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 501 III|           vulgar, and not sufficiently disguised with delicate flavourings.
 502 III|           Latin nature was filled with disgust at their intolerance, their
 503 II |               besides, in spite of his dislike, not all the bonds were
 504 II |              and requests, but he soon dismissed them from his presence.~
 505 I  |             the reason for this sudden display of tenderness.~During their
 506 I  |               from Machaerus to spread dissension and discontent throughout
 507 III|               that might at any moment dissolve and disappear.~Presently
 508 II |            with pillars set at regular distances. The first vault opened
 509 II |          running stream could be heard distinctly. In this place was a great
 510 III|          gruesome object with terrible distinctness.~Mannaeus arrived at the
 511 II |       silhouettes. Antipas was able to distinguish the excavations of the salt-mines
 512 II |           laughed and said: “Do not be disturbed. I will protect thee!”~The
 513 III|           arise. But his attention was divided between observing the movements
 514 I  |              endowed with the power to divine the future by reading the
 515 II |            eastern frontier. After the division of the kingdom, Jacim had
 516 I  |           abandon my child?”~After her divorce from Philip, she had indeed
 517 II |               Accursed one! die like a dog!”~At that instant the trap-door
 518 III|           castle.~The slaves, alert as dogs, glided about noiselessly
 519 I  |                was round-topped like a dome; Eschol had her pomegranates,
 520 I  |                with its enormous cube, dominated Jerusalem. The tetrarch
 521 III|             blessings, and giving them domination over all the peoples of
 522 I  |             children urged heavy-laden donkeys along the roads; while grooms
 523 I  |                 Throughout the palace, doors were opening and closing
 524 II |           hanging upon a hook near the doorway, and disappeared.~An elderly
 525 III|               the guests with kidneys, dormice, nightingales, mince-meat
 526 III|                out of deference to the dove Azima.~Several groups stood
 527 II |              glancing golden rays. The doves, flying from their cotes,
 528 III|             just awakened from a short doze; and finally he brought
 529 I  |           along the ramparts, slept or dozed, leaning against the walls;
 530 II |         mothers, thy little ones shall drag themselves over the ashes
 531 II |            wine was offered to him. He drank it, and asked for a second
 532 III|               was finally restored, he draped his mantle about his shoulders,
 533 III|                made the colours of her draperies appear to run into one another.
 534 III|             turned upon her.~Through a drapery of filmy blue gauze that
 535 II |                 and asked for a second draught.~The tetrarch had fallen
 536 I  |                his arms as if he would draw down lightning upon my head.
 537 III|                abandoned themselves to dreams of independence. They recalled
 538 I  |                After a few moments she dried her eyes, declared that
 539 II |               and at last, in order to drive them back, several slaves,
 540 I  |                of life. Shepherds were driving their flocks to pasture;
 541 I  |             The first of the Maccabees drove thy people out of Hebron;
 542 III|        executioner. It was he that had drowned Aristobulus, strangled Alexander,
 543 II |          traitors of Judah, and to the drunkards of Ephraim, who dwelt in
 544 III|         whirled on, while the music of dulcimers swelled louder and the excited
 545 I  |               Agrippa’s scheming.~“The dungeons of Tiberias are hard to
 546 I  |                who now she thought had duped her.~“Ah! I found a powerful
 547 III|               crescit, nec post mortem durare videtur.~By this time Aulus
 548 II |                blood, like wool in the dyer’s vat. He shall rend you,
 549 I  |           among a group of horses; and dying camp-fires shone faintly
 550 III|            were stretched out with the eagerness of a vulture’s claws, seizing
 551 I  |         Machaerus. They were deserted. Eagles were sweeping through the
 552 II |         fortress shall be crushed more easily than nut-shells; the walls
 553 II |              his own domain, since the East was the country of the gods.
 554 I  |               end of the room stood an ebony bed, ornamented with bands
 555 II |        neighbouring hills gave back an echo with startling effect, and
 556 III|                together for vengeance, echoed by the rest of the gathering,
 557 I  |           something almost superhuman, eclipsing even its suggestion of opulence
 558 I  |           eventually his curse must be effective.~Antipas listened, without
 559 II |              gorgeous litter, borne by eight men, came to a halt. From
 560 II |                the legs in battle; the eighth vault was filled with bracelets
 561 I  |                about with a singularly elastic grace and elegance. He leaned
