When you are a man you shall have the whole Roman Empire for your own, and all the nations I told you of.' Geta meanwhile had thought better of it, and pushed some of the sweetmeats toward me.

I would not have them, and, when he tried to make me take them, I threw them into the road." "And you remember all that ?" said Melissa.
"More things than these are indelibly stamped on my mind from that day," said Caesar.

"I can see before me now the pile on which Pertinax was to be burned.

It was splendidly decorated, and on the top stood the gilt chariot in which he had loved to ride.

Before the consuls fired the logs of Indian wood, my father led us to the image of Pertinax, that we might kiss it.