Batiatus and Lucretia in “Paterfamilias”

I secure the primus, and he acts as if I shit upon the name Batiatus.

Oh, you raise it, beyond anything he can imagine. He will see this, and bitter tongue will turn to praise.

He would sooner bite it off, than have it betray him so. I had forgotten the feeling. This sudden abyss, as he sets disapproving eye upon me.