FOR Chilo, it was really important to set aside Glaucus, who, though advanced in years, was by no means decrepit.

There was considerable truth in what Chilo had narrated to Vinicius.

He had known Glaucus on a time, he had betrayed him, sold him to robbers, deprived him of family, of property, and delivered him to murder.

But he bore the memory of these events easily, for he had thrown the man aside dying, not at an inn, but in a field near Minturna.

This one thing he had not foreseen, that Glaucus would be cured of his wounds and come to Rome.