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6394( for they did not recognize him),"and if he knew where Vitellius was?"
6394Being dragged by them out of his cell, and asked"who he was?"
6392Some authors relate, that upon their first approach he cried out,"What do you mean, fellow- soldiers?
6389Among many other jests, this was one: As he stood by the statue of Jupiter, he asked Apelles, the tragedian, which of them he thought was biggest?
6389Sometimes he would rail at the bidders for being niggardly, and ask them"if they were not ashamed to be richer than he was?"
6393You ask why Otho''s banish''d?
6386And being asked why then he had divorced his wife?
6386Of all the orators, who, during the whole course of their lives, have done nothing else, which can you prefer to him?
6386Which of them is more pointed or terse in his periods, or employs more polished and elegant language?"
6386[ 98] Men''me servasse, ut essent qui me perderent?
6386art thou, too, one of them?
6397Domitian asked him, what end he thought he should come to himself?
6397[ 833] The guilt imputed to them was atheism and Jewish( Christian?)
6397have you a mind to marry?"
6395Being in a great consternation after he was forbidden the court in the time of Nero, and asking those about him, what he should do?
6395or, whither he should go?
6390Because Rome aspires to universal dominion, must men therefore implicitly resign themselves to subjection?
6390For if he be capable of attending his brother to the mount, why is he not made prefect of the city?
6390I had arms, and men, and horses; I possessed extraordinary riches; and can it be any wonder that I was unwilling to lose them?
6390In a debate in the senate relative to the butchers and vintners, he cried out,"I ask you, who can live without a bit of meat?"
6390Placing himself at table a little after Messalina''s death, he enquired,"Why the empress did not come?"
6390do you take me for a Theogonius?"
6388The disposition of your summer quarters? 6388 Even when she was upon her trial, he frequently called out to her, and asked her,Do you repent?"
6388Having asked one Zeno, upon his using some far- fetched phrases,"What uncouth dialect is that?"
6388Non es eques, quare?
6388What name did Achilles assume among the virgins?
6388What was it that the Sirens used to sing?"
6388[ 357] Asper et immitis, breviter vis omnia dicam?
6388non sunt tibi millia centum?
6391A little bag was tied about another, with a ticket containing these words;"What could I do?"
6391He also heard a traveller they met on the road, say,"They are( 377) in pursuit of Nero:"and another ask,"Is there any news in the city about Nero?"
6391Quis neget Aeneae magna de stirpe Neronem?
6391Say, is it then so sad a thing to die?
6391Sprung from Aeneas, pious, wise and great, Who says that Nero is degenerate?
6391That the former were magnificent, we may infer from the verses of Martial:--------Quid Nerone pejus?
6391What better than his baths?
6391What worse than Nero?
6391said he,"have I then neither friend nor foe?"
6391v. Can I forget how many a summer''s day, Spent in your converse, stole, unmarked, away?
32637A woman?
32637How did it go?
32637I presume,said Daphne Foster, breaking a tight little silence,"that you will grant me time to set my affairs in order?"
32637I- I- I said that if she were young and p- pretty--"How old do you think she was?
32637Our wives?
32637Shall I have the patrols close in on her rocket?
32637So the Jursans seek to soften our just anger?
32637Such as I?
32637What did you say?
32637You are the same Daphne Foster?
32637You dare ask terms?
32637You see?
32637_ What?_He surged to his feet, overturning the table.
32637Do you have it with you?"
32637Ha-- what''s this?"
32637Had he actually_ said_ anything to Wilkins or anyone else?
32637I suppose you never really looked like that?"
32637I wonder if you know what it does to one?"
32637Only now does she look at me so coldly._"You see?"
32637Was_ this_ the woman with whom he had--?
32637What have I to_ desire_?"
32637Why do you suppose he tried to be obstinate?"
4250And what has become of Ajax?
4250And who,asked Apollonius superbly,"would bail a man whom no one can enchain?"
4250Caesar,cried a mime to him one day,"do you know that it is important for you that the people should be interested in Bathylle and in myself?"
4250I am not a soporific, am I?
4250Supposing I were the thirteenth Caesar, what would you do?
4250What have you with you?
4250And if not, was it fear that restrained you?
4250And was it?
4250And what should Nero regret?
4250And you, are you entirely free from reproach?
4250Are all his thoughts familiar to you?
4250Besides, what do you know of his wrong- doing?
4250Caracalla wished a bride, and what fairer one could he have than the child of the Parthian monarch?
4250Did he regret it?
4250Did he steal it?
