This feeling who has not experienced ?--If thou hast not, then thou hast never loved.
When Clodius therefore spoke to him in affected transport of the beauty of Ione, Glaucus felt only resentment and disgust that such lips should dare to praise her; he answered coldly, and the Roman imagined that his passion was cured instead of heightened.

Clodius scarcely regretted it, for he was anxious that Glaucus should marry an heiress yet more richly endowed--Julia, the daughter of the wealthy Diomed, whose gold the gamester imagined he could readily divert into his own coffers.

Their conversation did not flow with its usual ease; and no sooner had Clodius left him than Glaucus bent his way to the house of Ione.

In passing by the threshold he again encountered Nydia, who had finished her graceful task.

She knew his step on the instant.
'You are early abroad ?' said she.
'Yes; for the skies of Campania rebuke the sluggard who neglects them.' 'Ah, would I could see them!' murmured the blind girl, but so low that Glaucus did not overhear the complaint.
The Thessalian lingered on the threshold a few moments, and then guiding her steps by a long staff, which she used with great dexterity, she took her way homeward.