Volume One 12/12 But the highest light upon the mausoleum of Hadrian was quite gone out, and it was dark, before they reached the Flaminian Gate. The [171] abundant sound of water was the one thing that impressed Marius, as they passed down a long street, with many open spaces on either hand: Cornelius to his military quarters, and Marius to the old dwelling-place of his fathers. +E-text editor's note: ergastula were the Roman agrarian equivalent of prison-workhouses. +Apuleius, The Golden Ass, I.17.. |