The Vesuvius Mosaic [antikvár]

Chapter 1 ^ A freed man 'Hurry, Felix,' shouted Spurius. 'Let's finish this job and get home. Some visitors are coming from Pompeii tomorrow. Cassia says they may have some work for us.' 'It's nearly ready, master,' answered Felix, 'but I want to cut some tiles again. They don't fit as well as they should.' 'They look fine,' said Spurius. Felix said nothing. He loiew Spurius was careless. He didn't understand that every tile is important to the final design of a mosaic. But Spurius didn't design the mosaics. Felix did. Soon they heard voices in the hall. Their customer was back home. Ouicldy Felix finished the last tiles. 'Where's my mosaic.? Is it finished.?' 'Come and see, Caius Calvinus Lepidus,' shouted Spurius. Caius Calvinus Lepidus was an important man in Rome, a senator. He wallced into the room to see the mosaic. Felix watched the customer's face carefully. Would he like it.? 'It's more beautiful than I thought possible,' said Lepidus. master you call the man that you work for this tile a small, square things that people put on floors or walls design this shows the colours and shapes in a picture before it is made; to choose the colours and shapes in a picture before you make it mosaic a picture that is made from small tiles senator an important man who decides what must happen in a country fit-x > f . M