Here he remembered that he had represented himself to Ursus on the way as a Christian, and stopped.
“Were it not for the ‘sica,’ which I brought, he would have slain me,” said Vinicius.
“I bless the moment in which I advised thee to take a knife even.”
Vinicius turned an inquiring glance on the Greek, and asked,—“What hast thou done to-day?”
“How? What! have I not told thee, lord, that I made a vow for thy health?”
“Nothing more?”
“I was just preparing to visit thee, when this good man came and said that thou hadst sent for me.”
“Here is a tablet. Thou wilt go with it to my house; thou wilt find my freedman and give it to him. It is written on the tablet that I have gone to Beneventum. Thou wilt tell Demas from thyself that I went this morning, summoned by an urgent letter from Petr
