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CALLISTA

A

TALE

OF

THIRD

THE

CENTURY.

BY

HENRY

JOHN

"Love

thy God,

And

thy breast

In

that

All

things

One

Vainly With

and

Great

soul

being

of

with

For

deepest

impalpable

Holds

like

Mortal Or

:

dwell

lonely.

and

;

hearts

still

is

sweet.

mingle

to

kind

our

twined

are

:

single.

resistance still at

natures

love

only, be

grave,

the

hearts

the

Him

ne'er

Spirit meet

mighty,

strives a

love

will

Vainly

An

NEWMAN.

CARDINAL

that for

Holy aye

distance.

One,

alone." DE

VEEE.

EDITION.

NEW

LONDON

LONGMANS, AND

NEW

GREEN, YORK

:

15, EAST 1889

All

ric/fitsreserved.

CO.

AND 16th

STREET

To

WILLIAM

HENRY

To

irho

alone,

WILBERFORCE.

have

lomj,

known

you

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could

well,

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to

venture

so

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will

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recognise

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in

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in

the

recognition.

J.

H.

N.

ADVERTISEMENT.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAP.

I.

SICCA

.1

VENERIA ...

.

II.

CHRISTIANITY

IN

14

SICCA .

III.

AGELLIUS

IN

HIS

...

.

25

COTTAGE .

.

IV.

.30

JUBA ....

V.

JUCUNDUS

.

.39

SUPPER

AT

.

.

VI.

GOTHS

AND

.

51

CHRISTIANS .

.

VII.

PERSECUTION

IN

THE

64

OFFING .

VIII.

IX.

THE

NEW

80

GENERATION

JUCUNDUS

BAITS

HIS

TRAP .

X.

THE

.111

CALLISTA

DIVINE

...

xi.

XII.

CALLISTA'S

AND

PREACHING,

135

DEATH

A

A

A

.

.

159

CLOUD

SMALL

.

.

.168

VISITATION .

.

XVI.

.

145

.

XV.

.

RESURRECTION

AND

.

XIV.

122

IT .

.

XIII.

OF

CAME

WHAT

WOESE

178

WORSE

AND

.

.

XVII.

189

LEONES

AD

CHRISTIANOS

.

XVIII.

.

.

199

FLITS

AGELLIUS

.

XIX.

A

OF

PASSAGE

212

ARMS .

XX.

HE

SHALL

XXI.

STARTLING

XXII.

JUCUNDUS

XXIII.

NOT

LOSE

226

REWARD

HIS

.

235

EUMOURS .

PROPOUNDS

.

HIS

...

VIEW

OF

THE

SITUATION

239 256

GURTA .

xii

Contents.

PAGE

CHAP.

sxiv.

A

MOTHER'S

266

BLESSING ....

XXV.

CALLISTA

XXVI.

XXVII.

CAN

AM

I

274

DDBANCE

IN

WHAT

IT

ALL

?

MEAN

291 .

.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

A

SICK

281

?

CHRISTIAN

A

.

.

XXXI.

305

317

CONVERSION ...

TOKEES

THE

329

VEDEAS

343

BAPTISM ....

XXXII.

THE

IMPERIAL

.

352

RESCRIPT .

XXXIII.

A

GOOD

.

357

CONFESSION .

XXXIV.

THE

....

366

MARTYRDOM ...

XXXV.

THE

CORPO

...

371

SANTO .

XXXVI.

.

CALL

.

XXX.

.

LUX

PERPETUA

SANCTIS

.

TUIS,

.

377

DOMINE .

C A

L

OF

THE

TALE

A

L

I S T

TRIED

I.

SICCA

in

existed

the

middle

of

richer

a

wear

the

in

played

or

the

centre.

Roman

colony,

which

bank,

led

mountainous

track

In

striking

east.

region

was

for

where

the

it

of

the

Numidian of

the

was

miles

wooded, terminated

Atlas,

and

mountains.

city was

the

and

a

which

might

be

was

the

a

precipitous

chain

of hills

or

to

a

of

with

wild

and

barren

west

and

south,

this

stretched

a

and

varied

at

length

occupied by

of

direction

by

The

dis

she

Sicca

upon

presented

dim

Nature

city, which

along

up the

contrast

view

many

exuberantly till

in

lay

did

territory

a

latter

The

as

than

garb

it

empire,

century,

joyous

metropolis,

considered

steep

the

Africa,

the

a

third

Proconsular was

of

Roman

vast

more

a

Carthage

seat

VENERIA.

of

province

no

;

CENTUKY.

CHAPTER

IN

A

and

the

the

and

north

smiling champaign,

with

thousand

hues,

the

successive

tiers

fantastic

forms

by

immediate

gardens,

a

of

the

neighbourhood vineyards,

corn-

Callista

and meadows, fields, of trees

avenues

there had

the

the

or

created.

backed, and

peaks and

the

crags

western

horizon, was

travelled

with

lightand

shadow

fied

hill and

with

wealth

which

heightsby

the northern

and

primeval forests,

of

remains

Through the mass

of green,

thickly from

west

the

the

the

which

skirted

diversi

to be

hollow

;

while

which

round

extended

to the

solid causeways

perseveringcourse

to

the Mediterranean

the

ancient

rival

Regius in Nurnidia.

of

Tourists

of the absence

of water

peasant would

have

alone had

to

reason

foliageand mother

the

earth

from

depth

ploughed the

what

rich

stream, till,after sea

no

multitude

of

the

scene

;

and

in

complained

but

others, most

deepening

as

nels had

been

cut

from

the native

that

the eye

conceal

of the

what

It

was

of with

in its way,

but

of them

they increased the

Atlas, made

breadth

yieldingmould

passing Sicca

much

Hippo

to

that the thick

did but

the spurs

it wanted

as

one

niggard bounty supplied. The

Carthage.

near

other

might have

surface

Bagradas, issuing from in

coast,the

discontented, and

uneven

with

tracking their

explained to them be

still more

north, might be

the

Rome,

the bottoms.

slopesor

two

the

city

which

the sun,

at intervals

up

level when

discovered,as

dale, upland and

held their appropriatesites on

to

luxury

and

gardens, orchards, olive and palm plantations

orange

seen

by noble

here

spaciousplain,though

This

southern

encircled

or

by the clusteringgroves

compared with was

crossed

;

the

bed, and its rapid

it fell into

largestof a

tributaries

to

it.

chan

While

it,

largerrillsfor the irrigation

of the Third

Tale

A

land, brooks, which

of the open which

lay againstthe

with

cut

neither

fathoms, with in

to

the

first to reach

who

had

been

were

the

resources

such

while or

dews

descended

half of the year,

region for one

African

by an

At

various

the

through the

woods, were

seen

hamlets

of that

happy land.

pride of

architecture

distances

from

from

a

them

of that

means

of

wards

centre,

had

when on

each

the

It was

hard

raidant

market-town

in

of which

and

borough,

marble, but

sharp at

finished.

crowned

Saracens

most

be

the

of

after to this

angles, as

Every here basilicas

as

tightby were

the

with

and

and

there,

temples,

cities of the

sun,

might

of

its

neighbourhood, Thibursicumber,

seen

Sufetula,and Thugga, Laribus, Siguessa, in

temples,ran

the

province or while

the

age

specimens remain

surface, as

crag,

in

when

an

or

or

the

frames, for which

or

the

composite of fine earth, rammed

they first were

hill

villas and

indulged to the full ;

been

of stone

some

famous, and

day, as

ex

undulating surface,

edifices, publicand private,mansions off far away

summer

dailytribute

sun. over

and

whole

the

over

and

And,

localities

the thick

night for the

compensated by

torted

it.

of less favoured

profuse rains

seasons,

the zealous

the

workmen

some

as

spurtingcolumn

drowned

had

much

depth of as

vast

instances

of water

where

found, wells had

to be

effect that the

such

gravel

pebbles ; and

rivulets were

springsnor

in the

up

banked artificially

been

paved with

or

dag, sometimes

been 200

stones

sprang

had hills,

.'3

Century.

the

far

distance, on

an

many

elevated

others ;

table-land

4

Callista

under

the

Atlas,,might

famous Scillitana, which

we

write

about

beheaded

were

Colonia

the

before

fiftyyears

proconsul for refusingto

of

date

the

of

Speratus and

at

the order

his

of the

by the genius of Rome

swear

the emperor.

