MARCUS OF ROME: THE BOY MAGISTRATE.
(Afterward the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.)
[a.d. 137.]
A perfect autumn day. Above, the clear sky of Italy; below, a grassy plain, sloping gently down from the brown cliffs and ruined ramparts of old Veii—the city of the ancient Tuscan kings. In the background, under the shade of the oaks, a dozen waiting attendants; and here, in the open space before us, three trim and sturdy Roman youths, all...
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