esses at Alexandria was intrusted to her, and she
exercised it with much blessing till an advanced age. Mary, the deformed
girl, remained behind in the Nile-port, which under Hadrian was extended
into the magnificent city of Antmoe. There were there two graves from
which she could not bear to part.

Four years after Arsinoe's marriage with Pollux, Hadrian called the
young sculptor to Rome; he was there to execute the statue of the
Emperor in a quadriga. This work was intended to crown and finish
his mausoleum constructed by Pontius, and Pollux carried it out in so
admirable a manner, that when it was ended, Hadrian said to him with a
smile:

"Now you have earned the right to pronounce sentence of death on the
works of other masters." Euphorion's son lived in honor and prosperity
to see his children, the children of his faithful wife Arsinoe--who
was greatly admired by the Tiber-grow up to be worthy citizens. They
remained heathen; but the Christian love which Eumenes had taught
Paulina's foster-daughter was never forgotten, and she kept a kindly
place for it in her heart and in her household. A few months before
the young couple left Alexandria, Doris had peacefully gone to her last
rest, and her husband died soon after her; the want of his faithful
companion was the complaint he succumbed to.

On the shores of the Tiber, Pontius was still the sculptor's friend.
Balbilla and her husband gave their corrupt fellow-citizens the example
of a worthy, faithful marriage on the old Roman pattern. The poetess's
bust had been completed by Pollux in Alexandria, and with all its
tresses and little curls, it found favor in Balbilla's eyes.

Verus was to have enjoyed the title of Caesar even during Hadrian's
lifetime, but after a long illness he died the first. Lucilla nursed
him with unfailing devotion and enjoyed the longed-for monopoly of his
attentions through a period of much suffering. It was on their son that
in later years the purple devolved.

The predictions of the prefect Titianus were fulfilled, for the
Emperor's faults increased with years and the meaner side of his mind
and nature came into sharper relief. Titianus and his wife led a retired
life by lake Larius, far from the world, and both were baptized before
they died. They never pined for the turmoil of a pleasure-seeking world
or its dazzling show, for they had learnt to cherish in their own hearts
all that is fairest in life.

It was the slave Mastor who br