 562 I  |           singularly elastic grace and elegance. He leaned forward, his
 563    | else
 564 I  |          masseur at the bath. Although emaciated, and somewhat advanced in
 565 II |         flowing skirts of their tunics embarrassed their movements as they
 566 II |             His head touched a grating embedded in the wall; and as he moved
 567 III|              wore the purple band, the emblem of his rank, crossed diagonally
 568 III|                expiring of love in his embrace. With half-closed eyes and
 569 I  |             ornamented with tassels of emeralds; and blue silken bands confined
 570 II |                pikes, with long points emerging from tufts of feathers.
 571 III|               clothing even, seemed to emit streams of magnetism, that
 572 II |                From force of habit, he emitted a raucous cry, which excited
 573 I  |              find words to express the emotions that choked her.~She had
 574 I  |                would rule over a great empire. As an important step towards
 575 II |           advancing with the air of an empress, in the midst of a group
 576 I  |                grey in the early dawn. En-gedi, the central point of the
 577 II |                rank; and his feet were encased in the kind of buskins worn
 578 I  |            beloved Galilee,—Capernaum, Endor, Nazareth, Tiberias—whither
 579 I  |             spite of severe treatment, endowed with the power to divine
 580 I  |              extended to the uttermost ends of the earth.”~For a moment
 581 III|              was to come, bringing the enjoyment of all blessings, and giving
 582 I  |             tower of Antonia, with its enormous cube, dominated Jerusalem.
 583 III|        Miserable creatures!” cried the enraged proconsul, who had overheard
 584 I  |                greeted with respectful enthusiasm. Acknowledging the acclamations
 585 III|              beckoning and striving to entice to her side some youth who
 586 II |                and to the drunkards of Ephraim, who dwelt in the fertile
 587 I  |           sneered.~“It is at least the equal of thine,” Antipas replied.~
 588 I  |                the hatred of Jacob for Esau, she reproached him for
 589 I  |              round-topped like a dome; Eschol had her pomegranates, Sorek
 590 II |          assassins from Jerusalem, had escorted the priests in the train
 591 I  |        projects, the submission of the Essenians to the King. These poor
 592 II |             come from the banks of the Euphrates to offer his services, as
 593 I  |           attempt to befool and seduce Eutyches the denunciator.~“And why
 594 I  |              Sacred Way, and the sweet evening rendezvous at the villa,
 595 II |                public places, where at eventide the fathers were wont to
 596 I  |                with perfect faith that eventually his curse must be effective.~
 597    | ever
 598    | everything
 599 II |               the Jews, this seemed an evidence of nothing short of idolatry.
 600 III|          successful, it seemed; he was evidently fascinated, and Herodias
 601 II |               no doubt whatever of the exactness of Phanuel’s skill in astrology.~
 602 I  |               place by a kind of comb, exaggerated the apparent size of his
 603 III|          refused to accompany him.~The exaltation of the people increased.
 604 II |          bracelets and armlets; and an examination of the remaining vaults
 605 III|             hers.~Antipas followed her example; and priests, soldiers,
 606 I  |             The inanity of such tricks exasperated Herodias. Besides, she inquired,
 607 II |                able to distinguish the excavations of the salt-mines at the
 608 I  |              desired to see him?~“They exchanged some strange words with
 609 II |                his past conduct and to excuse his present situation.~“
 610 II |           shall be rent with sobs. God execrates the stench of thy crimes!
 611 II |       inhabitants of that region to be executed. In their excitement all
 612 III|              During forty years he had exercised the functions of the public
 613 III|            charger from the woman, and exhibited the head to the Roman captains,
 614 III|                admiration; to him this exhibition of gluttony denoted a wonderful
 615 II |               that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat
 616 III|           Every one talked, all hearts expanding under the good cheer. Jacim,
 617 III|        abstinence, the Roman soldiers, expert in debaucheries, the avaricious
 618 III|             for an absent swain or was expiring of love in his embrace.
 619 II |                so he hastened to offer explanations of all that Vitellius had
 620 I  |            Scythians. His work must be extended to the uttermost ends of
 621 III|             North; but the other would exterminate the Prince of Evil; and
 622 II |              could bring about such an extermination. The people began to cry
 623 I  |      lapis-lazuli; and at its southern extremity, on the coast of Yemen,
 624 I  |                shoulder, and exclaimed exultantly:~“Caesar is our friend!
 625 I  |              clear sky, it dazzled the eye like snow in the rays of
