THE MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL.The house-steward of England is synonymous with the maître d'hôtel of France; and, in ancient times, amongst the Latins, he was called procurator, or major-domo.

There was Troplong, who had had Dupin for Procurator, and whom Dupin had had for President.

Lucian must have spent much time at Athens, and he held office at one time in his later years as Procurator of a part of Egypt.

By rendering some service to Caesar, Antipater was made procurator of Judaea, and appointed his son Herod to the government of Galilee, where he developed remarkable administrative talents.

The officer listened attentively to all the details, and at once took his resolution to send Paul to Caesarea, both to get him out of the hands of the Jews, and to have him judged by the procurator Felix.

Felix, as procurator, ruled over Judaea with the power of a king.

Festus willingly acceded to this wish, and the next day Paul was again summoned before the king and the procurator.

Pietro had three sons; Carlo Leone, the eldest, who was procurator and captain-general of the fleet: of the republic, and; rescued, her from imminent danger in a war in which, almost all Europe was leagued for her destruction; the second, Nicolo, called likewise il Cavaliere, or the night, shewed great valour in the last mentioned war of Chioggia against the Genoese; Antonio was the youngest.

Christ, the founder of this sect, had been capitally punished by the Procurator Pontius Pilate, in the reign of Tiberius; and this damnable superstition, repressed for the present, was again breaking out, not only through Judaea, where the evil originated, but even through the City, whither from all regions all things that are atrocious or shameful flow together and gain a following.

In the spring of the year 61, not long after the time when the murder of Agrippina, and Seneca's justifications of it, had been absorbing the attention of the Roman world, there disembarked at Puteoli a troop of prisoners, whom the Procurator of Judaea had sent to Rome under the charge of a centurion.

Now Licinnius was originally a Gaul but was captured, brought among Romans, and made a slave to Cæsar, by whom he was set free, and then by Augustus he had been made procurator of Gaul.

Some things he concealed, being ashamed of having employed such a procurator.

Now Messalina and his freedmen kept offering for sale and peddling out not merely the franchise, and military posts, and positions as procurator, and governmental offices, but everything in general to such an extent that all necessaries grew scarce; and Claudius was forced to muster the populace on the Campus Martius and there from a platform to ordain what the prices of wares should be.

He also increased the dignity of Laco (formerly præfectus vigilum but now procurator of the Gauls) by this same mark of esteem and in addition by the honors belonging to ex-consuls.

Thus a large revenue was received, which was generally divided equally between the State, the procurator fiscal, and the King.

On their return into Ramerupt they set up shouts at the door of the curé, the procurator fiscal, and the collector of taxes, and, after the invention of gunpowder, fireworks were let off.

Nor did he take time for further deliberation: in less than half an hour he was in the procurator-fiscal's officethe willing self-criminator; the man who did the deed; the man who was ready to die for his young mistress and his love.

On the other hand, Lindsay was equally staunch to his statement made to the procurator-fiscal, that he had got Effie to write the draft, had forged the name to it, and got the money from her.

They found Captain Stewart in his room, and along with him the procurator-fiscal.

Procurator said you were interestedsome woman in the case, parishioner of yours, eh?'

The latter, while procurator in Alexandria, offended him in some way, whereupon Theocritus, leaping from his seat, drew his sword.

Adventus had drawn pay as one of the spies and detectives, had left his position there and served among the letter-carriers, had later been appointed cubicularius, and still later was advanced to a position as procurator.

The other was Bassianus, the child of Mammæa and Gessius Marcianus, who was himself also a Syrian, from a city called Arca, and had been assigned to various positions as procurator.

And no one dared to oppose It either by word or by deed,no governor, no soldier, no procurator, no heads of provinces,but It proceeded, as if in a daylight procession prescribed by proclamation, to the confines of Bithynia.

Her husband, who had formerly occupied the post of Provincial Procurator, and who was well known in his day as a good man of businessa man of bilious temperament, confident, resolute, and enterprisinghad been dead ten years.