If

the

about

the hill or

his

takes

spectator now

but itself, on

discerned

be

for the martyrdom

companions, who and

;

quarter of a mile

a

knoll

which

on

Sicca

from

Succoth

mentioned

by the

"

benoth, or

worship in Samaria,

shows

tion to the Phoenician

colonists

rate, the

Punic

tents

inspiredwriter

deities

that

(as some

suppose)

of the

daughters,"

objectof pagan

an

as

its founda

it owed

of the

retained

picture. Its

into the

Veneria, if it be derived

the

south-east,

the

to

placedthe cottage of

was

Agellius,the cityitself will enter name,

in Sicca

stand, not

country. hold

their

place; the temples of the Tyrian of annual human Saturn, the scene

At

upon

Hercules

any

the

and

of

were sacrifices,

conspicuousin its outline, though these and religious buildingsin it looked small beside

all other the mys

terious the

antique shrine devoted to the sensual rites of Public baths and Syrian Astarte. theatre, a a

imitative capitol, line of a

of

Rome,

portico,an

equestrian statue

Emperor Severus, were streets

and

of

down

a

gymnasium,

a

the

nary

spring threw

every

minute, and

gratitudeof the

in brass

hill.

and

In

of the

winding, ran

its centre

several up incessantly was

long out

grouped together above

city,which, narrow

across

the

inclosed

by

with

the

inhabitants

the

an

tons

the up

extraordi of water

superstitious

peristyliumof a

Tale

A sacred

place. At

which

could

we

of the. Third

the extreme be

not

last stationed

back, towards

the north,

ourselves,there the

which

strikingappearance the ancient

Enna, in the

attaches heart

at lengthcontemplatethe

as

much

to

We

stand

in the

aloe.

At

of the rich and a

attention,and

elicit admiration.

and

hill,which to

of the

one

devoted

to the

The

a

thick

thankful

barley harvest

in

on

spoken, hundred of

the

grove

of

cultivation A

the

tributaries

refreshment

triumph in the

wards

with

Tchennah.

their

or

have

we

garden, intersected

lifted up

gardens,

sloped down

turbid river of which

to

wealthy pro

by hedges of cactus

Sicca

water's side,and heaven.

of some

of fields and

number

other

odoriferous

palms seemed

to

of a farm

of the

artificial rills, was

pano

if we objects,

nearer

or

the

almost

from

largeyard or

beautiful

from

shall find

each

the side furthest

a

surveying it,we

midst

the foot

and

which

prietor, consistingof a separatedfrom

bold

same

spot itself from

last

repay

at

Castro Giovanni,

to

eyes

rama,

been

seen

of Sicily.

would

have

its distant

where descent

sheer

a

it was

side,the

whether

we

in

was

city,when

withdrawing our

now,

pointof view

the

the Mediterranean

on

And

5

from

seen

of rock, bestowing on distance

Century.

of ;the

boughs to the

fields

which

layhigher up the hill was over, or at least was all that remained of the crop was the finishing ; and incessant and importunatechirpingof the cicadce, and the rude

booths

wither, in which the

sun,

while

of reeds the in

an

and

left to

bulrushes, now

peasant boys found earlier month

shelter from

they frightened B

6

from

the

and

other

tested On

Callista

;

grain the myriads

of

small

in other

with

the

birds

who, as

linnets, goldfinches, countries, con

proprietorthe possessionof it. slope lies a neat and carefully

the human

south-western

vineyard,the vine-stakes of which, dwarfish the eastern on as they are, already cast' long shadows scattered" to the Slaves side. over it,testifying are dressed

scorchingpower of the sun by their broad petasus, and to its oppressiveheat by the scanty subligarium, reached which from the belt or girdleto the knees. They

the

which and

in

engaged

are

showers

last

twisting

are

positions where

a

sun.

happy hymned

innermost

modern

bard

both

the

safe

in

from

which their

the

great

beautiful

piercingwinds, and

fitful sun-gleams

vast

mother

manifests

the

resources

of

out

pours

for

mighty

the life and

whole

apply the

or, to

;

"

lines of a

"

and

the bare earth, till now bare, unsightly, unadorned,

Brings forth the tender Her

universal

Then

herbs

Opening Her

face with

grass,

whose

verdure

pleasant green.

of every

leaf,that sudden

their various

colours, and

bosom,

swelling sweet

;

her

enjoyment of every

"When Desert

but

heavy rains, and

being

portion of the

into

season

after

when,

and

anew,

promise fruit

the

strains ;

long six months, the

herself

given ^birth,

Everything gives token

have

mists, and

raw

which

the

graciousand

heathen

spring have

twigs to

be

of that

poets

useless

they will

and

of

from

of

those

breeze

Latin

cutting of"

clads

;

flower,

make

and, these

gay scarce

blown,

A

Forth The

Tale

of the Third

7

Century.

flourishes the clusteringvine, forth creeps swellinggourd, up stands the corny reed

Embattled

in her fields,and

And

with

bush

the humble

shrub,

frizzled hair

implicit; last Eise, as in dance, the statelytrees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gem Their blossoms high woods the hills are crowned ; with With tufts the valleys,and each fountain side ; With borders long the rivers ; that earth now Seems like to heaven, a seat where gods might dwell, Or wander with delight,and love to haunt Her

A

shades.'1

sacred

from

snatch

thing of thicket

plaintivenessin the

earth, which

a

had

the appearance

of

procurator of the

His

thing of shyness and a

simple red knee, and

legsand

feet were

came

half up

and

his voice

of

managing

it is a You cut

his calf.

He

!"

these

he

fasten

off,they are

rather tunic

than with

were

the had

of

rusticity ;

half

sleeves, him

so an

don't well old

togetherthe shoots flyingabout

of the

by a which

slaves,

cheerful.

cried,"I

move

one

cast

some

protectedby boots addressed

branches

difficult thing to

never

hair and

tightenedround

gentleand

was

Sansar

"Ah,

labourers, who and

eyes

reserve,

descendingto the belt.

the

to

over

farm, leaped

spoke of Europe ; his manner

of his features

His

the

youth, who

the vines.

wore

in

the

went

he

deep

to

from

and

mule-path, cut

the

city gate

bailiff or

busy with

tone,

some

from

issues

the

the assistant

it,and

the

from

reaches

and

;

chant, with

Greek

old

some

just across

streamlet

;

as

like your my

fellow which

quite wild, and

own

way ;

but

like

you.

you

don't

the

first

Callista; that

ox

"

He

spoke in Latin; the in

answered

him

deviations

from

the

man

same

of

purity

understood

it, and

language, though

with

and

not

accent

talkee-talkee

in the parallel

without

for the

off."

them

ploughing will break

month

field next

through the

passes

syntax,

Indian

of the West

negro.

"Ay,

master," he said, "ay,

ay,

mistake

to

use

much

the

tendril

the

only enemy Ah

the

under

plough

the

the "

Agellius;

protectionof

it's all

The

fork

does

fear for the grape.

against the

does

raise

not

heavy and

the

but

a

the

I hide

sun,

which

much

dust

is

to consider."

have

the fork

and

no

all.

at

leaf

the

we

! but

turned

plough

better,and

work

"

the

ay;

so

cattle

which

said

dust

the

tendril

than

draw does

the

as

it,"re for

more

shade

of the

leaf." "

But

those

huge beasts," retorted

great ridges,and

up "

It's no

had

his

old

an

before

I

Agelliusgood-humouredly ; and garden beyond.

he

Here

through

which

tion which

;

the

to

call

it was

one

garden,so extent

theory

other

were

was

making

various

celebrated.

indications year

it,was

was

"

turn

a

for

was

of

space

who vinedresser,

born,"

was

passed on the

of several and

extracting their country set

into a

happy month

of roses,

another

said

travelling.The

now

large bed

parts of that Here

slave,

destroy the yard."

good arguing with

formed

the

this

for

day labourers,and

are

of

prepara

essence, to

in

acres

A

a

of middle

man

His

Tale

of the Third

age

surveyingthem

was

business-like, severe,

the villicus or

"Always not

here," said he, "as

Saturnalia

;

and

recollect

old

well

"

the

Ah

!"

fellow ; yet slaves

have

"

in the

one

Why

he,

demand

it, and

above

all the

and

her

jocund month. genial,

you

know

clash

nor

and

you

foot

one

in

Nothing would You

be

engaged me,

but at this season

"

the

verse;

'

there."

Rome,

the

taking-

not

you

all-

Agellius; "don't

shoe.'

of

Nature,

are

town-goer.

a

were

answered

genius

their

worshipping the

asked

be here, not

to

slave,

a

Hiempsal's saying about

if I

I suppose,

bespoke

manner

? "

I, sir ?

and slipper,

done

leisure.

were

ull-blessed. town

should

Why

at his

if you

always serving,not

holidayin the

the

good

my

bounteous

"

and off-hand

9

bailiff himself.

Roman,

a

Century.

do

of

customs

the empire, the

country,

great goddess Astarte 'Parturit be

not

jarwith

out

the

almus of

;'

ager

with

tune

great system

of

the universe."

A

cloud

of

face. Agellius's at

lengthhe

of

confusion,or He

seemed

as

distress,passed over if he wished

merely said, It's a fault on "

the

to

speak ;

rightside

in a servant, I suppose." "

"

I know

the

way

of your

people,"Vitricus replied,

Corybantians,Phrygians, Jews,

what

do

you

call

fantastic religions ? There are so yourselves many now-a-days. Hang yourself outright at your housedoor, if you are tired of living and you are a sensible "

fellow.