 626 III|              Palmyra, and sailors from Eziongaber. Before each guest was placed
 627 III|        spectators, and a third, with a facade of gold filigree, was at
 628 II |            retain those offices. Their faces were dark, particularly
 629 III|               three ivory couches, one facing the great hall, and the
 630 III|            their hatred arose from the fact that that beast had killed
 631 III|             Sadducees. Then the vision faded.~But this beautiful thing
 632 III|                Aulus was overcome with faintness. The tetrarch watched her,
 633 II |             before the proconsul. They fairly beset him with complaints
 634 I  |              at the city, with perfect faith that eventually his curse
 635 II |           ingenious, terrible; and was faithful to all the Caesars.~Between
 636 III|            tetrarch, so that he should fall in love with her fresh young
 637 II |              draught.~The tetrarch had fallen upon his knees before the
 638 I  |             purple robe enveloped her, falling to her sandaled feet. Having
 639 III|            beard was spread out like a fan; blue powder had been scattered
 640 III|             other.~In imagination, all fancied that they could see an old
 641 II |                of polished silver, thy fans of ostrich plumes, thy shoes
 642 III|              But now, beginning at the farthest end of the banqueting-hall,
 643 II |               they placed their twelve fasces—a bundle of sticks with
 644 III|               seemed; he was evidently fascinated, and Herodias felt that
 645 II |           irresistible though terrible fascination, she made her way through
 646 I  |                to the waist, after the fashion of a masseur at the bath.
 647 II |            explained that the door was fastened, and that none could open
 648 I  |                they were a part of the fatal inheritance of royal houses;
 649 II |         personally responsible for the fate of Iaokanann. The Romans
 650 II |          places, where at eventide the fathers were wont to gather. At
 651 III|              of the mysterious Jew who fattened small children and offered
 652 II |            prisoner free! It is not my fault if he remains in his dungeon.”~
 653 III|                 dressed with spices, a favourite dainty.~To Vitellius the
 654 II |           rocky passes, and would jump fearlessly over yawning chasms; and,
 655 III|              skulls, bristling beards, feeble hands, snub noses, great
 656 II |             Mannaeus was accustomed to feed them. But now he crouched
 657 II |           protect thee!”~The proconsul feigned not to hear this remark.
 658 III|                time to time the little fellow sprang up and played about
 659 III|             her fresh young beauty and feminine wiles. The plan had proved
 660 II |              Ephraim, who dwelt in the fertile valleys and stagger with
 661 I  |              her vineyards, Carmel her fields of sesame; and the tower
 662 I  |              she did not know, and her fierce demeanour suddenly changed
 663 III|              railing of the balcony so fiercely as to break her nails; the
 664 II |             looked like a battalion of fiery serpents. The sixth cell
 665 II |        scimitars. In the middle of the fifth cell, rows of helmets were
 666 II |               just within the gates. A file of white mules entered the
 667 III|           third, with a facade of gold filigree, was at one end, opposite
 668 III|              her.~Through a drapery of filmy blue gauze that veiled her
 669 II |           jewels, thy purple robes and fine linen; the bracelets from
 670 II |           spoke Greek, advanced with a firm step and begged that the
 671 II |             habit of the agents of the fiscal companies to corrupt the
 672 II |           antelopes, and storks; large fish, of a brilliant shade of
 673 II |          services, as well as those of five hundred horsemen, in the
 674 I  |              his step was light on the flagstones, and his body had the suppleness
 675 III|           glowing and quivering like a flame. He appealed to two of the
 676 I  |              of the prophets. His eyes flamed, his voice shook, he raised
 677 III|                glowed like clusters of flaming flowers among the painted
 678 III|             promised to give him three flasks of the same kind of precious
 679 II |                 and in a moment it lay flat upon the stones. The bystanders
 680 III|                disguised with delicate flavourings. After a time his displeasure
 681 III|                side some youth who was fleeing from her allurements. She
 682 I  |             neck, her large eyes, or a fleeting smile upon her small mouth.
 683 III|          tetrarch.~The lights began to flicker and die out. The guests
 684 I  |              in darkness. A light mist floated in the air; presently it
 685 III|               inquisitive Psyche, or a floating spirit that might at any
 686 III|             surrounding population was flocking to the castle. Men with
 687 I  |           Shepherds were driving their flocks to pasture; children urged
 688 II |             Sisenna was among the most flourishing of these agents, and was
