I should ill fulfil my office if I were to let them starve, because the highest comfort is lacking to them." "And yet," said Petrus, "the council decided that, for the future, you must apply at the most a fourth part of the grain allotted to their use.
You need not fear for them; for the future some of our own produce may go to them out of what we have hitherto sold.

You need not withdraw even a loaf from any one of your proteges, but certainly may now be laid by the plans for the road.

Indeed there is no hurry for its completion, for Polykarp will now hardly be able to go on with his lions here among us.

Poor fellow! with what delight he formed the clay models, and how wonderfully he succeeded in reproducing the air and aspect of the majestic beasts.

It is as if he were inspired by the spirit of the old Athenian masters.