Ep. I live at Naples, sir; my mother keeps

The tavern where the sailors most resort.

My father died five years ago, and then

It happened that my brother, my only brother,—

Whose generous nature blamed the life of gain

That there we led,—left us, and was ere-long

Inveigled by the Christian sect. It happened

He met their leader Paulus,—whom ’twas said

Burrus protected,—for he came by Naples,

And there my brother heard him, and after had