How

can

any man,

whose

head

sits rightupon

10

Gallista

his

shoulders, say

worth "

country, which the

think

you

need

you

"all bailiff,

Sicca

fields,and

the

Be

in.

not

side.

your

ears,

will fillyou Vitricus

had

of Astarte

were

cities, whom who

said

course

;

the

different

of the

solemn

at

aspects was

lofty and

intellectual

excess.

There

as "

at

ever

goes

the

brandished

absurd

young

from

He

indeed

it ; but

shoots.

his bones, and

A

the

as

some

him

was

it shows

Urania,

once

embodied the

frank

Vitricus

the

vulgar; com

a

to

soldier

himself,

infernal

god took umbrage

and

with

his

are

too

as

its

sour

one

of those

plentifulhere

old himself

good servant, but

he will rot/'

to

goddess of sensuality

good and

as

which superstitions

serpents. harm

saddled

she

as

Urania, majestic and

pilum," said

tillin his last years

him, and

of

son

of Astarte,

latelyintroduced

philosopher,the statesman, or

"

feast-days

;

idea of the

and

goddess,

its dependent

Aphrodite,according

manding as Juno, seductive

your

Carthage and

Juno, and

as

up

of celebration

Heliogabalus had in her

into

let pleasureflow

ecstasy."

divinityof

the well-known

Rome,

in

and

the

poured Lift

breath

the sweet

she

as

Sicca," answered

to

go

river

It was

and

differ."

and

with

little for

care

It has

groves,

passive under

and

of town.

is out

alive, open

man

eyes,

"

tame,

so

Tastes

flauntingtown.

"Town!

not

Agellius, I like the

quietbeing,"answered

a

having, and

life is worth

that

''

enjoying?

I ana

;

to

nature

the

as

get much in these

plague'sin

A

His racter "

"

The

:

reflections

of God

not

!

better than

taint of the

cityin

these

! sweet

Nature, the

child

of the

to

do the fiend's work, and

town.

0

flowers,0 bright sun

and

in, and

are

ye

the

it !

from

Ye

is ; but

man

error,

have

the

are

not

will

turned

for

me

this

accursed A time

ever

you

bondage redeemed

are

as willingly,

nobler

to

of

is this vast, this solid establishment of many

You

?

thousand

years,

yourselves,dear

nought first. Anyhow,

to

till you

it fair

and a

bond-slaves,but

incubus

end

an

balmy air,what

be

does

trees

do ye groan

How

purpose?

beautiful

ye

how

how

cried ;

sin to-day/'he

find the

Alas

Almighty, is made

of a different cha

were

air breathes

very

I did

11

of the Third Century.

subordinate's

oh that

works

Tale

the

is

public way

evening. They'llsoon

will

ones,

to

ever come

place

no

be back

from

their

been

heard

from

revelry."

sound

and

of horns

had

voices

to time

through the woods, as if proceedingfrom partiesdispersedthrough them ; and in the growing through the

lights, glancingand wandering foliage. The cottage in which Agellius

dwelt

was

the

which

crossed

the

walk

some

twilightmight be

first to

on

scarcelyhad when

he

seen

revellers, who

hill.

bols

of

far

as

idolatry

he

had

along

it ;

and

into

it for

that

purpose,

the

front

of

band

of

scene

of

returning from

on

dress

their

a

some

arrayed

were

they studied were

bridle-way

for home

distance

in

himself were

make

little

impious festivity.They

guise,as

To

descended

he

found

side of the hollow

other

at

in

holiday

all ; the

foreheads

and

sym arms

;

12

Gallista ; of them

some

intoxicated,and

were

of them

most

were

women. "

have

Why

fellow ? "

"

said

one.

'I know

he's

By Astarte," said a third,

Gnostics

!

I have

look.

dog

He

which

Old made

dash

a

On

this

two

shout

here's

a

lad

didn't

you

one

now

;

I

that

knows

and

the

to

say, you.

speaker

him

see

cried

is a wizard make

his way

steep path, leaptup in

ridge,and

the

woman

he

doing so

ever

He's

;

"

out,

slowly making

and

"

that

sister did it j the fool left me was

us

was

broken

steps to

security; when him

"

along with

the

on

know

sly

his hang

at him.

three

or

those

Channibal."

Agellius,who

past them

of

whelps,first cousin

to

fellow,come

the

one

they all began

Channibal,Chaunibal,

by

chap before,with

of Pluto's

his name's

Cerberus, and On

the

seen

is one

struck

of him."

the cut

"

"

but

"

Comely built,"said another,

furies.

"

worshipping; young

been

not

you

out,

he eats

went "

0

the

toad, I

little children

sign? it's a charm. to

be

in

away

of them.

one

;

My She

"

(mimicking the sign of the cross) Christian, blight him ! he'll turn into us

a

.

beasts." bite

"Cerberus, blood his scream

the

;" and ear

taking up he

as

ass's head

said a

another, "he

stone, she

?

put

! that's

and

hatred

out

the

why

he has

sucks

made

it whiz

view.

A

followed.

"

disappeared from

of contempt

gibbethim

him!"

lights, pub not

out

been

past

general Where's

the

lights !

with

honest

people a

down

blasphemous

not

words.

going

even

A

Tale

of

in

the

vale."

song, to

the

the

conceive,

Third

And

13

Century.

then,

struck

they

sentiments

of

much

less

"which

to

we

attempt

up

are

in

14

Callista;

II.

CHAPTER

IN

SICCA.

their

way;

CHRISTIANITY

THE

revellers

on

his, and

He

was

of the

went

on.

for

made

the elder Secunda

Sicca, where

of the two

sons

who Italica,

had

had

been

the

had

been

posted as

initial

them

to

to

the

The

Christian.

a

his

conversion.

He

their

guards, and

had

of

cause

of

one

their

martyrdom,

whom

in the

of

the

scene

civil

force,to

of the law

Therefore, happily for him,

it could

their executioner,a function

he might not to his feelings, revolting to

decline.

He

shake

off the

upon

him

remained

a

protectionof some

his brother's

home

wife

of the

self by the been

old

the

not

fall to

produce of a

which, however have

had

courage

martyrs had

he

stock, and small

his

made

of service, he

great friends in Sicca,

already. Here

Numidian

given to him

committed.

completing his time

retired to the

pro

was

though he could not

pagan,

impression which

and, after

;

in

them

died, having in

mother, and

the administration

duty to be

with

Severus

at

consulate

settled

legionary

Carthage in the persecutionof

confessors

addition

of a Roman

of some

become

in

lonely cottage.

fortitude

his old age

attended

lowly and

his

he lost their

Agellius went

took

second

supported him

piece of land

for life by the

a

which

had

imperialgovernment.

Tale

of the Third

necessary

in order

to

keep alive the good

in

his

heart,,he

A If trial were seed

which

had

been

sown

15

Century.

found

a

never-failing supplyof that article in the companion of his decliningyears. In the hey-day of her youth she might have been fitted to throw a sort of sunshine, or rather

a military carouse on torchlight,

poor

Strabo, a

for

had

peace,

surrendered

his

whose

woman,

well

man

fallen

world, looking

her arts,he found

under

freedom

in the

do

to

to

her

better

an

time

the

popular belief,which

to the

encouraged,went hold

tainlyshe

such

betoken, inflicted

intercourse.

him

on

her

the characteristics,

the

was

he

drawn with

mune

heaven,

to

not

with

man,

more,

amiable

for some

out

where religion,

hell.

is to

con

she involved

more

hold

Whether

herself

arts, the

more

alone

com

to

with

intercourse

great

so

she

then,

he looked

invisible

the

and

these

the

that

cer

unnaturally

not

repute of unlawful

the

guilt or

The

; and

proficiencyin

more

solation elsewhere; and in

God

towards

rather

actuallydid

world

unseen

naturally follow, and

would

which

the

Indeed, as she

she

that

in a hatred

matured

soldier.

extent

with

intercourse

an

invalided

for

company

for

on,

he had

malignant,profligate

a

passionsmade

evil spirits than went

when

but now,

;

a

trial

human inducement for looking supplied a more it is impossible to say. towards Most Christianity,

certainlyRoman

men,

mixed

act

on

his

becoming

soldiers,may

motives; but in

his

so

last years

it was a

be in

considered

to

fact,that,on

Christian,he found,

that the perhaps discovered,to his great satisfaction,

16

Callistaj

Church

did

which

bound

life

him

his

might end

obligehim

not

made

to

to

his

to

attend

take

the

home

on

own

at least

priestwho

and

the

his

last illness

from

the

altar

had

been

able

faithful,and

thus

had

him

took

his

to

in

the

Church, which

was

236,

he

six months

the

midst

within

his decease

the

beginning of

at

confession. he

forgivenessof all whom

givinglarge alms year

been

anointed

also

had

He

This

of

long peace

that at

;

died,

injured,and

poor.

broken

past

had

end;

sacrament

the

he

he

presence

last time

the

synaxis of

a

communicated

begging

blessed

that his

have

good

a

tie

would

wife's

his

precluded. He

which tranquillity

a

a

renew

or

misery, and

much

so

days in

required,and

allowed

to

continue

to

was

about

the

of

the

Decian

length by the

persecution. This

of well-nighfiftyyears

peace

had

necessarily

and not a happy effect upon the Christians peculiar, of the proconsulate. They multiplied in the greater

a

and

the

cities,and

maritime

made

importance,whether

positions of

their in

into

way

trade

or

the

their governmental departments; they extended and with the were on family connections, good terms heathen.

