I love him, even for this,--that Nero is afraid of him." "Corbulo is not a dull man." "Perhaps thou art right, but for that matter it is all one.

Dulness, as Pyrrho says, is in no way worse than wisdom, and differs from it in nothing." Vinicius began to talk of the war; but when Petronius closed his eyes again, the young man, seeing his uncle's tired and somewhat emaciated face, changed the conversation, and inquired with a certain interest about his health.
Petronius opened his eyes again.
Health!--No.

He did not feel well.

He had not gone so far yet, it is true, as young Sissena, who had lost sensation to such a degree that when he was brought to the bath in the morning he inquired, "Am I sitting ?" But he was not well.

Vinicius had just committed him to the care of Asklepios and Kypris.