 689 III|              mysterious undulations to flow downward over her whole
 690 II |                streams of human beings flowed in and out, compressed within
 691 III|               She whirled about like a flower blown by the tempest. The
 692 I  |                at the villa, among the flowery groves, listening to the
 693 I  |               Machaerus, spread a rosy flush over the sky, lighting up
 694 I  |              upon my head. I could not fly from him; the wheels of
 695 II |                writing-tablet from the folds of his robe, counted the
 696 II |                stream; thy shame shall follow thee, thy disgrace shall
 697 II |             trained to gallop rapidly, following the arrow of the rider,
 698 III|                be feared they were too fond of wine, since a golden
 699 I  |                breast and caressed him fondly.~But he repelled her soft
 700 III|              one.~Presently a sound of footsteps was heard in the corridor
 701 II |        marriages but does not actually forbid them.”~“What matters it?
 702 II |               inquiring children. From force of habit, he emitted a raucous
 703 I  |       injustice. Mannaeus, indeed, had forcibly entered it, for the purpose
 704 I  |              tribute to King David! My forefathers were the conquerors of thine!
 705 III|           drops of perspiration on her forehead looked like dew upon white
 706 I  |               Kiss her dark cheeks—and forget me!”~The tetrarch had already
 707 I  |               The tetrarch had already forgotten her presence, it appeared.
 708 II |             remaining vaults disclosed forks, grappling-irons, ladders,
 709 III|         half-closed eyes and quivering form, she caused mysterious undulations
 710 II |          inclination of her head.~“How fortunate,” she exclaimed, “that henceforth
 711 II |          feathers, filled the air with fragrance.~He did not speak of Phanuel’
 712 III|                Next she began to whirl frantically around the table where Antipas
 713 III|               the waist by a girdle of fretted silver. Her full trousers,
 714 III|            because the little Asiatic, frightened at the tumult, had disappeared.
 715 III|           character of the Jews seemed frightful. Their God was like Moloch,
 716 II |             the defence of the eastern frontier. After the division of the
 717 I  |               head with my mantle, and frozen with terror at the curses
 718 II |          immense basket-loads of food, fruits, vegetables, antelopes,
 719 I  |                two hills. The sun, now fully risen, shed a dazzling splendour
 720 II |           valleys and stagger with the fumes of wine!~“May they disappear
 721 III|             years he had exercised the functions of the public executioner.
 722 II |                sleeveless tunic, and a fur cap shaded his face. His
 723 III|             this Nazarene attacked it. Furthermore, as a still stronger argument
 724 I  |                the power to divine the future by reading the stars, had
 725 III|         attendants sprinkled them with galburnum and incense, the use of
 726 III|                sneers, and Phineas, of Galilean origin, refused to translate
 727 III|              the women, sitting in the galleries, thought of the widow of
 728 II |             him to direct the Olympian games; that he had built temples
 729 II |             mounted by men in priestly garb. These were the Sadducees
 730 II |              Antipas for his luxurious gardens, his statues, his furniture
 731 II |        extending down the front of the garment, indicating his rank; and
 732 II |               thy shoes, gather up thy garments and walk through the flowing
 733 III|          Cleopatra.~A captain from the garrison of Tiberias who had just
 734 II |               within the limits of the gateway.~Vitellius demanded the
 735 I  |              scabbard. His bushy hair, gathered up and held in place by
 736 I  |             straight to the Arabs, the Gauls, and the Scythians. His
 737 III|                a drapery of filmy blue gauze that veiled her head and
 738 II |          powders, unguents, cloud-like gauzes and embroideries light as
 739 III|               his head upon his hands, gazing at the head of Iaokanann;
 740 II |                true?” he demanded. The general response was affirmative,
 741 II |              gather. At the bidding of Gentiles, thy maidens shall be forced
 742 I  |        resisted, but he had been quite gentle and obedient. After he had
 743 I  |             suddenly changed to one of gentleness and amiability.~At the entrance
 744 I  |           Their temple on the Mount of Gerizim, which Moses had designed
 745 III|               their native religion. A German, who was nearly blind, sang
 746 III|             Thracians, a Greek and two Germans; besides huntsmen and herdsmen,
 747 II |              tetrarch by a significant gesture indicated that Mannaeus
 748 II |                he spoke, he managed to get in advance of the proconsul
 749 III|                approached him with her ghastly burden, he turned away his
 750 I  |            advanced in years, he was a giant in stature, and on his hip
