Christ Legends

warm day and the dread consciousness of old age and feebleness came over her as she labored

se steps there had always before been throngs of people. Here it used fairly to swarm with senators, borne by giant Libyans; with messengers

deserted. Gray-greenish lizards were the only li

than two months, and yet the grass had already taken root in the cracks between the marble stones. Rare growths, planted in beautiful vase

ar on the island, attendants at least should still be found there: the endless crowds of soldiers and slaves; of dan

ght of two slaves, who sat on the steps in front of th

e of them. "It is a god who sen

"Why is it so deserted here? Yet they have

e to drink, and that this has brought on the illness. He would have driven even Tito and myself away, if

re the senators and field marshals? Where are the Emperor

slave. "Senator Lucius and Marco, Commander of the Life Guard, com

The slave went before her, and on the way she ask

f he continues to refuse all food for fear it may be poisoned. And I know that a sick man can not stay awake night and day, as the Emperor does, for fear he may

d courts to a terrace which Tiberius used to frequent to

ages, but through the bandages protruded half-rotted fingers and toes. And this being's clothes were soiled and dusty. It was evident he could not walk erect, but

But, Milo, how can such a creature be found here on the E

e saw the slave bow to the ground befo

he, "at last I have gla

ard Faustina, but he shrank back, agh

that she would live to the age of a sibyl. In this moment, she had drooped into impoten

ong man he was when she last saw him. She had also heard some one say that this illness progressed slowly, and that it took years to

. She could not speak, but sto

"I lay and fancied that you stood here and wept over me. I dare

beside him. She raised his h

. A sense of sweet repose enfolded him, and th