the mess; but there +seemed to be a little less of diligence, or more of difficulty, +about the wine. After some pause, however, the +mistress of the garrison appeared. A string of amber +<pb n="230"/><anchor id="Pg230"/>beads floated to and fro on the ocean of her bosom. She +had fine golden bracelets on her arms too, but they were +only half seen, being almost buried in fat; and she wore +a flaxen wig, which did not entirely conceal the dark +bristles below. At the girdle of the amazon hung, on +the right side, the much desiderated bunch of keys, +being balanced on the left by a dagger and toothpick +case, almost of equal dimensions. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Will <hi rend="italic">you</hi> drink to Cæsar, young man?</q> cried the +matron, ere the sitting had been much prolonged; <q>will +you drink honestly to the Emperor, in case you also +have a full cup given you? and, by the by, I think you +must have almost as much need of it as the rest.</q> +And, with this courteous invitation, I heard her whisper +to one of my guards,—<q>By Jove, ’tis a proper lad, +after all; is this true that they have told me of him? +Why, I believe, the young man has a red edge to his +gown. What is his name? who is he?</q>—I heard him +answer,—<q>By the life of Cæsar, you know as much +about him as any of us. There was a whole cluster +taken last night a little way beyond the Capene-Gate, +and he was one; but what they were about, or who he +is, I know not, only he is certainly somebody, for I saw +our Centurion salute him.</q>—<q>I saw him with Sabinus,</q> +whispered the other—<q>I am quite sure of it, the last +day the Amphitheatre was open; they sate together, +and appeared familiar.</q>—<q>I pray you, sir,</q> quoth the +lady, raising her voice,—<q>I pray you fill your cup, and +here I pledge you to our better acquaintance. You +shake your head—well. But what must be, must; +and while you are with us, we may at least be good +friends.</q>—<q>Thanks,</q> said I, complying with her +com<pb n="231"/><anchor id="Pg231"/>mand; <q>Here, then, is health to all present; and fair +health to the great Trajan, says no one here more heartily +than I.</q>—I drank off the wine, and setting down the +goblet, I believe I said, <q>Excellent, by Jove,</q> or something +of that sort; for they all started when they heard +what I said, and the old woman called out lustily, <q>Fill +him another cup to the brim, whether he be Christian +or not. The young man at least swears by the gods, +and drinks to Cæsar.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The old man,</q> observed one of the soldiers,—<q>he +that was killed the other day in the Amphitheatre—he +might have saved his head, even at the last moment, +if he would have done as much.</q>—<q>Well, well,</q> quoth +she again; <q>let every one mind his own matters. +Husband, bring down your book, and let the new-comer +enter his name with his own hand.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Having drained his cup, the keeper rose, and ere long +returned with a musty scroll of parchment, which, having +blown away the dust from it, he presented to me. +I glanced over the record, and found in it the names of +various persons, all apparently entered in their own +handwriting; and most of them, as I could perceive, +bearing date in the troublous reign of Domitian. The +last was that of Marcus Protius Lamontanus, who, as it +seemed, had been set free from his confinement immediately +on the accession of Nerva; and immediately +under this I wrote my own name, with that of my +birthplace. The keeper read, and said, <q>So preserve +me the power of Jove! A Valerius! and born in +Britain! Can you be the son of the same Valerius who +was Centurion in the ninth legion under Agricola?</q>—<q>You +have guessed rightly—I am the same.</q>—<q>Then +<pb n="232"/><anchor id="Pg232"/>the more is the pity,</q> he replied, in a grave voice, +<q>that you should have entered, in such a case as this, +the dwelling of one that was a true soldier beneath the +eagle of your father. But forgive me if in any thing +we have been disrespectful.</q>—<q>There is no occasion,</q> +said I, <q>for any such apology. I am here as a prisoner, +and have been treated with all courtesy beyond what a +prisoner could expect.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>By Hercules!</q> interrupted the spouse, <q>I thought +I had some knowledge of the face—Well, I hope ten +years hence he will be as fine a man as his father was +the day he slew the Caledonian giant, and tumbled him +from his chariot in front of all the line—yes, in sight +of Galgacus himself. It was the same day,</q> said she, +turning to her lord, <q>that you were taken prisoner, and +driven away into the woods.</q>—<q>As witness these +marks,</q> quoth the man; and with that he stripped open +his tunic, and displayed part of his breast, stamped with +various figures of blue and yellow, after the northern +fashion, and bearing withal the traces of two formidable +wounds. +</p> + +<p> +The woman redoubled her kindness; but not wishing +to interrupt festivity, I soon requested her to shew me +the place where I was to be confined. And, indeed, as +you may imagine, I had by this time not a little need +of repose. +</p> + +<p> +Both she and her husband accordingly rose to usher +me to my prison. I gave money to the soldiers, and +requested them to inform Sabinus of the place to which +I had been conveyed; but did not choose to write any +thing, either to him or to Licinius, until I should have +had a little time for reflection. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="8" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="233"/><anchor id="Pg233"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VIII.</hi></head> + +<p> +My fatigue brought speedy sleep; and so profound, +that before I again unclosed my eyes, the calm sea was +already purple below me, and the sun about to set. But +neither purple sea, nor golden sky, nor all the divine +tranquillity of the evening air, could sooth my mind into +repose, after I had once awaked to a sense of the situation +into which I had been brought—I should say rather of +the situation in which Athanasia was placed. For myself, +I could not in seriousness fear any calamity worthy of +the name,—if such should come, it must be my business +to wrestle with it as I might. But to think of her, +young, beautiful, innocent; and of all to which she +might be exposed amidst the rude hands in which I had +left her! +</p> + +<p> +Some time had passed before my attention was +attracted by a conversation carried on in the chamber +below me, in which you will not be surprised that I +should have felt myself interested, even although the +distance was such that I could not distinguish one word +that was said. I knew from the first moment that it +was impossible I should be mistaken—I was perfectly +certain it was Sabinus himself, who was talking with +the old woman; and I at once suspected that the worthy +<pb n="234"/><anchor id="Pg234"/>Centurion, having learned from the soldiers who carried +me off, to what place they had conveyed me, had undertaken +this speedy journey, for the purpose of comforting +me in my confinement. The kindness with which he +had treated me from the beginning of our acquaintance +had been such, that I could have no occasion to wonder +at his exerting himself to discover me; but I confess +this alacrity was more than I had been prepared for, +and I waited only for the moment when he should +enter my apartment to throw myself upon his bosom, +and intrust all my troubles to him, as to a friend and +a brother. There was something, however, which I +could not at all comprehend in the merriment which +seemed to be reigning below on his arrival. Peals of +female laughter interrupted the uniform hearty tone of +the Centurion’s voice; and the feeble treble of the old +Warder himself was stretched ever and anon in attempt +at a chuckle. +</p> + +<p> +At last in they came, and Sabinus, embracing me +affectionately, thrust into my hand a piece of parchment, +which I perceived to be nothing less than an +order for my immediate release. Then taking off his +riding-cap, and rubbing with his handkerchief his most +audacious and soldier-looking brows, <q>My dear boy,</q> +quoth he, <q>I see you are going to thank me—but +wound not modesty by fine speeches. There was +war before Helen—have a better care another time, +and don’t pay Rome such a poor compliment, as to say +that you can find nobody to charm you but a Christian +damsel, and no place for flirtation but a gloomy tomb +lined with urns and lachrymatories. My honest friend +here was quite frightened with the idea of having such +<pb n="235"/><anchor id="Pg235"/>an unbelieving reprobate as they said you were, under +the same roof with her children. But now her fears +are dispelled, for good souls are always tolerant to the +little vagaries of young blood; so thank your hostess, +my lad, kiss her hand, take one cup to the hearth of the +old tower, and tighten your girdle.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well!</q> quoth the woman; <q>who should have +thought when the soldiers brought him in with such +mystery, that it was all for kissing by moonlight! I +protest to Venus, they would have made me believe +he had been caught eating an infant; but still I cannot +quite pardon him. Well—well—we must e’en take +good hope he will mend ere he dies.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Die?</q> cried the Centurion; <q>do you talk of dying +to one that has scarcely yet begun to live!—Come, +come, Caius, I hope, after all, you may never get into +a worse scrape.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if I do,</q> said I, <q>I hope I shall always be +equally fortunate in my jailers.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>By the beard of Jove!</q> quoth Sabinus, <q>it needs +no great skill to see that you have been fortunate in +that respect. I swear that, if the truth were known, +you are almost as unwilling to leave this tower now, as +you were last night to be torn away from another.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Oh, Master Kæso,</q> quoth she again, <q>when will +you have done with your joking? Well, your father +loved a jest in his time himself; but now he, I suppose, +is quiet enough. And he, good old man, how does he +wear?—Can he still sit in his porch of a fine morning, +and listen to the news, as he used to do, with his cup +at his knee?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I trust the old grasshopper can still chirp when the +<pb n="236"/><anchor id="Pg236"/>sun shines. But to tell you the truth, it is long since +I have seen him; and if this young blade has no objection, +I mean to pay him a visit this very night. I am +only just come home from Britain, and have not yet +had leisure to salute my Lares.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I said something about being anxious to return as +soon as possible to Rome; but the Centurion answered +me with another shout, <q>Come, come; she’s safe +enough. I suppose you think every one gets out of jail +as easily as yourself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I found it was out of the question to disapprove of +any of the schemes of Sabinus; so, having saluted the +hostess, and flung my purse to her children, (who, +by the way, still regarded me with looks of apprehension,) +I accompanied him with a good grace to the gate. +I made inquiry before I went forth concerning the old +jailer likewise; but I could easily gather from the expression +of face with which his wife accompanied her +indistinct reply, that he had, long before that time, +reached a state in which she felt little desire to exhibit +him. The Centurion whistled as he stepped across the +threshold, and there forthwith drew near a soldier, +wearing the Prætorian helmet, (now sufficiently familiar +to my sight,) and leading in his hand three horses. +In the rear, I recognized, not without satisfaction, the +busy countenance of my friend Dromo, whose ass did +not appear quite so eager to join the party as its rider. +A few sturdy thumps, however, at last brought the +Cretan close to us, who saluted me with great appearance +of joy, and then whispered into my ear, <q>Great +Jove! we must keep silence for the present. What a +story I have to tell; and I suppose there is one to hear +<pb n="237"/><anchor id="Pg237"/>likewise—but all in good season. We must not crack +nuts before monkeys. I have a letter for you,</q> he +added, <q>from Sextus, and another from Licinius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion sprung on his trusty war-horse, who +seemed to rejoice in the feeling of his weight; and we +were soon in motion. I asked no questions either +about the course or distance, but rode by his side so +silently, that he bestowed on me many good-natured +rebukes, for suffering a little affair of love to distress me +so greatly. <q>Cheer up now,</q> quoth he, <q>and do not +make me repent of carrying you to my father’s house, +by shewing the old man, who has had enough of troubles, +such a countenance as must make him think of Orcus, +even although he did not know himself to be near its +gates. It is more than a year since I have seen him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +This sort of speech he repeated so often, that I +thought the best way would be to tell him frankly the +true history of the adventure, from whose immediate +consequences he had delivered me. I told him, therefore, +every thing about both Tisias and Athanasia, and, +indeed, kept nothing from him in the whole matter, +except only what referred to the impression made on +my own mind by what I had read of the Christian +book,—for, as to this subject, it was one which I +totally despaired of being able to make him in any +measure comprehend,—and besides, the state of my +own mind was still so uncertain in regard to it, and +my information so imperfect, that I could not trust +myself with speaking of it to any one, until I should +have had leisure for more both of reading and of reflection. +</p> + +<p> +He preserved silence for some minutes, and then said, +<pb n="238"/><anchor id="Pg238"/><q>In truth, Caius, you have distressed me. I thought +it was merely some little frolic born of an hour, to be +forgotten in a day; but I cannot refuse you my sympathy. +Would I had more to offer!</q>—<q>Dear Sabinus,</q> +said I, <q>I know not how to thank you. You saw me +but a few days ago the merriest young fellow that ever +trod the pavement of Rome—happy in the moments +that passed, and full of glad hopes for all that were to +come; but now I feel myself quite changed. Almost I +wish I had never left my British fields; and yet I should +never have seen Athanasia.</q>—<q>Poor fellow!</q> quoth +he, laying his hand on the mane of my horse, <q>I perceive +there is, indeed, no trifling in your case. Compose +yourself; whatever chances there may be in your favour +will never be bettered by despondence.</q> He paused a +little, and proceeded—<q>The worst of the whole is +this new bitterness against these Christians. Except +during Nerva’s time, there was always some punishment +to be feared by them, in case of being detected; +but there was a way of managing things in almost +every case, and people were well enough disposed to +grant immunities which were always attended with +some good to the Fisk. Nero and Domitian, to be +sure, acted otherwise—but these were madmen; and +even they did so only by fits and starts. But now, +when a prince like Trajan has taken up the matter, it +is no wonder that one should consider it more seriously. +One cannot help fancying he must have had some +good reason before he began—that is one thing; and +having once begun, he is not the man to drop it lightly—which +is a more weighty consideration. Do you +think there is positively no chance of her giving +<pb n="239"/><anchor id="Pg239"/>up this dream, when she finds what it has exposed +her to?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>No,</q> said I; <q>I am sure she will not, nor can I +wish it would be otherwise with her.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well,</q> he resumed, <q>I enter into your feelings so +far, my friend, even on that point. I cannot imagine +you to have been so deeply smitten with a girl of a +flighty unsteady character. But then this is not a case +to be judged of on common principles. It is no light +thing to be exposed to such examinations as are now +set afoot for these people; and if she behaves herself +so resolutely as you seem to expect, what is the end +of it? I consider it highly probable—for there is no +friendship in uncandid speaking—that, in spite of all +her friends can do, they will banish her at the very +least; scarcely dare I speak of it, but even worse than +banishment has heretofore befallen Romans—ay, Roman +ladies too,—and these as high in birth and place +as Athanasia.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My dear Sabinus,</q> said I, <q>do not imagine that +now for the first time all these things are suggested to +me. Imagine rather, how, unable for a moment to +expel them from my mind, I have spent these miserable +hours. Her friends, too, what must not be their +alarm!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The thing was so done,</q> quoth the Centurion, +<q>that I think it is impossible it should have made +much noise as yet. If there was in the family no suspicion +that the lady had any connection with these +people, they must be in perfect perplexity. I lay my +life they take it for granted she has had some private +intrigue, and has gone off with her lover.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="240"/><anchor id="Pg240"/> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> said I, <q>when they hear the truth, it will be +still worse than this in their eyes. Yet it appears fit +that no time should be lost in making them acquainted +with the real state of the case. O Sabinus, I foresee +that in all these things I shall have need of your counsel +and your help.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You shall have them both, my dear boy,</q> said he,—<q>you +shall have them both to the uttermost. But +there is no question at all about the propriety of telling +the relations all you know. Licinius is probably well +acquainted with them. I am almost sorry for having +prevented your immediate return to the city; and yet +one night will soon be over.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Athanasia herself——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah! that indeed is a point of some difficulty. It +was merely from having remembered who the men +were that rode off with you, that I was enabled to learn +so soon whither you yourself had been conveyed. But +the party consisted of a few men out of almost every +one of our cohorts,—those, in short, that were on duty, +scattered up and down in different parts of the city; +and I may not find it very easy to discover who had the +care of any other individual.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Athanasia——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>True,</q> said he, <q>I had not thought of it. There +was but one female besides herself. That will furnish +a clue. You may rely on it, I shall easily find out the +place to which they have taken her; but then where, +and at what distance that may be, Heaven only knows; +for it seemed as if every prisoner were to be carried to +a separate place of confinement. At all events, even if +we knew where she is, we could do nothing at present. +<pb n="241"/><anchor id="Pg241"/>Come, cheer up, now you have unburdened yourself of +all this load. I shall be ready to start as early as ever +you please in the morning.</q> +</p> + +<p> +By this time the moon was in full splendour, and +nothing could be more beautiful than the scenery of the +native place of Sabinus, as we drew near to its precincts. +A little gentle stream, which kissed our path, did not +desert us as we entered the village, but murmured all +through its humble street. Street, indeed, I should +not say; for there were dwelling-houses on the one +side only, the other being occupied with gardens, in the +midst of which I saw the Doric portico of a small temple. +In front of this a bridge crossed the stream, and +there we were met by a troop of maidens, who seemed +to be moving toward the sacred place with some purpose +of devotion, for they were singing in alternate measures, +and in their hands they carried garlands. Some recognized +Sabinus, and, without interrupting their chant, +saluted him with their laughing eyes. We halted our +horses, and saw them proceed all together into the +hallowed enclosure, which they did, not by means of the +bridge, although they were close by it, but by wading +hand in hand through the stream below; whose pebbles, +as it appeared from the evenness of their motion, +dared not to offer any violence to the delicate feet that +trod upon them. <q>Happy creatures,</q> said I to the +Centurion; <q>of a surety they think these moonbeams +shine on nothing but glad faces like their own. Alas! +with what heart does poor Athanasia at this moment +contemplate this lovely heaven!</q>—<q>Nay, Valerius,</q> +quoth he, <q>if people were not to be contented with +their own share of sorrow, would the world, think ye, +<pb n="242"/><anchor id="Pg242"/>be worth living in? I hope Athanasia herself will ere +long sing again by the moonlight.—But stop, here is +my own old haunt, the abode of our village barber, and +now I think of it, perhaps it might be as well that you +and Dromo should remain here for a moment, till I +ride on to the house, and let them know you are coming, +for the sudden sight of strange faces might alarm the +old folks at this hour.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He had scarcely said so, when the tonsor himself, +hearing, I suppose, the sound of our horses’ feet, ran +out with his razor and basin in his hand, to see what +might be the matter. <q>Ah, good Virro,</q> quoth the +Centurion, <q>with joy do I once more behold your face. +Well, the girls still sing, and Virro still shaves; so +every thing, without question, goes well.</q>—<q>The Centurion +himself!</q> replies the barber; <q>so Venus smile +upon me, it is Kæso Sabinus, who I began to think +would never come back again.—Here, boy, bring out +a cup of the best. Alight, I pray you—well, at least, +you shall kiss the rim of the goblet.</q>—<q>I will,</q> said +he, <q>I promise you, my good friend, and that in a +minute or two; but I must first salute my father; and, +in the meantime, I leave with you in pledge, good +Virro, my excellent friend here, and the most knowing +Cretan that ever landed at Brundusium.—Dismount, +Valerius, I shall be with you again ere Virro can half +smoothen the chin of Dromo, which even this morning +shewed no small need of trimming.</q>—<q>Well, well,</q> +said the tonsor, <q>eagles will have their own way. Be +speedy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion had set the spur to his charger; and +we, in obedience to his command, submitted ourselves +<pb n="243"/><anchor id="Pg243"/>to the guidance of the oily-faced little barber. A stripling +was already holding two horses at the door, but +another came out and took care of our animals, and we +entered, exchanging courteous salutations, the tonsorial +penetralia. +</p> + +<p> +They were occupied by as various and talkative a +company, as the imagination of Lucilius ever assembled +in such a place. In the middle of the room, which was +spacious, though low-roofed, hung a huge shield of +brass, with a dozen mouths of flame blazing around the +edge of its circumference, close beside which sat a man +with a napkin tucked about his neck, the one side of +whose visage, still besmeared with a thick coat of lather, +testified that the curiosity of Virro had induced him to +abandon a yet uncompleted job. The half-trimmed +physiognomy, however, displayed no sign of impatience, +and the barber himself seemed not to think any apology +necessary, for he resumed his operations with an air of +great cheerfulness, saying, <q>Neighbours all, here is +Kæso Sabinus, that is now the Centurion, come once +more to gladden the old village with his merry face, +and that, I promise you, is prettily tanned since we +knew him first.</q> +</p> + +<p> +This piece of news appeared not a little to interest +several of those who were sitting under the tonsor’s +roof. <q>Ha!</q> said one, <q>the noble Centurion! Well, +has he brought home a wife with him at last? for the +talk was, that he had been seen at the Amphitheatre, +paying great court to one of the richest ladies in Rome.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A wife?</q> says Virro, <q>no, no, centurions and barbers +can do without wives. But if he is to have one, +I shall be happy to hear she is rich; for centurions, +<pb n="244"/><anchor id="Pg244"/>after all, sometimes carry most of their silver upon their +helmets, as we do most of our brass on our basins.</q>—<q>Indeed,</q> +said I, <q>I never heard of it before.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>If it please you, friend,</q> said another of them, <q>is +this the same Sabinus that has lately been in Britain?</q>—<q>Britain,</q> +quoth an ancient dame; <q>I never heard +that name before—Britain! I know it not—I know +not where he hath been, but they told me it was over +the sea, perhaps in Palestine.</q>—<q>Tut, dame,</q> interrupted +the barber, (who was now busy on Dromo,) +<q>you think every one goes to Palestine, because your +own boy carried a spear with Titus; but you know +they ruined the city, and killed all the Jews and Christians, +and there is no occasion for sending Centurions +thither now.</q>—<q>Killed all the Jews and Christians, +said you?</q> quoth another. <q>I think the old dame has +the better of you as to that point at least, Virro. Not +Trajan himself will ever be able to kill them all; the +superstition spreads like a pestilence. It was but last +night that a hundred of them were taken together in +one place, eating human flesh.</q>—<q>Human flesh!</q> +quoth the barber. <q>Oh, ye gods, why do ye endure +such barbarians!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Human flesh!</q> echoed Dromo, springing from his +seat, and I looked at him, and saw that the barber in +his horror had made in truth a deep incision upon the +cheek of the poor man. The blood, oozing from the cut, +had already traced a river of crimson upon the snowy +surface of his well-soaped chin. It was this that had +deranged the philosophic composure and customary +phlegm of my Cretan; and no wonder; but the enthusiastic +tonsor took no notice of what had +occurred.—<pb n="245"/><anchor id="Pg245"/><q>Great Jove,</q> he proceeded, and he pointed to the roof +with his razor as he spake—<q>Great Jove! I adjure +thee! are all thy lightnings spent; is there never a +thunderbolt remaining?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the meantime,</q> quoth one of the bystanders, +<q>they are in the hand not of Jove, but of Trajan, and +he, I think, cannot now be accused of treating these +wretches with too much lenity. You have all heard of +that Tisias?</q>—<q>We have,</q> cried another; <q>but what +was a single individual to this great assembly? what a +sight will it be the day they are all executed!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I think,</q> said the same person who had inquired +whether our Centurion were the Sabinus that had been +in Britain,—<q>I think you are overrating the numbers +of that assembly. I heard of no more than a +dozen.</q> +</p> + +<p> +This stranger (for such he seemed) had probably +taken that day a considerable journey, for his tunic and +boots were covered with dust. He was attired in the +plainest manner, but notwithstanding, there was something +about him which gave one the idea of rank superior +to the company in which he was seated; and his +complexion was so dark that I could not help thinking +to myself,—I am not the only provincial in the room; +here is certainly some well-born African or Asiatic. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You have not told me, however,</q> said he, after a +pause, <q>whether or not this be the Sabinus that was +lately in Britain.</q>—<q>Sir,</q> said I, <q>it is the same; I +myself came in the same ship with him, but a few days +ago. He is a Centurion in the Prætorian Bands.</q>—<q>Yes,</q> +replied the stranger, <q>I guessed in truth, it +must be the same; for I remember no other of that +<pb n="246"/><anchor id="Pg246"/>rank bearing the same name.</q>—<q>If you are acquainted +with him,</q> said I, <q>you may have an opportunity of +seeing him immediately, for I expect him here every +moment to conduct me to his father’s villa, which is +hard by.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well,</q> quoth the barber, who by this time had +ended, without fresh misadventure, the trimming of the +Cretan—<q>well, I hope he will stay for a moment when +he does come, and then we shall be sure to hear the +truth as to this story about the Christian assembly. +They may talk as they please, but may Jove devote me, +if I had Cæsar’s ring upon my finger for one night, this +should be the last of them.</q>—<q>And how, friend,</q> +said the stranger, <q>by what means, if I may ask you, +should you propose so speedily to do away with this +fast-spreading abomination?</q>—<q>Look ye, sirs,</q> quoth +he, <q>I would place myself thus in my tribunal</q>—(he +took his seat at a little table, beside a goblet of wine, as +he spake,) <q>I would seat myself thus in the midst of a +field, as Cato and the great Censors of old used to do. +I would cause Rome to be emptied—man, woman, and +child should pass before me; and every one that did not +acknowledge the gods as he passed, by all the gods! he +should sprawl upon a tree in presence of all the people. +What avails watching, prying, spying, and surprising? +I should make shorter work of it, I trow.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You may say what you will,</q> said one who had +not before spoken, <q>I cannot bring myself to believe +every thing I hear concerning their superstition.</q>—<q>Ay, +goldsmith,</q> quoth the barber, <q>you were always +fond of having an opinion of your own; and, pray, +what is it that you have had occasion to know about the +<pb n="247"/><anchor id="Pg247"/>Christians, more than the rest of us who hear you? If +you mean that you have seen some of them die bravely +in the Amphitheatre, why, that we have all heard of at +least, and I think nobody disputes it.</q>—<q>No, master +barber,</q> replied he, <q>that is not what I was thinking +of. I have seen your common thief-knave, when he +knew he could do no better, brace you his nerves for +the extremity, and die like a Hercules. I would rather +judge of a man by his living than his dying.</q>—<q>True,</q> +rejoins Virro; <q>and pray, what have you got to tell us +about the life, then, of the Christians?</q>—<q>Not much,</q> +said he, <q>you shall hear. My old mother (peace to her +manes) was passing the Salarian one day last year, and +there came by a hot-headed spark, driving four abreast +in a chariot as fiercely as Nero in the Circus. He called +out, that I believe, but the dame was deaf, and whether +he tried to pull up, I know not, but the horses trod upon +her as she fell. Another of the same sort came close +behind, and I have been told they were running a race; +but however that might be, on they both passed like a +whirlwind, and my poor mother was left by herself +among the flying dust. But the gods had mercy on her; +they sent a kind heart to her aid. She was carried +into one of the stateliest villas on that side of Tiber, and +tended for six weeks by a noble lady, as if she had been +not my mother, but her own; and this lady, friends—by +Jove I suspected it not for long after—this lady was +a Christian; but I shall not say how I found it out, nor +would I mention the thing at all but among honest +men. But where were these you spoke of taken?—I +should like to know who they were.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>They were taken,</q> said the stranger, <q>not far from +<pb n="248"/><anchor id="Pg248"/>the Appian Way, within one of the old monuments +there,—a monument, it is said, of the Sempronii.</q>—<q>Of +the Sempronii?</q> cried the goldsmith, <q>Phœbus +Apollo shield us!</q> and from that moment he became +as silent as hitherto he had been communicative. +</p> + +<p> +The swarthy stranger, the silence yet continuing, +arose from his seat, laid a piece of money upon the table, +and moved towards the door. The barber also rose up, +but he said to him, <q>Sit still, I pray you, my friend;</q> +at the same time beckoning with his finger to the goldsmith, +who, with a very dejected countenance, followed +him into the street. What passed between them there, +we perceived not; but the artificer re-entered not the +chamber till some moments after we had heard the +departing tread of the stranger’s horses. When he did +come in again, he had the appearance of being in great +confusion. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="9" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="249"/><anchor id="Pg249"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IX.</hi></head> + +<p> +Shortly after Sabinus reappeared, and bidding adieu +to our tonsor, we walked with him towards the paternal +mansion,—and we soon reached it; for, as I have +already said, it was but a little way out from the +village. +</p> + +<p> +The dwelling was modest enough, having no external +ornament but a single portico, with a few statues ranged +between its pillars. We entered by this portico, and +found the feeble old man sitting by himself in an apartment +immediately adjacent, wherein the beams of the +moon, having partial access, were mingled with the +subdued light of a painted lamp suspended from the +ceiling. The father of my friend had all the appearance +of sinking apace; yet he received me with an air, not +of cheerfulness, but of kindness. The breeze found +admission through the open pillars, and his countenance +exhibited in its wan and faint lines the pleasure with +which the coolness affected him. Beside him were +placed baskets of roses, gathered from the abundance of +his gardens. The young Vernæ, who from time to +time brought in these flowers, came into the chamber +with a decent appearance of sobriety and concern; but +they were never long gone before we could hear them +<pb n="250"/><anchor id="Pg250"/>laughing again at their play.—<q>Poor children,</q> quoth +the old man; <q>why should they trouble themselves +with thinking of the not remote victim of Orcus?</q>—To +which the Centurion replied, somewhat softening +that loud and cheerful tone with which he was accustomed +to address all persons—<q>Courage, my dear +father, you must not speak so. Cerberus, I perceive, +has only been making an ineffectual snap at you, and +you will be growing younger after all this.</q> +</p> + +<p> +At which the old man shook his head, without any +external sign of emotion, and replied, in a low monotonous +voice,—<q>Younger in the wrong way, my boy; +for I become every day smaller in body, and feebler, +and less able to do any thing to help myself. Nor am +I unconscious that I have seen my due proportion of +time. And yet, oh! fast sliding gentle brook, which I +see between these paternal trees—I am still loath to +exchange thee for Styx, and to lose the cheerful and +sacred light of the sun and moon. I wish only I were +once more able to repair with thy stream to the banks +of father Tiber, that I might salute the good Emperor, +who has been so kind to my son, and who would treat +even an old broken-down, and long-retired soldier, like +myself, with more favour than is to be expected from +Rhadamanthus. As clouds let down their drops, so the +many-peopled earth lets fall dismissed ghosts upon the +Stygian shore.</q> +</p> + +<p> +While he was saying things in the same strain, an +ancient Egyptian, who seemed to have the chief management +of every thing, came into the chamber, and after +desiring some of the boys to bring forth refreshments, +took his place on a low stool by the foot of his master’s +<pb n="251"/><anchor id="Pg251"/>couch. <q>Come, Tarna,</q> said the Centurion, <q>what +has become of all your philosophy? Why do you not +inspire our friend with less of gloominess? Why is +it that you do not bring out for his use some of those +old stories, with which, when I was young, you were +more willing to treat my ears than they were to attend?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nay,</q> said the invalid, before the Egyptian could +make any answer,—<q>I liked well to listen to his Epicurean +theories when I was able to walk about the fields; +but now I would rather have him be silent. Do not trouble +me any more, good Tarna, with any of your speeches. +Allow me to believe as all my fathers did, and to +contemplate not only the sepulchre in which their urns +are placed, but the same dim regions in which many +dear shades expect the greeting of a descendant.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>To me,</q> said the slave modestly, <q>it still seems, +that by the rushing shower of atoms which moves +every where through space, the mind is soothed, as +by the sound of a great river carrying continually the +watery offspring of the mountains into the bosom of +ocean. The mind, sirs, appears to me to be calmed by +the contemplation of infinity, even as the ear of an +Egyptian sleeper is calmed by the eternal music of +rolling Nilus. It mingles itself with that which it contemplates; +it perceives—it feels itself to be a liquid +part of that vast endless stream of universal being: a +part which has been casually arrested and detained, +but which will soon mingle again and be scattered +away in a thousand fragments, to wander, no one knows +whither, through the great all-receiving void—not to +lose existence, for in that my dear master entirely +<pb n="252"/><anchor id="Pg252"/>misunderstands me—but to cease from feeling as a +Sabinus, or a Tarna.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The old man kept regarding his Egyptian with a +placid smile; but I could not help interposing: <q>What +is this you have said? Do you assert that I can cease +to be Valerius, to feel as Valerius, and yet not lose my +existence? Can I <hi rend="italic">be</hi>, and yet not be <hi rend="italic">myself</hi>?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Most easily,</q> replied he; <q>the divided fragments +may move about for a thousand years, before it befall +any of them to be stopped in some future combination +of atoms. These, it is manifest, only tremble and suffer +when they form part of a soul, but are immediately released +from all pain or mischance, when this confinement +and cohesion are at an end, and they, being dispersed, +regain liberty and wander about singly, as of yore; for, +as our great dispeller of delusion says—When death is, +we are not. If, therefore, Sabinus shrinks from the fear +of death, it is an idle fear. Does he not perceive that +when death arrives, Sabinus is no longer to be found. +Whatever its effects may be, they must affect not him, +but an army of innumerable disjointed essences, in no +one of which could he by any means be able to recognize +himself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>To make a short story out of a very long one,</q> interrupted +the Centurion; <q>life, you think, is not worthy +of the name of existence—that being so, it is no wonder +you should think lightly of death.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mistake me not,</q> quoth the sage; <q>no—life <hi rend="italic">is</hi> existence; +I not only admit that, but I assert that it is the +business of every man, and the sole true object of wisdom, +to render life, while it endures, pleasant. Earthly +pleasure consists in a bland juxta-position of atoms +<pb n="253"/><anchor id="Pg253"/>necessarily, though not permanently, connected; the +removal of pain implies that quiescence which pervades +the nobleness of the unenclosed <hi rend="smallcaps">All</hi>. To exist in this +shape, we are compelled; it is our business to render +our existence as near an approach to felicity as we +may.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fill your cup, Tarna,</q> quoth the Centurion; <q>I +am no great philosopher, yet methinks I can see the +drift of this part of your story. Fill up your goblet, +most venerable Epicurean, and see (if it be not below +your dignity,) whether the atoms, which, by a fortuitous +and temporary juxta-position have formed your +throat, will not feel their corners very philosophically +softened by the rushing of a little rivulet of good Falernian—one +cup of which, saving your presence, I hold +to be more worthy of wetting my guttural atoms, than +all the water that ever sported its music between Memphis +and Alexandria.</q> +</p> + +<p> +While the slave and the Centurion were thus discoursing, +the old man appeared to taste, as it were, the +pleasure of a renovated existence, in contemplating the +brown health and strong muscular fabric of the inheritor +of his name. The hearty masculine laugh with +which my friend usually concluded his observations, +was, I take leave to think, richer music to his ears than +ever Egyptian heard in the dark rollings of the Nile, or +Epicurean dreamt of in the airy dance of atoms. I suspect +he was more reconciled to the inevitable stroke +of fate, by considering that he was to leave such a +representative behind him, than by any argument +which his own superstition, or the philosophy of his +attendant, could suggest. In return for this obvious +<pb n="254"/><anchor id="Pg254"/>admiration, the Centurion, without question, manifested +every symptom of genuine affection. Yet, I +think, the instinctive consciousness of his own strength +made the piety of the robust son assume an air more +approaching to that of patronage, than might have +been altogether becoming. If such a fault there were, +however, it escaped the notice of the invalid, who continued, +till Tarna insisted upon his retiring, to gaze +upon my friend, and listen to his remarks, with looks +of exultation. +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion withdrew with his father, so that I +was left alone with Tarna for some time; and it was +then that, in my juvenile simplicity, I could not help +expressing my surprise at finding in servile condition a +man possessed of such acquirements as his, and addicted +to such pursuits. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It would argue little,</q> he replied, <q>in favour of +such pursuits, if they tended only to make me repine +at the place which has been allotted me—no matter +whether by the decree of fate, or the caprice of fortune. +And after all, I am not of opinion that any such external +circumstances can much affect the real happiness of +any one. Give to him that has been born a slave, what +men are pleased to call his freedom; in a few weeks he +will become so much accustomed to the boon, that he +will cease to think of it. Heap wealth upon him; to +wealth also he will gradually become habituated. Rank—power—with +all it is the same. It is in the mind +only that the seat of happiness is placed; and there +it never can be, unless in companionship with thoughts +that look down upon, and despise being affected by +trifling things.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="255"/><anchor id="Pg255"/> + +<p> +<q>And are such,</q> said I, <q>the views of all those who +follow your sect?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I wish it were so,</q> he replied; <q>but ere you remain +long in the city, you will meet with not a few, philosophers +only in the name, who, having small means of +subsistence, but being desirous of leading a luxurious +and agreeable life, become teachers of such doctrines as +may accord best with the vicious inclinations of those +who are most likely to entertain them. These persons +assume too often the name of Epicureans. They +are seen every where at feasts crowned with myrtle, +and fawning upon gouty senators; and whenever a +boar’s-head appears, they are sure to call it worthy +of Meleager. Their conversation is made up of stale +jests about Charon and his boat, and the taking of +Auguries; and, when finally inebriated, they roll upon +the ground like those animals, to whom, in consequence +of the proceedings of such hypocritical pretenders, +the ignorant have dared too often to liken the +wisest of mankind. Such things I disdain—I am satisfied +to remain, as I was born, in the rank of Æsop, +Epictetus, Terence.</q> +</p> + +<p> +By this time the Centurion had returned. He had +a lamp in his hand; and he interrupted our conversation. +<q>Come, we start betimes, Caius; and you +too, my sweet cock of Cyrene, I think you had better +fold your wings, and compose yourself upon your +roost.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Oh, enviable temperament! said I to myself—you +liken the slave to a bird. Methinks yourself are +more deserving of the simile. The light and the air of +heaven are sufficient to make you happy—your wings +<pb n="256"/><anchor id="Pg256"/>are ever strong—their flight ever easy—and the rain +of affliction glides off them as fast as it falls. Sleep +softly, kind heart. It is only the troubles of a friend +that can ever disturb your serenity. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="10" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="257"/><anchor id="Pg257"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter X"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter X"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER X.</hi></head> + +<p> +I was in bed before Dromo interrupted my reflections +by saying, in a low tone of considerable confidence, +<q>And now, Master Valerius, do you still continue, as +much as two days ago, to disbelieve in philtres and +despise enchantresses? You see what, with all my precaution, +has come of this connection between Rubellia +and the Neapolitan.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In truth, Dromo,</q> I replied, <q>it is visible that Pona +had some share in leading the soldiers to the Sempronian +Sepulchre; but I am doubtful if that had any +thing to do with the private affairs of the lady Rubellia. +As to that matter, I confess myself entirely in +the dark.</q>—<q>Dark indeed,</q> quoth he, <q>must your +observation have been, if you have yet to learn that, +but for that accursed witch, nothing of all this had befallen; +but if there be an edict against the Christians, +there are twenty laws against sorcery; and that both +Pona and she that consulted her shall know well ere +long, if they do not as yet know it; or may Cretan +change places with Bœotian!</q>—<q>Say on, good Dromo,</q> +I replied, <q>I am all ears; and as you appear to have +been all eyes, I shall probably soon be more enlightened.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well,</q> quoth he, <q>I am glad to find that you are +<pb n="258"/><anchor id="Pg258"/>in a mood to listen to me decently. You remember +where I took my station when you mounted those +unfortunate steps upon the tower. I had not stood +there many minutes before I heard somebody approaching; +and having no doubt it was Rubellia, I was preparing +myself for giving her such a salutation as I +thought would put a speedy end to her wandering for +that night. On came the steps, but no Rubellia. No; +it was Xerophrastes himself; and although he had +laid aside the Greek mantle, and donned a boatman’s +black cloak for the nonce, I promise you I knew +his stately gait well enough beneath all these new +trappings. It was no part of my job, however, to attempt +frightening the stoic.</q>—<q>And so you let him +pass without doing any thing?</q>—<q>I did; I confess I +gave one or two groans after he had gone on a few +paces, but I did not observe him much quicken his +walk, and I believe, to do the man justice, he set it +all down to the wind rustling among the trees. But +I thought not much of him at all, to speak the truth; +for, said I to myself, Well, if it be as I have suspected +for these two blessed days, and this master long-beard +is really in league with the widow, the chances are, she +herself is not far behind him. I lay by, therefore, and +expected in silence till I should hear another tread; +and in the meantime I spoke to you once or twice across +the path, but you made me no answer, for which you +know your own reasons.</q>—<q>The reason,</q> said I, <q>was +a very simple one, I assure you. I had fallen asleep, +and no wonder, for you know how long I had been a +watcher.</q>—<q>Well,</q> said he, <q>I guessed as much, and +it was nothing but the born tenderness of my +dispo<pb n="259"/><anchor id="Pg259"/>sition, which made me cease from offering you any +disturbance. I thought I should surely be enough +single-handed for the widow; and besides, in case of +need, I knew your waking would always be in my +power.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Admirably reasoned, Dromo,</q> said I; <q>and so it +seems no need came, for you certainly never awakened +me; for which I may thank the bonds from which the +Centurion’s kindness has just set me free. But you +have atoned abundantly—I pray you, get on with your +tale.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Presently,</q> he resumed, <q>I heard footsteps, indeed, +my good master, and not footsteps alone, but voices; +and I moved from the place as hastily as I could, till I +came to a tree, the branches of which, springing low on +the trunk, offered an opportunity for mounting, which +I should have been a Bœotian indeed had I neglected. +I mounted, and hiding myself as well as I could among +the boughs, awaited the arrival of the party, which +consisted—ay, stare if you will—of Xerophrastes and +the widow, walking in front, in earnest talk by themselves,—and +the Neapolitan in the rear. They halted, +and though they spoke low, I could hear them distinctly.</q>—<q>And +what, in the name of Heaven, said +they?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>Are you sure,</q> said the widow, <q>that this is indeed +the girl whom Sextus went to see at the Villa? +Can there be no mistake?</q>—<q>Mistake, lady, there is +none,</q> replied the Stoic. <q>Pona was at the villa with +her basket, and she saw them all walking together in +the garden.</q>—<q>And this little Christian,</q> said the lady +as if to herself, <q>it is she that has cost me all this +<pb n="260"/><anchor id="Pg260"/>trouble! It is for this Athanasia that I have been insulted +as never woman was by man, and they are both +here in the tower!</q>—<q>They are, lady,</q> quoth the witch; +<q>they are both in the tower, for I saw her go in by her +self first, and then in went some dozen of those muffled +blasphemers, and, last of all, went in he himself. I saw +him not enter indeed, but I swear to you, that I saw +him here not twenty paces from hence, and he had +with him that cunning slave of his, (meaning myself, +sir,) whose ugly face, (the foul woman added,) I would +know although it were disguised beneath all the washes +that were ever mixed in the seething-pots of Calabria.</q>—<q>But +what,</q> interrupted our long-beard, <q>what will +Licinius say? At least, my lady and my friend Pona +will take good care that no suspicion rests upon me. +Sextus is a silly boy, without taste, judgment, or discretion; +but Licinius is acute and powerful.</q>—<q>Fear +not,</q> said Rubellia; <q>fear not, dear Xerophrastes. Nobody +shall appear in the matter except Pona, and she +tells you she has already given warning at the Capene +Gate. There are always a hundred men stationed on +the Cœlian. Nothing can save them!</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>These words were scarcely out of her mouth, ere +the soldiers were heard approaching. Xerophrastes +ascended with great agility a tree just over against mine; +Rubellia retreated among the pines; and Pona alone +awaited the guard. I would have periled a limb to +have been able to give you the alarm; but little did I +suspect, that had I sought you where I left you, I +should have sought in vain.—How, I pray you, did you +contrive to get into the accursed tower?</q> +</p> + +<p> +I told him I should give him the story another time +<pb n="261"/><anchor id="Pg261"/>at full length, and mentioned briefly what had occurred. +And then the Cretan proceeded with his narrative. +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">I leave you to guess, Valerius, how my heart beat +when I saw the witch lead the soldiers straight to the +place where I supposed you were still sitting—with +what anxiety I saw the tower surrounded—its tenants +brought out,—with what astonishment I saw you led +out, the last of their number.—I had neither time to +think by what means all this had happened, nor the +least power to interfere. I saw you all mounted—guarded—borne +away. Whither they carried you, I +was unable to make the smallest conjecture. I saw +Sabinus speak to you, and then I had hope,—but that +too failed. In brief, I did not venture from my tree +till the whole assembly, not forgetting Xerophrastes, +had departed; and you may judge what a story I had +to tell Sextus when I reached home.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Instead of waiting to ponder and hesitate, as he used +to do when his own matters perplexed him, he went +from me straight to his father. But before they had +done with their conversation, Sabinus himself arrived, +and he was immediately taken into the same chamber +where they were. Licinius and he went out together +soon afterwards, and I think they walked towards the +Palatine; but whithersoever they went, they had a good +deal of work before them, for the day had advanced +considerably before they returned. The Centurion’s +horses were brought to the door shortly after; my master +desired me to accompany him; and gave me letters for +you, which I had almost forgotten to deliver.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Such was the story of the faithful Cretan. The letter +of Licinius I have still preserved:— +</p> + +<pb n="262"/><anchor id="Pg262"/> + +<p> +<q>Since our Sabinus desires that I should write to +you, although his own kindness renders it unnecessary +that I should do so, I cannot refuse. I understand little, +my Valerius, of what has brought you into this condition, +from which, not without difficulty overcome, you +are, notwithstanding, speedily to be delivered. I guess, +that hastiness of various sorts, not, however, entirely +without excuse in a person of your age, has been the +means of implicating you in the affairs of a sect, equally +unworthy of your communication, whether you consider +the country in which their superstition originated, +or the barbarities with which it is stained. But even +for beauty, my young friend, it becomes not a Roman, +least of all a Valerius, to forget what is due to the laws +of Rome, and the will of the Prince. Consider with +yourself how nearly you have escaped serious evil. Return +to us, and forget what has passed, except for the +lesson it must teach you. Of Rubellia and Xerophrastes +I am unwilling to believe, without farther examination, +what has been told me by my slave Dromo. We shall +speak of that and other matters, when (which I hope +will be early to-morrow) you once more give me the +pleasure of seeing you. I have then much to say. +Farewell.</q> +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div type="book" n="3"> +<pb n="263"/><anchor id="Pg263"/> +<!--<index index="toc" level1="Book III"/>--> +<index index="pdf" level1="Book III"/> +<div type="chapter" n="1" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<index index="toc" level1="Book III. Chapter I"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter I"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">BOOK III. CHAPTER I.</hi></head> + +<p> +Day was far advanced before the Centurion and myself +once more drew near to the city. When we reached +the first declivity beyond the Anio, the sun was about +to sink behind the Janicular. The innumerable sounds +of the capital, blended together into one mighty whisper, +seemed only to form part of the natural music of +the air, and might almost have been confounded with +the universal hum of insects. We rode slowly down +the hill, the base of which is ever darkened by the +solemn groves of the Appian. +</p> + +<p> +We advanced in silence through that region of melancholy +magnificence. I scarcely knew whether I +should be able of myself to recognize, among so many +similar edifices, the mausoleum of the Sempronii, and +some feeling rendered me unwilling to put any questions +concerning it to Sabinus. +</p> + +<p> +But while we were moving leisurely, we heard of a +sudden a clang of cymbals among the trees, a little to +the right hand, and the Centurion, saying, <q>What +company can this be?</q> led the way down a narrow +path branching from the main road. This path was +winding and dusky, being edged on either side with +<pb n="264"/><anchor id="Pg264"/>pines and cypresses, so that for some space we saw +nothing; and the cymbals having ceased again, the +Centurion said, <q>I suppose it is some funeral; they +have probably completed every thing, and have seen +out the last gleam among the embers. Let us get on, +for perhaps we may be kept back by their procession, if +they are already returning.</q> We quickened our pace +accordingly, till a sharp turning of the road discovered to +us a great number of persons who were standing silent, +as if in contemplation of some ceremony. Several persons +on horseback seemed, like ourselves, to have had +their progress interrupted; but they were sitting quietly, +and making no complaint. The silence of the whole +assembly was indeed such, that Sabinus motioned to +me to ask no questions, adding, in a whisper, <q>Take +off your cap; it is some religious rite—every body is +uncovered.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion, however, was not a person to be +stopped thus, without wishing to understand farther +the cause of the interruption. The one side of the road +was guarded by a high wall, to the top of which a +number of juvenile spectators had climbed;—the other +by a ditch of great breadth, and full of water, beyond +which was a grove of trees; and I saw him eyeing the +ditch, as if considering whether, by passing it, it might +not be possible, without disturbing the crowd, to get +nearer the object of their attention, or at least to make +progress in our journey. At last he beckoned to me to +follow him, and the bold equestrian at one leap passed +easily. I imitated the example, and so did the Prætorian +soldier, his attendant, who had now come up to us; +but as for Dromo, he was obliged to remain behind. +</p> + +<pb n="265"/><anchor id="Pg265"/> + +<p> +Ere we reached the bottom of the declivity, I perceived +that we had come close to the Sempronian +monument, and that the ceremony, whatever it might +be, was taking place in front of the tower. We gave +our horses to the soldier, and contrived to gain the bank +over against it—the same place, in fact, where the +Cretan slave had taken his station among the pine-trees, +on the night when all those things occurred of +which I have spoken to you. Like him, we placed ourselves +as quietly as we could behind the trees, and, +indeed, for our purpose, there could have been no better +situation. We were contented, however, to occupy it +as much as possible without attracting observation; for +it was evident, in spite of the curiosity that detained so +great a multitude near at hand, there must be something +mysterious or ominous of nature in that which +was taking place, since not one of the crowd had dared +to come forward, so as to be within hearing of the +officiators. +</p> + +<p> +And these, indeed, were a melancholy group. For +men, and women, and children of every age, to the +number it may be of an hundred, appeared all standing +together in garments of black; while, in the midst +of them, and immediately by the base of the tower, +two or three veiled priests, with their necessary assistants, +seemed to be preparing for sacrifice a black bull, +whose hoofs spurned the dust as they held him, and his +gilded horns glittered in the light of the declining sun. +Sabinus no sooner discovered the arrangement of the +solemn company, than he whispered to me, <q>Be sure, +these are all the kindred of the Sempronii. Without +question they have come to purify the mausoleum, and +<pb n="266"/><anchor id="Pg266"/>to avert the vengeance of the violated Manes. Behold,</q> +said he, <q>that stately figure, close to the head of the +animal on the right hand; that, I know, is Marcia +Sempronia, Priestess of Apollo. Without doubt, these +by her are her brothers.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Some of her near relations they must be,</q> I made +answer; <q>for observe you that girl whose face is +wrapped in her mourning veil, and whose sobs are +audible through all its folds? I had one glimpse of her +countenance, and I am sure it is young Sempronia, the +cousin and companion of Athanasia,—the daughter of +Lucius the senator.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Poor girl,</q> replied Sabinus, <q>from my heart I pity +her. They are all joining hands, that the nearest of +the kindred touching the priest, his deed may appear +manifestly to be the deed of all.</q> +</p> + +<p> +At this moment, one of the officiators sounded a few +mournful notes upon a trumpet. The priest who held +the axe, clave at one blow the front of the bull. The +blood streamed, and wine streamed with it abundantly +upon the base of the mausoleum; and then, while we +were yet gazing on the convulsions of the animal, the +trumpet sounded a second time, and the whole company +sung together, the priest leading them. +</p> + +<p> +The shadows of the tower and of the pine trees lay +strongly upon them, and I thought there was something +of a very strange contrast between the company +and their chant, on the one hand, and the beautiful +sculptures, full of all the emblems of life and happiness, +on the other, with which, according to the gay dreams +of Grecian fancy, the walls of the funereal edifice itself +had here and there been garnished. Fauns, and +torch-<pb n="267"/><anchor id="Pg267"/>bearing nymphs, and children crowned with garlands, +and wreathed groups and fantastic dances, seemed to +enliven almost to mockery the monumental marbles; +but one felt the real gloominess both of death and of +superstition, in the attitudes and accents of the worshippers. +It was thus they sung:— +</p> + +<lg> +<l>Ye Gods infernal! hear us from the gloom</l> +<l>Of venerable depths remote, unseen;</l> +<l>Hear us, ye guardians of the stained tomb,</l> +<l>Majestic Pluto—and thou, Stygian Queen,</l> +<l>On the dark bosom leaning of great Dis—</l> +<l>Thou reconciled Star of the <anchor id="corr267"/><corr sic="Aybss">Abyss</corr>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Blood, not for you, unholy hands have poured,</l> +<l>Ye heard the shriek of your insulted shrine;</l> +<l>Barbarian blasphemies, and rites abhorred,</l> +<l>Pollute the place that hath been long divine;</l> +<l>Borne from its wounded breast an atheist cry</l> +<l>Hath pierced the upper and the nether sky.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>With blood of righteous sacrifice again</l> +<l>The monumental stone your suppliants lave.</l> +<l>Behold the dark-brow’d bull—Behold him slain!</l> +<l>Accept, ye powers of the relenting grave,</l> +<l>The sable current of that vital stream;</l> +<l>And let the father’s hope upon the children gleam.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And ye, that in the ever dusky glades</l> +<l>Of Hades, wandering by Cocytus’ shore,</l> +<l>Ancestral spirits—melancholy shades—</l> +<l>With us the tresspass of the tomb deplore;</l> +<l>Oh! intercede—that terror and disgrace</l> +<l>May not possess (as now) your resting-place.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>What though the liquid serpent of the deep</l> +<l>Between lie coil’d in many a glittering ring:</l> +<l>Not unobserved of your pale eyes we weep,</l> +<l>Nor to deaf ears this doleful chant we sing;</l> +<l>Strong is the voice of blood through night to go,</l> +<l>Through night and hell, and all the realms below.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n="268"/><anchor id="Pg268"/> + +<lg> +<l>Then hear us, kindred spirits—stately Sire</l> +<l>And pensive Mother! wheresoe’er ye glide;</l> +<l>If ever solemn pile and soaring fire</l> +<l>In freedom sped you to the Stygian tide,—</l> +<l>Have pity on your children: let the breath</l> +<l>Of living sorrow melt the frozen ear of death.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>For Her that, sprung like us from your high line,</l> +<l>Hath mingled in the sacrifice of guilt,</l> +<l>Ye know that angry star, her natal sign,</l> +<l>To expiate whose curse this blood is spilt;</l> +<l>If not suffices this atoning blood,</l> +<l>Oh, steep the thought of her in Lethe’s flood.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Beneath that current lazy and serene,</l> +<l>In whose unfathomable waters lie</l> +<l>The slumbering forms of horrors that have been</l> +<l>In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky—</l> +<l>With long forgotten curse and murder old,</l> +<l>Steep that lost daughter’s errors manifold.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns.</l> +<l>Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows;</l> +<l>Despise not our lustrations of your urns,</l> +<l>Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes!</l> +<l>Above the children of your lineage born,</l> +<l>Hover not, awful ghosts, in anger and in scorn.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +These words were sung, as I have said, by the whole +of this kindred there assembled together; the first part +of them distinctly, though not loudly; but the last +verses in a note so low, that no one, unless quite near, +(like ourselves,) could have comprehended their meaning. +But as for the young Sempronia, when they came +to that part of the chant in which reference was so +particularly made to Athanasia, not only did her lips +refuse to join in the words, but her agitation was such +that I thought the poor maiden would have screamed +<pb n="269"/><anchor id="Pg269"/>outright, had she not been controlled by the eye, and +the hand also, of her aunt the Priestess. Sobs, however, +and low hysterical groans, could not be stifled; +and at last so great was her agony, that even the +haughty Priestess was compelled to give way to it. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bring water,</q> said she; <q>dash ye water upon the +foolish thing: methinks it seems almost as if she had +partaken in the frenzy of her unhappy——</q> +</p> + +<p> +And before she could finish the sentence, one or two +of the females that were present did take hold of Sempronia, +and began, seeing there was no water nearer at +hand, to bear her slender form towards the small stream +of which I have already spoken, and which flowed immediately +behind the clump of pine trees, amongst +which the Centurion and I were standing. +</p> + +<p> +She was quite passive in their hands; and they +dragged her without resistance or difficulty to the place +where we were standing; but they could not pass without +seeing us: and no sooner did the eyes of Sempronia +fall upon me, than she burst by one unexpected effort +from the arms of those that were sustaining her, and +ere I or any one could suspect what she was to do, there +lay she at my feet, clinging with her arms around my +knees. <q>Oh, Valerius,</q> said she—<q>Oh, dear Valerius, +they curse Athanasia! Where is my Athanasia? whither +have they taken her? Oh, tell me, that I may go to +her—that I may go to comfort Athanasia!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peace!</q> said, before I could answer, the Priestess of +Apollo—<q>Peace, mad, wretched thing,—has infatuation +blasted the whole of our line?</q> And she seized +Sempronia by the arm, and compelled her to spring +from her knees. But the maiden still clung by her +<pb n="270"/><anchor id="Pg270"/>hands to me, and continued, with looks and words of +misery, to demand from me that knowledge which, +alas! I would myself have given so much to possess. +Sabinus, however, smote me on the shoulder, as if to +make me recollect myself; and I had resolution enough +not to betray the feelings with which I listened to Sempronia’s +frantic supplication. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What is this, sir?</q> then said the Priestess—<q>What +is it that you know of Athanasia? and why is it that +you have presumed to witness the secret sacrifice of a +noble race?—Speak—or is there no meaning in this +poor girl’s frenzy? And yet, methinks I have seen +you before, and that, too, in the presence of——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It was,</q> said I, hastily—<q>it was indeed in the +presence of Athanasia; but that circumstance, if you +please to remember, was altogether accidental. I was +with the lady Rubellia when you found her in the +Temple of Apollo——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> said she, <q>it was that same day when she +refused to name the name of Phœbus in his own precincts! +Ha! little did I imagine what thoughts were +in her breast—else might we at least have been spared +this open degradation. And yet you, methinks, saluted +Athanasia.—What is your name, sir?—Know you, in +truth, whither the lady Athanasia has been conveyed?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was with her!—he was with her!</q> exclaimed +Sempronia,—<q>he was with her in the tower when the +soldiers came.—O Valerius! tell me where she is now,—into +what dungeon have they cast my friend—my +sister——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ha!</q> quoth the Priestess, <q>he was with her in the +tower!—Romans—kinsmen—Lucius—Marcus—hear +<pb n="271"/><anchor id="Pg271"/>ye this? I charge ye, seize upon this treacherous blasphemer!—It +is he that has deceived Athanasia; and +now must he come here to taint the smoke of our sacrifice, +and pollute our prayers with his presence.—Seize +him!</q>—And she herself grasped my cloak as she spake—<q>Seize, +I charge ye, this accursed Christian!</q> +</p> + +<p> +But Sabinus, when he saw the Priestess thus furious, +stept forward, and said to her kinsmen, who were standing +in perplexity behind her, <q>Sirs, I beseech you, be +not you also carried away with this madness.—My friend +here knows nothing of the lady Athanasia, except that +she was borne away by soldiers from the very place +where we are standing. I myself witnessed it also, +being here with the Prætorians. Valerius is no more +a Christian than she who accuses him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I know not, sirs, how we are to understand all this,</q> +said one of the Sempronii, in a calm voice. <q>Is this +young man the same Valerius who is living in the house +of Licinius?—Yet it must be he. I have been with +Licinius this very day; and if this be he, whatever he +may have known before, I am sure he knows nothing +of where Athanasia is now,—and, sister, I am well +assured he is no Christian.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is the same, sir,</q> said Sabinus. <q>He is the same +Caius Valerius of whom you spake, and I am Sabinus, +a Centurion of the Prætorians.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We have all heard of your name,</q> said Sempronius, +respectfully; <q>I perceive there is some mistake in all +this matter. If it please you, let us walk aside, and +understand each other.</q> +</p> + +<p> +So saying, he withdrew Sabinus to a little distance, +and beckoned to me to accompany him. <q>Valerius,</q> +<pb n="272"/><anchor id="Pg272"/>said the old man, when he perceived that we were out +of hearing, <q>I crave you, in the first place, to forget all +this trouble which has been occasioned to you by the +violence of my daughter, on the one hand, and of my +sister on the other. They are women; and, for different +reasons, the violence of both is excusable. I have +been for a considerable part of this day with Licinius, +and have heard from him enough to satisfy me how +guiltlessly you yourself have been involved in this +affair; and your speedy liberation from confinement is +more than enough to confirm my belief of all that he +said. Yet there is much which I do not understand. +I pray you speak openly, and fear nothing—you have, +indeed, nothing to fear. Was it in consequence of any +private meeting with my niece—nay, I mean not to +suspect you of any thing amiss—in one word, how +was it that you happened to be taken into custody with +that unhappy girl?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> I replied, <q>you are a noble Roman, and the +near kinsman of Athanasia. You have a right to put +these questions, and whatever reluctance I may have +to overcome, I feel that I have no right to refuse an +answer.</q> And so I told Sempronius, plainly and distinctly, +the story both of my unwilling entrance into +the mausoleum, and of my forcible abduction from it. +In short, I saw no reason to conceal any thing from the +person who was most likely to be able to serve Athanasia, +if any thing to serve her were possible. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is well,</q> he said; <q>you speak as becomes a man +of the Valerian blood. But as for poor Athanasia, I +swear to you I cannot yet bring myself to believe that +she hath in reality been privy to such things as have +<pb n="273"/><anchor id="Pg273"/>been discovered concerning these Christians.</q>—<q>Discovered!</q> +said I. <q>I pray you, what has been discovered +concerning them? If you allude to any of the +wild stories that are circulated about their religion, you +may depend upon it, it is all mere madness to believe a +word of it. I have read in their sacred books myself, +and I swear to you, that, so far as I have seen, nothing +can be more simple, benign, humane, than the morality +inculcated by their leader.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Young man,</q> he answered, <q>I was not thinking of +their creed, which, for aught I know or care, may be +sublime enough; for there was always a mysterious sort +of philosophy current among those old Asiatic nations. +But I speak of the designs of these men; in one word, +I speak of their conspiracy.</q>—<q>Conspiracy!—What? +How? Against whom? I will pledge my life, no conspiracy +was sheltered beneath yon tower that night. I +swear to you, they are simple people, and were thinking +of nothing but their worship.</q>—<q>Worship!</q> quoth +he; <q>I promise you it will not be so easy to persuade +me that Cotilius has suddenly become a man of so much +piety, either to our gods, or to the deities (if they have +any) of the Christians.—What, Cotilius? By Jove, +Rome does not hold at this moment a more bold, daring, +godless rascal. You may as soon try to make me believe +that Capaneus came to Thebes with a hymn in +his mouth. No, no—the sworn friend of Domitian +will not easily gain credit for his new-sprung sanctity.</q>—<q>Cotilius? +That was the very name of the man that +seized me, as I have told you.</q>—<q>I should have guessed +as much,</q> said he;—<q>Yes, I promise you, how little +soever Athanasia might have known, secrets they had; +<pb n="274"/><anchor id="Pg274"/>and Cotilius was well aware at what peril they should +be revealed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The late example,</q> said I, <q>must indeed have +alarmed him.</q>—<q>What,</q> said he, <q>do you speak of +that fanatic Syrian? You know little of Cotilius. No, +no—had the worst of his fears been the necessity to +worship all the deities between Euphrates and Rhine, +he would have slept soundly.</q>—<q>But surely,</q> said I, +<q>you do not believe that Athanasia had any knowledge +of the man’s secret designs, if he had any. He may +have used Christianity, or desired to use it, as a weapon +against the State; but be certain, neither she nor any +of those really attached to their religion, had any notion +of his purpose.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It may be so, indeed,</q> he answered;—<q>Heaven +grant it may. As for Cotilius, I will speak to you +more at length of him anon. I will bid adieu to my +sister, and take order about my daughter; and then, if +it so please you, we shall walk together to the city.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To this I agreed, but Sabinus rode on to the camp of +the Prætorians. He whispered to me, however, that +unless he were most necessarily detained, he should be, +ere long, at the house of Licinius. +</p> + +<p> +<q>To you,</q> said the Senator, as we went on, <q>who +have so lately come from your island, the whole of this +expiatory spectacle is probably quite new; but I am sure +Sabinus could not have been aware what was its purpose, +otherwise he would not have been guilty of so grievously +offending the feelings of my sister, and some of the rest +of my kindred, by remaining a witness of these most +private rites. The Priestess is indeed inconsolable, and +her grief has set half her other passions in motion +like<pb n="275"/><anchor id="Pg275"/>wise. Athanasia was as dear to her as if she had been +her daughter; so, in truth, she was to us all, ever since +her parents died. But Cotilius, this knave Cotilius, +has, I fear, blasted her hopes and ours.</q>—<q>It occurs +to me,</q> said I, <q>and I should have mentioned it to you +before, that there seemed to be no great understanding +between this Cotilius and Athanasia. She was evidently +displeased with many things he both said and did; and +he, on his part, did not appear to relish her interference.</q>—<q>True,</q> +he continued, <q>you have already +hinted as much; and I assure you, these are some of +the circumstances in the whole case that tend most to +excite my hopes. Great Heavens! what would Caius +have said had he dreamt that his orphan was to be suspected +of having sympathy with any of the dark designs +of that shame to Roman knighthood! But you, +of course, are a stranger to this man’s history.</q>—<q>With +its end, at least,</q> I replied, <q>it is like we may +all be soon enough acquainted.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> said he, <q>Heaven grant we have not cause +too deeply to remember it! but I have known him +from the beginning. I told you already that he was +in great favour with Domitian.</q>—<q>And the reverse, of +course,</q> said I, <q>both with Nerva and Trajan.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even so,</q> he continued, <q>and with reason; for in +all the disturbances which occurred on the accession +of the last sovereign, and, in particular, in those +foul intrigues among the Prætorians, which at one +time brought Nerva’s own life into immediate danger +and compelled him to bare his neck to the soldiery +at his gate, this Cotilius was more than suspected to +have had a deep concern. When Petronius and +Par<pb n="276"/><anchor id="Pg276"/>thenius<note place="foot">These were the principal conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. +They were afterwards butchered by the Prætorians, who regretted the tyrant; +and it was supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that slaughter, and its +shameful consequences to himself, (for he was compelled, among other +insults, to return public thanks to the butchers,) that Nerva called to his +aid the personal vigour and high military genius of Trajan.</note> were hacked in pieces, it needed no great +witchcraft to detect some of the moving spirits that +produced their catastrophe; but proof there was none +at the time; and even had there been proof enough, the +good old man would have been too timid to act upon +it. These things, however, could not be forgotten either +by Nerva or his successor. Hitherto, the strong hand +has repressed every rebellious motion; but be sure that +no man ever lived more an object of suspicion, than +this man has done ever since Nerva adopted Trajan.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And you think,</q> said I, <q>that, among other intrigues, +it had occurred to this man to make his own +use of the Christians; despised and persecuted though +they be, there can, indeed, be no doubt that their numbers +are considerable, and that their faith is a strong +bond of cohesion.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is even so,</q> said the Senator. <q>But as yet the +treason even of Cotilius rests on suspicion only, and +report; and, after all, even if he were proved guilty of +having nourished such schemes, the account you give +of what you saw and heard at their assembly, inspires +me with considerable doubts whether he can be supposed +to have ever as yet ventured to invite their participation;—unless, +indeed, they practised deception +while you were with them. The moment I heard of +what had happened, I went to the Palatine, in hopes of +<pb n="277"/><anchor id="Pg277"/>attaining either assistance from Urbicus, or mercy, if +that were all we could look for, from Trajan. But +Urbicus could give me no satisfaction, except that my +niece was in a solitary and safe place. The charges, he +said, against one of the leaders (he meant Cotilius) were +heavy; and until these were sifted, it was impossible +that access could be afforded to any one who had been +thrown into confinement. The Emperor had shewn +unusual symptoms of anxiety, and had even, so he +hinted, been in person investigating the matter at a +distance from the city, during great part of the preceding +night and day. To tell you the truth, Valerius, +till this thing fell out, I was wont to consider the new +violence about the Christians as somewhat unworthy +of the enlarged intellect of Trajan: it had not occurred +to me, how easily the resources of such a superstition +might be enlisted in the cause of discontent.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Of course,</q> said I, <q>nothing will be done in regard +to Athanasia until all circumstances have been examined.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Done!</q> said he; <q>has not enough been done already +to justify almost in a man more than you have seen +among our women? Has not a whole family been disgraced? +Has not the mausoleum of their fathers been +prostituted for the unholy purposes of this barbarian +sect? If the Senate should be summoned, with what +countenance should I shew myself among my friends?—Unhappy +girl! How little did she know in what +trouble she was to involve those that love her the best.</q> +</p> + +<p> +By this time we had come within sight of the house +of Licinius, and the Senator took leave, with a promise +that I should see him on the morrow. +</p> + +<pb n="278"/><anchor id="Pg278"/> + +<p> +I found Sextus alone in his chamber, where he embraced +me with all the ardour of juvenile affection. +<q>Alas!</q> said he, <q>my dear Caius, at any other time +I might have found fault with you for taking so great +a part in my griefs, and yet keeping so many of your +own to yourself. But if it be indeed as Sempronia has +said, I should be a strange friend to choose this hour +for complaining of such trifles as regard only myself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sextus,</q> I replied, <q>it was only because of the +greatness of your own distresses that I concealed from +your kindness any of mine.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My Valerius,</q> he answered, <q>we shall talk at +length to-morrow; at present, I have only time to say, +that the misfortune of Athanasia was communicated to +Sempronia almost immediately, by an old freedwoman, +who had been in the habit of attending her when she +went from home in secret, and who, going to the mausoleum +to accompany her on her return, arrived there +just in time to see what befel her. She saw you also, +(how she knew who you were, I know not,) and when +she had told her story to Sempronia, the poor girl, +before speaking even with her father, sent for me to +come to her in the gardens. I did so; all that passed +I need not repeat; but I hope my advice was the right +one. At all events, I acted for the best, and my father, +who is now aware of every thing, seemed to approve of +what I had done. O Valerius! were Athanasia free, +and you happy, many things have occurred to make +me much more at ease than when you left us. My +father is evidently shocked with what Dromo told about +Rubellia; and as for Xerophrastes, he had not once +spoken to him either yesterday or to-day. Indeed, +<pb n="279"/><anchor id="Pg279"/>neither of them have been much here. My father is +continually exerting himself concerning Athanasia; and +Xerophrastes, I suppose, is afraid of a discovery. As +for me, I am sorry I must leave you, for I promised to +meet Sempronia; and although I have nothing to tell +her, I cannot fail in my appointment. She must have +returned before this time from the mausoleum, where +an expiatory sacrifice was to be made at sunset.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Sabinus by this time had hastened to me once more, +according to his kind promise. I told him that my +kinsman was not at home, and that I proposed, in the +meantime, accompanying his son a part of the way +towards the Suburban of Capito. The Centurion insisted +on going with us, saying, that he could not think +of returning to the camp without having spoken with +Licinius. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="2" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="280"/><anchor id="Pg280"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter II"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter II"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER II.</hi></head> + +<p> +The Centurion, in virtue of his office, had free access +to the gardens of Trajan; so he led us by both a more +delightful and a nearer path towards the Salarean +Gate. Young Sextus then quitted us; and we returned +slowly through the beautiful groves of the +Imperial Villa, in hopes of finding my kinsman by the +time we should reach his mansion. But as we were +walking very quietly along one of the broad green terraces, +we heard voices in an adjoining alley, separated +from us by luxuriant thickets of myrtle, and Sabinus, +whispering to me, <q>Hush, let us see what we have got +here,</q> insinuated himself with great dexterity among +the verdant shrubs. I followed him with as little noise +as was possible, and having found a convenient peeping +place, we soon perceived two figures at some little distance +from us in the moonlight.—<q>Come, Sabinus,</q> I +whispered, <q>they are lovers perhaps—I don’t see what +right we have to overhear.</q>—<q>Peace,</q> quoth he, <q>if +you stir, they will detect us, and it is nothing unless it +be known.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With some reluctance I remained where I was; but +my scruples were at an end the moment I perceived +who they were. +</p> + +<pb n="281"/><anchor id="Pg281"/> + +<p> +<q>Most noble, most illustrious lady,</q> said Xerophrastes, +<q>this matter has indeed been conducted unfortunately, +yet no reason see I why you should give way to +so many groundless apprehensions. The only thing, +after all, that you have lost, if indeed you have lost it, +is the good opinion of Licinius; for, as to that foolish +boy——</q>—<q>Name him not,</q> replied Rubellia, <q>name +not the stripling. Surely madness alone can account +for my behaviour.</q>—<q>Madness!</q> quoth the Stoic; +<q>yes, truly, and who, at certain moments, is free from +such madness? As Euripides has expressed it, Venus, +if she come in wisdom, is the wisest; if otherwise, the +most frenzied of influences. The greatest have not +been exempt from such visitations. Banish it from +your heart, noble lady, or replace it by something +more worthy of your discernment. There is, I think, +but one pair of eyes in Rome that could have been +blind to such perfections.</q>—<q>O Xerophrastes!</q> said +she, <q>speak not to me of perfections. Alas! I was +born under a deceitful star—a star of apparent splendour +and real misery.</q>—<q>Noble lady,</q> he replied, <q>I +swear to you that what tincture of philosophy I have +imbibed, is unable to sustain my serenity when I hear +such words from your lips. You are surrounded by all +that externals can minister. It is your part to compose +your mind, and then how should it be possible for you +to taste of unhappiness? Think no more of that boy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The philosopher took her hand with an air of the +deepest sympathy, and at the same time drew the end +of his mantle over his face, as if to conceal the extent +of his participation in her distresses.—<q>Alas! +lady, this is, after all, a miserable world. There is no +<pb n="282"/><anchor id="Pg282"/>rest but in the affections, and behold how they are +harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of +life. Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison +is every where; and it is all one course of being +wounded to be cured, and being cured only to be more +easily wounded again.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Our friend continued in an attitude of pensive +contemplation. The moonbeams fell full on his high +brow and the large massy features of his countenance, +and on the robust limbs which emerged from below the +stately folds of his mantle; and I could not help thinking +that there was something almost heroic, which I +had never before remarked, in the whole of his appearance. +Rubellia kept her eyes fixed steadfastly upon +him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I should have known nothing of it,</q> he resumed, +<q>had I never deserted my paternal valley for the vain +pleasures of Athens, and the magnificence of Rome.</q>—<q>You +repent,</q> said she, <q>that you ever visited Italy? +I pray you deal with me openly. If it be your wish to +leave Rome, speak, and I shall put it in your power to +retire to Greece as handsomely as you could ever have +hoped to do from the family of Licinius. Of wealth, +as you well know, I have enough both for myself and +for my faithful friends, among whom, be sure, I place +you in the first rank. Control your feelings, I pray +you once more—and speak freely.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Hastily and fervently he pressed his lip upon the +beautiful hand of Rubellia, and whispered something +into her ear. She started, and I think blushed in the +moonlight; but neither seemed offended very deeply +with what he had said, nor with the gesture he had +used.<pb n="283"/><anchor id="Pg283"/>—<q>Softly, softly,</q> whispered the Centurion, <q>be not +ashamed, fair lady, of the love of thy servant.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But (whether the echo of his Horatian parody had +reached her ear or not, I cannot tell,) scarcely had these +words been uttered, ere Rubellia started from her seat, +and began to move pretty quickly down the shaded alley, +as if towards the entrance of the gardens. Xerophrastes +sate still for a moment, even after the lady had +arisen, covering his eyes, and part of his broad forehead +with his hands, as if buried in his own thoughts too +deeply to be with ease affected with a sense of things +passing around him. Then, at last, he arose, and uttering +an exclamation of surprise, walked after the noble +dame, taking heed, however, (it did not escape our observation,) +to arrange, as he rapidly followed her, the +massive folds of his mantle into a graceful drapery. +</p> + +<p> +Sabinus restrained himself till they were beyond the +reach of his voice; but he then made himself ample +amends. <q>Ha!</q> said he, <q>is this to be the end? Most +pensive ghost of Leberinus, is this to be thy successor?</q>—<q>Good +heavens!</q> said I, <q>Sabinus, do you think it +possible she should make the pedagogue her husband—she +that was but yesterday so desperately enamoured +of the beautiful young Sextus?</q>—<q>My dear islander,</q> +quoth the Centurion, <q>do you remember the story of a +certain beautiful boy, called Adonis?</q>—<q>To be sure,</q> +said I, <q rend="post: none">who is ignorant of the story of Adonis, or of +the beautiful verses of Bion—</q> +</p> + +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">I weep for fair Adonis—for Adonis is no more,</q></l> +<l>Dead is the fair Adonis—his beauty I deplore;</l> +<l>His white thigh with a tusk of white the greenwood monster tore,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none"><q rend="pre: none">And now I weep Adonis—for Adonis is no more.</q></q></l> +</lg> + +<pb n="284"/><anchor id="Pg284"/> + +<p> +<q>Well spouted,</q> quoth the soldier; <q rend="post: none">and with an +excellent gravity: But think you Venus never altered +the burden of her ditty? Have you never heard of +Mars the blood-stained, the destroyer of men, the leveller +of city walls—nor of Anchises, the Dardan shepherd, +wiser in his generation than one who inherited +both his station and his opportunity; no, nor even of +Vulcan, the cunning Artificer, the Lord of the One-eyed +Hammerers, the Lemnian, the Chain-maker, the Detector, +the awkward Cup-bearer, whose ministration, as +honest Homer confesses, fills Olympus with inextinguishable +laughter. Have you heard of all these, and +I take it of a few more besides; and yet do you talk +as if Venus, after the white boar’s tusk had pierced the +white thigh of her Adonis, had made no use of her +beautiful girdle, but to wipe the tears from her pretty +eyes withal?—her girdle, of which, heaven pity your +memory, I know not how many blessed ages after +Adonis had fallen, the same faithful bard said,</q> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>‘In it is stored whate’er can love inspire:</l> +<l>In it is tender passion, warm desire,</l> +<l>Fond lovers’ soft and amorous intercourse;</l> +<l>The endearing looks and accents that can fire</l> +<l>The soul with passionate love’s resistless force,</l> +<l>’Gainst which the wisest find in wisdom no resource.’</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<q rend="pre: none">I was there the night she espoused Leberinus, and I +pitied her very sincerely, when I saw the pretty creature +lifted over the old man’s threshold in her yellow +veil, which I could not help thinking concealed more +sighs, if not more blushes, than are usual on such occasions. +But I promise you the glare of her new torches +shall affect me with different emotions.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="285"/><anchor id="Pg285"/> + +<p> +Such talk passed as we were leaving the gardens of +Trajan. But as we advanced into the more peopled +region, we found the streets full of clamour, insomuch +that quiet discourse could no longer be carried on. The +evening was one of the most lovely I had ever seen, and +the moon was shedding a soft and yellow light upon +the lofty towers and trees, and upon all that long +perspective of pillars and porticos. Yet groups of +citizens were seen running to and fro with torches in +their hands; while many more were stationary in +impenetrable crowds, which had the air, as it seemed +to us, of being detained in the expectation of some +spectacle. Accordingly we had not jostled on much +farther, ere there arose behind us a peal of what seemed +to me martial music; but my companion, as soon as +the sounds reached him, warned me that a procession +of the priests of Cybele must be at hand. +</p> + +<p> +At last they came quite close to us, and passed on +dancing around the image of the Goddess, and singing +the chaunt of Atys. A path being opened for them by +the crowd all along, they made no halt in their progress, +but went on at the same pace, some of them leaping +high from the ground as they dashed their cymbals, and +others dancing lowly while they blew the long Phrygian +trumpets and crooked horns of brass. The image itself +was seated in a brazen chariot, to which brazen lions +also were fastened, the whole being borne on the shoulders +of some of the assistants. Behind it came others, +beating great hollow drums; and then again more, +leaping, and dancing, and singing, like those who preceded +it. They were all clad in long Asiatic vests, +with lofty tiaras; and their countenances, as well as +<pb n="286"/><anchor id="Pg286"/>their voices, intimated sufficiently that they were ministers +of the same order to which the hapless Atys had +belonged. Yet nothing but enthusiasm and triumph +could be discovered in their manner of singing that +terrible hymn. +</p> + +<p> +They had not advanced much beyond the spot where +we were standing, ere they stopped of a sudden, and, +placing the chariot and image of Cybele between the +pillars of one of the porticos that run out into the street, +began a more solemn species of saltation. When they +had finished this dance also, and the more stately and +measured song of supplication with which it was +accompanied, the priests then turned to the multitude, +and called upon all those who reverenced the Didymæan +mysteries, to approach and offer their gifts. Immediately +the multitude that were beyond formed themselves +into a close phalanx, quite across the street, +and torches being conveyed into the hands of such as +stood in the foremost rank, there was left in front of the +image an open space, brightly illuminated, for the convenience, +as it seemed, of those who might come forward +to carry their offerings to the foot of the statue. And, +indeed, it appeared as if these were not likely to be few +in number; for the way being quite blocked up by those +torch-bearers, no one could hope to pass on easily without +giving something, or to pass at all without being +observed. Not a few chariots, therefore, and litters also, +having been detained, the persons seated in these +vehicles seemed to be anxious, as soon as possible, to +present their offerings, that the path onward might be +cleared to them by command of the priests. It was +necessary, however, as it turned out, that each person +<pb n="287"/><anchor id="Pg287"/>in advancing to the chariot of Cybele, should imitate +the motions practised by the Galli themselves; and +this circumstance, as may be imagined, was far from +being the most acceptable part of the ceremony to +some of those who had thus been arrested. A few +of the common sort, both men and women, stepped +boldly into the open ring, and with great appearance of +joy went through the needful gesticulations. But, at +first, none of the more lordly tenants of the chariots and +litters seemed to be able to prevail on themselves to +follow the example. At length, however, the impatience +even of these dignified persons began to overcome their +reluctance; one and another red-edged gown was seen +to float in lofty undulations across the torch-lighted +stage, and when a handful of coin was heard to ring +upon the basin of the Goddess, doubt not the priests +half-cracked their cheeks in blowing horn and trumpet, +and clattered upon their great tambarines as violently +as if they had made prize of another Atys. But how did +the Centurion chuckle when he observed that one of the +next chariots was no other than that of Rubellia herself, +and perceived that she and the Stoic were now about to +pass onwards like the rest, at the expense of exhibiting +their agility before the multitude. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jove in heaven!</q> cried he, <q>I thought the garden +scene was all in all; but this is supreme! Behold +how the sturdy Thracian tucks up his garment, and +how, nodding to the blows of the tambarine, he +already meditates within himself the appropriate convolutions. +And the pretty widow! by the girdle of +Venus, she also is pointing her trim toe, and, look ye! +better and better, do you not see that she has given her +<pb n="288"/><anchor id="Pg288"/>veil to the Stoic, that so she may perform the more +expeditely?</q> +</p> + +<p> +At this moment, some one from behind laid hold of +my arm, and whispered my name. I looked round, and +perceived an old man, wrapped in a very large and +deep mantle, the folds of which, however, were so +arranged that I could see very little of his features. +Stepping a pace or two backwards, he beckoned to me +with his hand. I hesitated; but his gesture being repeated, +I also entered within the shade of the pillars, +and then he, dropping his mantle on his shoulders, +said, <q>Valerius, do you not remember me? We met +last at the tomb of the Sempronii.</q>—<q>At the tomb +of the Sempronii!</q> said I; and recognized, indeed, +the features of the Christian priest, who had treated +me on that eventful evening with so much courtesy; +but my wonder was great to find him in such a +situation; for I had seen him conveyed away between +armed guards, and I could not imagine by what means +he, of all others, should have so soon regained his +freedom. He observed my astonishment, and said, in +a low voice, <q>My friend, perhaps I might have as much +reason to be surprised with seeing you here, as you have +in seeing me. But follow me into this house, where +we may communicate what has occurred.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The hope of perhaps hearing something concerning +Athanasia determined me. I cast a look towards +Sabinus, and saw him attentively engaged in witnessing +the performance; and hoping that he might continue +to amuse himself so for a few minutes longer, I permitted +the old man to lead me into the vestibule. The +slaves, who were waiting there, seemed to receive him +<pb n="289"/><anchor id="Pg289"/>with much respect. He passed them, saying, <q>Do not +trouble yourselves—I shall rejoin your master;</q> and +shortly ushered me into a chamber situated over the +hall of entrance, where a grave personage was reclining +by the open window. He perceived not our approach +till we had come close up to his couch, for he was occupied +with what was going on without. When the old +man accosted him, and said, <q>Pontius, I have been +successful. Here is my friend, Caius Valerius,</q> the +stranger rose up, and saluted me with kindness. <q>Caius +Valerius,</q> said he, <q>will pardon me for being desirous +of seeing him here, when he learns that I was one of +his father’s oldest friends, and served with him many +campaigns both in Germany and Britain. I should +have been ill pleased had I heard that you had been in +Rome, and departed without my having an opportunity +of retracing, as I now do, the image of my comrade.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I had to answer not a few questions concerning the +situation of my mother and myself, before I could lead +the conversation into the channel I desired; and at +length, indeed, it was not so much any thing I said, as +the readiness of the priest himself, which gave to it that +direction; for the first pause that occurred in the discourse +between Pontius and myself, he filled up, by +saying, <q>And now, will Valerius pardon me for asking, +if he has ever looked again into the narrative of Luke, +or whether his curiosity, in regard to these matters, has +been entirely satisfied by the adventures of one unfortunate +night?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The manner in which Pontius regarded me when the +priest said this, left me no doubt that he was at least +favourably inclined to the opinions of the Christians; +<pb n="290"/><anchor id="Pg290"/>so I answered without hesitation, <q>My curiosity, instead +of being satisfied by what I saw that evening, +received new strength; but you may easily believe that +the troubles in which I was involved, and still more +the troubles with which I know others yet to be surrounded, +have hitherto taken away from me both the +means and the power of gratifying my curiosity as I +would wish.—But tell me, I pray you, by what means +is your imprisonment at an end?</q>—<q>My friend,</q> replied +the priest, <q>you speak naturally but rashly. I +believe you yourself are the only one of those surprised +in the tower, whose imprisonment has as yet terminated. +Yet hope, good hope is not absent,—above all, I trust +there is no reason to despair concerning that dear child +who interfered in your behalf, when a bold, and, I fear +me, a false man, had drawn his weapon to your peril. +As for me, I have but gained the liberty of an hour or +two, and long ere dawn I shall be restored again to my +fetters.</q>—<q>Your fetters!</q> said I, <q>am I to understand, +that, by the connivance of a Roman jailor, you are this +night at liberty to perambulate the streets of Rome?</q>—<q>Young +man,</q> answered the priest, <q>he is a Christian.</q>—<q>Even +for his sake,</q> said I, <q>the name is +honourable.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Valerius,</q> said he, <q>I pray you speak not things +which may hereafter give pain to your memory. Already +you have read something of the life of <hi rend="smallcaps">One</hi>, for +whose sake our name is indeed honourable—of Him I +trust you shall ere long both read and think more; but +how shall I bless God, that threw my lot, since captivity +it was to be, into a place where such authority was to +have the superintendence of me? Yet more, how shall +<pb n="291"/><anchor id="Pg291"/>I be sufficiently grateful, that She, in all things so delicate, +although in nothing fearful, has shared the same +blessing?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Heavens,</q> said I, <q>what do I hear!—Is Athanasia +indeed lodged in the same prison with yourself, and may +she also go abroad thus freely?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not,</q> he replied, <q>that I embrace such freedom +for any purposes of mine own. What I do for the +service to which I am bound, think not that Athanasia +will ever desire to do for herself. She abides her time +patiently where the lot hath been cast for her; in due +season, if such be the will of the Lord, she shall regain +that in truth, of which this is but the shadow.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>God grant our prayer,</q> said Pontius, <q>and not ours +only, but the prayer of all that know her, and have +heard of this calamity!—Whatever the exertions of +her family and their friends can accomplish, most surely +shall not be awanting. Would that those who are +linked to her by ties yet more sacred had the power, +as they have the will, to serve her! Yet Hope must +never be rejected. The investigations of this very night +may produce the true accomplices of Cotilius; and then +Trajan will be satisfied that the Christians stand guiltless +of that treason.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas!</q> said I, <q>if this faith be a crime, how can +any one hope to follow it without being continually +liable to accidents as unfortunate? In Rome, at all +events, what madness is it thus to tempt the fate which +impends over the discovery of that which it must be so +difficult, so impossible to conceal?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The aged Priest laid his finger on his lips, and pointed +to the window. I listened, and heard distinctly the +<pb n="292"/><anchor id="Pg292"/>shrill voices of the mutilated dancers, as they brake forth +above the choral murmurs of the drums and cymbals, +and I perceived that the bloody legend of Atys was +once more the subject of their song. +</p> + +<p> +The ancient waited till the voices were drowned again +in the clamour of the instruments, and then said to me, +<q>Young man, do you know to what horrid story these +words of theirs refer? Do you know what sounds all +these are designed to imitate? Do you know what +terror—what flight—what blood—what madness are +here set forth in honour of a cruel demon—or rather, +I should say, for the gain of these miserable and maimed +hirelings? Do you know all these things, and yet give +counsel of flight and of cowardice to me, upon whose +head the hand of Christ’s holy apostle hath been laid? +Read, dear Valerius, read and ponder well.—My prayers, +and the prayers of one that is far purer than me—they +are ever with you. But now since I have introduced +you to Pontius, why should I delay here any longer? +He, both for your father’s sake and for your own, and +for that of the faith, (of which you have had some +glimpses) will abundantly aid you in all things. Deal +not coldly nor distantly with him. I commit you into +his hands, as a brand to be snatched from the burning.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pontius reached forth his hand and grasped mine in +token of acquiescence in all the old man expressed. +He, by and by, looking into the street, said, <q>These +jugglers have now departed to their dens, and the gaping +multitudes have dispersed. But I still see one person +walking up and down, as if expecting somebody; +and it seems to me that it is the same, Valerius, who +<pb n="293"/><anchor id="Pg293"/>was in your company.</q> I perceived that it was indeed +Sabinus, whistling to himself on the bright side of the +pavement. I therefore bade them adieu, saying, <q>Dear +father, when shall I see you again, and when shall I +hear farther of Athanasia?</q>—The old man pausing for +a moment, said, <q>To-morrow at noontide be in the +Forum, over against the statue of Numa. You will +there find tidings.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion plainly intimated that he took it for +granted I had been engaged in something which I wished +to keep from his knowledge; but such affairs made no +great impression on him; and after laughing out his +laugh, he bade me farewell by the portico of Licinius. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="3" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="294"/><anchor id="Pg294"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter III"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter III"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER III.</hi></head> + +<p> +In the morning I found my kinsman and his son +extremely uneasy, in consequence of the absence of +Xerophrastes, who had not returned during the night; +but Sabinus came in while they were talking to me, +and narrated, without hesitation, all he had seen and +heard both in the garden of Trajan, and at the procession +of the Galli. Young Sextus could scarcely be restrained +by respect for his father, from expressing, +rather too openly, his satisfaction in the course which +the affairs of the disappointed lady appeared to be +taking; while the orator muttered words which I +thought boded not much of good to the ambitious pedagogue. +The Centurion alone regarded all these things +as matters of mere amusement, or so at least he seemed +to regard them; for, as I have already hinted, I was +not without my suspicion, that he was at bottom by +no means well pleased with the contemplation of the +future splendour of the Stoic. +</p> + +<p> +However, after many jests had been exchanged between +Sextus and the Centurion concerning this incongruous +amour, Licinius said, he was in so far much +relieved by what he had heard, as it satisfied him that +both the widow and Xerophrastes were now otherwise +<pb n="295"/><anchor id="Pg295"/>occupied, than in prosecuting their designs against the +niece of his friend Capito. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I myself,</q> he continued, <q>was all yesterday, as +well as the day before, exerting every means in my +power for her extrication from this unfortunate confinement. +Cotilius, without question, has indeed been a +traitor; but I believe the Prince himself is, by this +time, well inclined to absolve, not only the young lady, +but by far the greater part of those who were taken +with her, from any participation in his traitorous designs. +The charge, however, of which it rests with +them alone to exculpate themselves, is one of a nature +so serious, that it is impossible to contemplate +without much anxiety the pain to which so many +families—above all, the noble and excellent Sempronii—may +still be exposed. But this day Cotilius will, in +all likelihood, pay the last penalty of <hi rend="italic">his</hi> crimes—and +then we shall see what intercession may avail. Would +to heaven there were any one who could obtain access +to the deluded lady, and prevail with her to do that +which would be more effectual than I can hope any intercession +to prove. This infatuation—this dream—this +madness—is, indeed, a just source of fear; and +yet, why should we suppose it to be already so deeply +confirmed in a breast young, ingenuous, so full, according +to report, of every thing modest and submissive? +Surely this affectionate girl cannot be insensible to the +affliction of those who love her.—But you still shake +your head, Valerius; well, it is in our hands to do what +we can; as for the issue, who can hope to divert Trajan +from doing that which he believes to be just? Our best +hope is in his justice——</q> +</p> + +<pb n="296"/><anchor id="Pg296"/> + +<p> +<q>And in his clemency,</q> interrupted the Centurion; +<q>you will scarcely persuade me that Cæsar can meditate +any thing serious concerning a young beauty, who +has been guilty of nothing but a little superstition and +enthusiasm. Nobody will confound her case with that +of any obstinate old fanatic. In the meantime, what +avails it to distress ourselves more than is necessary? +Licinius is able to do something; and as for Valerius, +the best thing he can do is to get on horseback, and go +with Sextus and myself to inspect the cohorts that have +arrived from Calabria.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Young Sextus, on all occasions fond of military spectacles, +embraced this proposal; and fain would they +both have prevailed on me to accede to it likewise. +I knew, however, that it would be impossible, if I accompanied +them, to keep my appointment with the +old Christian; and that I was resolved on no account +to forego. I therefore retired to my chamber, there +to await the approach of the hour; and spent the time +till it drew near, in perusing once more the volume +which had been restored to me by Athanasia. This +volume, and the letter which I have before mentioned, +I placed together in my bosom, before I went forth into +the city. +</p> + +<p> +I entered the Forum, and found it, as formerly +thronged with multitudes of busy litigants and idle +spectators. A greater concourse, indeed, than was +usual, crowded not it only, but the avenues to it, and +the neighbouring streets, by reason of a solemn embassy +from the Parthian, which was to have audience that +day in the Senate. But I, for my part, having discovered +the statue of Numa Pompilius, resolved to abide +<pb n="297"/><anchor id="Pg297"/>by it, lest, being mingled in the tumult of the expecting +multitudes, I should, by any mischance, escape the +notice of the old man, who, I doubted not, meant to +seek me there in person. The time, however, went on—senator +after senator entered the temple—and, at +last, the shouts of the people announced that Trajan +had arrived. And immediately after he had gone in, +the pomp of the embassy appeared, and every eye was +fixed upon the long line of slaves, laden with cloth of +gold and rich merchandise, and upon the beautiful +troop of snow-white horses, which pawed the ground, +in magnificent caparisons, before the gate of the +Senate-house. But while all were intent upon the +spectacle, I observed a little fair-haired girl standing +over against me, who, after looking at me for some +moments, said with great modesty, <q>Sir, if you be +Caius Valerius, I pray you, follow me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I followed her in silence up the hanging stairs, and, in +a word, had soon reached the level of the Capitol, from +whence, looking back, I could perceive the whole array of +the forensic multitudes far below me. The child paused +for a moment at the summit, and then, still saying +nothing, conducted me across two magnificent squares, +and round about the Temple of Jupiter, until, at length, +she stopped at one of the side doors of an edifice, which, +from the manner in which it was guarded, I already +suspected to be the Mammertine. +</p> + +<p> +The girl knocked, and he who kept the gate, saluting +her cheerfully, allowed us to pass without question into +the interior of the prison. My companion tripped +before me along many passages, till we reached at length +a chamber which was arranged in such a manner that I +<pb n="298"/><anchor id="Pg298"/>could with difficulty believe it to belong to a place of +punishment. +</p> + +<p> +Here I was soon joined by the old priest, (whose +name, if I have not before mentioned it, was Aurelius +Felix,) together with a mild-looking man of middle +age, whom he desired me to salute as the keeper of +the prison, saying, <q>Here, Valerius, is that Silo, of +whom yesterday evening you spake with so great admiration. +But I hope the benevolence of a Christian +will ere long cease to be an object of so much wonder +in your eyes.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My father,</q> said the jailer, <q>methinks you yourself +say too much about such little things. But, in the +meantime, let us ask Valerius if he has heard any thing +of what has been determined by Cæsar.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I answered by telling what I had just heard from +Licinius; upon which the countenance of the old man +was not a little lightened; but Silo fixed his eyes upon +the ground, and seemed to regard the matter very +seriously. He said, however, after a pause, <q>So far, at +least, it is well. Let us hope that the calumnies which +have been detected, may turn more and more of discredit +upon those that have gone abroad concerning +that which is dearer to you, my father, and to all your +true companions, than any thing of what men call their +own. But, alas! these, after all, are but poor tidings +for our dear young lady.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear not,</q> answered Aurelius: <q>have I not told +you already oftentimes, that strength of heart goes not +with bone and sinew, and that my gentle child is prepared +for all things? She also well knows that the +servant is not greater than the master.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="299"/><anchor id="Pg299"/> + +<p> +The old man motioned to us to remain where we +were, and withdrew. I sate for some minutes by the +side of Silo, who was, indeed, manifestly much troubled, +until at length the same modest little damsel opened +the door, and addressing the jailer as her father, asked +leave to conduct me to Aurelius. +</p> + +<p> +The child led me, therefore, into the adjoining chamber, +and tapped gently at a door on the other side of it. +The voice of the old priest bade us come in, and Athanasia +arose with him to receive me. She was dressed in +a white tunic, her hair braided in dark folds upon her +forehead; her countenance was calm, and, but for the +paleness of her lips, I should have said that her gravity +scarcely partook of sadness. When, however, we had +exchanged our salutations, it was evident that some +effort had been necessary for this appearance of serenity; +for when she spoke to me her voice trembled in every +tone, and, as she stooped to caress my young guide, who +had sate down by her feet, I saw the tear that had been +gathering drop heavily, and lose itself among the bright +clusters of the little damsel’s hair. I took her unresisting +hand, and imitated as best I could the language of +consolation. But it seemed as if my poor whispers only +served to increase the misery. She covered her face +with her hands, and sobs and tears were mingled +together, and the blood glowed red in her neck, in the +agony of her lamentation. +</p> + +<p> +The old priest was moved at first scarcely less than +myself by this sorrowful sight. Yet the calmness of +age deserted him not long, and after a moment there +remained nothing on his countenance but the gravity +and tenderness of compassion. He arose from his seat, +<pb n="300"/><anchor id="Pg300"/>and walked quietly towards the end of the apartment, +from which when he returned, after a brief space, there +was an ancient volume open in his hand. And standing +near us, he began to read aloud, in the Greek tongue, +words which were then new, and which have ever since +been in a peculiar manner dear to me. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in +trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be +removed; though the mountains be carried into the midst +of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled; +though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia took her hands from her face, and gradually +composing herself, looked through her tears upon the +old man as he proceeded. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad +the city of God; the holy place of the tabernacles of the +Most High.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God +shall help her, and that right early.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">The heathen raged; the kingdoms were moved. He +uttered his voice; the earth melted.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our +refuge.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The blood had mounted in the countenance of Aurelius, +ere he reached these last words. The tears also +had been dried up on the pale cheek of Athanasia; +and although her voice was not heard, I saw that +her lips moved fervently along with those of the priest. +Even in me, ignorant of their source, the words of +the royal prophet produced I know not what of +buoyance and emotion, and perhaps my lips, too, had +involuntarily essayed to follow them; for when he +<pb n="301"/><anchor id="Pg301"/>paused from his reading, the old man turned to me +with a face full of benignity, and said, <q>Yes, Valerius, +it is even so; Homer, Pindar, Æschylus—these, +indeed, can stir the blood; but it is such poetry as +this that alone can sooth in sorrow, and strengthen in +the hour of tribulation. Your vain-glorious Greeks +called all men barbarians but themselves; and yet these +words, and thousands not less precious than these, consoled +the afflictions, and ennobled the triumphs of the +chosen race of Israel long, long years, ere ever the +boasted melody of Ionian or Doric verse had been heard +of. From this alone, young man, you may judge what +measure of candour inhabits along with the disdain of +our proud enemies:—how fairly, without question, or +opportunity of defence, the charge of barbarity is heaped +upon what they are pleased to call our <hi rend="italic">superstition</hi>;—how +wisely the learned and the powerful of the earth +have combined in this league against the truth which +they know not,—of which they fear or despise the +knowledge. Surely the truth is mighty, and the gates +of hell shall not prevail against her.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But, alas! my dear father,</q> said Athanasia, <q>I fear +me this is not the place, nor the situation, in which +Valerius might be most likely to listen to your words. +It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing +of our present danger, has rendered him even more cautious +than he was before.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And who, my dear child,</q> he replied hastily,—<q>and +who is he that shall dare to blame caution, or to +preach, above all in such things as these, the rashness +that is of folly? Valerius will not believe that we, like +the miserable creatures whose impious songs he heard +<pb n="302"/><anchor id="Pg302"/>last night, are studious only of working upon the fears +of the ignorant, and harassing, with dark and lying +dreams, the imaginations of the simple. <hi rend="italic">Here</hi> are no +wild stories of blood-thirsty deities, and self-sacrificing +maniacs. <hi rend="italic">Here</hi> is that which Socrates vainly sought by +all the ingenuity of reason. <hi rend="italic">Here</hi> is that of which some +faint and mysterious anticipations would appear to have +been shadowed forth in the visions of Plato. <hi rend="italic">Here</hi> is +that which, as that Mighty Martyr who died in this +very city hath said, innumerable prophets and kings of +the old time desired to see, and yet saw not. Do nothing +rashly, young man; but it is possible, as you yourself +well know, that this may be the last opportunity I +shall ever have of speaking with you; and therefore, +before we part, I must needs charge you solemnly, that +henceforth, if your knowledge increase not, the sin shall +be upon your head. I charge you, Valerius, that when +you return to your island, you blot not from your memory +the things that you have seen and heard in this +great city of light and of darkness. Examine—judge—ask +aid, and aid shall not be refused you. I take +Athanasia to witness, that I have given you the warning +that is needful.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Oh, sir!</q> said Athanasia, <q>I am sure it shall not +be in vain that you have done so. I am sure Valerius +will never forget this hour——</q> +</p> + +<p> +She gazed in my face, and a tear was again visible, +yet on all her countenance there was no other semblance +of passion. The venerable Aurelius clasping his +thin hands together, whispered,—<q>Would to God that +I were here alone! Shall the axe be laid to the root of +the fair young tree that hath but begun to blossom, +<pb n="303"/><anchor id="Pg303"/>when so many old trunks stand around withered with +the lightnings, and sore broken by the winds?—The +will of the Lord be done!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Amen!</q> said Athanasia, taking the old man by the +hand, and smiling, I think, more cheerfully than I had +yet seen her—<q>My dear father, I fear you yourself, +after all, are teaching Valerius to take but a sad farewell +of us.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas! my child,</q> he replied, <q>he must have a hard +heart that could look unmoved on that sweet face in +this hour of sadness. But we are in the hands of a +greater than Trajan. If so it please Him, all may yet +go well with us even here upon the earth. You may +live to see many happy years among your kindred—and +I, (the old man smiled most serenely,) and for me, +my gray hairs may be laid in bloodless dust. Whatever +awaits us, blessed be the name of the Lord!</q> +</p> + +<p> +So saying, the old man retired from the chamber, and +once more I was left alone in the presence of Athanasia. +I took from my bosom the book and the letter which I +had placed there, and laid them upon her knee. She +broke the seal, and read hastily what Tisias had written, +and then concealed the scroll within her tunic, +saying, <q>Alas! Valerius, little did the brave old soldier +suspect how soon his peril was to be mine—Will you +permit me like him to make you my messenger?—will +you seek out my cousin, my sister, and tell Sempronia +in what condition you have found me?—no, not in +what you found—but in what you now see me. Will +you go, Valerius, and speak comfort to my poor friend? +Her pity, at least, I am sure is mingled with no angry +thoughts; and yet she only has reason to complain, for +<pb n="304"/><anchor id="Pg304"/>her secret thoughts were not hid from me, and, alas! I +concealed mine from her.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have already seen her,</q> said I, <q>and you do her +no more than justice. But, indeed, Sempronius himself +thinks of you even as gently as his daughter.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I doubt it not, Valerius; but, alas! there are many +others besides these; and I know not what relic of +weakness it is, but methinks I could have borne the +worst more easily, had it not been for what I picture to +myself of their resentment. Alas! I am cut off for ever +from the memory of my kindred.</q> She threw open +the lattice, as if that she might inhale the free air, and +her eyes wandered to and fro over all the magnificent +prospect that lay stretched out below us,—the temples +and high porticos of the Forum—the gleaming battlements +and long arcades of the Palatine—the baths, +and theatres, and circuses between and the river—Tiber +winding away among fields and groves—and the sky +of Italy extending over all things its arch of splendour. +When the trumpets were blown by the gate +of the Senate-house, the sound floated upwards to +us as gently as if it had been borne over the waters. +The shouts of the multitude were faintly re-echoed +from the towers and the rocks. The princely pageant +shewed like a pomp of pigmies; spear, and helmet, +and eagle glittered together, almost like dews upon +the distant herbage. Athanasia rested her eye once +more upon the wide range of the champaign, where +fields and forests were spread out in interminable succession—away +towards the northern region and the +visible mountains. She raised her hand, and said, +<q>Valerius, your home lies far away yonder. I must +<pb n="305"/><anchor id="Pg305"/>give you something which you shall promise me to carry +with you, and preserve in memory—of Rome.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Before I had time to make any answer, she had taken +out of a casket that stood beside us, a scroll of parchment, +bound with a silk ribbon, which she immediately +put into my hands, and—<q>To-morrow,</q> said she, +<q>Valerius, our fate, they tell us, must at length be determined;—if +we share the fate of Tisias, the last gift +of Tisias shall be yours. If, however, any mercy be +extended to us, I cannot part with that memorial of a +dying martyr. I must keep to myself the old man’s +favourite volume, for it was for me he had designed it. +But I have made a copy of the same book for yourself. +I have written it since I came hither, Valerius, and you +must not despise it because the Mammertine has not +furnished the finest of materials. Take this, Valerius, +and take with it my thanks—my prayers. I know +you will not forget my message to my dear sister.—Sextus +and she—may many happy days be theirs—and +yours.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I kissed the sad gift, and placed it in my bosom. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Valerius,</q> she said, <q>dry up your tears. You weep +for me because I am a Christian; forget not that the +Roman blood flows in my veins, and think not that its +current is chilled, because I have forsworn the worship +of idol and demon, and am in peril for the service of +The Living God.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Athanasia!</q> said I,—<q>I weep for you, but not for +you alone. I ask nothing—I hope nothing—but I +could not bear to part with you thus, and not to tell +you that when I part from you, I bid farewell to all +things. Pardon me—once more pardon me.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="306"/><anchor id="Pg306"/> + +<p> +A single flush of crimson passed over her face, and I +saw her lips move, but the syllables died ere they were +uttered. She continued for a moment gazing on me, +pale, and trembling; and then at last she fell upon my +neck and wept—not audibly—but I felt her tears. +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia was still folded to my bosom in that +strange agony of sorrow and of confidence, when Silo, +the jailer, entered the apartment, abrupt and breathless. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Oh, sir!</q> said he, <q>your sufferings are mine—but +it is necessary that you should leave us, and on the instant, +for the Prefect is already at the gate, and unquestionably +he will examine every part of the prison; and +should you be recognized as the person who was taken +in the Mausoleum, you see plainly to what suspicions it +might give rise. Come then, sir, and let me secure your +escape—we shall take care to warn you of whatever +occurs, and we shall send for you, if there be opportunity.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia recovered herself almost instantly, when +she heard what Silo said. +</p> + +<p> +<q>We shall meet again,</q> said I. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Once more,</q> she replied—<q>at least once more, +Valerius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And I tore myself away from her; and the jailer +having once again committed me to the guidance of his +child, I was in a few moments conducted to the same +postern by which I had been introduced. In a word, +I found myself in the court of the Capitol, at the instant +when the Prefect, with all his attendants, was entering +by the main gate of the Mammertine. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="4" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="307"/><anchor id="Pg307"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IV"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IV.</hi></head> + +<p> +On reaching home, I was told that Licinius was still +absent; and found at the same time a billet upon the +table, which informed me that Sabinus had carried +Sextus with him to his quarters, and that both expected +I would join them there immediately upon my return. +I knew not how to refuse compliance, and yet I could +not bear the thought of being so far from the <anchor id="corr307"/><corr sic="Capito">Capitol</corr>, +in case of any message being sent to me from the prison. +Since I could do no better, however, I charged Boto to +remain in my apartment till sunset, and bring me, +without delay, any letter or messenger that might arrive +in my absence. Should none such appear within that +space, I gave him a note, which I desired him to deliver +into the hands of Silo; and having, as I thought, furnished +him with sufficient directions how to discharge +this commission, I myself took the path to the Prætorian +Camp, where I thought it very probable that I might +gather some new intelligence as to Cotilius. +</p> + +<p> +The Prætorian who had accompanied Sabinus at my +release from the rustic tower, recognized me at the gate, +and conducted me immediately to the Centurion, who, +to my surprise and displeasure, had directed that I +should be ushered without delay to, not his own +apart<pb n="308"/><anchor id="Pg308"/>ment, but the general table. Here I was received most +courteously, however, and hoping the feast was nearly +over, took my place near my friend. +</p> + +<p> +Several of those high-fed warriors who had more +than once disposed of the empire, were reclining upon +rich couches around the board; and their effeminate +exterior would, perhaps, have made them less formidable +in my eyes, had I not remembered the youth of +the great Cæsar, the Parthian retreat of Antony, and +the recent death of Otho.<note place="foot"><lg> +<l rend="margin-left: 11">——Catonem</l> +<l>Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho.</l> +</lg></note> There were present, besides, +a few casual visiters like ourselves; among others, +a sleek Flamen, who reclined on the right hand of the +presiding Tribune, and a little bald Greek, who seemed +to think it incumbent upon himself to fill up every +pause in the conversation, by malicious anecdotes or +sarcasms, of which last it was easy to see that the +Flamen opposite was a favourite subject. Neither wit +nor impiety, however, could make speedy impression +upon the smooth-faced Flamen, who seemed to think, +if one might judge from his behaviour, that the most +acceptable service he could render to the deities, was to +do full and devout justice to the gifts of their benevolence. +</p> + +<p> +A very animated discussion concerning the review of +the newly-arrived cohorts, (which, I have told you, had +taken place that morning by the river side,) relieved +for some time the patient Flamen from the attacks of +this irreverent person, and engaged the zealous participation +of those who had hitherto been the most silent +of the company. Sabinus, among the rest, was ready +<pb n="309"/><anchor id="Pg309"/>with a world of remarks upon the equipments, the manœuvres, +the merits, and the demerits of the troops in +question; but something he said was quite at variance +with the sentiments of one of his brother Centurions, +who disputed with him rather warmly than successfully +for a few moments, and at last ended with saying,—<q>But +why should I take so much trouble to discuss +the point with you, who, we all know, were thinking +of other matters, and saw not much more of the review +than if you had been a hundred miles off from it?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Centurion coloured a little, and laughed, as it +seemed to me, with rather less heartiness than usual; +but the disputant pursuing his advantage, said, <q>Yes, +you may laugh if you will; but do you think we are +all blind, or do you suppose we are not acquainted with +certain particulars? Well, some people dislike the +Suburra, but for my part I agree with Sabinus; I +think it is one of the genteelest places in Rome, and +that there are some of the snuggest houses in it too—and +if old men will die, for me, I protest, I don’t see +why young men should not succeed them.</q> The Centurion +laughed again, and natural ruddiness of complexion +was, I thought, scarcely quite sufficient to +account for the flush on his countenance, as he listened +to these innuendos. But the master of the feast cut the +matter short, by saying that he had a health to propose, +and that he expected all present should receive it with +honour.—<q>Here,</q> said he, <q>is to the fair lady Rubellia, +who is never absent when the Prætorians turn out, and +may all things fair and fortunate attend her now and +hereafter.</q> I whispered to Sabinus,—<q>My friend, I +think you have really some reason for blushing. If +<pb n="310"/><anchor id="Pg310"/>you had no pity on Xerophrastes, you might at least +have had some for the pretty widow.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He made no answer to this, and looked, if possible, +more confused than ever; but, just at that moment, a +soldier came in, and delivered a billet to the presiding +Tribune, who handed it to Sabinus immediately after +he had read it, and said, loud enough to be heard by all +those who sate near him, <q>I wish the Prince would +give some of this work to these new comers. But, indeed, +I wonder what Lictors are good for now-a-days; +but every thing that these Christians are any way +concerned in seems to be a matter of importance.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Sabinus, having read the billet, handed it back again +to the Tribune, and said aloud, <q><foreign lang="la" rend="italic">Exit</foreign> Cotilius!—Who +would not be of the chorus at the falling of that +curtain?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Tribune shrugged his shoulders, whispered something +into the ear of the messenger, and then, dashing +more wine into his cup, said, <q>Rome will never be a +quiet place, nor the Prætorian helmet a comfortable +head-piece, till these barbarians be extirpated.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Flamen tossed off a full goblet, and, smiting +with his hand upon the table, said, <q>There spake a true +Roman, and a worshipper of the Gods. I rejoice to +find that there is still some religion in the world; for, +what with skulking Jews on the one hand, and bold +blasphemous Cyrenæans on the other, so help me Jupiter, +the general prospect is dark enough!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In my opinion,</q> quoth the bald Greek, putting on +an air of some gravity, <q>the Jews will have the better +of the Cyrenæans. Indeed, I should not be much surprised +to see this Christian superstition supplant every +<pb n="311"/><anchor id="Pg311"/>other.</q> The Flamen half started from his couch. +<q>You observe, gentlemen,</q> proceeded the Greek,—<q>what +great advantage any new superstition has over +any thing of the same sort that is old. We all know, +for example, that Isis and Cybele have for many years +past left comparatively few worshippers to Mars, Apollo,—even +to Jupiter. It is lamentable; but it is true. +I have heard that unless on some very great day, a gift +is now quite a rarity upon the altar of any of the true +ancient deities of Rome. Egypt and Mount Ida have +done this; and why should not Palestine succeed as +well as either? In the meantime, the enlightened +contemplate every different manifestation of the superstitious +principle with equal indifference; and, I confess +to you, I have been a little surprised to perceive how +far Trajan is from imitating their example. But that +Chæronæan master of his, that Plutarch, was always an +old woman; and I fear the Prince has not been able +to shake off the impression of his ridiculous stories.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hush!</q> quoth the master of the day, <q>if it please +you, nothing can be said here against either Trajan or +his friends; and, as for Plutarch, he was one of the +pleasantest fellows that I ever met with.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Sabinus, desirous of restoring the harmony of the +assembly, called forthwith on a musical senior, to join +him in a song. The gentleman required solicitation, +but at last announced his consent to attempt the female +part in the duet of Horace and Lydia. Sabinus, always +ready, began to roar out the tender words of regret and +expostulation which the most elegant of poets has ascribed +to himself; and the delicate squeaking response +of our wrinkled Lydia formed an agreeable contrast. +</p> + +<pb n="312"/><anchor id="Pg312"/> + +<p> +All, in short, were once more in perfect good humour, +when another soldier appeared behind the couch of the +president, and handed to him what seemed to be another +billet of the same complexion. He tossed the paper as +before to my friend, who looked very serious as he read +it.—<q>Caius,</q> he whispered, <q>an additional guard is +ordered to the Palatine—and the reason is said to be +that the rest of the Christian prisoners are to be examined, +within an hour, by the Emperor himself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I had scarcely had a moment to compose myself, +when one of the slaves in attendance signified that a +person wished to speak with me in the anti-chamber. +It was Dromo.—<q>Sir,</q> said he, <q>I have no time for +explanation. Silo wishes to see you—I left Boto with +him at the Mammertine.</q> +</p> + +<p> +As we walked from the camp, Sabinus, with his +guard, passed without noticing me; and I received +some explanations which I must give to you very +briefly. Boto, mistrusting his recollection of my instructions, +had requested Dromo to assist him in finding +his way to the Mammertine; and the Cretan had come +to be witness of a scene, which, in spite of his sarcastic +disposition, he could not narrate without tokens of +sympathy. I mentioned to you that my faithful slave, +in coming with me to Rome, had indulged the hope of +meeting once more with a brother, who many years +before had been carried off from Britain. I smiled +when the poor man expressed confidence that he should +find out this ere he had been many days in the metropolis +of the world. But now, in truth, a fortunate +accident had recompensed much ill-regulated search. +He had found his brother, and he had found him in the +<pb n="313"/><anchor id="Pg313"/>Mammertine. That very brother was Silo, to whose +kindness I, and one dearer than myself, had been so +deeply indebted. The Cretan, himself a slave and an +exile, had partaken in the feelings of the long-lost +brothers, and hastened to bring me from the camp, +that Boto might be spared the pain of immediately +parting from Silo. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="5" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="314"/><anchor id="Pg314"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter V"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter V"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER V.</hi></head> + +<p> +I had hurried along the darkening streets, and up +the ascent of the Capitoline, scarce listening to the +story of the Cretan. On reaching the summit, we +found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already +occupied by detachments of foot. I hastened to the +Mammertine—and before the postern opened to admit +us, the Prætorian squadron had drawn up at the +great gate. Sabinus beckoned me to him. <q>Caius,</q> +said he, stooping on his horse, <q>would to heaven I had +been spared this duty! Cotilius comes forth this moment, +and then we go back to the Palatine; and I fear—I +fear we are to guard thither your Athanasia. If +you wish to enter the prison, quicken your steps.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We had scarcely entered the inner-court, ere Sabinus +also, and about a score of his Prætorians, rode into it. +Silo and Boto were standing together; and both had +already hastened towards me; but the jailer, seeing the +Centurion, was constrained to part from me with one +hurried word:—<q>Pity me, for I also am most wretched. +But you know the way—here, take this key—hasten +to my dear lady, and tell her what commands have +come.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Alas! I said I to myself, of what tidings am I doomed +<pb n="315"/><anchor id="Pg315"/>ever to be the messenger!—but she was alone; and how +could I shrink from any pain that might perhaps alleviate +hers? I took the key, glided along the corridors, +and stood once more at the door of the chamber in which +I had parted from Athanasia. No voice answered to +my knock; I repeated it three times, and then, agitated +with indistinct apprehension, hesitated no longer to +open it. No lamp was burning within the chamber, +but from without there entered a wavering glare of +deep saffron-coloured light, which shewed me Athanasia +extended on her couch. Its ominous and troubled +hue had no power to mar the image of her sleeping +tranquillity. I hung over her for a moment, and was +about to disturb that slumber—perhaps the last slumber +of peace and innocence—when the chamber-walls were +visited with a yet deeper glare. <q>Caius,</q> she whispered, +as I stepped from beside the couch; <q>why do you leave +me? stay, Valerius.</q> I looked back, but her eye-lids +were still closed; the same calm smile was upon her +dreaming lips. The light streamed redder and more +red. All in an instant became as quiet without as +within. I approached the window, and saw Cotilius +standing in the midst of the court; Sabinus and Silo +near him; the horsemen drawn up on either side, and a +soldier close behind resting upon an unsheathed sword. +I saw the keen blue eye as fierce as ever. I saw that +the blood was still fervid in his cheeks: for the complexion +of this man was of the same bold and florid +brightness so uncommon in Italy, which you have seen +represented in the pictures of Sylla, and even the blaze +of the torches seemed to strive in vain to heighten its +natural scarlet. The soldier had lifted his sword, and +<pb n="316"/><anchor id="Pg316"/>my eye was fixed, as by fascination, when suddenly a +deep voice was heard amidst the deadly silence—<q>Cotilius!—look +up, Cotilius!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Aurelius, the Christian priest, standing at an open +window, not far distant from that at which I was +placed, stretched forth his fettered hand as he spake:—<q>Cotilius! +I charge thee, look upon the hand from +which the blessed water of baptism was cast upon +thy head. I charge thee, look upon me, and say, ere +yet the blow be given, upon what hope thy thoughts +are fixed?—Is this sword bared against the rebel of +Cæsar, or a martyr of Jesus?—I charge thee, speak; +and for thy soul’s sake speak truly.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A bitter motion of derision passed over his lips, and +he nodded, as if impatiently, to the Prætorian. Instinctively +I turned me from the spectacle, and my eye +rested again upon the couch of Athanasia—but not upon +the vision of her tranquillity. The clap with which +the corpse fell upon the stones had, perhaps, reached +the sleeping ear, and we know with what swiftness +thoughts chase thoughts in the wilderness of dreams. +So it was that she started at the very moment when +the blow was given; and she whispered—for it was still +but a deep whisper—<q>Spare me, Trajan, Cæsar, Prince—have +pity on my youth—strengthen, strengthen me +good Lord!—Fie! fie! we must not lie to save life. +Felix—Valerius—come close to me, Caius—Fie! let +us remember we are Romans—’Tis the trumpet——</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Prætorian trumpet sounded the march in the +court below, and Athanasia, starting from her sleep, +gazed wildly around the reddened chamber. The blast +of the trumpet was indeed in her ear—and Valerius +<pb n="317"/><anchor id="Pg317"/>hung over her—but after a moment the cloud of the +broken dream passed away, and the maiden smiled as +she extended her hand to me from the couch, and began +to gather up the ringlets that floated all down upon +her shoulder. She blushed and smiled mournfully, and +asked me hastily whence I came, and for what purpose +I had come; but before I could answer, the glare that +was yet in the chamber seemed anew to be perplexing +her: and she gazed from me to the red walls, and from +them to me again: and then once more the trumpet +was blown, and Athanasia sprung from her couch. I +know not in what terms I was essaying to tell her what +was the truth, but I know that ere I had said many +words, she discovered my meaning. For a moment she +looked deadly pale, in spite of all the glare of the torch-beams; +but she recovered herself, and said in a voice +that sounded almost as if it came from a light heart,—<q>But +Caius, I must not go to Cæsar, without having +at least a garland on my head. Stay here, Valerius, +and I shall be ready anon—quite ready.</q> +</p> + +<p> +It seemed to me as if she were less hasty than she +had promised, yet many minutes elapsed not ere she +returned. She plucked a blossom from her hair as she +drew near to me, and said, <q>Take it: you must not +refuse one token more; this also is a sacred gift. Caius, +you must learn never to look upon it without kissing +these red streaks—these blessed streaks of the Christian +flower.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I took the flower from her hand, and pressed it to my +lips; and I remembered that the very first day I saw +Athanasia, she had plucked such an one, when apart +from all the rest, in the gardens of Capito. I told her +<pb n="318"/><anchor id="Pg318"/>what I remembered; and it seemed as if the little circumstance +had called up all the image of peaceful days; +for once more sorrowfulness gathered upon her countenance. +If the tear was ready, however, it was not permitted +to drop; and Athanasia returned again to her +flower. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do you think there are any of them in Britain?</q> +said she; <q>or do you think that they would grow +there? You must go to my dear uncle, and he will +not deny you, when you tell him that it is for my +sake he is to give you some of his. They call it the +Passion-flower—’tis an emblem of an awful thing. +Caius, these purple streaks are like trickling drops; and +here, look ye, they are all round the flower. Is it not +very like a bloody crown upon a pale brow? I will +take one of them in my hand, too, Caius; and methinks +I shall not disgrace myself when I look upon it, even +though Trajan should be frowning upon me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I had not the heart to interrupt her; but heard +silently all she said, and I thought she said the words +quickly and eagerly, as if she feared to be interrupted. +</p> + +<p> +The old priest came into the chamber while she was +yet speaking so, and said very composedly, <q>Come, my +dear child, our friend has sent again for us, and the +soldiers have been waiting already some space, who are +to convey us to the Palatine. Come, children, we must +part for a moment—perhaps it may be but for a moment—and +Valerius may remain here till we return +to him. Here, at least, dear Caius, you shall have the +earliest tidings, and the surest.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The good man took Athanasia by the hand, and she, +smiling now at length more serenely than ever, said +<pb n="319"/><anchor id="Pg319"/>only, <q>Farewell, then, Caius, for a little moment!</q> +And so, drawing her veil over her face, she passed away +from before me, giving, I think, more support to the +ancient Aurelius than, in her turn, she received from +him. I began to follow them, but the priest waved his +hand as if to forbid me:—the door closed after them, +and I was alone. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="6" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="320"/><anchor id="Pg320"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VI"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VI.</hi></head> + +<p> +I know not, my friends, how to proceed with the +narrative of what followed. Thoughts, passions, fears, +hopes, succeeding so rapidly, give to that strange night, +when I look back upon it through the vista of years, +the likeness of some incoherent, agonizing dream. +Much, without doubt, of what passed within my own +mind I have forgotten; but it seems to me as if what I +saw or heard were still present in the distinctness of +reality. That chamber in the Mammertine! Its walls +are before me blazing with the reflection of torch-light, +and then again, all dim and shadowy—the stars +shining feebly upon them from the twilight sky—every +thing around lonely and silent, except the voice +of Silo’s little maiden,—bewailing no doubt in her +privacy the departure of Athanasia. +</p> + +<p> +Her father after a little time rejoined me. <q>Sir,</q> +said he, <q>all is now quiet here; will you walk with me +towards the Palatine, that we may at least be near to +know what is reported of their proceedings? My +brother will stay here till we return.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We soon had descended from the Capitoline, passed +through the silent Forum, and gained the brow of the +opposite eminence, where, as shortly before at the +Mam<pb n="321"/><anchor id="Pg321"/>mertine, all was light and tumult. Every court was +guarded with soldiery, and groups of busy men were +passing continually about the imperial gates and porticos. +Silo led me round and round the buildings, till +we reached what seemed an abandoned wing. <q>Sir,</q> +said he, <q>you do not know more familiarly the house in +which you were born and reared, than I do every corner +within these wide walls. But I have not crossed the +threshold since the day Cæsar died.—I was the slave +of Domitian, and he gave me my freedom.—He was +kind to his household.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We entered beneath a small portico—and Silo drew +a key from his bosom. The lock, after two or three trials, +yielded to its pressure. A large empty hall received us, +the circumference of which was scarcely visible by the +light of the newly-risen moon, streaming down from a +cupola. +</p> + +<p> +Another and another sombre chamber we in like +manner traversed, till at length Silo opened one so +comparatively light, that I started back, apprehending +we had intruded farther than he intended. A second +glance, however, seemed to indicate that we were still +in the region of desolation, for a statue lay in the midst +of the floor, one of its limbs snapped over, as if it had +fallen and been permitted to remain. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where are we, Silo?</q> I whispered, <q>what means +this unnatural light among so many symptoms of confusion?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> said the freedman, <q>this is the place in which +alone Domitian used to eat and sleep, and walk about +for the last months of his life, when he was jealous of +all men; and he contrived these walls, covered all over +<pb n="322"/><anchor id="Pg322"/>with the shining Ethiopian stone, that no one might be +able to approach him without being discovered. Even +when a slave entered, he would start as if every side of +the chamber had been invaded by some host of men; +fifty different reflections of one trembling eunuch. It +was, they say, behind this shattered piece of marble that +he ran when he had felt the first treacherous blow. +Yonder in the corner is the couch he slept upon, and he +had always a dagger under his head, and he called to +the little page that was waiting upon him to fetch it +from the place; but the scabbard only remained; and +then in came Parthenius and Claudianus, and the gladiator, +and the rest, who soon finished what the cunning +Stephanus had begun. Let us go on;—we have not yet +reached the place to which I wished to bring you—but +it is not far off now.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With this Silo walked to the end of the melancholy +chamber, and pressing upon a secret spring, where no +door was apparent, opened the way into a room, darker +and smaller than any of those through which we had +come. He then said to me, <q>Now, sir, you must not +venture upon one whisper more—you touch on the +very heart of Domitian’s privacy. It is possible that +the place I have been leading you to may have been +shut up—it may exist no longer; but the state in which +all things are found here makes me think it more likely +that Trajan has never been master of its secret. And +in that case, we shall be able both to see and to hear, +without being either seen or heard, exactly as Domitian +used to do, when there was any council held either in +the Mars or the Apollo.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I started at the boldness of the project which now, +<pb n="323"/><anchor id="Pg323"/>for the first time, I understood; but Silo laid his +finger on his lip again,—cautiously lifted up a piece +of the dark-red cloth with which this chamber was +hung,—and essayed another spring in the pannelling +beneath. Total darkness appeared to be beyond; but +the jailer motioning to me to remain for a moment +where I was, and to keep up the hanging, glided boldly +into the recess. I wondered how he should tread so +lightly, that I could not perceive the least echo; but +this no longer surprised me, when I had the sign to +follow. The floor felt beneath my foot as if it were +stuffed like a pillow; and, after I had dropped the +hanging, every thing was totally dark, as it had at first +appeared to me, except only at certain points, separate +and aloft, which let in gleams of light, manifestly artificial. +Silo, taking hold of me by the hand, conducted +me up some steps towards the nearest of these tiny +apertures; and, as I approached it, I heard distinctly +the voices of persons talking together in the room beyond. +I did not draw my breath, you may well believe, +with much boldness; but my eye was soon fixed +at one of the crevices, and, after the first dazzle was +over, I saw clearly. Silo took his station by my side, +gazing through another of these loop-holes, which, that +you may understand every thing, were evidently quite +concealed among the rich carved-work of an ivory +cornice. +</p> + +<p> +The chamber was lighted by three tall candelabra of +silver, close beside one of which was placed a long table +covered with an infinity of scrolls and tablets. One +person, who had his back turned towards us, was +writing, and two others, in one of whom I instantly +<pb n="324"/><anchor id="Pg324"/>recognized the Emperor, were walking up and down on +the other side. +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, Palma,</q> said Trajan, for it was that old favourite +whom he addressed—<q>I have made up my +mind as to this matter. I shall never permit any +curious inquisition as to private opinion. Every man +has a right, without question, to think—to believe—exactly +what pleases him; and I shall concede as much +in favour of every woman, Palma, if you will have it +so. But it is totally a different affair, when the fact, no +matter how, is forced upon my knowledge, that a subject, +no matter who or what he be—a subject of the +Roman empire, refuses to comply with the first, the +elemental, and the most essential of the laws. The +man—aye or the woman—that confesses in my presence +contempt for the deities whom the commonwealth +acknowledges in every step of its procedure—that person +is a criminal; and I cannot dismiss him unpunished, +without injuring the commonwealth by the display +of weakness in its chief. As for these poor fanatics +themselves, it is the penalty of my station that I must +control my feelings.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But you are satisfied, my lord,</q> said Palma, <q>that +these people are quite innocent as to Cotilius’s designs; +and as it was upon that suspicion they were apprehended, +perhaps it may be possible——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, Palma,</q> interrupted the Prince; <q>quite possible +and quite easy, provided they will condescend to +save themselves by the most trivial acknowledgment of +the sort which, I repeat to you, I do and must consider +as absolutely necessary. And women too—and girls +forsooth—I suppose you would have me wait till the +<pb n="325"/><anchor id="Pg325"/>very urchins on the street were gathering into knots to +discuss the nature of the Gods.—Do you remember what +Plato says?</q>— +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, my lord, I do not know to what you refer.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why, Plato says that nobody can ever understand +any thing accurately about the Deity, and that, if he +could, he would have no right to communicate his discoveries +to others; the passage is in the Timæus, and +Tully has translated it besides. And is it to be endured +that these modest fanatics are to do every hour what +the Platos and the Ciceros spoke of in such terms as +these? I think you carry your tolerance a little farther +than might have been expected from a disciple of the +Academy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I despise them, my lord, as much as yourself; but, +to tell you the truth, it is this young lady that moves +me to speak thus—and I crave your pardon, if I have +spoken with too much freedom.—Her father was one of +the best soldiers Titus had.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The more is the pity, Palma. Have you ever seen +the girl yourself? Did you give orders that she should +be brought hither? I have not the least objection that +you should have half an hour, or an hour if you will, +to talk with her quietly; perhaps your eloquence may +have the effect we desire.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I doubt it, my lord, I greatly doubt it,</q> he replied; +<q>but, indeed, I know not whether she be yet here—Did +you not send to the Mammertine?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The man writing at the table, to whom this interrogation +was addressed, said, <q>I believe, sir, both this +lady and the old man that was in the same prison are +now in attendance.</q> And upon this Trajan and Palma +<pb n="326"/><anchor id="Pg326"/>retired together towards the farther end of the apartment, +where they conversed for some minutes in a tone +so low, that I could not understand any thing of what +was said. Trajan at length turned from his favourite +with an air, as I thought, of some little displeasure, and +said aloud, coming back into the middle of the room,—<q>I +know it is so; but what is that to the affair in hand? +I am very sorry for the Sempronii, but I doubt if even +they would be so unreasonable as you are.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Will you not see the poor girl yourself, Cæsar?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You do not need to be told, that my seeing her +would only make it more difficult for me to do that, +which, seeing or not seeing her, I know to be my duty. +Do you accept of my proposal? Are you willing to try +the effect of your own persuasion? I promise you, +if you succeed, I shall rejoice not less heartily than +yourself; but it is rather too much to imagine that I +am personally to interfere about such an affair as this—an +affair which, the more I think of it, seems to me to +be the more perfectly contemptible. Nay, do not suppose +it is this poor girl I am talking of—I mean the +whole of this Jewish, this Christian affair, which does +indeed appear to me to be the most bare-faced absurdity, +that ever was permitted to disturb the tranquillity of +the empire. A mean and savage nation have but just +suffered the penalty of obstinacy and treachery alike +unequalled, and from them—from the scattered embers +of this extinguished fire, we are to allow a new flame +to be kindled—ay, and that in the very centre of +Rome. I tell you, that if my own hand were to be +scorched in the cause, I would disperse this combustion +to the winds of heaven; I tell you, that I stand here +<pb n="327"/><anchor id="Pg327"/>Cæsar, and that I would rather be chained to the oar, +than suffer, while the power to prevent it is mine, the +tiniest speck to be thrown upon the Roman majesty. +By all the Gods, Palma, it is enough to make a man +sick to think of the madness that is in this world, and +of the iron arguments by which we are compelled to +keep those from harming us, that at first sight of them +excite no feeling but our pity. But I am weary of these +very names of Palestine—Jew—Christian. Go to this +foolish girl, and try what you can make of her; I give +you fair warning—no breeders of young Christians +here.</q> +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="7" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="328"/><anchor id="Pg328"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VII.</hi></head> + +<p> +Cornelius Palma, after the Prince retired, was apparently +for some space busied with his reflections. He +then talked in a whispering manner with the secretary, +and moved towards an extremity of the chamber. +But the moment Silo perceived this, he plucked my +sleeve, and drew me to the other end of our closet, +where, as I have told you, the light had admittance in +a similar manner. Here another of the imperial apartments +was visible in equal distinctness; and in it +appeared Athanasia and her friend, as waiting now at +length in entire composure the moment when they should +be summoned. +</p> + +<p> +Palma entering, both rose, and he, returning their +salutation, remained before them for a moment in +silence, his eyes fixed on Athanasia. It was to +Aurelius, nevertheless, that his first words were +addressed:—<q>From what has been reported of your +behaviour at the execution of Cotilius, I fear there is +nothing to be gained by speaking to <hi rend="italic">you</hi>, concerning the +only means by which your own safety can yet be +secured. You are obstinate, old man, in your superstition?</q>—<q>Noble +Palma,</q> said the priest, <q>contempt +is the only thing I fear from men. But I thank my +<pb n="329"/><anchor id="Pg329"/>God, that it is the only thing I have it in my power to +avoid.</q>—<q>I will not argue with you,</q> answered Palma, +pointing to a door near him:—<q>It was not with any +purpose of bending you, that I undertook this painful +office. I desire to speak in freedom with one whose +case is, I trust, less hopeless.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The old man, pointing to his fetters, said meekly, +<q>Let them guard me whither it pleases you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> said Athanasia, <q>I pray you let Aurelius +remain; imagine not that I shall either hear or answer +less freely because of my friend’s presence.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He will, at least, retire to the other end of the +chamber,</q> said Palma—<q>and interfere no farther.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The priest drew back;—Athanasia, on her part, seeing +that Palma hesitated, and seemed at a loss how to +begin, said to him in a tone of modest composure:—<q>Noble +sir, if your purpose be indeed as kind as I think +it is, I pray you spare me at least the pain that is needless, +and spare yourself what I am sure is painful to +you. You see my youth and my sex, and it is not unnatural +for you to think as you do; but know that my +faith is fixed, and that I hope I shall not be deserted, +when I strive even at the last moment to do it no dishonour.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>This gray beard,</q> said Palma, <q>has made you, then, +thoroughly a Christian?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I would it were so,</q> she answered—<q>I would to +God it were so!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lady,</q> resumed Palma, <q>we have knowledge both +of your father’s high character, and of your own amiable +dispositions. If you persist in this manner, you +will give grief to Cæsar; and as for your family, +<pb n="330"/><anchor id="Pg330"/>have you yet seriously considered into what misery they +must be plunged?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sir,</q> she replied, <q>this is cruel kindness. I have +considered all things.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Young maiden,</q> continued Palma, <q>the touch of +the physician’s knife is painful, yet his hand must not +falter. But I have sent for those, who, I hope, may +speak more effectually.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Senator turned from the pedestal on which he +had been leaning, and walked to the door over against +where Aurelius was sitting: and after a moment +had elapsed, there entered, even as I had anticipated, +both her uncles, Lucius and Velius. Behind them came, +wrapped in her consecrated veil, the Priestess of Apollo; +and last of all, gazing wildly around, her apparel disordered, +the friend of her youth, the sister of her bosom,—she +to whom in all things, save one, Athanasia’s heart +had ever been laid open. The two Patricians advanced, +deeply dejected, towards the place where Athanasia +stood waiting their approach. The stately Priestess, +walking yet more slowly, lifted the veil from her face, +which was pale and calm as marble. But when the youthful +companion at last rested her eye upon her friend, and +the fettered hands clasped together on that bosom, she +rushed past them all, and was folded in a cold embrace; +for though Athanasia pressed Sempronia to her bosom, +I saw also that she trembled from head to foot, and that +her eyes were riveted on those who approached with +seriousness more terrible than the passion of young +sympathy. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Athanasia,</q> said Lucius, taking her by the hand, +<q>look not upon us thus; we come as to a daughter.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="331"/><anchor id="Pg331"/> + +<p> +<q>Dearest,</q> said old Velius, <q>listen to thy true friends. +Do you put more faith in the words of strangers than +in the blood of kindred—the affection of your father’s +brothers—the guardians of his dear orphan?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wo is me!</q> said Athanasia—<q>O God, strengthen +me! Why, oh, why am I forced to wound these kind +hearts! Have pity upon me, have pity upon me—you +know not what you speak of, else you would all be +silent.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Weep,</q> said the Priestess; <q>weep, and weep largely. +There is yet time to repent. Abjure this madness; let +the last of your tears be shed upon the altars of your +paternal Gods, and they also will be merciful. Nay, +tremble not when you hear my voice, Athanasia. I +love you as tenderly as the rest, and if you have deceived +me also, I have long since pardoned.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Priestess kissed her forehead; and she bowed her +head, weeping at length audibly. But Athanasia speedily +recovered herself, and gently removing the hands of +Sempronia, stood erect again in the midst. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dear friends,</q> said she, <q>the moments you have to +be with me are numbered; what avails it that they +should be spent in words that can have no effect? I +have been baptized in the name of the one true God—I +have partaken of the symbols of the Christian mystery—and +I have no more power to bring myself out of this +peril, than he that stands in the front rank—without +sword or buckler—deprived of all things but his +honour.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Athanasia!</q> said Velius, <q>alas! my dear girl, what +madness is this? Do you hold yourself wiser than all +the wise men, and all the good, and all the great men +<pb n="332"/><anchor id="Pg332"/>that have ever lived in Rome? Do you deem yourself +able to penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of +the earth have retreated with humility? Consider with +yourself—remember the modesty that might be becoming +in your tender years—and, I must speak the +truth, your ignorance.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Oh, sir!</q> she answered, <q>believe not that I have +been brought into this place, because of my being puffed +up with emptiness of conceit. I know well that I am +a poor, young, unlearned creature; but God gives not +according to our deserts; and because I am poor and +ignorant, must I therefore reject the promise of his +riches, and the great light that has been manifested to +me,—which, would to God it had also been to you, +despite the perils which a dark world has thrown +around it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>O Athanasia!</q> said young Sempronia, <q>I know +the secrets of your heart, although you have kept from +me some of them. Think, dear sister, of all the love +that we bear to you—and, oh! think of Valerius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The more, then, is the sacrifice!</q> said Athanasia. +<q>Caius Valerius also is a Christian—at least I hope in +God he will soon be sealed into our brotherhood.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Amen! amen!</q> said Aurelius. +</p> + +<p> +The Priestess turned round when he uttered this, and +observing that he also was fettered, <q>Blasphemer!</q> +cried she, <q>behold the end of your frenzy. Your eyes +are dim, your clay is already yearning, it may be, to be +sprinkled into ashes; but behold your victim. Ye Gods +that see all things, have mercy upon the errors of deceived, +ensnared, murdered youth! Hoary Apostate! +feeble though you be, may strength be given to you in +<pb n="333"/><anchor id="Pg333"/>anger, that you may taste the full struggle and the true +agony. May you be strong to wrestle, that you may +fall slowly, and feel your fall! Would to the Gods, +just and merciful, that you might struggle and fall +alone!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rash woman,</q> said the manacled Saint, <q>most surely +your last wish is mine. But why is it that you have +come hither with cruel words, to imbitter equally the +last moments of a life that is dear to you, and a life that +you despise? You speak of ignorance and of deceit. +Little know ye who are the deceived. We are the servants +of the living God, whose light will soon shine +abroad among the nations, and quench glimmering +tapers, fashioned with the hands of men, with which, +hitherto, ye have sat contented amidst darkness. Cæsar +may bind and slay—but think ye that the spirit is his +to do with it what he will? Think ye that chains and +dungeons, and the sword of man can alter the course of +things that are to be, or shake from its purpose the will +of Him, in whom, blind and ignorant, ye refuse to behold +the image of the Maker of all—shutting eyes, and +ears, and your proud hearts; and blaspheming against +the God of heaven, whose glory ye ascribe to stocks and +stones, and to the ghosts of wicked and bloody tyrants, +long since mouldered into dust,—and to the sun, and +the moon, and the stars of the sky, which God set there +to rule the day and the night, even as he lets loose his +winds to scatter the leaves of the forest, and to lift up +the waves of the great deep?—Leave us, I beseech you.—The +young and the old are alike steadfast, for God is +our strength, and he bestows it on them that ask for it +in the name of the Redeemer.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="334"/><anchor id="Pg334"/> + +<p> +<q>Peace, thou accursed!</q> said the Priestess; <q>I serve +the altar, and came not hither to hear the Gods of heaven +and earth insulted by the lips of hardened impiety.—Athanasia! +will you go with us, or will you stay here, +and partake the fate of this madman?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>O God!</q> cried the maiden; <q>how shall I speak +that they may at length hear me!—Friends—dear +friends—if you have any love, any compassion, I pray +you kiss me once, and bid me farewell kindly, and lay +my ashes in the sepulchre of my fathers—beside the +urn of my mother. Fear not that I will disturb the +repose of the place—I shall die in anger against no one, +and I shall have rest at length when I am relieved from +this struggle. Pardon, if in any thing besides I ever +gave you pain—remember none of my offences but +this—think of me kindly. And go now, dear friends; +kiss my lips in love, and leave me to bear that which +must be borne, since there is no escape but in lying, and +in baseness, and in utter perdition here and hereafter. +May the Lord strengthen his day soon, and may ye all +bless the full light, although now ye are startled by the +redness of the dawn! Farewell—kiss me, Velius—kiss +me, Lucius—my aunt also will kiss me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +They did kiss her, and tears were mingled with their +embraces; and they said no more, but parted from her +where she was. Palma himself lifted the desolate +Sempronia from the ground, and he and her father carried +her away senseless, her tresses sweeping the pavement +as they moved. +</p> + +<p> +The prisoners were alone. <q>The moment is come,</q> +said Silo; <q>now, sir, prepare yourself to risk every +thing where every thing may be gained.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="335"/><anchor id="Pg335"/> + +<p> +He did not whisper this, but spake the words boldly; +and ere I could either answer any thing, or form any +guess as to his meaning, he had leaped down from my +side, and thrown open another secret spring. Silo +rushed in, and I followed him. It was all done so +rapidly, that I scarce remember how. I cannot, indeed, +forget the wild and vacant stare of Athanasia, the cry +which escaped from her lips, nor the fervour with which +she sunk into my embrace. But all the rest is a dream. +The door closed swiftly behind us;—swiftly I ran, +bearing the maiden in my arms through all the long +course of those deserted chambers. Door after door flew +open before us. All alike, breathless and speechless, we +ran on. We reached the last of the chambers, the wide +and echoing saloon, ere my heart had recovered from +the first palpitation of surprise; and a moment after +we breathed once more the free air of heaven. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Stop not,</q> said I, <q>for the sake of God. Hasten, +Silo, it is you that must guide us.</q>—<q>Ha!</q> said he, +<q>already have they perceived it? Great God! after +all, is it in vain?</q> We heard shout echoing shout, and +the clapping of doors. <q>Treachery, treachery! Escape, +escape!</q>—and trumpet and horn mingled in the clamour +of surprise, wrath, terror. <q>Ride, ride,</q> screamed a +voice high over all the tumult—<q>ride this instant—guard +every avenue—search every corner—the wing +of Domitian!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We are lost,</q> said Silo;—<q>we can never reach the +gate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>To the Temple of Apollo!</q> said I; <q>the Priestess +will shelter Athanasia.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thank God,</q> whispered Silo, <q>there is one chance +<pb n="336"/><anchor id="Pg336"/>more.</q>—And so we began again to run swiftly, keeping +close beneath the shaded wall of the edifice, and then +threading many narrow passages of the hanging gardens +of Adonis, we reached indeed the adjoining court of +the Palatine, and found ourselves, where all was as yet +silent and undisturbed, under the sacred portico. The +great gate was barred. Athanasia herself pointed out +a postern, and we stood within the temple. +</p> + +<p> +It was filled as before, (for here the alternations of +day and night made no difference,) with the soft and +beautiful radiance proceeding from the tree of lamps. +But the fire on the altar burned high and clear, as if +recently trimmed, and behind its blaze stood one of the +ministering damsels. Her hand held the chain of the +censer, and she was swinging it slowly, while the clouds +of fragrant smoke rolled high up above the flames;—and +the near light, and the intervening smoke, and the +occupation with which she was busied, prevented her +from at first perceiving what intrusion had been made +on the solitude of the place. Athanasia ran on, and +clasping the knees of the astonished girl with her fettered +hands, began to implore her by the memory of old +affection and companionship, and for the sake of all +that was dear to her, to give escape, if escape were +possible—at least to give concealment. The girl had +dropped the censer from her hand, and seemed utterly +confused, and unable to guess the meaning of what she +saw and heard. <q>Lady!</q> cried Silo, falling by the +side of Athanasia—<q>Oh, lady! stand not here considering, +for this is the very moment of utmost peril. +Behold these fetters—they tell you from what her +flight hath been.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="337"/><anchor id="Pg337"/> + +<p> +The girl grasped the hands of Athanasia, and gazed +upon the manacles, and still seemed quite amazed and +stupified; and while Silo was renewing his entreaties, +we heard suddenly some one trying to open the postern +which the freedman had fastened behind us. Once and +again a violent hand essayed to undo the bolt, and then +all was quiet again. And in a moment after, the great +gate was itself thrown open, and the Priestess entered, +followed by her two brothers, who supported between +them the yet faint and weeping young Sempronia. +</p> + +<p> +In a moment Athanasia had rushed across the temple, +and knelt down with her forehead to the ground, close +by where the feet of her haughty kinswoman were +planted. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unhappy!</q> said she; <q>by what magic do I behold +you here? How have you escaped? and why—oh! +why fled hither? Think ye, that here, in the Temple +of Apollo, the priestess of an insulted God can give +shelter to blasphemy flying from the arms of justice? +Ha! and he, too, is here!—Outcast! how durst thou? +Speak, unhappy Athanasia—every thing is dark, and I +see only that you have brought hither——</q>—<q>Friends, +friends—oh! blame them not,</q> interrupted the maiden—<q>Oh! +blame them not for venturing all to save me. +Oh! help us, and help speedily—for they search every +where, and they may speedily be here.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here?</q> cried the priestess—<q>who, I pray you? Ha! +run, fly, bolt the door. If Cæsar speaks, I answer.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The ring of arms, and voices of angry men, were +heard distinctly approaching. In a moment more we +could hear them talking together beneath the very portico, +and trying, in their turn, to thrust open the massive +<pb n="338"/><anchor id="Pg338"/>valves of the temple. <q>Who calls there?</q> cried the +Priestess—<q>Who calls and knocks? If a suppliant +approaches, let him come as a suppliant.</q>—<q>Castor! +We are no suppliants,</q> answered a rough voice:—<q>Dead +or alive, you must give up our pretty Christians. Come, +come, my sly masters; yield, yield, there is no flying +from Cæsar.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peace, insolent!</q> quoth the Priestess—<q>peace, +and begone! This is the Temple of Apollo, and ye shall +find no Christians here. Turn, rude man, and dread the +arm that guarded Delphos!</q> And saying so, she at +length lifted up Athanasia, and moved towards the +other extremity of the fane, where, as I had occasion +once to tell you before, the private chamber of the +Priestess was situated on the right hand beyond the +statue of Apollo. In passing the image she halted an +instant, laid her hand on her eyes, and kissed its feet, +with a murmur of supplication; but that was her only +utterance: and the rest gave none. +</p> + +<p> +She thus led us across the chamber in which, on a +former day, I had heard Athanasia sing; and in like +manner, having taken a lamp in her hand, on through +the long passages which conduct towards the receptacle +wherein the Sybilline prophecies are said to be preserved. +She opened the door which she had, on that +earlier day, told me led into the repository of those +mysterious scrolls. Two inner doors appeared before +us; that to the left she opened likewise, and we perceived, +descending from its threshold, a dark flight of +steps, as if down into the centre of the rock. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here,</q> said she, as she paused, and held the lamp +over the gloomy perspective—<q>here, at last, I leave +<pb n="339"/><anchor id="Pg339"/>you, having already done too much, whether I think +of the God I serve, or of Trajan, or of myself. But +for the blood of kindred not little may be dared. Go +with her, since you have come with her. More I cannot +do. Here—take this lamp; the door at the bottom +is fastened only from within; let it fall behind you, +and make what speed you may.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>One thing,</q> said Silo, <q>had better be done ere you +depart;</q> and so, very adroitly, he, by means of his +jailer’s key, relieved both of them from their fetters. +He then whispered, <q>Go no farther, Valerius; you may +rest assured that no one suspects us.</q> I saw that he +designed to return into the courts of the Palatine, and +so proceed homewards, as if ignorant of every thing +that had occurred. The good freedman had no other +course to pursue, either in duty to himself or to his +family. But for me, all my cares were here. I squeezed +by the hand both Lucius and Velius, and both warmly +returned my pressure. The Priestess gave the lamp into +my hand, and the door was shut upon us; and we +began, with hearts full of thankfulness, but not yet +composed enough to taste of lightness—with thankfulness +uppermost in our confused thoughts, and with no +steady footsteps, to descend into the unknown abyss. +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="8" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="340"/><anchor id="Pg340"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter VIII"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER VIII.</hi></head> + +<p> +The steps were abrupt and narrow; but in a few +minutes our feet became accustomed to them, and we +descended rapidly. After we had done so for some time, +we found ourselves in a low chamber of oblong form, +in the midst of which an iron stake was fixed into the +floor, having chains of ponderous workmanship attached +to its centre, and over against it, a narrow chair of +the same metal, it also immoveable. I asked Athanasia +to repose herself here for a moment; for it was evident +that the tumultuous evening had much worn out her +strength. But she said, shuddering, <q>No, not here, +Valerius; I never saw this place before, but the aspect +of it recals to me fearful stories. Here, wo is me, many +a poor wretch has expiated offences against the dignity +of the shrine, and the servants of its Demon. My father +knows, I doubt not, some humble Christian roof, beneath +which we may be safe until the first search be +over. Let us breathe at least the open air, and He +who has hitherto helped will not desert us.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, my children,</q> said Aurelius; <q>let us not +linger here. Christian roofs, indeed, are known to me, +both humble and lofty; but how to know how far +suspicion may already have extended?—or why should +we run any needless risk of bringing others into peril, +<pb n="341"/><anchor id="Pg341"/>having by God’s grace escaped ourselves, when all hope +as to this life had been utterly taken away? Let us +quit these foul precincts—let us quit them speedily—but +let us not rashly be seen in the busy city. There +is a place known to me, (and Athanasia also has visited +it heretofore,) where safety, I think, may be expected, +and where, if danger do come, it shall find no unnecessary +victim. Let us hasten to the Esquiline.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thanks, father!</q> said Athanasia; <q>there no one +will seek us: there best shall our thanksgivings and +our prayers be offered. We will rest by the sepulchre +of our friend, and Valerius will go into the city, and +procure what things are needful.</q> +</p> + +<p> +We began the descent of another flight of steps, beyond +the dark chamber. This terminated at length in a +door, the bolts of which being withdrawn, we found +ourselves beneath the sky of night, at the extremity of +one of the wooded walks that skirt the southern base of +the Palatine—the remains of the Assyrian magnificence +which had once connected the Golden House of Nero +with the more modest structures of his predecessors. +I wrapped Athanasia in my cloak, and walked beside +her in my tunic; and Aurelius conducted us by many +windings, avoiding as far as was possible the glare of +the Suburra, all round about the edge of the city, to +the gardens which hang over the wall by the great +Esquiline Gate. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is it here,</q> said I, when he paused—<q>is it in the +midst of this splendour that you hope to find a safe +obscurity?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Have patience,</q> replied the old man; <q>you are a +stranger:—and yet you speak what I should have heard +<pb n="342"/><anchor id="Pg342"/>without surprise from many that have spent all their +days in Rome. Few, indeed, ever think of entering a +region which is almost as extensive as the city itself, +and none, I think, are acquainted with all its labyrinths.</q> +</p> + +<p> +So saying, the priest led the way into one of the +groves. Its trees formed a dense canopy overhead; nor +could we pass without difficulty among the close-creeping +undergrowth. At length we reached the centre of the +wide thicket, and found a small space of soil comparatively +bare. The light of moon and star plunged down +there among the surrounding blackness of boughs, as +into some deep well, and shewed the entrance of a +natural grotto, which had, indeed, all the appearance of +oblivion and utter desertedness. <q>Confess,</q> said he, +<q>that I did not deceive you. But there is no hurry +now; let me taste once more the water of this forgotten +spring.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I had not observed a small fountain hard by the +mouth of the grotto, which, in former days, had +evidently been much cared for, although now almost +all its surface was covered with leaves. The marble +margin shewed dim with moss; nor had a statue just +within the entrance of the grot escaped this desolation. +Damp herbage obscured its recumbent limbs, and the +Parian stone had lost its brightness. <q>You can scarcely +see where the inscription was,</q> said Aurelius, <q rend="post: none">for the +letters are filled up or effaced; but I remember when +many admired it, and I can still repeat the lines—</q> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>‘Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep,</l> +<l>And to the murmur of these waters sleep;</l> +<pb n="343"/><anchor id="Pg343"/><l>Ah! spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave,</l> +<l>And drink in silence, or in silence lave.’<note place="foot">So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines: + +<lg> +<l>Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis,</l> +<l>Dormio, dum blandæ sentio murmur aquæ;</l> +<l>Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum</l> +<l>Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace.</l> +</lg></note></l> +</lg> + +<p> +<q rend="pre: none">Little did they, who graved this command, conjecture +how well it was to be obeyed. But there should be +another inscription.—Ay, here it is,</q> said he, stepping +on a long flat piece of marble among the weeds. +I was advancing to examine the stone, but the old man +stopped me:—<q>What avails it to spell out the record? +Do you remember the story of Asinius? It was within +this very cavern that the man was butchered;<note place="foot">Asinius autem brevi illo tempore quasi in hortulos in <hi rend="italic">arenarias</hi> quasdam +juxta portam Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.—Cic. <title rend="italic">Pro Cluent.</title></note> and +now you see both he and his monument are alike sinking +into forgetfulness. I believe, however, the monument +itself must bear the blame in part; for I have heard my +father say that he had been told this was a favourite +fountain until that slaughter.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia meantime had sat down by the grotto, +and was laving her forehead with the water of the +solitary fountain. Aurelius, too, dipped his hands in +the well, and tasted of the water, and then turning to +me, he said, with a grave smile, <q>Valerius, methinks +you are religious in your regard for the slumbers +of the nymph.</q> He whispered something into the +ear of Athanasia, and received an answer from her in +the same tone, ere he proceeded:—<q>Draw near—fear +not that I shall do any thing rashly—we owe all things +<pb n="344"/><anchor id="Pg344"/>to your love—we know we do; but speak plainly.—Do +you indeed desire to be admitted into the fellowship of +the true Faith? Let not the symbol of regeneration be +applied hastily. Without doubt, great were my joy +might my hands be honoured to shed the blessed water +of baptism upon the brow of dear Valerius.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Caius,</q> said Athanasia, <q>I know God has touched +your heart; why should this be delayed any longer? +You have shared the perils of the faithful. Partake +with them in good as in evil. Hesitate no longer; God +will perfect what hath been so begun.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dearest friends!</q> said I, <q>if I hesitate, it is only +because I doubt if I am yet worthy. Surely I believe +that this is the right faith, and that there is no God but +He whom you worship.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Acceptable is humility in the sight of Heaven,</q> said +the priest; and he rose up from the place where he had +been sitting, and began, standing by the margin of the +well, to pour out words of thanksgiving and supplication, +such as I have never heard equalled by any lips +but his. The deep calm voice of the holy man sounded +both sweet and awful in the breathless air of midnight. +The tall black trees stood all around, like a wall, cutting +us off from the world, and from the thoughts of +the world; and the moon, steady in the serene sky, +seemed to shower down light and beauty upon nothing +in all the wide earth, but that little guarded space of +our seclusion. I stepped into the cool water of the +fountain. The old man stooped over me, and sprinkled +the drops upon my forehead, and the appointed words +were repeated. Aurelius kissed my brow, as I came +forth from the water, and Athanasia also drew slowly +<pb n="345"/><anchor id="Pg345"/>near, and then hastily she pressed my forehead with +trembling lips. +</p> + +<p> +We sate down together by the lonely well; and we +sate in silence, for I could not be without many thoughts +partaken by none but myself, at the moment when I +had thus, in the face of God and man, abjured the faith +of all my fathers, and passed into the communion of +the despised and persecuted Few; nor did either the +priest or Athanasia essay to disturb my meditations. +</p> + +<p> +There were moments (for I must not conceal from you +my weakness) in which I could scarcely help suspecting +that I had done something that was wrong. I thought +of my far distant mother; and I could not reflect without +pain upon the feelings with which I had every +reason to suppose that she, kind as she was, and merciful +in all things, would have contemplated the scene +which had passed. I thought of my dead parent too; +and that was yet more serious and awful. The conviction +of my own mind, in obedience to which I had +acted, relieved me, however, from any feelings of +self-reproach.