17/41 A facetious pantomime dances here on this day every week--admired by some, the Jews especially. To the more classic taste, many of his movements--his recoil, especially--are wanting in the true antique severity--might be called, perhaps, on the whole, indecent. Still the weary pilgrim must be amused. Let us step in and hear.' But before Philammon could refuse, an uproar arose within, a rush outward of the mob, and inward of the prefect's apparitors. 'A Jewish calumny! The man is innocent!' 'There is no more sedition in him than there is in me,' roared a fat butcher, who looked as ready to fell a man as an ox. |