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I was listening to him so carefully that I did not
notice Ascyltos slipping away. I was pacing the gardens in the heat of our
conversation, when a great crowd of students came out into the porch, apparently
from some master whose extemporary harangue had followed Agamemnon's
discourse.1 So while the young men were laughing at his epigrams, and denouncing
the tendency of his style as a whole, I took occasion to steal away and began
hurriedly to look for Ascyltos. But I did not remember the road accurately, and I
did not know where our lodgings were. So wherever I went, I kept coming back to[p. 11] the same spot, till I was tired out with walking, and dripping with
sweat.
1 A declamation on a given deliberative theme (suasoria), which the teacher delivered as an example to his pupils.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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