—My father is dead, said I to myself—He +died in ignorance, and he has not been judged according +to the light, which never shone upon him. But +now—Oh, yes! it must be so—the darkness has passed +from before his eyes; and, if the spirits of the departed +ever visit, in the dim hours of silence, those who were +dear to them upon this earth, surely his venerable shade +stood by smiling while the forehead of his son was laved +with these blessed waters. +</p> + +<p> +Meantime, minutes—hours, perhaps, glided away, +while troubled, and solemn, and tender thoughts thus +occupied by turns my bosom. The old priest sate by +<pb n="346"/><anchor id="Pg346"/>me, his arms folded on his breast, gazing upwards upon +the spangled glories of the firmament. Athanasia was +on the other side, close by the statue of the Sleeping +Naiad. From time to time, she too would fix her +eyes for a moment upon the untroubled beauty of the +moon; and then, stooping over the brink of the fountain, +once and again I saw its calm dark waters rippled +beneath her by the dropping of a tear. +</p> + +<p> +<q>My children,</q> said, at length, Aurelius, <q>methinks +more sadness is amongst us than might suit the remembrance +of what Providence has done for us, since the sun +that went down upon fear and sorrow is about to rise +upon many fair hopes. I am old; the world lies behind +me, save a remnant I know not how brief. It lies all +before you, and you have a light whereby to look upon +it, which my early day wanted. I trust that soon, very +soon, ye shall both be far from this city—I say both, +for I know well, go where ye may, ye will go together. +As for me, my lot is cast here, and here I will remain. +Caius, you must leave us betimes—you must return +into the city, and consult with your friends and hers, +how best Athanasia may be conveyed safely beyond the +bounds of Italy. Cæsar, indeed, rules every where; but +at a distance from Rome suspicion is, at least, less +watchful; and there is no precept given by which ye +are bound to seek unnecessary perils.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Aurelius,</q> said I—<q>dear father, think not but +that I have already been considering all these things +anxiously. As soon as I have seen you safely placed +within the retreat of which you have spoken, I shall +hasten to Licinius, my kinsman, who already, indeed, +must be feeling no small anxiety from my absence. I +<pb n="347"/><anchor id="Pg347"/>shall speak with him, and with both the Sempronii. +My own errand to the capital I value as nothing, and +I shall be ready on the instant, if Athanasia herself will +consent to partake my voyage.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, Caius,</q> said the father—<q>this child of God +will be your wife, and ye will both serve the Lord many +days, amidst the quiet valleys of your far off island.—Nay, +daughter, do not weep, for these are not common +days, and you must follow without fear the path which +God’s providence points out. Before ye go, my children, +I myself shall join your hands in the name of +our God.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Athanasia heard his words, and saw me gaze upon his +face, but she made no reply, except by the tears which +Aurelius rebuked, and a timid, yet grave and serious +pressure, with which she, when he had made an end of +speaking, returned the fervid pressure of my hand upon +hers. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Children,</q> said the old man, <q>there is no need of +words when hearts are open—the tears that ye have +shed together are the best earnest of the vows that ye +shall ere long, I trust, pronounce. Yet, let no rashness +attend your steps. The dawn must now be near, and +Athanasia and I had better retire into our protecting +covert. Valerius will leave us, and return at eventide. +Till then, fasting and praying, we shall give thanks for +our deliverance, and ask the aid that alone is precious +for the time that yet remains.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I had, fortunately, brought all the way with me the +lamp which lighted our steps down the mysterious +staircase, from the shrine of Apollo. Some little oil still +remained within it, and Aurelius soon struck a light, +<pb n="348"/><anchor id="Pg348"/>and, taking it in his hand, began to enter before us the +dark cavern, by the mouth of which we had all this +while been sitting. You, perhaps, have never heard of +those strange excavations, the whole extent of which +has probably never been known to any one person, but +which appear, indeed, as the priest had said, to be +almost co-extensive with the great city beneath which +they are placed. For what purpose they were at first +dug, is a subject which has long exercised the conjectures +of those fond of penetrating into the origin +of things, and the customs of antiquity. By some it +is supposed, that in such caverns, winding far away +into unseen recesses, the first rude inhabitants of Italy, +like the Troglodytes of Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, +had fixed their miserable abodes. Others assert, that +they owe their origin merely to the elder builders +of the visible Rome, who, to avoid marring the surface +of the earth, were contented to bring their materials of +sand, clay, and stone, from these subterraneous labyrinths, +which so grew with the progress of diligence, +and with the extension of the city itself. Perhaps both +conjectures may have some foundation in truth; but +be that as it may, there is no question, that, in succeeding +times, these catacombs had been widened and +extended, to serve as places of burial for the mortal +remains of the poor citizens. And now is it to be wondered +at, that here, in regions so obscure and dismal, the +persecuted adherents of the Faith should have frequently +sought not only resting-places for the bodies of their +dead, but even shelter for themselves, amidst the terror +of those relentless days? Hither, more than once, the +aged priest said, he had fled to escape the pursuit of his +<pb n="349"/><anchor id="Pg349"/>enemies—here once more he hoped the shield of safety +would lie over his peril—here, at last, by whatever death +he should die, his brethren had promised to lay his bones +in the earth, beside Tisias of Antioch, and many more +that, in the bloody times of Nero and Domitian, had +already, in the sight of all that heartless city, merited +the crown, and the spotless robe, and the palm-branch +of martyrdom, by patient endurance of the last insolence +of man. +</p> + +<p> +Our father, therefore, held the lamp before us, and +we entered those gloomy regions, wherein alone the +servants of the Son of God could at that troubled era +esteem themselves in safety from the hot pursuit of contemptuous +power. We passed along beneath the arches +of the rock-hewn roof, and between the endless winding +walls, on either side of which appeared many +humble inscriptions, recording the virtues of the departed +and the regrets of the surviving poor. Of these +last, however, as it appeared, all must long since have +been gathered to the ashes of those they lamented, for +there was no semblance of any new monument among +all that we observed, and most of them, to judge from +the shape of the letters upon them, must have been set +up at least as long ago as the period of Asinius. After +traversing many of these subterraneous galleries, we +came, at last, to one more low-roofed than the rest, into +which Aurelius struck aside, saying, <q>Here Tisias lies, +but no inscription marks the place where a martyr +finds repose. Here is the spot; with my own hands I +lent feeble help in digging the grave. Athanasia, too, +knows it well, for she also did not fear to assist in rendering +the last honours to that soldier of Christ.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="350"/><anchor id="Pg350"/> + +<p> +A flat thin stone, without mark or epitaph, indicated +the spot. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Father,</q> said Athanasia, <q>let me rest here. I am +weary and worn—but here I shall fear no evil. Conduct +Caius back to the grotto; it is time he should go.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Thus leaving her by the funeral-stone, Aurelius and +I retraced our steps to the mouth of the catacomb. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Already,</q> said he, <q>the sky is red eastward—walk +cautiously through the gardens, and regain with all +speed the house of your kinsman. Go, my son; may +all blessings attend your steps. Come back at the rising +of the moon, and cast a stone into the fountain, and I +shall be within hearing. Go, and fear not.</q> +</p> + +</div><div type="chapter" n="9" rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="351"/><anchor id="Pg351"/> +<index index="toc" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<index index="pdf" level1="Chapter IX"/> +<head><hi rend="h2">CHAPTER IX.</hi></head> + +<p> +I passed without disturbance through the gardens of +the Esquiline, and the streets of the city, in which no +one was as yet moving, except a few rustics driving +asses laden with herbs to the market-place. When I +reached the house of my kinsman, however, it was +evident that sleep did not prevail within its gates; +lights were visible in the vestibule, and there I found +several of the slaves sitting in conversation. My own +could not conceal the extravagance of his satisfaction on +seeing me enter among them in safety; so that I had +no doubt his brother had informed him, in so far at least, +of what had passed after our leaving him in the Mammertine. +Dromo received me also with warm demonstrations +of joy, and conducted me to the chamber of +Licinius, in which, with the orator himself, were Sextus, +pale with watching, Sabinus, still habited in military +attire, with a goblet of wine before him on the table, and +Lucius Sempronius, who was reclining at some little +distance from the rest. It was he that eagerly began to +question me; and I perceived from the style in which +he spoke, that all present had already been made aware +of the manner in which Athanasia had been withdrawn +from the council-chamber. A few words informed them +<pb n="352"/><anchor id="Pg352"/>of what had followed after we quitted the Temple of +Apollo. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I thank the gods,</q> said Sempronius,—<q>so far at +least it goes well—but if this strictness, of which the +Centurion speaks, shall be adhered to, there still must +be no small difficulty about conveying her beyond the +city.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In truth,</q> quoth Sabinus, after a little pause, <q>I +am afraid this is scarcely a matter in regard to which I +should be consulted. I know not but already I have +done several things that could not be quite reconciled +with my duty. I shall, in all probability, be set on the +watch myself, and if so—much as I must regret the +necessity—it certainly will be most necessary for me +to discharge what is committed to my trust. Is there +no possibility, think you, of inventing some impenetrable +disguise? Depend on it, it is quite impossible +the young lady should remain any where in Rome, +without being ere long discovered. The first thing is +to have her safe beyond the city-walls.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I myself,</q> said I, <q>shall embark instantly for +Britain. Sempronius, Athanasia must go with me—Surely +it may be possible to have her carried unobserved +to the shore.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You!</q> said Licinius—<q>you embark instantly for +Britain?—You know not what you speak; your law-suit +has been determined this very afternoon. Every +thing that Cneius left is your own.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>O Jove!</q> cried Sabinus, <q>did ever mortal receive +such news with such a face! But come, here is health +to the heir of the Valerii, and may this Massic choke +me, if I love him not the better for his gravity.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="353"/><anchor id="Pg353"/> + +<p> +<q>Would to heaven!</q> said Sempronius, <q>our young +friend had loved under other auspices! No, Valerius +must stay and take possession, destined, as I hope he is, +to equal, under the favour of the gods, the noblest name +in his lineage. My dear niece—let us trust she may +be concealed somewhere in safety from the pursuit. +Separated from this fanatic crew, she will, ere long, +without question, abandon the dreams they have filled +her mind withal; and on some happier day, our friend +may perhaps have no reason either to fear or to blush, +for lifting her over the threshold of the Valerii.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I drew near to the old man, and, receiving his embrace, +whispered into his ear, <q>Sempronius, you speak generously; +but know that this very evening I also have +become a Christian.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Heavens!</q> cried he, <q>what limits shall be affixed +to this contagion! Rash boy! have you not seen +already to what consequences this must lead?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>What?</q> says Licinius—<q>what new calamity is +this? Have my ears deceived me? Speak, dear Caius—for +the sake of all the blood in your veins—you have +not embraced this frenzy?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My friends,</q> said I, <q>why should I speak to one, +when all of you are, I well know, alike interested? In +all things else I bow to age and understanding so much +above my own; but here I have thought for myself, and +my faith is fixed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Licinius heard me with a countenance of painful and +anxious emotion. In the eye of young Sextus I saw a +tear ready to start, and his whole aspect was that of one +sad and bewildered. Sempronius leaned his brow upon +his hand, and turned himself away from me. But as +<pb n="354"/><anchor id="Pg354"/>for the Centurion, he preserved his usual air; and after +a moment, all the rest continuing silent, said, <q>Valerius, +I have been in love ere now, and perhaps am not out +of the scrape at present; but you have thrown a new +light upon the matter. What do you fancy to be the +great merits of the present age, that it should be treated +with more favour than all that have gone before it? +And, if you come to speak of the Jews, every body +knows they are a most pitiful, mean, knavish set of +creatures. They were always by the ears among themselves; +but I think it is rather too much that they +should have the credit of bringing their betters (by which +I mean all the world besides) into confusion. You are +but green yet; all this will blow over anon, and you +will laugh more heartily than any one else when you +think of your weakness. But look up, good friend, I +don’t think you are listening to me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My dear Sabinus,</q> said I, <q>I do listen, but I think +it is rather to the gay Prætorian, than to the patient +friend I had expected to find in you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come!</q> said he again, <q>you take every thing so +seriously. If you are resolved to be a Christian, I am +very sorry for it; but even that shall not stand between +me and a true friend. I hope you will soon see the +thing as I do—I know you will; but, in the meantime, +Valerius, you may count upon me.</q>—And the +kind man squeezed my hand with his customary fervour. +</p> + +<p> +He then turned round to the rest of our friends, and +began to propose for their consideration a dozen different +schemes of escape, that had already suggested +themselves to his imagination. +</p> + +<pb n="355"/><anchor id="Pg355"/> + +<p> +Licinius took advantage of the first pause, to suggest +that the Centurion seemed in a hurry to get rid of me. +He then passed into an account of the speech he had +delivered on the preceding afternoon before the Court +of the Centumvirs, and of the unhesitating manner, so +gratifying to his feelings, in which its judgment had +been pronounced. For some moments, in his detail of +these proceedings, he seemed almost to have lost sight +of the present situation and views of the person most +interested in their termination. But when, in the progress +of his story, he came to enlarge upon the magnificence +of my new possessions—the domains in Africa—the +rich farms in Sicily—the numerous slaves engaged +in their cultivation—the Spanish silver mine—and, +last of all, the splendours of the great villa upon +the banks of the Tiber—it was not difficult to perceive +that he could scarcely restrain his indignation at the +purpose I had been expressing. <q>And such,</q> said he, +<q>are the realities which our young friend quits for the +reasons he has mentioned! Well, every man must +judge for himself. If it must be so, let it be so.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I heard him patiently to the end, and then said, +<q rend="post: none">You have well summed up the whole matter, my dear +Licinius. It must indeed be so. I go immediately to +Britain, and I trust she—for whom I would leave all +these things, were they greater than they are—shall, +by the aid of your kindness, go with me in safety. +There is one request only which I have, in addition to +all this, to lay before you; and that you may hear it +the more patiently, it does not concern myself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In a word, then,</q> I continued, <q>should happier days +arrive, I hope once more to be among you here in Rome. +<pb n="356"/><anchor id="Pg356"/>The wealth which, thanks to your zeal, Licinius, is this +day mine, can be of little use to me in the British valley, +to which, for the present, I retire. Above all, this +beautiful villa of which you speak,—why, because for +a time I am unable to occupy it, should the mansion of +my fathers stand empty, when there are others among +their descendants, who lie not under the same necessity +of exile? Till I am enabled to breathe in freedom the +air of Italy, I trust Licinius will consent to let Sextus +represent me in my villa. There, too, I hope Sempronius +will permit his daughter to be. It will give pleasure +to Athanasia, to think that those halls contain the +dearest of our friends. When we come back, if ever +we do so, they will not grudge to make room for us +beneath the same roof with themselves. Licinius—Sempronius—what +say you?</q> +</p> + +<p> +They were both silent for a moment; but Sabinus +was at hand to answer for them:—<q>By all Olympus! +I shall knock down any man henceforth, that in my +presence abuses Christianity as a destruction of men’s +hearts. Let it be, good friends, as our Caius says. I +know, Sextus, I have at least your voice upon my side. +Let it be so; and, for heaven’s sake, let it be immediately. +A wedding is the very thing to divert attention +from these troubles in both kindreds.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Our conversation was interrupted by Dromo, who +told me that Silo the jailer had come to see me, and +was below in the hall. There I found the humane +man, with his little daughter in his hand, and walked +aside with him into the inner portico of the house. I +told him how the escape, for which his zeal alone was +to be thanked, had been terminated—and to what +<pb n="357"/><anchor id="Pg357"/>resolution I had now come;—and then inquired +whether no suspicion had been attached to himself, +in consequence of his absence from the Capitoline. +Having assured me that he had no reason to think so,—<q>The +oath which I had taken to Trajan,</q> said he, +<q>prevented me from adopting the simpler course of +setting open for our dear friends the gates of the Mammertine; +and I trust that I did not offend against that +oath by acting as I did, after they had been taken away +for the time from my keeping. But both they and you +must be aware of the pain which I suffered during their +confinement, and of the dangers which I have encountered +by their escape. I am resolved no more to be +subject to such struggles. I cannot preserve my faith +as a Christian, and my honour as a servant of Trajan. +This very day I resign my charge in the Mammertine; +this very night, if it so please you, I am ready to accompany +you and my dear young lady, in your flight +to Britain.</q> +</p> + +<p> +I need not say with what gladness I heard this proposal. +Returning to my friends, I informed them of +what I had just heard, and perceiving now at last that +there was no chance of diverting me from my project, +they entered, like true friends, into serious consultation +respecting the best method of carrying my project into +execution. The aid of Silo, who had already given such +proofs both of presence of mind, and of prudence, and +courage, was regarded by them as of the highest importance. +He was shortly summoned to take part in our +deliberation, and it was resolved, that after resigning +in a formal manner the office he held, and transferring +his property for the present into the custody of Licinius, +<pb n="358"/><anchor id="Pg358"/>he should forthwith repair to Ostium, and there hire +and put in readiness, for immediate use, a small vessel, +the lightest he could find, in which the fugitive party +might transport themselves at least as far as Corsica. +To this the zealous Silo without hesitation assented. +It was agreed that he should have the mariners on their +benches by the coming on of night, and that he himself +should be waiting for us by a certain ruined tower, +which stands conspicuously by the river side, about a +mile and a half above Ostium. We left it to Silo himself, +to stock the bark with any merchandise which he +might deem best adapted to deceive the superintendents +of the haven. +</p> + +<p> +Partly from the necessity of making provision of +various kinds for this voyage, but still more in consequence +of the law-suit, with the termination of +which you have just been made acquainted, I had +no leisure that day, from which to work out unnecessary +pain either for myself or for others. I had to +assist Licinius in looking over an infinity of deeds, +and to superintend the drawing out of others. In the +next place, I had to go to the Forum for the purpose of +manumitting some slaves, (such a largess being naturally +expected); and while I was occupied with this, +need I tell you, that my own poor Briton was not +forgotten? Licinius having, at the joint request of +Sextus and myself, accorded that morning to the Cretan +also the well-merited gift of his liberty, Boto and Dromo +were seen strutting about the Forum together for some +moments, each arrayed in that worshipful cap which +had formed the most prominent object in their day-dreams +of felicity. I shall not trouble you with +need<pb n="359"/><anchor id="Pg359"/>less particulars. Let it suffice, that the greater part of +the day was thus spent in unavoidable business. +</p> + +<p> +Towards evening, I stole privately from my kinsman’s +house, being willing to avoid a formal farewell, and +repaired to Sabinus, who received me with very lively +emotion. What he dwelt upon most fervently, however, +was the probability—the certainty he seemed to +esteem it—that a persecution of this nature could not +be long persisted in by such a prince as Trajan; and +the pleasure with which, that being all at an end, he +should see me come back to Rome, and take due possession +of the inheritance of my fathers. After expatiating +most fluently for some minutes on the expected delights +of that day, he paused suddenly, and then added, in a +tone of some little hesitation, <q>And as for me, I wonder +in what state you shall find me. Rich or poor—married +or single—Centurion or Tribune—one thing is certain, +that I shall, in all circumstances, be not a little rejoiced +to see you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You had better marry, my good captain,</q> said I. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Marry! me to marry? I have not the least thought +of such a thing. You did not put any faith, did you, +in the raillery of those waggish fellows of yesterday?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A little—a very little, Sabinus.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Poh! poh! now you are jesting.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And much, very much, Sabinus, in the conscious +looks of a certain blushing Centurion, yesterday.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come,</q> quoth he, <q>there is more cunning in these +British eyes than I ever should have dreamt of. Fill +your cup to the brim, boy, and since you are to leave +us so speedily, I shall have no secrets for you. I have +seen service;—true, but what of that? I have kept a +<pb n="360"/><anchor id="Pg360"/>light heart in all my campaigns. But my day, it must +be confessed, begins to wear a little, a very little, +towards the evening; and, Castor! if you allow supper-time +to slip over, I don’t know but you must go to bed +with a light stomach. Now or never was the word, +my boy; and the widow is mine own.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Xerophrastes?</q> said I. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as for the most sagacious and venerable Xerophrastes, +why, to tell you the truth, I see nothing for +him but that he should allow his beard to curl as it +pleases, drop his long cloak over his ambitious pair of +shanks, forswear moonlight, purchase for himself a +dark lantern instead, and see whether he can’t find, +within the four walls of Rome, an honest Greek, and a +constant widow, to make one blessed wedding withal. +That is my advice to the Stoic—Stoic no longer—but, +if there be hoops upon a tub, the most cynical of all +Cynics.</q> +</p> + +<p> +When it was at last necessary that I should move—<q>Dear +Caius,</q> said the Centurion, <q>you know the +Prefect has set a price on their heads, and I promise +you it is such a temptation as no virtue, that keeps +watch beneath any common prætorian breast-plate, +could well be trusted to wrestle with. But hope, and +dare. And here, take once more this helmet, and cloak, +and sword, and with them share the password of the +night.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Sabinus then gave private orders to one of his troop, +and walked with me towards the Esquiline.—But why +should I linger over what little remains of this story? +Why pain you with the parting which I witnessed +between my Athanasia and the holy Aurelius, +after<pb n="361"/><anchor id="Pg361"/>wards numbered among the martyrs of Christ?—Behold +us at last issued from the Catacombs, and mounted on +the trusty horses which our friend had caused to be +waiting at no great distance from the thicket that +clothed their entrance. Behold us arrived without interruption +at the Ostian Gate of Rome. +</p> + +<p> +The soldiers on guard challenged us cheerily as we +came up to them. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The word, comrades?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend="italic">Titus!</hi></q> quoth the Centurion. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pass on—whom bear you with you, comrades!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A Christian—a Christian prisoner,</q> said I. +</p> + +<p> +<q>By Jove, that’s worth gold to you, brother,</q> quoth +the guard.—<q>Open the gate there;—pass on, friends. +I hope I shall have luck one day myself.</q> +</p> + +<p rend="center; margin-top: 5"> +FINIS. +</p> + +<p rend="center; margin-top: 6; font-size: small"> +PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. +</p></div></div> + </body> + <back> +<div> + <pgIf output="pdf"> + <then/> + <else> + <div id="footnotes" rend="page-break-before: right"> + <index index="toc" level1="Footnotes"/> + <head>Footnotes</head> + <divGen type="footnotes"/> + </div> + </else> + </pgIf> + </div> +<div rend="page-break-before:right; x-class: boxed"> + <index index="pdf" level1="Transcriber's Note"/><index index="toc" level1="Transcriber’s Note"/> + <head>Transcriber’s Note</head> + <p>Variations in hyphenation (e.g. <q>eyebrows</q>, <q>eye-brows</q>; <q>godlike</q>, <q>god-like</q>) + have not been changed.</p> + <p>Other changes, which have been made to the text:</p> + +<list> +<item><ref target="corr072a">page 72</ref>, question mark added after <q>him</q>, +quote mark added before <ref target="corr072b"><q>His</q></ref></item> +<item><ref target="corr267">page 267</ref>, <q>Aybss</q> changed to <q>Abyss</q></item> +<item><ref target="corr307">page 307</ref>, <q>Capito</q> changed to <q>Capitol</q></item> +</list> + </div> +<div rend="page-break-before: right"> + <divGen type="pgfooter"/> + </div> + </back> + </text> +</TEI.2> diff --git a/44330-tei/images/cover.jpg b/44330-tei/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2222d54 --- /dev/null +++ b/44330-tei/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/44330.txt b/44330.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f8d1b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/44330.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9534 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Valerius. 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CHAPTER I._ + + +Since you are desirous, my friends, that I should relate to you, at length +and in order, the things which happened to me during my journey to Rome, +notwithstanding the pain which it must cost me to throw myself back into +some of the feelings of that time, I cannot refuse to comply with your +request. After threescore years spent in this remote province of an +empire, happy, for the most part, in the protection of enlightened, just, +and benevolent princes, I remember, far more accurately than things which +occurred only a few months ago, the minutest particulars of what I saw and +heard while I sojourned, young and a stranger, among the luxuries and +cruelties of the capital of the world, as yet imperfectly recovered from +the effects of the flagitious tyranny of the last of the Flavii. + +My father, as you have heard, came with his legion into this island, and +married a lady of native blood, some years before the first arrival of +Agricola. In the wars of that illustrious commander, during the reigns of +Vespasian and Titus, he had the fortune to find opportunities of +distinguishing himself; but when his general was recalled, by the jealousy +of Domitian, he retired from public life, and determined to spend the +remainder of his days in peace, on the lands which belonged to him in +right of his wife here in Britain. He laid the foundations of the house in +which I have now the pleasure of receiving you; and here, in the +cultivation of his fields, and in the superintendence of my education, he +found sufficient employment for an active, though no longer an ambitious +mind. Early in the reign of Trajan he died. Never did either Roman or +British dwelling lament a more generous master. + +I cannot pretend to regret the accident which immediately afterwards +separated me from a gentle mother--never to see her more upon the earth. +Yet deeply was the happiness of my returning hour stained by that +privation. It is the common rule of nature, that our parents should +precede us to the grave; and it is also her rule, that our grief for them +should not be of such power as to prevent us from entering, after they are +gone, into a zealous participation both of the business and the pleasures +of life. Yet, in after years, the memory of that buried tenderness rises +up ever and anon, and wins rather than warns us to a deliberate +contemplation of our own dissolution. + +Towards the end of the winter following the death of my father, there +arrived letters which engaged anxious consideration. They were from +members of his family, none of whom either my mother or myself had seen. +It was explained, especially by Caius Licinius, the lawyer, (who was near +of kin to our house,) that by the death of a certain Patrician, Cneius +Valerius by name, I had become legally entitled to a very considerable +fortune, to claim and take possession of which, demanded my immediate +presence in the metropolis. My rights, said this jurist, were indeed +called in question by another branch of the family, but were I on the +spot, his professional exertions, with whatever interest he or any of his +friends could command, should be at my service, for the sake of my father +and of my name. + +The love of travel had never before been excited in my bosom; but now that +I knew I was so soon to embark for Italy, the delights which I might there +hope to experience came crowding upon my imagination. The dark and +pine-clad banks of my native Anton, said I, shall now be exchanged for +that golden-waved Tiber, of which so many illustrious poets have sung. +Instead of moving here among the ill-cemented and motley fabric of an +insulated colony, and seeing only the sullen submission of barbarians on +the one hand, or the paltry vanity of provincial deputies on the other, I +shall tread the same ground with the rulers of the earth, and wear, among +native Romans, the gown of my ancestors. I shall behold the Forum, which +has heard the eloquence of Cicero and Hortensius; I shall ascend to the +Capitol, where Caesar triumphed; I shall wander in the luxurious gardens of +Sallust, or breathe the fresh air in the fields of Cato: I shall gaze upon +the antique majesty of temples and palaces, and open my eyes on all that +art and nature have been able to heap together through eight centuries, +for the ornament of the chosen seat of wisdom and valour. + +A single trusty slave was selected to accompany me. It was not certainly +on account of his accomplishments that Boto had been chosen for this duty; +for although he had lived all his days in the vicinity of the colonists at +Venta, there was scarcely a person within the bounds of the British Belgae +that spoke worse Latin. He was, however, a man of natural sagacity, +possessing shrewd discernment concerning whatever things had fallen under +his customary observation; and he shewed no symptom either of diffidence +respecting his qualifications for this new office, or of regret at being +separated from those in whose company many years of gentle servitude had +glided over his sun-burnt countenance. It was reported to me, that he +invited several of our rustics to drink with him in one of the out-houses, +where his exultation knew no limits. He was going to Rome, for his young +master very well knew he could never get on in such a journey without the +helping eye and hand of Boto; and he had a brother in Italy already, (he +had gone over with a distinguished legionary some ten years before,) and +from him (for he would of course meet with him as soon as our arrival +should be known) he would receive all requisite information concerning the +doings of the great city. The usefulness which, he doubted not, I should +be constrained to acknowledge in his manifold qualifications, would, +without all question, entitle him to some signal reward--perhaps nothing +less than manumission on his return. + +Two days passed more quickly than any I ever remember to have spent amidst +a strange mixture of mirth, and sorrow, and noisy preparation. + +Where that single tall naked pine now stands buffeted by the wind, then +grew a thick grove, of which that relic alone survives. It was there that +I turned round to gaze once more on the quiet verdure of these paternal +fields, and our small pastoral stream glistening here and there beneath +the shady covert of its margin. + +I had at first intended to cross over to Gaul, and traversing that +province, enter Italy, either by the route of the Alps, in case we could +procure convenient guides and companions, or by some vessel sailing from +Marseilles or Forum Julii to Ostium. But the advice of one of my +neighbours, who had himself been a great traveller, made me alter this +plan, and resolve to commit myself to the care of an experienced mariner +who was just about to sail for Italy, by the way of the pillars of +Hercules, in a vessel laden chiefly with tin; and on reaching the +Clausentum, I found this man, with several passengers, ready for the +voyage. + +For the first three or four days, I was so afflicted by the motion of the +vessel, that I could bestow little attention on any external object; my +eyes were so confused and dazzled, that I saw nothing beyond the corner of +the deck on which I had caused my carpets to be laid; and a few +ejaculations to Castor and Pollux were all the articulate sounds that I +uttered. By degrees, however, the weight of my depression began to be +alleviated; and at intervals, more particularly during the night watches, +if I was not altogether in possession of myself, I was at least well +enough to enjoy a sort of giddy delight in watching the billows as they +rose and retreated from the prow. There were moments, also, in which the +behaviour of Boto, under this new species of calamity, could furnish me, +as it had already done the more hardy of my fellow-voyagers, with store of +mirth. Near us frequently, upon the deck, sat a Captain of the Praetorian +Bands, who, more than any other of these, displayed a florid complexion +and cheerful eye, unalterable by the fluctuation of the waters. This +Sabinus had served in all the wars of Agricola, and accompanied him even +in his perilous circumnavigation of the islands which lie scattered to the +north of Britain. He had also gone back to Rome with his commander, not, +like him, to extenuate imperial jealousy by the affectation of indolence, +but to seek for new occupation on some other disturbed frontier of the +Empire. In Syria and Cappadocia he had spent some years; after which, he +had attended the Emperor himself through Maesia and Illyricum, and all +those countries he traversed and retraversed, during that shameful contest +in which so many Roman eagles were made the prey of barbarous enemies, and +which terminated at last in that cowardly treaty, by which Domitian +granted a diadem to Decebalus, and condescended to place the Roman Senate +among the tributaries of a Dacian. Our friend had also strutted his part +in that gorgeous triumph, or rather succession of triumphs, by which the +defeated and disgraced Prince, on his return from the Ister, mocked the +eyes and ears of the incredulous and indignant Romans. In a word, he had +partaken in all kinds of fortune, good and evil, and preserved his +rubicundity and equanimity unaltered in them all. Having attained to a +situation of some dignity, he had now been visiting Britain on a special +message from the new Emperor, and was returning in the hope that no future +accident of fortune, or princely caprice, would ever again make it +necessary for him to quit the shows and festivities of the capital. + +This good-natured man sat down beside my suffering peasant, endeavouring +to withdraw his attention from the pangs of his sickness, by pointing out +the different boats which came in view as we held on from the Gobaean +rocks, keeping close to the shore as we went, in order to shun, as well as +we could, the customary fury of the Aquitanic Ocean. "Behold these +fishing-vessels," he would cry, "which have undoubtedly been upon the +coast of Rutupia for oysters, or it may be about the mouth of yonder +Ligoris for turbot, and are now stretching all their canvass to get home +with their booty to Italy. Smooth be your winds and fair your passage, oh +rare fish!" To which the downcast Boto would reply, "Lavish not, oh +master, your good wishes upon the mute fish, which have been tossed about +all their lives, but reserve them rather for me (unhappy) who am thus +tormented in an unnatural and intolerable manner;" or perhaps, "Speak not, +I beseech you, of oysters, or of turbot, or of any other eatable, for I +believe I shall never again feel hungry, so grievously are all my internal +parts discomposed. Oh, that I had never left my native fields, and +bartered the repose of my whole body for the vain hope of gratification to +my eyes!" + +By degrees, however, custom reconciled all of us to the motion of the +bark, and the weather being calm during the greater part of the voyage, I +enjoyed, at my leisure, the beauties, both of the sea, and of the shores +alongst which we glided. From time to time, we put in for water and other +necessaries, to various sea-ports of the Spanish Peninsula; but our stay +was never so long at any place as to admit of us losing sight of our +vessel. Our chief delight, indeed, consisted in the softness and amenity +of the moonlight nights we spent in sailing along the coasts of +Mauritania,--now the dark mountains of the family of Atlas throwing their +shadows far into the sea--and anon, its margin glittering with the white +towers of Siga, or Gilba, or Cartenna, or some other of the rich cities of +that old Carthaginian region. On such nights it was the custom of all the +passengers to be congregated together upon the deck, where the silent +pleasures of contemplation were, from time to time, interrupted by some +merry song chanted in chorus by the mariners, or perhaps some wild +barbarian ditty, consecrated by the zeal of Boto to the honour of some +ancient indigenous hero of the North. Nor did our jovial Praetorian disdain +to contribute now and then to the amusement of the assembly, by some +boisterous war-song, composed, perhaps, by some light-hearted young +spearman, which our centurion might have learned by heart, without any +regular exertion, from hearing it sung around many a British and Dacian +watch-fire. + +Thus we contrived to pass the time in a cheerful manner, till we reached +the Lilybaean promontory. We tarried there two days to refit some part of +our rigging, and then stretched boldly across the lower sea, towards the +mouth of the Tiber. We were becalmed, however, for a whole day and night, +after we had come within sight of the Pharos of Ostium, where, but for the +small boats that came out to us with fresh fish and fruit, we should have +had some difficulty in preserving our patience; for, by this time, our +stock of wine was run to the last cup, and nothing remained to be eat but +some mouldy biscuit which had survived two voyages between Italy and +Britain. During this unwelcome delay, the Praetorian endeavoured to give me +as much information as he could about the steps necessary to be pursued on +my arrival in the city. But, to say truth, his experience had lain chiefly +among martial expeditions and jovial recreations, so that I could easily +perceive he was no great master of the rules of civil life. From him, +however, I was glad to find, that the reputation of Licinius was really as +great at Rome as it had been represented in our province; and, indeed, he +treated me with a yet greater measure of attention after he was informed +of my relationship to that celebrated jurist. + +Early in the morning, a light breeze sprung up from the west, and with +joyful acclamations the sails were once again uplifted. The number of +mariners on board was insufficient for impelling the heavily laden vessel +altogether by the force of oars, but now they did not refuse to assist the +favouring breeze with strenuous and lively exertion. The Praetorian cheered +and incited them by his merry voice, and even the passengers were not +loath to assist them in this labour. My slave, among the rest, joined in +the toil; but his awkwardness soon relieved him from his seat on the +bench; a disgrace which he would have shared with his master, had I been +equally officious. + +Ere long, we could trace with exactness those enormous structures by which +the munificence of Augustus had guarded and adorned that great avenue of +nations to the imperial city. Those mountains of marble, projected on +either side into the deep, surpassed every notion I had formed of the +extent to which art may carry its rivalry of nature. Their immovable +masses were garnished here and there with towers and battlements, on which +the Praetorian pointed out to me the frame-work of those terrible +catapults, and other engines of warfare, of which no specimens have ever +been seen in Britain. + +No sooner had we stept upon the shore, than we were surrounded by a great +throng of hard-favoured persons, who pulled us by the cloak, with +innumerable interrogations and offers of service. Among these, the +varieties of form, complexion, and accent, were such, that we could not +regard them without especial wonder; for it appeared as if every tribe and +language under heaven had sent some representative to this great seaport +of Rome. The fair hair and blue eye of the Gaul or German, might here be +seen close by the tawny skin of the Numidian or Getulian slave, or the +shining blackness of the Ethiopian visage. The Greek merchant was ready, +with his Thracian bondsman carrying his glittering wares upon his back; +the usurer was there, with his arms folded closely in his mantle; nor was +the Chaldean or Assyrian soothsayer awanting, with his air of abstraction +and his flowing beard. + +Boto, as if alarmed with the prevailing bustle, and fearful lest some +untoward accident should separate us, kept close behind me, grasping my +gown. But our good friend Sabinus did not long leave us in this +perplexity; for, having hastily engaged the master of a small barge to +carry him to Rome, he insisted that I should partake of this easy method +of conveyance. We found the vessel small but convenient, furnished with a +red awning, under which cushions and carpets were already stretched out +for our repose. The oars were soon in motion, and we began to emerge from +among the forest of masts with a rapidity which astonished me; for the +multitude of vessels of all sizes, continually crossing and re-crossing, +was so great, that at first I expected every moment some dangerous +accident might occur. + +By degrees, however, such objects failed to keep alive my attention; the +sleeplessness of the preceding night, and the abundance of an Ostian +repast, conspiring to lull me into a gentle doze, which continued for I +know not what space. I awoke, greatly refreshed, and found we had made +considerable progress; for the continual succession of stately edifices +already indicated the vicinity of the metropolis. The dark green of the +venerable groves, amidst which the buildings were, for the most part, +embosomed, and the livelier beauties of the parterres which here and there +intervened between these and the river, afforded a soft delight to my +eyes, which had so long been fatigued with the uniform flash and dazzle of +the Mediterranean waves, and the roughness of the sea-beaten precipices. +The minute and elaborate cultivation every where visible, the smoothness +of the shorn turf on the margin, the graceful foliage of the ancient +planes and sycamores,--but, above all, the sublimity of the porticos and +arcades, and the air of established and inviolable elegance which pervaded +the whole region, kept my mind in pleasurable wonder. Here and there, a +gentle winding conducted us through some deep and massy shade of oaks and +elms; whose branches, stretching far out from either side, diffused a +sombre and melancholy blackness almost entirely over the face of Tiber. +Loitering carelessly, or couched supinely, beneath some of these hoary +branches, we could see, from time to time, the figure of some stately +Roman, or white-robed lady, with her favourite scroll of parchment in her +hand. The cool and glassy rippling of the water produced a humming music +of stillness in the air, which nothing disturbed, save only the regular +dash of the oars, and, now and then, the deep and strenuous voice of our +cautious helmsman. Anon would ensue some glimpse of the open champaign, +descending with all its wealth of golden sheaves to the very brink of the +river--or, perhaps, the lively courts of a farmyard stretching along the +margin of some tributary streamlet--or some long expanse of level meadow, +with herds of snow-white heifers. I could not gaze upon the rich and +splendid scene without reverting, with a strange mixture of emotions, to +the image of this my native land; its wild forests, shaggy with brushwood +and unprofitable coppice, through which of old the enormous wild deer +stalked undisturbed, except by the adder of the grass, or the obscene fly +of the thicket; its little patches of corn and meadow, laboriously rescued +from the domain of the wild beast, and rudely fortified against his +continual incursions;--the scattered hamlets of this Brigian valley, and my +own humble villa--then humbler than it is now. Trees, and temples, and +gardens, and meadows, and towns, and villages, were, ere long, lost in one +uniform sobriety of twilight; and it was already quite dark, when the +centurion, pointing to the left bank, said, "Behold the Gardens of Caesar: +beyond, is the Portian Gate, and the street of the Rural Lares. In a few +moments we shall see the lights of the Sublician Bridge, and be in the +city." At these words I started up, and gazing forward, could penetrate +through the mists of evening into the busy glare of a thousand streets and +lanes, opening upon the river. The old wall was already visible; where, +after having swept round the region towards the Vatican and Janicular +Hills, it brings the last of its turrets close down to the Tiber, over +against the great dock-yards by the Field of Brutus. + +Through a forest of triremes, galleys, and all sorts of craft, we then +shot on to the bridge--beneath the centre arch of which our steersman +conducted us. Beyond, such was the hum of people on the quays, and such +the star-like profusion of lights reflected in the water, that we doubted +not we had already reached the chief seat of the bustle of Rome. On, +however, we still held our course, till the theatre of Marcellus rose like +a mountain on our right. It was there that we ran our bark into the shore, +not far from the little bridge--the third as you ascend the river--which +conducts to the Island and the Temple of AEsculapius. While our friend was +settling matters with the master, and the attendants were bringing out our +baggage, I stood by myself on the elevated quay. Here a long tier of +reflected radiance bespoke, it may be, the vicinity of some splendid +portico--of palace, or temple, or bath, or theatre; there a broad and +steady blaze of burning red, indicated the abode of artizans, resolved, as +it seemed, on carrying their toil into the bosom of the night. +Between--some speck of lustre betrayed, perhaps, the lamp of the solitary +student, or the sober social hour of some peaceful family, assembled +around the hearth of their modest lares. Behold me then, said I, in the +capital of the globe; but were I to be swallowed up this moment in the +waves of Tiber, not one of all these lights would be dimmed. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +Being told that my relation had his residence at no great distance, the +friendly Sabinus insisted upon escorting me thither in safety. We walked, +therefore, along two or three proud streets, which brought us near to the +Pantheon of Agrippa, and there the house was easily pointed out to us; its +porch decorated with recent palm-branches, which the Centurion said must +have been placed there by the joyful hands of some fortunate client. Here +having thanked this kind person, and left honest Boto among the crowd of +slaves in the vestibule, I was speedily conducted into the presence of the +Patrician. + +I found him in a small upper chamber, lighted by a single silver lamp +suspended from the roof, enjoying, as it appeared, repose and relaxation +after the exertions of the day. He was reclining when I entered; and +although supper was long over, some fruits and other trifling things still +remained on the board. At table with him there was no one present, +excepting a Greek of solemn aspect, whom he introduced to me as the +superintendent of his son's education, and Sextus himself, a modest and +ingenuous youth, who sat at the lower extremity of his father's couch. He +was indeed a very mild and amiable young man, and I had more pleasure, +after a space, in surveying his features, than the more marked lineaments +of the other two. At first, however, nothing riveted my attention so much +as the energetic physiognomy of the Senator. The forepart of his head was +already quite bald, although the darkness of the short curls behind +testified that age was not the cause of this deformity. His eyes were +black and rapid, and his eyebrows vibrated in a remarkable manner, not +only when he spoke, but even when he was silent; indicating, as it +appeared, by their transitions, every new train of thought and imagination +within his mind. His style of conversation was quick and fervid, and his +gestures vehement as he spake; it being apparent, that, from restlessness +and vanity of disposition, he was continually exercising a needless +measure of mental activity and anxiety. Not satisfied with his own +sufficient richness of ideas, no thought could be expressed which he did +not immediately seize upon, and explain, even to him by whom it had been +first suggested, with much fluency and earnestness of illustration. On the +other hand, the guest, who wore a long beard reaching to his girdle, +preserved in all things an uncommon demureness of manner, restraining +every salient movement of his mind, and watching, with the gravity of a +Numa, the glancing eyes and sharp features of his patron. A roll of yellow +parchment graced his left hand, but the other was employed in selecting +from the table such articles as were most agreeable to his palate. +Licinius, although meagre in person, and at that time parched with +declamation, seemed to live in such a state of intellectual excitement, +that he thought little either of eating or drinking; therefore, the +Athenian, resigning, for the most part, his share of the conversation, +amused himself, in exchange, with the more trivial gratifications +abandoned to him by his host. Nor, if one might draw any conclusion from +his complexion and figure, was this the first occasion on which +Xerophrastes had exercised that species of humility. + +When Licinius had inquired of me concerning my native place, and also +given a few words to the affairs which had brought me to the city, his +conversation was naturally directed to subjects more new to me, if not +more interesting to him. "You would observe," said he, "the palm branches +at my door. They were won to-day by a five hours' harangue before the +Centumviri. It is only in contests such as these that men of my order have +now any opportunity to exercise themselves, and preserve some remembrance +of those ancient worthies and great public characters that once adorned +the state. To these things, therefore, young kinsman, I entirely devote +myself; nor aim, like other citizens of rank, at passing the day in +diversion, and ending it with luxuries. At supper my table is furnished +with moderate fare, while in other houses I know not how many roasted +boars and pompous sturgeons have been regaling with the rich perfume of +their sauces and stuffing, guests who love the meat more than the man who +gives it. This learned person knows how laborious is my course of life, +and what an impatient crowd awaits my appearance every morning. His pupil +will, I hope, tread in the same steps, and afford to a future generation +the image of the former Licinius." With these, and the like discourses, he +occupied our ears till it was time to retire; and then intimated that he +had allotted to me an apartment which he expected I would continually +occupy during my residence in the city. But being informed that I had a +British slave with me, he insisted on having this man sent for, that he +might see him, as he expressed it, before the genuine unsophisticated +barbarian had been corrupted by keeping company with the cunning menials +of the metropolis. Whereupon, it was commanded that Boto should come up, +and he was forthwith ushered in by a certain leering varlet, with rings in +his ears, whose face resembled some comic mask in the habitual archness of +its malicious and inquisitive look. + +Not few were the bows and scrapes with which my Briton entered these +penetralia; nor was the astonishment inconsiderable with which the orator +regarded Boto. "So, friend," said Licinius,--"and you have ventured to come +to Rome, without so much as shaving your beard?" But the merry and +good-natured tone in which these words were uttered, having somewhat +reassured the bashful rustic, he gave a sly side-look towards the +philosopher, (who, I think, had never once glanced at him,) and replied to +Licinius, "Pardon me, O master, for coming thus into your presence; but I +knew not, till Dromo told me, that beards were worn in Rome only by goats +and the wisest of mankind." The words of the barbarian amused the +orator--but, turning round to his own slave, "Ah! Dromo," said he, "do I +already recognize the effects of your teaching?--beware the whip, corrupt +not this good Briton, at your peril." He then asked of Boto various +questions concerning his recent voyage; to all of which he made answers +after his own fashion, sufficiently sagacious. Great contempt, however, +was depicted on the face of the silent stoic during this conversation; +which he, no doubt, looked upon as a very unworthy condescension on the +part of Licinius; till at last, having, in a leisurely manner, poured out +the last of the flagon, Xerophrastes arose from his couch and departed. As +he withdrew, he unfortunately struck his knee on the corner of the table, +which elicited from his stubborn features a sudden contortion. This, +however, he immediately smoothed of, twisting his involuntary stoop into +an obeisance to the Senator. + +Young Sextus conducted me to my chamber; and we conversed together with +easy juvenile confidence for some time before he left me. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +My sleep was sound and sweet; nevertheless, when the morning began to +dawn, I was awakened by its first glimmerings, and found that my thoughts +became at once too busy to admit of a return to slumber. I therefore +arose, and went to walk in an open gallery, with which my chamber was +connected. This gallery commanded a prospect of a great part of the city, +which at that hour appeared no less tranquil than stately, nothing being +in motion except a few small boats gliding here and there upon the river. +Neither as yet had any smoke begun to darken the atmosphere; so that all +things were seen in a serene and steady light, the shadows falling broadly +westward over streets and squares--but pillars, and obelisks, and arches, +rising up every where with unsullied magnificence into the bright air of +the morning. The numerous poplars and other lofty trees of the gardens, +also, seemed to be rejoicing in the hour of dew and silence; so fresh and +cheerful was the intermixture of their branches among the piles of white +and yellow marble. Near at hand, over the groves of the Philoclean +Mansion, I could see the dome of the Pantheon, all burnished with living +gold, and the proud colonnades of the Flaminian Circus, loaded with armies +of brazen statues. Between these and the river, the theatres of Pompey and +Marcellus, and I know not how many temples, were visible. Across a more +crowded region, to the westward, my eye ascended to the cliffs and towers +of the Capitol; while, still farther removed from me, (although less +elevated in natural situation,) the gorgeous mansion of the Emperor was +seen, lifted up, like some new and separate city, upon its enormous fabric +of arcades. Behind me, the Flavian Amphitheatre, the newest and the most +majestic of all Roman edifices, detained the eye for a space from all that +lay beyond it--the splendid mass of the Esquiline--and those innumerable +aqueducts which lie stretched out, arch after arch, and pillar after +pillar, across the surrounding plain. + +As I stood upon a projecting balcony, I heard some person stepping softly +along the floor, and, being screened by some pillars, looked back into the +gallery without subjecting myself to observation in return. The noise, I +found, was occasioned by one of the slaves of Licinius, (the same I had +remarked over night,) who had an air of anxious vigilance on this +occasion, looking about from side to side as if afraid of being detected +in some impropriety. I heard him tap at one of the apartments adjoining my +own, and young Sextus, opening the door, eagerly asked, "Well, Dromo, good +Dromo, what news?--Have you seen or heard any thing of her?--Speak low, I +beseech you, and remember that my preceptor is near." "Which preceptor?" +replied Dromo; "count me your best, and I will teach you how to manage all +besides."--"Hush!" whispered the young man; "he may be astir with these +eternal parchments."--"Be easy," returned the slave; "I have found out +facts which will serve to bridle that tongue at any time."--"Dromo," said +Sextus, "have a care; remember the thong of sleek leather which hangs at +the foot of the stair-case; and many is the time I have saved you from it; +for which you may, perhaps, have to thank the beauty of her who has +rendered you necessary to me, as much as my own good nature. But no more +idle words at present--what have you to tell me?" + +"I have just been down," answered he, "to the herb-market. I had made my +bargain, and was coming away, when I met one of old Capito's men, driving +an ass laden with articles from the country. So I asked if he was carrying +a present to his master's brother. He said he had brought nothing for +Lucius but a letter; and that he believed its purport was to invite the +two young ladies, to come out to-day and enjoy the beauty of the season. I +no sooner got this information, than I ran hither as swiftly as my legs +would carry me. You can easily go out, as if by chance, to pay your +respects to the Patrician." + +"Ah, Sempronia!" sighed Sextus, "shall I approach you at last?--What will +she think when she sees me there?--Oh, how will she speak to me?" + +While he was uttering these words, Dromo suddenly started, and came +peeping on tiptoe towards the place where I stood. I stepped from behind +my pillar, and said to the astonished youth, "Fear not, Sextus, that I +shall intermeddle with your secrets, or make any use of what I have +accidentally overheard. But I wish you would satisfy my curiosity, and +inform me who is this lady, and what may be the meaning of all this +concealment?" + +Here Dromo, perceiving that his young master was a good deal confused, +came forward and said, "From observing your looks last night, when I was +making a handle of yon barbarian to torture our friend of the porch, I +think you are a good-natured person, who would not willingly bring any of +us into trouble. The truth is, that Licinius wishes my young master here +to marry a certain lady, who has already had wet eyes over the ashes of a +first husband; but who is of noble birth, and very rich. Now Sextus, being +only eighteen, does not like this great lady so well as she likes him; and +has, in fact, lost his heart elsewhere."--"Dromo," answered I, taking young +Sextus by the hand as I spoke, "this is a pretty common sort of story; but +I shall take no side till I have seen both of the ladies; and the sooner +your ingenuity can bring that about, the more shall I be beholden to +you."--"We shall try," replied the slave, observing that I had overcome the +reluctance of the lover; "but in the meantime I observe that the clients +are beginning to assemble in the porch, to await the forthcoming of +Licinius. Go, therefore, and get some breakfast, for, by and by, you will +both be expected to accompany the Senator to the Forum, to hear him plead; +which, between ourselves, will be a six hours' job for you, unless you +manage matters dexterously." + +This hint produced a visible effect on Sextus; but we went down together +immediately to an apartment, where some bread and grapes were prepared for +us; and there, with much ingenuousness, he opened his heart to me. But +what surprised me most of all, was to hear, that although he had been +enamoured of Sempronia for several months, and was well acquainted with +several of her relations, he had never yet seen her, except at certain +places of public resort, nor enjoyed any opportunity of making known his +passion. + +While I was expressing my astonishment at this circumstance, we were +interrupted by Xerophrastes, who came to inform us that Licinius, having +already descended into the hall, was about to issue forth, and desirous of +my company, if no other occupation detained me. We accordingly followed +the philosopher, and found his patron where he had indicated, pacing to +and fro, in the highest state of excitation, like a generous steed about +to scour the field of battle. The waxen effigies of his ancestors stood at +one end of the hall, some of them defaced with age; and upon these he +frequently fixed his ardent eyes. Seeing me enter, he immediately cried +out, "Come hither, young friend, and I shall presently conduct you to a +scene worthy, above all others, of the curiosity of a stranger." + +With this, arranging his gown, and putting himself into a dignified +attitude, he ordered the porter, who stood chained by the door, to throw +wide its massy valves; which being done, the litigants and consulters, who +were without, received the orator with acclamations, and surrounded him on +all sides. Some of the poorer ones, I observed kissing the hem of his +garment, and dodging wistfully at his elbows, without ever attracting a +word or look from him; while those of a higher class came forward more +familiarly, seeking to impress particular circumstances upon his memory, +and paying him compliments on the appearance he had made the day before in +the Centumviral Court. Encircled by this motley group, he walked towards +the great Forum, followed at a little distance by Sextus, the preceptor, +myself, and some freedmen of his household. In moving on, we passed, by +accident, the door of another great pleader, by name Bruttianus, who stood +there attended in a similar manner. When he perceived Licinius, this man +took from his door-post a green palm-branch, and waved it towards us in a +vaunting manner; but our friend, saluting him courteously, cried out, with +his sharp and cutting voice, "We shall try it again." Whereon +Xerophrastes, immediately stepping up to his patron, began thus, "How this +vain-glorious person exposes himself!--he is certainly a weak man; and his +tones, by Hermes, are more detestable than those of an African fowl."--At +which words, Sextus tipped me the wink; but I did not observe that +Licinius was at all displeased with them. Yet, soon after, Bruttianus +having overtaken us, the processions were joined, and the two pleaders +walked the rest of the way together in a loving manner, exchanging +complimentary speeches; to which Xerophrastes listened with edifying +gravity of visage. + +At length we entered that venerable space, every yard of whose surface is +consecrated to the peculiar memory of some great incident in the history +of Rome. Young Sextus allowed me to contemplate for some time, with silent +wonder, the memorable objects which conspired to the decoration of this +remarkable place; but after the first gaze of astonishment was satisfied, +proceeded to point out, in order, the names and uses of the principal +structures which rose on every side over its porticos--above all, of its +sublime temples--into whose cool and shady recesses the eye could here and +there penetrate through the open valves. Nor did the ancient rostrum from +which Tully had declaimed, escape our observation--nor within its guarding +rail of silver, the rising shoots of the old mysterious fig-tree of +Romulus--nor the rich tesselated pavement which covered the spot that had +once yawned an abyss before the steady eye of Curtius--nor the resplendent +Milliary pillar which marked the centre of the place. In a word, had the +gathering crowds permitted, I could have willingly spent many hours in +listening to the explanation of such magnificent objects; but these, and +the elevated voice of Licinius, who was just beginning his harangue, soon +compelled me to attend to things of another description. + +Within one of the proud ranges of arcade, on the side nearest to the +Capitoline stairs, a majestic Patrician had already taken his seat on an +elevated tribunal--his assessors being arranged on a lower bench by his +side, and the orators and clients congregated beneath. When I heard the +clear and harmonious periods of my kinsman; when I observed with what +apparent simplicity he laid his foundations in a few plain facts and +propositions; with what admirable art he upreared from these a +superstructure of conclusions, equally easy as unexpected; when he had +conducted us to the end of his argument, and closed with a burst of +passionate eloquence, in which he seemed to leave even himself behind him, +I could not but feel as if I had now for the first time contemplated the +practised strength of intellect. Yet I have lived to discover that the +talent which so greatly excited my wonder is often possessed from nature, +or acquired through practice, in a measure which at that time would have +afforded me scarcely inferior delight, by men of no extraordinary rank. + +The keen and lively gestures of the fervid Licinius, whose soul seemed to +speak out of every finger he moved, and who appeared to be altogether +immersed in the cause he pleaded, were succeeded by the solemn and +somewhat pompous stateliness of Bruttianus, who made a brief pause between +every two sentences, as if he were apprehensive that the mind of the judge +could not keep pace with the stream of his illustrations, and looked round +ever and anon upon the spectators with a placid and assured smile, rather, +as it seemed to me, to signify his approbation of their taste in +applauding him, than his own pleasure in their applauses. Nevertheless, he +also was a splendid speaker, and his affectation displeased the more, +because it was evidently unworthy of his understanding. While he was +speaking, I observed that the Stoic preceptor was frequently shifting his +place among the crowd, and muttering every where expressions of high +contempt. But this did not disgust me so much as the fixed attitude of +ecstasy in which he listened to the discourse of his own patron, and the +pretended involuntary exclamations of his delight. "Oh, admirable +cadence!" he would say, "I feel as if I were draining a honey-comb. Oh, +harmonious man, where have I, or any other person here, sucked in such +sweetness!" These absurd phrases, however, were caught up forthwith, and +repeated by the numerous young men who hung upon the skirts of the orator, +and seemed, indeed, to be drinking in nectar from the speech, if one might +judge from their countenances. From their taking notes in their tablets +from time to time, and from the knowing looks they assumed at the +commencement of every new chain of argument, I guessed that these might be +embryo jurisconsults, preparing themselves by their attendance for future +exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I listened to their +conversation at the close of every speech, I thought I could perceive in +their tones and accents, studied mimicry of the natural peculiarities of +Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other orators. Altogether, the scene was as +full of amusement as of novelty, and I could willingly have remained to +the end of the discussion. But my eyes chanced to fall upon young Sextus, +and I could not but see that his mind was occupied in matters remote from +the business of the Forum. He stood with his arms folded in his gown, and +his eyes fixed upon the ground, only lifting them up from time to time +with an impatient air towards a side entrance, or to observe by the +shadows on the porticos what progress the sun was making. + +Perceiving, at length, that Xerophrastes had his back turned to us, and +that his father was engaged with his tablets, he plucked me by the sleeve. +I understood his meaning, and followed him quickly through the crowd; nor +did we look back till we had left the noise of the Forensic assembly +entirely behind us. "I am depriving you," he said, "of no great +gratification, for that old creature is, indeed, possessed of much natural +shrewdness, but he is bitter from observing that his reputation is rather +eclipsed by younger people, and looks like some worn-out and discarded +cat, grinning from the top of the wall at the dalliance of some sleeker +rival. You could find no delight in the angry sneerings of such an envious +person; and his age would prevent you, at the same time, from willingly +giving way to contemptuous emotions. I will be your guide to the villa. +But if any questions be asked on our return, you can say I was anxious to +shew you something of the other regions of the city." + +He hurried me through noble streets, and past innumerable edifices, before +each of which I would gladly have paused. Nevertheless, seeing him wrapped +up in anxious thoughts, I did not oppose myself to his inclinations; and +ere long, having passed the Hill of Gardens, I found that we had gained +the eastern limit of the city. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +A sharp walk of about an hour and a half on the Salarean Way, brought us +within sight of the Suburban of Capito. + +A lofty wall protected the fields of this retirement from the intrusive +eyes of passengers. We entered by a small side-door, and found ourselves, +as if by some magical delusion, transported from the glare of a Roman +highway, into the depth and silence of some primeval forest. No nicely +trimmed path conducted our feet. Every thing had at least the appearance +of being left as nature had formed it. The fern rustled beneath us as we +moved; the ivy was seen spreading its careless tresses from tree to tree; +the fawn bounded from the thicket. By degrees, however, the gloom +lessened, till at length, over an open space of lawn, we perceived the +porch of entrance, and a long line of colonnade. We passed under the +porch, and across a paved court where a fountain was playing, into the +great hall, which commanded all the other side of the place--a noble +prospect of elaborate gardens gradually rising into shady hills, and lost +in a distance of impenetrable wood. + +Here a freedman attended us, who informed us that Capito had retired into +a sequestered part of the grounds with some friends from the city; but +that if we chose we could easily join him there. We assented, and, +following his guidance, ere long traversed no narrow space of luxuriant +cultivation. From one perfumed terrace we descended to another; till, +having reached a certain green and mossy walk, darkened by a natural +arching of vines and mulberries, the freedman pointed to a statue at the +farther end, and told us it stood over against the entrance of his +master's summer-house. When we reached the statue, however, we could +perceive no building. The shaded avenue terminated in face of a +precipitous rock, from which there fell a small stream that was received +in a massive basin, where the waters foamed into spray without +transgressing the margin. A thousand delicious plants and far-sought +flowers clustered around the base of the rock and the brink of the +fountain, and the humming of innumerable bees mingled with the whispers of +the stream. We stood for a moment uncertain whether we should move on or +retire, when we heard one calling to us from beyond; and passing to the +other side of the basin, descried, between the rock and the falling water, +a low entrance into what seemed to be a natural cave or grotto. We +stooped, and found ourselves within one of the most luxurious retirements +ever haunted by the foot of Dryad. A sparry roof hung like a canopy of +gems and crystals over a group of sculptured Nymphs and Fawns, which were +placed on a rustic pedestal within a circular bath shaped out of the +living stone. Around the edge of the waveless waters that slumbered in +this green recess, were spread carpets rich with the dyes of Tyrian art, +whereon Capito was reposing with his friends. He received Sextus with +kindness, and me with politeness, introducing us both to his companions, +who were three in number--all of them, like himself, advanced in years, and +two of them wearing long beards, though their demeanour was destitute of +any thing like the affected stateliness of our friend Xerophrastes. These +two, as our host informed us, were Greeks and Rhetoricians--the third, a +Patrician of the house of the Pontii, devoted, like himself, to the +pursuits of philosophy and the pleasures of a literary retirement. + +They were engaged, when we joined them, in a conversation which had sprung +from the perusal of some new metaphysical treatise. One of the Greeks, the +more serene-looking of the pair, was defending its doctrines with +earnestness of manner, although in a low and measured cadence of voice; +the other espoused the opposite side, with quickness of utterance and +severe animation of look; while the two lordly Romans seemed to be +contenting themselves, for the most part, with listening, although it was +not difficult to perceive from their countenances, that the one sided in +opinion with the Stoic, and Capito himself with the Epicurean. + +They all arose presently, and proceeded to walk together, without +interrupting the conversation, along the same shaded avenue which Sextus +and myself had already traversed. He and I moved along with them, but a +little in their rear--my companion being still too much abstracted to +bestow his attention on what they were saying; while I myself, being but +little an adept in such mysteries, amused myself rather with the exterior +and manners of the men, than with the merits of the opinions they were +severally defending. The Greeks were attired in the graceful costume of +their country, which was worn, however, far more gracefully by the +Epicurean than his brother,--the materials of his robe being delicate, and +its folds arranged with studied elegance, whereas the coarse garment of +the Stoic had apparently engaged less attention. Nevertheless, there was a +more marked difference between the attire of Capito and that of Pontius +Mamurra; for the former was arrayed in a tunic of the whitest cloth, +beneath which appeared fine linen rollers, swathing his thighs and legs, +to protect them, as I supposed, from the heat and the insects, and a pair +of slippers, of dark violet-coloured cloth, embroidered with silver +flowers; while the other held his arms folded in the drapery of an old but +genuine toga, which left his yet strong and sinewy nether limbs exposed to +the weather, all except what was covered by his tall black sandals and +their senatorian crescents. + +As we passed on, our host from time to time directed the attention of his +visiters, more particularly of the two Greeks, to the statues of bronze +and marble, which were placed at convenient intervals along the terraces +of his garden. The symmetry of these figures, and the graceful simplicity +of their attitudes, inspired me with I know not what of calm and soothing +pleasure such as I had never before tasted, so that I thought I could have +lingered for ever amidst these haunts of philosophic luxury. The images +were, for the most part, portraits of illustrious men--Greeks, Romans--sages +and heroes; but beautiful female forms were not wanting, nor majestic +representations of gods and demi-gods, and all the ethereal imaginations +of the Grecian poets. Seeing the name of Jupiter inscribed upon one of the +pedestals, I paused for a moment to contemplate the glorious +personification of might and wisdom, depositing, at the same time, a +handful of roses at the feet of the statue--upon which I could observe that +my behaviour furnished some mirth to the Epicurean Demochares; while, on +the contrary, Euphranor, the disciple of the Porch, approved of what I +did, and rebuked his companion for saying any thing that might even by +possibility disturb the natural piety of an innocent youth. But the Roman +Stoic stood by with a smile of stately scorn; and utter indifference was +painted on the countenance of Capito. At another time, Sextus having staid +behind to examine the beauties of a certain statue of Diana, which +represented the goddess stretched out in careless slumber on the turf, +with a slender grayhound at her feet, the Epicurean began to rally me on +having a taste inferior to that of my friend, whose devotion, he said, +could not be blamed, being paid to an exquisite imitation of what the +great Nature of things had decreed should ever be the most agreeable of +all objects in the eyes of a person of his age.--"Whereas you," continued +he, "appear to be more occupied with deep-hung eye-brows, ambrosial +beards, and fantastic thunderbolts, and the other exuberances of Homeric +imagination." + +To this reproach I made no reply, but Capito immediately began to recite +some verses of a Hymn of Calimachus, in which both the Greeks joined him; +nor could any thing be more delightful than the harmonious numbers. A +sudden exclamation of my friend, however, interrupted them, and Capito, +looking up a long straight pathway, said, "Come, Valerius, we shall see +whether you or Sextus is the more gallant to living beauties, for here +come my nieces. I assure you, I know not of which of them I am the more +proud; but Sempronia has more of the Diana about her, so it is probable +she may find a ready slave in our Sextus." + +We advanced, and the uncle, having tenderly saluted them, soon presented +us to their notice. Sextus blushed deeply when he found himself introduced +to Sempronia, while in her smile, although she looked at him as if to say +she had never seen him before, I thought I could detect a certain +half-suppressed something of half-disdainful archness--the colour in her +cheeks, at the same time, being not entirely unmoved. She was, indeed, a +very lovely girl, and in looking on her light dancing play of features, I +could easily sympathize with the young raptures of my friend. Her dress +was such as to set off her charms to the utmost advantage, for the bright +green of her Byssine robe, although it would have been a severe trial to +any ordinary complexion, served only to heighten the delicious brilliancy +of hers. A veil, of the same substance and colour, richly embroidered with +flowers of silver tissue, fell in flowing drapery well-nigh to her knees. +Her hair was almost entirely concealed by this part of her dress, but a +single braid of the brightest nut-brown was visible low down on her +polished forehead. Her eyes were black as jet, and full of a nymph-like +vivacity. + +The other, Athanasia, was not a dazzling beauty. Taller than her cousin, +and darker-haired, but with eyes rather light than otherwise, of a clear, +somewhat melancholy gray--with a complexion paler than is usual in Italy, a +demeanour hovering between cheerfulness and innocent gravity, and attired +with a vestal simplicity in the old Roman tunic, and cloak of white +cloth--it is possible that most men might have regarded her less than the +other. A single star of diamonds, planted high up among her black hair, +was the only ornament she wore. + +At the request of the younger lady, we all returned to the grotto, in the +neighbourhood of which, as I have already mentioned, our tasteful host had +placed the rarest of his exotic plants, some of which Sempronia was now +desirous of inspecting. As we paced again slowly over those smooth-shaven +alleys of turf, and between those rows of yews and box, clipped into +regular shapes, which abounded in this more artificial region, the +conversation, which the appearance of the cousins had disturbed, was +resumed; although, as out of regard to their presence, the voices of the +disputants preserved a lower and milder tone than before. I must confess, +however, that mild as was the manner of the discourse, I could not help +being somewhat astonished, that a polite Roman could permit such topics to +be discussed in the hearing of females; above all, that he did not +interpose to prevent Demochares from throwing out so many sarcastic +reflections concerning the deities whose statues decorated the garden. A +beautiful Mercury, in particular, which we all paused to admire, elicited +many observations, that I could easily see were far from being agreeable +to the fair cousins. But greatest of all was my wonder at the behaviour of +Capito himself, who, after we had again entered that delightful grotto, +turned himself to me as if peculiarly, and began a deliberate and +ingenious piece of declamation concerning the tenets of his favourite +philosophy;--such as the fortuitous concourse of atoms, the transitory and +fluctuating nature of all things, and the necessity of snatching present +enjoyments, as nothing permanent can be discovered whereon to repose the +mind. With great elegance, indeed, did he enlarge on these golden +theories, nor did he fail to intersperse his discourse with many exquisite +verses from Lucretius and other poetical followers of his sect. Such, +however, was the earnestness of his declamation, that I could not help +believing him to be quite sincere to what he said, and asked him, not +without anxiety, whether he had all his life been an Epicurean, or whether +it was only of late that he had espoused that discipline. + +"Valerius," said he, "the question is not discreditable to your tender age +and provincial education. To be born wise, Fate or Heaven has denied to +the human race. It is their privilege to win wisdom for themselves; the +fault is their own, if they do not die wise. When the stripling enters +upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes are around him, and he moves +onward in the buoyancy of conscious power. The pride of young existence is +the essence and extract of all his innumerable sensations. Rejoicing in +the feeling of the real might that is, it is his delight to think--to +dream--of might existing and exerted as for ever. New to the material, but +still more to the moral world, he believes in the stability of all things +whose transitory nature has not been exhibited before him. New to the +tricks of mankind, he believes that to be said truly, which, why it should +be said falsely, he is unable to conjecture. For him, superstition has +equal potency to darken the past, and illuminate the future. At that early +period, when ignorance is of itself sufficient to produce a certain +happiness, the ambition is too high to admit such doctrines as I have no +shame in avowing. But time moves on, and every hour some tender plant is +crushed beneath his tread. The spirit clings long to its delusions. The +promise that is destroyed to-day springs into life to-morrow in some new +shape; and Hope, like some warring deity of your poets, bleeds and sickens +only to revive again. But disappointment at length gathers to itself the +vigour of an enduring form. The horizon becomes colder around us--the soul +waxes faint and more faint within. It is then that man begins to recognize +the true state, not of his own nature alone, but of all things that +surround him--that having tasted much of evil, he is taught to feel the +value of good--and weaning himself from vain-glorious dreams, learns the +great lesson of wisdom, to enjoy the moments as they pass--to snatch some +solid pleasure, at least, amidst a world of vision and imagination; so, in +a word, as the poet has expressed it, he may not have reason to complain +in the hour of death that he has never lived. + +"In me," he continued, "you behold one that has gone through the +experience necessary to produce an entire acquiescence in these doctrines. +I am one of those, Valerius, who have resolved to concentrate, after this +fashion, the whole of my dreams upon the hour that is. There are not +wanting, indeed, here and elsewhere, persons who profess the same +theories, only in the view of finding excuse and shelter for the practice +of vice. But till it be proved that the practice of vice is the best means +of enjoyment, in vain shall it be asserted that our doctrine is +essentially adverse to virtue. The mistakes or the misdeeds of individuals +must be estimated for nothing; for where is the doctrine that may not be +shewn to have been defended by impure livers? The founder of our sect is +acknowledged, by its most virulent enemies, to have been the most +blameless of men, and they, I must take leave to believe, can never be +sincere friends of virtue, who doubt, that he who is a true worshipper of +pleasure, may also be the worshipper of virtue." + +There was a certain something, as I thought, more like suppressed +melancholy than genuine hilarity, in the expression of the old man's face, +as well as in the tone of his voice, while he gave utterance to these +sentiments; nor did any of those present appear desirous of protracting +the argument; although I did not imagine from their looks that any of them +had altered their opinion. What, however, I could not help remarking in a +particular manner, was the gentle regret painted in the countenance of the +elder niece, while Capito was speaking. The maiden sate over against him +all the while, her cheek supported on her left hand, with an expression of +tender affection. From time to time, indeed, she cast her eye upward with +a calm smile, but immediately resumed her attitude of pensive abstraction. +Her uncle took her hand in his when he had done speaking, and kissed it +gently, as if to apologize for having said any thing disagreeable to her. +She smiled again upon the sceptic, and walked by herself, (for I could not +help following her with my eye,) down into a dark walk of pines that +branched off at the right hand from the entrance into the grotto. There I +saw her stoop and pluck a pale flower. This she placed in her bosom, and +then rejoined us with a more cheerful aspect; after which, we all walked +towards the villa. Nor did it escape my notice, that, although Sempronia +appeared willing to avoid Sextus as we went, it always happened, by some +accident or other, that he was nearer to her than any other person of the +company. + +They were both at a little distance behind the rest of the party, when +Euphranor addressed himself to me, saying, "Is not this youth, your +companion, the same that is under the guidance of a certain +Xerophrastes?"--"The same," said I, "and a wary, sage-looking Athenian is +his tutor. I believe he also is of the Porch."--"No doubt," interrupted +Demochares; "he has a beard that Zeno might have been proud of, and walks +as if he conceived himself to be the chief pillar of the Porch, if not the +Porch itself."--"Who shall prevent Demochares from having his jest?" +replied Euphranor. "The man is by birth a Thessalian, and his gutturals +still remind one strongly of his native hills."--I would gladly have heard +more of it, but he was interrupted by the nearer approach of the rest. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +Before the hour of taking the bath, we exercised ourselves for some time +in the tennis-court, where I could not but admire, especially after having +heard Capito philosophise, the vigour and agility displayed by him as well +as his companions. I was then conducted into the baths, where, after being +washed and perfumed in the most luxurious manner, I was arrayed in an +elegant supper-garment by one of the slaves of our host. At table we were +joined again by the ladies, who both reclined on the same couch with their +uncle. Three comely youths attended us, in short tunics, and girt with +napkins of fine linen; but, during the repast, an ancient female slave +stood in silence behind the couch of the young ladies. A small fountain of +alabaster played between two tall candelabra of the same material, at the +farther end of the apartment; and a young damsel stood beside them, +swinging slowly from time to time a silver censer, from which clouds of +delicate odour rolled up to the mirrored roof. + +In all things the feast was splendid; but there was no appearance of +useless or vain ostentation. Every thing was conducted in a style of great +calmness and order, without the least formality. The repast interrupted +not the conversation, which went on in a manner to me equally instructive +as entertaining; although I must confess the presence of Athanasia +sometimes rendered me inattentive to what was spoken. I could not divest +myself of the idea, that some unknown circumstance was pressing on the +mind of the fair creature, and that when she smiled upon those who +addressed her, it was sometimes to conceal her ignorance of that which had +been said. + +Being asked by Capito, I endeavoured, among other things, to inform him +and his friends, as far as I could, concerning the then condition of this +island, which, more particularly after the exploits of Agricola, had come +to be a subject of some interest. In return, the chief topics which then +occupied the capital were discussed by them, as I perceived, in a great +measure on my account; and I listened with delight to the praises, which +they all agreed on bestowing on the new Emperor. Many anecdotes were +narrated, which tended to strengthen the feelings of admiration, with +which I had already been accustomed to contemplate his character. But +others were told, as the conversation went on, which I could not so easily +reconcile with the idea I had formed of him. + +For example, I was somewhat disturbed with what they told me concerning +his treatment of the Christians, who, as we understood in Britain, had +been suffered to live in tranquillity ever since Nerva acceded to the +empire. But now, from the circumstances related, it appeared that the mild +and humane Trajan had taken up, in regard to this sect, the whole aversion +of Domitian; every day some cruel catastrophe was made known of some +person who had adopted their tenets. Being ignorant of the nature of those +tenets, and having heard only in general terms that they were of Jewish +origin, dark, and mystical, I was at a loss to account for the extreme +hatred of the Prince, or rather for his condescending to give himself so +much trouble concerning a matter so obscure and seemingly trifling. + +Capito, however, assured me, that although I might have good occasion to +wonder at the steps taken by the Emperor, it would no longer be said by +any one, that the progress of the Christian sect deserved to be considered +as a matter either of obscurity, or of no consequence. "On the contrary," +said he, "from what you have just heard of the numbers and quality of +those that have lately suffered various punishments, you cannot hesitate +to admit that the head of the empire has been justified in considering it +as a subject worthy his attention." + +"We have adopted the gods of many nations," said Pontius Mamurra, "nor do +I see why, because the Jews have been unfortunate in a contest with Rome, +we should take it for granted that theirs are unworthy of respect. If, +however, as we have heard asserted, he who embraces this creed becomes an +infidel in regard to the deities of Rome, I say Caesar does well in +refusing toleration to the intolerant superstition. Domitian was a tyrant, +and a monster of humanity; the late prince was wise and good; and yet it +may be, that, in regard to these Christians, the principle of Domitian's +conduct was right in the main, and that of Nerva's wrong. But you, Capito, +regard both sides of the question, I have no doubt, with the same +indifference." + +"I hope," replied Capito, "I shall never regard with indifference any +question, in which the interest of the empire and the honour of Trajan are +concerned. But if you mean only that I am indifferent about the nature of +this Syrian superstition, you are in the right. I have no knowledge of its +dogmas, nor desire to have. I presume they have their share of that old +eastern barbarity, in the shady places of which the elder Greeks used to +think they could discover the outlines of something really grand and +majestic." + +"It may be so," said Mamurra; "but if the superstition be found dangerous +to the state, the Prince does well in repressing its progress. That is the +only question of which I spake."--"There is, indeed, no other," said +Capito; "I thought of none."--"And how do you answer it, dear uncle?" said +Athanasia, (lifting herself up, for the first time, to take part in the +conversation.)--"Nay, my love," said the old man, "to answer that is the +business of Caesar, and of the Senate. I only regret, that blood should be +shed, and citizens exiled; above all, in the reign of a just and merciful +Prince.