Despite the earliness of the hour, the gates of the city were already opened. Horsemen upon horsemen, vehicle after vehicle, poured rapidly in; and the voices of numerous pedestrian groups, clad in holiday attire19, rose high in joyous20 and excited merriment; the streets were crowded with citizens and strangers from the populous21 neighborhood of Pompeii; and noisily—fast—confusedly swept the many streams of life towards the fatal show.
Despite the vast size of the amphitheatre, seemingly so disproportioned to the extent of the city, and formed to include nearly the whole population of Pompeii itself, so great, on extraordinary occasions, was the concourse of strangers from all parts of Campania, that the space before it was usually crowded for several hours previous to the commencement of the sports, by such persons as were not entitled by their rank to appointed and special seats. And the intense curiosity which the trial and sentence of two criminals so remarkable23 had occasioned, increased the crowd on this day to an extent wholly unprecedented24.
While the common people, with the lively vehemence25 of their Campanian blood, were thus pushing, scrambling26, hurrying on—yet, amidst all their eagerness, preserving, as is now the wont27 with Italians in such meetings, a wonderful order and unquarrelsome good humor, a strange visitor to Arbaces was threading her way to his sequestered28 mansion29. At the sight of her quaint30 and primaeval garb—of her wild gait and gestures—the passengers she encountered touched each other and smiled; but as they caught a glimpse of her countenance31, the mirth was hushed at once, for the face was as the face of the dead; and, what with the ghastly features and obsolete32 robes of the stranger, it seemed as if one long entombed had risen once more amongst the living. In silence and awe33 each group gave way as she passed along, and she soon gained the broad porch of the Egyptian's palace.
The black porter, like the rest of the world, astir at an unusual hour, started as he opened the door to her summons.
The sleep of the Egyptian had been usually profound during the night; but, as the dawn approached, it was disturbed by strange and unquiet dreams, which impressed him the more as they were colored by the peculiar34 philosophy he embraced.
He thought that he was transported to the bowels35 of the earth, and that he stood alone in a mighty36 cavern37 supported by enormous columns of rough and primaeval rock, lost, as they ascended38, in the vastness of a shadow athwart whose eternal darkness no beam of day had ever glanced. And in the space between these columns were huge wheels, that whirled round and round unceasingly, and with a rushing and roaring noise. Only to the right and left extremities39 of the cavern, the space between the pillars was left bare, and the apertures40 stretched away into galleries—not wholly dark, but dimly lighted by wandering and erratic41 fires, that, meteor-like, now crept (as the snake creeps) along the rugged and dank soil; and now leaped fiercely to and fro, darting42 across the vast gloom in wild gambols—suddenly disappearing, and as suddenly bursting into tenfold brilliancy and power. And while he gazed wonderingly upon the gallery to the left, thin, mist-like, aerial shapes passed slowly up; and when they had gained the hall they seemed to rise aloft, and to vanish, as the smoke vanishes, in the measureless ascent43.
He turned in fear towards the opposite extremity—and behold44! there came swiftly, from the gloom above, similar shadows, which swept hurriedly along the gallery to the right, as if borne involuntarily adown the sides of some invisible stream; and the faces of these spectres were more distinct than those that emerged from the opposite passage; and on some was joy, and on others sorrow—some were vivid with expectation and hope, some unutterably dejected by awe and horror. And so they passed, swift and constantly on, till the eyes of the gazer grew dizzy and blinded with the whirl of an ever-varying succession of things impelled45 by a power apparently46 not their own.
