Hark! that is Gabinius, no doubt.
Quick, Selene, throw the chiton round me again.

My chaplet, Arsinoe.
A well-to-do man always gets a higher price than a poor one.

I have ordered the slave to await him in the ante-room; it is always done in the best houses." The curiosity dealer was a small, lean man, who, by prudence and good luck, had raised himself to be one of the most esteemed of his class and a rich man.

Having matured his knowledge by industry, and experience, he knew better than any man how to distinguish what was good from what was indifferent or bad, what was genuine from what was spurious.

No one had a keener eye; but he was abrupt in his dealings with those from whom he had nothing to gain.