With all this the country-side is agog, I can assure you." "Fairly exciting, I admit," Tanno remarked when Bultius paused.

"Sounds like the tales of goings-on in Latium in the days when the Aequi, Volsci and Hernici raided up to the gates of Rome four summers out of five.

I had not thought Sabinum so primitive." Before I could speak, Fisevius Rusco cut in.
"Bultius," he said, "Vulso and Naepor and I have listened without any interruptions to your version of the occurrences you have narrated, and I must say you have told them as fairly as could be expected from any one with your leanings.

I have no remarks to make on your story nor anything to say in rebuttal.

But it seems to me, it is now your turn, along with Nepronius and Juventius, to listen with equal patience, while I narrate a similar story." The three Satronians bowed stiffly and in silence.
Rusco resumed, addressing Tanno: "I shall not," he said, "be compelled to go into details as minutely as did Bultius.