Domitia

s eve

ke her in a boat to the galley, so as to meet

, his whole attention would be engrossed by her very exacting mother, who moreover would keep her

lute him, and to receive his endearments, and to l

o trouble if he complied with the girl's reques

s cast to the boat, caught by Eboracus, who shipped his oars,

stood in the bows and extended her arms, poised on tiptoe, as i

ENDED HER AR

n itself, set in her sweet face, and in another moment she was clinging round his neck, and sobbing as

seen for half a year, to tell him how she loved him, to hear about himself, to pour

upted was the meeting and sweet

ast thou no wo

! He i

ius Corbulo, with a smi

d remained at a distance, when father and daughter met, but

ot forgotten your ol

t on the petal of the rose of J

A gentler, kinder greeting,

cheek, and the young man lig

erself awa

and words and looks to my father now. When we c

amia step

been without thought of you, Lucius, but have spun and spun and weaved too, enough to make you a tunic, all with my own hands,

rbulo. "For Luc

became

ever across, but alack! Lucius is often so with Lamia, when he has done some stupid t

his own faults, then a reprimand is unne

wed and

together in the prow observing the arc of the

an the vessel beside the wharf, and cast out ropes that were

e drawn her father on sho

," he said; "the godd

ed a singula

e, the Ephesian goddess, with female head and numerous breasts, but with the lower limbs swaddled,

yed on shore, followed b

e of a priest who attended to it continuously, and whenever a ship entered

nd his attendants came to the altar, cast some grains of incense on the embers, an

asted Artemis of Ephesus, and welcomes her. And she further prays that sh

sion to the temple, and on reaching it offered a handful of sweet gums on an

welcome with thankfulness. And great [pg 14]Artemis beseeches her sister to suffer her and the vessel with passengers and goods and crew, that she conducts and protects, to pass across the isthmus, without let and molestation

ssel, the slaves of Corbulo to look to and land such of his luggage as he was likely to w

arbor-master's office to arrange about the c

hian Gulf, there to embark for Italy. The vessel would leave the harbor and go to Diolchus, that point of the Isthmus on the east where the neck of land was narrowest. There the ships would be haule

the father of Domitia, walked two individuals,

lose together, his nose was aquiline, his tint sallow, his eyebrows heavy and bushy,

ctly Occidental, as was his bullet head. His hair was sandy, and scant on his crown. He wore a smug, self-compla

side, eyed each other with il

usually called Elymas, but affect

raining in Greece at a period when all systems of philosophy

t and embrace his wife, and Lamia had drawn off Domitia for a few words, than these

d, and a lifting of his light eyebrows,

Ascletarion alias Elymas beheld in the

owness of Claudius Senecio alias Spermologos2 over the surfac

is, O mu

k, O ins

eight on anything you may say. But I like to hea

l consecrated to and conducted by Artemis before that the tutelary godd

prophecies of

do I thy plat

nnus: "The Gods know the affairs of mortals. But among men, it is by no means certain that a soo

itself. Therefore never will I condemn the seer, lest his words prove true.' H

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