--Sempronia," continued he, "what is that strange story your father +was telling about one of the daughters of Serennius?" + +"They only allege," replied Sempronia, with a smile, "that Tertulla had a +flirtation with a handsome young Greek, and the Greek happened to be a +Christian,--and she was converted by the Greek,--and she was found out in +going with him to some secret assembly of these people, in a vault by the +Vatican Hill,--and her father has been glad to send her to Corsica, partly +to escape the lawyers, and partly, I suppose, in hopes that the quietness +of the island, and the absence of handsome young Christians, may perhaps, +in time, restore poor Tertulla to her right mind--This is all. Do you think +that a strange story, uncle?" "Not, if it be exactly as you have told it, +Sempronia. What says Athanasia?" Athanasia answered gravely, that she was +sorry for Tertulla, and had never heard any thing of the young Greek +before. + +By this time, the increasing darkness of the chamber had warned me that we +ought to be thinking of our return. I had more than once looked towards +Sextus, but he refused to meet my eye. When I was on the point of +speaking, Sempronia, starting from her couch, exclaimed, that she was sure +there was thunder in the skies; and presently flash after flash gleamed +along the horizon. All sat silent, as if awe-struck; but Sempronia was the +only one that seemed to be in terror from the tempest. Nevertheless, my +eyes rested more on Athanasia, who looked paler than she had done, +although her countenance preserved its serenity. "How awful," said I, "is +the voice of Jupiter!" Athanasia folded her arms upon her bosom, and +lifting her eyes to heaven, said in a whisper,--"How awful is the voice of +God!" She then dropt her hand on the end of her couch, and half +unconsciously taking hold of it in mine, I asked her if she was afraid. +"No," said she, "I am not afraid, but the heaviness of the air makes me +faint, and I never can listen to thunder without feeling something +extraordinary within me." + +Capito said, he could not think of our going into the city that evening, +and that we must all make up our minds to remain in the villa. The +countenance of Sextus brightened up, and he looked to me as if to ask my +assent. I was easily persuaded, and our host despatched a messenger to +inform Licinius of the cause of our absence. The old man then led us into +another apartment, which was richly furnished with books and paintings. +Here he read for some time out of one of the poets, to a party, none of +whom, I am afraid, were very attentive in listening to him, till, the hour +of rest being come, we were conducted to our several apartments, Sextus +and myself, indeed, being lodged in the same chamber. + +We were no sooner left alone than I began to rally my friend on the beauty +of his mistress, and the earnest court he had been paying her. The youth +listened with blushes of delight to her praises, but seemed not to have +the least idea that he had been so fortunate as to make any impression on +her mind. On the contrary, he scarcely appeared to be aware of having done +any thing to attract attention from her, and expressed astonishment when I +assured him, that his behaviour had been such as could not possibly admit +of more than one explanation in the eyes of a person so quick and +vivacious as the lovely Sempronia. + +After we had both retired to our beds, and the lights were extinguished, +we still continued for some time to talk over the incidents of our visit, +and the future prospects of Sextus and his love; until at length sleep +overpowered us in easy bonds, and agreeable dreams followed, I doubt not, +in the hearts of us both, the thoughts and sights of a delightful day. +Mine surely were delightful, for they were all of Athanasia. Yet, even in +the visions of the night, I could never gaze on her face without some +strange impression of mystery. I saw her placid smile--I heard the sweet +low cadence of her voice--but I felt, and I could not feel it without a +certain indescribable anxiety, that her deep thoughts were far away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I awoke early, and drew near to the bed of Sextus; but seeing that he was +fast asleep, and that a quiet smile was on his lips, I could not think of +awakening him. The sun shone bright into the apartment, and I resolved to +walk forth and breathe the balmy air of the garden. + +The moisture was still heavy on the green paths, and the birds were +singing among glittering leaves; the god-like statues stood unscathed in +their silent beauty. I walked to and fro, enjoying the enchantment of the +scene;--a new feeling of the beauty of all things seemed to have been +breathed into my soul; and the pensive grace of Athanasia hovered over my +imagination, like some presiding genius of the groves. + +I found myself near the favourite grotto, and had stood over against its +entrance for some space, contemplating the augmented stream as it fell +from the superincumbent rock, and regretting the ravage which the nightly +tempest had made among the delicate flowers round its basin. Twice I +thought I heard the murmurs of a voice, and twice I persuaded myself that +it was only the rippling of the waters; but the third time I was satisfied +that some person must be near. I passed between the water and the rock, +and beheld the fair creature that had been occupying so many of my +thoughts, kneeling far within the grotto, as it seemed, in supplication. +To disturb her by advancing farther, would have been impious; to retire, +without the risk of disturbing her, almost impossible; but I remained +there fixed to the spot, without perhaps considering all these things as I +should have done. The virgin modesty of her attitude was holy in my eyes, +and the thought never occurred to me, that I might be doing wrong in +permitting myself to witness the simple devotions of Athanasia. "Great +God, listen to my prayers," was all I understood of what she said; but she +whispered for some moments in a lowly and fervent tone, and I saw that she +kissed something with her lips ere she arose from her knees. She then +plunged her hands into the well, by whose brink she had knelt, and turned +round to the light. "Athanasia, forgive me," was already on my lips; but +on seeing me, she uttered a faint cry and fell prostrate upon the marble. +I rushed forward, lifted up her head, and laved water from the fountain, +till I saw her lips tremble. At last she opened her eyes, and after gazing +on me wildly for a moment, she gathered her strength, and stood quite +upright, supporting herself against the wall of the grotto. "Great +heavens!" cried I, "in what have I offended, that I should be rendered the +cause of affliction to Athanasia? Speak, lady, and say that you forgive +me." + +"I thought," said she, with a proud calmness, "that Valerius was of +Roman--of Patrician blood. What brings him to be a spy upon the secret +moments of a Patrician maiden?"--Then bursting into a tone of unutterable +fervour, "Speak," said she, "young man, what have you heard? How long have +you stood here? Am I betrayed?" + +"Witness, heaven and earth!" cried I, kneeling, "and witness every god, +that I have heard nothing, except to know that you were praying. I have +only seen you kneeling, and been guilty of gazing on your beauty." "You +heard not the words of my prayer?" said she. "No, not its words, +Athanasia, nor any thing of its purpose." "Do you swear this to me, young +man?" "Yes, I swear by Jupiter and by Rome--as I am a man and a Roman, I +know not, neither do I desire to know, any thing of what you said. Forgive +me for the fault of my indiscretion--you have no other to forgive." + +Athanasia paused for a moment, and then resuming more of her usual tone of +voice, (although its accents were still somewhat disturbed and faltering,) +said to me, "Valerius, since the thing is so, I have nothing to forgive. +It is you that must pardon me for my suspicion." "Distress me not, +Athanasia," said I, "by speaking such words." "From this hour, then," said +she, "what has passed here is forgotten. We blot it from our +memories;"--and with that, as if in token of the paction, she extended to +me her hand. I kissed it as I knelt, and swore that all things were safe +with me; but added, as I arose, "that I was afraid I should be promising +more than I should be able to perform,--did I say I should be able to +forget any hour, or any place, where I had seen Athanasia." "Nay," said +she, "no compliment, or I shall begin to suspect you of insincerity." I +was then about to withdraw from the grotto; but seeing a scroll of +parchment lying at the feet of Athanasia, I stooped, and presented it to +her, saying, "I was afraid she might forget it." She took it eagerly, and +saying, "Of that there was no danger," placed it in her bosom, within the +folds of her tunic. She was then gathering up her black tresses, and +fastening them hastily on the back part of her head, when we heard the +sound of footsteps not far off, and beckoning to me to remain where I was, +she darted from me, and in a moment vanished among the trees. I waited for +a few minutes, and then stepping forth, beheld her walking at a distance, +beside her sister, in the direction of the villa. They were soon lost +among the paths, and I returned alone into the grotto. + +I sat down beside the dark well, wherein she had dipt her hands, and mused +in a most disturbed mood on all the particulars of this strange and +unexpected interview. Every motion of her features--every modulation of her +voice, was present with me; I had gathered them all into my heart, and I +felt that I must cherish them there for ever. From the first moment I saw +her, my eyes had been constrained to gaze upon her with an interest quite +novel to me; but now I knew that she could not smile, without making my +heart faint within me, and that the least whisper of her voice was able to +bring tears into mine eyes. Now I thought of my own unworthiness, and +could not help saying to myself, "Why should a poor ignorant provincial, +such as I am, be torturing myself with the thoughts of such a creature as +this?" Then, again, some benign glance of hers would return before me, and +I could not help having some faint hopes, that her innocent heart might be +won to me by faithful unwearied love. But what always threw me back into +despair, was the recollection of the mystery that I knew hung over her +mind, although what it was I could not know. That she had been saying +something in her prayers which could not be overheard without betraying +her, she had herself confessed. What could be this secret, so cherished in +dread, and in darkness?--A crime?--No crime could sully the clear bosom of +her innocence. No consciousness of guilt could be concealed beneath that +heavenly visage. But perhaps she had been made the confidante of some +erring,--some unhappy friend. Perhaps, in her prayer, she had made mention +of another's name, and implored the pardon of another's guilt. Last of +all, why might it not be so, that the maiden loved, and was beloved again; +that she might have some reason to regard any casual betrayal of her +affection as a calamity; and that, having uttered the name of her lover in +her secret supplications, her terrors might all have been occasioned by +her apprehensions of my having overheard it? And yet there was something +in the demeanour of Athanasia, that I could not bring myself to reconcile +entirely with any one of these suppositions. Had she feared that I had +overheard any confession of guilt,--even of the guilt of another,--surely +some semblance of shame would have been mingled with her looks of terror. +Had she apprehended only the discovery of an innocent love, surely her +blushes would have been deeper, and her boldness less. Yet the last +solution of the difficulty was that which haunted me the most powerfully. + +When I came forth into the open air, I perceived that the sun was already +high in heaven, and proceeded in haste towards the villa, not doubting +that Sextus and Capito would be astonished by the length of my absence. I +found them and the ladies walking under the northern colonnade, having +returned, as they told me, from a fruitless search after me through almost +the whole of the garden. I looked to Athanasia, as if to signify that she +well knew where I might have been found; but, although I saw that she +understood my meaning, she said nothing in explanation. Sextus drew me +aside shortly after, and told me, that his father had sent to inform him, +that our presence was necessary in the city before supper-time, to attend +a great entertainment which was to be given that evening by the lady whose +cause he had successfully pleaded in the Forum on the preceding day; which +lady, I now for the first time learned, was no other than the same Marcia +Rubellia, to whom his father was very anxious the youth should be married. +The success of this pleading had increased very much the wealth of the +lady, and, of course, as Sextus well knew, the anxiety of Licinius for the +proposed union; and to remain at the villa any longer, was, he said, +entirely impossible, since he already suspected his father had not been +quite pleased with him for leaving the Forum the day before, without +staying to hear out a cause in which his duty, if not his inclination, +ought to have made him feel so greatly interested. + +We bade adieu, therefore, to our kind host and the young ladies, not +without more reluctance than either of us durst express, and ready +promises to return soon again to the villa. We found Dromo and Boto +waiting for us at the gate, the former of whom looked unutterable things, +while the latter appeared to be as joyful in seeing me again, as if we had +been parted for a twelvemonth. The two slaves were mounted on asses, but +they led horses for our conveyance; so we mounted with all speed, and were +soon beyond the beautiful enclosures of Capito. As soon as we were fairly +out of sight of the house, Dromo began to ply Sextus with innumerable +questions about the result of the visit, all of them in bad Greek; that, +as he said, there might be no chance of what passed being understood by +the Druid; for by that venerable designation, he informed us, the +primitive Boto had already come to be best known in the vestibule of +Licinius. "Ah!" quoth he, "there is no need for many words; I am sure my +young master has not been behindhand with himself. If he has, it is no +fault of mine, however. I put Opportunity into his hands, and she, you +know, as the poets say, has only one lock of hair, and that is in front." + +Sextus being very shy of entering into particulars, I found myself obliged +to take upon me the satisfying of the curiosity of this inquisitive +varlet, which I did in a manner that much astonished Sextus, who by no +means suspected, that in the midst of my own attention to the other +cousin, I had been able to take so much notice of what passed between him +and Sempronia. However, the gentle youth took a little raillery all in +good part, and we laughed loudly in unison at the triumphant capers which +the whip of Dromo made his poor ass exhibit, in testimony of his +satisfaction with the progress which all things appeared to be making. We +reached the city about three hours after noon, and were told by the slaves +in attendance, that Xerophrastes had gone out some time before, and that +Licinius was already busy in arraying himself for the feast of Rubellia. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Her mansion was situated about the middle of the Suburra, in a +neighbourhood nowise splendid, and itself distinguished, on the side +fronting to the street, by no uncommon marks of elegance or opulence. A +plain brick wall covered almost the whole of the building from the eye of +the passenger; and what was seen deserved the praise of neatness, rather +than of magnificence. Nevertheless, the moment one had passed the gate, +and entered the court, one could not help perceiving, that taste and +wealth had been alike expended abundantly on the residence; for the broad +terrace and gallery behind were lavishly adorned, the one with sculpture +and the other with paintings; and the gardens, which these overlooked, +appeared to be both extensive and elaborate. + +We were conducted through several pillared halls, and then up a wide +staircase, of somewhat sombre magnificence, into the chamber where the +company were already in part assembled, and busy in offering their +congratulations to the mistress of the feast. She was so much engaged with +their flatteries that she did not at first perceive our entrance; but as +soon as she knew who had come, the chief part of her attention was divided +between her victorious advocate and his blushing son. + +Rapidly as we have been advancing in our imitation of the manners of the +capital, our island, most unquestionably, has never yet displayed any +thing that could sustain the smallest comparison with what then met my +eyes in the stately saloon of this widow. The group around her was gay and +various, and she was worthy of forming its centre; young and handsome, +dressed in a style of the utmost splendour, her deportment equally elegant +and vivacious. Her complexion was of that clear rich brown which lends to +the eye a greater brilliancy than the most exquisite contrast of red and +white; and over which the blood, when it does come into the face, diffuses +at once the warmest and the deepest of blushes. Her hair appeared to be +perfectly black, unless where the light, streaming from behind, gave an +edging of glossy brown to the thick masses of her curls. Her robe of +crimson silk was fastened by a girdle, which seemed to consist of nothing +but rubies and emeralds, strung upon threads of gold. She wore a tiara +that rose high above her tresses, and was all over resplendent with +flowers woven in jewellery; and around her delicate wrists and ankles were +twined broad chains of virgin gold, interspersed with alternate wreaths of +sapphire. Her form was the perfection of luxury; and although I have said +that her deportment was in general lively and brilliant, yet there was a +soft seriousness that every now and then settled in her eyes, which gave +her, for a moment, a look of melancholy that seemed to me more likely to +be in harmony with the secret nature of her disposition. I watched her in +particular when she spoke to Sextus; her full rich-toned voice was then +merry, and her large eyes sparkled; but when she was engaged with any +other person, she could not help gazing on the beautiful youth in silence; +and then it was that her countenance wore its deepest expression of +calmness--I had almost said, of sadness. + +I had been gazing on her, I know not how long, from another part of the +room, when I heard a hearty chuckle from behind me, and thought I could +not be unacquainted with the voice. Looking round, I saw, not without +delight, the stately figure of my Praetorian Captain, Sabinus, whose +cheerful eye soon distinguished me, and who forthwith came up to salute me +in the most friendly manner. I introduced him to Licinius and Sextus, the +former of whom expressed himself as being much gratified with the +attention the centurion had shewn to me during our voyage; so that I felt +myself, as it were, no longer a stranger in the place; and the lutes and +trumpets at that moment announcing that supper was ready to be served up, +I took care to keep close to Sabinus, and to place myself near him on the +couch. + +The room in which the feast was prepared, communicated by a pair of brazen +folding doors, richly sculptured, with that in which the company had +assembled; but from it, although the sun had not yet gone down, all light +was excluded, excepting what streamed from golden candelabra, and broad +lamps of bronze suspended overhead from the high and painted ceiling. The +party might consist of about twenty, who reclined along one demi-circular +couch, the covers of which were of the softest down, and the frame-work +inlaid with ivory;--the part of the room enclosed by its outline being +occupied with the table, and an open space to which the attendants had +free access. We had no sooner taken our seats than a crowd of slaves +entered, carrying large boards upon their heads, which being forthwith +arranged on the table, were seen to be loaded with dishes of gold and +silver, and all manner of drinking vessels, also with vases of rare +flowers, and urns of perfume. But how did the countenance of Sabinus +brighten, when the trumpet sounded a second time as if from below, and the +floor of the chamber was suddenly, as it were, pierced in twain, and the +pealing music ushered up a huge roasted boar, all wreathed with stately +garnishings, and standing erect on his golden platform as on a chariot of +triumph! "Ah! my dear boy," cries he, "here comes the true king of beasts, +and only legitimate monarch of the woods. What should we not have given +for a slice of him when we were pent up, half-starved and fainting, in +that abominable ship of ours?--All hail, most potent conqueror! but whether +Germanic or Asiatic be thy proper title, I shall soon know, when that +expert Ionian has daintily carved and divided thee." But why should I +attempt to describe to you the particulars of the feast? Let it suffice, +that whatever idea I had formed of Roman profusion was surpassed, and that +the splendour of the entertainment engaged the attention of all except +Rubellia herself, who, reclining immediately above Sextus, kept her eyes +fixed almost all the time it lasted, upon his luxuriant curls of dark +hair, unless when she caused the young damsel, her cup-bearer, to pour out +to her wine in a goblet of onyx, which she touched with her lips, and then +handed to the indifferent boy. When the supper was half over, the +folding-doors were again thrown open, and there entered a group of maidens +and beautiful youths, who danced before us to the music of the lute, and +scattered crowns of roses at the feet of Rubellia and her guests. She +herself placed one of them on the head of Sextus, and another on that of +his father, who lay on the other side of her, and then caused a large cup +of wine to be carried all around, whereof each of us tasted, and drank to +the health of the orator, in whose honour the entertainment was made. The +ladies that were present imitated the example of the hostess, and crowned +such as were by them; but Sabinus and I, not being near enough to any of +them, received that courtesy from some of the dancing maidens. Libations +were poured out abundantly on the marble floor, and all the gods were +invoked to shower down their blessings on Rubellia, and those that had +been so fortunate as to serve her. Sweet strains of music resounded +through the tall pillars of the banqueting-room, and the lamps burned +heavily in an atmosphere overloaded with perfumes. + +It appeared to me, from the beginning, that my friend Sabinus witnessed, +not without some feelings of displeasure, the excessive attentions which +Rubellia lavished on young Sextus; and I gathered, from the way in which +he every now and then looked towards them during the supper, that, had the +place permitted, he would not have allowed such things to go on without +some comment. But when we had left the banqueting-room, and removed to +another apartment, where, amidst various entertainments of dancing, music, +and recitation, Rubellia still retained close to herself the heir of +Licinius, the centurion made to himself abundant amends for the previous +restraint to which his temper had been subjected. "Confess now," said he, +"that she is a lovely creature, and that your British beauties are tame +and insipid, when compared with such a specimen of Roman fascination; and +confess, withal, that this curled boy is either the most ignorant, or the +most insusceptible of his sex. Good heavens! in what a different style was +she treated by the old magistrate, whose very bust there, in the corner, +looks quite blank and disconsolate with its great white eyes, while she, +that sate for so many months pale and weeping by his bed-side, is thinking +of nothing but to bestow all the wealth he left her on a beardless +stripling, who appears to regard the bust and the beauty with almost equal +indifference.--Alas! poor old withered Leberinus, little did you imagine +that so small a phial would suffice to hold all her tears. My only wonder +is, that she still permits your marble image to occupy even a corner of +her mansion; but, no doubt, you will soon be sent on your travels. I dare +say, some cold pedestal in the garden will, ere long, be the best birth +you need look for.--Well, well, you see what fools we may be made by the +cunning of these pretty crocodiles. I trust my dotage, when it does come, +will not shew itself in the same shape with that of my good old friend. I +hope the ghost of the worthy Praetor will not frown unseen the night she +takes this Adonis to her arms. If I were in his place, I should give her +curtains a pretty shake. By Hermes! it would not be a pretty monument and +a flowery epitaph that would make me lie still." + +"How long is it," said I, "since this venerable magistrate died? Surely +she has allowed him the decency of a tenmonth's grief, before she began to +give suppers, and perceive the beauty of Sextus?" "Whether it be a +tenmonth ago or not," replied the Centurion, "is more than I can take upon +me to decide; all I know is, that it appears to me as if it were but +yesterday that I supped here, (it was just before I set off for Britain,) +and saw the young lady reclining, even at table, with those long black +curls of her's, in the bosom of the emaciated Leberinus. By Jupiter! the +old man would not taste a drop of wine unless she kissed the cup--she +coaxed every morsel he swallowed down his throat, and clasped the garland +round his bald pate with her own fingers; ay, twice before that sleek +physician--that solemn-faced Greek, whom you see at this moment talking +with your kinsman, advised her to have him carried to his bed. For all the +gravity of his looks, I would lay a trifle, that worthy Boeotian has his +own thoughts about what is passing, as well as I. But the worst-pleased +face in the whole room is, I think, that of old Rubellius himself yonder, +who has just come in, without, it is evident, being aware that any feast +was going forward. Without question, the crafty usurer is of opinion he +might have been invited. I promise you, I can interpret the glances of +that gray-headed extortioner; and well I may, for it is not the first time +I have had an opportunity of studying them. Ay, ay, quoth he to himself, +she may do as she will with the bonds of Leberinus; but she might have +remembered, that a codicil can be easily tacked to the end of a living +man's testament." + +"But, after all," said I, "one must admit, that if she married old +Leberinus to please her father, the widow has some right to choose her +second husband according to the pattern of her own fancy." "Oh! by all +means," answered he; "let her please herself; let her make a fool of +herself now, if she will. She may perhaps learn, some time or other, that +it is as possible to have too young a husband, as to have too old a one." +"Come now," said I, "Sabinus, confess that if she had selected some +well-made, middle-aged man--some respectable man--some man of note and +distinction, you would have judged less harshly of poor Rubellia." "Ah! +you cunning dog," said he; "who would have thought that you had brought so +much wickedness from that new world of yours? But do you really think she +will wed Sextus? The boy appears strangely cold. I should not wonder, when +all is done, if the match were more of the orator's seeking than his own." +"I can only tell you," said I, "that I have never heard Licinius mention +any thing about it; and, I dare say, Sextus would be very sorry to think +of losing his liberty for the sake of the wealth of Leberinus--ay, or for +that of old Rubellius to boot." "Young friend," quoth he, "you are not +quite acquainted with the way in which these matters are managed at Rome. +If we had you six weeks at the other side of the Viminal, we should teach +you better." + +I know not how long this sort of talk might have lasted; but Licinius put +an end to it by joining us, and soon engaged the worthy Centurion, and +several more of us, with some lively, but unintelligible discussion on the +merits of some new edict, of which none of us had ever heard, or were +likely ever to hear any thing again. We were glad to escape from the +lawyer into another room, where some Greek slaves were performing a sort +of comic pantomime, that appeared to give more delight to old Rubellius +than any other of the spectators. As for Sextus, I saw plainly that he was +quite weary of the entertainment, and anxious to get away; but we were +obliged to remain till after Licinius was gone, for it was evident that he +wished his son to see out the last. But no sooner had we heard his chariot +drive off, than the young man and I took leave of the lady, and withdrew. +Sabinus lingered a moment behind us, and then joined us in the vestibule, +from which, his course lying so far in the same direction as ours, we all +proceeded homewards on foot. + +We had proceeded along the street of the Suburra for a considerable space, +and were already beneath the shade of the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, (which stands on the northern side of the Esquiline Hill, nigh +over against the Amphitheatre of Vespasian,) when, from the opposite side +of the way, we were hailed by a small party of soldiers, who, as it turned +out, had been sent from the Praetorian camp in search of Sabinus, and one +of whom had now recognized his gait and stature, notwithstanding the +obscurity of the hour. The Centurion went aside with the leader of these +men for some moments, and then informed us that it was very fortunate they +had so easily recognized him, as the business on which they had been sent +was such as did not admit of being negligently dealt with. "To-morrow," +said he, pointing to the Amphitheatre before us, "that glorious edifice is +to be the scene of one of the grandest shows exhibited by Trajan since his +accession to the empire. It is the anniversary of the day on which he was +adopted by Nerva, and the splendour of the spectacle will be in proportion +to the gratitude and veneration with which he at all times regards the +memory of that excellent benefactor. But there are some parts of the +exhibition that I am afraid old Nerva, could he be present to behold them, +would not regard with the same feelings as his successor." "Surely," said +I, "the beneficent Trajan will not stain the expression of his gratitude +by any thing unworthy of himself, or that could give displeasure to +Nerva?" "Nay," replied the Centurion, "it is not for me to talk about any +thing that Trajan chooses to do being unworthy of Trajan; but you well +know that Nerva would never suffer any of the Christians to be molested +during his reign, and now here are some of these unhappy fanatics, that +are to be compelled either to renounce their faith in the face of the +assembly to-morrow, or to die in the arena. It is to inspect the condition +of these unfortunates, who, I know not for what reason, are confined in a +dungeon below the ramparts in the vicinity of our camp, and to announce to +them the final determination of their fate, that I, as Centurion of the +night, have now been summoned. If you are curious to see the men, you are +at liberty to go with me, and I shall be obliged to you for your company." + +My curiosity having been excited in regard to the new faith and its +adherents, I was very desirous to accept of this offer. Nor did Sextus any +sooner perceive that such was my inclination, than he advised me to +gratify it, undertaking, at the same time, to satisfy his father, in case +of any inquiry, that I was in a place of safety, and under the protection +of Sabinus. With him, therefore, and with his Praetorians, I proceeded +along various streets which led us by the skirts of the Esquiline and +Viminal Hills, on to the region of the Mounds of Tarquin, over against +which, as you have heard, the great camp of those bands is situated;--if +indeed that ought of right to be called by the name of a camp, which is +itself a city of no slender dimensions, and built with great splendour of +architecture, spread out beyond the limits of Rome, for the accommodation +of that proud soldiery. There my friend took me into his chamber, and +furnished me with a cloak and helmet, that I might excite no suspicion by +accompanying him on his errand. The watch-word of the night also was given +me, _Silent faith_; and proceeding again, we shortly reached the place +where the Christians were lying. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +Entering the guard-room, we found it crowded with spearmen of Sabinus's +band, some playing at dice, others carousing jovially, many wrapt up in +their mantles, and asleep upon the floor; while a few only were sitting +beneath the porch, with their spears in their hands, and leaning upon +their bucklers. From one of these, the Centurion, having drawn him aside, +made inquiry concerning the names and condition of the prisoners, and +whether as yet they had received any intelligence as to the morrow. The +soldier, who was a grave man, well stricken in years, made answer, "that +the men were free-born and of decent estate, and that he had not heard of +any thing else being laid to their charge, excepting that which concerned +their religion. Since they have been here," he continued, "I have been +several times set on watch over them, and twice have I lain with one of +them in his dungeon; yet have I heard no complaints from any of them, for +in all things they are patient. One of them only is to suffer +to-morrow--but for him I am especially concerned, for he was known to me of +old, having served often with me when I was a horseman in the army of +Titus, all through the war of Palestine, and at the siege of Jerusalem." + +"And of what country is he?" said Sabinus. "Is he also a Roman?" "No, +sir," answered the spearman, "he is no Roman; but he was of a troop of the +allies that was joined often to our legion, and I have seen him bear +himself on the day of battle as well as any Roman. He is by birth a Greek +of the Syrian coast; but his mother was of the nation of the Jews." "And +yet, although the son of a Jewess, he was with us, say you, at the siege +of Jerusalem?" "Even so," replied the man; "and not he only, but many +others; for the Jews were divided against themselves; and of all them that +were Christians, not one abode in the city, or gave help to defend it. As +this man himself said, the oracles of the Christians, and their prophets, +had of old given warning that the city must fall into the hands of Caesar, +by reason of the wickedness of that people; therefore, when we set our +camp against Jerusalem, these all passed out from the city, with their +wives and children, and dwelt safely in the mountainous country until the +fate was fulfilled. But some of their young men fought in our camp, and +did good service, because the place was known to them, and they had +acquaintance with all the secrets of the Rock. Of these, this man was one. +He and all his household had departed from the ancient religion of the +Jews, and were believers in the doctrines of the Christians, for which +cause he is now to suffer; and of that, although I have not spoken to him +this evening, I think he has already received some intelligence, for +certain of his friends passed in to him, and they covered their faces as +they went in, as if weeping." "Are these friends still with him?" said +Sabinus. "Yes," answered he, "for I must have seen them had they come +forth again. Without doubt, the two women are still with him in his +dungeon." "Women?" quoth Sabinus; "and of what condition think you they +may be?" "That I know not," replied the soldier; "for, as I have said, +they were muffled in their mantles. But one of them, at least, is a Roman, +for I heard her speak to him that is by the door of the dungeon." "How +long is it," said the Centurion, "since they went in to the prisoner?" +"More than an hour," replied the soldier, looking at the water-clock that +stood beneath the porch; "and if they be Christians, they are not yet +about to depart, for they never separate without singing together, which +is said to be their favourite manner of worship." + +He had scarcely uttered these words, when the soldiers that were carousing +within the guard-room became silent, and we heard the voices of those that +were in the dungeon singing together in a sweet and lowly manner. "Ah, +sir!" said the old soldier, "I thought it would be even so--there is not a +spearman in the band that would not willingly watch here a whole night, +could he be sure of hearing that melody. Well do I know that soft +voice--Hear now, how she sings by herself--and there again, that deep strong +note--that is the voice of the prisoner." + +"Hush!" quoth the Centurion, "heard you ever any thing half so divine? Are +these words Greek or Syrian?" "What the words are I know not," said the +soldier; "but I know the tune well.--I have heard it played many a night +with hautboy, clarion, and dulcimer, on the high walls of Jerusalem, while +the city was beleaguered." "It is some old Jewish tune then," said +Sabinus; "I knew not those barbarians had had half so much art." + +"Why, as for that, sir," replied the man, "I have been all over Greece and +Egypt--to say nothing of Italy--and I never heard any music like that music +of the Jews. When they came down to join the battle, their trumpets +sounded so gloriously, that we wondered how it was possible for them ever +to be driven back; and then, when their gates were closed, and they sent +out to beg their dead, they would play such solemn awful notes of +lamentation, that the plunderers stood still to listen, and their warriors +were delivered to them with all their mail as they had fallen." "And the +Christians also," said Sabinus, "had the same tunes?" "Oh yes, sir--why, +for that matter, these very tunes may have been among them, for aught we +know, since the beginning of their nation. I have stood sentinel with this +very man, and seen the tears run down his cheeks by the star-light, when +he heard the music from the city, as the Jewish captains were going their +rounds upon the battlements." "But this, surely," said the Centurion, "is +no warlike melody." "I know not," quoth the old soldier, "whether it be or +not--but I am sure it sounds not like any music of sorrow,--and yet what +plaintive tones are in the part of that female voice!" "The bass sounds +triumphantly, in good sooth." "Ay, sir, but that is the old man's own +voice--I am sure he will keep a good heart to the end, even though they +should be singing their farewell to him. Well, the Emperor loses a good +soldier, the hour Tisias dies. I wish to Jupiter he had not been a +Christian, or had kept his religion to himself. But as for changing +now--you might as well think of persuading the Prince himself to be a Jew." + +"That last high strain, however," quoth Sabinus, "has ended their singing. +Let us speak to the women as they come out; and if it be so that the man +is already aware of what is to be done to-morrow, I see not why we should +trouble him with entering his cell. He has but a few hours to live, and I +would not willingly disturb him." "I hear them coming," said the soldier. +"Then do you meet them," said Sabinus, "and tell them that the Centurion +wishes to speak to them ere they go away--we will retire out of hearing of +the guard." + +With that he and I withdrew to the other side of the way, over against the +door of the prison; and we stood there waiting for the women under a +fig-tree, close by the city wall. In a few minutes two persons, arrayed as +the soldier had described, drew near to us; and one of them, without +uncovering her countenance, said,--"Master, we trust we have done no evil +in visiting the prisoners; had it been so, surely we should not have been +permitted to enter without question." + +These words were spoken in a voice tremulous, as if with grief rather than +with terror; but I could not help starting when I heard them. However, I +commanded myself, and heard in silence what Sabinus replied.--"Be not +alarmed," said he; "there is no offence committed, for no orders have been +issued to prevent these men from seeing their friends. I sent for you, not +to find fault with what you have done, but only to ask whether this +prisoner has already been told that the Emperor has announced his +resolution concerning him, and that he must die to-morrow, in the +Amphitheatre of Vespasian, unless he renounce his superstition."--"He knows +all," answered the same voice; "and is prepared for all." + +"By heavens! Valerius," whispered Sabinus; "it is no mean person that +speaks so--this is the accent and the gesture of a Roman lady." Then +raising his voice, "In that case there is no need for my going into the +dungeon; and yet, could I hope to say any thing that might tend to make +him change his purpose, I would most gladly do so. The Emperor is as +humane as he is just, and unless when rebellious obstinacy shuts the gates +of mercy, he is the last that would consent to the shedding of any +blood.--For this Tisias, of whose history I have just been hearing +something, I am in a particular manner interested, and to save him, I wish +only I had power equal to my inclination. Is there no chance of convincing +him?"--"He is already convinced."--"Could his friends do nothing?"--"His +friends have been with him," said the voice.--This last sentence was spoken +so distinctly, that I knew I could no longer be mistaken; and I was on the +brink of speaking out, without thinking of the consequences that might +occur, when she that had spoken, uttered a faint cry, and dropping on her +knees before Sabinus, said,--"Oh, sir! to us also be merciful, and let us +go hence ere any one behold us!"--"Go in peace, lady," answered the +Centurion, "and henceforth be prudent as well as kind;" and they went away +from us, and were soon lost to our sight in the windings of the street. + +We stood there for some moments in silence, looking towards the place +where they disappeared. "Strange superstition," said Sabinus; "what +heroism dwells with this madness!--you see how little these men regard +their lives;--nay, even women, and Roman women too--you see how their nature +is changed by it."--"It is, indeed, a most strange spectacle," said I; "but +what is to be the end of it, if this spirit become diffused widely among +the people?"--"In truth I know not," answered the Centurion; "as yet we +have heard of few who had once embraced this faith, renouncing it out of +fear for their lives."--"And in the days of Nero and Domitian," said I, +"were not many hundreds of them punished even here in the capital?"--"You +are within the mark," said he; "and not a few of those who were sent into +exile, because of their Christianity, were, as you may have heard, of no +ordinary condition. Among these there were Flavius Clemens, the Consular, +and his wife, Domitilla; both of whom I have often seen in my youth--both +relations to the family of Vespasian--whom, notwithstanding, all the +splendour of the imperial blood could not save from the common fate of +their sect. But Nerva suffered all of them to live in peace, and recalled +such as were in exile, excepting only Domitilla, whose fate has been +regretted by all men; but I suppose it was not at first judged safe to +recal her, lest any tumult should have been excited in her name, by those +that regretted (and I am sorry to say these were not a few) the wicked +license of which they had been deprived by the death of her tyrannical +kinsman, and the transition of the imperial dignity into another line. She +also with whom we have been speaking, is, I am sure, a Roman lady of +condition; and you may judge of her zeal, when you see it brings her +hither at midnight, to mingle tears and prayers with those of an obscure +Asiatic. Did you observe, that the other female both walked and stood +behind her." + +"I observed all this," answered I. But little did Sabinus suspect that I +had observed so much more than himself had done. Before parting from him, +I said I should still be gratified with being permitted to see the +prisoner; and although he declined entering himself, he accordingly gave +command that the door of his dungeon should be opened for me, requesting +me, at the same time, to refrain from saying any thing more than was +necessary for the explaining the apparent purpose of my visit,--the +communication, namely, of Trajan's decree. + +The Centurion withdrew to his camp; and the same old spearman with whom we +had conversed at the Porch, carried a torch in his hand, and shewed me the +way into the dungeon. + +Between the first door and the second, which appeared to be almost +entirely formed of iron, there intervened a few broad steps of mason-work; +and upon the lowest of these, I stood waiting till he should open the +inner door. Several keys were applied before he discovered the right one; +but at last the heavy door swung away from before him so speedily, that +the air, rushing out of the vault, extinguished the torch; insomuch, that +we had no light excepting that which streamed from an aperture high up in +the wall of the dungeon itself; a feeble ray of star-light alone--for the +moon had, long ere this time, been gone down--which, nevertheless, sufficed +to shew us to the prisoner, although we at first could see nothing of him. + +"Soldiers," said the old man, in a voice of perfect calmness, "for what +reason are you come?"--"We come," said my companion, "by command of the +Centurion, to inform you of things which we would willingly not have to +tell--To-morrow Trajan opens the Amphitheatre of Vespasian."--"My comrade," +said the prisoner, "is it your voice I hear? I knew all this already; and +you know of old that I fear not the face of death."--"I know well, Tisias, +you fear not death; yet why, when there is no need, should you cast away +life? Think well, I beseech you, and reserve yourself for a better +day."--"The dawn of that better day, Romans, already begins to open upon my +eyes. I see the east red with the promise of its brightness. Would you +have me tarry in darkness, when I am invited to walk forth into the +light?"--"Your words rejoice me," answered the spearman; "and I am sure all +will rejoice in hearing that you have at length come to think thus--Trajan +himself will rejoice. You have but to say the word, and you are +free,"--"You mean kindly," said the old man, rising from his pallet, and +walking towards us as far as his fetters permitted; "but you are much +mistaken--I have but to keep silence, and I am free."--"Alas! what mean you? +Do you know what you say? You must worship the gods in the morning, else +you die."--"Evening, and morning, and for ever, I must worship the God that +made heaven and earth. If I bow down to the idols of Trajan, I buy the +life of a day at the price of death everlasting. Tempt me not in your +kindness: I fell once. Great God, preserve me from falling! I have bade +farewell to my friends already. Leave me to spend these few hours by +myself.--Leave me to prepare the flesh for that from which the spirit +shrinks not." So saying, he extended his hand to the spearman, and the two +old men embraced each other before me. + +"Prisoner," said I, "if there be any thing in which we can serve you, +command our aid. We have already done our duty; if we can also do any +thing that may give ease to your mind now, or comfort to your kindred, you +have but to speak."--"Sir," replied he, "I see by the eagle wings on your +helmet, that you are one in authority, and I hear by your voice that you +are young. There is a certain thing, concerning which I had some purpose +to speak to this old brother."--"Speak with confidence," said I; "although +I am a Roman, and bear all loyalty to Caesar, yet this Praetorian helmet is +not mine, and I have but assumed it for the sake of having access to your +prison. I am no soldier of Trajan: Whatever I can do for you without harm +to others, speak, and I will do it. I will swear to you----" "Nay, sir," +said he, "swear not--mock not the God of heaven, by invoking idol or +demon--I believe your word--but, since you will hear, there is no need why +any other should be witness to my request."--"I will retire," said the +other, "and keep watch at the door. I am but a poor spearman, and this +young patrician can do more than I."--"Be it so," said the prisoner, a +second time embracing him; "I would not willingly expose you to any +needless danger; and yet I see not what danger there is in all that I have +to ask." + +With this the spearman withdrew; and being left alone with Tisias, I took +his hand, and sitting down beside him on his pallet, shortly explained to +him the circumstances under which I had come thither. + +"Young sir," said he, "I know not what is about the sound of your voice, +and the frankness of your demeanour, that makes me feel confidence enough +to intrust you with a certain thing, which concerns not myself, nor any +hope of mine, for that were little--but the interests of one that is far +dearer to me than I can express, and who, I hope, will live many happy +days upon earth, after I shall have sealed my belief in the message of +God, by blood that has of old been exposed a thousand times to all mortal +perils, for the sake of worthless things. But a very short while ago, and +I might have executed this thing for myself; but weakness overcame me at +the moment of parting." + +"If it be any thing which you would have me convey to any one, say where I +may find the person," said I, "and be assured I shall deliver it in +safety." + +"Sir," he proceeded, "I have here with me certain writings, which I have +carried for these twenty years continually in my bosom. Among these, is +one of the sacred books of the faith for which I am to die, and I would +fain have it placed in the hands of one to whom I know it will be dearest +of all for the sake of that which it contains; but, I hope, dear also for +the sake of him that bequeaths it. Will you seek out a certain Roman lady, +and undertake to give into her own hands, in secret, the scroll which I +shall give you?"--"I will do my endeavour," said I; "and if I cannot find +means to execute your command, I shall destroy the book with my own hands +before I quit Rome--for my stay here is uncertain."--"If you cannot find +means to do what I ask safely," he replied, "I do not bid you destroy the +book--_that_ is yours to do with as it shall seem good to you--but I conjure +you to read it before you throw it away. Nay, even as it is, I conjure you +to read it before you seek to give it to her whose name I shall +mention."--"Old man," said I, "almost I believe that I already know her +name, and more besides. If it be so that I have conjectured aright, be +assured that all you ask shall be fulfilled to the letter; be assured +also, that I would die with you to-morrow, rather than live to be the +cause or instrument of any evil thing to her that but now visited you in +your dungeon."--"Alas!" cried the old man, starting up, "lay not this also, +O Lord! upon my head. Let the old bear witness--but let the young be +spared, to serve thee in happier years upon the earth!"--"Be not afraid," +said I, "if it was Athanasia, no one suspected it but myself; and I have +already told you that I would die rather than bring evil upon her head." + +"Yes," he answered, after a pause--"it was, indeed, Athanasia. Who is it +but she that would have left the halls of nobles, and the couches of +peace, to breathe at midnight the air of a dungeon, that she might solace +the last moments of a poor man, and, save the bond of Christ, a stranger! +But if you have known her before, and spoken with her before, then surely +she must indeed be safe in your hands. You know where she dwells--that I +myself know not. Here is the scroll, from which that noble maiden has +heard my humble voice essay to expound the words of eternal life. I charge +you to approach her with reverence, and give into her own hands my dying +bequest; yet, as I have said, deliver it not to her till you have yourself +read what it contains."--"Christian," said I, placing the writing in my +bosom, "have no fear--I will read your book, and ere two nights have gone +over my head, I shall find means to place it in the hands of Athanasia; +and now, farewell."--"Nay, not yet for the last time. Will you not come in +the morning, and behold the death of a Christian?"--"Alas!" said I, "what +will it avail that I should witness the shedding of your blood? The Prince +may have reason to regard you as an offender against the state; but I have +spoken with you in your solitude, and know that your heart is noble. Would +to Heaven, that by going thither I could avert your fate!"--"Methinks, +sir," he replied, "it may be weakness--but yet methinks it would give me +some farther comfort in my death, to know that there was at least one +Roman there, who would not see me die without pity; and besides I must +have you constrain yourself, that you may be able to carry the tidings of +my departure. Her prayers will be with me, but not her eyes. You must tell +Athanasia the manner of my death."--"For that cause," said I, "I will +constrain myself, and be present in the Amphitheatre."--"Then, farewell," +said he; "----and yet go not. In whatsoever faith you live,--in whatsoever +faith you die, the blessing of an old man and a Christian can do you no +harm." So saying, the old man stood up, and leaning his hand on my head as +I sat, pronounced over me a blessing which I never shall forget. "The Lord +bless thee--the Lord enlighten thy darkness--the Lord plant his seed in thy +kind heart--the Lord give thee also to die the death of a Christian!" + +When he had said so, he sat down again; and I departed greatly oppressed +in spirit, yet feeling, I know not how or why, as I would rather have lost +many merry days, than that dark and sorrowful hour. The soldiers in the +guard-room were so much engaged in their different occupations, that they +heeded me not as, dropping my borrowed habiliments, I stept silently to +the gate; and I was soon out of sight of their flaming watch-fires, and +far from the sounds of their noisy mirth. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +The Roman streets were totally silent and deserted. It was the first time +that I had been in the presence of a human being, foreseeing distinctly, +and quietly waiting, the termination of his mortal existence, and I could +not help asking of myself, how, under similar circumstances of terror, I +should have been able to sustain my spirits?--to what resources I should, +in such a moment, look for the support which seemed to have been +vouchsafed so abundantly to this old man; by what charm, in fine,--by what +tenet of philosophy, or by what hope of religion,--I should, in the midst +of life, be able to reconcile myself to a voluntary embrace of death! To +avoid disgrace, indeed, and dishonour, said I, I think I could be Roman +enough to dare the worst; but this poor man is willing to die, rather than +acknowledge, by one offering on the altar, the deities in whose worship +all his Greek ancestors have been trained; yet who, except perhaps a few +obscure individuals that have adopted the same new superstition, would +think this man dishonoured by returning to the religion of his fathers? +Deep, indeed, must be his conviction of the truth of that which he +professes to believe--serious indeed must be his faith, and high his trust. +What if, after all, his faith should be true, and his trust wise? And the +gentle Athanasia!--She too a Christian! Might not this mystery be hereafter +explained to me by her lips? + +Musing and meditating thus, it was no wonder that I, who knew so little of +Rome, should have soon wandered from the straight way to the home of my +kinsman. But that I at last caught, at the turning of a street, a glimpse +of the Flavian Amphitheatre, which I had before passed on my way from the +feast of Rubellia, I might, perhaps, have wandered long. I had some notion +how that grand edifice was situated with respect to the house of Licinius, +and therefore moved towards it immediately, intending to pass straight +down from thence into the Sacred Way. But when I came close to the +Amphitheatre, I found that, surrounded on all sides by a city of sleep and +silence, that region was already filled with all manner of noise and +tumult, in consequence of the preparations which had begun to be made for +the spectacles. The east hardly yet indicated dawn; but the torches and +lanterns of workmen and artificers were in motion every where. On one +side, the whole way was blocked up with a throng of waggons; the +conductors, almost all Ethiopians and Numidians, lashing each other's +horses, and exchanging, in their barbarous tongues, outcries of wrath and +execration. The bellowings that resounded from any of the waggons, which +happened to be set in motion amidst the throng, intimated that savage +beasts were confined within them; and when I had discovered this, and then +regarded the prodigious multitude of the vehicles, I cannot say what +horror came over me at thinking what cruel sights, and how lavish in +cruelty, were become the favourite pastimes of the most refined of +nations. I recognized the well-known short deep snort of the wild boar, +and the long hollow bark of the wolf; but a thousand fierce sounds, +mingled with these, were new to my ears. One voice, however, was so grand +in its notes of sullen rage, that I could not help asking a soldier, who +sate on horseback near me, from what monster it proceeded. The man +answered, that it was a lion; but then what laughter arose among some of +the rabble, that had overheard my interrogation; and what contemptuous +looks were thrown upon me by the naked negroes, who sate grinning in the +torch-light, on the tops of their carriages! Then one or two of the +soldiers would be compelled to ride into the midst of the confusion, to +separate some of these wretches, fighting with their whips about +precedence in the approach; and it seemed to me that the horses could not +away with the strong sickly smell of the wild beasts; for they would +prance, and caper, and rear on end, and snort as if panic-struck, and dart +themselves towards the other side; while some of the riders were thrown +off in the midst of the tumult, and others, with fierce and strong bits, +compelled the frightened or infuriated animals to endure the thing they +abhorred--in their wrath and pride forcing them even nearer than was +necessary. In another quarter, this close-mingled pile of carts and horses +was surmounted by the enormous heads of elephants, thrust up into the air, +some of them with their huge lithe trunks lashing and beating (for they, +too, as you have heard, would rather die than snuff in the breath of these +monsters of the woods,) while the tiara'd heads of their riders would be +seen tossed to and fro by their contortions. What a cry of cursing, what +cracking of whips and cords, what blowing of horns, and whistling and +screaming; and all this mixed with what roaring and howling from the +savage creatures caged in darkness! + +I went, however, for a moment, into the Amphitheatre, by a little +side-way, where admission was cheaply obtained. Here, as yet, all things +were in order, for the hour had not yet come for giving the wild beasts +entrance to the huge dens prepared for them. A few carpenters only were +seen in one corner, erecting a sort of low stage, and singing merrily, of +whom, when I made inquiry concerning the purpose of that erection, one of +these fellows also began to jeer; "Whence come you, good sir, that you do +not know a common scaffold when you see it? It is surely not the first +time that a Christian has had his head chopped off in the Flavian?"--"By +Pluto, I am not so sure about that matter," quoth another. "I don't know +whether any of the dogs were ever beheaded here or not; if they have been, +I can only say it was better than they deserved."--"There spoke a true +man," cries a third. "No, no; keep beheading for Romans--let citizens have +their own. Things are come to a pretty pass, when they shew us nothing but +tigers against tigers. By Jove, I would rather see one of those +misbelieving Atheists set right before the mouth of a true Getulian lion's +cage, and hear his bones cracked ere all be over,--I say, I would rather +see that, than fifty of your mere beast fights."--"After all," rejoined the +first, "it must be allowed that our Caesar had a fine eye for the +Amphitheatre."--"Who doubts it?" says the other. "Rome has never seen any +thing that deserved to be called a show, since he was killed by sneaking +traitors. They say, Nero was still better at that sort of work; but 'let +the skinless Jew believe,' as the saying is. I desire to see no better +sport than Domitian gave us the very week before his death. We shall never +live to see his like again!"--"Come, boys," rejoins one of the rest; "no +despairing! I had begun to think that these good princes, as they call +them, would never shew us a bit of real sport again. Here, now, is at +least something. Who can tell what may follow? and, besides, if the worst +come to the worst, we shall still have lions against lions, tigers against +tigers, Dacians against Dacians, and now and then a Jew or a Christian, or +whatever you please to call him, exhibited _solus_ on such a stage as +this. Come, come, don't make matters worse than they are." + +The ruffians shewed that they knew well enough I was displeased, and I +half regretted, as I strode away from them, the want of that Praetorian +helmet, which would have preserved me from the insolence of their mirth. +However, I was well pleased to gain a distance at which I could no longer +be troubled with them, and walked with rapid steps along the wide streets, +over which morning was now beginning to shine; while the air, agitated +with a quick breeze, refreshed my cheeks and temples--of which I had need, +being heated with the glare and noise, and, perhaps, faint, too, after the +manner of the young, from want of sleep. + +I was admitted into the house by Dromo, who seemed to have been looking +out for me; for he opened the door almost before I had time to knock at +it. He regarded me as I entered with a very cunning face; insomuch, that I +comprehended without difficulty, he believed me to have spent the night in +some scene of debauch; but he, nevertheless, attended me, without saying a +word, into my chamber. He then assumed a countenance of great reflection, +and advised me, with much appearance of friendly concern, to go to bed, +even although I could not stay long there; "because," said he, "you will +feel much fresher when you get up; and let me tell you, you must be up +early, for I have already been with Licinius, who intends to send Sextus +with a present to Rubellia immediately after breakfast; and you may be +sure he will insist on your company, for he can do nothing without you. +Ah! had it not been for a certain pretty creature, the young gentleman +would not, I am confident, have permitted you to be going the rounds in +this way by yourself. But I take it something amiss, and shall tell him +so, that he did not depute me (who am not particularly enamoured just at +present) to go with you, and take care of your safety. I only wonder how +you have got home so well as it is."--"Indeed," said I, "good Dromo, I +cannot help wondering a little at that myself--for I have been all through +the city, and lost my way half-a-dozen times over, and yet here you see I +am."--"The more reason," quoth the slave, "that you should send some little +offering to Mercury's Temple over the way, in the morning--a few sesterces +will be sufficient--and if you have no objections, I shall willingly take +care of them for you. Mercury is the guardian of all that travel about in +the dark; and besides, he is the special patron of love expeditions. But +to say the truth, you are not the only person that owes a gift to that +shrine; for the worthy sage--Xerophrastes--he, too, has been a +night-wanderer--and he has not yet come in. I have my doubts whether, when +he does so, he will be as sober as you are; but I must take care to be at +my post, and admit him in silence, for the time is not yet come to uncloak +his doings. Trust me, this is not the only vagary I have set down to his +account--all in good time. But what says my master Valerius, touching the +offering to the great God Hermes?" + +I saw, by the knave's face, that it was necessary the sesterces should be +forthcoming. "Here they are," said I, "good Dromo; and remember, that +although Mercury, among other things, is the god of thieves also, he will +not be well pleased if you curtail his offering." "Never mind," answered +the varlet, as he was shuffling out of the room, "Mercury and I understand +each other of old. Go to bed, and try to get a little of your own old +British red into your cheeks again; for Licinius has a hawk's eye, and +will be sure to have his suspicions, if he sees you come down with such a +haggard look. Remember you have not a beard to cover half your face, and +all your iniquities." + +So saying, he left me to my couch, indeed, but not to slumber; for busy +thoughts kept me broad awake, till, after the lapse of perhaps an hour, +young Sextus entered my apartment, already arrayed with more than usual +elegance, to execute, however unwillingly, the message of his father. He +had in his hand a small casket of open ivory-work, which he flung down on +my bed, saying, "Get up, dear Valerius, and save me at least from the pain +of going alone with these gewgaws. Would to Heaven my father would marry +her himself, and then I should have no objection to carry as many caskets +as he pleases. But do you get up and assist me; and as we go along, you +shall tell me what you have seen and heard in company with your jovial +Praetorian." + +I was soon ready, and ascended, along with my young friend, the chariot +which Licinius had commanded to be ready. I told him, as we glided through +the streets, as much as I judged expedient; and, in particular, when I +perceived that our charioteer was making a circuit, in order to avoid the +neighbourhood of the Amphitheatre, I could not help expressing to him the +effect which had been produced in my mind, by my casual inspection of the +preparations. "I am afraid, then," said he, "that you will scarcely be +willing to witness the exhibition itself; and yet I would fain have you to +overcome your aversion, both because, whatever you may think of such +things, it is not fitting that you should go from Rome without once, at +least, seeing how they are conducted; and more particularly, because I +much suspect Rubellia intends to be present at the festival--in which case +I should be sorry to be compelled to attend upon her without you; and as +to leaving her at the gate of the Amphitheatre, that, you know, would be +quite impossible, unless I wished openly to contradict the wishes of my +father." + +I assured him he should not want any comfort my presence could afford him; +although not without, at the same time, expressing my astonishment that he +should consider it at all probable that his dainty Rubellia would choose +to sit among the spectators of an exhibition so abounding in circumstances +of cruelty, and, as I had understood, forbidden to her sex. "Nay," +answered he, "laws and edicts are made to be broken in such cases; and as +for the cruelty of the scene, there is scarcely a lady in Rome that would +be more scrupulous on that head than my widow. To tell you the truth, one +of the things that makes me most unwilling to go, is the fear that +Sempronia also may be there; and, perhaps, when she sees me with Rubellia, +give credence to some of the reports which have been circulated (not +without my father's assent, I think, if all were known,) about this odious +marriage, which I swear to you shall never take place, although Licinius +were to drive me from his door, and adopt a stranger."--"Sextus," I made +answer, "if Sempronia thinks there is any thing serious between the widow +and you, she must think you a pretty rascal, for the violent love you made +to herself at the Villa. But I am sure she will easily perceive, by your +countenance, that you do not regard Rubellia, handsome as she is, with any +extraordinary admiration; whereas--if you were not conscious of it, I am +sure she must have been so--there was never a face of more passionate love +than yours, all the time you were in _her_ company. And, even now, the +very mention of her name calls a glow into your cheeks,--yes, and even into +your eyes,--that I think would flatter Rubellia, could she excite such +another, more than all the jewels of all the caskets your father will ever +send."--"Distract me not, O Valerius!" said the youth,--"distract me not +with speaking of that too lovely, and, I fear, too scornful girl. Do you +not perceive that we have at last struck into the Suburra, and are quite +near to Rubellia's house?"--"It is so," said I, looking out of the +carriage, "and I suspect you are right in thinking she means to be present +at the Amphitheatre, for there is a crowd of urchins about her gate, and I +perceive a brilliant group of equipages has attracted them. She purposes +to go in all her splendour."--"Good Heavens!" replied he, "I believe all +the world is to be there. I never passed so many chariots; and as for the +rabble, see what a stream of heads continues pouring down out of every +alley. My only hope is, that Rubellia may arrive too late for the best +situations, and perhaps disdain to witness the spectacle from any inferior +part of the Amphitheatre; and yet she must have interest, no doubt, to +have secured good accommodation beforehand." + +We were just in time to meet Rubellia stepping from her portico with a gay +cluster of attendants. On seeing us, however, she beckoned with her +finger, and said, "Oh, are you come at last? Well, I must take Valerius +with myself, for I insist upon it that I shall be best able to point out +what is worthy of his notice; and you, Sextus Licinius, come you also into +my chariot; we will not separate you from your Orestes." She said so with +an air of sprightly ease and indifference, and sprung into the carriage. +An elderly lady, with a broad merry face, went into it also, but there was +still room for Sextus and myself; and the rest of the party followed in +other vehicles that were waiting. + +The crowd by this time had so accumulated, that our horses could not +advance but at leisurely pace; but the noise of the multitude as they +rushed along, and the tumult of expectation visible on every countenance, +prevented us from thinking of any thing but the festival. The variety, +however, and great splendour of the equipages, could not but attract my +attention. Now it was an open chariot, drawn by milk-white Thessalian +horses, in which reclined some gorgeous female, blazing with jewellery, +with a cluster of beautiful boys or girls administering odours to her +nostril; and perhaps some haughty Knight or Senator now and then offering +the refreshment of his flattery. Then, perhaps, would come rumbling along, +a close clumsy waggon, of the old-fashioned matronly sort, stuck full with +some substantial plebeian family--the fat, comfortable-looking citizen, and +his demure spouse, sitting well back on their cushions, and having their +knees loaded with an exulting progeny of lads and lasses, whose faces +would, every now and then, be thrust half out of the window, in spite of +the mother's tugging at their skirts. And then, again, a cry of "Place, +place," and a group of lictors, shoving every body aside with their rods, +before the litter of some dignified magistrate, who, from pride or gout, +preferred that species of motion to the jolting of a chariot. Such a +portly person as this would soon be hurried past us, but not before we had +time to observe the richness of the silken cushions on which he lay +extended, or the air of majesty with which he submitted himself to the fan +of the favoured freedman, whose business it was to keep those +authoritative cheeks free from the contamination of common dust and flies. +Anon, a jolly band of young gallants, pushing their steeds along, to not a +few of whom the fair Rubellia would vouchsafe her salutation. But wherever +the carriage was stopped for an instant, it was wonderful to see the +number of old emaciated men, and withered hags, that would make their way +close up to the windows, imploring wherewithal to obtain a morsel. The +widow herself leaned back on these occasions, as if to avoid the sight; +but she pointed to a bag of small coin that hung in a corner of the +chariot, and from it Sextus distributed to the one side, and I to the +other; and yet it was impossible to give to every one; we were surrounded +all the way with a mingled clamour of benedictions from those that had +received, and execrations from those that had got nothing, and noisy +ever-renewed solicitations from that ever-swelling army of mendicants. At +last, however, we arrived in safety at the western gate--the same around +which I had, the night before, witnessed such tumultuous preparation. One +of the officers in waiting there, no sooner descried the equipage, than he +caused a space to be laid open for its approach, and himself advanced to +hand Rubellia into the interior, but she whispered to Sextus and me, by no +means to separate from her in the crowd. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +Behold me, therefore, in the midst of the Flavian Amphitheatre, and +seated, under the wing of the luxurious Rubellia, in a very convenient +situation. There was a general silence in the place, because proclamation +had just been made that the gladiators, with whose combats the exhibition +was to commence, were about to enter upon the arena, and shew themselves +in order to the people. As yet, however, they had not come forth from that +place of concealment to which so many of their number would never return; +so that I had leisure to collect my thoughts, and survey for a moment, +without disturbance, the mighty and most motley multitude, piled above, +below, and on every side around me, from the lordly senators, on their +silken couches, along the parapet of the arena, up to the impenetrable +mass of plebeian heads which skirted the horizon, above the topmost wall +of the Amphitheatre itself. Such was the enormous crowd of human beings, +high and low, that when any motion went through their assembly, the noise +of their rising up or sitting down might be likened to the sullen roaring +of the sea, or the rushing of a great night-wind in a forest. Not less +than eighty thousand human beings, they told me, were here met together. +Such a multitude could no where be regarded, without inspiring a certain +indefinable sense of majesty; least of all, when congregated within the +wide sweep of such a glorious edifice, and surrounded on all sides with +every circumstance of ornament and splendour, befitting an everlasting +monument of Roman victory and imperial munificence. Judge, then, with what +eyes all this was surveyed by me, who had but of yesterday emerged from a +British valley--who had been accustomed all my life to consider as among +the most impressive of spectacles, the casual passage of a few scores of +legionaries through some dark alley of a wood, or awe-struck village of +barbarians. + +Trajan himself was already present--his ivory chair distinguished only by +its canopy from that of the other Consul who sate over against him; tall +and majestic in his demeanour; grave, sedate, and benign in countenance, +as you have seen in his medals and statues. He was arrayed in a plain +gown, and appeared to converse quite familiarly, without affectation of +condescension, with such Patricians as had their places near him; among +whom Sextus and Rubellia pointed out many remarkable personages to my +notice; as Adrian, afterwards emperor; Pliny, the orator, a man of courtly +presence, and lively, agreeable aspect; and, above all, the historian +Tacitus, the worthy son-in-law of our Agricola, in whose pallid +countenance I could easily recognize the depth, but sought in vain to +discover any traces of the sternness of his genius. Of all the then proud +names that were whispered into my ear, could I recollect or repeat them +now, how few would awaken any interest in your minds! Those, indeed, which +I have mentioned, have an interest that will never die. Would that the +greatest and the best of them all were to be remembered only for deeds of +greatness and goodness! + +The proclamation being repeated a second time, a door on the right hand of +the arena was laid open, and a single trumpet sounded, as it seemed to me, +mournfully, while the gladiators marched in with slow steps, each +man--naked, except being girt with a cloth about his loins--bearing on his +left arm a small buckler, and having a short straight sword suspended by a +cord around his neck. They marched, as I have said, slowly and steadily; +so that the whole assembly had full leisure to contemplate the forms of +the men; while those skilled in such business were fixing, in their own +minds, on such as they thought most likely to be victorious, and laying +wagers concerning their chances of success, with as much unconcern as if +they had been contemplating irrational animals, or rather, indeed, I +should say, so many pieces of ingenious mechanism. The diversity of +complexion and feature exhibited among these devoted athletes, afforded at +once a majestic idea of the extent of the empire, and a terrible one of +the purposes to which that wide sway had often been made subservient. The +beautiful Greek, with a countenance of noble serenity, and limbs after +which the sculptors of his country might have modelled their symbols of +graceful power, walked side by side with the yellow-bearded savage, whose +gigantic muscles had been nerved in the freezing waves of the Elbe or +Ister, or whose thick strong hair was congealed and shagged on his brow +with the breath of Scythian or Scandinavian winters. Many fierce Moors and +Arabs, and curled Ethiopians, were there, with the beams of the southern +sun burnt in every various shade of swarthiness upon their skins. Nor did +our own remote island want her representatives in the deadly procession, +for I saw among the armed multitude--not surely without some feelings of +more peculiar interest--two or three gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and +shoulders bore uncouth marks of blue and purple, so vivid in the tints, +that I thought many months could not have elapsed since they must have +been wandering in wild freedom along the native ridges of some Silurian or +Caledonian forest. As they moved around the arena, some of these men were +saluted by the whole multitude with noisy acclamations, in token, I +suppose, of the approbation wherewith the feats of some former festival +had deserved to be remembered. On the appearance of others, groans and +hisses were heard from some parts of the Amphitheatre, mixed with +contending cheers and huzzas from others of the spectators. But by far the +greater part were suffered to pass on in silence;--this being in all +likelihood the first--who could tell whether it might not also be the last +day of their sharing in that fearful exhibition! + +Their masters paired them shortly, and in succession they began to make +proof of their fatal skill. At first, Scythian was matched against +Scythian--Greek against Greek--Ethiopian against Ethiopian--Spaniard against +Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet with blood streaming +from the wounds of kindred hands. But these combats, although abundantly +bloody and terrible, were regarded only as preludes to the serious +business of the day, which consisted of duels between Europeans on the one +side, and Africans on the other; wherein it was the well-nigh +intransgressible law of the Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every +pair of combatants should die. Instead of shrinking from these more +desperate brutalities, the almost certainty of their termination seemed +only to make the assembly gaze on them with a more intense curiosity and +delight. Methinks I feel as if it were but of yesterday, when,--sickened +with the protracted terrors of a conflict, that seemed as if it were never +to have an end, although both the combatants were already covered all over +with hideous gashes,--I at last bowed down my head, and clasped my hands +upon my eyes. I had scarcely done so, when Rubellia laid her hand upon my +elbow, whispering, "Look, look, now look," in a voice of low, steady +impatience. I did look, but not to the arena: No; it was upon the +beautiful features of that woman's face that I looked, and truly it seemed +to me as if they presented a spectacle almost as fearful. I saw those rich +lips parted, those dark eyes extended, those smooth cheeks suffused with a +steadfast blush, that lovely bosom swelled and glowing; and I hated +Rubellia, for I knew not before how utterly beauty can be brutalized by +the throbbings of a cruel heart. But I looked round to escape from the +sight of her;--and the hundreds of females that I saw fixed with equal +earnestness on the same horrors, taught me, even at the moment, to think +with more charity of that pitiless gaze of one. + +At that instant all were silent in contemplation of the breathless strife; +insomuch, that a groan, the first that had escaped from either of the +combatants, although low and suppressed, sounded distinctly amidst the +deep hush, and being constrained to turn once more downwards, I beheld +that, at length, one of the two had received the sword of his adversary +quite through his body, and had sunk upon the sand. A beautiful young man +was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, clustered in glossy +ringlets upon his neck and brows; but the sickness of his wound was +already visible on his drooping eye-lids, and his lips were pale, as if +the blood had rushed from them to the untimely outlet. Nevertheless, the +Moorish gladiator who had fought with him had drawn forth again his +weapon, and stood there awaiting in silence the decision, whether at once +to slay the defenceless youth, or to assist in removing him from the +arena, if perchance the blood might be stopped from flowing, and some hope +of recovery even yet extended. There arose, on the instant, a loud voice +of contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man regarded the +multitude with a proud, contemptuous glance, being aware, without +question, that he had executed all things so as to deserve their +compassion, but aware, moreover, that even had that been freely vouchsafed +to him, it was too late. But the cruelty of their faces, it may be, and +the loudness of their cries, were a sorrow to him, and filled his dying +breast with loathing. Whether or not the haughtiness of his countenance +had been observed by them with displeasure, I cannot say; but those who +had cried out to give him a chance of recovery, were speedily silent, and +Caesar looking round, and seeing all the thumbs turned downwards, was +constrained to give the sign, and forthwith the young man, receiving again +without a struggle the sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, breathed +forth his life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the place of +guilt. With that a joyous clamour was uplifted by many of those that +looked upon it, and the victorious Moor, being crowned with an ivy +garland, was carried in procession around the arena by certain young men, +who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of the assembly. In the +meantime, those that had the care of such things, dragged away, with a +filthy hook, the corpse of him that had been slain; and then, raking up +the sand over the blood that had fallen from him, prepared the place, with +indifferent countenances, for some other tragedy,--while all around me, the +spectators were seen rising from their places, and saluting each other; +and there was a buzz of talking as universal as the silence had been +during the combat; some speaking of this thrust and that ward, and paying +and receiving money lost and won; some already discoursing of other +matters, as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; while others, again, +appeared to be entirely occupied with the martial music which ever struck +up majestically at such pauses, beating time upon the benches before them, +or joining their voices with the proud notes of the trumpets and clarions. +Rubellia talked gaily with Sextus, inviting him to ridicule me with her, +for the strangeness of behaviour I had displayed. + +The sun, by this, had already mounted high in the heavens, and the glare +became so intolerable, that men could no longer fight on equal terms; +which being perceived, Caesar gave command to look after the wild beasts, +and, in the meantime, (for I heard his voice distinctly,) to give warning +to the Flamens that they should have their altar set forth. + + + + + _CHAPTER XI._ + + +Upon this, Trajan, with those immediately about his person, withdrew; but +Rubellia told me he had only gone to the Palatine by the subterraneous +path, for the purpose of taking some refreshment, and that there was no +doubt he would return in time to witness the rest of the spectacle. This +example, however, was followed in some sort by a great part of the +spectators, for some departed altogether from the Amphitheatre, while many +more were seen moving from place to place, crossing from one vomitory to +another, and paying their respects to different parties of friends, who +had occupied places at a distance from them during the combats. In the +meantime, servants of Trajan's household were observed giving directions +in the arena to a great number of persons, who afterwards began to +distribute baskets of dried fish, bread, and other eatables, among such as +chose to accept of them; while viands of a more costly description were +introduced among the wealthy, by slaves and freedmen of their own. Neither +were the bearers of water-jars idle, nor the street hawkers of fruit; +least of all, those whose traffic is in snow,--of whom, I believe, hundreds +were scrambling in all quarters over the benches, whistling shrilly, as is +their method, to announce the article in which they dealt. + +The Lady Rubellia was not one of those who would ever leave her friends +destitute of the means of refreshment on such an occasion as this; and +accordingly two or three of her household were soon with us, bearing jars +of sweet-meats, baskets of fruit, flasks of wine, with other appurtenances +of a luxurious collation. We had scarcely begun to taste of these things, +when our attention was attracted by some one striding, with great +activity, from one row of benches to another behind us, and looking round, +I discovered the rosy countenance of Sabinus, whose anxiety to join us +was, as I immediately suspected, the cause of this exertion. An ordinary +person would have sought some circuitous method of approach, rather than +attempt the sheer descent from one of the stone parapets which rose +immediately in our rear; but the brawny limbs of the Centurion shrunk not +from that adventurous leap, and, in a word, I soon found him seated beside +us, bowing and smiling to Rubellia with his usual mixture of boldness and +suavity. He delayed not from participation in her delicacies; but lifting +a goblet of Falernian, drank down, without stopping, till he could see the +foundation of its interior gold. His fingers also soon became acquainted +with the receptacles of fruit and confectionary; and I was half-inclined +to some suspicion, that he might perhaps have remained in his original +situation, had he not chanced to observe the slaves of Rubellia, as they +came up the vomitory, with their comely-looking, napkin-covered baskets +upon their heads. As it was, his arrival was acceptable, except perhaps to +Rubellia, who I thought looked as if she were not overmuch pleased with +the interruption his mirthful talk occasioned to the conversation on which +she had been endeavouring to fix the attention of young Licinius. + +For that, however, another interruption had been already prepared in +another part of the assembly, from which our Xerophrastes also had taken +cognizance of our position. There was such a crowd, however, immediately +below us, that I know not whether the philosopher would ever have been +able to make his way to the region where we sat, had it not been that we +heard his voice in disputation, and entreated those that opposed his +passage, if possible, to make room for him. The first glimpse we had of +his countenance, shewed us that the squeeze had been giving him serious +inconvenience, for the drops of perspiration stood visible on his bald +front. The persons whom he was addressing, however, seemed to listen with +such unconcern, that it was impossible not to feel somewhat displeased +with them, for treating so disrespectfully one whom his venerable aspect +might have entitled to more courtesy. In vain did he represent to them, +(for we heard his strong voice distinctly every now and then,) that it was +not for the sake of any personal ease or convenience he was desirous of +penetrating into an upper part. In vain did he reiterate "My pupil"--"my +disciple"--"my young scholar, Sextus Licinius"--"the son of Caius +Licinius"--"the son of the great orator Caius Licinius is there." In vain +did he enlarge upon the constancy of attention which philosophers owe to +those who are placed by the hands of parents under their superintendence. +No sooner, however, did Sextus and I begin to shew the interest we took in +his situation, than Sabinus raised himself up on the bench, and called +aloud on those that surrounded the Stoic, with a voice of much sternness +and authority, to let him pass immediately at their peril. + +Many eyes were forthwith turned towards us; and whether it were the +dignity and haughtiness of the Centurion's voice and attitude, or that his +garb alone gave him much weight in the assembly, the resistance was +relaxed, and Xerophrastes enjoyed an opportunity of almost entirely +recovering his usual serenity of aspect before he reached us. The first +thing he did was to accept of a cup which I held out to him, and then with +much courtesy did he thank us all, but most the Centurion, for the part he +had taken in working out his deliverance from the hands, as he expressed +it, of those inhuman and illiterate persons; "while you," he continued, +"brave warrior, have shewn that in your breast, as in that of +Epaminondas--of Alexander--and of your own Julius--the reverence of the +muses, and of divine philosophy, does not disdain to inhabit with the +ardour of active patriotism, and the spirit-stirring delights of Mars." + +"As for that," said Rubellia, with a smile, "all the world knows that +Sabinus is quite a philosopher--he was just beginning a very learned +harangue when we were attracted by your voice in the crowd; and you have +the more reason to thank him, because he was cut very unseasonably short, +in consequence of the distress in which we perceived you." + +"Most noble lady!" replied the Stoic, "you know not how much you have +delighted me; from the first moment, indeed, that my eyes rested upon the +countenance of your heroic friend, I suspected that he had subjected +himself to some other discipline besides that of camps. I saw the traces +of thought, lady--and serious contemplation. The mind can never exercise +its faculties, without conveying some symptoms of those internal +operations to the external surface of the visage. The soul can never +energize habitually, without betraying its activity in the delicacy and +acumen, which the more elegant and susceptible parts of the corporeal +frame acquire during those elaborate and mysterious processes of thought. +I saw, therefore, and suspected. But what thanks are not due to you, for +having so agreeably confirmed me in this happy suspicion! Of a surety, the +noise and tumult of the camp is not so well adapted for the theoretic or +contemplative life, as perfect leisure and retirement; yet, who shall +doubt that the soul of great energy can overcome all such disadvantages? +Who shall think that the spirit of Socrates did not eagerly philosophize +during the campaign he served?--Who shall say that the Stagyrite must have +suspended his acute, although imperfect investigations, even although he +had accompanied his royal pupil across the Hellespont, and attended all +the motions of his victorious army, instead of staying at home to teach +the youth of Greece?--Who, finally," said he, casting his courteous eyes +full on the Praetorian, "shall suspect but that this generous warrior has +been effectually advancing the growth of philosophic science, within his +own mind at least,--if not composing works, in his intervals of leisure, +destined hereafter to benefit and instruct the world, even although he may +have been attending the flight of the Eagle from utmost Britain to the +desert frontiers of the Parthian?"--"Nobody, indeed," replied the sportive +lady--"nobody, indeed, who has enjoyed any opportunity of being acquainted +with the Centurion, can have any doubt on that head.--Sabinus," she +continued, turning towards him, "what treatise are you at present engaged +with? Come, now, speak out, and truly;--are you still busy with your peri +tes Phuseos tou oistrou bakchikou,(1) that you were quoting from the other +night?--or are you deep in '_the delight of contemplation_?'--or----"--"Not at +all," quoth the Centurion, interrupting her; "I am only deep in _love_----" +Saying so, he laid his hand in a very tender fashion upon his breast, and +even, as I thought, began to throw a little sentiment into his eyes; but +he had no opportunity of going on with his speech, for Xerophrastes had no +sooner heard him utter the word _love_, than he immediately began to pour +out a new rhapsody. + +"Love!" quoth he; "Ha! love:--in good sooth, a noble subject, and one +concerning which not a few laudable treatises have been composed. Yet, +without question, much remains to be done in this matter; and I should be +most proud if the illustrious Sabinus would vouchsafe to me a perusal of +his speculations. Without question," he continued, "you have commenced +with a proper definition and division of the subject. You have +distinguished betwixt what is properly called _love_, and the other more +or less kindred affections, with which hallucinating writers have too +often committed the error of confounding it. You have described, in the +first place, the difference between it and the _Storge_ or natural +affection which parents have for their offspring--an affection in which not +a few of the irrational tribes appear (if physiologists may be trusted) to +be even superior to the human race."--"Hens, for example," quoth the +Centurion, with a face of infinite gravity.--"Even so--_hens_," continued +the sage; "an apt illustration.--I perceive, indeed, lady," whispered he to +Rubellia, "that you have not deceived me concerning the attainments of +this your noble friend.--Hens--a most acute illustration!--See you now, O +Sextus!" he went on, "it is not the characteristic of true philosophy to +despise those illustrations which are drawn from the affairs of ordinary +life, and the common surfaces of things. No: it is rather her part to shew +forth her own intrinsic excellence and splendour, by raising that which is +in itself low and customary, to unexpected dignity, by her methods of +felicitous application. See you, now, with what unexampled skill this +hero--this philosopher, I should rather say--may I presume to add, this +brother philosopher?--has illustrated the nature of love in this treatise +of his, by introducing the domestic habits of your common household fowl. +Such things should not pass unheeded by the young aspirants to learning, +because these, more than any other circumstances, may furnish them with +encouragement to proceed in their course, by shewing how many of the +materials of philosophy lie every where under the eyes of the most common +traveller of the path of life; and how assuredly it is the fault of the +individual himself, if he neglect the means of spiritual advancement, +which are sure to be afforded in whatever situation may chance to have +been assigned to him." + +"I beg your pardon for interrupting you," said Rubellia; "but Sabinus has +almost finished the grapes while you have been speaking; and I would only +just beg to suggest, that it is the fault of the individual, Xerophrastes, +if he neglects the means of corporeal refreshment, which may yet be +afforded to him by what remains in the basket." + +"Most kind lady," resumed he, "your benevolence is worthy of your +nobility.--But you know not how much the philosophy I have embraced, tends +to lessen the natural desire of man for such things as you allude +to--nevertheless," he continued, "I will not refuse to partake yet farther +of your bounty; for I have been sorely dealt with in the multitude, as +yourselves witnessed." + +So saying, he took hold of the basket, and began to feel in the bottom of +it, but found very little to his purpose; for, to say the truth, the rest +of the party had been almost as eager in their attentions to it as the +Centurion. A few slender bunches, notwithstanding, were still there, one +of which the philosopher thrust into his mouth, and the rest he concealed +beneath one of the folds of his huge mantle, until he should have made an +end of his criticism. Meantime, the natural language of the broad, jovial, +unreflective countenance of our worthy Centurion, seemed considerably at +variance from the notion of his attainments and pursuits, which this merry +lady had been instilling into the pedagogue. Rubellia herself, however, +appeared to enjoy the thing far more keenly than either Sextus or I; +insomuch, that I was afraid Xerophrastes would penetrate through the joke +she was playing off upon him, before he had given himself his full swing +in commendation of the Praetorian. But Sabinus, on his side, was, as it +seemed, of opinion, that he had already heard enough of such +disquisitions; for he had scarcely seen out the last cup of Falernian, ere +he began to give hints that he wished very much to descend into the arena, +for the purpose of observing the animals about to be exhibited, while they +were yet in their cages. Xerophrastes, however, even when he had heard him +signify this desire, appeared still to be resolved on considering him as +one of the philosophic order of mankind; for he at once offered to +accompany him, saying, that the visit was of course intended for the +gratification of some scientific curiosity, and that therefore he should +think himself culpable did he neglect the opportunity. + +"Come, then," quoth the good-natured Sabinus, "by all means prepare +yourself for the descent; but at least allow me to precede you, that there +may be no risk of untimely obstructions."--"Most assuredly, noble +Centurion," replied Xerophrastes, "in this, as in all things, I shall be +proud to be enumerated among your followers. My pupil, also," he added, +"and his friend, will no doubt accompany us, that they may benefit by our +discourse on whatever may be subjected to observation."