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  1 1 |           both the divine Augustus and Tiberius Caesar went to
  2 1 |        Drusilla going up to heaven and in return for such good
  3 1 |           then, I state positively and plainly, so help him! ~
  4 2 |           was aging,~Hastily, here and there, was plucking the
  5 2 |         that the month was October and the day October thirteenth;
  6 2 |            but it was between noon and one o’clock. ~ “Too clumsily
  7 2 |   unsatisfied to describe sunrises and sunsets, so that they are
  8 3 |       aside one of the three Fates and said: “Why, O hard-hearted
  9 3 |           have you got against him and the nation? For once let
 10 3 |         since he was made emperor. And still it’s no wonder if
 11 3 |            wonder if they go wrong and nobody knows his hour; for
 12 3 |      foreigners left as a nucleus, and since you wish it, it shall
 13 3 |          Then she opened a bandbox and brought out three spindles;
 14 3 |         within a year,” she said, “and not send him off unattended.
 15 3 |         about, going ahead of him, and all around him, should all
 16 4 |      Ceaselessly they too labored; and bringing the finest of fleeces,~
 17 4 |     Phoebus came with his singing, and, happy in anticipation,~
 18 4 |         the spell of Phoebus’ lyre and his praise, as he bade them:~“
 19 4 |            be blessed with a grace and a beauty like mine, and
 20 4 |            and a beauty like mine, and in music~Grant him no meaner
 21 4 |       First has dispelled the dark and blushingly led forth the
 22 4 |       Brightly gleams on the world and renews his chariot’s journey,~
 23 4 |        wrought with generous hand, and bestowed upon Nero many
 24 4 |   everybody gave orders ~ With joy and great content to send him
 25 4 |          send him out of doors.1 ~ And indeed he did go up the
 26 4 |            he did go up the flume, and from that moment ceased
 27 5 |            For you know very well, and there is no danger that
 28 5 |          he kept shaking his head; and that he limped with his
 29 5 |       travelled all over the world and was supposed to be acquainted
 30 5 |        with all the nations, to go and find out what sort of a
 31 5 |       monsters of the deep, hoarse and inarticulate, he thought
 32 5 |           a man. He approached him and thus spoke, as was easiest
 33 5 |            for a Greek chap: ~ Who and whence art thou, and where
 34 5 |           Who and whence art thou, and where are thy city and parents? ~
 35 5 |             and where are thy city and parents? ~ Claudius was
 36 5 |       verse would have been truer, and equally Homeric: ~ There
 37 6 |                                 6] And he would have imposed upon
 38 6 |          alone had left her shrine and come with him. All the other
 39 6 |            Vienna, a genuine Gaul. And so as a Gaul ought to do,
 40 6 |            know men from Lugudunum and that there are a good many
 41 6 |          miles between the Xanthus and the Rhone.” At this point
 42 6 |            point Claudius fired up and angrily grumbled as loudly
 43 7 |       Hercules said, “Listen to me and stop talking nonsense. You
 44 7 |         the silliness out of you.” And in order to be more terrifying,
 45 7 |            attitude of a tragedian and said: ~ “Declare at once
 46 7 |           in swiftly moving flood,~And Arar, pausing ere it lets
 47 7 |        things he said with spirit, and boldly enough. All the same,
 48 7 |          hero, forgot his nonsense and perceived that while no
 49 7 |           by me before the others, and if any one had asked me
 50 7 |          during the months of July and August. You know how many
 51 7 |       listening to the lawyers day and night; and if you had fallen
 52 7 |         the lawyers day and night; and if you had fallen among
 53 8 |           he wouldn’t have got it; and surely he wouldn’t of Jove,
 54 8 |        goes on in his own chamber, and now ‘he searches the regions
 55 8 |         the barbarians worship him and beseech him as a god that
 56 9 |          sees at once both forward and backward. He spoke at some
 57 9 |           He spoke at some length, and fluently, because he lives
 58 9 |     stenographer could not follow, and therefore I do not report
 59 9 |            importance of the gods, and that this honor ought not
 60 9 |           the distinction a farce. And so lest my remarks seem
 61 9 |           given to the hobgoblins, and to get a thrashing among
 62 9 |       himself also a consul-elect, and a money-changer; by this
 63 9 |     business he supported himself, and he was accustomed to sell
 64 9 |            approached him politely and gave him an admonitory touch
 65 9 |     related to the divine Augustus and no less also to the divine
 66 9 |         goddess by his own orders, and whereas he far surpasses
 67 9 |   surpasses all mortals in wisdom, and it is for the public interest
 68 9 |           been made so before him, and that this event be added
 69 9 |         The opinions were various, and Claudius seemed to be winning
 70 9 |           kept running to this one and that one, saying, “Don’t
 71 9 |        this is my personal affair. And then if you want anything,
 72 10|            expressing his opinion, and discoursed with the utmost
 73 10|       always mind my own business. And I can no longer disguise
 74 10|            I secured peace on land and sea? For this did I make
 75 10|            those of my own family. And so I will pass over the
 76 10|          will pass over the former and describe these. For I know,
 77 10|           the other by starvation, and L. Silanus, one of my great-great-grandsons.