Whatever

againstthe Christians

Christian

were

be

occasions, at the

of the

with

though among

citizens ;

time

accidental

still cherished

nevertheless,individual

name,

treated

as

feasts, when

jealousymight be

and civility,, recognised

the

populace there

of the

outbursts

more

solemn

might

be

antipathylatent in the community,

as

would pagan

expected we

have

been

recording in

sense,

however, began to understand

to

be

This

a

would

lead them

lead them

population did formidable, which, as

a

wield

the

force and

fortunate

longer

no

weapons

unknown

success

religionmore

a

felt,was

statesmen

of enthusiasm

similar

and apprehensions,

most

Egyptian

or

philosophicalschools

zeal

the

to

even

The

hierophants.

and

Oriental

the

impostors among

pressed with

make

heathen

classes

the lower

among

but

the

with

was

the

still growing unbelief

to

It

populace to insult,but for The to put down. prevail deliberately

government

able

faith.

of their

less, but Christianity

scorn

fear it more.

merely for

ing and

of

better, and

them

reasonableness

to

to

Men

foregoing chapter.

the

just to

matter

of

the

more

it would

17

of the Third, Century.

Tale

A

im

were

had

for

now

employed in creatingand systematisintellectual basis for the received paganism. been

fifty years ing a new

But, while

the

led to the

signs of the times

antici

the impending between strugglewas and of the new heads of the state religion worship which was taking its place,the great body of Christians,

pation that

a

laymen

and

terms,

with individually,

ecclesiastics,were

what

is

their able

circumstances

now

called

the

faith

those

embers

it must tion

;

be

sometimes

jointhe

of

would

were

Chuvch

on

and

of

and

better

or society,

without

charitywhich

losing favour

promptly rekindle, were of considerable

state

the

on

fell

better

members

public;

confessed,in a

they often

sins,and would

or

on

the

over

the

brink

of

brink.

inferior motives

relaxa

deplorable And as

many soon

as

IS

Callista ; to

the

parents might

grow

no

great temporal disadvantage attached

or

the

with

families

little of

so

moral

it difficult to

make members

of

increase

both

"

of Christian

and

the scandal

up to

as

themselves

marriageswould

the confusion.

St.

Cyprian, speaking of

which period, had corrupted the discipline down to us. was Every one applying "

this very had

religion.Mixed

long repose," says

A

they called

why

say

divine

a

religionseducation

or

act ;

come

the

increase

himself

to

both

the

conduct

and

what

with

insatiable

of the

ought

faithful

be

to

wealth

of

and,

;

conduct

their

forgetting

the

under

in

age,

every

for gain devoted

eagerness

Apostles, himself

to

priests were multiplying of possessions. The in wanting in religiousdevotedness, the ministers the

of faith ; there

entireness

in discipline

colour

misled

simple were brethren of of

what

became

marriage were Christ

place were

their

wore

Their

Grod made

them, and

the

The

hair.

treacherous

by

formed

with

swollen

with

false

ought

to

be

an

others, despisingtheir

dis

lying of the

artifices,and Ties

snares.

; members

Not

only rash in

high contemptuousness ; poisoned

even

;

persons

their mouths, and reproaches fell from sundered by unabatingquarrels. Numerous who

no

eyes a

hearts

unbelievers

to the heathen.

heard, but

works,

beards

faces.

entangled in seductive

abandoned

swearing was

in

mercy

their

dyed

passed upon

was

no

Men

manners.

figured,and woman were changed from

was

encouragement sacred

and

men

were

bishops, example to

engaged calling,

them-

Tale

A

selves

in

their

vinces, hunted

the markets

for mercantile

tried to

large sums

of

brethren

starvingwithin

of estates

by fraudulent

their

relaxation

in the of Christianity in

extinguish it would be

possession

and proceedings,

multiplied

*

usuries."

remote

extend

attractive

African

effort or

an

residence which

names,

sees

remained

was

pretty much At

Sicca. serves

vacant

without

the time

toral functions was

in

of

that

with

towns

a

uncouth

became

which

scarce

This

out.

Church

and

we

write, historypre

city. In

of

matter

amiable

acquireda

pas

fact there

old man,

considerable

himself

of

see

bishop as exercisinghis

employed

;

the

last bishop,an

land, and

loss.

Curubis, was

Vocations

with

case

of years

course

of arable

could

secular

congregations died

of any

in

The

none.

the

;

the

or

There

the ecclesiastical student

amaze

the

record

no

than

of the Councils.

in the Acts

profession contract

country places.

or

Carthage, Utica, Hippo, Milevis, or more

the

keep up Churches, which

without

served

Church

largercities would

little zeal to

be

they had

while

money,

would

which

and profits,

; took

gains by accumulated

The

not

the

sees,

foreign pro

people, strayed among

amass

19

Century.

vocations, relinquishedtheir

secular

deserted

of the Third

had

extent

for principally,

lack of more

occupation,in reaping,stacking, spiritual

selling,and

sending off

market.

youth the

for

his

His

deacon

had

his

boldness

in the

capture of lions and 1

Vide

Oxford

wheat

been

for

the

celebrated

chase, and

transl. of St.

in

took

panthers (an act Cyprian.

Roman

of

early

part in

charity

20

Callistaj

towards

the

amphitheatre. No

conversion.

For

minds

humble

was

a

repentance and

nourishingmeet had

scared

pronouncing the

eternal

; there

been

by

Catholic

every.

lost

Tertullianists, who

ing-house of

lost

baptism ; parents

there

while

a

the

Afterwards

death.

; wanderers

at least love

faith,or

of

lost

catechumens

found, and

be

to

parochus till his

bishop became infants and

priestswere

Roman

the

Sicca) for

round

peasants

had

also

more

perdition

various

de

had carried off the clever of Gnostics, who scriptions youths and restless speculators; and then there had been

lapseof time, graduallyconsuming

the

which

ration

had

Church.

of the African

year

of Sicca

consisted.

faith,no many

old

mansionarius

to

become his

claim

to

or

owed

their slaves

some

how

the

the

who

all but

how name

or

pious women, their

kept to

vast

a

were

Catholics,but pagans,

asking ; there

Juba, and Christian

be

to

priest,

religionto good

why ; there

or

ought

on

pagans brother

three

two

nothing at all,or

heretics,or

and

were

who

persons

Church

the

were

knew

one

the

was

single,who there

of whom

say

in the

bishop,no

married

;

that

no

there

mothers

the result was,

was

sacristan ; or

old days flourishing

There

There

deacon.

no

And

difficult to

it was

250

the

survived

the gene

far we

and

sure

Agellius

were

these now

were

two

had

proceed

a

to

explain. They were their father

about

the

died, and

of their uncle, whose

of seven

and

they fell under

the

ages

residence

at Sicca

eight when

guardianship had

been

one

A

of the reasons

Tale

of the Third

Century.

which

determined

Strabo

21

to settle there.

capital,drove a being possessed of some thrivingtrade in idols,large and small, amulets,and of the established the like instruments superstition. This

man,

His

father had

Carthagein the service of one of the proconsulof the day ; and his of the assessors too high to give him pro son, findingcompetitionran in the metropolis, had opened spect of remuneration his

statue-shopin Sicca.

enable the

an

of

the

Jucundus

Those

in this

English town

productionof

markets and

to

come

of

ware

modern

this

depended

on

who

from

came

some

so

certain

the

then

unknown

artists

whom

two. Greeks, brother on imported,especially isle on

fertile in

descriptionfor

East, were

pagan

which

arts

day to be

the Asian

and

;

he

sister,

coast, for the

a good-natured man, supply of his trade. He was and warmly attached to the positive, self-indulgent, reigningpaganism,both as being the law of the land of the state ; and, while he was and the vital principle reallykind to his orphan nephews, he simply abomi nated, as in duty bound, the idiotic cant and impudent

fee-fa-fum, to which, in his infallible judgment,poor old have

Strabo

had

betrayed his

restored them, you

country

and

to

their

may

children. be

He

quite sure,

would to

country'sgods, had

their

they

acquiescedin the restoration : but in different ways he shook his head as he said these little chaps,and difficult to deal with. Agellius had a very it, were the matter; and as for on opinionof his own positive Juba, though he had no opinionat all,yet he had an c

22

Calllsta ;

equallypositiveaversion any

He

remained

had

grew

up,

in his

himself

in it ; and

no earthlypower Christianity,

him

the door

in

be able

like a

mule, struck fast

independenceof mind. as might be, still, profession

time

took

renewed after his step-mother,

her

after his father's to

he believed

that

avow

he believed

if even

that

Agellius, on

the

his

plainly

old, had

plexed his old

the

length went

at

It was

from

man

father was

the devil,

scarcelysafe,how

his

was,

by a

hand, when

manifestation

a

and

stranger;

of zeal

had

made

was

confirmed, communicated

faded

measure

time

; but

a

Agellius had though he

away,

faith in its first keenness to

keep him

example, no up

so

up

far

as

and

to his

sympathy.