--"Venerated +friend," said Rubellia, "would you leave the ladies by themselves in the +midst of the Amphitheatre? I hope Sextus Licinius, at least, will consider +our weakness, and remain for our protection." + +She laid her hand on my companion's arm, with a look which was decisive. +Her ancient crony whispered something about the impropriety of leaving +only one of the party to attend upon two females; but I took advantage of +her low tone to pretend ignorance of that hint, and rose with the +Centurion. + +"Go quickly," said Sextus, "for the interval must be well-nigh at an end; +and if those that have gone out begin to rush in again, you may have +difficulty in regaining your places."--"Give fear to the winds," quoth +Sabinus; "am not I with them, that know every lion-feeder in Rome? No +chance of the exhibition recommencing without my having sufficient +warning. It is not for nothing that I have lost and won so many thousand +sesterces in the Amphitheatre. Would to Hercules as much respect were paid +to experience every where else, as in the Arena to your true old Better. +Already, I perceive that half a dozen of those knowing characters down +below, about the entrances to the dens, have detected me. They must fancy +my purse is in a poor state indeed, when I don't seem to think it worth +while to take even a single peep at the cages. Come, worthy brother in +philosophy, and you, my fellow-voyager, let us be alert, lest we arrive +after Plataea." + +We obeyed with due alacrity, and, leaving the reluctant Sextus to his +fate, touched presently the margin of the arena. We had no sooner arrived +there, than an old skin-dried limping Numidian, with a bit of lion's hide +fastened round his loins--one who, from his leanness and blackness, had +very much the appearance of having been baked to a cinder, drew to the +Centurion, with many nods and significant grins of recognition. Sabinus, +on his part, seemed noways backward to acknowledge this acquaintance; but, +on the contrary, began to talk volubly with him in a strange sort of +broken dialect, chiefly composed, as I afterwards learned, of Punic +vocables. After this had lasted some minutes, he took Xerophrastes and me +by the hand, and seemed to introduce us to the Numidian, who then desired +us all to come down, and he would conduct us to a place where we should +see something not unworthy of being seen. About to follow these +directions, I felt my gown seized from behind, and looking round, observed +that it was my faithful Briton, who, from the heat and confusion of his +aspect, appeared not to have come thither without a considerable struggle. +Sabinus seeing him, said, "Ah! my old friend Boto, how have you come to +this part of the Amphitheatre? We must not leave you behind us, however: +Of a surety, you have never seen a lion--you shall descend along with your +master; and who knows but we may persuade Xerophrastes that you also are a +brother philosopher?"--"Most noble Centurion," replied the grateful slave, +"I saw you and my master from the very topmost bench, where I have been +sitting for these three hours with Dromo, and I was determined to draw +near to you, if it were possible. To go from this place up to yonder +quarter would perhaps be impossible; but it is never a very difficult +matter to go down in this world; so, saving your reverence, I trundled +myself over the benches, and when heads were in my way, I trundled myself +over them too."--"It is well, good Briton," quoth the Centurion--by this +time we had crossed the arena--"and now prepare to exercise your eyes as +well as you already have exercised your limbs; for know, that very near to +you is the abode of nobler animals than even your lord hath ever +observed." + +With this the African opened one of the iron doors edging the arena, and +having received some money, admitted us to the sight of a long flight of +marble steps, which appeared to descend into the bowels of the earth, far +below the foundation of the Amphitheatre. "Come along, masters," quoth he; +"we had better go down this way, for we shall have a better view of the +animals so, than on the other side. My master, Sabinus, will tell you all, +that old Aspar knows as much about these things as any Numidian in the +place."--"Indeed, since friend Bisbal is gone," quoth the Centurion, "there +is not another of these that is to be compared to you."--"Ah!" replied +Aspar, "Bisbal was a great man; there is not a feeder in Rome that is +worthy to tie the latchet of his sandals, if he were alive."--"Why, as to +that," said the other, "old Bisbal was very seldom worth a pair of sandals +worth the tying, when he was alive; but, come on, we have no great leisure +for talking now, and Aspar shall shew a lion with any Bisbal that ever +wielded whip.--Come on." + +We soon reached a large vaulted place, apparently below the Amphitheatre, +the sides of which were almost entirely covered with iron-gratings,--while +up and down the open space were strolling many strange groupes of men, +connected in different capacities with the bloody spectacles of the arena. +On one hand, we saw some of the gladiators, who had already been +combating, walking to and fro with restless and agitated steps, as if they +had not yet been able to recover themselves from the excitement into which +their combats had thrown them. Even of such as had been victorious, I +observed that not a few partook in all these symptoms of uneasiness; and +the contrast thus exhibited to the haughty mien of calmness they had so +lately been displaying, affected me with a strange sense of the irrational +and inhuman life these unhappy persons were condemned by folly or +necessity to lead. The blood had forsaken the lips and cheeks of others, +and from the fixed stare of their eyes, it appeared that their minds were +entirely withdrawn from every thing passing around them. Their limbs, so +recently nerved to the utmost show of vigour, were now relaxed and +unstrung, and they trod the marble floor with heavy and straggling feet. +But they that appeared to me to be in the most wretched state, were such +as, they told us, expected to be led forth shortly to contend with the +wild beasts, in whose immediate vicinity they were now walking. The +summons to battle with a human opponent calls into action the fierceness +and the pride of man; but he that has to fight with a beast, how should he +not be weighed down with the sense of mortal degradation; how should the +Reason that is in him not fill him, in such a prospect, with dispiriting +and humbling, rather than with strengthening and stimulating thoughts? +Howbeit, the Centurion, although the most good-natured of mankind, being +rendered from custom quite callous to these things, immediately entered +into conversation with some of those unfortunates, in a tone of coolness +and unconcern that shocked me the more, because it did not seem in the +smallest degree to shock them. Among other topics, he enlarged at much +length to one of them upon the best method of evading the attack of a +tiger. + +"Look ye now," said he, "there are some that are always for taking things, +as they call it, in good time,--these will be pointing their swords before +the creature makes his spring; but I have seen what comes of that, and so +has old Aspar here, if he would be honest enough to confess it. The true +way is to watch his eye when he is setting; let him fairly fix upon his +mark, and spring; but at the moment when he is taking his leap, then is +the time for the gladiator to start aside, and have at him with a +side-thrust. Your side-thrust is the only one I would lay an _as_ +upon."--"Yea," quoth the grinning Aspar,--"it was always on your cool steady +side-thrust, the moment he had sprung, that the great Bisbal used to stake +himself. Ha! ha! I was fond of the side-thrust in my day myself; but I got +a scratch once--witness my poor leg, masters,--and since then I am a poor +feeder."--"I was always clear for the side-thrust," quoth Sabinus. "I never +saw it fail but twice, and then, to be sure, the men died; but they could +have had no chance at all with the frontguard; and it is always +something," continued he, clapping one of the poor expecting gladiators on +the back,--"it is always something to have a chance. Be sure you try him +with the side-thrust, if it come to your turn to-day." + +The poor creature--he also was an African--lifted up his head on being so +addressed, and shewed all his white teeth in a melancholy attempt at a +smile; but said not a word in reply, and forthwith became as downcast as +before. But the Centurion took little or no heed of the manner in which +his advice had been received. He contemplated the man's figure for a +moment, as if to form some judgment concerning the measure of his +strength; and after doing the like in regard to some of his companions, +commanded Aspar to shew us where the prime lions of the day were reposing. + +The Numidian seized a long pole that was leaning against one of the +pillars of the vault, and led us to a certain part of the grated wall, +behind which was the den, wherein six monstrous Atlantic lions were kept. +I looked in upon them with wonder, and not without dread, through the iron +net-work of the doors. An imperfect gleam of light descended from above +upon their tawny hides and glaring eyes. They, like the gladiators, seemed +also to be preparing for the combat; but not like them in fear, nor in +cold dewy tremors; for the deprivation of food, which they had been made +to suffer in prospect of the exhibition, had roused all the energies of +their savage natures; insomuch, that a sulky and yearning rage seemed to +spread through every nerve and sinew of their gigantic frames, and to make +them paw their quadrangular prison with long and pliant strides. They +moved, however, as yet in total silence; so that Boto having fixed his +eyes upon them, took courage to approach the grate,--slowly, nevertheless, +and with a face that appeared to lengthen an inch for every inch he +advanced. But when he had almost touched the bars, one of the huge lions +came forward towards him, with something between a growl and a sigh, which +made Boto spring backward with great and surprising agility, and with such +force, that both he and Xerophrastes, who happened unfortunately to have +been standing a little way behind him, were overthrown at all their length +upon the floor. + +The Centurion, and the limping old keeper, burst into laughter; but +Xerophrastes rising, and shaking his garment, said, with some warmth, +"Think not, O Sabinus, that any sudden start of fear has thus ridiculously +stretched me upon the floor; but attribute the mischance only to this rude +offspring of British earth, whose unreclaimed natural feelings are still +shamefully affected by natural causes."--"Castor and Pollux," quoth the +Centurion,--"you take every thing too seriously, my friend."--"I take it not +seriously," replied he, with admirable gravity. "My philosophy forbids me +to do so; it has steeled me against externals."--"Has it so, in faith!" +rejoined the Centurion. "I think some of your equanimity is, in fact, +owing to the trifling circumstance, that you have in reality received no +injury whatever from your tumble. And as to steeling, let me tell you, I +think the iron in the grated door there is much better placed, than in the +bosom of a philosopher; for, in the door, it serves the purpose of +preventing all harm; but if these animals were once out, all the mental +steel of which you boast would not save every bone in your body from being +cracked in the twanging of a bow-string."--"You speak," replied +Xerophrastes, "as if you had embraced the tenets of a sect not worthy of +the lovers of wisdom--You speak as if the artificial contrivances of human +workmen were all in all. An iron cage may confine wild beasts; but can +cages be made for all those misfortunes to which mankind are liable, and +against which the force of the mind is their only means of defence? Can +you cage the Eumenides, when they come to avenge a life spent in ignoble +indolence and degrading luxury?"--"In truth," replied the Centurion with a +smile, "I have never seen the Eumenides except once, and that was in the +theatre of Athens. But Boto, perhaps, has been more fortunate. Did you +ever see the Eumenides, good Boto?" "No, master," replied, stupidly, the +perplexed Boto, "I never was at the theatre." + +"Ye gods!" exclaimed the Stoic, "of a surety this Britain must have been +the last spot rescued from the dominion of Chaos!" + +But while we were yet contemplating those enormous animals, and amused +with the awkward gestures of Boto, the trumpets were blown in the +Amphitheatre, and no sooner did the sound of them penetrate into the +vaults, than it was evident, from the bustle which ensued, that the +Emperor had returned to his place. With all speed, therefore, did we +reascend to the upper air, leaving the gladiators in the act of mustering +in their respective quarters of the gloomy vault; and the feeders not less +busied in preparing their beasts for the expected combat. Had we not been +under the protection of Sabinus, we should have attempted in vain to +regain our places; but he being an acknowledged and current authority, +known in every department of the Amphitheatre, the door-keepers, and other +functionaries, durst refuse him nothing; room was made for us where no +room appeared; and, in a word, we shortly found ourselves once more seated +by the side of Rubellia and Sextus. + + + + + _CHAPTER XII._ + + +The day was by this time considerably advanced; and, in spite of the +awnings spread all over head, the rays of the sun were so powerful, that +the marble benches felt hot to the touch, wherever they were exposed to +them; and altogether there was such a glare and fervour throughout the +place, that my eyes began to be weary of gazing; and very gladly would I +have retired, rather than remain to see out the rest of the exhibition. +Nevertheless, there was no appearance of any one having gone away in +weariness; but, on the contrary, the seats, and even the passages, seemed +to be more crowded than they had been in the anterior part of the morning. + +The arena was vacant, when I looked down upon it; but in a short time, a +single old man, who, as Rubellia told me, had, without doubt, been found +guilty of some atrocious wickedness, was led forth from a small wicket on +the one side, and presently his fetters being struck off, those that +conducted him retired, leaving him alone upon the sand. The eyes of this +malefactor refused at first to look steadfastly on the objects around him, +and it seemed to me that he had probably been long confined in some dark +place, so grievously did the dazzling splendour, reflected from the floor +and walls, appear to bewilder and confound him. Nevertheless, after a +brief space, he seemed in some measure to recover himself, and assumed a +posture of resignation, leaning with one hand against the parapet, as if +he needed support to uphold himself. Pallid and extenuated were the +outlines of the old man's visage, and his hair and beard exhibited not a +little of the squalidness attendant on long confinement; yet there was +something in the attitude, and even in the countenance, which made me +harbour the suspicion that he had not, at some former period, been +altogether unacquainted with the luxuries and refinements of social life. +The beauty, indeed, of the mould in which his form had originally been +cast, might, perhaps, have been the sole cause of these casual +demonstrations of elegance; yet it was impossible not to regard the man +with greater interest, by reason of the contrast suggested between what he +once perhaps had been, and what he now was. + +A feeling of the same sort seemed to pervade many more in the assembly; +and I heard a continual whispering among those around me, as if there was +a general anxiety to learn something of the history of the man. No one, +however, appearing to be able to say any thing concerning this, I kept my +eyes fixed upon himself, awaiting the issue in silence. Judge then, what +was my surprise, when one of the heralds of Trajan, having commanded that +there should be silence in the amphitheatre, said, "Let Tisias of Antioch +come forth, and answer to the things that shall be alleged against him." +To which the old man, that was alone in the arena, immediately made +reply,--"Here am I--my name is Tisias of Antioch."--In vain, however, even +after hearing the well-remembered voice, did I attempt to persuade myself +that the face was such as I had pictured within myself; for, as to seeing +it, I have already told you that utter darkness prevailed in the dungeon +all the time I was there with him. + +Then arose the Prefect of the city, who had his place immediately under +the chair of Caesar, and said in a voice, which, although not loud, was +heard distinctly all through the Amphitheatre,--"Tisias of Antioch, being +accused of blasphemy and contempt for the Gods, has been brought hither, +either to refute this charge, by doing homage at the altar of Jupiter Best +and Greatest; or, persisting in his rebellion, to suffer openly the +punishment which the laws have affixed to such perversity. Let him remain +where he is until the Flamens invite all to join in the sacrifice." + +Tisias, hearing these words, stept forth into the middle of the arena, and +folding his arms upon his breast, stood there composedly, without once +lifting up his eyes, either to the place from which the Prefect had +spoken, or to any other region of the Amphitheatre. The situation in which +he stood was such, that I commanded, where I sate, a full and distinct +view of every movement of the old man's countenance, and assuredly my eyes +were in no danger of being directed away from him. For a few moments there +was perfect silence throughout the assembly, until at length the same +herald made proclamation for the doors to be thrown open, that the priests +of Jupiter might have access. There was heard forthwith a noise, as of the +turning of some heavy machinery, and a part of the ground-work of the +arena itself appeared to be giving way, right over against that quarter in +which Tisias had his station. But of this the purpose was soon manifested, +when there arose from underneath into the space thus vacated, a wooden +stage, or platform, covered all over with rich carpetings, whereof the +centre was occupied by a marble altar, set forth already with all the +usual appurtenances of sacrifice, and surmounted on one side by a gigantic +statue of bronze, in which it was easy to recognize the features of the +great Phidian Jupiter. Neither had the altar any sooner made its +appearance there, and the sound of the machinery, by which its great +weight had been lifted, ceased to be heard, than even as the herald had +given command, the main gates of the Amphitheatre were expanded, and +thereby a free passage prepared for the procession of the Flamens. With +that, all those that were present in the Amphitheatre, arose from their +seats and stood up, and a sweet symphony of lutes and clarions ushered in +the sacred band to the place appointed for them. And, first of all, there +marched a train of fifty beautiful boys, and then an equal number of very +young maidens, all, both boys and maidens, arrayed in white tunics, and +having their heads crowned with oaken garlands, and bearing in their hands +fresh branches of the oak tree, which, above all the other trees of the +forest, is, as you have heard and well know, held dear and sacred to +Jupiter. Then these youthful bands were separated, and they arranged +themselves, the boys on the right, and the girls on the left hand of the +altar, some of them standing on the arena itself, and others on either +side, upon the steps of the platform whereon the altar was fixed; and +beautiful, indeed, was their array, and comely and guiltless were their +looks; and much modesty was apparent, both in the downcast eyes and closed +lips, with which some of them stood there to await the issue of their +coming, and in the juvenile admiration wherewith others of them were +regarding the wide and splendid assemblage around them; insomuch, that I +could not but feel within myself a certain dread and fearfulness, when I +saw the feet of so many tender and innocent ones placed there upon the +same hot and guilty sand, which had so often drunk the blood of fierce +beasts and cruel malefactors--alas!--which had drunk the blood of the +innocent also--and which was yet to drink thereof abundantly. + +And after them there came in the priests themselves of Jupiter, arrayed in +the white garments of sacrifice, walking two by two, the oldest and +principal of them coming last. And behind them again, were certain younger +assistants, clothed also in white, who led by a cord of silk inwrought +with threads of silver, a milk-white steer, without spot or blemish, whose +horns were already gilt, and his broad brows crowned with oak leaves and +roses. And last of all entered the Vestal Virgins, none of whom had ever +before been seen by me, and they also walked two by two; and no one could +contemplate without veneration the majesty of their demeanour. With broad +fillets were they bound around the forehead, and deep flowing veils hung +down to their feet, entirely covering their faces and their hands; +nevertheless, their dignity was apparent; and it was not the less +impressive, by reason of the great mystery in which all things about them +appeared to be enveloped. + +Imagine, therefore, to yourselves, how magnificent was the appearance of +all things, when youths and damsels, and priests and vestals, had taken +their places, according to the custom of their sacred observances; and all +that innumerable company of spectators yet standing up in the +amphitheatre, the choral-hymn was begun, in which every voice there was +united, except only that of Tisias the Christian. Now, it was the soft low +voices of the young maidens that sounded, and then these would pause, and +give place to the clearer and more piercing notes of the boys that stood +on the other side of the altar; then again the priestesses of Vesta would +break in from afar with their equable harmony; and anon these in their +turn ceasing, the Flamens of Jupiter would lift up their strong deep +chanting, until, at the appointed signal from him that stood on the +highest step of the altar, with the cup of libation in his hand, the whole +people that were present burst in and joined in the rushing stream of the +burden, "Jupiter,--Jupiter, hear us!--hear us, Father of Gods and men!" +while the wine was poured out, gushing red upon the marble, and the +incense flung on high from fifty censers, rolled its waves of smoke all +over the surface of the arena, and quite up to the gorgeous canopy of that +resounding Amphitheatre. Magnificent, indeed, was the spectacle, and +majestic the music; yet in the midst of it, how could I take away my eyes +from the pale and solitary old man, by reason of whose presence alone all +these things were so? With calm eyes did he regard all the pageantry of +those imperial rites,--with closed lips did he stand amidst all the +shouting multitudes. He bowed not his head; he lifted not up his hand; +neither would he bend his knee, when the victim was slain before the horns +of the altar; neither would he in any thing give semblance of being a +partaker in the worship. + +At length the song ceased, and there was a proclamation again for deep +silence; and the Prefect of the city, addressing himself once more to +Tisias, spoke thus:--"Impious and unhappy man, with great clemency have all +things been conducted as concerning thee. When, after long imprisonment, +and innumerable exhortations in private and in public, thou hadst always +rejected every means of safety, and spurned from thee the pardon of those +in whose hands thy being is placed, yet, notwithstanding of all thine +obstinacy and continual rebellion, was it determined, that, in the face of +all the people, thou shouldst once more have free grace offered to thee, +provided only thou shouldst, when all the assembly worshipped, join thy +voice with them, and bow thy head also toward the altar of Jupiter. +Nevertheless all that now hear me shall bear witness, that, with open and +visible contumacy, thou hast rejected this opportunity also of being +reconciled unto the prince and the empire,--that, when every knee bent, and +every voice was lifted up, thou alone hast stood upright, and thy lips +alone have been closed. If it be so, that, from some inflicted, rather +than voluntary perversion of mind, thou hast never yet been able to +understand the danger in which thou art placed, know now, that there +remains no hope at all for thee, except for a moment; and let the strong +fear of death open thine eyes, that thou mayst see where thou art, and for +what purpose thou hast been brought hither. Thou art a born subject of +Rome, and thy life can only be held by thee, in virtue of obedience to the +laws. These are clearer upon nothing, than the necessity that all men +should acknowledge the deities of Rome; and of good reason, since, if they +be despised, and their authority set at nought, by what means shall an +oath be ratified, or a pledge given; or how may the head, which counsels +and protects, be assured that the members shall not be lifted up against +it? Let silence remain in the assembly, and let Tisias of Antioch make his +election, whether he will give obedience, or suffer the penalty of +transgression." + +Then the Prefect, and all those round about Trajan, sat down, and there +was a deep silence throughout the lower region, where, for the most part, +they of condition were placed; but when the rabble, that sat above, beheld +the stern and resolute countenance with which the old man stood there upon +the arena, it seemed as if they were enraged beyond measure, and there +arose among them a fierce uproar, and a shouting of hatred; and, amidst +groans and hisses, there was a cry from innumerable voices of--"Christian! +Christian!--Blasphemer! Blasphemer!--Atheist! Atheist!--A tiger! A tiger!--Let +loose a tiger upon the Christian!" + +Nevertheless, the old man preserved unmoved the steadfastness of his +demeanour, and lifting up his eyes to the place from whence the tumult +proceeded, regarded the ferocious multitude with a visage, not of anger or +of scornfulness, but rather of pity and calmness; insomuch, that I +perceived the nobles and senators were somewhat ashamed of the outcry, and +the Prefect of the city arose from his place, and beckoned with his hand, +until the people were weary of shouting, and order was, in some measure, +re-established in the Amphitheatre. + +Then Tisias, perceiving that silence once more prevailed, lifted up his +hand, and bowed himself before Trajan, and the great men of authority that +were near to his chair, and said, with a firm clear voice, in the Roman +tongue, "My name, O Trajan, is Tisias--the son of Androboulos. I am a +native of Antioch, in Syria, and have in all things, except only in what +pertains to this cause, observed throughout all the years of my life the +statutes of the empire, as they, by whose accusation I have been led +hither, shall themselves be constrained to bear witness for me this day. +My father was a Greek of Macedonian extraction, being descended from one +of those that came into Syria beneath the banners of the great King +Seleucus; but he took to wife a maiden of the Hebrew nation, and in +process of time became a proselyte to the faith of her fathers. +Nevertheless, he lived in trust and honour beneath the governors appointed +by those that were before you in the empire, and brought up me and all his +children to reverence, in all things that are lawful, the authority of +Caesar. But as to the faith of the true God, whose worshippers ye blindly +and foolishly call atheists and blasphemers, from that he neither swerved +himself, nor would permit any of those that were in his household to +depart. Now, when he had been a dweller for some time in Jerusalem, the +great city of the Jews, he began to examine into those things which were +reported publicly concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is also called the +Christ, of which things not a few that had been eye-witnesses were then +living in that city. And when he had been satisfied from their testimony, +that those miracles, of which you have all heard, were in truth performed +in the sight of the people by Jesus, and had listened unto the words of +their teachers, and saw how they proved that the old prophets of the +Hebrews had foretold those wonderful works, he perceived that Jesus of +Nazareth was indeed the Christ of God, and the great Deliverer that had +been promised to that people, even from the beginning of their nation. And +he believed on him with all his household; and I also, from a stripling, +have, although unworthy, been a Christian; for by that name were they +first called in Antioch, the city of my birth. + +"But being brought into trouble by reason of his religion, which the +rulers of the Jews abhorred, my father departed, after a time, from +Jerusalem, and dwelt with my mother in one of the villages of Palestine, +until his death. Not long after which time, the Jews rebelled against +Caesar, and the great war began, which terminated in the overthrow of +Jerusalem, and the utter ruin of their nation. Now, when Vespasian first +came with his army into those regions, I, being without employment in the +place where we had our habitation, and having, moreover, taken up a great, +and perhaps a sinful, wrath against the Jews, on account of the sufferings +which my father had undergone among them, and of the evils which, at their +hands, our whole household had sustained, joined myself to one of the +bands of Syrian auxiliaries; and although my mother entreated me, could +not be persuaded to refrain from following the camp of Caesar with them. Of +which thing it has often since then repented me, and in which, it may be, +I still hold myself not to have done altogether as was right; for if the +Jews had offended Caesar, it was, indeed, a reasonable thing that Caesar +should visit them with his vengeance; but, peradventure, it behoved not +any of them that were descended from the fathers of that people, to take +part in the warfare. Nevertheless, being then young, and, as I have said, +irritated by the sense of domestic injuries, I scrupled not to fulfil in +all things the duty of a soldier, and followed the eagles of Vespasian and +his son, even to the day when the lines were drawn around the Holy City; +and it was manifest, that the war could have no end, but in the eternal +overthrow of the power of the Jews. Neither did the length of the siege +weary me, or produce within me any sort of unwillingness; but, on the +contrary, so long as the city was beleaguered, I remained with the band in +which I had numbered myself, and did in all labours such service as my +strength would permit. Even among the soldiers that have guarded my +prison, since I was led into Rome for the sake of that accusation which +has been brought against me in the matter of my belief,--even among them, I +have seen the faces of some that were my comrades in that fierce war, and +that long beleaguerment, who also, if they be commanded, will not refuse +to bear testimony before you, that all these things are true, even as I +have said, and that I was a faithful soldier, both of Vespasian and of +Titus, unto the last. Neither, indeed, did I lay down arms immediately +when Jerusalem had been sacked, and the Temple burnt, according to the +prediction of Christ, but went with Caesar along the sea-coast, and was +present with him all through the journeyings he made in Egypt, even to the +day when he made his great festival at Alexandria, and crowned the Ox Apis +with his own hands, in the presence of all that people. On which day it +was, that, for the first time, I also was accused of being a Christian, +and at the command of Titus himself, was interrogated by one of the rulers +of the army. + +"Now with shame and confusion of face must I acknowledge, that on that day +I, from desire of life, forgot myself utterly, and being deserted of all +steadfastness, went up to the altar in presence of my judge, and offered +gifts there, whereon I was declared free of all blame; and even received +honour and commendation thereafter from them, on account of my services in +the war. But, from that day, my spirit sunk within me, and I knew not what +to do; I grew weary of all things, and determined to leave the band in +which I was serving, that I might seek out, if it were possible, the +habitation of my mother, and make atonement in secret for the wickedness +of which I, unhappy and fearful man, had been guilty at Alexandria. Being +absolved, therefore, from my oath of service, on account of the length of +time I had remained with the army, I departed from Egypt, and, after a +time, found out my mother where she was dwelling in the mountainous +country of Palestine, to the north of Jerusalem. In going thither, +however, I was constrained to pass by the place where I had so long lain +in your camp, O Romans! and to look with my own eyes on the sorrowful +desolation of that ancient city, where so many holy prophets of the +Hebrews had ministered, and so many great kings reigned in the days of the +old time, when their nation flourished, and was chosen and favoured of the +Almighty. And it was then, indeed, that I first began to repent me of +having been present in the host of Titus, and of having had a part in that +terrible destruction; to which, when I added the recollection of my own +miserable timorousness at Alexandria, great was my perplexity, and I fled +across the mountains with much speed, seeking in vain to fly from the +stings and unceasing torment of my own meditations, which nevertheless +continued ever more and more to sink into my spirit; insomuch, that when I +came into the place where my mother was dwelling, scarcely could she +recognize me, wasted and worn as I was with that perpetual misery of shame +and repentance. Without reproaches, however, and indeed with great +kindness, did she receive me into her habitation, even although, as I have +said, she had been much offended with me because of my going up to the +beleaguerment of the city of her fathers. But when I, being humbled, made +confession to her and her household, and to all the faithful that were in +that place, of the grievous sin whereof I had been guilty in Egypt, both +she and all the rest of them busied themselves continually to comfort me, +and to assure me that there was yet hope, if my repentance were sincere, +and my resolution immovable never again to yield myself to any similar +temptation. One of them also, that had been set apart to minister in holy +things among the scattered believers that dwelt up and down in that +region, came not many days after to the same place, and having publicly +heard my confession, admitted me once more to be a partaker with them in +the mysteries of the sanctuary. From which day, O Trajan! I have never +again been so far deserted of myself, as to fall back into that miserable +error, or by any cowardly word of mine, to deny the faith that is in me, +which is the faith of the True God that made heaven and earth, and of his +Son Jesus Christ, whom he sent into the world to teach loving-kindness, +and long-suffering, and patience, among all kindreds, and tongues, and +nations of mankind; and to make expiation, by the accursed death of the +cross, for the evil and the wickedness that is in the world. From which +faith, should I now depart, out of terror for that which, by your command, +may befal me in this place, of a surety no comfort could ever again come +to me in my mind, for I should be bowed down, and utterly miserable, out +of grief and shame; which as you yourself, O Caesar, will admit and +acknowledge, is far worse than death itself, or any evil which the body of +man can sustain. Neither could I have any hope of being reconciled unto +the True God, whom I should have so, once and again, denied; insomuch, +that neither in life nor in death should I be able to have any +happiness;--for in life, what happiness is there to him that is ashamed of +himself?--and, in departing from life, what comfort can be given to him, +that, knowing the truth, hath openly abjured the truth for the sake of a +few, at the utmost, and these most miserable and unhappy years? I am an +old man, and my near kindred and my friends are already dead, so that poor +after all, and not worthy to be mentioned, is the sacrifice on which I +have this day resolved. And as for you, O Romans, should I now make +shipwreck of my faith, and tell a lie to save my life before you, with +what contempt would yourselves be constrained forthwith to look upon me? +Whosoever is wise among you, according to the philosophy of the earth, +would utterly despise me; and whosoever is brave and steadfast of spirit, +would think foul scorn that a soldier of Titus should be so much afraid to +die. Therefore, O Trajan, am I resolved to endure all things rather than +sacrifice to your gods; and if such be your will, I will not refuse to die +for this cause, to which witness has already been borne in Rome by the +blood of holy Apostles, and other noble martyrs of Christ." + +The old man, having said these words, bowed himself once more reverently +before Trajan, and then folding his arms in his cloak, appeared to await +whatever might be appointed. Steadfastly did I look upon his face at that +moment, to see whether it might exhibit no trace of wavering, or at least, +if pride barred irresolution, whether, nevertheless, there might not +appear some token of natural sorrow, and human unwillingness to die; yet +in vain did I scrutinize and seek for any such symptoms of spiritual +weakness; for although it was visible that, with the exertion of so long +standing and speaking, to say nothing of thought and anxiety, his bodily +strength was much spent, still his eye preserved firmness, and his brow +remained serene; and the parched lips of the old man did not once betray +the least shadow of trembling. Methinks I see him even now, as he then +stood--his deep calm eyes sometimes turned upwards to Trajan, but for the +most part bent to the ground, beneath those gray brows of his, whose dark +shade rested upon his large solemn eyelids. Upon his broad front, as he +stooped, no hair appeared, but long hoary ringlets, clustered down on +either side, mingling with the venerable, although dishevelled beard, that +lay upon his bosom. Heroic meekness was enthroned visibly upon all his +lineaments, and a murmur began to run through the assembly, as if--even in +a Christian--it were not possible to contemplate such things without +admiration. + +But as they afterwards related to me--for I myself was not indeed +sufficiently attentive to it--Trajan, who had as yet, during all the +occurrences of the day, preserved unmoved the majestic serenity of his +countenance, when he observed this last movement in the spirit of the +assembly, began all at once to be very indignant, that such things should +occur in such a place, in consequence of the appearance merely, and the +language, of a culprit and a Christian. I confess it, that I was too much +occupied with gazing on Tisias, to have any leisure for remarking the +particulars of the deportment of any other person present--no, not even of +Caesar; yet such had been the effect produced on me by the history which +the old man delivered of himself, that I indeed was not prepared at the +moment to find the strong arm of power directed ruthlessly, and +immediately against him. At least, said I to myself, the Prince will +institute an inquiry among all those now present in the capital, who are +likely to be able either to contradict essentially, or to confirm, the +narrative in which this man has thought fit to embody his only defence. +Many years indeed have elapsed since the walls of Jerusalem were shattered +by the engines of Rome, and the golden gate of its antique temple refused +to be any protection against the furious soldiery of Titus. Yet surely not +a few of such as were present in that proud host, must be still in life; +yea, not a few of them must be now present in the capital of the world. +The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, and beside the +ramparts underneath which this Christian was imprisoned, he surely cannot +be the only witness that remains to give testimony. He at least there is, +and we shall forthwith have him at least confronted with Tisias. + +Such were my thoughts within me; judge, therefore, what was my +astonishment when I heard the trumpet sound, and perceived that its note, +without any word being spoken, was at once received as a sufficient +warning by the priests and the vestals, and the youths and the damsels, +and all those that had in any way been connected with the service of the +altar, to retire from the place whereon they stood, and leave the old man +there alone, to await the issue of his destiny. Immediately on the signal +being given by the trumpet, did all these begin to move away; but although +in silence they had at first marched into the Amphitheatre, they did not +retire from it in silence. Another hymn, on the contrary, in which also, +as it seemed, different parts were allotted for each different order of +singers, was begun to be sung by them even before they had moved from the +arena; and after the last of their procession had disappeared behind the +wide folding-doors of the Amphitheatre, we still heard their voices +chanting solemnly until they had entered the great Temple of Isis and +Serapis, which, as I have already said, stands over against it, on the +brink of the Esquiline. And while all were yet listening to their singing, +and to the harmony of lutes and other sweet-sounding instruments that +accompanied their voices, the slaves and other attendants removed every +thing from the arena, except only the altar and statue of Jupiter, which +were still left where they had been placed; insomuch, that ere they had +made an end of singing, and we of listening, the old man was left alone +there as at the beginning, when he first came forth. + +But just when deep silence once more prevailed, and expectation was most +intense concerning what should be at length commanded by Trajan, it fell +out so, that a little bald ape escaped through the bars of one of the +grated doors, which were along the boundary-wall of the arena, and leaping +forth upon the sand, began to skip up and down, challenging, by all manner +of foolish gestures, the attention of those that sate over against it, +leaning down from the parapet. And immediately certain painted courtezans, +that were sitting not far from thence, with gilded breasts and +bright-coloured garlands, and all other gorgeous trappings of the +degradation of harlotry, began to throw down apples and nuts to the +obscene creature, and to testify much delight in the grimaces with which +it received them, hopping to and fro, and casting them away, and then +catching them up again, with continual gibbering and prating; and no +sooner did the rabble that were above perceive these things, than they +all, as with one consent, began to applaud; so that the vaulted vomitories +and wide arches of entrance, and all the marble walls, re-echoed with +every wild sound of carelessness and merriment. While, in the meantime, +the African feeders and naked gladiators, and all those hangers-on of the +Amphitheatre, whom we had seen in the dark places below, hearing now the +sounds that had arisen among the assembly, began to shew themselves in +crowds from behind the same grated doors through one of which the monkey +had escaped, and to partake in the mirth of the spectators, and to whistle +upon the creature, and to excite it to new caperings, by their outcries +and jeerings. It seemed as if the minds of all present were entirely +occupied with the pranks of this brute; and that almost it was forgotten +amidst the tumult, not only for what purpose all that solemn and stately +pageantry had just been exhibited before them; but even that Tisias was +still standing there upon the same arena. + +For myself, who had never before looked upon any creature of this +disgusting tribe, and had gathered only some general notion of its +appearance from the treatises of the physiologists and the narratives of +travellers,--I could not, indeed, refuse to contemplate at first its +motions with some curiosity; but I knew not, after the scene had lasted +for a little space, whether to be more humbled within myself by the +monkey's filthy mimickings of the form and attitudes of mankind, or by the +display of brutish heartlessness, which burst forth from all that +countless multitude, while gazing on that spectacle of humiliation. + +But it was not until my eye fell again on Tisias, who stood all this time +solitary and silent amidst the hub-bub, that my sorrow and indignation +were the greatest. There stood the old man even as before, with his arms +folded in his gown, and his eyes resting on the sand before him, pale, +calm, and unmoved in his meekness, even as if his ears had not once +received any sound of all the shoutings and the joyous laughters of that +unpitying rabble, that had come there to behold him die. Once, indeed--it +was but once--I thought I could perceive that a slight emotion of contempt +wreathed for an instant his thin and bloodless lips; but it seemed as if +that were but the involuntary and momentary passing over him of one proud +thought, which he cast from him immediately, as a thing unworthy of the +resolute mind of his integrity, choosing rather to array himself in the +divine armour of patience, than to oppose, with any weapon of human +passion, the insults heaped upon his head by the cruel callousness of that +degenerate congregation of men. And, whether it were that the sight of all +this did not affect me alone with such reflections, or only that they in +authority were afraid too much of the day might be occupied with what +formed so unseemly an addition to the ordained business of the assembly, +while the uproar of mirth was yet at its height, certain of the lictors +that were about the consular chairs leapt down into the arena, and beat +the monkey back again among the feeders, and other base hirelings, that +stood behind the grated doors of which I have spoken. Whereupon there was +at once an end of the tumult, and the lictors having reascended to their +places, the eyes of all began once more to fix themselves upon the +Christian. + +And he also, when he perceived that it was so, and was sensible of the +silence that once more prevailed, it seemed as if he, too, were aware that +at last his appointed hour had come, and that he must needs prepare +himself in good earnest for the abiding of the issue. For, instead of +continuing steadfast in his place, as he had done during all the time he +had as yet been exposed there, it appeared as if now at length, being +swallowed up in the contemplation of the approaching fate, he had quite +forgotten all the rules he had laid down to himself concerning his +behaviour. Not that he now lost remembrance of the courage which hitherto +he had manifested, or even, that any the least symptom of changeableness +was made visible upon his countenance. But it seemed to me, of a truth, +that of such things as he had determined upon within himself before he +came thither, touching the mere external demeanour of his bodily frame, +the memory now, in this final moment of expectation, had somewhat passed +away; for Tisias stood still no longer on the centre of the arena; but +retaining his arms folded as they had been, and his eyes fixed upon the +sand, he began to pace rapidly to and fro, traversing the open space +whereon he alone now was, from side to side, without once looking up, or +exhibiting any token that he was conscious of the presence of any man. By +and by, nevertheless, in the deeper knittings of his brows, and in the +closer pressure of his extenuated lips, and then again in the quivering of +the nerves and muscles upon the arms and legs of the old man, as he moved +before us, it was testified how keenly the spirit was at work within; the +strong soul wrestling, it may be, with some last stirring temptations of +the flesh, and the mind itself not altogether refusing to betray its +sympathy with the natural shudderings of the body. But the moment that the +herald of Trajan commanded attention in the assembly, and that the Prefect +of the city began again to prepare himself for speaking, that moment did +the old man appear to return at once again entirely to himself; and he +fixed his eyes upon the Prefect with even the same steadfastness as when +he made his oration to Caesar. + +"By all the gods," whispered Sabinus at that moment, "this is a true +soldier of Vespasian and Titus. He will die for this superstition with the +constancy of a Roman."--"With all the constancy of a philosopher, say +rather," quoth Xerophrastes, who had overheard his whisper--"yea, with all +the constancy of a philosopher. Of a surety, there must be some lessons of +nobility in this faith of the Jews."--"Now, speak not, but look at the old +man," interrupted Rubellia; "the signal is given for the executioner." + +And I looked, and saw that the Prefect was standing up in his place, +immediately below the chair of Trajan, and immediately he began to speak; +and he said, first looking towards the people,--"Let there be silence, and +let no man stir in this place until this matter be ended." And then +addressing himself, as it seemed, to Tisias,--"With all patience," +proceeded he, "have the words which this man chose to utter in his +defence, been listened to; but it must be manifest to all men, that they +contain no shadow of apology, but rather afford the strongest confirmation +of all that had before been alleged. Instead of departing from his error, +or offering any extenuation of its magnitude, his words have tended only +to shew what was already well known to all that have had any dealings with +the adherents of this blasphemous sect; that their obstinacy is as great +as their atheism is perverse; and that no clemency can, without blame, be +extended to their wilfulness, and to the scorn wherewith they are resolved +to regard all things sacred. Nevertheless, inquiry has been made, and +confirmation has been given, by those who were present in the wars of the +Divine Titus, as to that which this man hath said concerning his own +service throughout the glorious campaign of Palestine, and the siege of +the city of the Jews. For which service, it hath seemed right unto Caesar, +Ever-Merciful, that no circumstance of needless shame be added to the +death by which this Christian must now expiate before all them who have +seen his contempt of the sacrifice of Jupiter, and heard his words of +blasphemy against all the gods, the guilt of which, it is manifest to all, +he hath been justly and necessarily accused. Let those, therefore, who had +been commanded to bring forth a tiger, depart now with their beast, and +let this man be beheaded before the Altar of Jupiter; after which, for +this day, the assembly will disperse; for, until the morrow, the spectacle +of the wild animals, which the Prince hath prepared, must be deferred." + +The Prefect made his obeisance again to Caesar, and sate down in his place, +and immediately one of the doors of the arena was flung open, and there +entered some slaves, bearing a wooden block upon their shoulders, behind +whom followed also certain ill-favoured blacks, out of the company of +African gladiators, one of whom carried bare in his hand a long and heavy +sword, the surface of which glittered brightly as he moved, as if newly +sharpened and burnished for the occasion. Seeing all which fatal +preparations, Tisias immediately flung aside the long cloak in which +hitherto his arms and all his body had been wrapped; and after regarding +those that had come in for a moment with a steadfast eye, he turned +himself to the place where the Prefect was sitting, as if he had yet one +word to say before he should submit himself to the sword; whereupon the +Prefect said,--"If the prisoner has yet any thing to offer, it is not too +late for mercy--Let him speak." + +"I have nothing more to offer, O Romans!" answered the old man, "as +concerning that of which I have spoken. But since already some favour has +been extended to me by reason of my services in the army of Caesar, perhaps +so neither will this be refused, that my body may be given to such as +shall ask for it, that it may be treated without indignity after my soul +is released." + +"It is granted," replied the Prefect.--"Is there any thing more?" + +The old man was silent. + +With that, the block being already fixed upon the sand immediately in +front of the Altar of Jupiter, one of the Africans moved towards Tisias, +as if to conduct him to the place where it behoved him to kneel; but he, +observing what was his intention, forthwith prevented him, and walked of +himself steadily close up to him in whose hand the sword was unsheathed. +Being come thither, he immediately took his station over against the +block, and having for a moment placed his hand upon his eyes, and moved +his lips, as it seemed, in fervent supplication, dropped his one knee on +the ground, and stretched forth his neck towards the block; but suddenly, +after he had done so, he sprung again upon his feet, and began to gaze +with a keen eye all around the assembly, as if he were in search of some +one to whom he had something yet to say. In vain, however, as it appeared, +did he make this endeavour; for after a little space, he shook his head +despairingly, and gave over the steadfastness of his look. Nevertheless, +he lifted up his voice, and, surveying once more the whole face of the +Amphitheatre round about, from side to side, said audibly,--"There is one +here who made last night a promise to me in my dungeon. I cannot see him +where he is; but I conjure him to take good heed, and execute, as he is a +man and a Roman, all those things which he said to me he would do." Now, +when I heard him say so, I well knew within myself that it was for me only +his eye had been searching, and half did I arise from my seat, that he +might see I was there, and observe my resolution to keep the faith I had +plighted voluntarily to him in his prison. But Sabinus, having watched my +earnestness in contemplating Tisias, and comprehending something of that +which was meant, held me firm upon the bench, whispering, "As you regard +me, Valerius, and as you regard your own safety, be still." + +Being thus constrained, I neither rose up, nor made any attempt to attract +the attention of Tisias--for which forbearance, I confess to you, I have +since that day undergone the visitation of not a few bitter thoughts--but +remained steadily in my place, while the old man once more addressed +himself to kneel down upon the block that was before him. Calmly now at +length did he kneel, and with much composure did he place himself. Yet, +before the gladiator was ready to strike, he lifted his head once again, +and gazed upwards for a moment towards heaven, with such a countenance of +faith and hope, that there went through all the assembly a murmur, as it +were, and a stirring breath of admiration. Then bowed he for the last time +his gray hairs, and almost before he had rested his neck upon the tree, +the strong sword of the African smote with merciful fierceness, and the +headless trunk falling backwards upon the sand, the blood spouted forth in +a gushing stream, and sprinkled all over with red drops the base of the +statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the surface of the marble altar, +whereupon the sacrifice of the Flamens had been offered. + +The executioner having made an end of his duty, wiped his sword from the +blood of the Christian, and advancing towards the seats of the +magistrates, claimed the largess that was due to him,--which when he had +received, as is the custom, he and all his attendants withdrew immediately +from the arena; the Emperor, at the same moment, and the Consulars, and +all they that were about him, departing also from the assembly; and the +whole Amphitheatre speedily being filled with the clamours of an universal +upbreaking and dispersion. + + + + + + _BOOK II. CHAPTER I._ + + +I saw, my friends, that you listened with not less of indignation, than of +astonishment, to the account which I yesterday gave you of a day spent in +the Amphitheatre of Vespasian. Neither did I expect that it should be +otherwise with young persons of ingenuous minds, whose feelings have never +been hardened by any experience of the life of Rome. + +And yet, when you reflect a little more upon the matter, I think you will +abate something of the wonder you manifested on hearing of the fondness of +the Roman people for some of those cruel, ruthful spectacles. You will +admit, at least, that there is a certain natural principle, on an +exaggerated and morbid obedience to which, rather than on any total and +absolute departure from the laws of our mind, much of that which excited +so much of your astonishment and indignation also may be supposed to +depend. In and by myself, I maintain it must always be a most interesting +thing for a man to witness, in whatever shape, the last moments of any +human creature. I mean not those merely corporeal struggles, in which +there must always be every thing to revolt, and nothing to interest, +because in them, it is evident, the nobler part of our nature can have no +share--the soul being already swallowed up, and its divinity absorbed in +the intense convulsions of animal suffering. These are things on which no +eyes can gaze willingly, without indicating degradation of spirit. But +before that curtain falls, beyond which every one must shudder to +penetrate, there is a last terrible act of the real tragedy, which must +ever have power to fix the eyes with an earnestness not the less deep, +because of its being preceded by some struggles of reluctance. We live in +a state in which, however we may clothe ourselves in the armour of levity, +or with the more effectual armour of occupation, it is impossible that the +one fearful idea of dissolution should not ever and anon come to scare us +with its terrors. We feel that we are walking over a soil, on the most +level and the most rugged parts of which it is equally possible we may +meet with the dark pit wherein it is our destiny to stumble. How sudden, +or how gradual soever the inevitable fall may be, we well know we shall +have little enough space to prepare ourselves for the last leap, when we +shall be fairly on the declivity; and I maintain, once more, that it is a +rational, no less than a natural, curiosity, which leads us to seek to +supply, in some measure, this necessary defect, and to gather, if +possible, from witnessing the last moments of others, some hints which may +be of use to us when our own dark hour shall come. We see a being standing +on the edge of a precipice, to which the only thing we know certainly, is, +that we ourselves shall one day be brought; and shall it be possible to +feel no curiosity concerning the manner in which he conducts himself on +that giddy brink? That which is denied to us in our own person, may, in +part, be supplied in his; and the eyes which dwell upon his features, +while they are filled with the overwhelming expectation of near +approaching death, make the closest approximation of which our nature +admits to penetrating the actual mysteries of the unseen region. For +myself, both wiser and better did I come away from all that mournful +spectacle. But perhaps I am joining together things which, after all, had +no necessary connection, when I ascribe to my contemplation of the death +of Tisias, and the other cruel sights which, as it seemed, were regarded +with indifference by the great multitudes around me, so much of the change +which, about this period, my own spirit underwent. + +The slumbers which followed that busy day of novelties and terrors, were +long and heavy; for utterly worn out were both mind and body, and youth +hastened to repair the waste of its energies, by drinking deeply at the +great fountain of natural refreshment. Nevertheless, although the hand of +sleep had lain steadily upon me, when I awoke in the already-confirmed +light of morning, I found myself yet filled with a confused and tremulous +sense of excitation, as if the spirit had disdained to be idle after +having received so much food for activity, and Fancy had still been +garnishing the passive sphere of the night with aerial representations of +all the gorgeous and solemn realities of the by-past day. I lay there +ruminating amidst the dispersing shadows of the mysterious world of +dreams, and scarcely as yet aware that a whole night had passed since I +had returned from the Amphitheatre, when I was at length roused to a +sudden and complete recollection of all things by the entrance of Boto. + +"My dear master," said he, making a sort of start after he had come in, "I +was afraid you would be angry with me for not coming to you sooner, but +now I perceive you have been as lazy as the rest of us. Why, surely, you +are not aware what time of day it is! What would my dear old lady over the +water say, if she heard of my young master lying in bed till within three +hours of noon? Oh, what a place is this you have brought me to! Why, when +I awake in the morning, the first thought that comes into my head always +is, What, Boto, and is it really possible that all that wide roaring sea +lies between you and the green banks of quiet Anton? Is it truth, good +truth, and neither dream nor witching, that you, _Boto_, are in _Rome_? +But I sometimes have to jump up, and take a look out of the window before +I am quite convinced; and then, to be sure, I know well enough that I, who +used always to dream about driving cattle to Venta, and perhaps kissing a +Brigian lass by the way, could never dream of so many fine things unless I +were really among them. Good heavens! what a heap of stories I shall have +to tell, when we get safe back to Old Britain!"--"Indeed, Boto," said I, +"you will be quite a travelled man. Be sure you do not give yourself too +many airs on the occasion."--"Travelled man, in faith," replied the clown. +"I should like to know, who it is that will be able to hold up his head +with me, when I am once fairly back again? Oh, how the old smith will be +humbled! He thought himself such a mighty person, because my old master, +your father, had taken him with him as far as Camolodunum, and how he used +to brag of what he had seen there; but now, I trow, Master Pernorix will +be fain to talk quietly about his journeys.--O Rome, Rome! what fine things +shall I have to tell them all about Rome,--and the lions, and the monkeys, +and Caesar, and the elephants, and the fighting men, and the Christian, and +all the wonderful sights we saw yesterday. But the worst of it is, that +nobody will ever be able to believe one half of what I shall tell +them.--And when does my dear Master Valerius think we shall be returning to +my old lady, and all the rest of them in Britain?" + +"Of a truth, good Boto," said I, "that is more than I can pretend to give +you any notion of; but I dare say, you shall have both time and +opportunity to pick up a few more marvels still before we go. In the +meantime, you are comfortable, I hope, in your quarters, and Dromo takes +good heed of you."--"Dromo," quoth he, looking as arch as his massive +features would admit of,--"Dromo, indeed!--If I had nobody to trust to but +him, I should be very ill off. Dromo is a great man; the young lord of the +house has him up in his chamber every day to talk with him by himself; and +when he comes down again, or returns from any of the errands he is sent +out upon, there is no bearing with him in the court-yard, where we are all +huddled together. As for the overseer, old Sarcalus, the freed-man, he has +quite given him up. Nobody dare speak about whipping him; he looks upon +himself as almost as important a person as his master, I believe, if the +truth were known; and yet I should not complain, for, after all, it was +Dromo that carried me yesterday to the Amphitheatre."--"Ay, that was very +kind of Dromo--I should have thought of it myself. And did he not see that +you got your supper snugly, when you came back?"--"Ah! now, master, don't +make them whip me--I see they have told you all."--"All!" said I--"I do +assure you they have told me nothing about you; but come, speak out. It +must be something very bad that would make me think of having you whipt. +You have only been three days in Rome--I shall make allowance for a few +vagaries, provided they be not very extravagant."--"Well, then, Master +Caius," quoth he, "since they have told you nothing beforehand, and you +seem inclined to be so good-natured with me, I shall e'en tell you all +myself, and I hope you won't think me, after all, very much to +blame."--"Speak out, my honest Boto, and remember there is Dromo also to be +examined, in case you keep any thing back from me."--"Ah! master, but Dromo +would not be so easily caught as poor Boto. Dromo is a cunning man, and a +close; and besides, they say he was born in a city they call Crete, and +the people of that place can't speak a word of truth, even although they +were willing. Do not think any thing at all about Dromo; but trust +entirely to your own poor Boto, and he will tell you every thing. Dromo is +a sad dog." + +I know not what more he might have proceeded to say concerning Dromo, had +not that crafty Cretan, who, without question, had been listening all the +while behind the door, just at that moment glided in on very delicate +tiptoe, and coming close up behind the British slave, as he stood in the +act of haranguing me, smote him a smart fillip upon the cheek with the +back of his fingers, mimicking, at the same time, the outlandish accent of +the man, and repeating after him into his tinkling ears, the words, _Dromo +is a sad dog--Dromo is a cunning man, and a close--Dromo would not be so +easily caught as poor Boto_.--"Ha, ha! Master Valerius," then said he to +me, "and so you would really take the trouble to ask questions of this +worthy man, when you had it in your power to send for me? I thought it had +not been for nothing that three persons I could name entered upon a +certain alliance--but 'tis all one to the Cretan.--Both Sextus, and you, may +manage your own affairs for yourselves, if such be your pleasure." + +I knew not on this whether to be more amazed with the impudence of the +Cretan, or the confusion of poor Boto, who stood rubbing his cheek with a +strangely mingled aspect of sheepishness and sulkiness; but Dromo soon put +an end to the affair, by turning round with a face of admirably feigned +astonishment to my Briton, and saying, "Good heavens! Boto, are you still +there? Do you not perceive that your master and I have something to say to +each other in private? Begone, my good man--shall I never be able to render +you susceptible of the smallest polish?" + +These last words being accompanied with a gentle push on the back, soon +expelled poor Boto, who, nevertheless, did not depart without casting +towards me a look of woful appeal over his shoulder. But I perceiving +plainly, in the midst of all his frolicsome behaviour, that Dromo had +really something to say to me; and suspecting, of course, that the +interest of Sextus might be concerned in what he had to say, suffered my +slave to withdraw in good earnest. Dromo, after the door was shut, laid +his finger upon his lip, and stood still for a moment in an attitude of +close attention; but the heavy heels of the reluctant Briton were heard +with great distinctness, lumbering along the marble floor of the gallery; +so, being satisfied that there was no eavesdropping in the case, the +varlet seated himself forthwith in a posture of great familiarity on the +nether end of my couch, and, to judge from the expression of his +countenance, seemed evidently to be preparing himself for a disclosure of +some importance. At length, after not a few winks of much intelligence, it +was thus he began:--"You may hear Boto's story, sir, at any time you +please, and I dare say it will amuse you; but, in the meantime, I must +really have you attend to me, for, without jesting, things are by no means +in so fair a train as I had thought for my young master; and if something +effectual be not speedily discovered, I am really at a loss to think how +we shall be able to get out of our difficulties, in such a manner as may +be either satisfactory to him, or creditable to my management. But you had +better get up and dress yourself, and while you are doing so, I will tell +you every thing." + +I did as he bade me, and then the Cretan proceeded:--"As I was coming out +of the Amphitheatre yesterday, I happened to find myself rubbing shoulders +with a certain old fat Calabrian, whom I had seen before about Rubellia's +house in the Suburra, and thinking that no harm could possibly come of +being civil to him, I began immediately to ask his opinion of the +spectacles. I wish you had been there to see how much he was delighted +with the attention I paid him, and how he plumed himself on being admitted +to talk on such subjects with such a person as me; for the man himself is +but an ignorant fellow, and seems never to have kept company but with the +grooms and hinds. From less to more, we began to be the greatest friends +in the world; and by the time we got to the Arch, it was evident that we +could not possibly part, without having a cup together to cement the +acquaintance. Well, we were just about to dive into one of the +wine-cellars there, below the gate-way, when I saw your friend Boto +standing by himself in the middle of the street, apparently quite a-gaze +and bewildered, and not able to form the smallest guess which way he ought +to take in order to reach home; and being a good-natured fellow, in spite +of all that has been said, I immediately shouted out his name till he was +compelled to hear me, and then beckoned to him to come along with us, +which indeed he did without much coaxing." + +"Well, Dromo," said I, "and so all your great news is, that you have been +leading my Briton into one of your debauches? In truth, I think you need +not have made such an affectation of mystery withal."--"Stop now," quoth +he, cutting me short; "if the slave be too slow, I am sure the master's +quickness will make up for it.--Hear me out before you begin commenting; +such interruptions would bring the Stagyrite himself to a stand. We were +soon, all three of us, seated in one of those snug little places, which if +you have not yet seen, you are ignorant of the most comfortable sight +within all the four walls of Rome,--a quiet cleanly little place,--three +good hassocks upon the floor, a handful of sausages, a plate of dried fish +as broad as the shield of Ajax, and a good old fashioned round-bellied +jolly jug of Surrentine in the midst of us. I dare say, there were a +hundred besides employed in the same way in the house; but we shut the +door, and were as private as behind the altar of Vesta."--"A tempting +scene, Dromo; and what use did you make of your privacy?"--"All in good +time, Master Valerius; you would have the apple before the egg. We had +scarcely emptied our first jug, ere the conversation between the Calabrian +and me took a turn that was not quite unnatural; for slaves, however +little you may trust them, will always be smelling out something of the +truth; and you may be sure, all this visiting, and feasting, and riding +about in chariots, and sitting together at the Amphitheatre, has not been +going on, without causing a good deal of talk both in this house and the +rich widow's. The courtship was of course the subject of our conversation, +and I, pretending to know nothing of it myself, except from the common +report of the slaves about our house, affected to consider it as highly +probable, that the fat Calabrian might have had much better opportunities +than mine of being informed how the affair really stood." + +"And did he really seem to have any knowledge about it?" said I.--"Not +much--not much; but still the man did tell me something that I think may +turn out to be well worth the knowing. 'I am sure,' said I, (by this time +Boto was fast asleep,)--'I am sure, if Rubellia won't have my young master, +it won't be for want of presents; for we all know he has already given her +a whole casket of rings and bracelets that belonged to his mother, and he +is sitting for his picture, which, they say, he is to give her +besides.'--'And _I_ am sure,' quoth the Calabrian in return, 'that if your +young master don't have my lady, it won't be for want of presents neither; +for she is the most generous open-handed lady in the world, and that her +worst enemies will allow, although her father be an old rogue, and an +usurer, as all the town says he is. No, Dromo,' continued he, 'nor will it +be for want of philtres, nor of charms, nor of any thing that soothsaying +can procure; for, between ourselves, my lady keeps up a constant traffic +of late with all that sort of gentry; and what the issue of it all may be, +Hecate only knows.' Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him speak of +philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken up my ears more +keenly than ever." + +"Dromo!" said I; "you are not serious. You do not mean surely to make me +think that you believe in the efficacy of love-potions, or any such +quackeries?" "Quackeries! do you call philtres quackeries? Why, there was +a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept me raving for six +months."--"What sort of a looking girl was she, good Dromo?"--"Bah!" quoth +he; "don't expect to jeer me out of memory as well as judgment. Heavens +and earth! when did any body ever hear of any body denying the efficacy of +philtres? What an atheistical sort of barbarians those Britons must be. I +wonder you are not afraid of some evil coming upon you. Remember Dian's +handful; remember the fate of Actaeon!"--"Good Dromo," said I, "I suppose +you also suffered from peeping. But talk seriously; are you yourself a +dealer in philtres, that you are so anxious I should believe in their +power? Or what is your meaning?" + +"My meaning is this," quoth he, with great vehemence,--"it is, that if +Rubellia gives Sextus such another philtre as a certain cunning damsel +gave me, before I left pleasant Crete, to be a drudge and a packhorse here +in Rome, where a man may sweat all his life in another's service without +being once thanked for his pains, and perhaps be laid out, look ye, for a +supper to the vultures at last, because no body will treat his carcase to +a blaze of old sticks,--I say, that if the Lady Rubellia contrives to give +Sextus such another philtre as that, the game's up, Master Valerius; and +we may as well set about painting the dead, as try to save him from her +clutches. The man's gone--he's as lost as Troy."--"Well, Dromo," said I, for +I perceived there was no use in fighting it with him, "and have you not +been able to hit upon any feasible scheme?"--"Ay, have you come to that at +last? that is just what I have been cudgelling my brains about for the +last twelve hours. But if I do hit upon any thing, I shall need +assistance. In such cases, the best judgment can do nothing by +itself."--"Fear not, Dromo," quoth I; "if my assistance can do you any +good, you well know you can command it to the utmost."--"Then prepare," +replied the Cretan, rising up with an air of much solemnity--"then prepare +in good earnest; for, may Cerberus growl upon me, if I don't find out some +scheme before another day goes over, and shew you all what stuff I am made +of. To think of entrapping Sextus without consulting Dromo!--No, by Cretan +Jove, she shall not accomplish it--no, not even with a sea of philtres." + +"And, in the meantime," said I, "what must Sextus do with himself?"--"He +must not go near the Suburra; he must remain closely at home; and as for +tasting any thing at her house, or any thing that comes from her--by +heavens, if he does not take his oath against that--we may as well leave +him to his destiny. If he will but take good care for this one day, I +think there is every chance something may be hit upon ere the morning. I +have got my cue, and shall not be idle, I promise you; but I undertake +nothing, unless you swear to keep Sextus safe, and at a distance from her, +till night-fall."--"Good Dromo," said I, "make yourself easy on that score; +it will be a new circumstance indeed, if we find any difficulty in +persuading Sextus to stay a single day away from the Suburra." + +"Persuading!" quoth the slave; "who ever heard of such a word as +persuasion at such a crisis as this? I tell you he _must_ be kept away; +and if no other plan can be fallen on, I have a great mind to turn the key +on him and his pedagogue both together. I heard them hammering at their +lessons already as I came along--and that puts me in mind that I have a +very shrewd notion there is more between that bearded goat of ours and +this Rubellia, than any of us had been suspecting. Unless that Calabrian +lies--and I think lying is above his sphere--this old rogue has been oftener +in the Suburra of late than we had any thought of. So help me Hermes! I +believe Licinius has been employing him to go his private messages to +Rubellia--but that is only one insult more, and I shall have my revenge all +in a lump." + +"I think it very likely," answered I, quietly, "that Licinius may have +been employing Xerophrastes in some such embassies; and, if I mistake not +the matter, he would feel himself quite as much in his element, trotting +along the Sacred Way, and so forth, on such delicate errands for the +father, as in expounding musty parchments to the son."--"No matter for all +that," quoth Dromo, rubbing his hands; "the more enemies the more glory. +Would Miltiades have been pleased had the Spartans arrived?--Leave all to +me--take you care only of Sextus, and I am not afraid for any reinforcement +that rascally rhetorician may bring against me."--While he was saying so, +the face of the Cretan exhibited symptoms of incipient glee; and he +concluded with snapping his fingers, and uttering a short keen whistle, +such as you have heard from the lips of a hunter, when the dogs begin to +bay around a thicket. + +Seeing his eyes dance with the expectation of some bustling scene, I could +not help participating, in some measure, in the feelings of the Cretan; +and, "Dear Dromo," said I, "I beseech you, if it be possible, let me have +a share in whatever you resolve upon."--"Watch well," replied he, "during +the day, and you shall see what you shall see, when the moon mounts above +the Coelian, and the hour for grubbing among herbs and bones is come.--But +now I hear some one coming--it is Licinius."--Dromo, finger on lip, glided +from the room. Nor had his well-practised ears deceived him, for he +scarcely vanished, before my kinsman entered. + +"Valerius," said he, saluting me affectionately, "I thought you were +probably much fatigued with your spectacles, so I desired that nobody +should call you this morning; but I met Boto in the hall, and hearing that +you were astir, I have come up, for I wish a little private conversation. +Shall we walk in the eastern portico, till Xerophrastes leaves Sextus at +liberty?" + +He led the way along the gallery, and in passing, we also heard the deep +voice of the rhetorician resounding among the pillars, and could even +catch a few of the magniloquent phrases with which he was feeding the ears +of his pupil. "Ay, ay," says Licinius, "I wish, indeed, it were possible +to inspire the youth with some sense of what is due to the dignity of +principle, and how absurd it is to think of gratifying whims at the +expense of duty. But I fear the boy is incorrigible; and, Caius, I am +sorry to say, I suspect you have been looking on his errors with a +countenance rather of favour and of confirmation, than, as I should have +expected, of rebuke." + +"Licinius," said I, "you know not how much you distress me. I could rather +die than encourage Sextus in any thing I thought evil; but, indeed, I have +seen nothing to make me imagine him capable of such conduct." + +"Come, by Hercules," returned he, "there is no occasion for so many words. +I thought it very odd that you went away so soon from the Forum the other +day, considering that you had never been there before; but I thought it +doubly and trebly remarkable that Sextus should have accompanied you, when +the case in hand affected the affairs of Rubellia. But I have since found +out that it was not the society of old Capito which attracted him--no, my +friend, nor yet the alarm of a thunder storm that detained you at the +villa. In a word, Valerius, I strongly suspect that Sextus is carrying on +an intrigue with a young lady whom I never saw, but who, I am quite sure, +will never be mistress of a dozen lizards, and that this is the true cause +of his reluctance concerning a match, which, to say nothing of the +pleasure it would give to me, is the only means by which I can see any +prospect of the young man's fortune being made, and the dignity of his +family kept up, after another effigy shall have been added to our hall. +Infatuated and headstrong boy! if he owes nothing to himself or to me, is +it possible that he can look upon that venerable line of sages and heroes, +without feeling shame in the degradation of his own earth-stooping +desires?" + +"Without question," said I, "you allude to the Lady Rubellia, whom, as I +have heard from various quarters, you are desirous of seeing wedded to +Sextus." + +"Yes, Caius Valerius, it is indeed to her I allude; and it is of the +obstacle which--unwittingly, I doubt not--you yourself have been throwing in +the way of that union, that I have now to make my complaint. Not such the +service that I had expected from my kinsman. Rubellia is descended from a +noble family, and, both in possession and expectation, her wealth is +great. Two heavy fines laid upon me by Domitian, and the expense at which +I have maintained my rank among the great patrons of Rome--these things +together have impoverished me, and to an extent not altogether convenient. +In this boy my hopes were placed; and see now how they are all likely to +be blasted for a dimpled cheek and a pair of wanton eyes!--or rather, +indeed, I should say, for the sake of the malignant pleasure that is +derived from thwarting my purposes; for, if beauty were what the boy +wanted, where should he find beauty beyond Rubellia? Perhaps, Caius, I +should, before this time, have made you acquainted with my intentions from +my own lips. But it is my own foolish indulgence which has made my +degenerate boy quite forget, not only what is the duty of a son, but what +is the power of a father." + +"I trust," said I, "there is no need for all this seriousness. Sextus has +only laid aside the garb of a stripling; it is too much to be despairing +of his success in life, only because he is unwilling, at a period so +early, to enter upon a permanent connection. Is it possible, that, if he +really dislike Rubellia, you would wish to see him marry her--only to +divorce her, without question, as soon as he should find it possible to do +so without inconvenience?"--"Handsome, rich, noble, and almost as young as +himself, why, in the name of all the gods, for what cause should he +divorce Rubellia?"--"Sir," said I, "he loves not Rubellia, nor will ever +love her; and if you cause your son to marry this woman, look you well to +it, that the unhappiness of both rest not on your head. Handsome, rich, +noble, and young she may be; but I am sure, she has neither such a heart, +nor such a mind, as should belong to the wife of your Sextus. A luxurious +woman is Rubellia, and I have seen her find luxury in the contemplation of +blood. Wed not Rubellia to your son."--"Peace, Valerius," he answered; +"what boyish nonsense is this?--I _will_ wed Rubellia to my son; and let +him see to it, that he tempts me not farther with his disobedience." + +Licinius said these last words in a voice of so much earnestness, that I +knew not well what answer to make to him; but while I was hesitating, one +of the little boys about the house, (I mean the children of the domestic +slaves,) said, "If it please my lord, the same senator that was here in +the morning is waiting in the hall."--"Pontius Mamurra!" said the orator, +leaving me. + +I, for my part, when I heard the name of the visiter, began to understand +somewhat of the channel through which my kinsman had been informed about +what had passed at the Suburban. I had no leisure, however, to reflect +long upon this hint; for I found Sextus waiting for me. "Come," he said, +"I was afraid I must set off without you. My father has been looking on me +this morning with such an aspect of displeasure as I rarely before +witnessed in him, and if I defer going to the painter about this likeness, +he will be altogether enraged at supper-time. I know very well he means +the ring, in which it is to be placed, for another present to Rubellia; +but notwithstanding, what can I do? Any opposition to him in lesser +matters would only tend to bring on some final explanation about the great +affair itself, and that, whether it be weakness in me or not, I as yet +have no courage to encounter. The man must be expecting me; and I am sure +you will accompany me, for I have much need of you to keep up my heart. +Xerophrastes, indeed, has been desired to go with me; but he will be no +comfort, for I see plainly, from the drift of his harangues, that he is +enlisted against me. Dear Caius, I have nobody in the whole world I can +trust to but Dromo and yourself." + +He had scarcely said so, when we heard Xerophrastes pacing up and down +with solemn strides in the gallery; so I knew not how to excuse myself, +although I was very anxious to have staid at home for another purpose. +Sextus had taken my gown from the nail; he threw it over my shoulders +before I had time to say any thing, and we were soon on our way to his +ungrateful destination. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +We had to traverse a considerable part of the city; for this painter was +one of those who exercise their art during the public hours of the day in +the baths of the Palatine, where, as you have heard, in the wide circuit +of the princely residence, abundant accommodation is set forth for all +such ingenious persons. We proceeded along the edge of the river, and by +the west of the Capitol, following the line of that great Triumphal Way +which has been witness of so many glorious pageants; for so, they told me, +we should most easily ascend into the Caesarian courts. But when we had +come thither, we found the whole open space, in front of the portico and +stairs of Trajan, occupied by a detachment of the Praetorian cohorts, drawn +up in splendid array to receive some promised donative; while the music, +and the clamours of their mustering, had collected enough of spectators to +render the passage onwards in some measure difficult. We were constrained +to form part of their attendance, and stood gazing among the multitude. +Even Xerophrastes caught some animation from the brilliancy of the +spectacle; and the enamoured and perplexed Sextus himself, beating time on +my shoulder, seemed to have forgotten, for a moment, the anxieties of his +situation. + +Some horsemen, however, riding along to keep the ground open in front of +the soldiery, compelled us to shift to the eastward, where many chariots +were drawn up--and in one of these Rubellia. The lady looked paler than I +had before seen her, and had not the air of being in the smallest degree +occupied with what was passing. I did not think it necessary to take any +notice of her being there to my companions, and was willing, indeed, to +keep myself turned away from the place where she sat, in order to avoid +our being recognized. Yet there was something in her aspect and attitude, +that, as by a sort of fascination, drew my eyes to the spot I wished to +avoid. From time to time, therefore, I felt myself constrained to regard +the melancholy lady; and by and by, Sextus perceived what it was that +attracted my attention:--so I discovered, although he said not a word, from +a fervent pressure upon my arm as I stood before him. At that moment there +drew near a little ugly old woman, with no covering upon her head but long +coarse gray clusters of hair hanging matted and twisted down upon her +shoulders, who lifted up a basket of trinkets, and presented it; but +Rubellia started on her seat, and, looking in the face of the old +creature, manifested signs of no trivial emotion; for her colour returned +with a sudden flush, and her eyes recovered all their animation, and it +was evident she had something to say which could not regard the gaudy +ornaments offered to her view. Whatever it was, however, she did not +occupy much time in saying it; for scarcely a minute elapsed before the +basket was lowered again, and the old woman began to move towards another +part of the crowd; on which Rubellia sunk back in her chariot, and +appeared to relapse into pensive abstraction. + +Presently a low voice croaking out, "Rings, rings--amulets and rings!" +amongst the crowd that stood immediately behind me; and I perceived the +same woman pushing her basket between Xerophrastes and Sextus.--"Noble +youth," quoth the hag, leering, "lovely young gentleman--sweet Adonis, my +charming lord, do now look into old Pona's basket--do take a look at +Ponula's rings and amulets--her amulets and rings. Here is one that I could +have sold a hundred times, but I was determined to keep it till I should +see the prettiest young gentleman in Rome, and I will never go back to +Naples without selling it, after this day; for this little amulet must be +nobody's but yours. You will break my heart, my prince, if you buy not my +beautiful amulet." + +"And what," said Sextus, blushing and laughing, "may be the virtues of +your amulet?" + +Then laying her yellow hand upon his shoulder, till she had made him stoop +down so that she might get close to his ear, she began to pour out, with +much mysterious volubility, all the story of its marvellous potencies; but +what she said even I could not know, only I heard the words, "AEthiopian, +AEthiopian," and "Memnon, Memnon," and something about "not a pretty lady +in Rome." But just as the woman was most earnest in her whisper, and +Sextus, apparently at least, in listening, I found my gown plucked from +behind, and behold, there was Dromo, with a countenance tremulously +agitated, and white as a piece of dead parchment, pointing to his young +master and the old hag, and beseeching me to separate them, by motions in +nowise to be mistaken. How he had come thither, or what was the cause of +this anxiety, I had no time to conjecture, for before I could say a word, +he began to bellow out,--"The horses, the horses--make room for the horses;" +and immediately those that stood near him began to move a little, and +then, the cry being repeated, those that stood farther off mistaking the +noise of their feet for the approach of some new squadron, there arose a +sort of rushing among the crowd; and, in a twinkling, the voice of Pona +was heard grumbling and croaking at a distance from the place to which our +party were borne. Close, nevertheless, did the faithful Cretan stick to +us; and no sooner was quiet in some measure restored, and the false alarm +he had created at an end, than he whispered into my ear, "For the sake of +all that is sacred, let not that foul hag speak another word to my young +master--I will tell you more anon. Meantime, haste ye, haste ye. Make the +best of your speed to the Palatine; it will be much easier for you to push +your way thither, than it was for me to reach you." + +My friend being already weary of the heat and the pressure, we were ready +to take advantage of an opening pointed out by the Cretan. It so happened, +however, that in the same commotion the chariot of Rubellia also had +changed its situation; for just as we had escaped, as I thought, and were +about to place our feet on the magnificent flight of stairs that leads +from the New Way to the Augustan Towers, there came to us a lad of that +lady's household, who told us she was near at hand, and desirous, if it so +pleased us, of our company. Aware that we were in sight, how could we +disobey? We found the lady in her chariot, but not such as we had seen her +before. On the contrary, the liveliness of her aspect seemed now to be +restored, and she received us with her usual gaiety of address. "Careless +men," said she, as we drew near; "I suppose I might have sat here till the +Greek Kalends, before any one of you would have observed me." + +"Most noble lady," quoth Xerophrastes, "bear it not indignantly, that +amidst all the confusion of men and horses, and trumpets and shoutings, +our attention was abstracted from that which was most worthy of notice. My +young friends deserve to be excused, since even I, who am not in the habit +of being much troubled by such vanities, was so bewildered that I scarcely +knew my right hand from my left, in this human chaos.--Pardon, noble +Rubellia; we have been unwitting offenders." + +"And was it so?" said the lady, not looking at the Stoic.--"But I did not +call for you to hear useless apologies. What new sight is it that attracts +you to the Palatine?--or is it only that you are desirous of exhibiting to +Valerius the old-established wonders of the place? In either case, I have +half a mind to accompany you. In spite of all they tell us about the +Golden House, I can scarcely think the Palatine shewed more splendidly +than it does now, even in the days of Nero." + +"Indeed," said I, as we began to mount together the broad slabbed steps +which rise up, tier above tier, from the portico on the street, to that +which hangs on the brow--"Indeed, it is not easy for me to doubt that +Rubellia is in the right."--For now, on one side, were all the pillars and +arches of the Forum stretched out below us, and, on the other, lay the +great Circus, topped with its obelisk; while before rose the gray cliffs +of the Capitoline, with their domes and proud pinnacles in the glow of +noontide--the space between, radiant with arms and banners. Even +Xerophrastes did not refrain from some ejaculations.--"Illustrious Rome! +how great is thy sublimity!" And then, after a pause, he repeated, in a +voice of much majesty, those verses from the Fury of Ajax: + + "Oh! might I be where o'er the living deep + Lies the broad shadow of the Sounian cliff, + Waving with all its glorious garniture, + Of rock-sprung foliage: from old Ocean's side, + That I might look on Athens once again!" + +Some of the hints which had reached me concerning his nativity recurring +to my recollection, I could not help echoing his quotation with another +from the AEneid, about the wide tracts ploughed by the Thracians; of which +impertinence the sage took no notice. + +Nor was admiration diminished when, having gained the top of that massive +staircase, or rather, as I should say, hill of marble, we passed beneath +the sounding portal, the sole remnant of the original pile of Augustus, +and found ourselves within the first of those great imperial quadrangles, +by which the whole summit of that once so variously and multitudinously +peopled region is now occupied. The light and airy porticoes--the domes--the +princely towers--the universal profusion of marble, brass, ivory, flaming +gold, lavished on arch, metope, and architrave--all conspired to dazzle the +sight, and I stood still to gaze. + +"Observe," said Sextus, "those two equestrian statues of bronze on the +left hand. I have heard my father say that they mark the sites of two +houses, which, before Augustus began to enclose the whole Palatine in his +walls, were inhabited, the one by Cicero, the other by Clodius; these are +the only traces of their mansions." + +"What grim-looking figures!" said the lady; "yet, I dare say, they don't +cast half such fierce looks on each other, as the predecessors you +mention. I should like to have seen the countenance of old Tully, the +morning he went down the hill to deliver his harangue for Milo." + +"I am glad," said I, "that Sextus has told me this; for in reading those +famous philippics in time to come, I shall possess a new key to the +bitterness of their phraseology, knowing, as I do, that the two lived just +over the way from each other, and that the orator, when his spirits were +flagging, could derive a new reinforcement of spleen from merely putting +his head out of the window."--"To hear you," says Rubellia, "one would +think you were studying the art of making philippics--I am afraid, that if +it be so, my joining your party may prove to have been but an ill-judged +thing; for if any of you be preparing to abuse me, my presence will serve +to sharpen your weapons."--"In that case, however," interrupted the smiling +Xerophrastes, "my noble lady will admit, that the converse also will hold +good, and that if praise be in meditation, it will not be the feebler +because the subject of the intended panegyric has passed before our +eyes."--"Most courteous of men," replied the lady, "who talks of the +stiffness of the Porch? To-day and yesterday you have paid me as many +compliments as might give a lesson to the gayest trifler about these +baths. If all," she continued, (gazing as she spoke, with all her eyes +upon Sextus,)--"if all were as profuse, I should be unable to sustain the +weight of their civilities."--"Nay, Oh! generous lady," quoth the sage +again, "it must be remembered, that, as the poet has expressed it, there +are two kinds of shame--there is the wicked shame and the good shame. Why +should it be doubted, that a modest Verecundity, not unsuitable to their +age, has laid her finger on the lips of our young friends? I swear by the +Victrix of Ida, that your presence itself is that which occasions their +silence;--bear it not ill--bear it not harshly--the young will learn--not +every one has seen Corinth."