 751 III|            about upon the floor like a gigantic beetle; then stood motionless.~
 752 III|       proconsul was placed beneath the gilded balcony upon a platform
 753 I  |             she was travelling towards Gilead, in order to purchase some
 754 III|             the plaintive notes of the gingras, a small flute of Phoenician
 755 I  |       travelling-hamper or basket, and girdles, veils, head-dresses, and
 756 III|             the guests, “that Simon of Gitta washed away his sins in
 757 II |       glittering sword-hilts threw out glancing golden rays. The doves,
 758 III|                a necklace of sapphires gleamed against his throat, plump
 759 I  |               now and then he caught a glimpse of her delicate neck, her
 760 II |            from sin and sorrow; of the glories of heaven; of gold in place
 761 II |              sunset spread a deep rosy glow over the horizon, against
 762 III|               longer pleased the noble glutton; the dishes were vulgar,
 763 III|              to him this exhibition of gluttony denoted a wonderful being
 764 III|                from her couch when the gnomon had marked the third hour,
 765 II |              descended direct from the goddess Vitellia. A highway, leading
 766 III|             one would be vanquished by Gog and Magog, the demons of
 767 I  |              wind, with the coming and going of many persons; there was
 768 III|              moment, the panels of the gold-railed balcony were folded back,
 769 III|         daughter who was very ill, had gone to Capernaum to implore
 770 II |         insignia of Roman majesty.~The gorgeous litter, borne by eight men,
 771 II |         kitchens, led by his taste for gormandizing, which later became the
 772 III|           finally decided in favour of gourds served in honey. The little
 773 I  |          Romans, but as Vitellius, the Governor of Syria, had not yet arrived,
 774 II |               companies to corrupt the governors in order to pillage the
 775 I  |                to bring together, at a grand banquet, the chiefs of his
 776 I  |             boiling in her veins.~“Thy grandfather was a servile attendant
 777 II |                vaults disclosed forks, grappling-irons, ladders, cords, even catapults,
 778 I  |               sword, but impossible to grasp, was maddening! Herodias
 779 II |             now turned towards her. He grasped the bars of his prison,
 780 III|               holding at arm’s length, grasping it by the hair, the head
 781 II |          wrapped in coverings of woven grass, and the hair between their
 782 I  |        daylight came faintly through a grated window. The walls were of
 783 II |               feet. His head touched a grating embedded in the wall; and
 784 II |           voices.~Antipas, filled with gratitude, asked her how the medallion
 785 I  |                the acclamations with a grave salute, he entered the castle.~
 786 II |            empty quivers; the seventh, greaves for protecting the legs
 787 III|            more important men from the Grecian cities. At the table on
 788 III|              them stupid, and told the Greeks that he laughed at their
 789 III|                plant known as “baaras” grew even in Machaerus, the power
 790 I  |         mountains of Judea, rugged and grey in the early dawn. En-gedi,
 791 II |     sacrificers, each one laid his own grievances before the proconsul. They
 792 II |          proconsul, saying that he was grieved beyond words not to have
 793 I  |           depths,” said Herodias, with grim significance.~Antipas understood
 794 II |              what might happen.~A deep groan, hollow and startling, rose
 795 I  |         donkeys along the roads; while grooms belonging to the palace
 796 II |             the threshold of a kind of grotto, somewhat larger than the
 797 III|                the dove Azima.~Several groups stood talking near the middle
 798 I  |               villa, among the flowery groves, listening to the murmur
 799 I  |                prisoner.~“Sometimes he grows excited,” said he, “then
 800 III|              every side lighted up the gruesome object with terrible distinctness.~
 801 I  |          persuade him, promising, as a guaranty of the honesty of his projects,
 802 II |              Vitellius was too closely guarded to be reached. No one would
 803 II |            Vitellius promised that the guilty ones should be punished.~
 804 III|              love in his embrace. With half-closed eyes and quivering form,
 805 I  |             threw himself upon it in a half-reclining attitude, while Phanuel
 806 III|           table, and said slowly, in a half-suppressed tone, as if awe-struck by
 807 III|               were wont to appear with halos around their heads. The
 808 II |                by eight men, came to a halt. From it descended a youth.
 809 II |              rapid steps. Presently he halted and stood close against
 810 I  |               a kind of parasol with a handle made of long, slender reeds.
 811 II |            anticipation for what might happen.~A deep groan, hollow and
 812 III|                Marcellus described the happiness he had felt under the baptism
