Who does not wish to stand on the step next above his own?
You, my friend, would like that of Macrinus .-- But deeds! You know me! I am safe from them, so long as each of you so sincerely grudges his neighbor every promotion.

You, my Lucius, have again proved how keen your sight is, and, if it were not too great an honor for this refractory city to have a Roman in the toga praetexta at the head of its administration, I should like to make you the guardian of the peace here.

You see me," he went on, "in an elated mood to-day .-- Cilo, you know this gem which came tome from my father.
Look at it, and at this maiden .-- Come nearer, priest of the divine Alexander; and you too consider the marvel, Theocritus, Antigonus, Dio, Pandion, Paulinus.

Compare the face of the female figure with this girl by my side.

The master carved this Roxana long before she was born.
You are surprised?
As Alexander's soul dwells in me, so she is Roxana, restored to life.