Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated From the Latin, With Preliminary Observations And Copious Notes
Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated From the Latin, With Preliminary Observations And Copious Notes
Swan, Charles. Tr
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6S TALE XV. OF THE LIFE OF ALEXIUS, SON OF THE SENATOR EUFEMIAN *. In the reignof oneof the Roman Emperors f, lived a youth, named Alexius, the son of Eu- femian, a noble Roman, at that time the chief ornament of the emperor's court. He was at- tended by a band of three thousand youths, girded with golden zones, and habited in silken vestures. His expenditure was princely. He daily maintained three tables, to which the widow and the orphan were ever welcome. Their necessities were often supplie...d by his own person; and at the ninth hour, in com- * It is proper to warn the reader, that thig tale is somewhat periphrasticallj translated. f Before the close of the Tale we find it was in the reign of /too. Digitized by VjjOOQIC 66 OF ALEXIUS. pany with other devout men, he sat down to dinner. His wife, whose name was Abael» was as religious and charitable as himself. But there is ever some bitterness mixed up with the draught of human joy ; and in the midst of so much splendour, the want of a successor was long a source of unavailing af- fliction.
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