By its help the weak sometimes thrive, when the strong perish." "From thy speech, thou art a Jew." "My ancestors further back than the first Roman were Hebrews." "The stubborn pride of thy race is not lost in thee," said Arrius, observing a flush upon the rower's face.
"Pride is never so loud as when in chains." "What cause hast thou for pride ?" "That I am a Jew." Arrius smiled.
"I have not been to Jerusalem," he said; "but I have heard of its princes.

I knew one of them.

He was a merchant, and sailed the seas.

He was fit to have been a king.

Of what degree art thou ?" "I must answer thee from the bench of a galley.