His freedmen knew I was coming, embalmed the body, and wait for me to go to Rome to-morrow to give the funeral oration and light the pyre.

He has left a fortune fit to compare with that of Crassus[21]--real estate, investments, a lovely villa at Tusculum.

And now I--no, _we_--are wealthy beyond avarice.

Shall we not thank the Gods ?" [20] A member of the band who with Catiline conspired in 63 B.C.

to overthrow the Roman government.
[21] The Roman millionaire who had just been slain in Parthia.
"I thank them for nothing," was her answer; then more shyly, "except for your own coming; for, Quintus, you--you--will marry me before very long ?" "What hinders ?" cried the other, in the best of spirits.