 813 I  |             was, in reality, perfectly happy. She reminded Antipas of
 814 I  |                heaven!”~Continuing her harangue, she declared that the knowledge
 815 II |             short of idolatry. Antipas harangued them, while Vitellius, who
 816 I  |               dungeons of Tiberias are hard to open, and sometimes life
 817 I  |            abuse of me. But he had the hardihood to send various men from
 818 II |              in caverns, like the wild hare! The gates of the fortress
 819 II |            enemy of Tiberius, can work harm no longer!”~Vitellius did
 820 II |             became almost as sweet and harmonious as if he were uttering a
 821 III|              the thrilling chords of a harp rang through the hall, and
 822 II |              shall rend you, as with a harrow; He shall scatter the remains
 823    | hast
 824 III|          castle. Men with torches were hastening along the roads in all directions;
 825 II |              step forward armed with a hatchet, he feared that the man
 826 II |          against the battlements, were hauling up immense basket-loads
 827 I  |             that choked her.~She had a haunting fear that the tetrarch might
 828 I  |            basket, and girdles, veils, head-dresses, and gold and silver ornaments
 829 III|             Return to thy home: she is healed!” And he had found his daughter
 830 III|          copper, the cubes of snow and heaps of luscious grapes. Through
 831 II |               proconsul feigned not to hear this remark. The fortune
 832 III|         throats. Every one talked, all hearts expanding under the good
 833 III|             the arms, as if annoyed by heat or chafing; and promised
 834 III|      overpowering lassitude. Her bosom heaved with sighs, and her whole
 835 I  |                pasture; children urged heavy-laden donkeys along the roads;
 836 II |           plumes, thy shoes with their heels of mother-of-pearl, that
 837 I  |           great body drawn to its full height, he launched a bitter anathema
 838 I  |          wayfarers descending from the heights on the farther side of Machaerus
 839 II |                the fifth cell, rows of helmets were seen, the crests of
 840 II |       fortunate,” she exclaimed, “that henceforth Agrippa, the enemy of Tiberius,
 841 III|           mysterious arts and powerful herbs existed that would heal
 842 III|          Germans; besides huntsmen and herdsmen, the Sultan of Palmyra,
 843 III|         religion!”~“Impious as all the Herods!”~“Less impious than thou!”
 844    | hers
 845 I  |              paled. After an instant’s hesitation, he leaned far over the
 846 II |            light!~“And thou too, Moab! hide thyself in the midst of
 847 II |           torches.~In the deep shadows hideous instruments, invented by
 848 I  |                could only crawl along, hiding my head with my mantle,
 849 II |              men will creep from their hiding-places to seek a bit of food among
 850 III|               marvels in the temple of Hierapolis; and they wished to know
 851 I  |            plates and dishes. From the highest tower a loud blast upon
 852 II |                the goddess Vitellia. A highway, leading from the Janiculum
 853 I  |           about him.~The crests of the hill-tops in the valley below the
 854 I  |           their raiment. Standing on a hillock, a strange man was speaking
 855 II |         standing with his hands on his hips, so that his voluminous
 856 II |              Antipas had recognised as hired assassins from Jerusalem,
 857 III|             open and Mannaeus entered, holding at arm’s length, grasping
 858 II |           folded back, allowing a wide hole to be seen, the mouth of
 859 III|              living from the refuse of holocausts, rushed to the foot of the
 860 III|                Long live Caesar!”~This homage was repeated by Vitellius,
 861 III|                 saying: “Return to thy home: she is healed!” And he
 862 I  |        promising, as a guaranty of the honesty of his projects, the submission
 863 III|             favour of gourds served in honey. The little Asiatic gazed
 864 II |             whole mass was a veritable honeycomb of cells, and that below
 865 II |              one side of the castle. A honeysuckle vine, cramped by the low-studded
 866 II |            coloured a deep blue; their hoofs were wrapped in coverings
 867 III|             answer so long awaited and hoped for.~They whispered the
 868 I  |              influence the people with hopes cherished since the days
 869 I  |              conductors of caravans, a horde of slaves offered as tribute
 870 II |                deep rosy glow over the horizon, against which the smallest
 871 I  |               commanding his troops of horse. As the tetrarch approached
 872 II |               as those of five hundred horsemen, in the defence of the eastern
 873 II |            significantly.~He had taken hostages from the king of the Parthians,
 874 I  |             him, my lord. Within three hours he will be here.”~Throughout
 875 III|             full silken skirts of pale hues that enveloped her limbs
 876 III|              into the gallery, stood a huge stone monster, like those
