So bridle your restive Alexandrian tongues, and let me tell you that my colleague from Rome is in the closest intimacy with Hadrian.

He is of the same age, resembles him greatly, and repeats to him everything that he hears said about him.

So cease talking about Caesar and pass no severer judgments on dilettanti in the purple than on your wealthy pupils, who paint and chisel for the mere love of it, and for whom you find it so easy to lisp out 'charming,' or 'wonderfully pretty,' or 'remarkably nice.' Take my warning in good part, you know I mean it well." He spoke the last words with a cordial, manly feeling, of which his voice was peculiarly capable, and which was always certain to secure him the confidence even of the recalcitrant.
The artists exchanged greetings and hand-shakings and left the hall; a slave carried away the wine-jar and wiped the table, on which Pontius proceeded to lay out his sketches and plans.

But he was not alone, for Pollux was soon at his side, and with a comical expression of pathos and laying his finger on his nose, he said: "I have come out of my cage to say something more to you." "Well ?" "The hour is approaching when I may hope to repay the beneficent deeds, which, at various times, you have done to my interior.

My mother will to-morrow morning, set before you that dish of cabbage.