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A SUPPER AT VESPASIAN'S .
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truths than he and Cornutus do ;
for I must not speak of the
illustrious Seneca in his presence. We have no need to consult
barbarian Jews with insane new mythologies.'
Pomponia and Claudia and Pudens were of necessity silent
in that mixed company but they thought that the good soil
;
of the Christian faith was the one thing lacking to Seueca,
which might have made the roses of his moral teaching produce
something better than mere perfume.
And if Titus had but laid aside the ignorant disdain which
marked him in common with the mass of philosophic Pagans,
his manly virtues might have shone forth with yet more
beautiful lustre, and he might have been saved from the
sins and errors wherewith he afterwards defiled a noble
name.