Accordingly his coming was not so welcome as it might have been, and this was apparent at the first performance in the theatre ; for when the actors of an Atellan farce began the familiar lines “ Here comes Onesimus from his farm ’”’ ® all the spectators at once finished the song in chorus and repeated it several times with appropriate gestures, beginning with that verse.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Galba, Suetonius — translated by J. C. Rolfe, 1913
Apparatus shelf — Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (J. C. Rolfe translation; Dover republication) · J. C. Rolfe, 1913 (preface dated Philadelphia, April 1913); Dover Publications republication, 2018
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