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Quo Vadis

CHAPTER XII
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But when he returned, he gave command to call Tiresias.
"Did Eunice receive the flogging ?" inquired he.
"She did, lord.

Thou didst not let the skin be cut, however." "Did I give no other command touching her ?" "No, lord," answered the atriensis with alarm.
"That is well.

Whom of the slaves does she love ?" "No one, lord." "What dost thou know of her ?" Tiresias began to speak in a somewhat uncertain voice: "At night Eunice never leaves the cubiculum in which she lives with old Acrisiona and Ifida; after thou art dressed she never goes to the bath-rooms.

Other slaves ridicule her, and call her Diana." "Enough," said Petronius.

"My relative, Vinicius, to whom I offered her to-day, did not accept her; hence she may stay in the house.


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