Julian

“ For instead of riding, in fear and trembling, in the public [3] carriage and, in encounters with drunken mule-drivers and mules made restive, as Homer [4] says, from idleness and overfeeding, having to endure clouds of dust and a strange dialect and the cracking of whips, it was my lot to travel at leisure by a road arched over with trees and well-shaded, a road that had numerous springs and resting-places suitable to the summer season for a traveller who seeks relief from his weariness on the way ”