I esteem and love them." "Do not win them to thyself by premature praises," retorted Vinicius.
They went now into a narrow depression, closed, as it were, by two ditches on the side, over which an aqueduct was thrown in one place.

The moon came out from behind clouds, and at the end of the depression they saw a wall, covered thickly with ivy, which looked silvery in the moonlight.

That was Ostrianum.
Vinicius's heart began to beat now with more vigor.

At the gate two quarryrnen took the signs from them.

In a moment Vinicius and his attendants were in a rather spacious place enclosed on all sides by a wall.