--"No, truly," answered the laughing lady; "but +I doubt whether they that have been so fortunate, have ever seen any thing +half so fine as what now awaits Valerius." + +She pointed to the solemn Doric columns which sustain the portico of the +famous Temple of Apollo, whose shade lay far out upon the court before us; +and, passing between those brazen horsemen, we soon began to ascend the +steps that lead up to the shrine. Nor can I tell you how delightful was +the fragrant coolness, which reigned beneath the influence of that massive +canopy of marble, to us whose eyes had been so long supporting the +meridian blaze. We entered with slow steps within the vestibule of the +Temple, and stood there for some space, enjoying in silence the soft +breath of air that played around the flowing fountains. Then passing on, +the airy hall received us; and I saw the statue of Phoebus presiding, like +a pillar of tender light, over the surrounding darkness of the vaulted +place; for, to the lofty shrine of the God of day no light of day had +access, and there lay only a small creeping flame burning thin upon his +altar; but a dim and sweet radiance, like that of the stars in autumn, was +diffused all upon the statue, and the altar, and the warlike trophies +suspended in the inner recesses, from the sacred tree of silver that +stands in the centre; amidst the trembling enamelled leaves and drooping +boughs of which hung many lamps, after the shape and fashion of +pomegranates: and out of every pomegranate flowed a separate gleam of that +soft light, supplied mysteriously through the stem of the silver tree. + +There appeared presently from behind the statue, a majestic woman, arrayed +in long white garments, and having a fillet of laurel leaves twined above +her veil. Venerable and stately was her mien, but haughty, rather than +serene, the aspect of her countenance. Without looking towards us, she +went up to the altar, and began to busy herself in trimming the sacred +fire, which, as I have said, exhibited only a lambent flame. When, with +many kneelings and other ceremonies, she had accomplished this service, +the priestess turned again, as if to depart; and then first, as it seemed, +observing the presence of strangers, she stood still before the altar, and +regarding us attentively, began to recognize the Lady Rubellia; whom, +forthwith advancing, she saluted courteously, and invited to come with the +rest of us into her privacy, behind the shrine of the God. + +She led the way, Rubellia and the rest of us in her train, through several +folding-doors, and along many narrow passages all inlaid, on roof, wall, +and floor, with snow-white alabaster and rich mosaic work; until at length +we came to a little airy chamber, where three young maidens were sitting +with their embroidering cushions, while one, taller than the rest, whose +back was placed towards us, knelt on the floor, touching, with slow +fingers, the strings of a Dorian lyre. Hearing the sound of her music as +we entered, we stood still in the door-way, and the priestess, willing +apparently that our approach should remain unknown, advancing a step or +two before us, said, "Sing on--I have trimmed the flame; but remember, I +pray you, that the precincts of Phoebus are not those of Pluto, and let not +your chant be of such funereal solemnity. We solitaries have little need +of depressing numbers." + +"Dear friend," replied she that had been thus addressed, without changing +her attitude, "you must bear with my numbers such as they are; for if you +bid me sing only merry strains, I am afraid neither voice nor fingers may +be able well to obey you." + +These words were spoken in a low and melancholy voice, which I well +recognized. Sextus, also, perceived who spoke; but when he looked at me to +signify this, I motioned to keep silence. + +"Then please yourself," said the priestess, laying her hand on Athanasia's +shoulders; "but do sing, for I should fain have my maidens to hear +something truly of your music." With that she again applied her fingers to +the lyre, and stooping over it, began to play some notes of prelude, less +sorrowful than what we had at first heard. "Ay, my dear girl," says the +priestess, "you could not have chosen better. Heavens! how many lordly +choirs have I heard singing to that old Delian air. There are a hundred +hymns that may be sung to it--give us whichsoever of them pleases your +fancy the best."--"I will try," replied the maiden, "to sing the words you +have heard before. If I remember, you liked them." Then boldly at once, +yet gently, did her voice rush into the current of that ancient strain +that you have heard so often; but it was then that I myself for the first +time heard it. + + The moon, the moon is thine, O night, + Not altogether dark art thou; + Her trembling crescent sheds its light, + Trembling and pale, upon thine ancient brow. + + The moon is thine, and round her orb + A thousand sweet stars minister, + Whose twinkling rays dark wells absorb, + And all the wide seas drink them far and near. + + They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles + Of gladness o'er the waters creep; + Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles, + And there is glory on the slumbering deep + + Afar. Along the black hill's side, + Right blithe of heart the wanderers go, + While that soft radiance, far and wide, + Gleams on the winding streams and woods below. + + And gaily for the fragile bark, + Through the green waves its path is shorn, + When all the murmurs of the dark + Cold sea lie calm'd beneath that gliding horn. + + Yet hail, ye glittering streaks, that lie + The eastern mountain tops upon! + Hail, ye deep blushes of the sky, + That speak the coming of the bridegroom sun! + + Hail to the healing beam of day, + That rouses every living thing! + The forest gulphs confess thy sway, + And upon freshening branches glad birds sing. + + And loathsome forms, that crept unseen + Beneath the star-light faint and wan, + Cower in their brakes the thorns between, + Dreading that fervid eye, and its sure scan + + Triumphant. Welcome life and light! + Sing rocks and mountains, plain and sea; + Fearful though lovely was the night; + Hail to more perfect beauty--hail to THEE! + +"Why stop you, Athanasia?" said the priestess, finding that here she +paused,--"why do you rise up, and take your fingers from the lyre, before +you sing out the chorus?"--"No more, dear aunt--excuse me--no more. I have +already sung all that I can," replied Athanasia.--"Nay, then," says she, +"if you be fatigued, sing not; but join me, maidens, in the close--perhaps +it rises too high for Athanasia." + +And with that the ancient lady herself, joined by the three damsels that +had been embroidering, took up the strain, which, indeed, rose higher +towards its end + + Hail to thee Phoebus, son of Jove, + Glorious Apollo, Lord of Light, + Hail, lovely in thy Delian grove, + And terrible on Delphos' haunted height! + + Hail to thee here beneath the dome, + Great Phoebus, of thy Latian shrine; + All hail from Caesar and from Rome; + Hail by thy dearest name, God Palatine! + +But as they were singing the last verse of all, Rubellia also aided their +melody with a rich strong gushing voice, which rose far above all the +others; and the silent Athanasia turning round quickly, perceived, not +without manifestation of alarm, by how many strangers her song had been +overheard. On seeing who we were, she saluted Sextus and myself with +modest courtesy, amidst her confusion; and it may be that my companion, as +well as myself, blushed at the same moment; for he could not see Athanasia +without thinking of Sempronia. + +It seemed as if her confusion were not unconnected with some suspicion of +having been recognized near the Praetorian guard-house; for, after the +first glance, I in vain endeavoured to meet her eye; while on the +contrary, to Sextus she directed both looks and words, enough to provoke +visibly some not altogether benign movements in our Rubellia. Such, at +least, was my interpretation of the fair widow's aspect, and the tone of +impatience in which she, after a minute or two had passed, began to urge +the propriety of our proceeding to the part of the imperial edifice in +which the painter was expecting us. + +The priestess of Apollo hearing her say so, courteously offered to guide +us beyond the precincts of the temple, and our whole party were again in +motion; but Athanasia remained behind with the three young damsels, and I, +who walked last, saw her, ere the portal received me, preparing again to +handle the lyre, with fingers visibly trembling, and a pale countenance, +not as I thought unstained with some yet more distinct traces of keen +emotion. The sight of her agitation fixed my footstep for a moment, and it +was then that, on her casting a sudden glance round to the place where I +stood, I perceived truly that I had not been mistaken, and that the tears +were gathered within her eyelids. It was no more, however, than one +glance, for immediately she stooped again, and, dashing her fingers along +the chords of the instrument, appeared to bury her thoughts in its +harmony. I stood for a moment, and then ashamed of myself, and troubled +with her troubles and with my own, I followed the rest into the great +library which Augustus placed beneath the protection of the Palatine +Apollo. The priestess parted from us at its entrance, after pointing out a +low and massive door of bronze on the right hand, within which, as she +told me, the remains of the Sybilline prophecies are preserved, unseen by +profane eyes, watched over perpetually by the guardians of the place. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +I had walked by the side of my young friend, and behind the Stoic, (who, I +think, was expressing, in his pompous fashion, much admiration of the +singing of Rubellia,) along one or two of the great halls in which the +library is contained, before the novelty of the objects surrounding me +made any impression even on my eyes; and even after these were in some +measure engaged, my mind still continued to dwell on that troubled aspect, +and on the notes of the uncompleted song. At length, however, the levity +of youth, and natural curiosity revived; and I began to be present, not in +body merely, in a place where there was much that might well interest the +mind. Far-receding rows of columns conducted my eyes into the interminable +recesses of that wide range of chambers, in which the records of the +thought and spirit of all past ages are piled up together; and gazing on +the loaded shelves which every where ascended into the galleries, I could +not but be affected with many new emotions. I perused glorious names on +the busts that seemed to preside over the different compartments. The high +filletted front of Homer detained for the first time my contemplation; the +eyes of the divine old man, even in sculpture, distinctly and visibly +blind, while the serenity and sanctity of the towering forehead, revealed +how the intense perception at once of the lovely and the great could +compensate for visions of earthly beauty shut out. The mild Plato, and the +imperious Stagyrite--Pindar--Simonides--Alcaeus--and I know not how many more, +succeeded as we passed along--each in his own sphere, reigning by himself; +yet all connected together by a certain common air of greatness, like so +many successive princes, or contemporary heroes of the same mighty empire. + +From this main range, there diverged many lesser chambers, in which we saw +studious persons engaged, each seated by himself, and having his eyes +fixed on the parchment before him. Of these, some deigned not to intimate +by the smallest movement their perception that any one had approached; but +with others Xerophrastes exchanged, as he walked, lofty salutation, and +one or two even entered, for a moment, into conversation with him. With +one of these, indeed, (an ancient of bitter aspect,) to such a length did +the colloquy extend, that we began to think we should never be able to get +our Stoic away from him; till, as our fortune would have it, it became +necessary for them to have a certain book for the purpose of reference, +and then Xerophrastes began to make inquiries concerning Parmeno, who, as +I gathered, must needs be one of those intrusted with the care of the +library. + +"I am afraid," said the other, "if we must wait for him, we shall not be +able to get that work either to-day or to-morrow; for his pupil, the son +of Fabricius, is dead, and I suppose he will now change his quarters, and +be no longer seen so often about these haunts of the muses." + +"Alas!" interrupted Sextus, "I met Fabricius in the Forum a few days ago, +and he told me his son was ill; but little did I imagine my dear companion +was so near his end! Is it indeed so?" + +"Even so," rejoined the other. "Rapid have been the shears of Atropos! It +is but a few moments since Agaso, the painter passed; and, he told me he +had been receiving orders to take a likeness, as well as he could, from +the corpse." + +"If Agaso be so engaged," replied Xerophrastes, "I am afraid we need not +expect to find him neither in his usual place. Perhaps we had better make +inquiry for him at the dwelling of Fabricius." + +To this Sextus assented; or rather, being lost in reflection concerning +the death of his friend, he suffered himself to be conducted by the Stoic. +Passing, therefore, through one or two more apartments, we issued forth, +and drew near to the vestibule of Fabricius' house, who, as they told me, +was a noble Roman, having the chief superintendance of the whole library, +and an intimate friend of Licinius--one whose domestic calamity could not +fail to spread much affliction through a wide circle of patrician kindred. + +At the vestibule, we found assembled not a few of the young man's +relations; but Xerophrastes immediately said, "Behold Parmeno, he is the +most afflicted; and what wonder that it should be so?" + +"Alas!" said Sextus, "the bier is set forth; the last rites are to be +performed this evening." + +This Parmeno was a striking figure. Seated close by the bier, his head was +involved in his cloak, so that only his eyes and his nose could be seen, +but these of themselves expressed a decorous affliction; and the folds of +the cloak fell down over the rest of his person in great order and +dignity. On the pavement beside him was seen lying, half-unfolded, a book +inscribed with the name of Heraclitus, which he appeared to have been +reading. When Xerophrastes approached, this mourner stretched forth his +hand, and shook his head, but he did not say any thing, nor even look +towards the rest of us; and indeed to have done so, would have disturbed +the attitude in which he had placed himself. Xerophrastes, on his part, +received the proffered hand, and shaking his head in response, said, "Yes, +my Ionian friend, I may still bid thee hail and live; but I must say +farewell to the plant thou wast rearing. Farewell to the youthful promise +of Fabricius!" + +On hearing these words, the sitting philosopher drew his mantle quite over +his face, and leant himself heavily against one of the fluted columns of +the vestibule, for he seemed to be much shaken. In the meantime Sextus +approached the bier, and contemplated his companion as he lay there +wreathed with melancholy garlands; his countenance bearing a natural +mixture of sadness and astonishment. Nor could I, who had never before +seen the young man, behold the spectacle without similar emotions; for his +age, as it seemed, could not have been much different from my own, and the +pale features were interesting, their expression not less amiable than +solemn. + +"Alas!" said Sextus, "the last time I saw him, how differently did he +appear! We rode out together with some others to Tibur, and spent all the +day there; and as we returned by the moonlight, how joyous his +conversation! Methinks I yet hear him laughing and speaking. We parted at +the foot of the Capitoline, and never did I see him again till now." + +"Oh, fate of man!" quoth Xerophrastes; "how uncertain is life, how certain +death! Without doubt, young Fabricius had as little thought of dying as +any of your company; and yet, see now, he is arrayed for the last time, +and this juvenile gown, which he should so soon have laid aside for the +manly, is destined to be consumed with him." + +"A fine lad he was," cries one of the standers by,--"a fine lad, and an +excellent horseman. The Martian Field did not often behold such a rider in +these degenerate days of the Roman youth." + +But while the rest were still contemplating the bier, Xerophrastes, +turning to his brother philosopher, said, "Tell me now, my learned friend, +do you still, after this mournful event, continue to reside with the elder +Fabricius? Has that excellent man any more sons to be educated, or will he +retain you only for the sake of the library, with which assuredly he will +find few so conversant as yourself?" + +To which Parmeno replied, "Your question, O Xerophrastes, shews that clear +judgment concerning the affairs of men, for which you have always been +celebrated. No, my friend, the gray-haired Fabricius no longer requires my +residence here; for he is about to retire into one of his villas on the +Campanian shore, and to bury for ever his affliction in the privacy of his +woods. We are about to part, not without mutual tears; and several +Patricians have already been applying to him for his influence with me, +whom, although unworthy of so much research, they earnestly covet, and +wish to engage as the instructor of their young men. I have been sitting +here not unseen, beside this my former charge, and each is impatient to +solicit me into his service." + +"Your reputation I well know is high," replied Xerophrastes, "and +deservedly so; more particularly, for that fine talent you have for giving +metaphysical interpretations of mythology, and for explaining the obscure +allegories of ancient poets. But for my own part, Parmeno, I find not so +much delight in abstract ideas, or in the passive contemplation of the +universe; but incline rather to study, as heretofore, that part of +philosophy which relates to action, and the morality of duty." + +"Yes, worthy Xerophrastes," returned he, with a most languid serenity; +"and so far as I understand, you sort well in this with the stirring +disposition of your friend Licinius." + +To which Xerophrastes made answer:--"My patron Licinius is fond of action, +and I of the rules of action. He says, it is only in war, or in civil +functions of a public nature, that a person can prove himself a man. The +rest, he says, is visionary, and comes to nothing, or is a slumber of the +mind in sensuality, without thought." + +"Does he think, then," quoth Parmeno, his wobegone countenance relaxing +into a smile,--"Does Licinius think, then, there is no sensuality in +perpetual action, and declamation and noise? To me such things appear +almost as trivial as the lazy enjoyments of Epicureans, besides being +harsh and disagreeable, and not unfrequently ridiculous. But observe, O +Xerophrastes! that I speak these things as it were abstractly, and not by +any means in disparagement of Licinius, your excellent patron and friend." + +To which the stoic replied in astonishment--"What is this you have said? Do +you assert that action is sensual?" + +Then Parmeno, lifting from the pavement the book which he had been +reading, or appearing to read, said, "It is even so, most erudite +Xerophrastes. Indeed, I have always delighted in the most primitive and +remote doctrines handed down from antiquity; and among others, in the +riddles of this obscure Ephesian. Following the scope of his philosophy, I +am led to believe, that, so often as the mind impels, or is impelled by +other causes, it begins to lose sight of pure knowledge, and becomes in +danger of thinking that every thing is vain, light, and evanescent, except +what is perceived by the senses. Heraclitus well says, that Love and +Hatred govern all things. Now, when the principle of Discord prevails, it +subjects all things to the dominion of action, and to the gross +perceptions of sense. But when that of Love is prevalent, it emancipates +the struggling chaos of things from the yearning of compulsion, and from +the darkness of sensual proximity; for, between things that struggle +immediately against each other, light has no room to enter in and shine; +and therefore it is, that, when Love gains the ascendency, a new +arrangement is produced--an arrangement which, if I may so express it, is +more serene, transparent, orderly and divine, and wherein things exist in +safety from the danger of mutual destruction." + +After a preliminary cough:--"My opinion," replied Xerophrastes, "coincides +rather with that of Empedocles. The immortal Sicilian thinks that Discord +is the only separating and arranging principle which marks the boundaries +between things, and enables them mutually to act and repel, in such a way +as to preserve order."--"Nay, nay," interrupted Parmeno, his hands being by +this quite disentangled from his cloak, and his countenance lighted +up,--"Nay, nay, to such doctrine I never shall assent. From Empedocles--even +from Xerophrastes, I must differ for ever on this head. The order of which +you and the Sicilian speak, is the order of darkness only, and of blind +force,--a kind of order in which fierceness and cruelty always reign." But +Xerophrastes continued:--"And I farther concur with Empedocles in thinking, +that Love is a principle of which the predominance is more fit to turn +order into a chaos, than to produce the effects you have described."--"Nay, +speak not against Love," quoth Parmeno--"Speak not against Love, nor +believe that any respect is due to the dictates of Empedocles, who taught +the worst that can be taught by any man--that is to say, the alternation of +order and confusion succeeding each other throughout all time. To seek for +truth in conceptions like these, is no better than to seek repose in the +bosom of AEtna."--"In reference to that point," resumed Xerophrastes, "I +agree with you in your disapprobation of Empedocles. But when you say, +that Love is the source of knowledge, you much astonish me; for I have +always thought rather that its tendency is to bring confusion upon the +mind." + +"Once more," said Parmeno--"once more, let me beseech you to say nothing +against love. You are thinking of the love of particular objects. You +speak of Cupid, and not of that heavenly Eros, who, so far from +enchaining, or tyrannizing over the mind, rather enables it to escape into +the tranquil freedom of far extended contemplation. But what is +contemplation without the knowledge of permanent forms, on which the mind +may find repose, and so keep itself from being perplexed by the shifting +aspects of the many-coloured universe? And therefore it is, O +Xerophrastes, that, sometimes laying aside Heraclitus, I study the ancient +verses of the poet, Xenophanes, who shews, by the nature of abstract +forms, that a certain unity pervades all things. Xenophanes mused of old +at Colophon, looking through the blue ether of my native Ionia.--But why +should I speak thus at length? Alas! what is the occasion of our being +here!--I perceive the approach of the poet, who was to compose an +inscription for the urn of my dear Fabricius. Yonder also is the +architect, who comes with a design for the tomb. Oh! day of wo, that I +should sit in judgment concerning the epitaph and tomb of my ingenuous +youth!" + +"It is, indeed, true," replied Xerophrastes, "that even I, in the +repercussions of our talk, had well-nigh forgotten this unhappy +occurrence; but, perhaps, there is something not after all entirely +excusable in our giving so much superiority to the affairs of +philosophical discussion. Now, however, it is evident, that we must +suspend our colloquy--And who, I beseech you, above all things, is he that +now draws near to the place of this mournful assembly, holding a horse in +his hand. Methinks I have seen his face before." + +"That you have indeed, Master," quoth he that had come up,--"that you have; +and no longer ago than yesterday neither, if you will be pleased to give +yourself the trouble of recollecting. My name is Aspar--I am well known. If +but my excellent friend, the noble Centurion Sabinus, were here, poor old +Aspar would have no reason to complain of the want of a good word." + +"Good morrow to you, Aspar," said Sextus; "but what is it that brings you +hither just at this moment? And for what purpose have you brought your +horse with you? for people of your sort do not in general ride in the +courts of the Palatine." + +"Alas!" quoth Aspar, "and is it you, who seem to have been one of the +contemporaries of that peerless youth--is it you that ask such a question +as this? I did not, in truth, imagine that there was any friend of young +Fabricius, who did not know his affection for little Sora. There is not +such another within twenty miles of the Capitol; but I brought her hither +merely out of regard for the family. As for myself, I should never bear to +look on her again with pleasure, after knowing the sudden manner of his +death. I wish to Heaven the filly were fairly lodged in one of the +paddocks of the Lord Fabricius himself." + +"Lead the animal round into the stables," says Parmeno, "and I doubt not +care will be taken of her.--Yonder comes one of the buffoons of the +theatre;--he, I doubt not, is here to disgrace, if he be permitted, this +solemn scene, with ranting quotations from the tragic poets. Alas! alas! I +cannot bear all this: There also advance the officiators from the Temple +of Libitina; they have their cypress boughs ready in their hands. Oh, my +learned friend, I cannot sustain these things; let me be gone into the +mansion." + +The admirer of Heraclitus, picking up his scroll, and gathering together +the folds of his mantle, moved slowly into the house, Xerophrastes +following with similar gestures. Sextus and I also were about to take our +departure; and he, having procured from one of the slaves of the house a +myrtle garland, had already placed it upon the bier of the young +Fabricius, as the last testimonial of his concern; when there drew near +two young men, clad in long mantles of black, who, solemnly embracing my +friend, began to exchange with him many expressions of grief. + +While they were thus engaged, Rubellia, who had been standing all this +while a little apart, sent a boy to inform us that the painter we were in +search of had at last made his appearance, and was anxious to proceed with +his portrait. I drew Sextus away, therefore, and soon joined the lady and +the artist; but as we were moving off thus, one of the bystanding slaves, +an old gray-headed man, came up and whispered to Sextus, "Sir, be not +deceived; these two nephews of my bereaved master are to me the most +disagreeable part of all this preparation. You have heard their +lamentation, and seen their sweeping raiment of mourning; but, be sure, a +principal subject of their reflection is the probability that one or other +of them must be adopted by Fabricius. Alas! alas! so goes all between +Lucina and Libitina. There was never a birth nor a marriage that did not +create some sorrow, nor a funeral procession that did not give rise to +some joy. Your rhetoricians talk, but what avails it all? Slaves and +masters are alike subjected to the evils of the world, and of these death +is both the last and the least." + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +Agaso, the painter, was a smart dapper little bandy-legged man of Verona, +dressed in a Grecian mantle, and endeavouring to look as much as possible +like a Greek. Had Xerophrastes not gone off with his brother of Ionia, I +have no doubt this man would have made his presence a sufficient excuse +for speaking nothing but Greek to us; but, even as it was, his +conversation was interlarded with an abundant intermixture of that noble +tongue. Nothing could be spoken of which Agaso did not think fit to +illustrate, either by the narration of something he himself had seen or +heard during his residence at Athens, or, at least, by some quotation from +the Grecian poets. To judge from the square, and somewhat ponderous +formation of the man's features, Nature had not designed him for any of +the most mercurial specimens of her workmanship; but he contrived, +notwithstanding, by perpetual shrugging and grimacing, and, above all, by +keeping his eyes and eyebrows continually in motion, to give himself an +air of no inconsiderable life and vivacity. + +Hopping before us with much alacrity, this artist conducted our steps +through eight or ten galleries, until at length a curtain being withdrawn, +which had covered the space between two pilasters, we found ourselves in a +spacious apartment, which, from the courteousness wherewith he bowed us +into it, there could be no difficulty in perceiving to be the customary +sphere of his own exertions. It was not altogether deserted even when we +entered, but the removal of the curtain attracted more of the loungers of +the baths, and ere Sextus was fairly fixed before the table of the +painter, the modest youth had the mortification to find himself surrounded +with a very crowd of knowing and curious physiognomies. The presence of +these, however, appeared not unwelcome to the master. On the contrary, +there arose between the little man, as he was preparing his brushes, and +those who had come to survey him at his work, such a gabble of +compliments, remarks, and disquisitions, that it seemed to me as if he +would have been disappointed had he not been favoured with their +attendance. + +"How noble," cries one, "is that portrait you have just been finishing of +Rupilius!--Heavens! with what felicity you have caught the air! Methinks I +see him about to enter the Basilica, when he knows that some great cause +is awaiting his decision. What solemnity in his aspect! what grandeur in +the gown!--How finely the purple of the laticlave is made to harmonize with +the colouring of the cheeks and chin! What beautiful handling about the +fingers with which he grasps his tablets!--As for the head of the stylus, +it is the very eye of the picture."--"Exquisite indeed," quoth another; +"but who can look at it, or at any thing else, in the same room with this +little jewel?--Heavens! what a beauty! who can it be? for I never saw her +either at the Circus or the Amphitheatre. What an inimitable modesty!" + +The painter heard this last piece of eulogy with an air of some +embarrassment, and at the same time looked very cunningly towards the +person who had uttered it. But the Lady Rubellia tossed her head, and +whispered to me, "Pretty she may be, though I cannot say that style of +dressing the hair is at all adapted for such features; but for modesty! +hem. I asked Agaso two or three days ago who it was, and he told +me--guess!--it is a little Spanish girl, whom that august-looking person, +with the grand laticlave, and the purple cheeks and chin, and the +glittering stylus, thought fit to bring home with him when he was relieved +from the hard duties of the Pro-praetorship. I dare say, he takes care she +shall not be seen either at Circus or Amphitheatre; and, indeed, I think +it is sufficient impudence to shew her likeness in the company of so many +portraits of respectability." + +"My dear lady," quoth the painter, who overheard somewhat, "for the sake +of all that is sacred, no word of this again! Wait, at least, till the +canvass for the Augurship be over. There are always so many to exaggerate +and misrepresent."--"Exaggerate, indeed! I think Rupilius ought to be +ashamed of himself; and at his time of life too. I think you said he was +just the same age with my uncle?"--"Yes," says the painter, "he must be of +that standing; and I think he went to Spain just about the period of your +marriage."--"Filthy old fellow," quoth she, very quickly; "and this is the +treasure he has brought home with him! I have a great mind to tell his +wife."--"Hush, hush," said Agaso, "this is the very day Rupilius spoke of +bringing her to see his own portrait; and, indeed, I am sure that is the +Senator's cough. I rely on your prudence." + +And the portly original of the laticlaved portrait walked into the room, +having his gown and every part of his dress arranged as represented in the +picture; although in the living countenance it was easy to discover a few +lines and spots which had been omitted in the copy. By his side moved a +short woman, arrayed in the extremity of costly attire, whose swarthy +complexion did not, in spite of cosmeticism, harmonize very well with the +bright golden ringlets of her Sicambrian peruque; while behind the pair +came a thin damsel, whose lineaments exhibited a sort of faint shadow of +the same visage, the rudiments of which had been so abundantly filled up +in that of the rubicund magistrate. The ex-pro-praetor, after saluting +Agaso, stood still with dignity in the midst of the apartment, while the +fond daughter, rushing close up to his picture, could with difficulty +affix any limits to her expressions of satisfaction:--"O Jupiter! look at +the ring. It is the very ring he wears!--the very images are engraved upon +it; one can see the three Graces. I never saw such a picture--when will it +be brought home?"--"Hush, hush, now, Primula," quoth the mother. "It is +certainly a likeness; but why will artists, now-a-days, always paint +people older than they are? And besides, it wants something of his +expression. Don't you think so yourself, sir?" (turning to the painter) +"Rupilius has surely been looking very gloomily when he sat." + +On this the painter, leaving Sextus, advanced to her side, and after a +pause of some moments, spent in contemplating alternately his own work and +the original, said, with a courteous simper, "How much am I indebted to +you, most noble lady, for this visit, and these judicious remarks! I only +wish you had accompanied the senator, for then, without question, his +countenance would have worn the look you desiderate; and I perhaps might +have more easily succeeded in catching it, being aided by your +suggestions. I hope it may yet be amended."--"How modest he is!" ejaculated +the spouse. "A single sitting will suffice, I am sure. We shall come some +day when you are quite alone, and I will sit by you, and talk to Rupilius +all the while."--"Delightful!" replied the artist; "how happy shall I be in +such an opportunity of improving both the picture and myself! We must +positively prevail on the senator to give us this one sitting +more."--"Never ask his consent," quoth the matron, smiling upon her lord; +"leave the whole matter to me. The picture is for me. And besides, if he +were to refuse, I know how I should be certain to overcome him; for he has +asked me to sit to you myself, and you know if I were to persist in +sitting with my gloomy face, as he has with his, we should soon bring him +to his right reason."--"_Your_ gloomy face, noble lady!" replied the +artist, strutting back a pace or two. "I am afraid, if that is the charm +by which alone he is to be softened, we must give up all our hopes."--"I +protest," says the lady, "I believe you will keep me laughing all the time +I sit. And pray now, what dress do you think I should wear? Prima says, I +ought certainly to be in green; but I was thinking, that perhaps a yellow +byssine would suit me better. But I shall send over half a dozen robes, +and then we can choose whichever seems to be the best. One thing only I am +quite resolved upon, and that is, that I shall have my golden chain, with +the miniature of the Pro-praetor--the Senator, I mean--at the end of +it."--"Nothing could be in finer taste," he made answer; "and if my lady +should think of green, or purple, or any dark colour for the gown, the +rings of the chain and the setting of the miniature would have the richest +effect."--"And do, my dear mother," interrupted Prima; "and do have on the +sapphire tiara when you sit to Agaso. Or what would you think of having +your own hair simply like this lady here? What a beauty!"--"A smart little +girl, indeed," quoth the mother. "I think I should know that face. Is she +Roman, Agaso?"--"No, not a Roman," answered the artist; "nor do I think my +lady can ever have met with her. But perhaps my Lord Rupilius may, for she +is a Spaniard." + +Agaso turned with a smile to the Senator; but he, scarcely appearing to +look at the picture, answered, with great gravity, "I think I have seen +the countenance before; and perhaps it was in my province. The face is +certainly a pretty one; but nothing so very extraordinary."--"They may say +what they like," observed the spouse, drawing herself up; "but there is no +such thing as a really urbane air to be got out of Rome." + +Meantime, in another part of the room, some other picture appeared to be +exciting a scarcely inferior measure of curiosity. On approaching the +party, I perceived that this was a sketch, in chalk only, of the head and +shoulders of an old man; and when I had gained an opportunity of more +nearly surveying it, I recognized without difficulty the features of +Tisias of Antioch. The greater number of those who were looking on it, +seemed also to have been present at his death; for I heard pointed out by +them with exactness the parts in which the resemblance had been most +successfully taken. The beauty of the old man's lineaments, and the +serenity of his aspect, they all admired; and while they were loud in +praising these, Agaso himself also joined them, saying, "Oh, so you have +found out my old Christian! How did you get hold of him? for I meant it +not to be seen till I had lain on a little of the colour. But is it not a +fine study?--is it not a noble head? I think I shall introduce it in the +picture I am painting for Pliny. The subject is the sacrifice of +Iphigenia. I went to the Amphitheatre," he continued, "rather late, +without expecting any thing particular; but it immediately struck me that +he might be turned to some account. I made several little sketches of him, +for it was a long time ere it was over; and this is from the one I took +just after he had made his oration. His hands and feet were singularly +fine, I thought. Here," said he, turning over the leaves of his +tablets--"here you have him in a variety of shapes!--the muscles shewed +powerfully when he knelt;--there, again, you have his fingers as they were +folded on his breast--not much flesh, but the lines good--veins well +expressed." + +But about this time the great bell rung in the tower above the Baths, and +the greater part of the young loungers soon dispersed themselves; some to +fence or wrestle--others to play in the tennis-court--others to ride in the +Hippodrome, in preparation for the bath. So Agaso, being left alone with +Sextus, Rubellia, and myself, had at length leisure to proceed with his +portrait of the youth. + +Much did the lady and the painter discourse, and many merry things were +said by them both; but all they said could not entirely remove the +embarrassment fixed on the countenance of Sextus; nor, of a truth, did he +present himself with much advantage before the artist. Rubellia, +nevertheless, sate over against him with looks of no severe criticism; and +I doubt not she would have remained to the end of the sitting, had not one +of her household come with a message, which, as it seemed, rendered +necessary her departure. It struck me, that the messenger answered very +well to Dromo's description of the fat Calabrian with whom he and Boto had +been drinking; but of this I said nothing to Sextus. + +It was near the hour of supper before we were dismissed, and we found +Licinius already about to enter his eating chamber. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +The orator received us with less coldness than I could have expected. I +suppose his knowledge that our morning had been spent in Rubellia's +company, had in some measure softened his feelings of jealousy towards his +son; and perhaps he had given me credit for advice, to the merit of which +I had no claim. But he remained not long at table after supper was +concluded, being summoned to discourse in private with a client:--so that +Sextus and I were left to spend the evening as it might please ourselves; +for as to Xerophrastes, he had not as yet made his appearance, and we took +it for granted he had remained at the mansion of Fabricius, for the +purpose of consoling with philosophical controversies his bereaved brother +of Ionia. + +We retired, therefore, into the apartment of my young friend; but he could +not read a page without coming upon some verse which made him throw down +the scroll to ruminate on the charms of his Sempronia. When he took up his +lute, his fingers seemed to evoke only the most melancholy sounds. It was +only in the exercise of the foil, that he succeeded in banishing from his +thoughts the troubles of his situation; but both of us having contended +till we were breathless, were soon compelled to sit down, and then the +unhappy boy's exhausted body seemed to communicate a new debility to his +mind. We sat for the most part in silence, (for I soon found that I could +not say any thing capable of interesting him,) until the shades of evening +had quite darkened the chamber, and then we walked together, not less +silently, in the adjoining open gallery, until the moon had arisen from +above the tall poplars around the Pantheon and Baths of Agrippa, and +diffused her radiance over all the beautiful gardens and noble edifices +that lay beneath us down to the brink of the river. Lassitude of spirit +then, if not expectation of sleep, rendered Sextus desirous of retiring to +his couch; so, having exhorted the youth to wrestle with his grief, and to +call hope to his aid, I at length left him to himself. But as for me, I +had as yet no feeling of weariness, and, besides, I remembered the promise +I had made to Dromo in the morning. + +I was very much surprised, indeed, that the Cretan had not as yet come to +me, and made inquiry concerning him of Boto; but hearing that the man was +absent from the house, I thought from this there was the more likelihood +of his being engaged in some scheme, the result of which I should by and +by learn from his own lips. I dismissed my Briton, therefore, and prepared +to read by my watch-light, and while I was considering what I should read, +I remembered the scroll I had received from Tisias, which forthwith I took +from the place in which I had locked it up on the morning of the preceding +day. There fell from out of it, as I unfolded it, a letter sealed, but +without any superscription. This I of course considered as meant only for +the eye of Athanasia; so I kissed the parchment her fingers were destined +to touch, and, before I began to read, restored it to its receptacle. + +More than one of you, my young friends, have already heard me speak, on +another occasion, of the impression which that night's reading made upon +my mind, and been told, from my own lips, what book it was that was +contained in the scroll of Tisias; the rest of you will judge for +yourselves with what astonishment it was that I, who had at the best +expected to unfold some obscure treatise of Asiatic lore, some +semi-barbarous exposition of mystical riddles, found myself engaged in the +perusal of a plain and perspicuous narrative of facts, written evidently +by a man of accomplishment and learning, and in Greek of which the most +elegant penman of these times could have had no occasion to be ashamed. In +a word, it was the Gospel of the holy physician St Luke which had been put +into my hands; and at this day I am still grateful that this was the first +of the Christian books which I had an opportunity of seeing; for such had +been my education, that I am afraid others, not less worthy of the true +faith, might have repelled me by the peculiarities of their composition, +as well as by the acquaintance with many things, to me then entirely +unknown, which they take for granted in the style of their commencement. +Here, however, there was enough only of mystery, the more effectually to +stimulate my curiosity, while the eagerness with which I engaged myself in +its gratification, was abundantly repaid from the beginning, both by the +beauty of the simple narrative itself, and the sublimity of the +conceptions embodied and evolved in its course. + +Considering the book which I was reading, as one merely of human origin +and invention, I could not help regarding it with such admiration, that it +appeared to me above all things wonderful, I had never seen it mentioned +by any of the writers of the age, or heard it spoken of by any of those +who, in my presence, since I came to Rome, had talked concerning the faith +and doctrines of the persecuted Christians. But this was not all. At +least, said I to myself, there is something here which deserves to be +inquired into and examined. Of things such as these, if told falsely, it +must needs have been--nay, it must still be, easy to prove the falsehood. +It is impossible that, in the days of Tiberius, any such events should +have occurred in Palestine, without being more or less submitted to the +inspection of Roman eyes. This is no wild tale, handed down from the dark +ages of a barbarous race. Here I have a Roman Centurion described as among +the witnesses of this man's miraculous power, and acknowledging the +divinity of his benevolence. Here, at least, must have been one spectator +without prejudices, otherwise than against this Prophet of Nazareth. Of a +surety, the legends of Rome herself contain many tales which demand a much +greater measure of indulgence; since the wonders they narrate appear to +have been oftentimes attended with no beneficial consequences, either to +individuals or to the state; whereas here the occasion seems always to +have been such as might justify the interference of supernatural might. +The power of this person seems to have been exerted only for good; and his +precepts are full of such godlike loftiness as neither Socrates, nor +Plato, nor any of those Greek sages, who bowed in reverence to the hoary +wisdom of Egypt and India, would have disdained to admire. + +The doubts, suspicions, and distrusts, with which such thoughts were +mingled,--the under-current of reluctance with which I felt myself all +along contending,--were such as you may more easily imagine than I can +describe. + +As the narrative went on, however, you will have no difficulty in +supposing that my attention became more and more rivetted, and that, +occupied with the strange events and sublime scenes it unfolds--and +agitated by turns with the pity, the wonder, the terror, and the +admiration that matchless story must ever awaken,--I had forgotten every +thing beyond the page of the volume on which my finger was fixed. + +It was only the rustling of Dromo's cloak against the edge of my chair, +that made me aware my privacy was disturbed. His hands seemed to be busied +in tightening his girdle even before he was able to speak, and the first +words he uttered, were--"Come, sir--this is no time for study. I have +acquaintance with some of the soldiers at the Capene Gate, and they will +let us pass through; but they are relieved at the next watch, and then we +shall have no chance."--"And why," said I, hastily thrusting the scroll +into my bosom--"why, Dromo, or for what purpose should we desire to pass +through the Capene Gate at the dead hour of night?"--"Come," said he; +"there is no time for explanation. It is simply because it is the dead +hour of night that we must pass through the gate; for it would do nobody +any good to pass through at any other time. Come--or abandon Sextus to his +fate." + +Thus adjured, I could not oppose any obstacle to his zeal. The chained +porter was lying asleep across the threshold; but Dromo had already found +means to have the door opened, so he leaped lightly over the man, and I +imitated his agility. The Cretan then locked the gate on the outside, by +means of a key which he carried in his bosom; and I followed his rapid +steps without farther question. + +This cunning varlet, (who seemed, indeed, to move as if he had a natural +aversion to every open place,) threaded one obscure lane after another, +keeping always, where the moonlight had any access, to the dark side of +the way; a person better skilled than myself might well have been somewhat +puzzled; as for me, I had not the least conception whither I was going. +Close, however, did I adhere to him; and we reached the Capene Port, which +is on the south side of the city, not many bow-shots from the Anio, before +I could have imagined it possible to traverse so great a space. + +Here Dromo told me to wait for him a single moment, and stepped down into +a cellar, in which a light was burning; but he staid not long, and when he +returned to me, I observed that his style of walking was more clumsy than +usual, which, indeed, was not to be wondered at, considering that he had +now to carry, not only himself, but two huge skins of wine, intended, as I +at once suspected, for the purpose of facilitating our passage. I told him +my suspicion in a whisper; but he made no answer, except by handing to me +one of his burdens. So laden, we crept on as well as we could to the +portal, beneath the shadow of which two Praetorians were pacing, their +armour ringing audibly upon them amidst the silence of the night.--Silently +did the well-oiled hinges turn, and very silently stooping did we step +beneath the lintel of the Capene Gate, which as silently was again made +fast. + +As we advanced among the funereal monuments which line the Appian Way on +either side, Dromo stood still every now and then for a moment, as if to +listen; but whatever he might have heard, or expected to hear, I perceived +nothing, except here and there the howl of a dog, or the lazy hooting of +the night-owl, from the top of some of the old cypresses that rose between +us and the moon. + +At last he seemed to catch the sound he had been expecting, for he started +suddenly; and laying his finger on his lip, crept to the parapet. + +The ground behind was more desolate of aspect than any part of that which +we had traversed--stoney and hard, with here and there tufts of withered +fern; and immediately below the wall two human figures were visible. The +one was sitting on the ground, wrapped in a dark cloak which entirely +concealed the countenance: the other was a half-naked boy, holding in a +string a little new-shorn lamb, which with one of his hands he continually +caressed. But forthwith the sitter arose, and throwing away the cloak, +displayed the gray tangled tresses of an old woman, and two strong boney +arms, one of which was stretched forth with an impatient gesture towards +the stripling, while the other was pointed upwards to the visible moon. +"Strike," said she, "strike deeply--beware lest the blood tinge your feet +or your hands;"--and I recognized at once the voice of the same Pona that +had attracted my notice in the morning, at the foot of the Palatine. + +The boy drew forth instantly a knife from his bosom, whose glittering +blade was buried in the throat of the yearling, and it was then first that +I perceived a small ditch dug between the boy and the woman, into which, +the lamb's throat being held over it, the blood was made to drop from the +wound. So surely had the blow been given, that not one bleat escaped from +the animal, and so deeply, that the blood flowed in a strong stream, +dashing audibly upon the bottom of the trench. And while it was dropping, +the old woman muttering a sort of chant to Hecate, as I gathered, showered +from her girdle I know not what of bones or sticks, mingled with leaves +and roots, which afterwards she seemed to be stirring about in the blood +with one of the tall strong stems of the fern that grew there. The +wildness of her gestures was such, that I could not doubt she had herself +some faith in the efficacy of the foul charms to which she had resorted; +nor could I see her stirring that trench of innocent blood, without +remembering the still more ruthless charms, whose practice the poets of +Italy have ascribed to such hoary enchantresses. The dreariness of the +midnight wind, too, as it whistled along the bare and steril soil around +us, and the perpetual variations in the light, by reason of the careering +of those innumerable clouds, and the remembrance of the funereal purposes +for which, as it seemed, all this region was set apart--the whole of this +together produced, I know not how, a certain pressure upon my spirits, and +I confess to you, I felt, kneeling there by the side of my now trembling +Cretan, as if I owed him no great thanks for having brought me that night +beyond the Capene Gate. + +It seemed as if the goddess, to whom the witch's song had been addressed, +did not listen to it with favourable ear; for the clouds gathered +themselves more thickly than ever, while the wind howled only more loudly +among the tombs, and the half-scared owl sent up a feebler hooting. +Notwithstanding, the old woman continued fixed in the same attitude of +expectation, and the stripling still held the well-nigh drained throat of +his lamb above the trench. By degrees, however, the patience of both +seemed to be exhausted; and there arose between them an angry altercation. +"Infernal brat of Hades!" quoth the witch, "look ye, if you have not +stained your filthy hands, and if the thirsty shadows be not incensed, +because you have deprived them of some of the sweet blood which they +love!"--"Curse not me, mother," replied the boy--"Did you think, in truth, +that the blood of a stolen lamb would ever propitiate Hecate?"--"Imp!" +quoth she, "Hold thy peace, or I will try whether no other blood may make +the charm work better!"--"Beware!" quoth the boy, leaping backwards--"beware +what you do! I am no longer so weak that I must bear all your blows." + +"Stop," cried I, "for there are eyes that you think not of, to take note +of your wickedness;" and in my vehemence I shook one of the great loose +stones that were on the top of the wall, which rolled down and bounded +into the ditch beside them; and the woman, huddling her cloak over her +head, began to run swiftly away from us, along the wall over which we were +leaning. The boy only stood still for a moment, and looked upwards towards +the place where we were, and then he also fled, but in the opposite +direction; and Dromo said to me in a very piteous whisper, but not till +both were out of sight,--"Heaven and earth! was ever such madness as to +scare the witch from her incantation? Alas! for you and for me, sir--and, +most of all, alas for Sextus--for I fear me after this we shall have no +luck in counteracting the designs of Rubellia." + +"Rubellia! what? can you possibly imagine Rubellia to have any thing to do +with this madness?" + +"Imagine?" quoth he; "do you need to be told, that if things had gone well +with that woman and her ditch, we should never have been able to preserve +Sextus from her clutches?" + +"By the rod of Hermes, good Dromo!" said I, "this will never do. I shall +believe much on your credit, but not things quite so extravagant as this." + +He made no reply save a long, incredulous, and, I think, contemptuous +whistle, which seemed to reach the ears of every owl between us and the +Appian; with such a hooting and screeching did they echo its note from +every cypress. And when Dromo heard that doleful concert, his dread +redoubled within him, for he shook from head to foot, while I held his arm +in mine; until, at last, he seemed to make one violent effort, and +springing on his feet, said--"Come, Master Valerius, let us behave after +all like men!"--I smiled when he said so--"The hour has not yet come, if my +Calabrian friend is to be trusted, at which the lady was to visit Pona in +her dwelling. It is but daring a little more. If she has seen and known us +already, then nothing can endanger us farther; and if she hath not, we may +escape again."--"Well spoken," said I, "most shrewd Dromo, and like +yourself; but what is it that you would have us to do?"--"The first thing," +he replied, "is what has already been too long delayed." + +The Cretan produced from under his cloak a long fictitious beard, which he +immediately proceeded to fix upon his own face with a string. A thin tall +cap of black cloth was next brought forth, which he fastened in like +manner around his brows; and a little piece of chalk, with which he once +or twice rubbed over his black bushy eye-brows, completed a disguise +beneath which I should certainly have sought in vain to discover any trace +of the natural countenance of Dromo. In short, after a few changes in the +folding of his cloak, there stood before me a figure so venerably +mysterious, that had I met it unawares at midnight, in the neighbourhood +of so many tombs, I am not sure, although of no superstitious temper, that +I could have regarded it without awe. + +"Come now, good Master," quoth he, "you are taller than I, pluck me a +branch from the nearest tree, and I think you shall confess I make a +decent Soothsayer." In this it was easy to gratify him; for there was an +old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs were so dry with age, that +I soon abstracted a very proper wand for him. After receiving which, he +stood for a moment leaning on it in a dignified fashion, as if to rehearse +an attitude worthy of his new vocation; and then said--"Well, sir, I think +if the Lady Rubellia comes now, we shall be tolerably prepared for her. +But I have no disguise for you; therefore, the moment you hear a footstep, +be sure you wrap your face in your gown, and stand behind me, for so shall +you best consult both your own concealment, and the dignity of this +Assyrian. There is no other way by which she can come from the Suburra, +therefore we might stay very well where we are; but I think it might be +still better to await her coming where there are either tombs or larger +trees to cast a shade over our equipage, in case the moon should take it +into her head to be more kind to us than she was to Pona."--"By all means," +said I, "most venerable man--and besides, the wind is rather chilly, +therefore I shall be well pleased to have shelter as well as shade." + +"You shall have both," quoth he; "there is a thick grove of pines only a +little way on. I believe there is a very grand tomb in the midst of them, +in case you should prefer to sit under it.--By the bye," he continued, +after some little pause, "it is odd enough that it should be so; but I +believe it is the very place where all that race of the Sempronii, to +which a certain young damsel belongs, have been burnt and buried ever +since Rome was a city. You cannot see their tomb yet; but that is only +from the thickness of the trees, some of which are, I suppose, even older +than itself. Now I remember me, it was just there that they set up two +winters ago the funeral pile of old Caius--I mean the father of the Lady +Athanasia, whom you saw at Capito's villa. They are a very noble race, and +although none of the richest now-a-days, there is not a prouder in Rome. I +saw the procession at that old man's funeral myself, and I think the +images of his ancestors that they carried before him, would have reached +half way from hence to the Great Road. Grim, dusty figures, I trow they +were; but I doubt not there had been many a haughty captain among them +when they were alive." + +These words were spoken as we were moving onwards towards this same grove +of pines, and before he had made an end of speaking, we could clearly hear +the wind sighing among their branches, and along the dry underground. And +on coming to them I found that he had said truly there was a tomb in the +midst of them, for a very noble, high, circular tower was indeed there, +which, from the grayness of its walls, and luxuriance of ivy, had the +appearance of being at least as ancient as any of the surrounding trees. +The only method of access to the inside, seemed to be by means of a +winding stair, which rose on the exterior from the ground to the summit--a +method not unusual in Roman sepulchres--and it was on one of the steps of +this stair that I seated myself, where, between the shaded wall on the one +side, and the pine branches on the other, I was effectually concealed. As +for Dromo, I know not whether it was that he coveted not exactly such +close proximity to the stones of such an edifice; but instead of ascending +with me, he took up a position beside one of the largest pines over +against me. + +Although the moon had got rid of her clouds, and the sky, where any of it +could be seen, was abundantly brilliant, the natural darkness of that +funereal grove was such, that very little difference could be produced in +the midst of it by any variation on the face of any nightly luminary. The +tower itself received some of the moonbeams on its carved surface; but its +contemporary trees participated not in any such illumination,--one solemn +shade covering all things beneath the influence of their growth. "I can +scarcely see you, Dromo," said I; "but I think that speck must be your +beard, and if so, I beg you would tell me what it is you really have in +view by all this preparation? Do you expect me to stay here on a +tomb-stone all night, merely because you wish to have an opportunity of +terrifying poor Rubellia by some ghost-like howl or other when she passes +you?--which, by the way, it seems by no means certain she will do at all. +Or what is your purpose?"--"Hush!" was his answer; "ask no questions, but +hem thrice if you hear a footstep--for young ears are the keenest." +Accordingly silence was kept so strictly, that, in spite of the chillness +of the stone on which I sate, I presently fell into a sort of dozing +slumber. + +By degrees, however,--nor, considering the hour and the fatigue I had +undergone, is it wonderful that it should have been so,--my sleep must have +become sufficiently profound, for I did not at first, on waking from it, +very well remember either where I was, or for what purpose I had come +thither. And, indeed, I have little doubt my slumbers might have continued +till day-break, but for the interruption I am now to mention. + +And yet it seemed as if even in my sleep I had been prepared for this by +some strange anticipation, for although it was a near sound of singing +voices that dispelled my slumbers, and made me start from the stone on +which I had placed myself, I could not help feeling as if that sound were +not altogether new to me;--whether it were that the half-sensible ear had +been already ministering indistinctly to the dreaming spirit, or that some +purely fantastic prelude had been vouchsafed to the real music. I started +up suddenly, that much is certain, and listened with astonishment, yet not +altogether with such surprise as might have been expected to attend a +transition so hasty from sleep to waking, and from silence to the near +neighbourhood of sounds at once so strange and so sweet. With breathless +curiosity, nevertheless, with awe, and not entirely I think without +terror, did I listen to the notes which seemed to ascend out of the +habitation of the noble dead into the nightly air--wild, yet solemn, as if +breathed from the bosom of a stately repose and a pensive felicity; +insomuch, that almost I persuaded myself I was hearing the forbidden +sounds of another world, and the thought came over me,--yet almost I think +at that moment without farther disturbing me,--what fearful interpretations +the old poets have affixed to such untimely communion, and how the +superstition of all antiquity has shrunk from its omen. + +My first impulse, after a moment had elapsed, was to call on Dromo, and I +did so, at first in a low whisper, and then two or three times more +loudly--but all equally in vain, for no answer was returned; and though I +strained my eyes in gazing on the place where I had last seen him, yet +there I could perceive no trace whatever of any human figure. The +moonlight indeed shewed with more distinctness than before the tall stem +of the old pine-tree against which he had been leaning; but no motion, nor +the least appearance of whiteness, could either my eyes or my imagination +discover there. I might easily, you will say, have stept across the road, +and entirely satisfied myself; but I know not well what it was that nailed +me to the place where I stood, and prevented me even from once thinking of +doing so. The calm sepulchral music, my friends, still continued to stream +from the recess of the mausoleum, and painless awe held me there, as if by +a charm incontrollable. I gazed upwards, and beheld the moon riding above +the black pine tops, in a now serene and cloudless heaven. The wind also +had passed away, as it appeared, with the clouds it had agitated. The bird +of night was asleep on her unseen bough; and all was silent as death, +except only the dwelling of the departed; and a certain indescribable +delight was beginning, as I gazed and listened, to be mixed with the +perturbation wherewith at first I had been inspired. + +And I know not how long I might have stood so, but while I was yet +listening to this mysterious music, there was mingled with its expiring +cadence the sound of a heavy footstep on the staircase above me, and +looking up, I perceived in the moonlight the figure of a man, clad in a +white gown, but having a naked sword stretched forth in his hand, +immediately over the place whereon I was standing. I obeyed the first +natural impulse, and leaped downwards swiftly on seeing him; but this +availed me nothing, for he also leaped, and almost before my feet had +touched the ground, I felt the grasp of his hand upon my shoulder, and +that so strongly, that I perceived plainly there was as little possibility +of escape as of resistance. I made therefore no farther effort, but +suffered him to do with me as he pleased; and he, on his part, said not a +single word, but still retaining his hold, pointed with his sword to the +same steps from which I had descended, and compelled me to mount them +before him, up to the very summit of the round tower. + +"Why is this, sir?" said I; "and whither do you conduct me?" + +"Peace," was all his answer; and, in like manner as he had made me climb +the exterior, so also he compelled me to begin the descent of a similar +flight of steps, which led down from an aperture above, into the interior +of the edifice. And although I must confess to you that I obeyed not this +silent guidance without considerable fear, yet I strove as well as I could +to control myself. I moved with a step in which I think not there could be +perceived any trembling. + +Yet you will admit that even had I been master at that moment of less +firmness, I might have been excusable; for looking down, I perceived that +a lamp was burning in the midst of the sepulchral tower far below me, and +saw sitting around it a company of eight or ten persons, at whose mercy, +it was quite visible, I must be placed. Neither, if I might judge from the +demeanour of the person that was bringing me into their assembly, did +there appear to be any great room for dependance on them; for, as to +themselves, not one of them looked up towards me as I was stepping down, +and being wrapped in their cloaks, I had no means of discovering what +manner of persons they were. The way in which I had been treated, however, +by one of their number, was a sufficient evidence, either that they +conceived themselves to have been injured by my being there, or that they +were capable of taking some undue advantage of my helpless condition. The +calmness of their attitudes, and the recollection of the sounds that I had +heard, inclined me to the former of these suppositions; and when I +perceived that not one of them stirred, even till I had reached the +lowmost step of the interior staircase, in this, without question, I +already felt myself considerably strengthened. + +"Behold," said my guide, as I at length touched the marble floor of the +mausoleum itself--"Behold proof, and that living, that my suspicions were +not quite so groundless as you were pleased to imagine. Here is a man whom +I found listening, even on the very steps of this tower. It is for you to +decide what shall be done with the eaves-dropper." + +With this the whole company sprung at once to their feet, and I perceived +evidently, from the surprise expressed in their looks and attitudes, that +until that moment not one of them had been aware of my approach. I was +about to speak, and declare my innocence of any treachery, or even of any +knowledge concerning the purpose of their meeting; but before I could do +so, one of them, and I think the oldest of all that were present, having +in an instant recovered the tranquillity which my arrival had disturbed, +said to me in a voice of the utmost gentleness, "Young man, what has +brought thee hither, or who sent thee? Art thou indeed a spy, and was it +thy purpose to betray our assembly?" + +"Sir," said I, "I know nothing of your assembly, or of its purpose; I fell +asleep by accident on the outside of this tower, and, when I awoke, the +music that I heard detained me." + +"Examine the stripling," quoth he that had conducted me--"examine his +person."--"His looks belie him," replied the senior, "if you have cause for +suspicion. But if you will it so, search the young man." And with that my +guide, laying his unsheathed sword upon a table, or altar of black marble, +proceeded to search my garments, and finding in my bosom the scroll which +I had received from Tisias, he glanced on it for a moment, and then +handing it to the senior, said, "Now, sirs, doubt ye if ye will."--"Before +heaven--it is the book of the holy Luke!" said the other; "this is indeed +suspicious. How came this scroll into thy hands, young man? Art thou aware +that one of the books of the Christians has been found in thy bosom?"--"I +know it," said I; "it is one of the books of their faith, and I have read +in it this evening for the first time."--"Then thou art not thyself a +Christian?"--"I received the book from one Christian," said I, waiving the +question; "and I made promise to deliver it into the hands of +another?"--"Name the Christian who gave thee this book!" said my stern +guide.--"Tisias of Antioch," I replied; "the same who died yesterday in the +Amphitheatre."--"Yes," quoth he, again; "and I suppose it was there he gave +it to you. Every one knows the name of Tisias. Name, if you please, the +person to whom you are to deliver the book."--"You shall pardon me," said +I, "that I will not. You may call me an eaves-dropper, if you will; but +you shall find I am no traitor. It is a Roman--a noble Roman lady to whom I +must give this book; and I would not tell you her name although you should +slaughter me here in this tomb, which I have entered living and without +guilt." And having said this, I folded my arms, and stood still, abiding +their will. + +But scarcely had I finished these words, ere I felt a small trembling hand +laid upon my shoulder, and looking round, I perceived Athanasia herself, +who whispered into my ear,--"Valerius, was the book for me? If so, you may +say it boldly, and I will vouch for your word."--"For you, lady," I +answered in the same tone, "and for none other. You well know that I was +present in his prison the night before his death; so far at least you can +confirm what I have said." + +"Sir," said she, addressing the old man that had before questioned me, "I +know this young man: and I believe what he has said, and will be +answerable for his fidelity. It was he that went in to our friend the +other night in his prison, and the book was intrusted to him by the old +man, that it might be given into my hands. His name is Valerius--Caius +Valerius--and he is by birth a noble Roman." + +"Say you so, lady?" interrupted my original conductor; "then I ask his +pardon. I have wronged Caius Valerius; but both you and he must forgive +me, for it must be confessed he was found in a very extraordinary +situation." + +"Even so," I replied, "I have nothing to complain of. I perceive that I am +present in an assembly of Christians; but he shall do me much wrong that +thinks I bear any enmity to them,--or, from all that I have yet seen or +read, to the faith which they profess. I have read part of that book," I +continued, "for I made promise to Tisias that I should do so before giving +it to Athanasia; and I trust I shall still be permitted by her to read +more of it before it is finally demanded from me."--"Oh, read it!" said +Athanasia, gently again whispering to me. "Oh yes, read the book, +Valerius, and may God enlighten the reader." And so saying, she herself +took up the scroll from the table on which it was lying, and gave it again +into my hands.--"There was also a letter for you," said I, receiving it, +"but that I left at home."--"No matter," said Athanasia, "you shall give me +the letter and the book both together hereafter." + +"In the meantime," said I, "I suppose it were better I should retire." + +"Young sir," said the senior, "that is as you please; in a little while we +shall all be moving towards the city. Stay with us till then, if such be +your will; that which you may hear, can at least do you no harm. Already, +I doubt not, you have seen enough to despise the ignorant calumnies of our +enemies." + +When he had said so, the old man walked to the side of the sepulchre, and +took out from behind one of the urns that stood there, (ranged in their +niches,) a small casquet, which, returning, he placed before him on the +marble table. Then, opening the casquet, he brought forth a silver goblet, +and a salver containing some little pieces of bread; and, untying from his +neck a massive cross of gold, he set that also on the table, between the +cup and the salver. In brief, the Christian priest, (for such, as you +already see, he was,) had finished his preparation, and was about to +commence the administration of the blessed Eucharist. And when all the +rest were kneeling before the table, Athanasia, laying her hand upon my +arm, beckoned to me to kneel by her side; and so indeed I would have done +in my ignorance, had not the priest himself pointed to a station a few +yards behind the lady, to which, accordingly, I drew back--apart from those +who were to be privileged with the participation of those holy symbols. + +Scarcely had they composed themselves in their places, and listened to the +first words of the appointed service, when I, standing there by myself, +thought, unless my ears deceived me, there must be some one on the outer +stair-case of the tower; and my eyes instinctively, I suppose, were fixed +upon the aperture, which, as I have told you, was in the high roof above +the circle of the niched walls. Here, however, when I first looked, there +was nothing to be seen, but the round spot of the sky, far up in the midst +of the marble roof; but while I was looking steadfastly, that space was +suddenly diminished; and a dog bayed, and at the same moment a voice which +I well knew, screamed, "I have them--I hold them--let them burst the net if +they can." + +The cry of Pona disturbed effectually the Christian priest, and the whole +of those that were with him. Rising up hastily from their knees, they +stood all together around the table, while the old man, having kissed both +the cup and the cross, restored them as quickly as he could to the casket +from which they had been taken. But while the priest was doing this, he +that found me on the stair appearing to revert into his suspicion, and +looking sternly upon me where I stood, said, "Is this then the innocence +which we spared! Is this the noble Roman for whom Athanasia pledged +herself? Speak, brethren, what shall be done to this traitor, by whom, +even more than by those dogs of the tombs, it is a shame for us that we +have been hunted?" Saying so, the man lifted up his sword again, and it +seemed as if he would have smitten me to the ground without farther +question. But Athanasia threw herself swiftly between him and me. "For +shame, Cotilius," said she; "such suspiciousness is unworthy of a Roman +knight."--"You say well, noble damsel," quoth the old priest, interrupting +her; "but you might say also that such cruelty is unworthy of a soldier of +Christ. Peace, peace, children; there is no evil in the youth, nor, if +there were, would it be our part to avenge it." + +While he was saying this, three or four blazing torches were thrust down +into the place from above, and Athanasia, laying her hand upon my arm, +said, "Look up, Caius, I see helmets.--Alas! am I not already here? why, if +they will slay me, should they drag me away now from the tomb of my +fathers?" I felt the trembling of her hands, and she leaned upon my +shoulder. I know not, I will confess to you, whether at that moment I +tasted more of pleasure or of pain. + +But by this time several of the soldiers had already begun to descend into +the tower, and before another minute had elapsed, we found ourselves +surrounded by the flame of their torches. And he that seemed to lead the +party, after counting us one by one, said, turning to his companions, +"Well, an old woman has told the truth for once--here are even more I think +than she warned us of.--Come along, worthy people, you must not keep the +Tribune waiting for you all night, and our watch is well-nigh expired +already. Come, mount the stair--it will take a good half hour yet, I +believe, to lodge you all safely in the Tullian--And do you," he added, +laying his hand on the hilt of Cotilius' sword--"do you, brave sir, allow +me to save you the trouble of carrying this bauble." Nor was the stern +knight so foolish as to dispute the command; but having yielded up his +sword, he forthwith began to ascend, one or two spearmen preceding him +with their torches. The priest followed, and so did the rest; the last +being Athanasia and myself. + +On every side around the old tower, when I looked from the summit of it, I +perceived foot soldiers drawn up in a double line, while the road along +which I had come with Dromo, was occupied by a band of horsemen, one of +whom moved forward when he saw us descending, as if to take cognizance of +the number and quality of the surprised assembly. His long cloak being +muffled about his ears as he sate, and the shadow of his helmet falling +deeply, I did not at first suspect who it was; but he had not counted half +the party to the superior Officer behind him, ere I recognized him from +the sound of his voice; and who, think ye, should it be but my good friend +Sabinus? + +The Centurion, when his eye detected me, checked his horse so sharply that +the animal bounded into the air; and, "Valerius!" quoth he, "ha! by the +life of Caesar, what is the meaning of this? Valerius in a Christian +synagogue! By all the gods, there must be some mistake." But before I, in +my confusion, could make any answer to these exclamations, his eye chanced +to glance on Athanasia, who, trembling, still retained the support of my +arm; whereupon, "Ha! ha!" said he, in a quite different tone of voice, +"there is a lady in the case." And then, stooping in his seat, he +whispered, half laughing, into my ear, "My most hypocritical smooth-face, +you shall see what is the consequence of bringing these transatlantic +pranks of yours to Rome. By Hercules, you wild dog, it may cost you some +little trouble to get out of this scrape." + +Having said so, he turned his horse, and rejoining the troop, appeared to +enter into close conversation with him who sate at the head of the line. +Of what my friend said, I could catch nothing more than certain vehement +oaths, while, all the time, the Tribune (for such he was) continued to +shake his head, in a way significant at once of doubt and determination. +The end was, that he pointed with his sword; and Sabinus forced his horse +backwards, at one plunge, into the place from which he had advanced. + +Our party were immediately separated one from another. I saw the priest +lifted on a mule and hurried away towards the city, with a horseman on +each hand of him. The fiery Cotilius, and one or two more, were compelled +to follow, with similar attendance, in the same direction; others, again, +had their horses' heads turned more to the westward--but all departed at +speed, and were soon lost to my view among the projections of the tombs. +The last that remained to be disposed of were Athanasia and myself, and +for a moment I had some hope that we might perhaps be intrusted to the +same guards; but this hope was in vain, and after I perceived that it was +so, scarcely even was time permitted to me for bidding her farewell. To +kiss her hand, and to whisper a single word of parting hope into her ear, +was all I could do. A tear rolled from her cheek and fell upon my hand; +yet she smiled faintly upon me, and "Hope," said she--"yes, dear Valerius, +Hope and Faith both go with me." And with that the pale maiden was +separated from the arm to which she had trusted, and I saw her also +mounted and borne away rapidly. A moment after, I found myself, in like +manner, seized and lifted upon a horse, and almost before I could look +around me, we had escaped from the flare of the torches, and the crowd of +the soldiery, and were stretching at a rapid pace, I knew not whither, +although I suspected, from the width of the road, that we had regained the +Appian. + +But I have forgotten to mention to you, that just at the moment when they +were lifting Athanasia upon the mule that was to bear her from my sight, +my eye caught a glimpse of the witch Pona, who was sitting at the root of +one of the pine-trees, close to the tower. And behind her stood, leaning +against the tree, a figure wrapped in a rich red cloak, which I suspected +to be a female also, but could not be certain, because the countenance was +concealed in the folds of the garment. To this person, whoever it might +be, the witch turned round eagerly, while the soldiers were carrying off +Athanasia. I saw no more, for, as I have told you, immediately afterwards +I also was carried away. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +Our hasty pace had not borne us to any great distance from the place where +all these things occurred, ere the sky, which, as ye have heard, had all +that night been sufficiently variable, began to exhibit appearances which +my two companions interpreted as significant of the approach of one of +those nocturnal storms, to which, at that season of the year, the fair +heaven of Italy is peculiarly subject. That they apprehended somewhat of +this sort, I perceived from their looks, as they stopped for a moment to +draw the hoods of their mantles over their brazen helmets; for words they +uttered none, either to me or to each other, until our journey drew near +its close. For me, however, the numberless agitations through which I had +passed in the course of the few preceding hours, had, I suppose, +communicated an unnatural measure of ardour to my boyish blood; for +neither did I feel the night-breeze chill me as we rushed through it, nor +partook, in any sort, of the desire my companions testified to cover +themselves from the rain, which seemed to be about to discharge itself out +of all those black and lowering clouds now gathered above our heads from +every region of the heavens. When, on the contrary, the first heavy drops +fell, I bared my forehead with the eagerness of one who, in a parched +region, comes suddenly upon the margin of a well-spring. Nor did this +sensation subside even after the storm had thickened to the utmost, and +the dusty roads had drunk abundantly of the plashing rain. The strong wind +blew with redoubled coolness upon my moistened neck--the rain-drops dashed +on my hot hands; and I perceived, that, as is the nature of those animals, +the thunder which was mustering in the air, filled my horse one moment +with dread, and the next with a blind fierceness. At last the thunder +shouted over-head, and its echoes spread wide and far on either side, +until they seemed to be absorbed to the left in the remote depths of the +Appenine, and on the right hand in the measureless bosom of the Western +Sea--of which, as we galloped along the hill side, the broad lightning +(unless my fancy deceived me) revealed ever and anon a distant and +melancholy glimpse. + +We had passed a hill covered with towns, villages, and stately mansions, +(which I afterwards learned was no other than the famous Alban,) ere the +storm subsided beneath the influence of the reddening dawn. Yet even then +we slackened not our pace, although the horses were by this time not a +little exhausted with the swiftness of their motion, and the weight of +their wet riders. On rode we in the growing light of the morning; but I +perceived ere long that we had left the wide and magnificent Appian Way, +and were pursuing the line of a narrower road, which seemed to carry us +more and more westward. + +We halted for a moment on the brow of a declivity, where three paths +separated; and I perceived that among my guides there was some little +uncertainty as to which of these it behoved them to follow. While they +were muttering together, I looked and beheld at length the wide sea +heaving far below, over what appeared to me to be a forest as mighty as I +had ever seen in my native island. + +Old hoary oaks leaned on either hand quite over the narrow path-way, into +which (after their brief pause of consultation) my conductors directed our +course. Here and there, such a shield had those huge leafy boughs extended +over the road, that the dust rose from amongst the feet of our horses as +if all that night not one drop of rain had fallen there; although +elsewhere, in the absence of such mighty trees, the water lying across the +path in pools testified abundantly that the tempest had not spared the +forest any more than the champaign. Vast waving gulfs of bay and ilex, +with here and there some solitary pine raising itself proudly in the +midst, seemed to stretch away on either hand between the groves of those +gigantic oaks. + +The path we followed carried us ever deeper and deeper into the bosom of +the woods; and, at length, so buried were we in the windings of their +stifling shade, that I had lost all notion of the direction in which I was +moving; until, after two or three hot hours, weary man and jaded horse +were, I believe, equally delighted with snuffing once more the open +current of the air. We reached not the edge of the forest, however, before +I could hear distinctly the dashing of the Mediterranean waves; and the +last ascent we climbed laid open to my view a long sweep of the rolling +waters, and their rocky coast garnished every where with the richness of +superincumbent woods. Far, very far, in the distant north, I thought I +could recognize some of the stately towers of Ostium, bosomed apparently +within the billows over which they presided. All between was one wide +waste of wood and rock, save here and there a watch-tower perched on the +margin, and whitened half-way up with the foam of the yet uncalmed sea. + +Then, nor ever could I look upon the waters of the great deep, without +something of that filial yearning which seems so natural to every native +of our sea-girt island. But neither could I contrast the condition in +which I now approached it, with the gay and hopeful mood in which I had so +lately left it behind me, without many thoughts more sad and serious than +as yet had frequently visited my bosom. What a strange brood of visions +had passed before my eyes, since, but a few days before, I stept for the +first time, light of heart, beneath the shadow of those far-off bulwarks! +What new emotions had arisen, in the interval! How had every sense been +gratified! how had every dream of imagination been exceeded! Yet what a +void had been revealed within!--Alas! said I to myself, why is it that I +have been subjected to all these novelties? Had I not done better to have +remained, after all, where life flowed ever calmly--where affection hung +over me like a protecting buckler, and my soul could sleep in the security +of unbroken faith! But this was only for a moment. The thoughts of +Athanasia haunted me more deeply and more firmly. I thought over every +word she had spoken--every look of hers rose up in succession, with all the +vividness of a beautiful and a troubled dream. I seemed to feel, as if she +were yet present beside me, the trembling of her pale fingers upon my +shoulder--I kissed the hand on which her parting tear had fallen, as if it +were yet wet with the dear moisture. When I thought of the perils in which +she must now be enveloped--of the pains she must have suffered--must at that +moment be suffering,--it was as if I could have burst bands of iron, like +flax, from off my hands. When a glimpse of the darker future opened before +me, I shuddered, and, urging my poor horse onwards in the recklessness of +total abstraction, I perceived that even my guides pitied the agony of my +despair. + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +We stopped before one of the watch-towers which, as I have told you, I had +seen scattered along the edge of the sea. But this, when we came up to it, +appeared larger than I had expected to find any of them. The narrow way, +alongst which we had been riding, brought us close to its gate, on the +side towards the land; but the rock shelving rapidly on the other side, +gave it the semblance, at a little distance, of being suspended over the +waves. + +It was a building of rude, and apparently very antique structure, the +under part square, but the upper circular; as is, for the most part, the +old Roman fashion in such erections. And this, indeed, I doubt not, might +have stood there long enough to have shewn a beacon, when some fleet of +Syracuse or Carthage darkened the blue sea over against the Lestrigonian +bay renowned in old song, or the snow-white promontory of Gaieta. + +One of the soldiers dismounted, and began to knock rather violently at the +door; but some little time elapsed ere any sound from within responded to +the clamour he raised. At last a hard and withered face made its +appearance at a little opening above the door, and then the helmets +passed, I suppose, for a sufficient warrant, for in a twinkling we heard +the bolts creaking; the old postern was soon set ajar, and forth stepped +the venerable keeper. Imagine a tall, skinny man of threescore years, with +a face as dry and yellow as ye have seen on the outside of a pye, and hair +as white as ever the skill of a confectioner could represent, and legs +bearing the same proportion to the feet, which the shaft of Saturn's +scythe usually does to its blade. Clothe the nether part of this figure in +Dacian, or Gaulish breeches, throw a somewhat threadbare cloak over his +shoulders, and to finish the outfit, deck his head with a casque of the +Macedonian cut, that is to say, sitting close above the ears, and topped +with a bristling plume of horse hair. The Warder stood with dignity, and +listened with gravity, while one of my Praetorians whispered his message. +On its conclusion, he shrugged his shoulders, and regarding me with a +glance made up, I think, in pretty equal proportions, of surprise and +contempt, signified by the motion of his hand that we might all three +enter. He whistled at the same moment, and there came forth a comely +damsel, who, with many blushes and smiles, took possession of the reins of +our horses.--"Stand there," quoth he, "stand there, little Cestia, and see +if there be never a handful of corn to be got for the prince's +cattle,--stand there, and we shall be with you again anon." And then he +also whispered something into the maiden's ear, and I saw her looking at +me from under her eyelids with an expression of very uncommon curiosity. +Two or three curly-pated urchins, of different sizes, joined her at the +same moment, and to them, in her turn, the maiden whispered; whereupon the +eldest of the children retreating behind her, eyed me earnestly along the +skirt of her tunic, while the younger ones continued to gaze where they +were, with looks of open stupidity and wonder. Of all this I could make +nothing at the moment, but when we had got fairly into the inside of the +tower, I heard the children whispering to each other, "A Christian! A +Christian! A Jew! A Jew!" + +The lower part of the tower, into which I had now been conducted, seemed +to form nothing more than one huge, bare, and quadrangular apartment, +serving, I supposed (and rightly) at once as hall and vestibule to the +upper chambers contained within the walls. A small flight of steps, in one +of the corners, seemed to afford the only means of access to what was +above; but from the position of a door immediately below these, it was we +inferred that there were vaults under ground. Close beside this door there +stood, upon a very rude pedestal, a still more rude bust, either of +Jupiter, of Apollo, or of Hercules. The workmanship was such, that I could +not be very certain which of the family it was intended to represent, nor +whether the principal appendage was a club, a lyre, a bow, or a +thunder-bolt; but it did not escape my observation, that the old keeper +crept as close as he could to the sacred stone, as soon as I stepped over +the threshold. + +One of the little boys that had come out to the door on our arrival, +busied himself in setting forth a wooden board, whereon he placed in great +order a huge piece of yellow cheese, and a heap of crisp white cakes of +rye. A large jug of water also garnished the mess; but there seemed to be +a little less of diligence, or more of difficulty, about the wine. After +some pause, however, the mistress of the garrison appeared. A string of +amber beads floated to and fro on the ocean of her bosom. She had fine +golden bracelets on her arms too, but they were only half seen, being +almost buried in fat; and she wore a flaxen wig, which did not entirely +conceal the dark bristles below. At the girdle of the amazon hung, on the +right side, the much desiderated bunch of keys, being balanced on the left +by a dagger and toothpick case, almost of equal dimensions. + +"Will _you_ drink to Caesar, young man?" cried the matron, ere the sitting +had been much prolonged; "will you drink honestly to the Emperor, in case +you also have a full cup given you? and, by the by, I think you must have +almost as much need of it as the rest." And, with this courteous +invitation, I heard her whisper to one of my guards,--"By Jove, 'tis a +proper lad, after all; is this true that they have told me of him? Why, I +believe, the young man has a red edge to his gown. What is his name? who +is he?"--I heard him answer,--"By the life of Caesar, you know as much about +him as any of us. There was a whole cluster taken last night a little way +beyond the Capene-Gate, and he was one; but what they were about, or who +he is, I know not, only he is certainly somebody, for I saw our Centurion +salute him."--"I saw him with Sabinus," whispered the other--"I am quite +sure of it, the last day the Amphitheatre was open; they sate together, +and appeared familiar."--"I pray you, sir," quoth the lady, raising her +voice,--"I pray you fill your cup, and here I pledge you to our better +acquaintance. You shake your head--well. But what must be, must; and while +you are with us, we may at least be good friends."--"Thanks," said I, +complying with her command; "Here, then, is health to all present; and +fair health to the great Trajan, says no one here more heartily than I."--I +drank off the wine, and setting down the goblet, I believe I said, +"Excellent, by Jove," or something of that sort; for they all started when +they heard what I said, and the old woman called out lustily, "Fill him +another cup to the brim, whether he be Christian or not. The young man at +least swears by the gods, and drinks to Caesar." + +"The old man," observed one of the soldiers,--"he that was killed the other +day in the Amphitheatre--he might have saved his head, even at the last +moment, if he would have done as much."--"Well, well," quoth she again; +"let every one mind his own matters. Husband, bring down your book, and +let the new-comer enter his name with his own hand." + +Having drained his cup, the keeper rose, and ere long returned with a +musty scroll of parchment, which, having blown away the dust from it, he +presented to me. I glanced over the record, and found in it the names of +various persons, all apparently entered in their own handwriting; and most +of them, as I could perceive, bearing date in the troublous reign of +Domitian. The last was that of Marcus Protius Lamontanus, who, as it +seemed, had been set free from his confinement immediately on the +accession of Nerva; and immediately under this I wrote my own name, with +that of my birthplace. The keeper read, and said, "So preserve me the +power of Jove! A Valerius! and born in Britain! Can you be the son of the +same Valerius who was Centurion in the ninth legion under Agricola?"--"You +have guessed rightly--I am the same."--"Then the more is the pity," he +replied, in a grave voice, "that you should have entered, in such a case +as this, the dwelling of one that was a true soldier beneath the eagle of +your father. But forgive me if in any thing we have been +disrespectful."--"There is no occasion," said I, "for any such apology. I +am here as a prisoner, and have been treated with all courtesy beyond what +a prisoner could expect." + +"By Hercules!" interrupted the spouse, "I thought I had some knowledge of +the face--Well, I hope ten years hence he will be as fine a man as his +father was the day he slew the Caledonian giant, and tumbled him from his +chariot in front of all the line--yes, in sight of Galgacus himself. It was +the same day," said she, turning to her lord, "that you were taken +prisoner, and driven away into the woods."--"As witness these marks," quoth +the man; and with that he stripped open his tunic, and displayed part of +his breast, stamped with various figures of blue and yellow, after the +northern fashion, and bearing withal the traces of two formidable wounds. + +The woman redoubled her kindness; but not wishing to interrupt festivity, +I soon requested her to shew me the place where I was to be confined. And, +indeed, as you may imagine, I had by this time not a little need of +repose. + +Both she and her husband accordingly rose to usher me to my prison. I gave +money to the soldiers, and requested them to inform Sabinus of the place +to which I had been conveyed; but did not choose to write any thing, +either to him or to Licinius, until I should have had a little time for +reflection. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +My fatigue brought speedy sleep; and so profound, that before I again +unclosed my eyes, the calm sea was already purple below me, and the sun +about to set. But neither purple sea, nor golden sky, nor all the divine +tranquillity of the evening air, could sooth my mind into repose, after I +had once awaked to a sense of the situation into which I had been +brought--I should say rather of the situation in which Athanasia was +placed. For myself, I could not in seriousness fear any calamity worthy of +the name,--if such should come, it must be my business to wrestle with it +as I might. But to think of her, young, beautiful, innocent; and of all to +which she might be exposed amidst the rude hands in which I had left her! + +Some time had passed before my attention was attracted by a conversation +carried on in the chamber below me, in which you will not be surprised +that I should have felt myself interested, even although the distance was +such that I could not distinguish one word that was said. I knew from the +first moment that it was impossible I should be mistaken--I was perfectly +certain it was Sabinus himself, who was talking with the old woman; and I +at once suspected that the worthy Centurion, having learned from the +soldiers who carried me off, to what place they had conveyed me, had +undertaken this speedy journey, for the purpose of comforting me in my +confinement. The kindness with which he had treated me from the beginning +of our acquaintance had been such, that I could have no occasion to wonder +at his exerting himself to discover me; but I confess this alacrity was +more than I had been prepared for, and I waited only for the moment when +he should enter my apartment to throw myself upon his bosom, and intrust +all my troubles to him, as to a friend and a brother. There was something, +however, which I could not at all comprehend in the merriment which seemed +to be reigning below on his arrival. Peals of female laughter interrupted +the uniform hearty tone of the Centurion's voice; and the feeble treble of +the old Warder himself was stretched ever and anon in attempt at a +chuckle. + +At last in they came, and Sabinus, embracing me affectionately, thrust +into my hand a piece of parchment, which I perceived to be nothing less +than an order for my immediate release. Then taking off his riding-cap, +and rubbing with his handkerchief his most audacious and soldier-looking +brows, "My dear boy," quoth he, "I see you are going to thank me--but wound +not modesty by fine speeches. There was war before Helen--have a better +care another time, and don't pay Rome such a poor compliment, as to say +that you can find nobody to charm you but a Christian damsel, and no place +for flirtation but a gloomy tomb lined with urns and lachrymatories. My +honest friend here was quite frightened with the idea of having such an +unbelieving reprobate as they said you were, under the same roof with her +children. But now her fears are dispelled, for good souls are always +tolerant to the little vagaries of young blood; so thank your hostess, my +lad, kiss her hand, take one cup to the hearth of the old tower, and +tighten your girdle." + +"Well!" quoth the woman; "who should have thought when the soldiers +brought him in with such mystery, that it was all for kissing by +moonlight! I protest to Venus, they would have made me believe he had been +caught eating an infant; but still I cannot quite pardon him. Well--well--we +must e'en take good hope he will mend ere he dies." + +"Die?" cried the Centurion; "do you talk of dying to one that has scarcely +yet begun to live!--Come, come, Caius, I hope, after all, you may never get +into a worse scrape." + +"And if I do," said I, "I hope I shall always be equally fortunate in my +jailers." + +"By the beard of Jove!" quoth Sabinus, "it needs no great skill to see +that you have been fortunate in that respect. I swear that, if the truth +were known, you are almost as unwilling to leave this tower now, as you +were last night to be torn away from another." + +"Oh, Master Kaeso," quoth she again, "when will you have done with your +joking? Well, your father loved a jest in his time himself; but now he, I +suppose, is quiet enough. And he, good old man, how does he wear?--Can he +still sit in his porch of a fine morning, and listen to the news, as he +used to do, with his cup at his knee?" + +"I trust the old grasshopper can still chirp when the sun shines. But to +tell you the truth, it is long since I have seen him; and if this young +blade has no objection, I mean to pay him a visit this very night. I am +only just come home from Britain, and have not yet had leisure to salute +my Lares." + +I said something about being anxious to return as soon as possible to +Rome; but the Centurion answered me with another shout, "Come, come; she's +safe enough. I suppose you think every one gets out of jail as easily as +yourself." + +I found it was out of the question to disapprove of any of the schemes of +Sabinus; so, having saluted the hostess, and flung my purse to her +children, (who, by the way, still regarded me with looks of apprehension,) +I accompanied him with a good grace to the gate. I made inquiry before I +went forth concerning the old jailer likewise; but I could easily gather +from the expression of face with which his wife accompanied her indistinct +reply, that he had, long before that time, reached a state in which she +felt little desire to exhibit him. The Centurion whistled as he stepped +across the threshold, and there forthwith drew near a soldier, wearing the +Praetorian helmet, (now sufficiently familiar to my sight,) and leading in +his hand three horses. In the rear, I recognized, not without +satisfaction, the busy countenance of my friend Dromo, whose ass did not +appear quite so eager to join the party as its rider. A few sturdy thumps, +however, at last brought the Cretan close to us, who saluted me with great +appearance of joy, and then whispered into my ear, "Great Jove! we must +keep silence for the present. What a story I have to tell; and I suppose +there is one to hear likewise--but all in good season. We must not crack +nuts before monkeys. I have a letter for you," he added, "from Sextus, and +another from Licinius." + +The Centurion sprung on his trusty war-horse, who seemed to rejoice in the +feeling of his weight; and we were soon in motion. I asked no questions +either about the course or distance, but rode by his side so silently, +that he bestowed on me many good-natured rebukes, for suffering a little +affair of love to distress me so greatly. "Cheer up now," quoth he, "and +do not make me repent of carrying you to my father's house, by shewing the +old man, who has had enough of troubles, such a countenance as must make +him think of Orcus, even although he did not know himself to be near its +gates. It is more than a year since I have seen him." + +This sort of speech he repeated so often, that I thought the best way +would be to tell him frankly the true history of the adventure, from whose +immediate consequences he had delivered me. I told him, therefore, every +thing about both Tisias and Athanasia, and, indeed, kept nothing from him +in the whole matter, except only what referred to the impression made on +my own mind by what I had read of the Christian book,--for, as to this +subject, it was one which I totally despaired of being able to make him in +any measure comprehend,--and besides, the state of my own mind was still so +uncertain in regard to it, and my information so imperfect, that I could +not trust myself with speaking of it to any one, until I should have had +leisure for more both of reading and of reflection. + +He preserved silence for some minutes, and then said, "In truth, Caius, +you have distressed me. I thought it was merely some little frolic born of +an hour, to be forgotten in a day; but I cannot refuse you my sympathy. +Would I had more to offer!"--"Dear Sabinus," said I, "I know not how to +thank you. You saw me but a few days ago the merriest young fellow that +ever trod the pavement of Rome--happy in the moments that passed, and full +of glad hopes for all that were to come; but now I feel myself quite +changed. Almost I wish I had never left my British fields; and yet I +should never have seen Athanasia."--"Poor fellow!" quoth he, laying his +hand on the mane of my horse, "I perceive there is, indeed, no trifling in +your case. Compose yourself; whatever chances there may be in your favour +will never be bettered by despondence." He paused a little, and +proceeded--"The worst of the whole is this new bitterness against these +Christians. Except during Nerva's time, there was always some punishment +to be feared by them, in case of being detected; but there was a way of +managing things in almost every case, and people were well enough disposed +to grant immunities which were always attended with some good to the Fisk. +Nero and Domitian, to be sure, acted otherwise--but these were madmen; and +even they did so only by fits and starts. But now, when a prince like +Trajan has taken up the matter, it is no wonder that one should consider +it more seriously. One cannot help fancying he must have had some good +reason before he began--that is one thing; and having once begun, he is not +the man to drop it lightly--which is a more weighty consideration. Do you +think there is positively no chance of her giving up this dream, when she +finds what it has exposed her to?" + +"No," said I; "I am sure she will not, nor can I wish it would be +otherwise with her." + +"Well," he resumed, "I enter into your feelings so far, my friend, even on +that point. I cannot imagine you to have been so deeply smitten with a +girl of a flighty unsteady character. But then this is not a case to be +judged of on common principles. It is no light thing to be exposed to such +examinations as are now set afoot for these people; and if she behaves +herself so resolutely as you seem to expect, what is the end of it? I +consider it highly probable--for there is no friendship in uncandid +speaking--that, in spite of all her friends can do, they will banish her at +the very least; scarcely dare I speak of it, but even worse than +banishment has heretofore befallen Romans--ay, Roman ladies too,--and these +as high in birth and place as Athanasia." + +"My dear Sabinus," said I, "do not imagine that now for the first time all +these things are suggested to me. Imagine rather, how, unable for a moment +to expel them from my mind, I have spent these miserable hours. Her +friends, too, what must not be their alarm!" + +"The thing was so done," quoth the Centurion, "that I think it is +impossible it should have made much noise as yet. If there was in the +family no suspicion that the lady had any connection with these people, +they must be in perfect perplexity. I lay my life they take it for granted +she has had some private intrigue, and has gone off with her lover." + +"Alas!" said I, "when they hear the truth, it will be still worse than +this in their eyes. Yet it appears fit that no time should be lost in +making them acquainted with the real state of the case. O Sabinus, I +foresee that in all these things I shall have need of your counsel and +your help." + +"You shall have them both, my dear boy," said he,--"you shall have them +both to the uttermost. But there is no question at all about the propriety +of telling the relations all you know. Licinius is probably well +acquainted with them. I am almost sorry for having prevented your +immediate return to the city; and yet one night will soon be over." + +"But Athanasia herself----" + +"Ah! that indeed is a point of some difficulty. It was merely from having +remembered who the men were that rode off with you, that I was enabled to +learn so soon whither you yourself had been conveyed. But the party +consisted of a few men out of almost every one of our cohorts,--those, in +short, that were on duty, scattered up and down in different parts of the +city; and I may not find it very easy to discover who had the care of any +other individual." + +"But Athanasia----" + +"True," said he, "I had not thought of it. There was but one female +besides herself. That will furnish a clue. You may rely on it, I shall +easily find out the place to which they have taken her; but then where, +and at what distance that may be, Heaven only knows; for it seemed as if +every prisoner were to be carried to a separate place of confinement. At +all events, even if we knew where she is, we could do nothing at present. +Come, cheer up, now you have unburdened yourself of all this load. I shall +be ready to start as early as ever you please in the morning." + +By this time the moon was in full splendour, and nothing could be more +beautiful than the scenery of the native place of Sabinus, as we drew near +to its precincts. A little gentle stream, which kissed our path, did not +desert us as we entered the village, but murmured all through its humble +street. Street, indeed, I should not say; for there were dwelling-houses +on the one side only, the other being occupied with gardens, in the midst +of which I saw the Doric portico of a small temple. In front of this a +bridge crossed the stream, and there we were met by a troop of maidens, +who seemed to be moving toward the sacred place with some purpose of +devotion, for they were singing in alternate measures, and in their hands +they carried garlands. Some recognized Sabinus, and, without interrupting +their chant, saluted him with their laughing eyes. We halted our horses, +and saw them proceed all together into the hallowed enclosure, which they +did, not by means of the bridge, although they were close by it, but by +wading hand in hand through the stream below; whose pebbles, as it +appeared from the evenness of their motion, dared not to offer any +violence to the delicate feet that trod upon them. "Happy creatures," said +I to the Centurion; "of a surety they think these moonbeams shine on +nothing but glad faces like their own. Alas! with what heart does poor +Athanasia at this moment contemplate this lovely heaven!"--"Nay, Valerius," +quoth he, "if people were not to be contented with their own share of +sorrow, would the world, think ye, be worth living in? I hope Athanasia +herself will ere long sing again by the moonlight.--But stop, here is my +own old haunt, the abode of our village barber, and now I think of it, +perhaps it might be as well that you and Dromo should remain here for a +moment, till I ride on to the house, and let them know you are coming, for +the sudden sight of strange faces might alarm the old folks at this hour." + +He had scarcely said so, when the tonsor himself, hearing, I suppose, the +sound of our horses' feet, ran out with his razor and basin in his hand, +to see what might be the matter. "Ah, good Virro," quoth the Centurion, +"with joy do I once more behold your face. Well, the girls still sing, and +Virro still shaves; so every thing, without question, goes well."--"The +Centurion himself!" replies the barber; "so Venus smile upon me, it is +Kaeso Sabinus, who I began to think would never come back again.--Here, boy, +bring out a cup of the best. Alight, I pray you--well, at least, you shall +kiss the rim of the goblet."--"I will," said he, "I promise you, my good +friend, and that in a minute or two; but I must first salute my father; +and, in the meantime, I leave with you in pledge, good Virro, my excellent +friend here, and the most knowing Cretan that ever landed at +Brundusium.--Dismount, Valerius, I shall be with you again ere Virro can +half smoothen the chin of Dromo, which even this morning shewed no small +need of trimming."--"Well, well," said the tonsor, "eagles will have their +own way. Be speedy." + +The Centurion had set the spur to his charger; and we, in obedience to his +command, submitted ourselves to the guidance of the oily-faced little +barber. A stripling was already holding two horses at the door, but +another came out and took care of our animals, and we entered, exchanging +courteous salutations, the tonsorial penetralia. + +They were occupied by as various and talkative a company, as the +imagination of Lucilius ever assembled in such a place. In the middle of +the room, which was spacious, though low-roofed, hung a huge shield of +brass, with a dozen mouths of flame blazing around the edge of its +circumference, close beside which sat a man with a napkin tucked about his +neck, the one side of whose visage, still besmeared with a thick coat of +lather, testified that the curiosity of Virro had induced him to abandon a +yet uncompleted job. The half-trimmed physiognomy, however, displayed no +sign of impatience, and the barber himself seemed not to think any apology +necessary, for he resumed his operations with an air of great +cheerfulness, saying, "Neighbours all, here is Kaeso Sabinus, that is now +the Centurion, come once more to gladden the old village with his merry +face, and that, I promise you, is prettily tanned since we knew him +first." + +This piece of news appeared not a little to interest several of those who +were sitting under the tonsor's roof. "Ha!" said one, "the noble +Centurion! Well, has he brought home a wife with him at last? for the talk +was, that he had been seen at the Amphitheatre, paying great court to one +of the richest ladies in Rome." + +"A wife?" says Virro, "no, no, centurions and barbers can do without +wives. But if he is to have one, I shall be happy to hear she is rich; for +centurions, after all, sometimes carry most of their silver upon their +helmets, as we do most of our brass on our basins."--"Indeed," said I, "I +never heard of it before." + +"If it please you, friend," said another of them, "is this the same +Sabinus that has lately been in Britain?"--"Britain," quoth an ancient +dame; "I never heard that name before--Britain! I know it not--I know not +where he hath been, but they told me it was over the sea, perhaps in +Palestine."--"Tut, dame," interrupted the barber, (who was now busy on +Dromo,) "you think every one goes to Palestine, because your own boy +carried a spear with Titus; but you know they ruined the city, and killed +all the Jews and Christians, and there is no occasion for sending +Centurions thither now."--"Killed all the Jews and Christians, said you?" +quoth another. "I think the old dame has the better of you as to that +point at least, Virro. Not Trajan himself will ever be able to kill them +all; the superstition spreads like a pestilence. It was but last night +that a hundred of them were taken together in one place, eating human +flesh."--"Human flesh!" quoth the barber. "Oh, ye gods, why do ye endure +such barbarians!" + +"Human flesh!" echoed Dromo, springing from his seat, and I looked at him, +and saw that the barber in his horror had made in truth a deep incision +upon the cheek of the poor man. The blood, oozing from the cut, had +already traced a river of crimson upon the snowy surface of his +well-soaped chin. It was this that had deranged the philosophic composure +and customary phlegm of my Cretan; and no wonder; but the enthusiastic +tonsor took no notice of what had occurred.--"Great Jove," he proceeded, +and he pointed to the roof with his razor as he spake--"Great Jove! I +adjure thee! are all thy lightnings spent; is there never a thunderbolt +remaining?" + +"In the meantime," quoth one of the bystanders, "they are in the hand not +of Jove, but of Trajan, and he, I think, cannot now be accused of treating +these wretches with too much lenity. You have all heard of that +Tisias?"--"We have," cried another; "but what was a single individual to +this great assembly? what a sight will it be the day they are all +executed!" + +"I think," said the same person who had inquired whether our Centurion +were the Sabinus that had been in Britain,--"I think you are overrating the +numbers of that assembly. I heard of no more than a dozen." + +This stranger (for such he seemed) had probably taken that day a +considerable journey, for his tunic and boots were covered with dust. He +was attired in the plainest manner, but notwithstanding, there was +something about him which gave one the idea of rank superior to the +company in which he was seated; and his complexion was so dark that I +could not help thinking to myself,--I am not the only provincial in the +room; here is certainly some well-born African or Asiatic. + +"You have not told me, however," said he, after a pause, "whether or not +this be the Sabinus that was lately in Britain."--"Sir," said I, "it is the +same; I myself came in the same ship with him, but a few days ago. He is a +Centurion in the Praetorian Bands."--"Yes," replied the stranger, "I guessed +in truth, it must be the same; for I remember no other of that rank +bearing the same name."--"If you are acquainted with him," said I, "you may +have an opportunity of seeing him immediately, for I expect him here every +moment to conduct me to his father's villa, which is hard by." + +"Well," quoth the barber, who by this time had ended, without fresh +misadventure, the trimming of the Cretan--"well, I hope he will stay for a +moment when he does come, and then we shall be sure to hear the truth as +to this story about the Christian assembly. They may talk as they please, +but may Jove devote me, if I had Caesar's ring upon my finger for one +night, this should be the last of them."--"And how, friend," said the +stranger, "by what means, if I may ask you, should you propose so speedily +to do away with this fast-spreading abomination?"--"Look ye, sirs," quoth +he, "I would place myself thus in my tribunal"--(he took his seat at a +little table, beside a goblet of wine, as he spake,) "I would seat myself +thus in the midst of a field, as Cato and the great Censors of old used to +do. I would cause Rome to be emptied--man, woman, and child should pass +before me; and every one that did not acknowledge the gods as he passed, +by all the gods! he should sprawl upon a tree in presence of all the +people. What avails watching, prying, spying, and surprising? I should +make shorter work of it, I trow." + +"You may say what you will," said one who had not before spoken, "I cannot +bring myself to believe every thing I hear concerning their +superstition."--"Ay, goldsmith," quoth the barber, "you were always fond of +having an opinion of your own; and, pray, what is it that you have had +occasion to know about the Christians, more than the rest of us who hear +you? If you mean that you have seen some of them die bravely in the +Amphitheatre, why, that we have all heard of at least, and I think nobody +disputes it."--"No, master barber," replied he, "that is not what I was +thinking of. I have seen your common thief-knave, when he knew he could do +no better, brace you his nerves for the extremity, and die like a +Hercules. I would rather judge of a man by his living than his +dying."--"True," rejoins Virro; "and pray, what have you got to tell us +about the life, then, of the Christians?"--"Not much," said he, "you shall +hear. My old mother (peace to her manes) was passing the Salarian one day +last year, and there came by a hot-headed spark, driving four abreast in a +chariot as fiercely as Nero in the Circus. He called out, that I believe, +but the dame was deaf, and whether he tried to pull up, I know not, but +the horses trod upon her as she fell. Another of the same sort came close +behind, and I have been told they were running a race; but however that +might be, on they both passed like a whirlwind, and my poor mother was +left by herself among the flying dust. But the gods had mercy on her; they +sent a kind heart to her aid. She was carried into one of the stateliest +villas on that side of Tiber, and tended for six weeks by a noble lady, as +if she had been not my mother, but her own; and this lady, friends--by Jove +I suspected it not for long after--this lady was a Christian; but I shall +not say how I found it out, nor would I mention the thing at all but among +honest men. But where were these you spoke of taken?--I should like to know +who they were." + +"They were taken," said the stranger, "not far from the Appian Way, within +one of the old monuments there,--a monument, it is said, of the +Sempronii."--"Of the Sempronii?" cried the goldsmith, "Phoebus Apollo shield +us!" and from that moment he became as silent as hitherto he had been +communicative. + +The swarthy stranger, the silence yet continuing, arose from his seat, +laid a piece of money upon the table, and moved towards the door. The +barber also rose up, but he said to him, "Sit still, I pray you, my +friend;" at the same time beckoning with his finger to the goldsmith, who, +with a very dejected countenance, followed him into the street. What +passed between them there, we perceived not; but the artificer re-entered +not the chamber till some moments after we had heard the departing tread +of the stranger's horses. When he did come in again, he had the appearance +of being in great confusion. + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +Shortly after Sabinus reappeared, and bidding adieu to our tonsor, we +walked with him towards the paternal mansion,--and we soon reached it; for, +as I have already said, it was but a little way out from the village. + +The dwelling was modest enough, having no external ornament but a single +portico, with a few statues ranged between its pillars. We entered by this +portico, and found the feeble old man sitting by himself in an apartment +immediately adjacent, wherein the beams of the moon, having partial +access, were mingled with the subdued light of a painted lamp suspended +from the ceiling. The father of my friend had all the appearance of +sinking apace; yet he received me with an air, not of cheerfulness, but of +kindness. The breeze found admission through the open pillars, and his +countenance exhibited in its wan and faint lines the pleasure with which +the coolness affected him. Beside him were placed baskets of roses, +gathered from the abundance of his gardens. The young Vernae, who from time +to time brought in these flowers, came into the chamber with a decent +appearance of sobriety and concern; but they were never long gone before +we could hear them laughing again at their play.--"Poor children," quoth +the old man; "why should they trouble themselves with thinking of the not +remote victim of Orcus?"--To which the Centurion replied, somewhat +softening that loud and cheerful tone with which he was accustomed to +address all persons--"Courage, my dear father, you must not speak so. +Cerberus, I perceive, has only been making an ineffectual snap at you, and +you will be growing younger after all this." + +At which the old man shook his head, without any external sign of emotion, +and replied, in a low monotonous voice,--"Younger in the wrong way, my boy; +for I become every day smaller in body, and feebler, and less able to do +any thing to help myself. Nor am I unconscious that I have seen my due +proportion of time. And yet, oh! fast sliding gentle brook, which I see +between these paternal trees--I am still loath to exchange thee for Styx, +and to lose the cheerful and sacred light of the sun and moon. I wish only +I were once more able to repair with thy stream to the banks of father +Tiber, that I might salute the good Emperor, who has been so kind to my +son, and who would treat even an old broken-down, and long-retired +soldier, like myself, with more favour than is to be expected from +Rhadamanthus. As clouds let down their drops, so the many-peopled earth +lets fall dismissed ghosts upon the Stygian shore." + +While he was saying things in the same strain, an ancient Egyptian, who +seemed to have the chief management of every thing, came into the chamber, +and after desiring some of the boys to bring forth refreshments, took his +place on a low stool by the foot of his master's couch. "Come, Tarna," +said the Centurion, "what has become of all your philosophy? Why do you +not inspire our friend with less of gloominess? Why is it that you do not +bring out for his use some of those old stories, with which, when I was +young, you were more willing to treat my ears than they were to attend?" + +"Nay," said the invalid, before the Egyptian could make any answer,--"I +liked well to listen to his Epicurean theories when I was able to walk +about the fields; but now I would rather have him be silent. Do not +trouble me any more, good Tarna, with any of your speeches. Allow me to +believe as all my fathers did, and to contemplate not only the sepulchre +in which their urns are placed, but the same dim regions in which many +dear shades expect the greeting of a descendant." + +"To me," said the slave modestly, "it still seems, that by the rushing +shower of atoms which moves every where through space, the mind is +soothed, as by the sound of a great river carrying continually the watery +offspring of the mountains into the bosom of ocean. The mind, sirs, +appears to me to be calmed by the contemplation of infinity, even as the +ear of an Egyptian sleeper is calmed by the eternal music of rolling +Nilus. It mingles itself with that which it contemplates; it perceives--it +feels itself to be a liquid part of that vast endless stream of universal +being: a part which has been casually arrested and detained, but which +will soon mingle again and be scattered away in a thousand fragments, to +wander, no one knows whither, through the great all-receiving void--not to +lose existence, for in that my dear master entirely misunderstands me--but +to cease from feeling as a Sabinus, or a Tarna." + +The old man kept regarding his Egyptian with a placid smile; but I could +not help interposing: "What is this you have said? Do you assert that I +can cease to be Valerius, to feel as Valerius, and yet not lose my +existence? Can I _be_, and yet not be _myself_?" + +"Most easily," replied he; "the divided fragments may move about for a +thousand years, before it befall any of them to be stopped in some future +combination of atoms. These, it is manifest, only tremble and suffer when +they form part of a soul, but are immediately released from all pain or +mischance, when this confinement and cohesion are at an end, and they, +being dispersed, regain liberty and wander about singly, as of yore; for, +as our great dispeller of delusion says--When death is, we are not. If, +therefore, Sabinus shrinks from the fear of death, it is an idle fear. +Does he not perceive that when death arrives, Sabinus is no longer to be +found. Whatever its effects may be, they must affect not him, but an army +of innumerable disjointed essences, in no one of which could he by any +means be able to recognize himself." + +"To make a short story out of a very long one," interrupted the Centurion; +"life, you think, is not worthy of the name of existence--that being so, it +is no wonder you should think lightly of death." + +"Mistake me not," quoth the sage; "no--life _is_ existence; I not only +admit that, but I assert that it is the business of every man, and the +sole true object of wisdom, to render life, while it endures, pleasant. +Earthly pleasure consists in a bland juxta-position of atoms necessarily, +though not permanently, connected; the removal of pain implies that +quiescence which pervades the nobleness of the unenclosed ALL. To exist in +this shape, we are compelled; it is our business to render our existence +as near an approach to felicity as we may." + +"Fill your cup, Tarna," quoth the Centurion; "I am no great philosopher, +yet methinks I can see the drift of this part of your story. Fill up your +goblet, most venerable Epicurean, and see (if it be not below your +dignity,) whether the atoms, which, by a fortuitous and temporary +juxta-position have formed your throat, will not feel their corners very +philosophically softened by the rushing of a little rivulet of good +Falernian--one cup of which, saving your presence, I hold to be more worthy +of wetting my guttural atoms, than all the water that ever sported its +music between Memphis and Alexandria." + +While the slave and the Centurion were thus discoursing, the old man +appeared to taste, as it were, the pleasure of a renovated existence, in +contemplating the brown health and strong muscular fabric of the inheritor +of his name. The hearty masculine laugh with which my friend usually +concluded his observations, was, I take leave to think, richer music to +his ears than ever Egyptian heard in the dark rollings of the Nile, or +Epicurean dreamt of in the airy dance of atoms. I suspect he was more +reconciled to the inevitable stroke of fate, by considering that he was to +leave such a representative behind him, than by any argument which his own +superstition, or the philosophy of his attendant, could suggest. In return +for this obvious admiration, the Centurion, without question, manifested +every symptom of genuine affection. Yet, I think, the instinctive +consciousness of his own strength made the piety of the robust son assume +an air more approaching to that of patronage, than might have been +altogether becoming. If such a fault there were, however, it escaped the +notice of the invalid, who continued, till Tarna insisted upon his +retiring, to gaze upon my friend, and listen to his remarks, with looks of +exultation. + +The Centurion withdrew with his father, so that I was left alone with +Tarna for some time; and it was then that, in my juvenile simplicity, I +could not help expressing my surprise at finding in servile condition a +man possessed of such acquirements as his, and addicted to such pursuits. + +"It would argue little," he replied, "in favour of such pursuits, if they +tended only to make me repine at the place which has been allotted me--no +matter whether by the decree of fate, or the caprice of fortune. And after +all, I am not of opinion that any such external circumstances can much +affect the real happiness of any one. Give to him that has been born a +slave, what men are pleased to call his freedom; in a few weeks he will +become so much accustomed to the boon, that he will cease to think of it. +Heap wealth upon him; to wealth also he will gradually become habituated. +Rank--power--with all it is the same. It is in the mind only that the seat +of happiness is placed; and there it never can be, unless in companionship +with thoughts that look down upon, and despise being affected by trifling +things." + +"And are such," said I, "the views of all those who follow your sect?" + +"I wish it were so," he replied; "but ere you remain long in the city, you +will meet with not a few, philosophers only in the name, who, having small +means of subsistence, but being desirous of leading a luxurious and +agreeable life, become teachers of such doctrines as may accord best with +the vicious inclinations of those who are most likely to entertain them. +These persons assume too often the name of Epicureans. They are seen every +where at feasts crowned with myrtle, and fawning upon gouty senators; and +whenever a boar's-head appears, they are sure to call it worthy of +Meleager. Their conversation is made up of stale jests about Charon and +his boat, and the taking of Auguries; and, when finally inebriated, they +roll upon the ground like those animals, to whom, in consequence of the +proceedings of such hypocritical pretenders, the ignorant have dared too +often to liken the wisest of mankind. Such things I disdain--I am satisfied +to remain, as I was born, in the rank of AEsop, Epictetus, Terence." + +By this time the Centurion had returned. He had a lamp in his hand; and he +interrupted our conversation. "Come, we start betimes, Caius; and you too, +my sweet cock of Cyrene, I think you had better fold your wings, and +compose yourself upon your roost." + +Oh, enviable temperament! said I to myself--you liken the slave to a bird. +Methinks yourself are more deserving of the simile. The light and the air +of heaven are sufficient to make you happy--your wings are ever +strong--their flight ever easy--and the rain of affliction glides off them +as fast as it falls. Sleep softly, kind heart. It is only the troubles of +a friend that can ever disturb your serenity. + + + + + _CHAPTER X._ + + +I was in bed before Dromo interrupted my reflections by saying, in a low +tone of considerable confidence, "And now, Master Valerius, do you still +continue, as much as two days ago, to disbelieve in philtres and despise +enchantresses? You see what, with all my precaution, has come of this +connection between Rubellia and the Neapolitan." + +"In truth, Dromo," I replied, "it is visible that Pona had some share in +leading the soldiers to the Sempronian Sepulchre; but I am doubtful if +that had any thing to do with the private affairs of the lady Rubellia. As +to that matter, I confess myself entirely in the dark."--"Dark indeed," +quoth he, "must your observation have been, if you have yet to learn that, +but for that accursed witch, nothing of all this had befallen; but if +there be an edict against the Christians, there are twenty laws against +sorcery; and that both Pona and she that consulted her shall know well ere +long, if they do not as yet know it; or may Cretan change places with +Boeotian!"--"Say on, good Dromo," I replied, "I am all ears; and as you +appear to have been all eyes, I shall probably soon be more enlightened." + +"Well," quoth he, "I am glad to find that you are in a mood to listen to +me decently. You remember where I took my station when you mounted those +unfortunate steps upon the tower. I had not stood there many minutes +before I heard somebody approaching; and having no doubt it was Rubellia, +I was preparing myself for giving her such a salutation as I thought would +put a speedy end to her wandering for that night. On came the steps, but +no Rubellia. No; it was Xerophrastes himself; and although he had laid +aside the Greek mantle, and donned a boatman's black cloak for the nonce, +I promise you I knew his stately gait well enough beneath all these new +trappings. It was no part of my job, however, to attempt frightening the +stoic."--"And so you let him pass without doing any thing?"--"I did; I +confess I gave one or two groans after he had gone on a few paces, but I +did not observe him much quicken his walk, and I believe, to do the man +justice, he set it all down to the wind rustling among the trees. But I +thought not much of him at all, to speak the truth; for, said I to myself, +Well, if it be as I have suspected for these two blessed days, and this +master long-beard is really in league with the widow, the chances are, she +herself is not far behind him. I lay by, therefore, and expected in +silence till I should hear another tread; and in the meantime I spoke to +you once or twice across the path, but you made me no answer, for which +you know your own reasons."--"The reason," said I, "was a very simple one, +I assure you. I had fallen asleep, and no wonder, for you know how long I +had been a watcher."--"Well," said he, "I guessed as much, and it was +nothing but the born tenderness of my disposition, which made me cease +from offering you any disturbance. I thought I should surely be enough +single-handed for the widow; and besides, in case of need, I knew your +waking would always be in my power." + +"Admirably reasoned, Dromo," said I; "and so it seems no need came, for +you certainly never awakened me; for which I may thank the bonds from +which the Centurion's kindness has just set me free. But you have atoned +abundantly--I pray you, get on with your tale." + +"Presently," he resumed, "I heard footsteps, indeed, my good master, and +not footsteps alone, but voices; and I moved from the place as hastily as +I could, till I came to a tree, the branches of which, springing low on +the trunk, offered an opportunity for mounting, which I should have been a +Boeotian indeed had I neglected. I mounted, and hiding myself as well as I +could among the boughs, awaited the arrival of the party, which +consisted--ay, stare if you will--of Xerophrastes and the widow, walking in +front, in earnest talk by themselves,--and the Neapolitan in the rear. They +halted, and though they spoke low, I could hear them distinctly."--"And +what, in the name of Heaven, said they?" + +"'Are you sure,' said the widow, 'that this is indeed the girl whom Sextus +went to see at the Villa? Can there be no mistake?'--'Mistake, lady, there +is none,' replied the Stoic. 'Pona was at the villa with her basket, and +she saw them all walking together in the garden.'--'And this little +Christian,' said the lady as if to herself, 'it is she that has cost me +all this trouble! It is for this Athanasia that I have been insulted as +never woman was by man, and they are both here in the tower!'--'They are, +lady,' quoth the witch; 'they are both in the tower, for I saw her go in +by her self first, and then in went some dozen of those muffled +blasphemers, and, last of all, went in he himself. I saw him not enter +indeed, but I swear to you, that I saw him here not twenty paces from +hence, and he had with him that cunning slave of his, (meaning myself, +sir,) whose ugly face, (the foul woman added,) I would know although it +were disguised beneath all the washes that were ever mixed in the +seething-pots of Calabria.'--'But what,' interrupted our long-beard, 'what +will Licinius say? At least, my lady and my friend Pona will take good +care that no suspicion rests upon me. Sextus is a silly boy, without +taste, judgment, or discretion; but Licinius is acute and powerful.'--'Fear +not,' said Rubellia; 'fear not, dear Xerophrastes. Nobody shall appear in +the matter except Pona, and she tells you she has already given warning at +the Capene Gate. There are always a hundred men stationed on the Coelian. +Nothing can save them!' + +"These words were scarcely out of her mouth, ere the soldiers were heard +approaching. Xerophrastes ascended with great agility a tree just over +against mine; Rubellia retreated among the pines; and Pona alone awaited +the guard. I would have periled a limb to have been able to give you the +alarm; but little did I suspect, that had I sought you where I left you, I +should have sought in vain.--How, I pray you, did you contrive to get into +the accursed tower?" + +I told him I should give him the story another time at full length, and +mentioned briefly what had occurred. And then the Cretan proceeded with +his narrative. + +"I leave you to guess, Valerius, how my heart beat when I saw the witch +lead the soldiers straight to the place where I supposed you were still +sitting--with what anxiety I saw the tower surrounded--its tenants brought +out,--with what astonishment I saw you led out, the last of their number.--I +had neither time to think by what means all this had happened, nor the +least power to interfere. I saw you all mounted--guarded--borne away. +Whither they carried you, I was unable to make the smallest conjecture. I +saw Sabinus speak to you, and then I had hope,--but that too failed. In +brief, I did not venture from my tree till the whole assembly, not +forgetting Xerophrastes, had departed; and you may judge what a story I +had to tell Sextus when I reached home. + +"Instead of waiting to ponder and hesitate, as he used to do when his own +matters perplexed him, he went from me straight to his father. But before +they had done with their conversation, Sabinus himself arrived, and he was +immediately taken into the same chamber where they were. Licinius and he +went out together soon afterwards, and I think they walked towards the +Palatine; but whithersoever they went, they had a good deal of work before +them, for the day had advanced considerably before they returned. The +Centurion's horses were brought to the door shortly after; my master +desired me to accompany him; and gave me letters for you, which I had +almost forgotten to deliver." + +Such was the story of the faithful Cretan. The letter of Licinius I have +still preserved:-- + +"Since our Sabinus desires that I should write to you, although his own +kindness renders it unnecessary that I should do so, I cannot refuse. I +understand little, my Valerius, of what has brought you into this +condition, from which, not without difficulty overcome, you are, +notwithstanding, speedily to be delivered. I guess, that hastiness of +various sorts, not, however, entirely without excuse in a person of your +age, has been the means of implicating you in the affairs of a sect, +equally unworthy of your communication, whether you consider the country +in which their superstition originated, or the barbarities with which it +is stained. But even for beauty, my young friend, it becomes not a Roman, +least of all a Valerius, to forget what is due to the laws of Rome, and +the will of the Prince. Consider with yourself how nearly you have escaped +serious evil. Return to us, and forget what has passed, except for the +lesson it must teach you. Of Rubellia and Xerophrastes I am unwilling to +believe, without farther examination, what has been told me by my slave +Dromo. We shall speak of that and other matters, when (which I hope will +be early to-morrow) you once more give me the pleasure of seeing you. I +have then much to say. Farewell." + + + + + + _BOOK III. CHAPTER I._ + + +Day was far advanced before the Centurion and myself once more drew near +to the city. When we reached the first declivity beyond the Anio, the sun +was about to sink behind the Janicular. The innumerable sounds of the +capital, blended together into one mighty whisper, seemed only to form +part of the natural music of the air, and might almost have been +confounded with the universal hum of insects. We rode slowly down the +hill, the base of which is ever darkened by the solemn groves of the +Appian. + +We advanced in silence through that region of melancholy magnificence. I +scarcely knew whether I should be able of myself to recognize, among so +many similar edifices, the mausoleum of the Sempronii, and some feeling +rendered me unwilling to put any questions concerning it to Sabinus. + +But while we were moving leisurely, we heard of a sudden a clang of +cymbals among the trees, a little to the right hand, and the Centurion, +saying, "What company can this be?" led the way down a narrow path +branching from the main road. This path was winding and dusky, being edged +on either side with pines and cypresses, so that for some space we saw +nothing; and the cymbals having ceased again, the Centurion said, "I +suppose it is some funeral; they have probably completed every thing, and +have seen out the last gleam among the embers. Let us get on, for perhaps +we may be kept back by their procession, if they are already returning." +We quickened our pace accordingly, till a sharp turning of the road +discovered to us a great number of persons who were standing silent, as if +in contemplation of some ceremony. Several persons on horseback seemed, +like ourselves, to have had their progress interrupted; but they were +sitting quietly, and making no complaint. The silence of the whole +assembly was indeed such, that Sabinus motioned to me to ask no questions, +adding, in a whisper, "Take off your cap; it is some religious rite--every +body is uncovered." + +The Centurion, however, was not a person to be stopped thus, without +wishing to understand farther the cause of the interruption. The one side +of the road was guarded by a high wall, to the top of which a number of +juvenile spectators had climbed;--the other by a ditch of great breadth, +and full of water, beyond which was a grove of trees; and I saw him eyeing +the ditch, as if considering whether, by passing it, it might not be +possible, without disturbing the crowd, to get nearer the object of their +attention, or at least to make progress in our journey. At last he +beckoned to me to follow him, and the bold equestrian at one leap passed +easily. I imitated the example, and so did the Praetorian soldier, his +attendant, who had now come up to us; but as for Dromo, he was obliged to +remain behind. + +Ere we reached the bottom of the declivity, I perceived that we had come +close to the Sempronian monument, and that the ceremony, whatever it might +be, was taking place in front of the tower. We gave our horses to the +soldier, and contrived to gain the bank over against it--the same place, in +fact, where the Cretan slave had taken his station among the pine-trees, +on the night when all those things occurred of which I have spoken to you. +Like him, we placed ourselves as quietly as we could behind the trees, +and, indeed, for our purpose, there could have been no better situation. +We were contented, however, to occupy it as much as possible without +attracting observation; for it was evident, in spite of the curiosity that +detained so great a multitude near at hand, there must be something +mysterious or ominous of nature in that which was taking place, since not +one of the crowd had dared to come forward, so as to be within hearing of +the officiators. + +And these, indeed, were a melancholy group. For men, and women, and +children of every age, to the number it may be of an hundred, appeared all +standing together in garments of black; while, in the midst of them, and +immediately by the base of the tower, two or three veiled priests, with +their necessary assistants, seemed to be preparing for sacrifice a black +bull, whose hoofs spurned the dust as they held him, and his gilded horns +glittered in the light of the declining sun. Sabinus no sooner discovered +the arrangement of the solemn company, than he whispered to me, "Be sure, +these are all the kindred of the Sempronii. Without question they have +come to purify the mausoleum, and to avert the vengeance of the violated +Manes. Behold," said he, "that stately figure, close to the head of the +animal on the right hand; that, I know, is Marcia Sempronia, Priestess of +Apollo. Without doubt, these by her are her brothers." + +"Some of her near relations they must be," I made answer; "for observe you +that girl whose face is wrapped in her mourning veil, and whose sobs are +audible through all its folds? I had one glimpse of her countenance, and I +am sure it is young Sempronia, the cousin and companion of Athanasia,--the +daughter of Lucius the senator." + +"Poor girl," replied Sabinus, "from my heart I pity her. They are all +joining hands, that the nearest of the kindred touching the priest, his +deed may appear manifestly to be the deed of all." + +At this moment, one of the officiators sounded a few mournful notes upon a +trumpet. The priest who held the axe, clave at one blow the front of the +bull. The blood streamed, and wine streamed with it abundantly upon the +base of the mausoleum; and then, while we were yet gazing on the +convulsions of the animal, the trumpet sounded a second time, and the +whole company sung together, the priest leading them. + +The shadows of the tower and of the pine trees lay strongly upon them, and +I thought there was something of a very strange contrast between the +company and their chant, on the one hand, and the beautiful sculptures, +full of all the emblems of life and happiness, on the other, with which, +according to the gay dreams of Grecian fancy, the walls of the funereal +edifice itself had here and there been garnished. Fauns, and torch-bearing +nymphs, and children crowned with garlands, and wreathed groups and +fantastic dances, seemed to enliven almost to mockery the monumental +marbles; but one felt the real gloominess both of death and of +superstition, in the attitudes and accents of the worshippers. It was thus +they sung:-- + + Ye Gods infernal! hear us from the gloom + Of venerable depths remote, unseen; + Hear us, ye guardians of the stained tomb, + Majestic Pluto--and thou, Stygian Queen, + On the dark bosom leaning of great Dis-- + Thou reconciled Star of the Abyss. + + Blood, not for you, unholy hands have poured, + Ye heard the shriek of your insulted shrine; + Barbarian blasphemies, and rites abhorred, + Pollute the place that hath been long divine; + Borne from its wounded breast an atheist cry + Hath pierced the upper and the nether sky. + + With blood of righteous sacrifice again + The monumental stone your suppliants lave. + Behold the dark-brow'd bull--Behold him slain! + Accept, ye powers of the relenting grave, + The sable current of that vital stream; + And let the father's hope upon the children gleam. + + And ye, that in the ever dusky glades + Of Hades, wandering by Cocytus' shore, + Ancestral spirits--melancholy shades-- + With us the tresspass of the tomb deplore; + Oh! intercede--that terror and disgrace + May not possess (as now) your resting-place. + + What though the liquid serpent of the deep + Between lie coil'd in many a glittering ring: + Not unobserved of your pale eyes we weep, + Nor to deaf ears this doleful chant we sing; + Strong is the voice of blood through night to go, + Through night and hell, and all the realms below. + + Then hear us, kindred spirits--stately Sire + And pensive Mother! wheresoe'er ye glide; + If ever solemn pile and soaring fire + In freedom sped you to the Stygian tide,-- + Have pity on your children: let the breath + Of living sorrow melt the frozen ear of death. + + For Her that, sprung like us from your high line, + Hath mingled in the sacrifice of guilt, + Ye know that angry star, her natal sign, + To expiate whose curse this blood is spilt; + If not suffices this atoning blood, + Oh, steep the thought of her in Lethe's flood. + + Beneath that current lazy and serene, + In whose unfathomable waters lie + The slumbering forms of horrors that have been + In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky-- + With long forgotten curse and murder old, + Steep that lost daughter's errors manifold. + + Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns. + Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows; + Despise not our lustrations of your urns, + Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes! + Above the children of your lineage born, + Hover not, awful ghosts, in anger and in scorn. + +These words were sung, as I have said, by the whole of this kindred there +assembled together; the first part of them distinctly, though not loudly; +but the last verses in a note so low, that no one, unless quite near, +(like ourselves,) could have comprehended their meaning. But as for the +young Sempronia, when they came to that part of the chant in which +reference was so particularly made to Athanasia, not only did her lips +refuse to join in the words, but her agitation was such that I thought the +poor maiden would have screamed outright, had she not been controlled by +the eye, and the hand also, of her aunt the Priestess. Sobs, however, and +low hysterical groans, could not be stifled; and at last so great was her +agony, that even the haughty Priestess was compelled to give way to it. + +"Bring water," said she; "dash ye water upon the foolish thing: methinks +it seems almost as if she had partaken in the frenzy of her unhappy----" + +And before she could finish the sentence, one or two of the females that +were present did take hold of Sempronia, and began, seeing there was no +water nearer at hand, to bear her slender form towards the small stream of +which I have already spoken, and which flowed immediately behind the clump +of pine trees, amongst which the Centurion and I were standing. + +She was quite passive in their hands; and they dragged her without +resistance or difficulty to the place where we were standing; but they +could not pass without seeing us: and no sooner did the eyes of Sempronia +fall upon me, than she burst by one unexpected effort from the arms of +those that were sustaining her, and ere I or any one could suspect what +she was to do, there lay she at my feet, clinging with her arms around my +knees. "Oh, Valerius," said she--"Oh, dear Valerius, they curse Athanasia! +Where is my Athanasia? whither have they taken her? Oh, tell me, that I +may go to her--that I may go to comfort Athanasia!" + +"Peace!" said, before I could answer, the Priestess of Apollo--"Peace, mad, +wretched thing,--has infatuation blasted the whole of our line?" And she +seized Sempronia by the arm, and compelled her to spring from her knees. +But the maiden still clung by her hands to me, and continued, with looks +and words of misery, to demand from me that knowledge which, alas! I would +myself have given so much to possess. Sabinus, however, smote me on the +shoulder, as if to make me recollect myself; and I had resolution enough +not to betray the feelings with which I listened to Sempronia's frantic +supplication. + +"What is this, sir?" then said the Priestess--"What is it that you know of +Athanasia? and why is it that you have presumed to witness the secret +sacrifice of a noble race?--Speak--or is there no meaning in this poor +girl's frenzy? And yet, methinks I have seen you before, and that, too, in +the presence of----" + +"It was," said I, hastily--"it was indeed in the presence of Athanasia; but +that circumstance, if you please to remember, was altogether accidental. I +was with the lady Rubellia when you found her in the Temple of Apollo----" + +"Yes," said she, "it was that same day when she refused to name the name +of Phoebus in his own precincts! Ha! little did I imagine what thoughts +were in her breast--else might we at least have been spared this open +degradation. And yet you, methinks, saluted Athanasia.--What is your name, +sir?--Know you, in truth, whither the lady Athanasia has been conveyed?" + +"He was with her!--he was with her!" exclaimed Sempronia,--"he was with her +in the tower when the soldiers came.--O Valerius! tell me where she is +now,--into what dungeon have they cast my friend--my sister----" + +"Ha!" quoth the Priestess, "he was with her in the +tower!--Romans--kinsmen--Lucius--Marcus--hear ye this? I charge ye, seize upon +this treacherous blasphemer!--It is he that has deceived Athanasia; and now +must he come here to taint the smoke of our sacrifice, and pollute our +prayers with his presence.--Seize him!"--And she herself grasped my cloak as +she spake--"Seize, I charge ye, this accursed Christian!" + +But Sabinus, when he saw the Priestess thus furious, stept forward, and +said to her kinsmen, who were standing in perplexity behind her, "Sirs, I +beseech you, be not you also carried away with this madness.--My friend +here knows nothing of the lady Athanasia, except that she was borne away +by soldiers from the very place where we are standing. I myself witnessed +it also, being here with the Praetorians. Valerius is no more a Christian +than she who accuses him." + +"I know not, sirs, how we are to understand all this," said one of the +Sempronii, in a calm voice. "Is this young man the same Valerius who is +living in the house of Licinius?--Yet it must be he. I have been with +Licinius this very day; and if this be he, whatever he may have known +before, I am sure he knows nothing of where Athanasia is now,--and, sister, +I am well assured he is no Christian." + +"It is the same, sir," said Sabinus. "He is the same Caius Valerius of +whom you spake, and I am Sabinus, a Centurion of the Praetorians." + +"We have all heard of your name," said Sempronius, respectfully; "I +perceive there is some mistake in all this matter. If it please you, let +us walk aside, and understand each other." + +So saying, he withdrew Sabinus to a little distance, and beckoned to me to +accompany him. "Valerius," said the old man, when he perceived that we +were out of hearing, "I crave you, in the first place, to forget all this +trouble which has been occasioned to you by the violence of my daughter, +on the one hand, and of my sister on the other. They are women; and, for +different reasons, the violence of both is excusable. I have been for a +considerable part of this day with Licinius, and have heard from him +enough to satisfy me how guiltlessly you yourself have been involved in +this affair; and your speedy liberation from confinement is more than +enough to confirm my belief of all that he said. Yet there is much which I +do not understand. I pray you speak openly, and fear nothing--you have, +indeed, nothing to fear. Was it in consequence of any private meeting with +my niece--nay, I mean not to suspect you of any thing amiss--in one word, +how was it that you happened to be taken into custody with that unhappy +girl?" + +"Sir," I replied, "you are a noble Roman, and the near kinsman of +Athanasia. You have a right to put these questions, and whatever +reluctance I may have to overcome, I feel that I have no right to refuse +an answer." And so I told Sempronius, plainly and distinctly, the story +both of my unwilling entrance into the mausoleum, and of my forcible +abduction from it. In short, I saw no reason to conceal any thing from the +person who was most likely to be able to serve Athanasia, if any thing to +serve her were possible. + +"It is well," he said; "you speak as becomes a man of the Valerian blood. +But as for poor Athanasia, I swear to you I cannot yet bring myself to +believe that she hath in reality been privy to such things as have been +discovered concerning these Christians."--"Discovered!" said I. "I pray +you, what has been discovered concerning them? If you allude to any of the +wild stories that are circulated about their religion, you may depend upon +it, it is all mere madness to believe a word of it. I have read in their +sacred books myself, and I swear to you, that, so far as I have seen, +nothing can be more simple, benign, humane, than the morality inculcated +by their leader." + +"Young man," he answered, "I was not thinking of their creed, which, for +aught I know or care, may be sublime enough; for there was always a +mysterious sort of philosophy current among those old Asiatic nations. But +I speak of the designs of these men; in one word, I speak of their +conspiracy."--"Conspiracy!--What? How? Against whom? I will pledge my life, +no conspiracy was sheltered beneath yon tower that night. I swear to you, +they are simple people, and were thinking of nothing but their +worship."--"Worship!" quoth he; "I promise you it will not be so easy to +persuade me that Cotilius has suddenly become a man of so much piety, +either to our gods, or to the deities (if they have any) of the +Christians.--What, Cotilius? By Jove, Rome does not hold at this moment a +more bold, daring, godless rascal. You may as soon try to make me believe +that Capaneus came to Thebes with a hymn in his mouth. No, no--the sworn +friend of Domitian will not easily gain credit for his new-sprung +sanctity."--"Cotilius? That was the very name of the man that seized me, as +I have told you."--"I should have guessed as much," said he;--"Yes, I +promise you, how little soever Athanasia might have known, secrets they +had; and Cotilius was well aware at what peril they should be revealed." + +"The late example," said I, "must indeed have alarmed him."--"What," said +he, "do you speak of that fanatic Syrian? You know little of Cotilius. No, +no--had the worst of his fears been the necessity to worship all the +deities between Euphrates and Rhine, he would have slept soundly."--"But +surely," said I, "you do not believe that Athanasia had any knowledge of +the man's secret designs, if he had any. He may have used Christianity, or +desired to use it, as a weapon against the State; but be certain, neither +she nor any of those really attached to their religion, had any notion of +his purpose." + +"It may be so, indeed," he answered;--"Heaven grant it may. As for +Cotilius, I will speak to you more at length of him anon. I will bid adieu +to my sister, and take order about my daughter; and then, if it so please +you, we shall walk together to the city." + +To this I agreed, but Sabinus rode on to the camp of the Praetorians. He +whispered to me, however, that unless he were most necessarily detained, +he should be, ere long, at the house of Licinius. + +"To you," said the Senator, as we went on, "who have so lately come from +your island, the whole of this expiatory spectacle is probably quite new; +but I am sure Sabinus could not have been aware what was its purpose, +otherwise he would not have been guilty of so grievously offending the +feelings of my sister, and some of the rest of my kindred, by remaining a +witness of these most private rites. The Priestess is indeed inconsolable, +and her grief has set half her other passions in motion likewise. +Athanasia was as dear to her as if she had been her daughter; so, in +truth, she was to us all, ever since her parents died. But Cotilius, this +knave Cotilius, has, I fear, blasted her hopes and ours."--"It occurs to +me," said I, "and I should have mentioned it to you before, that there +seemed to be no great understanding between this Cotilius and Athanasia. +She was evidently displeased with many things he both said and did; and +he, on his part, did not appear to relish her interference."--"True," he +continued, "you have already hinted as much; and I assure you, these are +some of the circumstances in the whole case that tend most to excite my +hopes. Great Heavens! what would Caius have said had he dreamt that his +orphan was to be suspected of having sympathy with any of the dark designs +of that shame to Roman knighthood! But you, of course, are a stranger to +this man's history."--"With its end, at least," I replied, "it is like we +may all be soon enough acquainted." + +"Yes," said he, "Heaven grant we have not cause too deeply to remember it! +but I have known him from the beginning. I told you already that he was in +great favour with Domitian."--"And the reverse, of course," said I, "both +with Nerva and Trajan." + +"Even so," he continued, "and with reason; for in all the disturbances +which occurred on the accession of the last sovereign, and, in particular, +in those foul intrigues among the Praetorians, which at one time brought +Nerva's own life into immediate danger and compelled him to bare his neck +to the soldiery at his gate, this Cotilius was more than suspected to have +had a deep concern. When Petronius and Parthenius(2) were hacked in +pieces, it needed no great witchcraft to detect some of the moving spirits +that produced their catastrophe; but proof there was none at the time; and +even had there been proof enough, the good old man would have been too +timid to act upon it. These things, however, could not be forgotten either +by Nerva or his successor. Hitherto, the strong hand has repressed every +rebellious motion; but be sure that no man ever lived more an object of +suspicion, than this man has done ever since Nerva adopted Trajan." + +"And you think," said I, "that, among other intrigues, it had occurred to +this man to make his own use of the Christians; despised and persecuted +though they be, there can, indeed, be no doubt that their numbers are +considerable, and that their faith is a strong bond of cohesion." + +"It is even so," said the Senator. "But as yet the treason even of +Cotilius rests on suspicion only, and report; and, after all, even if he +were proved guilty of having nourished such schemes, the account you give +of what you saw and heard at their assembly, inspires me with considerable +doubts whether he can be supposed to have ever as yet ventured to invite +their participation;--unless, indeed, they practised deception while you +were with them. The moment I heard of what had happened, I went to the +Palatine, in hopes of attaining either assistance from Urbicus, or mercy, +if that were all we could look for, from Trajan. But Urbicus could give me +no satisfaction, except that my niece was in a solitary and safe place. +The charges, he said, against one of the leaders (he meant Cotilius) were +heavy; and until these were sifted, it was impossible that access could be +afforded to any one who had been thrown into confinement. The Emperor had +shewn unusual symptoms of anxiety, and had even, so he hinted, been in +person investigating the matter at a distance from the city, during great +part of the preceding night and day. To tell you the truth, Valerius, till +this thing fell out, I was wont to consider the new violence about the +Christians as somewhat unworthy of the enlarged intellect of Trajan: it +had not occurred to me, how easily the resources of such a superstition +might be enlisted in the cause of discontent." + +"Of course," said I, "nothing will be done in regard to Athanasia until +all circumstances have been examined." + +"Done!" said he; "has not enough been done already to justify almost in a +man more than you have seen among our women? Has not a whole family been +disgraced? Has not the mausoleum of their fathers been prostituted for the +unholy purposes of this barbarian sect? If the Senate should be summoned, +with what countenance should I shew myself among my friends?--Unhappy girl! +How little did she know in what trouble she was to involve those that love +her the best." + +By this time we had come within sight of the house of Licinius, and the +Senator took leave, with a promise that I should see him on the morrow. + +I found Sextus alone in his chamber, where he embraced me with all the +ardour of juvenile affection. "Alas!" said he, "my dear Caius, at any +other time I might have found fault with you for taking so great a part in +my griefs, and yet keeping so many of your own to yourself. But if it be +indeed as Sempronia has said, I should be a strange friend to choose this +hour for complaining of such trifles as regard only myself." + +"Sextus," I replied, "it was only because of the greatness of your own +distresses that I concealed from your kindness any of mine." + +"My Valerius," he answered, "we shall talk at length to-morrow; at +present, I have only time to say, that the misfortune of Athanasia was +communicated to Sempronia almost immediately, by an old freedwoman, who +had been in the habit of attending her when she went from home in secret, +and who, going to the mausoleum to accompany her on her return, arrived +there just in time to see what befel her. She saw you also, (how she knew +who you were, I know not,) and when she had told her story to Sempronia, +the poor girl, before speaking even with her father, sent for me to come +to her in the gardens. I did so; all that passed I need not repeat; but I +hope my advice was the right one. At all events, I acted for the best, and +my father, who is now aware of every thing, seemed to approve of what I +had done. O Valerius! were Athanasia free, and you happy, many things have +occurred to make me much more at ease than when you left us. My father is +evidently shocked with what Dromo told about Rubellia; and as for +Xerophrastes, he had not once spoken to him either yesterday or to-day. +Indeed, neither of them have been much here. My father is continually +exerting himself concerning Athanasia; and Xerophrastes, I suppose, is +afraid of a discovery. As for me, I am sorry I must leave you, for I +promised to meet Sempronia; and although I have nothing to tell her, I +cannot fail in my appointment. She must have returned before this time +from the mausoleum, where an expiatory sacrifice was to be made at +sunset." + +Sabinus by this time had hastened to me once more, according to his kind +promise. I told him that my kinsman was not at home, and that I proposed, +in the meantime, accompanying his son a part of the way towards the +Suburban of Capito. The Centurion insisted on going with us, saying, that +he could not think of returning to the camp without having spoken with +Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER II._ + + +The Centurion, in virtue of his office, had free access to the gardens of +Trajan; so he led us by both a more delightful and a nearer path towards +the Salarean Gate. Young Sextus then quitted us; and we returned slowly +through the beautiful groves of the Imperial Villa, in hopes of finding my +kinsman by the time we should reach his mansion. But as we were walking +very quietly along one of the broad green terraces, we heard voices in an +adjoining alley, separated from us by luxuriant thickets of myrtle, and +Sabinus, whispering to me, "Hush, let us see what we have got here," +insinuated himself with great dexterity among the verdant shrubs. I +followed him with as little noise as was possible, and having found a +convenient peeping place, we soon perceived two figures at some little +distance from us in the moonlight.--"Come, Sabinus," I whispered, "they are +lovers perhaps--I don't see what right we have to overhear."--"Peace," quoth +he, "if you stir, they will detect us, and it is nothing unless it be +known." + +With some reluctance I remained where I was; but my scruples were at an +end the moment I perceived who they were. + +"Most noble, most illustrious lady," said Xerophrastes, "this matter has +indeed been conducted unfortunately, yet no reason see I why you should +give way to so many groundless apprehensions. The only thing, after all, +that you have lost, if indeed you have lost it, is the good opinion of +Licinius; for, as to that foolish boy----"--"Name him not," replied Rubellia, +"name not the stripling. Surely madness alone can account for my +behaviour."--"Madness!" quoth the Stoic; "yes, truly, and who, at certain +moments, is free from such madness? As Euripides has expressed it, Venus, +if she come in wisdom, is the wisest; if otherwise, the most frenzied of +influences. The greatest have not been exempt from such visitations. +Banish it from your heart, noble lady, or replace it by something more +worthy of your discernment. There is, I think, but one pair of eyes in +Rome that could have been blind to such perfections."--"O Xerophrastes!" +said she, "speak not to me of perfections. Alas! I was born under a +deceitful star--a star of apparent splendour and real misery."--"Noble +lady," he replied, "I swear to you that what tincture of philosophy I have +imbibed, is unable to sustain my serenity when I hear such words from your +lips. You are surrounded by all that externals can minister. It is your +part to compose your mind, and then how should it be possible for you to +taste of unhappiness? Think no more of that boy." + +The philosopher took her hand with an air of the deepest sympathy, and at +the same time drew the end of his mantle over his face, as if to conceal +the extent of his participation in her distresses.--"Alas! lady, this is, +after all, a miserable world. There is no rest but in the affections, and +behold how they are harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of +life. Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison is every where; +and it is all one course of being wounded to be cured, and being cured +only to be more easily wounded again." + +Our friend continued in an attitude of pensive contemplation. The +moonbeams fell full on his high brow and the large massy features of his +countenance, and on the robust limbs which emerged from below the stately +folds of his mantle; and I could not help thinking that there was +something almost heroic, which I had never before remarked, in the whole +of his appearance. Rubellia kept her eyes fixed steadfastly upon him. + +"I should have known nothing of it," he resumed, "had I never deserted my +paternal valley for the vain pleasures of Athens, and the magnificence of +Rome."--"You repent," said she, "that you ever visited Italy? I pray you +deal with me openly. If it be your wish to leave Rome, speak, and I shall +put it in your power to retire to Greece as handsomely as you could ever +have hoped to do from the family of Licinius. Of wealth, as you well know, +I have enough both for myself and for my faithful friends, among whom, be +sure, I place you in the first rank. Control your feelings, I pray you +once more--and speak freely." + +Hastily and fervently he pressed his lip upon the beautiful hand of +Rubellia, and whispered something into her ear. She started, and I think +blushed in the moonlight; but neither seemed offended very deeply with +what he had said, nor with the gesture he had used.--"Softly, softly," +whispered the Centurion, "be not ashamed, fair lady, of the love of thy +servant." + +But (whether the echo of his Horatian parody had reached her ear or not, I +cannot tell,) scarcely had these words been uttered, ere Rubellia started +from her seat, and began to move pretty quickly down the shaded alley, as +if towards the entrance of the gardens. Xerophrastes sate still for a +moment, even after the lady had arisen, covering his eyes, and part of his +broad forehead with his hands, as if buried in his own thoughts too deeply +to be with ease affected with a sense of things passing around him. Then, +at last, he arose, and uttering an exclamation of surprise, walked after +the noble dame, taking heed, however, (it did not escape our observation,) +to arrange, as he rapidly followed her, the massive folds of his mantle +into a graceful drapery. + +Sabinus restrained himself till they were beyond the reach of his voice; +but he then made himself ample amends. "Ha!" said he, "is this to be the +end? Most pensive ghost of Leberinus, is this to be thy successor?"--"Good +heavens!" said I, "Sabinus, do you think it possible she should make the +pedagogue her husband--she that was but yesterday so desperately enamoured +of the beautiful young Sextus?"--"My dear islander," quoth the Centurion, +"do you remember the story of a certain beautiful boy, called Adonis?"--"To +be sure," said I, "who is ignorant of the story of Adonis, or of the +beautiful verses of Bion-- + + "I weep for fair Adonis--for Adonis is no more, + Dead is the fair Adonis--his beauty I deplore; + His white thigh with a tusk of white the greenwood monster tore, + And now I weep Adonis--for Adonis is no more.'" + +"Well spouted," quoth the soldier; "and with an excellent gravity: But +think you Venus never altered the burden of her ditty? Have you never +heard of Mars the blood-stained, the destroyer of men, the leveller of +city walls--nor of Anchises, the Dardan shepherd, wiser in his generation +than one who inherited both his station and his opportunity; no, nor even +of Vulcan, the cunning Artificer, the Lord of the One-eyed Hammerers, the +Lemnian, the Chain-maker, the Detector, the awkward Cup-bearer, whose +ministration, as honest Homer confesses, fills Olympus with +inextinguishable laughter. Have you heard of all these, and I take it of a +few more besides; and yet do you talk as if Venus, after the white boar's +tusk had pierced the white thigh of her Adonis, had made no use of her +beautiful girdle, but to wipe the tears from her pretty eyes withal?--her +girdle, of which, heaven pity your memory, I know not how many blessed +ages after Adonis had fallen, the same faithful bard said, + + 'In it is stored whate'er can love inspire: + In it is tender passion, warm desire, + Fond lovers' soft and amorous intercourse; + The endearing looks and accents that can fire + The soul with passionate love's resistless force, + 'Gainst which the wisest find in wisdom no resource.' + +I was there the night she espoused Leberinus, and I pitied her very +sincerely, when I saw the pretty creature lifted over the old man's +threshold in her yellow veil, which I could not help thinking concealed +more sighs, if not more blushes, than are usual on such occasions. But I +promise you the glare of her new torches shall affect me with different +emotions." + +Such talk passed as we were leaving the gardens of Trajan. But as we +advanced into the more peopled region, we found the streets full of +clamour, insomuch that quiet discourse could no longer be carried on. The +evening was one of the most lovely I had ever seen, and the moon was +shedding a soft and yellow light upon the lofty towers and trees, and upon +all that long perspective of pillars and porticos. Yet groups of citizens +were seen running to and fro with torches in their hands; while many more +were stationary in impenetrable crowds, which had the air, as it seemed to +us, of being detained in the expectation of some spectacle. Accordingly we +had not jostled on much farther, ere there arose behind us a peal of what +seemed to me martial music; but my companion, as soon as the sounds +reached him, warned me that a procession of the priests of Cybele must be +at hand. + +At last they came quite close to us, and passed on dancing around the +image of the Goddess, and singing the chaunt of Atys. A path being opened +for them by the crowd all along, they made no halt in their progress, but +went on at the same pace, some of them leaping high from the ground as +they dashed their cymbals, and others dancing lowly while they blew the +long Phrygian trumpets and crooked horns of brass. The image itself was +seated in a brazen chariot, to which brazen lions also were fastened, the +whole being borne on the shoulders of some of the assistants. Behind it +came others, beating great hollow drums; and then again more, leaping, and +dancing, and singing, like those who preceded it. They were all clad in +long Asiatic vests, with lofty tiaras; and their countenances, as well as +their voices, intimated sufficiently that they were ministers of the same +order to which the hapless Atys had belonged. Yet nothing but enthusiasm +and triumph could be discovered in their manner of singing that terrible +hymn. + +They had not advanced much beyond the spot where we were standing, ere +they stopped of a sudden, and, placing the chariot and image of Cybele +between the pillars of one of the porticos that run out into the street, +began a more solemn species of saltation. When they had finished this +dance also, and the more stately and measured song of supplication with +which it was accompanied, the priests then turned to the multitude, and +called upon all those who reverenced the Didymaean mysteries, to approach +and offer their gifts. Immediately the multitude that were beyond formed +themselves into a close phalanx, quite across the street, and torches +being conveyed into the hands of such as stood in the foremost rank, there +was left in front of the image an open space, brightly illuminated, for +the convenience, as it seemed, of those who might come forward to carry +their offerings to the foot of the statue. And, indeed, it appeared as if +these were not likely to be few in number; for the way being quite blocked +up by those torch-bearers, no one could hope to pass on easily without +giving something, or to pass at all without being observed. Not a few +chariots, therefore, and litters also, having been detained, the persons +seated in these vehicles seemed to be anxious, as soon as possible, to +present their offerings, that the path onward might be cleared to them by +command of the priests. It was necessary, however, as it turned out, that +each person in advancing to the chariot of Cybele, should imitate the +motions practised by the Galli themselves; and this circumstance, as may +be imagined, was far from being the most acceptable part of the ceremony +to some of those who had thus been arrested. A few of the common sort, +both men and women, stepped boldly into the open ring, and with great +appearance of joy went through the needful gesticulations. But, at first, +none of the more lordly tenants of the chariots and litters seemed to be +able to prevail on themselves to follow the example. At length, however, +the impatience even of these dignified persons began to overcome their +reluctance; one and another red-edged gown was seen to float in lofty +undulations across the torch-lighted stage, and when a handful of coin was +heard to ring upon the basin of the Goddess, doubt not the priests +half-cracked their cheeks in blowing horn and trumpet, and clattered upon +their great tambarines as violently as if they had made prize of another +Atys. But how did the Centurion chuckle when he observed that one of the +next chariots was no other than that of Rubellia herself, and perceived +that she and the Stoic were now about to pass onwards like the rest, at +the expense of exhibiting their agility before the multitude. + +"Jove in heaven!" cried he, "I thought the garden scene was all in all; +but this is supreme! Behold how the sturdy Thracian tucks up his garment, +and how, nodding to the blows of the tambarine, he already meditates +within himself the appropriate convolutions. And the pretty widow! by the +girdle of Venus, she also is pointing her trim toe, and, look ye! better +and better, do you not see that she has given her veil to the Stoic, that +so she may perform the more expeditely?" + +At this moment, some one from behind laid hold of my arm, and whispered my +name. I looked round, and perceived an old man, wrapped in a very large +and deep mantle, the folds of which, however, were so arranged that I +could see very little of his features. Stepping a pace or two backwards, +he beckoned to me with his hand. I hesitated; but his gesture being +repeated, I also entered within the shade of the pillars, and then he, +dropping his mantle on his shoulders, said, "Valerius, do you not remember +me? We met last at the tomb of the Sempronii."--"At the tomb of the +Sempronii!" said I; and recognized, indeed, the features of the Christian +priest, who had treated me on that eventful evening with so much courtesy; +but my wonder was great to find him in such a situation; for I had seen +him conveyed away between armed guards, and I could not imagine by what +means he, of all others, should have so soon regained his freedom. He +observed my astonishment, and said, in a low voice, "My friend, perhaps I +might have as much reason to be surprised with seeing you here, as you +have in seeing me. But follow me into this house, where we may communicate +what has occurred." + +The hope of perhaps hearing something concerning Athanasia determined me. +I cast a look towards Sabinus, and saw him attentively engaged in +witnessing the performance; and hoping that he might continue to amuse +himself so for a few minutes longer, I permitted the old man to lead me +into the vestibule. The slaves, who were waiting there, seemed to receive +him with much respect. He passed them, saying, "Do not trouble +yourselves--I shall rejoin your master;" and shortly ushered me into a +chamber situated over the hall of entrance, where a grave personage was +reclining by the open window. He perceived not our approach till we had +come close up to his couch, for he was occupied with what was going on +without. When the old man accosted him, and said, "Pontius, I have been +successful. Here is my friend, Caius Valerius," the stranger rose up, and +saluted me with kindness. "Caius Valerius," said he, "will pardon me for +being desirous of seeing him here, when he learns that I was one of his +father's oldest friends, and served with him many campaigns both in +Germany and Britain. I should have been ill pleased had I heard that you +had been in Rome, and departed without my having an opportunity of +retracing, as I now do, the image of my comrade." + +I had to answer not a few questions concerning the situation of my mother +and myself, before I could lead the conversation into the channel I +desired; and at length, indeed, it was not so much any thing I said, as +the readiness of the priest himself, which gave to it that direction; for +the first pause that occurred in the discourse between Pontius and myself, +he filled up, by saying, "And now, will Valerius pardon me for asking, if +he has ever looked again into the narrative of Luke, or whether his +curiosity, in regard to these matters, has been entirely satisfied by the +adventures of one unfortunate night?" + +The manner in which Pontius regarded me when the priest said this, left me +no doubt that he was at least favourably inclined to the opinions of the +Christians; so I answered without hesitation, "My curiosity, instead of +being satisfied by what I saw that evening, received new strength; but you +may easily believe that the troubles in which I was involved, and still +more the troubles with which I know others yet to be surrounded, have +hitherto taken away from me both the means and the power of gratifying my +curiosity as I would wish.--But tell me, I pray you, by what means is your +imprisonment at an end?"--"My friend," replied the priest, "you speak +naturally but rashly. I believe you yourself are the only one of those +surprised in the tower, whose imprisonment has as yet terminated. Yet +hope, good hope is not absent,--above all, I trust there is no reason to +despair concerning that dear child who interfered in your behalf, when a +bold, and, I fear me, a false man, had drawn his weapon to your peril. As +for me, I have but gained the liberty of an hour or two, and long ere dawn +I shall be restored again to my fetters."--"Your fetters!" said I, "am I to +understand, that, by the connivance of a Roman jailor, you are this night +at liberty to perambulate the streets of Rome?"--"Young man," answered the +priest, "he is a Christian."--"Even for his sake," said I, "the name is +honourable." + +"Valerius," said he, "I pray you speak not things which may hereafter give +pain to your memory. Already you have read something of the life of ONE, +for whose sake our name is indeed honourable--of Him I trust you shall ere +long both read and think more; but how shall I bless God, that threw my +lot, since captivity it was to be, into a place where such authority was +to have the superintendence of me? Yet more, how shall I be sufficiently +grateful, that She, in all things so delicate, although in nothing +fearful, has shared the same blessing?" + +"Heavens," said I, "what do I hear!--Is Athanasia indeed lodged in the same +prison with yourself, and may she also go abroad thus freely?" + +"Think not," he replied, "that I embrace such freedom for any purposes of +mine own. What I do for the service to which I am bound, think not that +Athanasia will ever desire to do for herself. She abides her time +patiently where the lot hath been cast for her; in due season, if such be +the will of the Lord, she shall regain that in truth, of which this is but +the shadow." + +"God grant our prayer," said Pontius, "and not ours only, but the prayer +of all that know her, and have heard of this calamity!--Whatever the +exertions of her family and their friends can accomplish, most surely +shall not be awanting. Would that those who are linked to her by ties yet +more sacred had the power, as they have the will, to serve her! Yet Hope +must never be rejected. The investigations of this very night may produce +the true accomplices of Cotilius; and then Trajan will be satisfied that +the Christians stand guiltless of that treason." + +"Alas!" said I, "if this faith be a crime, how can any one hope to follow +it without being continually liable to accidents as unfortunate? In Rome, +at all events, what madness is it thus to tempt the fate which impends +over the discovery of that which it must be so difficult, so impossible to +conceal?" + +The aged Priest laid his finger on his lips, and pointed to the window. I +listened, and heard distinctly the shrill voices of the mutilated dancers, +as they brake forth above the choral murmurs of the drums and cymbals, and +I perceived that the bloody legend of Atys was once more the subject of +their song. + +The ancient waited till the voices were drowned again in the clamour of +the instruments, and then said to me, "Young man, do you know to what +horrid story these words of theirs refer? Do you know what sounds all +these are designed to imitate? Do you know what terror--what flight--what +blood--what madness are here set forth in honour of a cruel demon--or +rather, I should say, for the gain of these miserable and maimed +hirelings? Do you know all these things, and yet give counsel of flight +and of cowardice to me, upon whose head the hand of Christ's holy apostle +hath been laid? Read, dear Valerius, read and ponder well.--My prayers, and +the prayers of one that is far purer than me--they are ever with you. But +now since I have introduced you to Pontius, why should I delay here any +longer? He, both for your father's sake and for your own, and for that of +the faith, (of which you have had some glimpses) will abundantly aid you +in all things. Deal not coldly nor distantly with him. I commit you into +his hands, as a brand to be snatched from the burning." + +Pontius reached forth his hand and grasped mine in token of acquiescence +in all the old man expressed. He, by and by, looking into the street, +said, "These jugglers have now departed to their dens, and the gaping +multitudes have dispersed. But I still see one person walking up and down, +as if expecting somebody; and it seems to me that it is the same, +Valerius, who was in your company." I perceived that it was indeed +Sabinus, whistling to himself on the bright side of the pavement. I +therefore bade them adieu, saying, "Dear father, when shall I see you +again, and when shall I hear farther of Athanasia?"--The old man pausing +for a moment, said, "To-morrow at noontide be in the Forum, over against +the statue of Numa. You will there find tidings." + +The Centurion plainly intimated that he took it for granted I had been +engaged in something which I wished to keep from his knowledge; but such +affairs made no great impression on him; and after laughing out his laugh, +he bade me farewell by the portico of Licinius. + + + + + _CHAPTER III._ + + +In the morning I found my kinsman and his son extremely uneasy, in +consequence of the absence of Xerophrastes, who had not returned during +the night; but Sabinus came in while they were talking to me, and +narrated, without hesitation, all he had seen and heard both in the garden +of Trajan, and at the procession of the Galli. Young Sextus could scarcely +be restrained by respect for his father, from expressing, rather too +openly, his satisfaction in the course which the affairs of the +disappointed lady appeared to be taking; while the orator muttered words +which I thought boded not much of good to the ambitious pedagogue. The +Centurion alone regarded all these things as matters of mere amusement, or +so at least he seemed to regard them; for, as I have already hinted, I was +not without my suspicion, that he was at bottom by no means well pleased +with the contemplation of the future splendour of the Stoic. + +However, after many jests had been exchanged between Sextus and the +Centurion concerning this incongruous amour, Licinius said, he was in so +far much relieved by what he had heard, as it satisfied him that both the +widow and Xerophrastes were now otherwise occupied, than in prosecuting +their designs against the niece of his friend Capito. + +"I myself," he continued, "was all yesterday, as well as the day before, +exerting every means in my power for her extrication from this unfortunate +confinement. Cotilius, without question, has indeed been a traitor; but I +believe the Prince himself is, by this time, well inclined to absolve, not +only the young lady, but by far the greater part of those who were taken +with her, from any participation in his traitorous designs. The charge, +however, of which it rests with them alone to exculpate themselves, is one +of a nature so serious, that it is impossible to contemplate without much +anxiety the pain to which so many families--above all, the noble and +excellent Sempronii--may still be exposed. But this day Cotilius will, in +all likelihood, pay the last penalty of _his_ crimes--and then we shall see +what intercession may avail. Would to heaven there were any one who could +obtain access to the deluded lady, and prevail with her to do that which +would be more effectual than I can hope any intercession to prove. This +infatuation--this dream--this madness--is, indeed, a just source of fear; and +yet, why should we suppose it to be already so deeply confirmed in a +breast young, ingenuous, so full, according to report, of every thing +modest and submissive? Surely this affectionate girl cannot be insensible +to the affliction of those who love her.