Roscius acted Alecto. I detest everything connected with him."

"Except his sister, Servilia."

"True. She is a lovely woman."

"They say that you have told her so, Caius"

"So I have."

"And that she was not angry."

"What woman is?"

"Aye--but they say"--

"No matter what they say. Common fame lies like a Greek
rhetorician. You might know so much, Ligarius, without reading
the philosophers. But come, I will introduce you to little dark-
eyed Zoe."

"I tell you I can speak no Greek."

"More shame for you. It is high time that you should begin. You
will never have such a charming instructress. Of what was your
father thinking when he sent for an old Stoic with a long beard
to teach you? There is no language-mistress like a handsome
woman. When I was at Athens, I learnt more Greek from a pretty
flower-girl in the Peiraeus than from all the Portico and the
Academy. She was no Stoic, Heaven knows. But come along to Zoe.