At Capua, three days ago, a woman gave birth to a serpent, a winged dragon, which flew away towards Rome.
I talked at Neapolis with a man who saw it.' 'Strange, indeed,' murmured Felix, with raised eyebrows.

'I have often heard of such portents, but never had the luck to behold one of them.
Yet,' he added gravely, 'I have received a sign.

When my father died, I was far away from him, and at that very hour, as I prayed in the church of Holy Clement at Rome, I heard a voice that said in my ear, _Vale_! three times.' 'Oh, I have had signs far more wonderful than that,' exclaimed the Syrian.

'I was at sea, between Alexandria and Berytus--for you must know that in my boyhood I passed three years at Berytus, and there obtained that knowledge of law which you may have remarked in talking with me--well, I was at sea--' 'Peace!' interposed Felix.

'We are summoned.' Sagaris sighed, and became the obsequious attendant..