--But you still shake your head, +Valerius; well, it is in our hands to do what we can; as for the issue, +who can hope to divert Trajan from doing that which he believes to be +just? Our best hope is in his justice----" + +"And in his clemency," interrupted the Centurion; "you will scarcely +persuade me that Caesar can meditate any thing serious concerning a young +beauty, who has been guilty of nothing but a little superstition and +enthusiasm. Nobody will confound her case with that of any obstinate old +fanatic. In the meantime, what avails it to distress ourselves more than +is necessary? Licinius is able to do something; and as for Valerius, the +best thing he can do is to get on horseback, and go with Sextus and myself +to inspect the cohorts that have arrived from Calabria." + +Young Sextus, on all occasions fond of military spectacles, embraced this +proposal; and fain would they both have prevailed on me to accede to it +likewise. I knew, however, that it would be impossible, if I accompanied +them, to keep my appointment with the old Christian; and that I was +resolved on no account to forego. I therefore retired to my chamber, there +to await the approach of the hour; and spent the time till it drew near, +in perusing once more the volume which had been restored to me by +Athanasia. This volume, and the letter which I have before mentioned, I +placed together in my bosom, before I went forth into the city. + +I entered the Forum, and found it, as formerly thronged with multitudes of +busy litigants and idle spectators. A greater concourse, indeed, than was +usual, crowded not it only, but the avenues to it, and the neighbouring +streets, by reason of a solemn embassy from the Parthian, which was to +have audience that day in the Senate. But I, for my part, having +discovered the statue of Numa Pompilius, resolved to abide by it, lest, +being mingled in the tumult of the expecting multitudes, I should, by any +mischance, escape the notice of the old man, who, I doubted not, meant to +seek me there in person. The time, however, went on--senator after senator +entered the temple--and, at last, the shouts of the people announced that +Trajan had arrived. And immediately after he had gone in, the pomp of the +embassy appeared, and every eye was fixed upon the long line of slaves, +laden with cloth of gold and rich merchandise, and upon the beautiful +troop of snow-white horses, which pawed the ground, in magnificent +caparisons, before the gate of the Senate-house. But while all were intent +upon the spectacle, I observed a little fair-haired girl standing over +against me, who, after looking at me for some moments, said with great +modesty, "Sir, if you be Caius Valerius, I pray you, follow me." + +I followed her in silence up the hanging stairs, and, in a word, had soon +reached the level of the Capitol, from whence, looking back, I could +perceive the whole array of the forensic multitudes far below me. The +child paused for a moment at the summit, and then, still saying nothing, +conducted me across two magnificent squares, and round about the Temple of +Jupiter, until, at length, she stopped at one of the side doors of an +edifice, which, from the manner in which it was guarded, I already +suspected to be the Mammertine. + +The girl knocked, and he who kept the gate, saluting her cheerfully, +allowed us to pass without question into the interior of the prison. My +companion tripped before me along many passages, till we reached at length +a chamber which was arranged in such a manner that I could with difficulty +believe it to belong to a place of punishment. + +Here I was soon joined by the old priest, (whose name, if I have not +before mentioned it, was Aurelius Felix,) together with a mild-looking man +of middle age, whom he desired me to salute as the keeper of the prison, +saying, "Here, Valerius, is that Silo, of whom yesterday evening you spake +with so great admiration. But I hope the benevolence of a Christian will +ere long cease to be an object of so much wonder in your eyes." + +"My father," said the jailer, "methinks you yourself say too much about +such little things. But, in the meantime, let us ask Valerius if he has +heard any thing of what has been determined by Caesar." + +I answered by telling what I had just heard from Licinius; upon which the +countenance of the old man was not a little lightened; but Silo fixed his +eyes upon the ground, and seemed to regard the matter very seriously. He +said, however, after a pause, "So far, at least, it is well. Let us hope +that the calumnies which have been detected, may turn more and more of +discredit upon those that have gone abroad concerning that which is dearer +to you, my father, and to all your true companions, than any thing of what +men call their own. But, alas! these, after all, are but poor tidings for +our dear young lady." + +"Fear not," answered Aurelius: "have I not told you already oftentimes, +that strength of heart goes not with bone and sinew, and that my gentle +child is prepared for all things? She also well knows that the servant is +not greater than the master." + +The old man motioned to us to remain where we were, and withdrew. I sate +for some minutes by the side of Silo, who was, indeed, manifestly much +troubled, until at length the same modest little damsel opened the door, +and addressing the jailer as her father, asked leave to conduct me to +Aurelius. + +The child led me, therefore, into the adjoining chamber, and tapped gently +at a door on the other side of it. The voice of the old priest bade us +come in, and Athanasia arose with him to receive me. She was dressed in a +white tunic, her hair braided in dark folds upon her forehead; her +countenance was calm, and, but for the paleness of her lips, I should have +said that her gravity scarcely partook of sadness. When, however, we had +exchanged our salutations, it was evident that some effort had been +necessary for this appearance of serenity; for when she spoke to me her +voice trembled in every tone, and, as she stooped to caress my young +guide, who had sate down by her feet, I saw the tear that had been +gathering drop heavily, and lose itself among the bright clusters of the +little damsel's hair. I took her unresisting hand, and imitated as best I +could the language of consolation. But it seemed as if my poor whispers +only served to increase the misery. She covered her face with her hands, +and sobs and tears were mingled together, and the blood glowed red in her +neck, in the agony of her lamentation. + +The old priest was moved at first scarcely less than myself by this +sorrowful sight. Yet the calmness of age deserted him not long, and after +a moment there remained nothing on his countenance but the gravity and +tenderness of compassion. He arose from his seat, and walked quietly +towards the end of the apartment, from which when he returned, after a +brief space, there was an ancient volume open in his hand. And standing +near us, he began to read aloud, in the Greek tongue, words which were +then new, and which have ever since been in a peculiar manner dear to me. + +_God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble. Therefore +will not we fear though the earth be removed; though the mountains be +carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be +troubled; though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof._ + +Athanasia took her hands from her face, and gradually composing herself, +looked through her tears upon the old man as he proceeded. + +_There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God; +the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High._ + +_God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, +and that right early._ + +_The heathen raged; the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice; the +earth melted._ + +_The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge._ + +The blood had mounted in the countenance of Aurelius, ere he reached these +last words. The tears also had been dried up on the pale cheek of +Athanasia; and although her voice was not heard, I saw that her lips moved +fervently along with those of the priest. Even in me, ignorant of their +source, the words of the royal prophet produced I know not what of +buoyance and emotion, and perhaps my lips, too, had involuntarily essayed +to follow them; for when he paused from his reading, the old man turned to +me with a face full of benignity, and said, "Yes, Valerius, it is even so; +Homer, Pindar, AEschylus--these, indeed, can stir the blood; but it is such +poetry as this that alone can sooth in sorrow, and strengthen in the hour +of tribulation. Your vain-glorious Greeks called all men barbarians but +themselves; and yet these words, and thousands not less precious than +these, consoled the afflictions, and ennobled the triumphs of the chosen +race of Israel long, long years, ere ever the boasted melody of Ionian or +Doric verse had been heard of. From this alone, young man, you may judge +what measure of candour inhabits along with the disdain of our proud +enemies:--how fairly, without question, or opportunity of defence, the +charge of barbarity is heaped upon what they are pleased to call our +_superstition_;--how wisely the learned and the powerful of the earth have +combined in this league against the truth which they know not,--of which +they fear or despise the knowledge. Surely the truth is mighty, and the +gates of hell shall not prevail against her." + +"But, alas! my dear father," said Athanasia, "I fear me this is not the +place, nor the situation, in which Valerius might be most likely to listen +to your words. It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing of our +present danger, has rendered him even more cautious than he was before." + +"And who, my dear child," he replied hastily,--"and who is he that shall +dare to blame caution, or to preach, above all in such things as these, +the rashness that is of folly? Valerius will not believe that we, like the +miserable creatures whose impious songs he heard last night, are studious +only of working upon the fears of the ignorant, and harassing, with dark +and lying dreams, the imaginations of the simple. _Here_ are no wild +stories of blood-thirsty deities, and self-sacrificing maniacs. _Here_ is +that which Socrates vainly sought by all the ingenuity of reason. _Here_ +is that of which some faint and mysterious anticipations would appear to +have been shadowed forth in the visions of Plato. _Here_ is that which, as +that Mighty Martyr who died in this very city hath said, innumerable +prophets and kings of the old time desired to see, and yet saw not. Do +nothing rashly, young man; but it is possible, as you yourself well know, +that this may be the last opportunity I shall ever have of speaking with +you; and therefore, before we part, I must needs charge you solemnly, that +henceforth, if your knowledge increase not, the sin shall be upon your +head. I charge you, Valerius, that when you return to your island, you +blot not from your memory the things that you have seen and heard in this +great city of light and of darkness. Examine--judge--ask aid, and aid shall +not be refused you. I take Athanasia to witness, that I have given you the +warning that is needful." + +"Oh, sir!" said Athanasia, "I am sure it shall not be in vain that you +have done so. I am sure Valerius will never forget this hour----" + +She gazed in my face, and a tear was again visible, yet on all her +countenance there was no other semblance of passion. The venerable +Aurelius clasping his thin hands together, whispered,--"Would to God that I +were here alone! Shall the axe be laid to the root of the fair young tree +that hath but begun to blossom, when so many old trunks stand around +withered with the lightnings, and sore broken by the winds?--The will of +the Lord be done!" + +"Amen!" said Athanasia, taking the old man by the hand, and smiling, I +think, more cheerfully than I had yet seen her--"My dear father, I fear you +yourself, after all, are teaching Valerius to take but a sad farewell of +us." + +"Alas! my child," he replied, "he must have a hard heart that could look +unmoved on that sweet face in this hour of sadness. But we are in the +hands of a greater than Trajan. If so it please Him, all may yet go well +with us even here upon the earth. You may live to see many happy years +among your kindred--and I, (the old man smiled most serenely,) and for me, +my gray hairs may be laid in bloodless dust. Whatever awaits us, blessed +be the name of the Lord!" + +So saying, the old man retired from the chamber, and once more I was left +alone in the presence of Athanasia. I took from my bosom the book and the +letter which I had placed there, and laid them upon her knee. She broke +the seal, and read hastily what Tisias had written, and then concealed the +scroll within her tunic, saying, "Alas! Valerius, little did the brave old +soldier suspect how soon his peril was to be mine--Will you permit me like +him to make you my messenger?--will you seek out my cousin, my sister, and +tell Sempronia in what condition you have found me?--no, not in what you +found--but in what you now see me. Will you go, Valerius, and speak comfort +to my poor friend? Her pity, at least, I am sure is mingled with no angry +thoughts; and yet she only has reason to complain, for her secret thoughts +were not hid from me, and, alas! I concealed mine from her." + +"I have already seen her," said I, "and you do her no more than justice. +But, indeed, Sempronius himself thinks of you even as gently as his +daughter." + +"I doubt it not, Valerius; but, alas! there are many others besides these; +and I know not what relic of weakness it is, but methinks I could have +borne the worst more easily, had it not been for what I picture to myself +of their resentment. Alas! I am cut off for ever from the memory of my +kindred." She threw open the lattice, as if that she might inhale the free +air, and her eyes wandered to and fro over all the magnificent prospect +that lay stretched out below us,--the temples and high porticos of the +Forum--the gleaming battlements and long arcades of the Palatine--the baths, +and theatres, and circuses between and the river--Tiber winding away among +fields and groves--and the sky of Italy extending over all things its arch +of splendour. When the trumpets were blown by the gate of the +Senate-house, the sound floated upwards to us as gently as if it had been +borne over the waters. The shouts of the multitude were faintly re-echoed +from the towers and the rocks. The princely pageant shewed like a pomp of +pigmies; spear, and helmet, and eagle glittered together, almost like dews +upon the distant herbage. Athanasia rested her eye once more upon the wide +range of the champaign, where fields and forests were spread out in +interminable succession--away towards the northern region and the visible +mountains. She raised her hand, and said, "Valerius, your home lies far +away yonder. I must give you something which you shall promise me to carry +with you, and preserve in memory--of Rome." + +Before I had time to make any answer, she had taken out of a casket that +stood beside us, a scroll of parchment, bound with a silk ribbon, which +she immediately put into my hands, and--"To-morrow," said she, "Valerius, +our fate, they tell us, must at length be determined;--if we share the fate +of Tisias, the last gift of Tisias shall be yours. If, however, any mercy +be extended to us, I cannot part with that memorial of a dying martyr. I +must keep to myself the old man's favourite volume, for it was for me he +had designed it. But I have made a copy of the same book for yourself. I +have written it since I came hither, Valerius, and you must not despise it +because the Mammertine has not furnished the finest of materials. Take +this, Valerius, and take with it my thanks--my prayers. I know you will not +forget my message to my dear sister.--Sextus and she--may many happy days be +theirs--and yours." + +I kissed the sad gift, and placed it in my bosom. + +"Valerius," she said, "dry up your tears. You weep for me because I am a +Christian; forget not that the Roman blood flows in my veins, and think +not that its current is chilled, because I have forsworn the worship of +idol and demon, and am in peril for the service of The Living God." + +"Athanasia!" said I,--"I weep for you, but not for you alone. I ask +nothing--I hope nothing--but I could not bear to part with you thus, and not +to tell you that when I part from you, I bid farewell to all things. +Pardon me--once more pardon me." + +A single flush of crimson passed over her face, and I saw her lips move, +but the syllables died ere they were uttered. She continued for a moment +gazing on me, pale, and trembling; and then at last she fell upon my neck +and wept--not audibly--but I felt her tears. + +Athanasia was still folded to my bosom in that strange agony of sorrow and +of confidence, when Silo, the jailer, entered the apartment, abrupt and +breathless. + +"Oh, sir!" said he, "your sufferings are mine--but it is necessary that you +should leave us, and on the instant, for the Prefect is already at the +gate, and unquestionably he will examine every part of the prison; and +should you be recognized as the person who was taken in the Mausoleum, you +see plainly to what suspicions it might give rise. Come then, sir, and let +me secure your escape--we shall take care to warn you of whatever occurs, +and we shall send for you, if there be opportunity." + +Athanasia recovered herself almost instantly, when she heard what Silo +said. + +"We shall meet again," said I. + +"Once more," she replied--"at least once more, Valerius." + +And I tore myself away from her; and the jailer having once again +committed me to the guidance of his child, I was in a few moments +conducted to the same postern by which I had been introduced. In a word, I +found myself in the court of the Capitol, at the instant when the Prefect, +with all his attendants, was entering by the main gate of the Mammertine. + + + + + _CHAPTER IV._ + + +On reaching home, I was told that Licinius was still absent; and found at +the same time a billet upon the table, which informed me that Sabinus had +carried Sextus with him to his quarters, and that both expected I would +join them there immediately upon my return. I knew not how to refuse +compliance, and yet I could not bear the thought of being so far from the +Capitol, in case of any message being sent to me from the prison. Since I +could do no better, however, I charged Boto to remain in my apartment till +sunset, and bring me, without delay, any letter or messenger that might +arrive in my absence. Should none such appear within that space, I gave +him a note, which I desired him to deliver into the hands of Silo; and +having, as I thought, furnished him with sufficient directions how to +discharge this commission, I myself took the path to the Praetorian Camp, +where I thought it very probable that I might gather some new intelligence +as to Cotilius. + +The Praetorian who had accompanied Sabinus at my release from the rustic +tower, recognized me at the gate, and conducted me immediately to the +Centurion, who, to my surprise and displeasure, had directed that I should +be ushered without delay to, not his own apartment, but the general table. +Here I was received most courteously, however, and hoping the feast was +nearly over, took my place near my friend. + +Several of those high-fed warriors who had more than once disposed of the +empire, were reclining upon rich couches around the board; and their +effeminate exterior would, perhaps, have made them less formidable in my +eyes, had I not remembered the youth of the great Caesar, the Parthian +retreat of Antony, and the recent death of Otho.(3) There were present, +besides, a few casual visiters like ourselves; among others, a sleek +Flamen, who reclined on the right hand of the presiding Tribune, and a +little bald Greek, who seemed to think it incumbent upon himself to fill +up every pause in the conversation, by malicious anecdotes or sarcasms, of +which last it was easy to see that the Flamen opposite was a favourite +subject. Neither wit nor impiety, however, could make speedy impression +upon the smooth-faced Flamen, who seemed to think, if one might judge from +his behaviour, that the most acceptable service he could render to the +deities, was to do full and devout justice to the gifts of their +benevolence. + +A very animated discussion concerning the review of the newly-arrived +cohorts, (which, I have told you, had taken place that morning by the +river side,) relieved for some time the patient Flamen from the attacks of +this irreverent person, and engaged the zealous participation of those who +had hitherto been the most silent of the company. Sabinus, among the rest, +was ready with a world of remarks upon the equipments, the manoeuvres, the +merits, and the demerits of the troops in question; but something he said +was quite at variance with the sentiments of one of his brother +Centurions, who disputed with him rather warmly than successfully for a +few moments, and at last ended with saying,--"But why should I take so much +trouble to discuss the point with you, who, we all know, were thinking of +other matters, and saw not much more of the review than if you had been a +hundred miles off from it?" + +The Centurion coloured a little, and laughed, as it seemed to me, with +rather less heartiness than usual; but the disputant pursuing his +advantage, said, "Yes, you may laugh if you will; but do you think we are +all blind, or do you suppose we are not acquainted with certain +particulars? Well, some people dislike the Suburra, but for my part I +agree with Sabinus; I think it is one of the genteelest places in Rome, +and that there are some of the snuggest houses in it too--and if old men +will die, for me, I protest, I don't see why young men should not succeed +them." The Centurion laughed again, and natural ruddiness of complexion +was, I thought, scarcely quite sufficient to account for the flush on his +countenance, as he listened to these innuendos. But the master of the +feast cut the matter short, by saying that he had a health to propose, and +that he expected all present should receive it with honour.--"Here," said +he, "is to the fair lady Rubellia, who is never absent when the Praetorians +turn out, and may all things fair and fortunate attend her now and +hereafter." I whispered to Sabinus,--"My friend, I think you have really +some reason for blushing. If you had no pity on Xerophrastes, you might at +least have had some for the pretty widow." + +He made no answer to this, and looked, if possible, more confused than +ever; but, just at that moment, a soldier came in, and delivered a billet +to the presiding Tribune, who handed it to Sabinus immediately after he +had read it, and said, loud enough to be heard by all those who sate near +him, "I wish the Prince would give some of this work to these new comers. +But, indeed, I wonder what Lictors are good for now-a-days; but every +thing that these Christians are any way concerned in seems to be a matter +of importance." + +Sabinus, having read the billet, handed it back again to the Tribune, and +said aloud, "_Exit_ Cotilius!--Who would not be of the chorus at the +falling of that curtain?" + +The Tribune shrugged his shoulders, whispered something into the ear of +the messenger, and then, dashing more wine into his cup, said, "Rome will +never be a quiet place, nor the Praetorian helmet a comfortable head-piece, +till these barbarians be extirpated." + +The Flamen tossed off a full goblet, and, smiting with his hand upon the +table, said, "There spake a true Roman, and a worshipper of the Gods. I +rejoice to find that there is still some religion in the world; for, what +with skulking Jews on the one hand, and bold blasphemous Cyrenaeans on the +other, so help me Jupiter, the general prospect is dark enough!" + +"In my opinion," quoth the bald Greek, putting on an air of some gravity, +"the Jews will have the better of the Cyrenaeans. Indeed, I should not be +much surprised to see this Christian superstition supplant every other." +The Flamen half started from his couch. "You observe, gentlemen," +proceeded the Greek,--"what great advantage any new superstition has over +any thing of the same sort that is old. We all know, for example, that +Isis and Cybele have for many years past left comparatively few +worshippers to Mars, Apollo,--even to Jupiter. It is lamentable; but it is +true. I have heard that unless on some very great day, a gift is now quite +a rarity upon the altar of any of the true ancient deities of Rome. Egypt +and Mount Ida have done this; and why should not Palestine succeed as well +as either? In the meantime, the enlightened contemplate every different +manifestation of the superstitious principle with equal indifference; and, +I confess to you, I have been a little surprised to perceive how far +Trajan is from imitating their example. But that Chaeronaean master of his, +that Plutarch, was always an old woman; and I fear the Prince has not been +able to shake off the impression of his ridiculous stories." + +"Hush!" quoth the master of the day, "if it please you, nothing can be +said here against either Trajan or his friends; and, as for Plutarch, he +was one of the pleasantest fellows that I ever met with." + +Sabinus, desirous of restoring the harmony of the assembly, called +forthwith on a musical senior, to join him in a song. The gentleman +required solicitation, but at last announced his consent to attempt the +female part in the duet of Horace and Lydia. Sabinus, always ready, began +to roar out the tender words of regret and expostulation which the most +elegant of poets has ascribed to himself; and the delicate squeaking +response of our wrinkled Lydia formed an agreeable contrast. + +All, in short, were once more in perfect good humour, when another soldier +appeared behind the couch of the president, and handed to him what seemed +to be another billet of the same complexion. He tossed the paper as before +to my friend, who looked very serious as he read it.--"Caius," he +whispered, "an additional guard is ordered to the Palatine--and the reason +is said to be that the rest of the Christian prisoners are to be examined, +within an hour, by the Emperor himself." + +I had scarcely had a moment to compose myself, when one of the slaves in +attendance signified that a person wished to speak with me in the +anti-chamber. It was Dromo.--"Sir," said he, "I have no time for +explanation. Silo wishes to see you--I left Boto with him at the +Mammertine." + +As we walked from the camp, Sabinus, with his guard, passed without +noticing me; and I received some explanations which I must give to you +very briefly. Boto, mistrusting his recollection of my instructions, had +requested Dromo to assist him in finding his way to the Mammertine; and +the Cretan had come to be witness of a scene, which, in spite of his +sarcastic disposition, he could not narrate without tokens of sympathy. I +mentioned to you that my faithful slave, in coming with me to Rome, had +indulged the hope of meeting once more with a brother, who many years +before had been carried off from Britain. I smiled when the poor man +expressed confidence that he should find out this ere he had been many +days in the metropolis of the world. But now, in truth, a fortunate +accident had recompensed much ill-regulated search. He had found his +brother, and he had found him in the Mammertine. That very brother was +Silo, to whose kindness I, and one dearer than myself, had been so deeply +indebted. The Cretan, himself a slave and an exile, had partaken in the +feelings of the long-lost brothers, and hastened to bring me from the +camp, that Boto might be spared the pain of immediately parting from Silo. + + + + + _CHAPTER V._ + + +I had hurried along the darkening streets, and up the ascent of the +Capitoline, scarce listening to the story of the Cretan. On reaching the +summit, we found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already occupied +by detachments of foot. I hastened to the Mammertine--and before the +postern opened to admit us, the Praetorian squadron had drawn up at the +great gate. Sabinus beckoned me to him. "Caius," said he, stooping on his +horse, "would to heaven I had been spared this duty! Cotilius comes forth +this moment, and then we go back to the Palatine; and I fear--I fear we are +to guard thither your Athanasia. If you wish to enter the prison, quicken +your steps." + +We had scarcely entered the inner-court, ere Sabinus also, and about a +score of his Praetorians, rode into it. Silo and Boto were standing +together; and both had already hastened towards me; but the jailer, seeing +the Centurion, was constrained to part from me with one hurried +word:--"Pity me, for I also am most wretched. But you know the way--here, +take this key--hasten to my dear lady, and tell her what commands have +come." + +Alas! I said I to myself, of what tidings am I doomed ever to be the +messenger!--but she was alone; and how could I shrink from any pain that +might perhaps alleviate hers? I took the key, glided along the corridors, +and stood once more at the door of the chamber in which I had parted from +Athanasia. No voice answered to my knock; I repeated it three times, and +then, agitated with indistinct apprehension, hesitated no longer to open +it. No lamp was burning within the chamber, but from without there entered +a wavering glare of deep saffron-coloured light, which shewed me Athanasia +extended on her couch. Its ominous and troubled hue had no power to mar +the image of her sleeping tranquillity. I hung over her for a moment, and +was about to disturb that slumber--perhaps the last slumber of peace and +innocence--when the chamber-walls were visited with a yet deeper glare. +"Caius," she whispered, as I stepped from beside the couch; "why do you +leave me? stay, Valerius." I looked back, but her eye-lids were still +closed; the same calm smile was upon her dreaming lips. The light streamed +redder and more red. All in an instant became as quiet without as within. +I approached the window, and saw Cotilius standing in the midst of the +court; Sabinus and Silo near him; the horsemen drawn up on either side, +and a soldier close behind resting upon an unsheathed sword. I saw the +keen blue eye as fierce as ever. I saw that the blood was still fervid in +his cheeks: for the complexion of this man was of the same bold and florid +brightness so uncommon in Italy, which you have seen represented in the +pictures of Sylla, and even the blaze of the torches seemed to strive in +vain to heighten its natural scarlet. The soldier had lifted his sword, +and my eye was fixed, as by fascination, when suddenly a deep voice was +heard amidst the deadly silence--"Cotilius!--look up, Cotilius!" + +Aurelius, the Christian priest, standing at an open window, not far +distant from that at which I was placed, stretched forth his fettered hand +as he spake:--"Cotilius! I charge thee, look upon the hand from which the +blessed water of baptism was cast upon thy head. I charge thee, look upon +me, and say, ere yet the blow be given, upon what hope thy thoughts are +fixed?--Is this sword bared against the rebel of Caesar, or a martyr of +Jesus?--I charge thee, speak; and for thy soul's sake speak truly." + +A bitter motion of derision passed over his lips, and he nodded, as if +impatiently, to the Praetorian. Instinctively I turned me from the +spectacle, and my eye rested again upon the couch of Athanasia--but not +upon the vision of her tranquillity. The clap with which the corpse fell +upon the stones had, perhaps, reached the sleeping ear, and we know with +what swiftness thoughts chase thoughts in the wilderness of dreams. So it +was that she started at the very moment when the blow was given; and she +whispered--for it was still but a deep whisper--"Spare me, Trajan, Caesar, +Prince--have pity on my youth--strengthen, strengthen me good Lord!--Fie! +fie! we must not lie to save life. Felix--Valerius--come close to me, +Caius--Fie! let us remember we are Romans--'Tis the trumpet----" + +The Praetorian trumpet sounded the march in the court below, and Athanasia, +starting from her sleep, gazed wildly around the reddened chamber. The +blast of the trumpet was indeed in her ear--and Valerius hung over her--but +after a moment the cloud of the broken dream passed away, and the maiden +smiled as she extended her hand to me from the couch, and began to gather +up the ringlets that floated all down upon her shoulder. She blushed and +smiled mournfully, and asked me hastily whence I came, and for what +purpose I had come; but before I could answer, the glare that was yet in +the chamber seemed anew to be perplexing her: and she gazed from me to the +red walls, and from them to me again: and then once more the trumpet was +blown, and Athanasia sprung from her couch. I know not in what terms I was +essaying to tell her what was the truth, but I know that ere I had said +many words, she discovered my meaning. For a moment she looked deadly +pale, in spite of all the glare of the torch-beams; but she recovered +herself, and said in a voice that sounded almost as if it came from a +light heart,--"But Caius, I must not go to Caesar, without having at least a +garland on my head. Stay here, Valerius, and I shall be ready anon--quite +ready." + +It seemed to me as if she were less hasty than she had promised, yet many +minutes elapsed not ere she returned. She plucked a blossom from her hair +as she drew near to me, and said, "Take it: you must not refuse one token +more; this also is a sacred gift. Caius, you must learn never to look upon +it without kissing these red streaks--these blessed streaks of the +Christian flower." + +I took the flower from her hand, and pressed it to my lips; and I +remembered that the very first day I saw Athanasia, she had plucked such +an one, when apart from all the rest, in the gardens of Capito. I told her +what I remembered; and it seemed as if the little circumstance had called +up all the image of peaceful days; for once more sorrowfulness gathered +upon her countenance. If the tear was ready, however, it was not permitted +to drop; and Athanasia returned again to her flower. + +"Do you think there are any of them in Britain?" said she; "or do you +think that they would grow there? You must go to my dear uncle, and he +will not deny you, when you tell him that it is for my sake he is to give +you some of his. They call it the Passion-flower--'tis an emblem of an +awful thing. Caius, these purple streaks are like trickling drops; and +here, look ye, they are all round the flower. Is it not very like a bloody +crown upon a pale brow? I will take one of them in my hand, too, Caius; +and methinks I shall not disgrace myself when I look upon it, even though +Trajan should be frowning upon me." + +I had not the heart to interrupt her; but heard silently all she said, and +I thought she said the words quickly and eagerly, as if she feared to be +interrupted. + +The old priest came into the chamber while she was yet speaking so, and +said very composedly, "Come, my dear child, our friend has sent again for +us, and the soldiers have been waiting already some space, who are to +convey us to the Palatine. Come, children, we must part for a +moment--perhaps it may be but for a moment--and Valerius may remain here +till we return to him. Here, at least, dear Caius, you shall have the +earliest tidings, and the surest." + +The good man took Athanasia by the hand, and she, smiling now at length +more serenely than ever, said only, "Farewell, then, Caius, for a little +moment!" And so, drawing her veil over her face, she passed away from +before me, giving, I think, more support to the ancient Aurelius than, in +her turn, she received from him. I began to follow them, but the priest +waved his hand as if to forbid me:--the door closed after them, and I was +alone. + + + + + _CHAPTER VI._ + + +I know not, my friends, how to proceed with the narrative of what +followed. Thoughts, passions, fears, hopes, succeeding so rapidly, give to +that strange night, when I look back upon it through the vista of years, +the likeness of some incoherent, agonizing dream. Much, without doubt, of +what passed within my own mind I have forgotten; but it seems to me as if +what I saw or heard were still present in the distinctness of reality. +That chamber in the Mammertine! Its walls are before me blazing with the +reflection of torch-light, and then again, all dim and shadowy--the stars +shining feebly upon them from the twilight sky--every thing around lonely +and silent, except the voice of Silo's little maiden,--bewailing no doubt +in her privacy the departure of Athanasia. + +Her father after a little time rejoined me. "Sir," said he, "all is now +quiet here; will you walk with me towards the Palatine, that we may at +least be near to know what is reported of their proceedings? My brother +will stay here till we return." + +We soon had descended from the Capitoline, passed through the silent +Forum, and gained the brow of the opposite eminence, where, as shortly +before at the Mammertine, all was light and tumult. Every court was +guarded with soldiery, and groups of busy men were passing continually +about the imperial gates and porticos. Silo led me round and round the +buildings, till we reached what seemed an abandoned wing. "Sir," said he, +"you do not know more familiarly the house in which you were born and +reared, than I do every corner within these wide walls. But I have not +crossed the threshold since the day Caesar died.--I was the slave of +Domitian, and he gave me my freedom.--He was kind to his household." + +We entered beneath a small portico--and Silo drew a key from his bosom. The +lock, after two or three trials, yielded to its pressure. A large empty +hall received us, the circumference of which was scarcely visible by the +light of the newly-risen moon, streaming down from a cupola. + +Another and another sombre chamber we in like manner traversed, till at +length Silo opened one so comparatively light, that I started back, +apprehending we had intruded farther than he intended. A second glance, +however, seemed to indicate that we were still in the region of +desolation, for a statue lay in the midst of the floor, one of its limbs +snapped over, as if it had fallen and been permitted to remain. + +"Where are we, Silo?" I whispered, "what means this unnatural light among +so many symptoms of confusion?" + +"Sir," said the freedman, "this is the place in which alone Domitian used +to eat and sleep, and walk about for the last months of his life, when he +was jealous of all men; and he contrived these walls, covered all over +with the shining Ethiopian stone, that no one might be able to approach +him without being discovered. Even when a slave entered, he would start as +if every side of the chamber had been invaded by some host of men; fifty +different reflections of one trembling eunuch. It was, they say, behind +this shattered piece of marble that he ran when he had felt the first +treacherous blow. Yonder in the corner is the couch he slept upon, and he +had always a dagger under his head, and he called to the little page that +was waiting upon him to fetch it from the place; but the scabbard only +remained; and then in came Parthenius and Claudianus, and the gladiator, +and the rest, who soon finished what the cunning Stephanus had begun. Let +us go on;--we have not yet reached the place to which I wished to bring +you--but it is not far off now." + +With this Silo walked to the end of the melancholy chamber, and pressing +upon a secret spring, where no door was apparent, opened the way into a +room, darker and smaller than any of those through which we had come. He +then said to me, "Now, sir, you must not venture upon one whisper more--you +touch on the very heart of Domitian's privacy. It is possible that the +place I have been leading you to may have been shut up--it may exist no +longer; but the state in which all things are found here makes me think it +more likely that Trajan has never been master of its secret. And in that +case, we shall be able both to see and to hear, without being either seen +or heard, exactly as Domitian used to do, when there was any council held +either in the Mars or the Apollo." + +I started at the boldness of the project which now, for the first time, I +understood; but Silo laid his finger on his lip again,--cautiously lifted +up a piece of the dark-red cloth with which this chamber was hung,--and +essayed another spring in the pannelling beneath. Total darkness appeared +to be beyond; but the jailer motioning to me to remain for a moment where +I was, and to keep up the hanging, glided boldly into the recess. I +wondered how he should tread so lightly, that I could not perceive the +least echo; but this no longer surprised me, when I had the sign to +follow. The floor felt beneath my foot as if it were stuffed like a +pillow; and, after I had dropped the hanging, every thing was totally +dark, as it had at first appeared to me, except only at certain points, +separate and aloft, which let in gleams of light, manifestly artificial. +Silo, taking hold of me by the hand, conducted me up some steps towards +the nearest of these tiny apertures; and, as I approached it, I heard +distinctly the voices of persons talking together in the room beyond. I +did not draw my breath, you may well believe, with much boldness; but my +eye was soon fixed at one of the crevices, and, after the first dazzle was +over, I saw clearly. Silo took his station by my side, gazing through +another of these loop-holes, which, that you may understand every thing, +were evidently quite concealed among the rich carved-work of an ivory +cornice. + +The chamber was lighted by three tall candelabra of silver, close beside +one of which was placed a long table covered with an infinity of scrolls +and tablets. One person, who had his back turned towards us, was writing, +and two others, in one of whom I instantly recognized the Emperor, were +walking up and down on the other side. + +"No, Palma," said Trajan, for it was that old favourite whom he +addressed--"I have made up my mind as to this matter. I shall never permit +any curious inquisition as to private opinion. Every man has a right, +without question, to think--to believe--exactly what pleases him; and I +shall concede as much in favour of every woman, Palma, if you will have it +so. But it is totally a different affair, when the fact, no matter how, is +forced upon my knowledge, that a subject, no matter who or what he be--a +subject of the Roman empire, refuses to comply with the first, the +elemental, and the most essential of the laws. The man--aye or the +woman--that confesses in my presence contempt for the deities whom the +commonwealth acknowledges in every step of its procedure--that person is a +criminal; and I cannot dismiss him unpunished, without injuring the +commonwealth by the display of weakness in its chief. As for these poor +fanatics themselves, it is the penalty of my station that I must control +my feelings." + +"But you are satisfied, my lord," said Palma, "that these people are quite +innocent as to Cotilius's designs; and as it was upon that suspicion they +were apprehended, perhaps it may be possible----" + +"Yes, Palma," interrupted the Prince; "quite possible and quite easy, +provided they will condescend to save themselves by the most trivial +acknowledgment of the sort which, I repeat to you, I do and must consider +as absolutely necessary. And women too--and girls forsooth--I suppose you +would have me wait till the very urchins on the street were gathering into +knots to discuss the nature of the Gods.--Do you remember what Plato +says?"-- + +"No, my lord, I do not know to what you refer." + +"Why, Plato says that nobody can ever understand any thing accurately +about the Deity, and that, if he could, he would have no right to +communicate his discoveries to others; the passage is in the Timaeus, and +Tully has translated it besides. And is it to be endured that these modest +fanatics are to do every hour what the Platos and the Ciceros spoke of in +such terms as these? I think you carry your tolerance a little farther +than might have been expected from a disciple of the Academy." + +"I despise them, my lord, as much as yourself; but, to tell you the truth, +it is this young lady that moves me to speak thus--and I crave your pardon, +if I have spoken with too much freedom.--Her father was one of the best +soldiers Titus had." + +"The more is the pity, Palma. Have you ever seen the girl yourself? Did +you give orders that she should be brought hither? I have not the least +objection that you should have half an hour, or an hour if you will, to +talk with her quietly; perhaps your eloquence may have the effect we +desire." + +"I doubt it, my lord, I greatly doubt it," he replied; "but, indeed, I +know not whether she be yet here--Did you not send to the Mammertine?" + +The man writing at the table, to whom this interrogation was addressed, +said, "I believe, sir, both this lady and the old man that was in the same +prison are now in attendance." And upon this Trajan and Palma retired +together towards the farther end of the apartment, where they conversed +for some minutes in a tone so low, that I could not understand any thing +of what was said. Trajan at length turned from his favourite with an air, +as I thought, of some little displeasure, and said aloud, coming back into +the middle of the room,--"I know it is so; but what is that to the affair +in hand? I am very sorry for the Sempronii, but I doubt if even they would +be so unreasonable as you are." + +"Will you not see the poor girl yourself, Caesar?" + +"You do not need to be told, that my seeing her would only make it more +difficult for me to do that, which, seeing or not seeing her, I know to be +my duty. Do you accept of my proposal? Are you willing to try the effect +of your own persuasion? I promise you, if you succeed, I shall rejoice not +less heartily than yourself; but it is rather too much to imagine that I +am personally to interfere about such an affair as this--an affair which, +the more I think of it, seems to me to be the more perfectly contemptible. +Nay, do not suppose it is this poor girl I am talking of--I mean the whole +of this Jewish, this Christian affair, which does indeed appear to me to +be the most bare-faced absurdity, that ever was permitted to disturb the +tranquillity of the empire. A mean and savage nation have but just +suffered the penalty of obstinacy and treachery alike unequalled, and from +them--from the scattered embers of this extinguished fire, we are to allow +a new flame to be kindled--ay, and that in the very centre of Rome. I tell +you, that if my own hand were to be scorched in the cause, I would +disperse this combustion to the winds of heaven; I tell you, that I stand +here Caesar, and that I would rather be chained to the oar, than suffer, +while the power to prevent it is mine, the tiniest speck to be thrown upon +the Roman majesty. By all the Gods, Palma, it is enough to make a man sick +to think of the madness that is in this world, and of the iron arguments +by which we are compelled to keep those from harming us, that at first +sight of them excite no feeling but our pity. But I am weary of these very +names of Palestine--Jew--Christian. Go to this foolish girl, and try what +you can make of her; I give you fair warning--no breeders of young +Christians here." + + + + + _CHAPTER VII._ + + +Cornelius Palma, after the Prince retired, was apparently for some space +busied with his reflections. He then talked in a whispering manner with +the secretary, and moved towards an extremity of the chamber. But the +moment Silo perceived this, he plucked my sleeve, and drew me to the other +end of our closet, where, as I have told you, the light had admittance in +a similar manner. Here another of the imperial apartments was visible in +equal distinctness; and in it appeared Athanasia and her friend, as +waiting now at length in entire composure the moment when they should be +summoned. + +Palma entering, both rose, and he, returning their salutation, remained +before them for a moment in silence, his eyes fixed on Athanasia. It was +to Aurelius, nevertheless, that his first words were addressed:--"From what +has been reported of your behaviour at the execution of Cotilius, I fear +there is nothing to be gained by speaking to _you_, concerning the only +means by which your own safety can yet be secured. You are obstinate, old +man, in your superstition?"--"Noble Palma," said the priest, "contempt is +the only thing I fear from men. But I thank my God, that it is the only +thing I have it in my power to avoid."--"I will not argue with you," +answered Palma, pointing to a door near him:--"It was not with any purpose +of bending you, that I undertook this painful office. I desire to speak in +freedom with one whose case is, I trust, less hopeless." + +The old man, pointing to his fetters, said meekly, "Let them guard me +whither it pleases you." + +"Sir," said Athanasia, "I pray you let Aurelius remain; imagine not that I +shall either hear or answer less freely because of my friend's presence." + +"He will, at least, retire to the other end of the chamber," said +Palma--"and interfere no farther." + +The priest drew back;--Athanasia, on her part, seeing that Palma hesitated, +and seemed at a loss how to begin, said to him in a tone of modest +composure:--"Noble sir, if your purpose be indeed as kind as I think it is, +I pray you spare me at least the pain that is needless, and spare yourself +what I am sure is painful to you. You see my youth and my sex, and it is +not unnatural for you to think as you do; but know that my faith is fixed, +and that I hope I shall not be deserted, when I strive even at the last +moment to do it no dishonour." + +"This gray beard," said Palma, "has made you, then, thoroughly a +Christian?" + +"I would it were so," she answered--"I would to God it were so!" + +"Lady," resumed Palma, "we have knowledge both of your father's high +character, and of your own amiable dispositions. If you persist in this +manner, you will give grief to Caesar; and as for your family, have you yet +seriously considered into what misery they must be plunged?" + +"Sir," she replied, "this is cruel kindness. I have considered all +things." + +"Young maiden," continued Palma, "the touch of the physician's knife is +painful, yet his hand must not falter. But I have sent for those, who, I +hope, may speak more effectually." + +The Senator turned from the pedestal on which he had been leaning, and +walked to the door over against where Aurelius was sitting: and after a +moment had elapsed, there entered, even as I had anticipated, both her +uncles, Lucius and Velius. Behind them came, wrapped in her consecrated +veil, the Priestess of Apollo; and last of all, gazing wildly around, her +apparel disordered, the friend of her youth, the sister of her bosom,--she +to whom in all things, save one, Athanasia's heart had ever been laid +open. The two Patricians advanced, deeply dejected, towards the place +where Athanasia stood waiting their approach. The stately Priestess, +walking yet more slowly, lifted the veil from her face, which was pale and +calm as marble. But when the youthful companion at last rested her eye +upon her friend, and the fettered hands clasped together on that bosom, +she rushed past them all, and was folded in a cold embrace; for though +Athanasia pressed Sempronia to her bosom, I saw also that she trembled +from head to foot, and that her eyes were riveted on those who approached +with seriousness more terrible than the passion of young sympathy. + +"Athanasia," said Lucius, taking her by the hand, "look not upon us thus; +we come as to a daughter." + +"Dearest," said old Velius, "listen to thy true friends. Do you put more +faith in the words of strangers than in the blood of kindred--the affection +of your father's brothers--the guardians of his dear orphan?" + +"Wo is me!" said Athanasia--"O God, strengthen me! Why, oh, why am I forced +to wound these kind hearts! Have pity upon me, have pity upon me--you know +not what you speak of, else you would all be silent." + +"Weep," said the Priestess; "weep, and weep largely. There is yet time to +repent. Abjure this madness; let the last of your tears be shed upon the +altars of your paternal Gods, and they also will be merciful. Nay, tremble +not when you hear my voice, Athanasia. I love you as tenderly as the rest, +and if you have deceived me also, I have long since pardoned." + +The Priestess kissed her forehead; and she bowed her head, weeping at +length audibly. But Athanasia speedily recovered herself, and gently +removing the hands of Sempronia, stood erect again in the midst. + +"Dear friends," said she, "the moments you have to be with me are +numbered; what avails it that they should be spent in words that can have +no effect? I have been baptized in the name of the one true God--I have +partaken of the symbols of the Christian mystery--and I have no more power +to bring myself out of this peril, than he that stands in the front +rank--without sword or buckler--deprived of all things but his honour." + +"Athanasia!" said Velius, "alas! my dear girl, what madness is this? Do +you hold yourself wiser than all the wise men, and all the good, and all +the great men that have ever lived in Rome? Do you deem yourself able to +penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of the earth have retreated +with humility? Consider with yourself--remember the modesty that might be +becoming in your tender years--and, I must speak the truth, your +ignorance." + +"Oh, sir!" she answered, "believe not that I have been brought into this +place, because of my being puffed up with emptiness of conceit. I know +well that I am a poor, young, unlearned creature; but God gives not +according to our deserts; and because I am poor and ignorant, must I +therefore reject the promise of his riches, and the great light that has +been manifested to me,--which, would to God it had also been to you, +despite the perils which a dark world has thrown around it." + +"O Athanasia!" said young Sempronia, "I know the secrets of your heart, +although you have kept from me some of them. Think, dear sister, of all +the love that we bear to you--and, oh! think of Valerius." + +"The more, then, is the sacrifice!" said Athanasia. "Caius Valerius also +is a Christian--at least I hope in God he will soon be sealed into our +brotherhood." + +"Amen! amen!" said Aurelius. + +The Priestess turned round when he uttered this, and observing that he +also was fettered, "Blasphemer!" cried she, "behold the end of your +frenzy. Your eyes are dim, your clay is already yearning, it may be, to be +sprinkled into ashes; but behold your victim. Ye Gods that see all things, +have mercy upon the errors of deceived, ensnared, murdered youth! Hoary +Apostate! feeble though you be, may strength be given to you in anger, +that you may taste the full struggle and the true agony. May you be strong +to wrestle, that you may fall slowly, and feel your fall! Would to the +Gods, just and merciful, that you might struggle and fall alone!" + +"Rash woman," said the manacled Saint, "most surely your last wish is +mine. But why is it that you have come hither with cruel words, to +imbitter equally the last moments of a life that is dear to you, and a +life that you despise? You speak of ignorance and of deceit. Little know +ye who are the deceived. We are the servants of the living God, whose +light will soon shine abroad among the nations, and quench glimmering +tapers, fashioned with the hands of men, with which, hitherto, ye have sat +contented amidst darkness. Caesar may bind and slay--but think ye that the +spirit is his to do with it what he will? Think ye that chains and +dungeons, and the sword of man can alter the course of things that are to +be, or shake from its purpose the will of Him, in whom, blind and +ignorant, ye refuse to behold the image of the Maker of all--shutting eyes, +and ears, and your proud hearts; and blaspheming against the God of +heaven, whose glory ye ascribe to stocks and stones, and to the ghosts of +wicked and bloody tyrants, long since mouldered into dust,--and to the sun, +and the moon, and the stars of the sky, which God set there to rule the +day and the night, even as he lets loose his winds to scatter the leaves +of the forest, and to lift up the waves of the great deep?--Leave us, I +beseech you.--The young and the old are alike steadfast, for God is our +strength, and he bestows it on them that ask for it in the name of the +Redeemer." + +"Peace, thou accursed!" said the Priestess; "I serve the altar, and came +not hither to hear the Gods of heaven and earth insulted by the lips of +hardened impiety.--Athanasia! will you go with us, or will you stay here, +and partake the fate of this madman?" + +"O God!" cried the maiden; "how shall I speak that they may at length hear +me!--Friends--dear friends--if you have any love, any compassion, I pray you +kiss me once, and bid me farewell kindly, and lay my ashes in the +sepulchre of my fathers--beside the urn of my mother. Fear not that I will +disturb the repose of the place--I shall die in anger against no one, and I +shall have rest at length when I am relieved from this struggle. Pardon, +if in any thing besides I ever gave you pain--remember none of my offences +but this--think of me kindly. And go now, dear friends; kiss my lips in +love, and leave me to bear that which must be borne, since there is no +escape but in lying, and in baseness, and in utter perdition here and +hereafter. May the Lord strengthen his day soon, and may ye all bless the +full light, although now ye are startled by the redness of the dawn! +Farewell--kiss me, Velius--kiss me, Lucius--my aunt also will kiss me." + +They did kiss her, and tears were mingled with their embraces; and they +said no more, but parted from her where she was. Palma himself lifted the +desolate Sempronia from the ground, and he and her father carried her away +senseless, her tresses sweeping the pavement as they moved. + +The prisoners were alone. "The moment is come," said Silo; "now, sir, +prepare yourself to risk every thing where every thing may be gained." + +He did not whisper this, but spake the words boldly; and ere I could +either answer any thing, or form any guess as to his meaning, he had +leaped down from my side, and thrown open another secret spring. Silo +rushed in, and I followed him. It was all done so rapidly, that I scarce +remember how. I cannot, indeed, forget the wild and vacant stare of +Athanasia, the cry which escaped from her lips, nor the fervour with which +she sunk into my embrace. But all the rest is a dream. The door closed +swiftly behind us;--swiftly I ran, bearing the maiden in my arms through +all the long course of those deserted chambers. Door after door flew open +before us. All alike, breathless and speechless, we ran on. We reached the +last of the chambers, the wide and echoing saloon, ere my heart had +recovered from the first palpitation of surprise; and a moment after we +breathed once more the free air of heaven. + +"Stop not," said I, "for the sake of God. Hasten, Silo, it is you that +must guide us."--"Ha!" said he, "already have they perceived it? Great God! +after all, is it in vain?" We heard shout echoing shout, and the clapping +of doors. "Treachery, treachery! Escape, escape!"--and trumpet and horn +mingled in the clamour of surprise, wrath, terror. "Ride, ride," screamed +a voice high over all the tumult--"ride this instant--guard every +avenue--search every corner--the wing of Domitian!" + +"We are lost," said Silo;--"we can never reach the gate." + +"To the Temple of Apollo!" said I; "the Priestess will shelter Athanasia." + +"Thank God," whispered Silo, "there is one chance more."--And so we began +again to run swiftly, keeping close beneath the shaded wall of the +edifice, and then threading many narrow passages of the hanging gardens of +Adonis, we reached indeed the adjoining court of the Palatine, and found +ourselves, where all was as yet silent and undisturbed, under the sacred +portico. The great gate was barred. Athanasia herself pointed out a +postern, and we stood within the temple. + +It was filled as before, (for here the alternations of day and night made +no difference,) with the soft and beautiful radiance proceeding from the +tree of lamps. But the fire on the altar burned high and clear, as if +recently trimmed, and behind its blaze stood one of the ministering +damsels. Her hand held the chain of the censer, and she was swinging it +slowly, while the clouds of fragrant smoke rolled high up above the +flames;--and the near light, and the intervening smoke, and the occupation +with which she was busied, prevented her from at first perceiving what +intrusion had been made on the solitude of the place. Athanasia ran on, +and clasping the knees of the astonished girl with her fettered hands, +began to implore her by the memory of old affection and companionship, and +for the sake of all that was dear to her, to give escape, if escape were +possible--at least to give concealment. The girl had dropped the censer +from her hand, and seemed utterly confused, and unable to guess the +meaning of what she saw and heard. "Lady!" cried Silo, falling by the side +of Athanasia--"Oh, lady! stand not here considering, for this is the very +moment of utmost peril. Behold these fetters--they tell you from what her +flight hath been." + +The girl grasped the hands of Athanasia, and gazed upon the manacles, and +still seemed quite amazed and stupified; and while Silo was renewing his +entreaties, we heard suddenly some one trying to open the postern which +the freedman had fastened behind us. Once and again a violent hand essayed +to undo the bolt, and then all was quiet again. And in a moment after, the +great gate was itself thrown open, and the Priestess entered, followed by +her two brothers, who supported between them the yet faint and weeping +young Sempronia. + +In a moment Athanasia had rushed across the temple, and knelt down with +her forehead to the ground, close by where the feet of her haughty +kinswoman were planted. + +"Unhappy!" said she; "by what magic do I behold you here? How have you +escaped? and why--oh! why fled hither? Think ye, that here, in the Temple +of Apollo, the priestess of an insulted God can give shelter to blasphemy +flying from the arms of justice? Ha! and he, too, is here!--Outcast! how +durst thou? Speak, unhappy Athanasia--every thing is dark, and I see only +that you have brought hither----"--"Friends, friends--oh! blame them not," +interrupted the maiden--"Oh! blame them not for venturing all to save me. +Oh! help us, and help speedily--for they search every where, and they may +speedily be here." + +"Here?" cried the priestess--"who, I pray you? Ha! run, fly, bolt the door. +If Caesar speaks, I answer." + +The ring of arms, and voices of angry men, were heard distinctly +approaching. In a moment more we could hear them talking together beneath +the very portico, and trying, in their turn, to thrust open the massive +valves of the temple. "Who calls there?" cried the Priestess--"Who calls +and knocks? If a suppliant approaches, let him come as a +suppliant."--"Castor! We are no suppliants," answered a rough voice:--"Dead +or alive, you must give up our pretty Christians. Come, come, my sly +masters; yield, yield, there is no flying from Caesar." + +"Peace, insolent!" quoth the Priestess--"peace, and begone! This is the +Temple of Apollo, and ye shall find no Christians here. Turn, rude man, +and dread the arm that guarded Delphos!" And saying so, she at length +lifted up Athanasia, and moved towards the other extremity of the fane, +where, as I had occasion once to tell you before, the private chamber of +the Priestess was situated on the right hand beyond the statue of Apollo. +In passing the image she halted an instant, laid her hand on her eyes, and +kissed its feet, with a murmur of supplication; but that was her only +utterance: and the rest gave none. + +She thus led us across the chamber in which, on a former day, I had heard +Athanasia sing; and in like manner, having taken a lamp in her hand, on +through the long passages which conduct towards the receptacle wherein the +Sybilline prophecies are said to be preserved. She opened the door which +she had, on that earlier day, told me led into the repository of those +mysterious scrolls. Two inner doors appeared before us; that to the left +she opened likewise, and we perceived, descending from its threshold, a +dark flight of steps, as if down into the centre of the rock. + +"Here," said she, as she paused, and held the lamp over the gloomy +perspective--"here, at last, I leave you, having already done too much, +whether I think of the God I serve, or of Trajan, or of myself. But for +the blood of kindred not little may be dared. Go with her, since you have +come with her. More I cannot do. Here--take this lamp; the door at the +bottom is fastened only from within; let it fall behind you, and make what +speed you may." + +"One thing," said Silo, "had better be done ere you depart;" and so, very +adroitly, he, by means of his jailer's key, relieved both of them from +their fetters. He then whispered, "Go no farther, Valerius; you may rest +assured that no one suspects us." I saw that he designed to return into +the courts of the Palatine, and so proceed homewards, as if ignorant of +every thing that had occurred. The good freedman had no other course to +pursue, either in duty to himself or to his family. But for me, all my +cares were here. I squeezed by the hand both Lucius and Velius, and both +warmly returned my pressure. The Priestess gave the lamp into my hand, and +the door was shut upon us; and we began, with hearts full of thankfulness, +but not yet composed enough to taste of lightness--with thankfulness +uppermost in our confused thoughts, and with no steady footsteps, to +descend into the unknown abyss. + + + + + _CHAPTER VIII._ + + +The steps were abrupt and narrow; but in a few minutes our feet became +accustomed to them, and we descended rapidly. After we had done so for +some time, we found ourselves in a low chamber of oblong form, in the +midst of which an iron stake was fixed into the floor, having chains of +ponderous workmanship attached to its centre, and over against it, a +narrow chair of the same metal, it also immoveable. I asked Athanasia to +repose herself here for a moment; for it was evident that the tumultuous +evening had much worn out her strength. But she said, shuddering, "No, not +here, Valerius; I never saw this place before, but the aspect of it recals +to me fearful stories. Here, wo is me, many a poor wretch has expiated +offences against the dignity of the shrine, and the servants of its Demon. +My father knows, I doubt not, some humble Christian roof, beneath which we +may be safe until the first search be over. Let us breathe at least the +open air, and He who has hitherto helped will not desert us." + +"No, my children," said Aurelius; "let us not linger here. Christian +roofs, indeed, are known to me, both humble and lofty; but how to know how +far suspicion may already have extended?--or why should we run any needless +risk of bringing others into peril, having by God's grace escaped +ourselves, when all hope as to this life had been utterly taken away? Let +us quit these foul precincts--let us quit them speedily--but let us not +rashly be seen in the busy city. There is a place known to me, (and +Athanasia also has visited it heretofore,) where safety, I think, may be +expected, and where, if danger do come, it shall find no unnecessary +victim. Let us hasten to the Esquiline." + +"Thanks, father!" said Athanasia; "there no one will seek us: there best +shall our thanksgivings and our prayers be offered. We will rest by the +sepulchre of our friend, and Valerius will go into the city, and procure +what things are needful." + +We began the descent of another flight of steps, beyond the dark chamber. +This terminated at length in a door, the bolts of which being withdrawn, +we found ourselves beneath the sky of night, at the extremity of one of +the wooded walks that skirt the southern base of the Palatine--the remains +of the Assyrian magnificence which had once connected the Golden House of +Nero with the more modest structures of his predecessors. I wrapped +Athanasia in my cloak, and walked beside her in my tunic; and Aurelius +conducted us by many windings, avoiding as far as was possible the glare +of the Suburra, all round about the edge of the city, to the gardens which +hang over the wall by the great Esquiline Gate. + +"Is it here," said I, when he paused--"is it in the midst of this splendour +that you hope to find a safe obscurity?" + +"Have patience," replied the old man; "you are a stranger:--and yet you +speak what I should have heard without surprise from many that have spent +all their days in Rome. Few, indeed, ever think of entering a region which +is almost as extensive as the city itself, and none, I think, are +acquainted with all its labyrinths." + +So saying, the priest led the way into one of the groves. Its trees formed +a dense canopy overhead; nor could we pass without difficulty among the +close-creeping undergrowth. At length we reached the centre of the wide +thicket, and found a small space of soil comparatively bare. The light of +moon and star plunged down there among the surrounding blackness of +boughs, as into some deep well, and shewed the entrance of a natural +grotto, which had, indeed, all the appearance of oblivion and utter +desertedness. "Confess," said he, "that I did not deceive you. But there +is no hurry now; let me taste once more the water of this forgotten +spring." + +I had not observed a small fountain hard by the mouth of the grotto, +which, in former days, had evidently been much cared for, although now +almost all its surface was covered with leaves. The marble margin shewed +dim with moss; nor had a statue just within the entrance of the grot +escaped this desolation. Damp herbage obscured its recumbent limbs, and +the Parian stone had lost its brightness. "You can scarcely see where the +inscription was," said Aurelius, "for the letters are filled up or +effaced; but I remember when many admired it, and I can still repeat the +lines-- + + 'Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, + And to the murmur of these waters sleep; + Ah! spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, + And drink in silence, or in silence lave.'(4) + +Little did they, who graved this command, conjecture how well it was to be +obeyed. But there should be another inscription.--Ay, here it is," said he, +stepping on a long flat piece of marble among the weeds. I was advancing +to examine the stone, but the old man stopped me:--"What avails it to spell +out the record? Do you remember the story of Asinius? It was within this +very cavern that the man was butchered;(5) and now you see both he and his +monument are alike sinking into forgetfulness. I believe, however, the +monument itself must bear the blame in part; for I have heard my father +say that he had been told this was a favourite fountain until that +slaughter." + +Athanasia meantime had sat down by the grotto, and was laving her forehead +with the water of the solitary fountain. Aurelius, too, dipped his hands +in the well, and tasted of the water, and then turning to me, he said, +with a grave smile, "Valerius, methinks you are religious in your regard +for the slumbers of the nymph." He whispered something into the ear of +Athanasia, and received an answer from her in the same tone, ere he +proceeded:--"Draw near--fear not that I shall do any thing rashly--we owe all +things to your love--we know we do; but speak plainly.--Do you indeed desire +to be admitted into the fellowship of the true Faith? Let not the symbol +of regeneration be applied hastily. Without doubt, great were my joy might +my hands be honoured to shed the blessed water of baptism upon the brow of +dear Valerius." + +"Caius," said Athanasia, "I know God has touched your heart; why should +this be delayed any longer? You have shared the perils of the faithful. +Partake with them in good as in evil. Hesitate no longer; God will perfect +what hath been so begun." + +"Dearest friends!" said I, "if I hesitate, it is only because I doubt if I +am yet worthy. Surely I believe that this is the right faith, and that +there is no God but He whom you worship." + +"Acceptable is humility in the sight of Heaven," said the priest; and he +rose up from the place where he had been sitting, and began, standing by +the margin of the well, to pour out words of thanksgiving and +supplication, such as I have never heard equalled by any lips but his. The +deep calm voice of the holy man sounded both sweet and awful in the +breathless air of midnight. The tall black trees stood all around, like a +wall, cutting us off from the world, and from the thoughts of the world; +and the moon, steady in the serene sky, seemed to shower down light and +beauty upon nothing in all the wide earth, but that little guarded space +of our seclusion. I stepped into the cool water of the fountain. The old +man stooped over me, and sprinkled the drops upon my forehead, and the +appointed words were repeated. Aurelius kissed my brow, as I came forth +from the water, and Athanasia also drew slowly near, and then hastily she +pressed my forehead with trembling lips. + +We sate down together by the lonely well; and we sate in silence, for I +could not be without many thoughts partaken by none but myself, at the +moment when I had thus, in the face of God and man, abjured the faith of +all my fathers, and passed into the communion of the despised and +persecuted Few; nor did either the priest or Athanasia essay to disturb my +meditations. + +There were moments (for I must not conceal from you my weakness) in which +I could scarcely help suspecting that I had done something that was wrong. +I thought of my far distant mother; and I could not reflect without pain +upon the feelings with which I had every reason to suppose that she, kind +as she was, and merciful in all things, would have contemplated the scene +which had passed. I thought of my dead parent too; and that was yet more +serious and awful. The conviction of my own mind, in obedience to which I +had acted, relieved me, however, from any feelings of self-reproach.--My +father is dead, said I to myself--He died in ignorance, and he has not been +judged according to the light, which never shone upon him. But now--Oh, +yes! it must be so--the darkness has passed from before his eyes; and, if +the spirits of the departed ever visit, in the dim hours of silence, those +who were dear to them upon this earth, surely his venerable shade stood by +smiling while the forehead of his son was laved with these blessed waters. + +Meantime, minutes--hours, perhaps, glided away, while troubled, and solemn, +and tender thoughts thus occupied by turns my bosom. The old priest sate +by me, his arms folded on his breast, gazing upwards upon the spangled +glories of the firmament. Athanasia was on the other side, close by the +statue of the Sleeping Naiad. From time to time, she too would fix her +eyes for a moment upon the untroubled beauty of the moon; and then, +stooping over the brink of the fountain, once and again I saw its calm +dark waters rippled beneath her by the dropping of a tear. + +"My children," said, at length, Aurelius, "methinks more sadness is +amongst us than might suit the remembrance of what Providence has done for +us, since the sun that went down upon fear and sorrow is about to rise +upon many fair hopes. I am old; the world lies behind me, save a remnant I +know not how brief. It lies all before you, and you have a light whereby +to look upon it, which my early day wanted. I trust that soon, very soon, +ye shall both be far from this city--I say both, for I know well, go where +ye may, ye will go together. As for me, my lot is cast here, and here I +will remain. Caius, you must leave us betimes--you must return into the +city, and consult with your friends and hers, how best Athanasia may be +conveyed safely beyond the bounds of Italy. Caesar, indeed, rules every +where; but at a distance from Rome suspicion is, at least, less watchful; +and there is no precept given by which ye are bound to seek unnecessary +perils." + +"Aurelius," said I--"dear father, think not but that I have already been +considering all these things anxiously. As soon as I have seen you safely +placed within the retreat of which you have spoken, I shall hasten to +Licinius, my kinsman, who already, indeed, must be feeling no small +anxiety from my absence. I shall speak with him, and with both the +Sempronii. My own errand to the capital I value as nothing, and I shall be +ready on the instant, if Athanasia herself will consent to partake my +voyage." + +"Yes, Caius," said the father--"this child of God will be your wife, and ye +will both serve the Lord many days, amidst the quiet valleys of your far +off island.--Nay, daughter, do not weep, for these are not common days, and +you must follow without fear the path which God's providence points out. +Before ye go, my children, I myself shall join your hands in the name of +our God." + +Athanasia heard his words, and saw me gaze upon his face, but she made no +reply, except by the tears which Aurelius rebuked, and a timid, yet grave +and serious pressure, with which she, when he had made an end of speaking, +returned the fervid pressure of my hand upon hers. + +"Children," said the old man, "there is no need of words when hearts are +open--the tears that ye have shed together are the best earnest of the vows +that ye shall ere long, I trust, pronounce. Yet, let no rashness attend +your steps. The dawn must now be near, and Athanasia and I had better +retire into our protecting covert. Valerius will leave us, and return at +eventide. Till then, fasting and praying, we shall give thanks for our +deliverance, and ask the aid that alone is precious for the time that yet +remains." + +I had, fortunately, brought all the way with me the lamp which lighted our +steps down the mysterious staircase, from the shrine of Apollo. Some +little oil still remained within it, and Aurelius soon struck a light, +and, taking it in his hand, began to enter before us the dark cavern, by +the mouth of which we had all this while been sitting. You, perhaps, have +never heard of those strange excavations, the whole extent of which has +probably never been known to any one person, but which appear, indeed, as +the priest had said, to be almost co-extensive with the great city beneath +which they are placed. For what purpose they were at first dug, is a +subject which has long exercised the conjectures of those fond of +penetrating into the origin of things, and the customs of antiquity. By +some it is supposed, that in such caverns, winding far away into unseen +recesses, the first rude inhabitants of Italy, like the Troglodytes of +Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, had fixed their miserable abodes. Others assert, +that they owe their origin merely to the elder builders of the visible +Rome, who, to avoid marring the surface of the earth, were contented to +bring their materials of sand, clay, and stone, from these subterraneous +labyrinths, which so grew with the progress of diligence, and with the +extension of the city itself. Perhaps both conjectures may have some +foundation in truth; but be that as it may, there is no question, that, in +succeeding times, these catacombs had been widened and extended, to serve +as places of burial for the mortal remains of the poor citizens. And now +is it to be wondered at, that here, in regions so obscure and dismal, the +persecuted adherents of the Faith should have frequently sought not only +resting-places for the bodies of their dead, but even shelter for +themselves, amidst the terror of those relentless days? Hither, more than +once, the aged priest said, he had fled to escape the pursuit of his +enemies--here once more he hoped the shield of safety would lie over his +peril--here, at last, by whatever death he should die, his brethren had +promised to lay his bones in the earth, beside Tisias of Antioch, and many +more that, in the bloody times of Nero and Domitian, had already, in the +sight of all that heartless city, merited the crown, and the spotless +robe, and the palm-branch of martyrdom, by patient endurance of the last +insolence of man. + +Our father, therefore, held the lamp before us, and we entered those +gloomy regions, wherein alone the servants of the Son of God could at that +troubled era esteem themselves in safety from the hot pursuit of +contemptuous power. We passed along beneath the arches of the rock-hewn +roof, and between the endless winding walls, on either side of which +appeared many humble inscriptions, recording the virtues of the departed +and the regrets of the surviving poor. Of these last, however, as it +appeared, all must long since have been gathered to the ashes of those +they lamented, for there was no semblance of any new monument among all +that we observed, and most of them, to judge from the shape of the letters +upon them, must have been set up at least as long ago as the period of +Asinius. After traversing many of these subterraneous galleries, we came, +at last, to one more low-roofed than the rest, into which Aurelius struck +aside, saying, "Here Tisias lies, but no inscription marks the place where +a martyr finds repose. Here is the spot; with my own hands I lent feeble +help in digging the grave. Athanasia, too, knows it well, for she also did +not fear to assist in rendering the last honours to that soldier of +Christ." + +A flat thin stone, without mark or epitaph, indicated the spot. + +"Father," said Athanasia, "let me rest here. I am weary and worn--but here +I shall fear no evil. Conduct Caius back to the grotto; it is time he +should go." + +Thus leaving her by the funeral-stone, Aurelius and I retraced our steps +to the mouth of the catacomb. + +"Already," said he, "the sky is red eastward--walk cautiously through the +gardens, and regain with all speed the house of your kinsman. Go, my son; +may all blessings attend your steps. Come back at the rising of the moon, +and cast a stone into the fountain, and I shall be within hearing. Go, and +fear not." + + + + + _CHAPTER IX._ + + +I passed without disturbance through the gardens of the Esquiline, and the +streets of the city, in which no one was as yet moving, except a few +rustics driving asses laden with herbs to the market-place. When I reached +the house of my kinsman, however, it was evident that sleep did not +prevail within its gates; lights were visible in the vestibule, and there +I found several of the slaves sitting in conversation. My own could not +conceal the extravagance of his satisfaction on seeing me enter among them +in safety; so that I had no doubt his brother had informed him, in so far +at least, of what had passed after our leaving him in the Mammertine. +Dromo received me also with warm demonstrations of joy, and conducted me +to the chamber of Licinius, in which, with the orator himself, were +Sextus, pale with watching, Sabinus, still habited in military attire, +with a goblet of wine before him on the table, and Lucius Sempronius, who +was reclining at some little distance from the rest. It was he that +eagerly began to question me; and I perceived from the style in which he +spoke, that all present had already been made aware of the manner in which +Athanasia had been withdrawn from the council-chamber. A few words +informed them of what had followed after we quitted the Temple of Apollo. + +"I thank the gods," said Sempronius,--"so far at least it goes well--but if +this strictness, of which the Centurion speaks, shall be adhered to, there +still must be no small difficulty about conveying her beyond the city." + +"In truth," quoth Sabinus, after a little pause, "I am afraid this is +scarcely a matter in regard to which I should be consulted. I know not but +already I have done several things that could not be quite reconciled with +my duty. I shall, in all probability, be set on the watch myself, and if +so--much as I must regret the necessity--it certainly will be most necessary +for me to discharge what is committed to my trust. Is there no +possibility, think you, of inventing some impenetrable disguise? Depend on +it, it is quite impossible the young lady should remain any where in Rome, +without being ere long discovered. The first thing is to have her safe +beyond the city-walls." + +"I myself," said I, "shall embark instantly for Britain. Sempronius, +Athanasia must go with me--Surely it may be possible to have her carried +unobserved to the shore." + +"You!" said Licinius--"you embark instantly for Britain?--You know not what +you speak; your law-suit has been determined this very afternoon. Every +thing that Cneius left is your own." + +"O Jove!" cried Sabinus, "did ever mortal receive such news with such a +face! But come, here is health to the heir of the Valerii, and may this +Massic choke me, if I love him not the better for his gravity." + +"Would to heaven!" said Sempronius, "our young friend had loved under +other auspices! No, Valerius must stay and take possession, destined, as I +hope he is, to equal, under the favour of the gods, the noblest name in +his lineage. My dear niece--let us trust she may be concealed somewhere in +safety from the pursuit. Separated from this fanatic crew, she will, ere +long, without question, abandon the dreams they have filled her mind +withal; and on some happier day, our friend may perhaps have no reason +either to fear or to blush, for lifting her over the threshold of the +Valerii." + +I drew near to the old man, and, receiving his embrace, whispered into his +ear, "Sempronius, you speak generously; but know that this very evening I +also have become a Christian." + +"Heavens!" cried he, "what limits shall be affixed to this contagion! Rash +boy! have you not seen already to what consequences this must lead?" + +"What?" says Licinius--"what new calamity is this? Have my ears deceived +me? Speak, dear Caius--for the sake of all the blood in your veins--you have +not embraced this frenzy?" + +"My friends," said I, "why should I speak to one, when all of you are, I +well know, alike interested? In all things else I bow to age and +understanding so much above my own; but here I have thought for myself, +and my faith is fixed." + +Licinius heard me with a countenance of painful and anxious emotion. In +the eye of young Sextus I saw a tear ready to start, and his whole aspect +was that of one sad and bewildered. Sempronius leaned his brow upon his +hand, and turned himself away from me. But as for the Centurion, he +preserved his usual air; and after a moment, all the rest continuing +silent, said, "Valerius, I have been in love ere now, and perhaps am not +out of the scrape at present; but you have thrown a new light upon the +matter. What do you fancy to be the great merits of the present age, that +it should be treated with more favour than all that have gone before it? +And, if you come to speak of the Jews, every body knows they are a most +pitiful, mean, knavish set of creatures. They were always by the ears +among themselves; but I think it is rather too much that they should have +the credit of bringing their betters (by which I mean all the world +besides) into confusion. You are but green yet; all this will blow over +anon, and you will laugh more heartily than any one else when you think of +your weakness. But look up, good friend, I don't think you are listening +to me." + +"My dear Sabinus," said I, "I do listen, but I think it is rather to the +gay Praetorian, than to the patient friend I had expected to find in you." + +"Come!" said he again, "you take every thing so seriously. If you are +resolved to be a Christian, I am very sorry for it; but even that shall +not stand between me and a true friend. I hope you will soon see the thing +as I do--I know you will; but, in the meantime, Valerius, you may count +upon me."--And the kind man squeezed my hand with his customary fervour. + +He then turned round to the rest of our friends, and began to propose for +their consideration a dozen different schemes of escape, that had already +suggested themselves to his imagination. + +Licinius took advantage of the first pause, to suggest that the Centurion +seemed in a hurry to get rid of me. He then passed into an account of the +speech he had delivered on the preceding afternoon before the Court of the +Centumvirs, and of the unhesitating manner, so gratifying to his feelings, +in which its judgment had been pronounced. For some moments, in his detail +of these proceedings, he seemed almost to have lost sight of the present +situation and views of the person most interested in their termination. +But when, in the progress of his story, he came to enlarge upon the +magnificence of my new possessions--the domains in Africa--the rich farms in +Sicily--the numerous slaves engaged in their cultivation--the Spanish silver +mine--and, last of all, the splendours of the great villa upon the banks of +the Tiber--it was not difficult to perceive that he could scarcely restrain +his indignation at the purpose I had been expressing. "And such," said he, +"are the realities which our young friend quits for the reasons he has +mentioned! Well, every man must judge for himself. If it must be so, let +it be so." + +I heard him patiently to the end, and then said, "You have well summed up +the whole matter, my dear Licinius. It must indeed be so. I go immediately +to Britain, and I trust she--for whom I would leave all these things, were +they greater than they are--shall, by the aid of your kindness, go with me +in safety. There is one request only which I have, in addition to all +this, to lay before you; and that you may hear it the more patiently, it +does not concern myself. + +"In a word, then," I continued, "should happier days arrive, I hope once +more to be among you here in Rome. The wealth which, thanks to your zeal, +Licinius, is this day mine, can be of little use to me in the British +valley, to which, for the present, I retire. Above all, this beautiful +villa of which you speak,--why, because for a time I am unable to occupy +it, should the mansion of my fathers stand empty, when there are others +among their descendants, who lie not under the same necessity of exile? +Till I am enabled to breathe in freedom the air of Italy, I trust Licinius +will consent to let Sextus represent me in my villa. There, too, I hope +Sempronius will permit his daughter to be. It will give pleasure to +Athanasia, to think that those halls contain the dearest of our friends. +When we come back, if ever we do so, they will not grudge to make room for +us beneath the same roof with themselves. Licinius--Sempronius--what say +you?" + +They were both silent for a moment; but Sabinus was at hand to answer for +them:--"By all Olympus! I shall knock down any man henceforth, that in my +presence abuses Christianity as a destruction of men's hearts. Let it be, +good friends, as our Caius says. I know, Sextus, I have at least your +voice upon my side. Let it be so; and, for heaven's sake, let it be +immediately. A wedding is the very thing to divert attention from these +troubles in both kindreds." + +Our conversation was interrupted by Dromo, who told me that Silo the +jailer had come to see me, and was below in the hall. There I found the +humane man, with his little daughter in his hand, and walked aside with +him into the inner portico of the house. I told him how the escape, for +which his zeal alone was to be thanked, had been terminated--and to what +resolution I had now come;--and then inquired whether no suspicion had been +attached to himself, in consequence of his absence from the Capitoline. +Having assured me that he had no reason to think so,--"The oath which I had +taken to Trajan," said he, "prevented me from adopting the simpler course +of setting open for our dear friends the gates of the Mammertine; and I +trust that I did not offend against that oath by acting as I did, after +they had been taken away for the time from my keeping. But both they and +you must be aware of the pain which I suffered during their confinement, +and of the dangers which I have encountered by their escape. I am resolved +no more to be subject to such struggles. I cannot preserve my faith as a +Christian, and my honour as a servant of Trajan. This very day I resign my +charge in the Mammertine; this very night, if it so please you, I am ready +to accompany you and my dear young lady, in your flight to Britain." + +I need not say with what gladness I heard this proposal. Returning to my +friends, I informed them of what I had just heard, and perceiving now at +last that there was no chance of diverting me from my project, they +entered, like true friends, into serious consultation respecting the best +method of carrying my project into execution. The aid of Silo, who had +already given such proofs both of presence of mind, and of prudence, and +courage, was regarded by them as of the highest importance. He was shortly +summoned to take part in our deliberation, and it was resolved, that after +resigning in a formal manner the office he held, and transferring his +property for the present into the custody of Licinius, he should forthwith +repair to Ostium, and there hire and put in readiness, for immediate use, +a small vessel, the lightest he could find, in which the fugitive party +might transport themselves at least as far as Corsica. To this the zealous +Silo without hesitation assented. It was agreed that he should have the +mariners on their benches by the coming on of night, and that he himself +should be waiting for us by a certain ruined tower, which stands +conspicuously by the river side, about a mile and a half above Ostium. We +left it to Silo himself, to stock the bark with any merchandise which he +might deem best adapted to deceive the superintendents of the haven. + +Partly from the necessity of making provision of various kinds for this +voyage, but still more in consequence of the law-suit, with the +termination of which you have just been made acquainted, I had no leisure +that day, from which to work out unnecessary pain either for myself or for +others. I had to assist Licinius in looking over an infinity of deeds, and +to superintend the drawing out of others. In the next place, I had to go +to the Forum for the purpose of manumitting some slaves, (such a largess +being naturally expected); and while I was occupied with this, need I tell +you, that my own poor Briton was not forgotten? Licinius having, at the +joint request of Sextus and myself, accorded that morning to the Cretan +also the well-merited gift of his liberty, Boto and Dromo were seen +strutting about the Forum together for some moments, each arrayed in that +worshipful cap which had formed the most prominent object in their +day-dreams of felicity. I shall not trouble you with needless particulars. +Let it suffice, that the greater part of the day was thus spent in +unavoidable business. + +Towards evening, I stole privately from my kinsman's house, being willing +to avoid a formal farewell, and repaired to Sabinus, who received me with +very lively emotion. What he dwelt upon most fervently, however, was the +probability--the certainty he seemed to esteem it--that a persecution of +this nature could not be long persisted in by such a prince as Trajan; and +the pleasure with which, that being all at an end, he should see me come +back to Rome, and take due possession of the inheritance of my fathers. +After expatiating most fluently for some minutes on the expected delights +of that day, he paused suddenly, and then added, in a tone of some little +hesitation, "And as for me, I wonder in what state you shall find me. Rich +or poor--married or single--Centurion or Tribune--one thing is certain, that +I shall, in all circumstances, be not a little rejoiced to see you." + +"You had better marry, my good captain," said I. + +"Marry! me to marry? I have not the least thought of such a thing. You did +not put any faith, did you, in the raillery of those waggish fellows of +yesterday?" + +"A little--a very little, Sabinus." + +"Poh! poh! now you are jesting." + +"And much, very much, Sabinus, in the conscious looks of a certain +blushing Centurion, yesterday." + +"Come," quoth he, "there is more cunning in these British eyes than I ever +should have dreamt of. Fill your cup to the brim, boy, and since you are +to leave us so speedily, I shall have no secrets for you. I have seen +service;--true, but what of that? I have kept a light heart in all my +campaigns. But my day, it must be confessed, begins to wear a little, a +very little, towards the evening; and, Castor! if you allow supper-time to +slip over, I don't know but you must go to bed with a light stomach. Now +or never was the word, my boy; and the widow is mine own." + +"And Xerophrastes?" said I. + +"And as for the most sagacious and venerable Xerophrastes, why, to tell +you the truth, I see nothing for him but that he should allow his beard to +curl as it pleases, drop his long cloak over his ambitious pair of shanks, +forswear moonlight, purchase for himself a dark lantern instead, and see +whether he can't find, within the four walls of Rome, an honest Greek, and +a constant widow, to make one blessed wedding withal. That is my advice to +the Stoic--Stoic no longer--but, if there be hoops upon a tub, the most +cynical of all Cynics." + +When it was at last necessary that I should move--"Dear Caius," said the +Centurion, "you know the Prefect has set a price on their heads, and I +promise you it is such a temptation as no virtue, that keeps watch beneath +any common praetorian breast-plate, could well be trusted to wrestle with. +But hope, and dare. And here, take once more this helmet, and cloak, and +sword, and with them share the password of the night." + +Sabinus then gave private orders to one of his troop, and walked with me +towards the Esquiline.--But why should I linger over what little remains of +this story? Why pain you with the parting which I witnessed between my +Athanasia and the holy Aurelius, afterwards numbered among the martyrs of +Christ?--Behold us at last issued from the Catacombs, and mounted on the +trusty horses which our friend had caused to be waiting at no great +distance from the thicket that clothed their entrance. Behold us arrived +without interruption at the Ostian Gate of Rome. + +The soldiers on guard challenged us cheerily as we came up to them. + +"The word, comrades?" + +"_Titus!_" quoth the Centurion. + +"Pass on--whom bear you with you, comrades!" + +"A Christian--a Christian prisoner," said I. + +"By Jove, that's worth gold to you, brother," quoth the guard.--"Open the +gate there;--pass on, friends. I hope I shall have luck one day myself." + + + + + + FINIS. + + + + + + + PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. + + + + + + + FOOTNOTES + + + 1 "Concerning the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus." + + 2 These were the principal conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. + They were afterwards butchered by the Praetorians, who regretted the + tyrant; and it was supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that + slaughter, and its shameful consequences to himself, (for he was + compelled, among other insults, to return public thanks to the + butchers,) that Nerva called to his aid the personal vigour and high + military genius of Trajan. + + 3 ----Catonem + Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho. + + 4 So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines: + + Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis, + Dormio, dum blandae sentio murmur aquae; + Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum + Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace. + + 5 Asinius autem brevi illo tempore quasi in hortulos in _arenarias_ + quasdam juxta portam Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.--Cic. _Pro + Cluent._ + + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + +Variations in hyphenation (e.g. "eyebrows", "eye-brows"; "godlike", +"god-like") have not been changed. + +Other changes, which have been made to the text: + + page 72, question mark added after "him", quote mark added before + "His" + page 267, "Aybss" changed to "Abyss" + page 307, "Capito" changed to "Capitol" + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERIUS. 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