Arbaces turned away, and, in the recess47 of the hall, he saw the mighty form of a giantess seated upon a pile of skulls49, and her hands were busy upon a pale and shadowy woof; and he saw that the woof communicated with the numberless wheels, as if it guided the machinery50 of their movements. He thought his feet, by some secret agency, were impelled towards the female, and that he was borne onwards till he stood before her, face to face. The countenance of the giantess was solemn and hushed, and beautifully serene52. It was as the face of some colossal53 sculpture of his own ancestral sphinx. No passion—no human emotion, disturbed its brooding and unwrinkled brow: there was neither sadness, nor joy, nor memory, nor hope: it was free from all with which the wild human heart can sympathize. The mystery of mysteries rested on its beauty—it awed54, but terrified not: it was the Incarnation of the sublime55. And Arbaces felt the voice leave his lips, without an impulse of his own; and the voice asked:
'Who art thou, and what is thy task?'
'I am That which thou hast acknowledged,' answered, without desisting from its work, the mighty phantom56. 'My name is NATURE! These are the wheels of the world, and my hand guides them for the life of all things.'
'And what,' said the voice of Arbaces, 'are these galleries, that strangely and fitfully illumined, stretch on either hand into the abyss of gloom?'
'That,' answered the giant-mother, 'which thou beholdest to the left, is the gallery of the Unborn. The shadows that flit onward51 and upward into the world, are the souls that pass from the long eternity57 of being to their destined58 pilgrimage on earth. That which thou beholdest to thy right, wherein the shadows descending59 from above sweep on, equally unknown and dim, is the gallery of the Dead!'
'And wherefore, said the voice of Arbaces, 'yon wandering lights, that so wildly break the darkness; but only break, not reveal?'
'Dark fool of the human sciences! dreamer of the stars, and would-be decipherer of the heart and origin of things! those lights are but the glimmerings of such knowledge as is vouchsafed61 to Nature to work her way, to trace enough of the past and future to give providence62 to her designs. Judge, then, puppet as thou art, what lights are reserved for thee!'
Arbaces felt himself tremble as he asked again, 'Wherefore am I here?'
'It is the forecast of thy soul—the prescience of thy rushing doom63—the shadow of thy fate lengthening64 into eternity as declines from earth.'
Ere he could answer, Arbaces felt a rushing WIND sweep down the cavern, as the winds of a giant god. Borne aloft from the ground, and whirled on high as a leaf in the storms of autumn, he beheld65 himself in the midst of the Spectres of the Dead, and hurrying with them along the length of gloom. As in vain and impotent despair he struggled against the impelling66 power, he thought the WIND grew into something like a shape—a spectral67 outline of the wings and talons68 of an eagle, with limbs floating far and indistinctly along the air, and eyes that, alone clearly and vividly69 seen, glared stonily70 and remorselessly on his own.
'What art thou?' again said the voice of the Egyptian.
'I am That which thou hast acknowledged'; and the spectre laughed aloud—'and my name is NECESSITY.'
'To what dost thou bear me?'
'To the Unknown.'
'As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.'
'I am but the breath of God!' answered the mighty WIND.
'The husbandman accuses not fate, when, having sown thistles, he reaps not corn. Thou hast sown crime, accuse not fate if thou reapest not the harvest of virtue74.'
The scene suddenly changed. Arbaces was in a place of human bones; and lo! in the midst of them was a skull48, and the skull, still retaining its fleshless hollows, assumed slowly, and in the mysterious confusion of a dream, the face of Apaecides; and forth from the grinning jaws75 there crept a small worm, and it crawled to the feet of Arbaces. He attempted to stamp on it and crush it; but it became longer and larger with that attempt. It swelled76 and bloated till it grew into a vast serpent: it coiled itself round the limbs of Arbaces; it crunched77 his bones; it raised its glaring eyes and poisonous jaws to his face. He writhed78 in vain; he withered—he gasped79—beneath the influence of the blighting80 breath—he felt himself blasted into death. And then a voice came from the reptile81, which still bore the face of Apaecides and rang in his reeling ear:
With a shriek83 of wrath84, and woe, and despairing resistance, Arbaces awoke—his hair on end—his brow bathed in dew—his eyes glazed85 and staring—his mighty frame quivering as an infant's, beneath the agony of that dream. He awoke—he collected himself—he blessed the gods whom he disbelieved, that he was in a dream—he turned his eyes from side to side—he saw the dawning light break through his small but lofty window—he was in the Precincts of Day—he rejoiced—he smiled; his eyes fell, and opposite to him he beheld the ghastly features, the lifeless eye, the livid lip—of the hag of Vesuvius!