 877 I  |                retold the story of her humiliation one day when she was travelling
 878 III|                made of the feathers of humming-birds.~When she arrived in front
 879 III|               and two Germans; besides huntsmen and herdsmen, the Sultan
 880 I  |                Having left her chamber hurriedly, she wore no jewels nor
 881 I  |             deserted Philip, her first husband, and married the tetrarch,
 882 III|               was nearly blind, sang a hymn celebrating that promontory
 883 II |             country of the gods. These hyperboles were expressed in Latin,
 884 II |           Pharisees lowered their eyes hypocritically. The Sadducees turned away
 885 III|               their intolerance, their iconoclastic rage, their brutal, stumbling
 886 I  |           intolerant of the tetrarch’s idolatries; he knew that many were
 887 III|               illumined, revealing the idolatrous priests that were thrown
 888 II |           evidence of nothing short of idolatry. Antipas harangued them,
 889 II |                                CHAPTER II~The ramparts were thronged
 890 III|                                CHAPTER III~The great banqueting-hall
 891 III|                a daughter who was very ill, had gone to Capernaum to
 892 III|             which a flash of lightning illumined, revealing the idolatrous
 893 I  |             hills, and the desert, and illuming the distant mountains of
 894 III|       banqueting-hall to the other.~In imagination, all fancied that they could
 895 I  |           depths among the cliffs, the immensity of the blue sky, the rising
 896 II |                Vitellius accepted them impassively.~He replied that the great
 897 I  |          arrived, he was consumed with impatience and anxiety. Perhaps Agrippa
 898 III|               had gone to Capernaum to implore the Master to heal his child.
 899 II |              surrounded the proconsul, imploring him to abolish certain unjust
 900 II |       interpreter. Behind them came an imposing red litter, decorated with
 901 III|      interrupted Eleazar. “A miserable imposter!”~At this a man sprang up
 902 I  |               friend! Agrippa has been imprisoned!”~“Who told thee that?”~“
 903 III|          castle gates. The news of the imprisonment of Iaokanann had spread
 904 I  |             leaving him uninjured. The inanity of such tricks exasperated
 905 I  |             accept any master, and are incapable of feeling any true patriotism.”
 906 III|                them with galburnum and incense, the use of which the Pharisees
 907 II |                visited itself upon thy incest! May God inflict thee with
 908 II |                She saluted him with an inclination of her head.~“How fortunate,”
 909 III|               exaltation of the people increased. They abandoned themselves
 910 III|                themselves to dreams of independence. They recalled the glory
 911 III|                like the priestesses of India, like the Nubians of the
 912 III|               of a flute and a pair of Indian bells. Her round white arms
 913 II |              the front of the garment, indicating his rank; and his feet were
 914 I  |             she reproached him for his indifference towards palpable outrages
 915 III|             Vitellius threw upon it an indifferent glance.~Mannaeus descended
 916 III|                the gathering, who were indignant that a mere slave should
 917 III|              as she moved forward with indolent grace, her little feet were
 918 II |              with a kind of disdainful indulgence, tried to reassure him.
 919 II |               upon thy incest! May God inflict thee with the sterility
 920 II |            Augustus; had been patient, ingenious, terrible; and was faithful
 921 II |              Pilate had caused several inhabitants of that region to be executed.
 922 I  |               were a part of the fatal inheritance of royal houses; and in
 923 I  |               him to such actions? His injurious words to her, uttered before
 924 II |              the emperor.~“Even to the injury of others?” Vitellius asked,
 925 II |              Questors and consuls were innumerable in that great family; and
 926 II |               with a gaze like that of inquiring children. From force of
 927 III|               mien was like that of an inquisitive Psyche, or a floating spirit
 928 II |           populace trembled before the insignia of Roman majesty.~The gorgeous
 929 I  |                s sister, her atrocious insinuation seemed entirely justifiable
 930 II |        fortress be thrown open for his inspection. These chambers were cut
 931    | instead
 932 III|                mother had caused to be instructed in dancing, and other arts
 933 II |               the deep shadows hideous instruments, invented by barbarians,
 934 I  |                people who detested and insulted herself.~“But thou art like
 935 II |                 he feared that the man intended to behead Iaokanann. He
 936 I  |           their former long delightful interviews in the atrium; their meetings
 937 III|       antipathy to the flesh of swine, intimating that no doubt their hatred
 938 III|              The suspense was becoming intolerable.~Suddenly the door was flung
