At length, amid a company of pupils pressing in with him, as the custom was, to watch the proceedings in the sick-room, the eminent Galen had arrived, only to pronounce the thing done visibly useless, the patient falling now into longer intervals of delirium.
And thus, thrust on one side by the crowd of departing visitors, Marius was forced into the privacy of a grief, the desolate face of which went deep into his memory, as he saw the emperor carry the child away--quite conscious at last, but with a touching expression upon it of weakness and defeat--pressed close to his bosom, as if he yearned just then for one thing only, to be united, to be absolutely one with it, in its obscure distress.
NOTES 42.

+Transliteration: para tes metros to theosebes.

Translation: "rites deriving from [his] mother." 47.

+Transliteration: koinos auto pros tous theous.

Translation: "common to him together with the gods." 49.