of

duty ; no

His

this,that

vigour.

the

per

good Italy

Baptized boy'snature reached

ado had

in

still retained

his

But

he had

no

exhortations, no

father's friends had

by an

six

to which

startingfor

the Catechism.

importunityto learn by the

boy

a

lescence, the graciousimpulses of his childhood

him

were

receivingbaptism ; had

on

corn-fleet which

is variable,and

one

far

so

cf this hopeful lad

senses

other

insisted

bishop lose the

some

with

his intercourse

own.

years

he

the

he

on,

nothing but

in

in him.

affirm

to

ever,

death, and

went

his

whatever

However,

in his

as

make

to

feelinga gratification

and

Church,

of the

though

of in his profession

would

he was,

So there

back.

go

he

since

state

go forward

him

make

nothing would

by

of paganism.

catechumen

found

he

because

him

on

in favour

opinionat all,even

another

thrust

have

to

taken

favour extraordinary

got him

they had the

lease for some

a

Strabo, a

perty which

him, and

added

The

charge was provincehad

held

and

of

small

this

serious

more

of the long prosperity

opulenceand enlargedthe Officials, contractors,and ser

increased

the

upper

class of

Sicca.

vants

of

government

the

of

care

another The

to it.

of the pro

years

soldier,had

veteran

imperial government.

property fell upon

23

of the Third Century.

Tale

A

had

made

fortunes,and

neighbourhoodof the city. Natives of the place,returningfrom Rome, or from provincial service elsewhere, had invested their gains in long

raised villas in the

leases of state

lauds,or

of the farms

belongingto the

imperialres privata or privy purse, and had become beautiful virtual proprietorsof the rich fields or One of gardens in which they had playedas children. had had a placein the ojficium such persons, who of the quasstor, or rather procurator, as he began to be called,was

the

confided

him

employerof Agellius. His property adjoinedthe cottage of the latter ; and, having first employed the youth from recollection of his father,he to

talents he showed

Such two

mode

;

his

was

but

the

in which

had

the

the

that he

of twenty-

in itself, and

obtained, no

it was

one

would

from

coldness which

firm in

was

shrunk, from

not

a

know

had

grown

where

as faith,

we

boy upwards,from c

2

the

consider

circumstances,to counteract

in truth he did

further than

and

it was

as

languor and religious And

under-bailiff from

positionat the earlyage

honourable

it adapted,under

him.

place of

for farm-business.

the upon

he

stood

have

said,

the

vice

24

CaUista;

and

immorality

Sicca.

He

him

truer

and

known

to

he

was

It

was

not

they

only

in

of

varieties it lose at

had

d, which

public

multitude

by

the

was

felt

was

life least

that

by to

than

when

be,

irrational which

submit

to

trifling observance

sanctioned.

some

world

did

In

that

day

there

kept

to

them

misanthropy, their

these

of

that

from

the

graceful, which

the

was

nature at

religious

obstinacy,

touching,

tradition

as

and

torments

or

was

Then

other

suffer

it

;

specific

disgusting rather

faith

act

detected. all

as

votaries

Catholic

idolatrous

and had

religion.

the

one

and

differ

though

that

or

be

a

generally

certain,

which

some

tested to

seen

find

The

magistrate,

was

and

withdrew

to

times,

steps,

established

moroseness

ceremonial.

on

it

of

considers

Christianity

length

believed.

worships

forms

sin, or

not

as

and

critical

insisted

much

rites

the

to

so

he

the

seemed

bid,

into

for

the

what

many

were

from

of

clear

him

was

least

at

know,

many "

he

that to

He

position.

keep

to

fatal

lead his

retrace

to

some

into

betrayed

be

of

atmosphere

very

either

Christian,

a

the

would

safer

not

selves

day

abruptly

seen

were

any

which

be

care

was

might

inconsistency, oblige

which

of

or

ages

A

of lie Third

Tale

Century.

III.

CHAPTER

AGELLIUS

THE last

had

we

the

His

the

a

a

loft

unlike

that

Eternal

Word

very

making, when

Agellius was

with

room,

side,not

contained

once

COTTAGE.

HIS

sightof him, was

sistingof one on

IN

cottage for which

-""

small

brick

over

it,and

house a

holy habitation in human

the

on

declivityof

gardens of Italy,the with a plot of turf. spiteof its distance the

orange-trees on rich

A

noble

from

the

lily,the

palm

It was

and

one

water, and

a

side, in group

of

foregroundto the

a

beds

the

ornamented

on

described

was

borders

chapter. The

it was

other, formed

landscape which

with

hill,and, unlike

the before

space

which

form

VirginMother, and Joseph, their guardian.

situated

con

kitchen

in

were

bacchar, amber-coloured

our

gay

and

opening with

the

purple, the

golden abrotomus, the red chelidonium, and the varie trained gated iris. Against the wall of the house were blossoms, the

pomegranates, with their crimson like

pothos or jessamine,and well became

flower, which And within a

red

it was ;

for

cross,

intimation

an on

a

one

with

the

symbolical passion

Christian

dwelling.

of

would

side of the

doves

star-

about

what

room

was

it,

as

be

found

rudelypainted

is found

in

early

Callista

26

Christian

shrines

peace

of the

seemed

to

this

to

been

allowed

Christians

and

the

of persecution

the tradition

lost ;

been

long had

So

day.

Church, that

have

;

professionof their faith at home, cautious as they might be in publicplaces; as freely do not* scrupleto raise in England, where we as now

themselves

in

crucifixes

within

shrink and

the

and

"

word,

a

her.

upon

three

case

with

two

in it.

The

appearance

a

or

the

Gospel according to the

Gospel was

wall

the earliest anti

On

shelf

of

of reverential

this

title which small

a

rolls or

but

Epistleto

by the holy Apostles

right and left. Under the rudely scratched upon

Advocata,"

quity bestows

Under

her

on

representationwas the

the

past

attended

prayer,

Paul

cabs

them.

rattle

rather sketches. or pictures, the Blessed Virgin with hands

stood in

houses, though we

sightof the hundred

three

or

centre

spread out Peter

within

which

two

were

and

churches

our

doing so

omnibuses

cross

In

from

the

them

o" parchment

sheets

spoke of use These

treatment.

placed

was

St.

the

were

and

Luke,

Koruans, in the old Latin

handsomely covered, and

indeed, Psalms,

St.

Paul's

version,

ornamented

The with

gold. The

otherwise

apartment was

implements and

materials

as

countryman

:

cottage

a

benches

for

a table, and sitting,

dried

leaves

coverlet,for rest stones

fixed in

a

and at

one

rushes,

night.

frame, with

with

such

might be expected in the

of

of

furnished

two

or

in

one

with

a

Elsewhere a

handle

stools

corner

a

and

heap

large crimson were

two

attached

mill to the

Tale

A

rim

of one

of them, for

tools ;

garden asir-rese

boxes

Then

grinding corn.

o" seeds

27

Century.

containing

vessel

a

;

again,

assuaging the sting of the scorpion; the

for

syrup

of the Third

anagallis,a potent medicine

or

of poisons,which It hung

chance.

beams, with

the

from

for the

in wine

taken

was

class

of the

mis

same

large bunch

a

of atsirtiphua, a sort of camomile, smaller in the flower and

fragrantthan

more

our

called duracince

of the kind

door

of the green

bough

smaller

the

away

which

he

stillness into

which

he

him

satisfied

doors, and

he

whom

he

whom

advisers

would

who

was

no

He

share

might

the

and

succour

his heart

his

and

back

upon

the

young,

and little,

that

for whom

memory

wayward

and

been

for

gain had

natural

effect,putting aside to

recur

it

to

and

excited

Great

able

joys

;

friends

griefs;

like his own,

unlike

his

own,

him.

A

very

is

flung

to

the

in especially

itself;and

of his

sympathy

with

respond

soul the

of

case

experiencedo

feelingsdo

so

in

higher benefits,to confession

so

much.

