And so we will fleet the time as though we were Zeus and Hera on Olympus." "Zeus and Hera!" repeated Cornelia, laughing.

"You silly Graecule.[73] You may talk about that misbehaved pair, who were anything but harmonious and loving, if Homer tells truly.

I prefer our own Juppiter and our Juno of the Aventine.

_They_ are a staid and home-keeping couple, worth imitating, if we are to imitate any celestials.

But nothing Greek for me." [73] Contemptuous diminutive for Greek.
"Intolerant, intolerant," retorted Drusus, "we are all Greek, we Romans of to-day--what is left of old Latium but her half-discarded language, her laws worse than discarded, perverted, her good pilum[74] which has not quite lost its cunning, and her--" [74] The heavy short javelin carried by the Roman legionary, only about six feet long.