Are his acquaintances few among slaves, gladiators, and free people, both in the Subura and beyond the bridges?
He can collect a couple of thousand of them.

He will rescue his lady, and take her outside the city, and he can go with her.

They will go to the end of the world, even to that place from which they had come, where no one has heard of Rome.
Here he began to look forward, as if to see things in the future and very distant.
"To the forest?
Ai, what a forest, what a forest!" But after a while he shook himself out of his visions.

Well, he will go to the bishop at once, and in the evening will wait with something like a hundred men for the litter.

And let not slaves, but even pretorians, take her from him! Better for any man not to come under his fist, even though in iron armor,--for is iron so strong?
When he strikes iron earnestly, the head underneath will not survive.
But Lygia raised her finger with great and also childlike seriousness.
"Ursus, do not kill," said she.
Ursus put his fist, which was like a maul, to the back of his head, and, rubbing his neck with great seriousness, began to mutter.