Agellius,even

sacramental

of

out

lonelyat home,

minds

"

deep

neither

but

;

might consult; minds him

ungodly the

repose

was

trial certainlythis,in which

great

been

entered

might beat

understand

would

who

had

needed

He

which

hearts

with

now

relief within.

lonelyin the crowd. kind;

the

near

the

between

escaped, and

had

quite. There no

and

;

insects.

from

turmoil

a

as

baryut or psyllium,to drive

Agelliusfelt the contrast

Poor

used

was

gathering of plentiful

febrifuge. Thence, too, hung a dried grapes, a

which

own,

its

have

; but

to

28

Callista;

confession had

he had

attended

Shall

feel for

not

should

him, though

it turn

every

corner

which

his

of

and aspiration, "No

one

his rustic

for

cares

Elias

many

;

Art

Thou

have

the

'

truth?

felt the

He

his "

I

and

soon

for

his

leave

Sicca

I am

young,

suddenly as

half pang, feeling,

answer

Am

half

he

against

I for

great divine

a

if

?"

drinking in

he

What and

to

ever

unhappiness. And

?

a

one.

of its members

turn, and

are

I am

;

consolation, of the

the

keeps me

Christians

one

on

expostulation,

belong to

of his

?

stopped as he

?'

thoughts,as

a

What

sat down

being one

the face of any

took

expire.

con

call to be

the of

come

to

ever

see

he

length in

at

do I not

Cirtha, where

And

burden

shall

measure

reflections

father's farm

he could

nothing to any

asked

that

paused in

Why

whom

knowledge, without

am

full taste

with

John, without

or

yet never society, He

of

me," he said, as

I am

"

John

even

him,

argument, interchange speculation,

bench.

even

for

sorry

affection ?

hermit, like Elias Yet

we

acquaintancein

world

lot lay,for those

Shall

into looking restlessly

was

small

the

be

may

we

that he

out

and easily,

verse

his trial ?

impatientunder

despondent and

he

twice

or

public homologesisof the Church. that the youth began to be poor

the

wonder

we

been, though once

never

the then

said, suddenly, binds

me

interest

my

to

my

in it will

from

Carthage,Hippo,

many

?

so

had

"

begun;

thrill,went

felt

unwilling to

pursue

the

question which

he

But and

a

here he strano-e

through his heart. his

had

thought, or

to

asked

he

;

and

Tale

A

into

settled

seemed

he

hero

a

yet !

There

Cast

thyself. and

is

smiles is

all

thine,

thy

canst

care

upon

compassion

at

thy

troubles.

is

;

He

foresees

Him.

By

by thy purity, which, in

and

thine

that

smile

upon

of the

child

vail

against

What

self

response

he tion

the him.

ointment

kneels ; and

down he

not,

of

canst

hast

so

idolatry ;

flower, thou will

hast

remember

shall

enemy

not

to

Agellius's face

the

loving parent. He

the

cloud

is

holy cross,

and

sweet

why,

not

with

shalt

He

pre

!

means

enliven

like

thee

but

;

thou

pollution, He

thy evil hour,

He

thee.

errors

midst

fair

some

of

in

the

the

in

like

thou

and

angel, who

to

faith, which

thy

midst

thee

knows

and

by thy right hand,

thee,

thee,

His

thy

for

sees

over

thoughts

not

care

or

He

hanging

good

whispering

simply, resolutely retained

is the

Him.

is

escape

cherished

feel, love,

He

thee

not

thou

art

thee, and

for

cares

;

thy weakness

holds

that

One

thou

though

thee

watching in

knows

than

more

in which

all.

at

cheer, solitary one, is

29

of mind,

condition

think

to

Century.

good

thee,

loves

Third

dull, stagnant

a

hardly

of

Be

of the

but

He

the

names

past.

soul.

out

upon

under

the

dread

symbol

evening

prayer.

begins

He

signs him

Name,

poured

his

It

reviving thoughts

sacred his

?

of

and

it

He

rises

his

salva

is ;

30

Callista

;

IV.

CHAPTER

JCJBA.

THERE

mechanical

habit, in

than

had

there

up, struck earthen

at the

other

end

silently opened the door, and his brother

sleep with

resignationand

the

been

before

complain? we

the

very

He

purpose

Juba

was

a

holding his

was

his face towards his

of

he gave

the

room

had

not

was

which

peace

Yet

The

to

go

had

why

to

just

should

in this world

for

preparing us against trouble to tall,swarthy,wild-lookingyouth. head

the roof

eyebrows, pursed up

while

small

it,while

near

consolation

receive

got

devotions.

poured into his breast.

he

come.

for he fell,

of the latter

countenance

down his

employed upon

was

He

of it Juba, who

sat

of

night,

it to his

pale rays feeblysearched

Its

lamp.

that

before.

long while

communicated

light,and

a

effort,less

of

Agellius'sprayers

for a

been

discovered

and

heart, less

of

more

was

utterance

one

on

side

he nodded

;

his

lips,and

to

as

sat, and

he

arched obliquely, crossed

his arms,

strange, half- whispered

a

laugh. "He, he, he!"

he

cried;

"

so

you

are

on

your

knees,

Agellius." "

"and

Why

shouldn't I be at this hour,"answered

'" before I go to bed ?

Agellius,

A

"

"

0, every

but

to

Tale

of the Third

taste, of course," said Juba

to his

one

unprejudicedmind

an

"

"

"

but

bowing and cringing religion. You may

ails

"What

night?

"

?

'"

pany I

asked

actions

much

take

your

comfort

as

this

time

for your

asked

of

com

I

live, that

you

I

priest,

or

to ask

"

can

?

me

';

get peace

or

tell you,

let

come."

kept silent

smile

on

for

awhile, and

face, and

his eyes

I want

more

"

devil

man,

righthave you Agellius, you'llnever

Juba

his

or

What

long as

the life to

God

one,

any

said

ground.

who

at

please/3said the other, of account I please. I won't give an

less to you.

alone

"

justwhen

to

Then,"

here

come

Agellius;

when

go

to

you

will come

and

the

scraping,

a

of that."

oath

a

shall it be

never

crawling and

"

sharply;

you

Juba;

my

somewhat

professany religionat all ? Perhaps I do, and perhaps I don't," answered

"

"

something

'''

don't

"

;

is

there

unworthy in the act." Why, Juba ? said his brother "

31

Century.

no

bit

his nails

with

lookingaskance

upon

than I have

well

; I am

content,"he said. "

Contented

course,"Juba

"Of rather "

"

with is an

retorted Agellius. yourself,"

with

to

content

I suppose,

?

replied; whom "

your

to wish

Creator."

Creator," answered an

ought one

':

Juba, tossingback

air of superiority ;

assumption."

"

Creator ; "

his head

that,I consider,

32

Callista;

in that "

'

"

dreadful

Go

!

on

!

way

'

law, and

the

brother,"cried Agellius, don't

dear

"0, my

began ?

who

Is

other

the

not

one

the

that

belief ?

The

it.

The

began

Is

?

Who

but

world

went

on

Aud

now,

who

Well, if I did," answered

You

coming

for ?

by what

come

?

There

was

no

anger

free from

feelingof

heart, as if he had

without

well

"

I didn't.

but

world

disturb

are

at

me

In

stone.

a

said, question,he quietly

what

answer

I have

been

of the woods.

there," pointingin the direction

his

expression of sharp anguish passed over

An

face,and for

brother's

length he said,"You down

to

I

poor

don't ?

mother

he

moment

silent.

was

to say you

mean

At

been

have

"

do," said Juba.

There

again a

was

off sadly, Juba, in the tossed

Juba

his

time

one

was

my

a

course

head, and

little while "

You

crossed

his

;

then

fallen

have

of the last several

I thought you

tized,"his brother That

silence for

the conversation.

Agelliusrenewed

At

a

he

;

kind, from

every

been

in Juba

"

his brother's

"

Christians

in the

what

of

appearance

is called

"

;

you

as

"

brought

began the dispute

right do

seemed

down

have

"

this hour

to

generally

very

Agellius;

here

in

began

you

so

it

''

?

you

"

lay down

'Tis the

Christians.

their rise.

it before

on

to

man

too?

received,this belief of a Creator in

go

"

years."

legs.

would

have

been

weakness," answered

Juba

;

bap

continued. "

it was

Tale

A

weak

a

moment

death. said

it

:

had

He

of the Third

kind

been

to

words

womanish

some

just after

was

33

Century.

me

the

old

a

child

as

and

to me,

it was

bishop's and

"

he

excusable

in me." "

Oh

that

had

you

!"

cried

fit passed/'he

said.

yieldedto

wish

your

Agellius. Juba "

looked

I have

to

come

one

sider

that

has

and

;"

right and

the

the

of

things.

to

comes

It is not

mind.

strength of

logicalhead

a

conclusion

justerview

a

who

every

The

"

superior.

a

very

I

con

different

wagging his own, to if it were coming to a great

he

began

left,as

many. "

to

Well," said Agellius,gaping,and to

come

"

I was

have

conclusion

a

here

brings you on

to

way

Jucundus," he answered,

"

and

in the grove

the river."

Here

said,

"

what

back

thrown

they were

Agelliusturned

not

what

late ? "

so

my

desiringat least

altercation,"

the

delayed by the Succoth-benoth

been

across

"

of

"

quite white.

were

To

see

the

world," answered

to

see

it.

Why

fun.

I

and

"

Juba I

it's unmanly

;

it ?

see

all,fools

!

swine

do, if I please. I

when

I see

good.

be

kind

of harm."

no

fellow," he

poor

"

and

It was

idiots.

good There

scampering about, or lying like hogs, all in

liquor. Apes others

shouldn't

despise them

they were,

My

there for ?

you

their controversy.

upon

I am

my

However,

will own

be

as

I

will

drunk

master, and

as

do

as

they,

it would

34

Callista i "

a

N"o harm

hog ?

harm

to

become

just views

of

human

! why, is it no

or

ape

an

"

"You

don't

answered

take

Juba, with

duty is to seek

our

it happierto be

a

"

laughed. shall seek

This

self-satisfied air.

a

If

happiness.

own

be

hog, why, let him is where

are

you

a

Our

first

thinks

man

hog," and

a

he

narrow-minded.

happiness,and

own

my

nature/' "

I

try this

way,

if I

where

have

you

please." "

Happiness !

