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pater-marius-1885	pater	pater-marius-1885	1885		.txt	text/plain	110751	3458	60	The young Commodus had departed from the cham- ber, anxious to witness the exercises of certain gladiators, with a native taste for such company, inherited, according to popular rumour, from his true father-anxious also to escape from the too impressive company of the gravest and sweetest specimen of old age Marius had ever seen, the tutor of the imperial children, who had arrived to offer his birthday congratulations, and now, very familiarly and affectionately, made a part of the group, falling on the shoulders of the emperor, kissing the empress Faustina on the face, and the little ones both on the face and hands. XI 131 MARIUS THE EPICUREAN quaint, immeasurably venerable, like the relics of the medieval city in the Paris of Lewis the Fourteenth : the work of Nero's own time had come to have that sort of old world and picturesque interest which the work of Lewis has for ourselves; while without stretching a parallel too far we might perhaps liken the architectural finesses of the archaic Hadrian to the more excellent products of our own Gothic revival.	cache/pater-marius-1885.txt	txt/pater-marius-1885.txt