In the time of the Athenians Beauty governed life, but in you I can see that the gods are pleased to give it a bodily existence, even in our own days, and to look at you reconciles me to the discords of existence.

It does me good.

But how should I expect to find that you understand me; your brow was never made to be furrowed by thought; or did you really understand one word of all I said ?" Antinous propped himself on his left arm, and lifting his right hand, he said emphatically: "Yes." "And which," asked Hadrian.
"I know what longing is." "For what ?" "For many things." "Tell me one." "Some enjoyment that is not followed by depression.

I do not know of one." "That is a desire you share with all the youth of Rome, only they are apt to postpone the reaction.

Well, and what next ?" "I cannot tell you." "What prevents your speaking openly to me ?" "You, yourself did." "I ?" "Yes, you; for you forbid me to speak of my home, my mother, and my people." The Emperor's brow darkened, and he answered sternly: "I am your father and your whole soul should be given to me." "It is all yours," answered the youth, falling back on to the bear-skin, and drawing the pallima closely over his shoulders, for a gust blew coldly in at the side of the tent, through which Phlegon, the Emperor's private secretary, now entered and approached his master.