THE OCTAVIUS OF HEJUCIUS FELIX. CHAPTER I. Argument. — Minucius relateshow delightfulto him is the recollectionof the thingsthathad happened to him with Octaviuswhilehe was associatedwith him at Rome, and especiallyof thisdisputation. |HEN I consider and mentally review my re membrance of Octavius,my excellentand most faithfulcompanion,the sweetnessand charm of the man so clings to me, that I appear to myself in some sortas if I were returning to past times, and not merely recallingin my recollectionthings which have long since transpiredand gone by. Thus, in the degree in which the actualcontemplationof him iswithdrawn from my eyes,it is bound up in my heartand in my most intimatefeelings.And it was not withoutreasonthat that remarkable and holy man, when he departed [thislife],left to me an unbounded regretfor him, especiallysincehe him self alsoglowed with such a lovefor me at alltimes,that, whether in matters of amusement or of business,he agreed with me in similarityof will,in eitherlikingor dislikingthe same things.You would thinkthatone mind had been shared between us two. Thus he alone was my confidantin my loves,my companion in my mistakes; and when, afterthe gloom had been dispersed,I emerged from the abyssof dark ness into the lightof wisdom and truth,he did not castoff his associate,but— what ismore gloriousstill— he outstripped 451