"

cried

all this

been

stuff ?

picking up filth happiness?

What

do you "

Juba. ?

them

Did

ever

see

every

be

day than

like a hound

that has

longer ! for ? who

you

You

do.

are

I'd rather get

way. on

all fours

a

worm,

as

you

do,

and

whining

one

instant

"

Why

here to

come

asked

for you

?

don't you

Be off with

blaspheme Go

! go, I

go ?

Keep

ribaldry for others." I

"I

am

as

don't

good as set

you

do."

any

day/' said Juba.

myself up," answered

to confound it's impossible

you

try if you

beaten."

do you

? who

asked

ever are

you

Agellius, starting up.

! what

yourself off ?

! take

your "

wants

like

?"

you

shan't stop here

live, you

cried out

! get away

you

say

I

as "

Did

man

own

fall down

been

you

till you

man

stomach

your

call such

matters

?

the

legs in your

crawling on "Now,

a

such

them

be twice

will not

carried off your drunk

about

would

You You

had.

know

you

Can

"

detestable "

"

Agellius;

Christian

"but .Agellius, and

unbeliever as

A

11

Tale

of the Third

when

He

thought he had

hit

Agellius coloured under

Juba

those

Be

you're not

made

a

but

and

down,

sat

about

"

continued, What's

be

can

you I

so

an

if

as

a

is short

but

;

pleasurebetter of the world, as ambitious

love

who

set

upon

of power,

say, is going the way It is

one

Agellius; science

thing another

"

of these

conscience

earth

poor

of the

You

and

another

?

charissimi,the time life and are

riches

all of you

as

and fond

chary of reputation,as

pit."

thing to

a

conscience," answered act

it.

upon

The

people is darkened.

You

con

had

a

once."

Conscience, conscience," said

tainly,once

I

had

chill,and

a

kit of you.

jollyold heathen, who, you

have

to

caught by it suits your

despiseyou/' he

you

and

gain,as the

as

be

You're

vanity,life's a dream, riches

they ?

than

can

the whole

and

Fratres

deceit,pleasurea snare. '

stuff.

I

grave.

the

not

fizz upon

that

you

between

peoplesay, 'Earth's

have

you

which, when

despise you,

difference

the

"

;

of

Nay,

painted wares,

purpose,

"

If I

else I'd be

:

consistent,and

Christian.

afraid of uncle.

even

"

continued,

earnest

somewhat,

despiseyou," said

I

stake;

a

in

so

he

"

embarrassment.

pluck to be

Your

Then

blot.

a

if he

as Agellius,

at

heathen."

honest

a

hard

looked

Christian,I'd be

a

were

a-courtingeach other, they are

they are

confounded."

"

! " said Juba, slowly. " I

Christian and unbeliever

suppose,

35

Century.

bad

had

a

Juba.

conscience. went

about

"

Yes, cer

Yes, and

once

chattering and

I

36

Callista ;

shivering; and

limping; and

went

had

sciences

before

now

supposed,was truth

teacher

"

neither

better

the

unwelcome

Juba,

It

by.

gone

the

nor

now

bloom

on

cheeks, and strikingthem,

can

no

recall it than

more

It's among

chin.

my

"

slowly,

I

perceivethat you

silence in a

the

com

life.

I

It

was

was an

soon/

dirty-coloured will disappear.

soon

it lasted

but

;

the down

thingsthat were." from

weariness

significant way,

it is ; I have

how

see

him

at

fashion

a

first teeth,or

my

the

Agellius still keeping disgust, he looked

his

which

"

air of

face, which

my

feeling,while

the

according to

the

it.

be

visitor.

was

my

for

worse

said,spreading his fingers over

I acted

a

with

particularstage of

accident, like the

and

and

said,

penetrationenough to

don't believe a bit more

about

religion

I do."

say

that

Agellius,feelinghe must

not

"You

not

must

a

belief is not

one

Juba

tossed

stone

slab

under

my

roof," cried

let his brother's

protest. "Many

pass without

a

;

I

may

is,that religionwas

is now

which

me,

truth

the

"

a

than

green

and

wish, as

one

is," continued

plexion of

on

all gone,

they are

get rid of so

to

The

with

I

con

many

black, yellow,and

nothing; his

said

Agellius

he

had

have

time

a

on

once

none."

have

a

but

;

I

yes,

white,

"

I

see,

I

then

leg,and

game

a

you

0

all bad

they were

had

so,

conscience.

a

"

I

once

are

my

charge

sins,but

un

of them." his head.

as

well

as

"

I think

any

I

can

one," he

see

said.

through "

It

is

A

I have

as

Tale

of the Third Century.

said ; but

you're too

proud to

37 confess

id

It's part of your

hypocrisy." Well/' said Agellius coldly, let's have It's getting late, Juba; you'llbe missed at "

done.

"

Jucundus

will be

inquiringfor you,

and

home.

of those

some

friends of yours do you a mischief by revelling may the way. he continued,in sur Why, my good fellow," "

leggings. The scorpionswill catch

prise, you

have

no

hold of you

to

certaintyin the

tie some "

a

wisps about

straw

Come, let me

dark.

you."

fear of scorpionsfor me," answered

No

real good amulets

for the

Juba

"

;

I

occasion, which

have

some

even

and uffdhwill respect." boola-kog

as uncere Saying this,he passed out of the room moniouslyas he had entered it,and took the direction of the city, talkingto himself,and singingsnatches of wild airs as he went along,throwing back and shaking and his head, and now then utteringa sharp internal laugh. Disdaining to follow the ordinary path, he

into the thick and

dived down

the hill.

quickened pace follows : "

"

with

Meanwhile a

grass, and

scrambled

the publicroad crossed before

throughthe ravine,which it ascended

wet

louder

he

accompanied his

strain, and

it ran

"

little black

The When

the

Under

the limbs

'Twas

night is dark, and

Father

of the broad

Cham

a

score

of brats,as

for me,

the earth

is free,

yew-tree.

planted that yew, bloody dew his lineagegrew.

that

he fed it fat with

And Of

is the mate

Moor

the

D

as

Callista ;

"

Footing Each No

Here

sounded

to

seen

had

some

his

way

temple

slink

out

it,

to

clambered

up for

of

they,

his

under

taken

words

fire,

interrupted

was

almost

was

he

flings need

lamps

he

flaunting

and lock

the

his

Astarte.

a

small

bank, uncle's

in

all heel

whose

by feet,

night,

light is

breath

and

some

showed

presented

the

dwelling,

to

which

wild

animal

no

the

city which

growl,

and

idol, it

;

bright."

sudden

a

metal

gained

the strikes

Juba

away.

had

it, each

surprise

whispering He

animal.

gate, was

and

near

made

the

;

A

Tale

of the Third Century.

CHAPTER

V.

JUCUNDUS

house

THE

reached

Juba

it,or

It

of mosaic

work, and

dedicated

to the

with of

of

were

see,

far of jewellery, as

service

of paganism.

adopted in the

images,and

the many

lightswhich

wares

;

trinket.

and

Shelves

both All

refined,the

cabinets

were

fashion

of

they were bright

was

embellishment silver and

gold,

talc,and

glass

laden

were

the preciousmaterial,and tastes

as

It

ivory,alabaster,gypsum,

reflected.

com

most

colours

and

his

you

showy shops in image-storeof the place,and set the

the many

brass

night when

for the

articles of statuaryalone, but of metal,

for sale,not

out

would

one

the

was

SUPPER.

closed

was

you

it was

panion,that Sicca.

AT

of Jucundus

39

with

the elaborated

suited, the popularand the

day and

the

love

the

of the

antique,the classical and the barbarian devotion. There you might see the rude symbols of invisible of art, had in deficiency which, originating powers, been

perpetuatedby

mysterious cube

pillarwhich

the

the

Bacchus, the

was

broad-based

pyramid of Paphos,and

for

reverence

of marble

among

emblem

of

Mercury

of

the tile or 2

past : the

cone

D

the

sacred

the

Arabs, or

the Heliogabalus,

brick of Juno.

40

Callista ;

There, too, were human

heads, which

robes, and other

articles

there, and

Minerva which

the

they might reside. nimbi

crowns,

or

heads

of the

which

a

you

Astarte.