'Ha!' he cried, placing his hands before his eyes, as to shut out the grisly vision, 'do I dream still?—Am I with the dead?'
'Mighty Hermes—no! Thou art with one death-like, but not dead. Recognize thy friend and slave.'
There was a long silence. Slowly the shudders87 that passed over the limbs of the Egyptian chased each other away, faintlier and faintlier dying till he was himself again.
'It was a dream, then,' said he. 'Well—let me dream no more, or the day cannot compensate88 for the pangs89 of night. Woman, how camest thou here, and wherefore?'
'Listen to me. Some evil hangs over this fated city. Fly while it be time. Thou knowest that I hold my home on that mountain beneath which old tradition saith there yet burn the fires of the river of Phlegethon; and in my cavern is a vast abyss, and in that abyss I have of late marked a red and dull stream creep slowly, slowly on; and heard many and mighty sounds hissing93 and roaring through the gloom. But last night, as I looked thereon, behold the stream was no longer dull, but intensely and fiercely luminous94; and while I gazed, the beast that liveth with me, and was cowering95 by my side, uttered a shrill96 howl, and fell down and died, and the slaver and froth were round his lips. I crept back to my lair97; but I distinctly heard, all the night, the rock shake and tremble; and, though the air was heavy and still, there were the hissing of pent winds, and the grinding as of wheels, beneath the ground. So, when I rose this morning at the very birth of dawn, I looked again down the abyss, and I saw vast fragments of stone borne black and floatingly over the lurid98 stream; and the stream itself was broader, fiercer, redder than the night before. Then I went forth, and ascended to the summit of the rock: and in that summit there appeared a sudden and vast hollow, which I had never perceived before, from which curled a dim, faint smoke; and the vapor13 was deathly, and I gasped, and sickened, and nearly died. I returned home. I took my gold and my drugs, and left the habitation of many years; for I remembered the dark Etruscan prophecy which saith, "When the mountain opens, the city shall fall—when the smoke crowns the Hill of the Parched99 Fields, there shall be woe and weeping in the hearths100 of the Children of the Sea." Dread master, ere I leave these walls for some more distant dwelling101, I come to thee. As thou livest, know I in my heart that the earthquake that sixteen years ago shook this city to its solid base, was but the forerunner102 of more deadly doom. The walls of Pompeii are built above the fields of the Dead, and the rivers of the sleepless103 Hell. Be warned and fly!'
'Witch, I thank thee for thy care of one not ungrateful. On yon table stands a cup of gold; take it, it is thine. I dreamt not that there lived one, out of the priesthood of Isis, who would have saved Arbaces from destruction. The signs thou hast seen in the bed of the extinct volcano,' continued the Egyptian, musingly104, 'surely tell of some coming danger to the city; perhaps another earthquake—fiercer than the last. Be that as it may, there is a new reason for my hastening from these walls. After this day I will prepare my departure. Daughter of Etruria, whither wendest thou?'
'I shall cross over to Herculaneum this day, and, wandering thence along the coast, shall seek out a new home. I am friendless: my two companions, the fox and the snake, are dead. Great Hermes, thou hast promised me twenty additional years of life!'
'Aye,' said the Egyptian, 'I have promised thee. But, woman,' he added, lifting himself upon his arm, and gazing curiously105 on her face, 'tell me, I pray thee, wherefore thou wishest to live? What sweets dost thou discover in existence?'
