History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . that I cannot tolerate. From Sicyon,from Andros, from Samos, from Tralles or Alabanda, imported to Rome by the same windthat brought the plums and figs, they swarm to the Esquiline, destined to be the very vitalsand future lords of great houses. They have a quick wit, desperate impudence, a readyspeech. The hungry Greek has brought with him whatever character you wish, — gram-marian, rhetoricianrgeometer, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, wizard; bidhim climb up into heaven, he wil
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . that I cannot tolerate. From Sicyon,from Andros, from Samos, from Tralles or Alabanda, imported to Rome by the same windthat brought the plums and figs, they swarm to the Esquiline, destined to be the very vitalsand future lords of great houses. They have a quick wit, desperate impudence, a readyspeech. The hungry Greek has brought with him whatever character you wish, — gram-marian, rhetoricianrgeometer, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, wizard; bidhim climb up into heaven, he will do it. In truth, it was neither Moor, nor Sarmatian, norThracian that got him wings, but one born in Athens (Ibid. iii. 69-80). 2 The most famous of these freedmen of whom we have just spoken are, Callistus underCaligula; Narcissus and Pallas under Claudius; Polycletus, Doryphorus, and Helios underNero; Icelus under Galba; Asiaticus under Vitellius. 3 We must except Plutarch, who had lived at Piome and who once quotes Horace (Lucul-Iw, 39). 4 Plutarch, Aristeid. 21. THE PROVINCES. 145. 3. End of Greece was discovered as fifty years ago we discovered the MiddleAges ; and Hellenism, eclipsed for three centuries, began to exer- 1 Copied from a vase discovered a few years ago in the tombs of the freedmen anil slavesof the Statilian family (the early days of the Empire). The engraved representations aroundthis vase are the same as those of the marble bas-reliefs and terra-cotta friezes which decoratedancient buildings, of which a number are preserved in the Campana collection. The circularbas-relief is composed of three, groups, which represent three successive parts of the sacredceremonies,— 1, the neophyte, assisted by a priest, offers the goddesses of Eleusis the prepara-tory sacrifice of a young pig; 2, the priestess places on his head the mystic vase (he is seated,veiled, with his feet placed on the skin of a ram), — the rite of cathars
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