You

and Sun, Serapis,

could

be

not

denomination

too

"

unless

It would

criminately and it was

night when

that

darkness

by

a

you

determined

case

you

arrived

secure

view

have

rejoicethat

other

by

appliances and

to

darkness

darkness

best

all things,

light.

said, was

of wood.

were

were

closed, concealed

by large lumbering shutters, and

by heavy bars

to

there, and, in particular,

up

good and evil,shall be made from

would

coming of that day when

we

religious

objectsof idolatryindis

particulartitle,and

shop, as

were

you

worship, which

shrouded, till the

The

all

hard, indeed,

indeed

swallowed

pagan

be

your

in that

"

due

on

above

pleased, whatever

rejectall the appliancesand

objects of

you

heads

ringsand signetsof of wood or ivory: figures

devices. superstitious

if you

There

ugly ; little skeletons, and preternaturally

of demons, other

brass

protect the

to

heathen, rings with

amulets

;

the

birds.

and

in

shrines

or

find there the

would

the Basilidians

intended

bats

of Jupiter, Mars, the

them

niches

There; too, were were

gods from

might buy, were

and

the

or

Vesta, with handsome

or

un

were

girdle.Household gods objects of personal devotion :

Fortunas, for the bosom were

were

Dianas,

Mercuries,

Junos,

little

manageable :

There

these

portable as

besides, as

in rich

out

form.

the human

simulate

to

dressed

be

to

were

with

of stone

unmeaning blocks

the

So

we

must

made

enter

by

A

passage

or

vestibule

will conduct

us

into

vium

side, and

the

one

on

a

of the

and

two, the

of a Roman

had

or

been

supper-party ; and,,mind lie within

confined

Aristo, who

of

number

the

was

his guests of his

one

Cornelius

the

sou

of distinction, who

had

latelygot a place

of a freedman

and proconsularofficium, migrated into the province from the imperialcity of the

one

had

where

he

The

and

had

spent his best days. had

dates

from

Tritonis,the

white

figs,the nectarines

and

peaches,and

the

Englishman, as

well

So

also

honey of

upon

might the

of

struck,too, with would

he tasted

felt he

pressed and have

ate

Syrtis. He

what

them, and

substance have

the

found

of which

ought

the

to

of the

thought twice

of the third

the

before

would

have

mutton

like

the

tried

but

he

before the

roes

the

been but

;

marrow

Mauritania; he

sap

wine,

sweet

they consisted. admire

cen

the

from

sheep'stails were how

dried, from

water

poeticalfruit found

the

the sweetness

asked

have

palm, and

from

and

imaginationof an

liquor derived

the Getulian

coast

the

African

of an

as

melilotus,made the

to

to

Tacape,

lake

themselves

called

from

grapes

the

melons, address

tury.

altogether suitable

been

not

ideas of good living. The

the

black

of the

scrinia

dinner

modern

or

shop.

Jucundus

Muses, he had

principalartists,and in

the

the

Greek

young

triclinium

the other

symposium should

the Graces to

on

in a small

engaged pleasantly ful that

right side,and that atrium, with an iniplu-

the

on

modest

a

backing

supper-room,

41

of the Third Century.

Tale

firm

He

would

of

mullets,

he

lion

would

cutlets,

42

Callista;

poached from

gout of being imperialproperty, and But

preserve.

"

served

puppy,

would

he

consider

its

fore-paws,we

the

unholy table, and thought he

of some hospitality

However,

invited, for

he

evening,either hiding himself occurred

good

festive board some

in the fens

to the chin

harmony

humour

and

easy

conversation

excellent been

the

foregoingyear,

and

of himself

in

that

; so

which

had

present at the Secular Games and

full of

was

of

them,

with

connection

he

"

said,

kindled

thou

that wonderful

within

great Home

!"

second.

In

eyes

We

die,she

lives.

I say, let a

him

to take

hemlock,

or

Games.

What

felt it ; life was

a

0

these

majesty,was

gone

;

open

full

was

so

pageant which her

so

cele

is

embodied

Rome,

solemn

there

was

the Secular

"

him.

in

became

it, as

first,and

art

the

cheer.

high patriotic thoughtswhich

bration

the

was

genuine a cockney of the imperialperiod. He of the

nothing

party, and

of the

the

had

not

was

previous engagement that with woad, or of of paintinghimself

had

disturb

Cornelius

the

upon

Briton

our

to

effect of such

fallen

from

of the neighbouringforest.

sorceress

that

to

between

risen

have

had

delicate

a

its head

tomatos, with

with

up

apology

whatever

shape, then, of

its introduction) in

for

indigenousdish,the of Africa, in the shape of

said, with

be

"(alas ! alas ! it must

a

the

saw

cock-a-leekie

haggisand

very

he

when

additional

the

and the flavour of veal,,

though they had

no

saw

last year

promised her eternity. man a

was

its best

die.

It's well for

vein, after having seen there

to

live for ?

giftsflat and

I

insipid

A

after

that ?

drink

to the

He

We

of the Tldrd Century. day.

great

suppose

"

Tale

know

Fill up

my

other.

It was

subject,and soon Martius lightedup

the finest

resumed from

thing in the

it.

one

end

world.

A

largeplain,covered, not

with

streets,not

but broken

with

superb buildingsin

and

crossed

midst

of groves,

down

to the

there.

Do

you

world, the

most

of trees, and

avenues

water's

edge. the

want

they are.

Do

you

find them

there.

of

the

noble

beautiful have

no

At

Pantheon

of

by are groves. to

isn't the

gymnasia ?

want

have

at

river the

the

!

fanes

white

with

other

end

have

you its

splendid

with glittering

silver their

my

if I

drink

the

of Alexander, with

its dome

Ah

end

one

?

huge towering

Agrippa, with

the baths

chapels and

numerous

you

you

the

Hadrian.

time

grass,

nothing that

of Augustus, cased

just across

Hard

the

arches,statues, obelisks

There

Syracusancolumns, and tiles.

Do

want

you

stupendous mausoleum mound

green

grandest temples in

they are.

there

marble, and

There's

woods,

with

spacious porticoes,the longest race

? there

courses

I

cup.

genius of the emperor/'

Fancy the Campus

to the

I

Tauromenian,

"

it in Rome.

full of his

was

Excellent

43

go

good

friend !

I

shall

on.

Beyond

are

the

which

fringe the

base

Capitolinehill ; the tall column of Antoninus is kept comes next, with its adjacentbasilica,where list of the provincesof the empire, and the authentic of the

each

of the governors, who

are

sent

out

to

a

king in power

them.

Well,

I

and

dominion,

am

now

only

beginning. Fancy, I say, this magnificentregion all

44

Callista ;

lightedup ; every temple to and fro, every bath, every No, not comes

In

the

dead

when

greatest of all divinities.

is the

Rome

it.

near

sacrifices to commemorate

On

banks

land, and flame

shot

as

up

thousand

ten

ascend the

horns

the

to

sacred

dances

old

dance; but, I protest, even

to

threw

off.

the

began upon

We

danced

had

red

The

music

of

forth, and

greensward.

in.

We

were

Romans,

solemn

a

the too

am

and

up

through three nights,dancing

millenary out, dancing the

was

I

I stood

old

It

seen

clear

the

all

years.

.^Eneas

gods, the

flutes burst

and

the

began

burned.

victims

it was,

thousand

her

of the Tiber, which

Romulus

then

Rome

sleeps exhausted,

nature

solemn the

alive ;

night all was

of

torches.

anythingthat

have

gods of Olympus

the

even

lamps and

innumerable

gleaming with

grove,

millenary

new

slaves.

strangers, no

no

family feast, the

feast

of all the

Romans." "

Then

we

in for the

came

Caracalla

gave

Roman

the

world.

We

over

feast/'said Aristo ;

all of us

for

all freemen

to citizenship are

"

all

Romans, recollect,

Cornelius." "

Ah

! that

Cornelius.

answered it ; but "

We

it was

government

You've

of

fleeced,do

made

Romans,

taxed

Yes, in

you," retorted

to be

were

"

matter a

condescension,"

a

"

certain

sense,

I grant

act.'3 political

a

I warrant

taxes

another

was

us

us

"

Aristo,

you

Romans,

and

that

double

3

see

?

that

we

in

and

so

most

political.

your

imperial

might have

addition as

for the

to

our

the own.

privilegeof

much citizenship, has it who Ah

""

of the Third

Talc

A

it is,by Hercules, when

wear

can

! but you

should

have

snob

every

cherish, his hair."

pileusor

a

45

Century.

the

seen

processionfrom

"

Cornelius, on, I think, the Capitol,"continued second day ; from the Capitolto the Circus,all down the

Via

the

Hosts

Sacra.

vincials from

four

the

procession. There

the

real

new

generation,and

of

patricianand

you

and

the

the

blood

future

families,of

foot.

in

of the

the

;

sons

imperators,

They rode at the head

statesmen.

on

pro

not

coup-d'oeil,

one

the young

promise of

consular

of them

earth, but

all in

saw,

fine young procession,

still more horses

of the

of Eome,

orators, conquerors, of the

strangers there, and

corners

the

good blood

of

fellows,six

abreast

Then

the

chariots, the

came

boxers, the

; and

running wrestlers,

and

other

combatants, all ready for the competition.

The

whole

school

of gladiators then

turned

and

all,with their masters, dressed

in red

They formed

armed. splendidly