I wished to speak with thee touching this very matter." "Why?
Is it because thou hast fallen in love with Pomponia perchance?
In that case I pity thee; she is not young, and she is virtuous! I cannot imagine a worse combination.

Brr!" "Not with Pomponia--eheu!" answered Vinicius.
"With whom, then ?" "If I knew myself with whom?
But I do not know to a certainty her name even,--Lygia or Callina?
They call her Lygia in the house, for she comes of the Lygian nation; but she has her own barbarian name, Callina.

It is a wonderful house,--that of those Plautiuses.

There are many people in it; but it is quiet there as in the groves of Subiacum.

For a number of days I did not know that a divinity dwelt in the house.