[Andivius Hedulio by Edward Lucas White]@TWC D-Link bookAndivius Hedulio CHAPTER VIII 8/27
She's a wonder." Then he told me of Murmex: how he was already rated Rome's champion swordsman; how the Palace Palaestra was jammed with notables eager to see him fence, how magnates competed for invitations to such exhibitions, how Murmex was overwhelmed with attentions of all kinds from all sorts of people, had had a furnished apartment put at his disposal by one admirer, a litter and bearers presented him by another, already saw his domicile crowded with presents of statuary, paintings, furniture, flowers and all possible gifts, how he was an immediate and brilliant success with all classes, even the populace talking of him, crowding behind his litter, and demanding him for the next public exhibition of gladiators. That such luck had befallen a man whom I had presented to Court augured well for me, indubitably. After I had been out of bed an hour or more for several consecutive days Galen said to me: "You are almost well enough to be about, but not quite.
If you go back to your habitual hours of sleep you will fret and fidget indoors, and you are not yet sufficiently recovered to resume your normal life.
You need fresh air.
I have considered what is best and what is possible.
I have talked with your friend Opsitius.
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