Dear And Glorious Physician
“At the end a lantern, feeble and yellow, swung on a hook, and beyond it was another passage, running at right angles. Here was a deep and heavy silence, broken only by the thin tinkle of the water. After he could control his nausea Lucanus looked about him and thought. It seemed that he had been waiting a considerable time for Plotius. He frowned. Never in his life before had he been suspicious or wary. He reflected that his life had been too sheltered, too restricted, too scholarly, bounded b...y home, family, and studies. He had been precipitated into a scene and an experience tonight which had left him appalled. He had heard of these orgies; he had seen one or two smaller versions in Alexandria, which had not moved him, for he had not been part of them. If I revolt so violently now, how will it be when I come fully upon a raw world? Like an infant again? It disgusted him when he remembered that he had considered Tiberius Caesar only another man, mighty, all-powerful, but only another man.MoreLess
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