4250Have you never done wrong?
4250If you rebel, the invisible sword will flash, and what can you do against Rome armed, when Rome unarmed frightens the world?"
4250Lampridus-- or Spartian was it?
4250May there not be something that justifies him?
4250To one of them, who predicted his immediate death, he inquired,"What will your end be?"
4250V NERO"Save a monster, what can you expect from Agrippina and myself?"
4250Was it pride, or what?"
4250Was not Gautier well advised when he said only art endures?
4250What greater salve could it have than the sight of the conquerors of the world entertaining the conquered, lords amusing their lackeys?
4250Why do you not fear him?"
6387( 183) Ergo, quae juveni mihi non nocitura putavi Scripta parum prudens, nunc nocuere seni?
6387Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide judex, Quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana?
6387And before they came to an open rupture, he writes to him in a familiar manner, thus:"Why are you changed towards me?
6387And do you take freedoms with Drusilla only?
6387And if the patricians were really innocent, why did they not urge the examination?
6387Because I lie with a queen?
6387Cur aliquid vidi?
6387If the people suspected the patricians to be guilty of murder, why did they not endeavour to trace the fact by this evidence?
6387Is this a new thing with me, or have I not done so for these nine years?
6387Or do you think that the verbose empty bombast of Asiatic orators is fit to be transfused into( 134) our language?"
6387Quem Deum?
6387Then asking his friends who were admitted into the room,"Do ye think that I have acted my part on the stage of life well?"
6387What God?
6387What man, what hero, on the tuneful lyre, Or sharp- toned flute, will Clio choose to raise, Deathless, to fame?
6387What matters it to you where, or upon whom, you spend your manly vigour?"
6387Whether you will adopt words which Sallustius Crispus has borrowed from the''Origines''of Cato?
6387Would you a reader''s just esteem engage?
6387[ 242] Perhaps the point of the reply lay in the temple of Jupiter Tonans being placed at the approach to the Capitol from the Forum?
6387cur conscia lumina feci?
6387verum secretumque mouseion, quam multa invenitis, quam multa dictatis?"
6387why wait my luckless hap to see A fault at unawares to ruin me?
6672A sordid wretch who would stoop to make money by such means?
6672And how, I pray you, how-- how, my good sir?
6672And then he goes on to ask--"Quis hodie nudum caput radiis solis, aut omnia perurenti frigori, ausit exponere?"
6672And, again, the total want of fruit- trees-- did that recommend their present station as a fit one for the imperial court?
6672As to his relatives,"Why,"he asks,"should I speak of pardon to them, who indeed have done no wrong, and are blameless even in purpose?"
6672But why?
6672Can he argue a point upon the public economy?
6672Could any man''s temper be expected to stand such continued sieges?
6672Did Julius deflower Rome?
6672Did he reject the new- made citizens?
6672First of all, how came it that the early armies of Rome served, and served cheerfully, without pay?
6672How but out of the bowels of the provinces, and the marrow of their bones?
6672How was it, then, that the emperor only should have been blind to such general light?
6672In a case, then, where an extensive practice of this kind was exposed to Augustus, and publicly reproved by him, how did he proceed?
6672Meanwhile, is he learned in the interests of the State?
6672On whom shall their suspicion settle-- on whom their pity?
6672The elderly gentleman, who figured in this delirious_ pas seul_--who was he?
6672The ship, it seems, had done its office; the mechanism had played admirably; but who can provide for every thing?
6672Was Cæsar, upon the whole, the greatest of men?
6672What could these people take him for?
6672What else could be expected?
6672What if, in a true medical sense, they were insane?
6672What was their import?
6672What was to be done?
6672What were they?
6672Where is that L. Cassius, whose name I vainly inherit?
6672Where is that Marcus,--not Aurelius, mark you, but Cato Censorius?
6672Where might they be, and how employed?
6672Where the good old discipline of ancestral times, long since indeed disused, but now not so much as looked after in our aspirations?
6672Which is accuser?
6672Which is the accused?
6672Who should presume to tear away the mask which prudence or timidity had taken up?
6672Who?
6672Why had tragedy no existence as a part of the Roman literature?
6672Without an army, what could be done?
6672Would a British jury demand better evidence than this of a disturbed intellect in any formal process_ de lunatico inquirendo_?
6672Yet what could be done?
6672_ more majorum!_ And how was that?
6672in England?
6672said he,"have I neither friend nor foe?"
6672would the emperor be content for ever to hew out the frozen water with an axe before he could assuage his thirst?