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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: commissioned by our charmer Lycoris, to inform you that Martial's recitation' on the sixteenth of October is proceeding to admiration. A hundred epigrams, and half Rome lashed by them The banquet, which is to close the recitation, is to be magnificent. I can take her word for it; we know our fair Gaul. Farewell That is capital said Quintus, folding up the letter. Lucilia retired with her adopted father's letter to the sleeping-rooms, where Claudia and Octavia must by this time be up. Quintus went into the atrium and sat down by the fountain, to wait till Caius Aurelius should appear. CHAPTER V. The day of their departure came. Aurelius had hailed the idea of travelling with his new friends with au eagerness, that had brought a saucy smile to the lips of the shrewd Lucilia. But he had nevertheless preferred the more comfortable sea-voyage to a journey by land, and he had urged it so pressingly and yet so modestly that Octavia, after some hesitation, had yielded. The second hour after sunrise3 had been fixed fortheir start, and before daybreak the slaves were already- busied in packing the baggage mules and preparing the litters in the forecourt. The noise and bustle aroused Quintus, and being unable to get to sleep again he rose, dressed for the journey, and went out to the pillared court, where Lucilia was overlooking the slaves at their work and urging the dilatory to haste in cheerful tones. 112. Recitation. The custom universally prevailed of poets reciting their verses to a select circle, before they were published. 113. The SRCOND HOUR AFTER SUNRISE. The Romans divided the day, from sunrise to sunset, into twelve hours. These were of course shorter in winter than in summer. The events spoken of in this chapter are supposed to have taken place about ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217539357 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217539351 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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