"Titianus had no doubts from the first; and what I heard in the Serapeum--but all in good time.

The prefect was sorry for my father and Alexander, but ended by saying that he himself needed an intercessor; for, if it were not to-day, at any rate to-morrow, the actor would inveigle Caesar into signing his death-warrant." "Impossible!" cried the girl, spreading out her hands in horror; but Philip dropped into a seat, saying: "Listen to the end.

There was evidently nothing to be hoped for from Titianus.

He is, no doubt, a brave man, but there is a touch of the actor in him too.

He is a Stoic; and where would be the point of that, if a man could not appear to look on approaching death as calmly as on taking a bath?
"Titianus plays his part well.