CHAPTER II. The "Little Fish"
CHAPTER III. The hymn of the water-carrier
CHAPTER IV. The inner shrine of Jupiter
CHAPTER V. The Old One speaks
CHAPTER VI. The Feast of Grapes
CHAPTER VII. Enter, Lycias, the gladiator
CHAPTER VIII. The symbol of the lizard

I.

A CONFESSION OF FAITH.

The Circus in Rome was thronged with an enormous crowd of persons on a day in June, about two thousand years ago. One hundred thousand men and women sat on its tiers of white marble seats, under the open sky and witnessed a gladiatorial contest in the arena, beneath.