 939 III|           filled with disgust at their intolerance, their iconoclastic rage,
 940 I  |                 The Jews were becoming intolerant of the tetrarch’s idolatries;
 941 III|              feet still moved in their intricate steps.~Vitellius compared
 942 I  |              and Herodias, Agrippa had intrigued to become king, a title
 943 I  |                management of political intrigues; they were a part of the
 944 III|           poured forth in a torrent of invective against the populace. She
 945 II |           shadows hideous instruments, invented by barbarians, could be
 946 II |             keeping them here. Make an inventory of their number, Sisenna.”~
 947 II |           explained that they had been invited to come to a feast in celebration
 948 III|            which rendered its consumer invulnerable against all attacks; but
 949 II |                the palace. Drawn by an irresistible though terrible fascination,
 950 II |     distinguished guest, he would have issued a command that every person
 951 I  |             his brothers, who lived in Italy but who had no pretensions
 952 III|               eyebrows, tiny ears, and ivory-white skin could be distinguished.
 953 II |               cut down with the sword. Jackals shall pick thy bones in
 954 II |              highway, leading from the Janiculum to the sea, still bore their
 955 II |           studded with nails; poisoned javelins; pincers resembling the
 956 III|             the sword had cut into the jaw with a swift downward stroke.
 957 II |                 pincers resembling the jaws of crocodiles; in short,
 958 III|             bounds. Aulus rallied them jeeringly apropos of the ass’s head,
 959 III|          arched eyebrows were black as jet, her glowing eyes had an
 960 III|              had seen nothing except a Jewish captain who had attacked
 961 II |                cried:~“Ah! Is it thou, Jezebel? Thou hast captured thy
 962 III|              to bite her shoulders and join their voices to hers.~Antipas
 963 I  |             cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress,
 964 III|              beheaded Zozimus, Pappus, Josephus, and Antipater; but he dared
 965 II |                rent their clothing and jostled one another; and at last,
 966 I  |               her face was alight with joy. She gently shook the tetrarch’
 967 III|                almonds. Every face was joyous, every head was crowned
 968 I  |               the distant mountains of Judea, rugged and grey in the
 969 III|                 and, with the air of a judge, proceeded to put questions
 970 II |                rocky passes, and would jump fearlessly over yawning
 971 I  |            insinuation seemed entirely justifiable to the tetrarch. Murder
 972 II |               among them, attempted to justify his past conduct and to
 973 II |              surrounding them: Tolmai, Kanthera, Schon, Ammonius of Alexandria,
 974 I  |               Galilee.~Antipas threw a keen glance along all the roads
 975 I  |               any one else to see him. Keep the gates shut and the entrance
 976 I  |               direction, although they kept their eyes fixed upon each
 977 III|          Slaves served the guests with kidneys, dormice, nightingales,
 978 I  |               leaned forward, his eyes kindled, his breath quickened. All
 979 I  |         Herodias felt the blood of the kings and priests, her ancestors,
 980 I  |            Drink curdled sheep’s-milk! Kiss her dark cheeks—and forget
 981 III|          threatened Antipas with their knives. He attempted to speak to
 982 II |                on the umbo, or central knob. To the Jews, this seemed
 983 II |               lashed tightly about his knotted legs; his massive arms were
 984 I  |        harangue, she declared that the knowledge that this man still existed
 985 II |                forks, grappling-irons, ladders, cords, even catapults,
 986 I  |               the costume of the Roman ladies, with a flowing tunic and
 987 III|              sight of a dish of Syrian lambs’ tails, dressed with spices,
 988 II |               be forced to cease their lamentations and to make music upon the
 989 I  |              scribes, the chief of the land stewards, the manager of
 990 III|               being expressed profound languor, although it was not clear
 991 I  |             now looked like a sheet of lapis-lazuli; and at its southern extremity,
 992 III|             stood in the centre of the largest nave and prayed aloud, with
 993 II |             Cords of many colours were lashed tightly about his knotted
 994 III|               now denoted overpowering lassitude. Her bosom heaved with sighs,
 995 II |               toga ornamented with the laticlave, a broad purple band extending
 996 II |           words, a sound of suppressed laughter arose here and there among
 997 II |              to abolish certain unjust laws, asking for privileges,
 998 II |             slowly, and in a moment it lay flat upon the stones. The
 999 II |              hook. He braced his long, lean arms, raised the cover slowly,
1000 II |                 reaching Mannaeus, she leant one hand on his shoulder