Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Translator's Preface
- Author's Preface
- Contents
- ERRATUM
- SCENE THE FIRST THE NOCTURNAL RETURN HOME
- SCENE THE SECOND THE MORNING
- SCENE THE THIRD STUDIES AND LETTERS
- SCENE THE FOURTH THE JOURNEY
- SCENE THE FIFTH THE VILLA
- SCENE THE SIXTH LYCORIS
- SCENE THE SEVENTH A DAY AT BAIÆ
- SCENE THE EIGHTH THE DISPLEASURE OF AUGUSTUS
- SCENE THE NINTH THE BANQUET
- SCENE THE TENTH THE DRINKERS
- SCENE THE ELEVENTH THE CATASTROPHE
- SCENE THE TWELFTH THE GRAVE
- APPENDIX
- Index
SCENE THE FOURTH - THE JOURNEY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- Translator's Preface
- Author's Preface
- Contents
- ERRATUM
- SCENE THE FIRST THE NOCTURNAL RETURN HOME
- SCENE THE SECOND THE MORNING
- SCENE THE THIRD STUDIES AND LETTERS
- SCENE THE FOURTH THE JOURNEY
- SCENE THE FIFTH THE VILLA
- SCENE THE SIXTH LYCORIS
- SCENE THE SEVENTH A DAY AT BAIÆ
- SCENE THE EIGHTH THE DISPLEASURE OF AUGUSTUS
- SCENE THE NINTH THE BANQUET
- SCENE THE TENTH THE DRINKERS
- SCENE THE ELEVENTH THE CATASTROPHE
- SCENE THE TWELFTH THE GRAVE
- APPENDIX
- Index
Summary
GALLUS had to go a considerable distance through the streets after leaving his mansion, before he reached the Porta Capena, from which point he was about to journey along the Via Appia to his villa, a most charming place between Simiessa and Capua, and which presented the most perfect assemblage of all things necessary, in order, as Horace observes, to quaff happy oblivion of the disturbing cares of life. The litter, manned with six stalwart Syrian slaves, whose light-red livery distinguished them from the rest of the escort, who were dressed in brown travelling coats, was already in waiting at the Vestibule. The carriage in which Gallus intended to travel before night-fall the first forty-two miles of his journey, to Forum Appii, was waiting outside the city, by the grove of the Camcœnæ. He had meanwhile donned his travelling shoes, and changed his toga for the more befitting dress for travelling, the pœnula. All the other preparations had been already seen to by Chresimus; a number of slaves were dispatched before with the baggage, while others were to follow after; those only who were indispensable being permitted to accompany their lord.
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- GallusOr, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, pp. 48 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844