The forum Hadriani was probably located near Voorburg.

The coat of mail, I showed you, came from there." "An old, green, half-corroded thing," cried Georg.

"And yet! What memories the sight of it awakens! Did not some Roman armorer forge it for the wandering emperor?
When I look at this coat of mail, Rome and her legions appear before my eyes.

Who would not, like you, Herr Wilhelna, go to the Tiber to increase the short span of the present by the long centuries of the past!" "I should be glad to go to Italy once more with you," replied Wilhelm.
"And I with you." "Let us first secure our liberty," said the musician.

"When that is accomplished, each individual will belong to himself, and then: why should I conceal it, nothing will keep me in Leyden." "And the organ?
Your father ?" asked Aquanus.
"My brothers will remain here, snug in their own nest," answered Wilhelm.