'It is not life that is sweet, but death that is awful,' replied the hag, in a sharp, impressive tone, that struck forcibly upon the heart of the vain star-seer. He winced106 at the truth of the reply; and no longer anxious to retain so uninviting a companion, he said, 'Time wanes107; I must prepare for the solemn spectacle of this day. Sister, farewell! enjoy thyself as thou canst over the ashes of life.'
The hag, who had placed the costly108 gift of Arbaces in the loose folds of her vest, now rose to depart. When she had gained the door she paused, turned back, and said, 'This may be the last time we meet on earth; but whither flieth the flame when it leaves the ashes?—Wandering to and fro, up and down, as an exhalation on the morass109, the flame may be seen in the marshes110 of the lake below; and the witch and the Magian, the pupil and the master, the great one and the accursed one, may meet again. Farewell!'
'Out, croaker!' muttered Arbaces, as the door closed on the hag's tattered111 robes; and, impatient of his own thoughts, not yet recovered from the past dream, he hastily summoned his slaves.
It was the custom to attend the ceremonials of the amphitheatre in festive112 robes, and Arbaces arrayed himself that day with more than usual care. His tunic113 was of the most dazzling white: his many fibulae were formed from the most precious stones: over his tunic flowed a loose eastern robe, half-gown, half-mantle, glowing in the richest hues of the Tyrian dye; and the sandals, that reached half way up the knee, were studded with gems114, and inlaid with gold. In the quackeries that belonged to his priestly genius, Arbaces never neglected, on great occasions, the arts which dazzle and impose upon the vulgar; and on this day, that was for ever to release him, by the sacrifice of Glaucus, from the fear of a rival and the chance of detection, he felt that he was arraying himself as for a triumph or a nuptial115 feast.
It was customary for men of rank to be accompanied to the shows of the amphitheatre by a procession of their slaves and freedmen; and the long 'family' of Arbaces were already arranged in order, to attend the litter of their lord.
Only, to their great chagrin116, the slaves in attendance on Ione, and the worthy117 Sosia, as gaoler to Nydia, were condemned118 to remain at home.
'Callias,' said Arbaces, apart to his freedman, who was buckling119 on his girdle, 'I am weary of Pompeii; I propose to quit it in three days, should the wind favor. Thou knowest the vessel120 that lies in the harbor which belonged to Narses, of Alexandria; I have purchased it of him. The day after tomorrow we shall begin to remove my stores.'
'Accompanies me. Enough!—Is the morning fair?'
'Dim and oppressive; it will probably be intensely hot in the forenoon.'
'The poor gladiators, and more wretched criminals! Descend60, and see that the slaves are marshalled.'
Left alone, Arbaces stepped into his chamber121 of study, and thence upon the portico122 without. He saw the dense123 masses of men pouring fast into the amphitheatre, and heard the cry of the assistants, and the cracking of the cordage, as they were straining aloft the huge awning86 under which the citizens, molested124 by no discomforting ray, were to behold, at luxurious125 ease, the agonies of their fellow creatures. Suddenly a wild strange sound went forth, and as suddenly died away—it was the roar of the lion. There was a silence in the distant crowd; but the silence was followed by joyous laughter—they were making merry at the hungry impatience126 of the royal beast.
'Brutes127!' muttered the disdainful Arbaces are ye less homicides than I am? I slay128 but in self-defence—ye make murder pastime.'
He turned with a restless and curious eye, towards Vesuvius. Beautifully glowed the green vineyards round its breast, and tranquil129 as eternity lay in the breathless skies the form of the mighty hill.
'We have time yet, if the earthquake be nursing,' thought Arbaces; and he turned from the spot. He passed by the table which bore his mystic scrolls130 and Chaldean calculations.
'August art!' he thought, 'I have not consulted thy decrees since I passed the danger and the crisis they foretold131. What matter?—I know that henceforth all in my path is bright and smooth. Have not events already proved it? Away, doubt—away, pity! Reflect O my heart— reflect, for the future, but two images—Empire and Ione!'
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