This, by special favour, she will be allowed to inherit from her grandfather, the old rabbi, Benoni, one of the Sanhedrim, who perished in the burning of the Temple." "How can a slave inherit property, son ?" asked Vespasian, raising his eyebrows.
"I don't know," answered Titus with a laugh.

"Perhaps Domitian can tell you.

He says that he has studied law.

But so I have decreed." "A slave," interrupted Domitian wisely, "has no rights and can hold no property, but the Caesar of the East"-- here he sneered--"can declare that certain lands and goods will pass to the highest bidder with the person of the slave, and this, Vespasian Caesar, my father, is what I understand Titus Caesar, my brother, has thought it good to do in the present instance." "Yes," said Titus in a quiet voice, though his face flushed, "that, Domitian, is what I have thought it good to do.

In such a matter is not my will enough ?" "Conqueror of the East," replied Domitian, "Thrower-down of the mountain stronghold called Jerusalem, to which the topless towers of Ilium were as nothing, and Exterminator of a large number of misguided fanatics, in what matter is not your will enough?
Yet a boon, O Caesar.