Clark, Felicia Buttz / 2008-07-04 00:00:00
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VIRGILIA
_or_
OUT OF THE LION'S MOUTH
_By_
FELICIA BUTTZ CLARK
1917
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A confession of faith
CHAPTER II. The "Little Fish"
CHAPTER III. The hymn of the water-carrier
CHAPTER IV. The inner shrine of Jupiter
CHAPTER V. The Old One speaks
CHAPTER VI. The Feast of Grapes
CHAPTER VII. Enter, Lycias, the gladiator
CHAPTER VIII. The symbol of the lizard
I.
A CONFESSION OF FAITH.
The Circus in Rome was thronged with an enormous crowd of persons on a
day in June, about two thousand years ago. One hundred thousand men
and women sat on its tiers of white marble seats, under the open sky
and witnessed a gladiatorial contest in the arena, beneath.
At the western end of the oval amphitheatre was the Emperor's box,
flanked with tall Corinthian pillars, on which were hung the
coat-of-arms of the Roman people. Here sat one of the most cruel
emperors Rome has ever suffered under.
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