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read only trash." He turned to Livy: "I bet you ten gold pieces that it's some wretched 'Art of Love', or Arcadian pastoral nonsense, or something of that sort."
"I'll take the bet," said Livy. "Young Claudius is not that sort of young man at all. Well, Claudius, which of us wins?" Pollio's face changed. He beamed and chuckled and pulled out his purse, pressing the coins on Livy. Livy, with whom he seemed on terms of friendly animosity-if you know what I mean-refused them with mock-serious insistence. "My dear Pollio, I couldn't possibly take the money. You were
I said, stammering, to Pollio: "I'm glad to say, sir, that you lose."
Pollio frowned angrily at me; "What's that you say? Glad that I lose, eh? Is that a proper way to speak to an old man like me, and a senator too?"
I said: "I said it in all respect, sir. I am glad that you lose. I should not like to hear this book called trash. It's your own history of the Civil Wars and, if I may venture to praise it, a very fine book indeed."