Little thou knowest, or thou wouldst be well content to rest here till the end.

I was Arsenius....

Ah! vain old man that I am! Thou hast never heard that name, at which once queens would whisper and grow pale.

Vanitas vanitatum! omnia vanitas! And yet he, at whose frown half the world trembles, has trembled himself at mine.

I was the tutor of Arcadius.' 'The Emperor of Byzantium ?' 'Even so, my son, even so.