"'Ware, Bassia! The proconsul is coming!"
"Perpol! he will not see! He is the best Jew-baiter in all Alexandria! Sure aim, O Phoebus of the bow!"
"'Way for the proconsul!"
"Pluto take the legionaries; here they come!"
"One more pitch at them, though Cæsar were coming!"
"No privileges exclusive for thyself, Bassia! Habet! More scales!"
"Scales; shells; water! Scales; sh—"
"Fish-heads! Habet!"
"Entrails—"
"'Way for the proconsul!"