Some of the streets they visited were so narrow that they had to send back even their litters; but everywhere the crowds bowed such deference and respect to the Vestal's white robes that their progress was easy.

Drusus soon had given his orders to cabinet-makers and selected the frescoer's designs.

It remained to purchase Cornelia's slave-boy.

He wanted not merely an attractive serving-lad, but one whose intelligence and probity could be relied upon; and in the dealers' stalls not one of the dark orientals, although all had around their necks tablets with long lists of encomiums, promised conscience or character.

Drusus visited, several very choice boys that were exhibited in separate rooms, at fancy prices, but none of these pretty Greeks or Asiatics seemed promising.
Deeply disgusted, he led Fabia away from the slave-market.
"I will try to-morrow," he said, vexed at his defeat.