 78 10|             whether in a bad case, and one which is certainly your
 79 10|       condemned any one of the men and women whom you put to death
 80 11|          the heavenly threshold; ~ and he got angry at his wide
 81 11|           he got angry at his wide and hung her up, but he didn’
 82 11|        Scribonia, the Tristionias, and Assario; and they were aristocrats
 83 11|          Tristionias, and Assario; and they were aristocrats too,
 84 11|         they were aristocrats too, and Crassus besides so stupid
 85 11|          when the gods were angry. And finally, if he can say three
 86 11|            which I have to offer;” and he read as follows from
 87 11|        sons-in-law Magnus Pompeius and L. Silanus, his daughter’
 88 11| mother-in-law, his wife Messalina, and others too numerous to mention,
 89 11|           from adjudicating cases, and that he be got out of the
 90 11|          heaven within thirty days and from Olympus within three.” ~
 91 11|           a division of the house, and this resolution was carried.
 92 12|          it was Claudius’ funeral. And indeed it was a most elegant
 93 12|       indeed it was a most elegant and elaborate display, so that
 94 12|           trumpeters, hornblowers, and players upon every kind
 95 12|           it. Everybody was joyful and in high spirits. The Roman
 96 12|         like free men. Only Agatho and a few pettifoggers were
 97 12|          their hiding-places, pale and thin, scarcely drawing breath,
 98 12|       getting their heads together and lamenting their calamity,
 99 12|            their calamity, came up and said, “I told you the Saturnalia
100 12|       fetters~That Romulus forged, and Ocean himself~To tremble
101 12|          poets, now should bewail;~And ye above all, who lately
102 13|        delighted with his praises, and desired to stay longer to
103 13|            gods laid a hand on him and pulled him away, with his
104 13|         across the Campus Martius, and between the Tiber and the
105 13|     Martius, and between the Tiber and the Arcade went down to
106 13|       ready to receive his patron, and as the latter was approaching
107 13|           all sleek from the bath, and said: “What’s this? Gods,
108 13|          Hurry up,” said Mercury, “and announce that we are coming.”
109 13|        hill, the descent was easy. And so, in spite of his gout,
110 13|          like to meet in the dark. And with a loud voice he said, “
111 13|     forward with clapping of hands and chanting: “We have got him;
112 13|             Cotta, Vettius Valens, and Fabius, Roman knights whom
113 13|        Myron, Harpocras, Amphaeus, and Pheronactus, all of whom
114 13|           prefects Justus Catonius and Rufrius Pollio; then the
115 13|           friends Saturnius Lusius and Pedo Pompeius and Lupus
116 13|           Lusius and Pedo Pompeius and Lupus and Celer Asinius,
117 13|            Pedo Pompeius and Lupus and Celer Asinius, of consular
118 13|            fact all his relatives; and forming in line they came
119 14|        court would enter the name, and recorded the accusation:
120 14|         Roman knights, two hundred and twenty-one; other persons,
121 14|            in the Claudian tongue, and asked for a postponement.
122 14|            of persons, forbade him and condemned Claudius after
123 14|       somebody came to his rescue; and that poor Ixion’s wheel
124 14|          be devised some vain task and the hope of gratifying some
125 14|        with a bottomless dice-box. And already he had begun to
126 14|           constantly escaping dice and to accomplish nothing; for ~
127 15|           when he gathered them up and once more ventured to play
128 15|            they gave him the slip, and kept him pursuing,~Constantly
129 15|        Suddenly C. Caesar appeared and began to claim him as a
130 15|         him with whips, with rods, and with his fists. The man