This is no good sign, you think?
I see it in your face.

I do not myself think so.

And how loudly I have called on him, of all the gods! The whole empire, they say, men and women alike, besought the immortals unbidden for the welfare of Titus.

I, too, am their lord; but"-- and he laughed bitterly--"who has ever raised a hand in prayer for me of his own impulse?
My own mother always named my brother first.

He has paid for it,--But the rest!" "They fear rather than love you," replied the philosopher.