He may arrive at any moment; and not alone, but with my fellow-artist, Claudius Venator from Rome, who is to assist me with his advice." "I never even heard his name," said Papias, who was wont to trouble himself as little about the persons as about the works of other artists.
"I wonder at that," said Pontius, closing the double tablets which announced the Emperor's advent.
"Can he do anything ?" asked Pollux.
"More than any one of us," replied Pontius.

"He is a mighty man." "That is splendid!" exclaimed Pollux.

"I like to see great men.

When one looks me in the eye I always feel as if some of his superabundance overflowed into me, and irresistibly I draw myself up and think how fine it would be if one day I might reach as high as that man's chin." "Beware of morbid ambition," said Papias to his pupil in a warning voice.

"It is not the man who stands on tiptoe, but he who does his duty diligently, that can attain anything great." "He honestly does his," said the architect rising, and he laid his hand on the young sculptor's shoulder.