as soon as the slave left him, hurried off to Marius, who was at supper, and having gained admission, told him he would betray Marcus Antonius to him.

2. On hearing1 this,a Marius is said to have uttered a loud shout, and to have clapped his hands with delight; and he was near2 getting up and going to the place himself, but his friends stoppeds him, and he despatched Annius with some soldiers with orders1 to bring him the head of Antonius immediately. On reaching3 the house, Annius waited at the door, and the soldiers mounting the stairs" entered the room; but, on seeing Antonius, every man began to urge some of his companions, and push him forward to do the deed instead of himself. And so persuasive was the charm of his eloquence, when Antonius began to speak and plead for his life, that not a man of them could" venture to lay hands on him or look him in the face, but they all bent their heads down and shed tears. this caused some delay, Annius went up stairs," where he saws Antonius speaking, and the soldiers awed and completely softened by his eloquence: on which he abused them, and running up to Antonius, cut off his head with his own hand.

1 Lesson 22, 3. b.

2 Lesson 31, 2. b, d.

3 Lesson 22, 2.

XVI. DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE.

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I. BUT when, yielding" to famine, the most resolute of them set fire to the temple, Hasdrubal could not endure to face death; alone he ran forth to the victor, and falling upon his neck pleaded for his life. It was granted; but when his wife, who with her children was amongst the rest on the roof of the temple, saw him at the feet of Scipio, her proud"

heart swelled at this disgrace brought on her beloved perishing home, and with bitter words bidding her husband be careful to save his life, she plunged first her sons and then herself into the flames. The struggle was at an end. The joy in the camp" and at Rome was boundless: the noblest of the Romans alone were in secret ashamed of the most recent achievement of the nation.

2. The senate ordered the general to level the city of Carthage and the suburb of Magalia with the ground, and to do the same with all the places which had held by Carthage to the last; and thereafter to pass the plough over the site of Carthage, so as to put an end in legal formad to the existence of the city, and to curse the soil and site for ever, that neither house nor corn-field might ever reappear on the spot. The command was punctually obeyed. The ruins burned for seventeen days. Recently, when the remains of the city wall were excavated, they were found to be covered with a layer" of ashes from four to five feet deep, filled with half-charred pieces of wood,a fragments of iron, and projectiles. Where the industrious Phoenicians had bustled and trafficked for five hundred years, Roman slaves henceforth pastured the herds of their distant masters.

XVII. XENOPHON AT THE SEA.

1. THEY had crossed1 the plain to the foot of the hills in the dark, during the last watch of the night, and found the passes2 unguarded. But the people' fled from the villages at their approach, and though the Greeks at first spared their property, could not 1 pervenire with trans. 2 Insert quidem (99).

be induced to listen to any pacifici overtures. But having recovered from their first surprise, ands collected a part of their forces, they fell upon the rear of the Greeks, and with their missiles made some slaughter among the last3 troops" which issued in the dusk of the evening" from the long and narrow defile. In the night the watch"-fires of the Carduchians were seen blazing on the peaks of the surrounding hills; signals3 which warned the Greeks that they might expect to be attacked by the collected forces of their tribes.

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2. On the fifth day, as the army was ascending Mount Theche, a lofty ridge distinguished' by the name of the Sacred Mountain, Xenophon and the rearguard observed a stoppage and an unusual clamor in the foremost ranks," which had reached the summit, and they supposed at first that they saw an enemy before them. But when Xenophon rode up to ascertain the cause, the first shouts that struck his ear were, The sea, the sea! The glad sound ran quickly till it reached the hindmost, and all pressed forward to enjoy the cheering spectacle. The Euxine spreade its waters before their eyes; waters which rolled on to the shores of Greece, and which washed the walls of many Greek cities on the nearest coast of Asia.

3 In relative clause.

4 Infinitive.

5 Lesson 8, 3.

6 Part in dus(y). 7 Lesson 25, 2. b. 8 adeo ut (p).

XVIII.

VERCINGETORIX.-Merivale.

VERCINGETORIX, with all the gallant gayety" of his nation,' clads himself in his most splendid armour, and mounted his noblest charger. Cæsar had drawn3 up his troops, and had seated himself to receive his

1 ut fere Galli (f.

captives. The Gaul" caused" the gates of his encampment to be thrown wide, and galloped forth into the open space, in the attitude of a warrior charging.2 Having approached close to the proconsul's chair, he dexterously wheeled round, and again returning to the same spot, sprang to the ground, and laid his arms at the feet of the conqueror. The army wass touched with a sensed of admiration akin to compassion, but Cæsar himself remained cold' and unmoved.

2 With arma.

XIX. A STORY OF WOLVES.

WE had one dangerous place to pass, and our guide told us, if there were more wolves in the country, we should find them there ; and this was a small plain surrounded with woods on every side. It was within half an hour of sunset when we entered the wood, and a little after sunset when we came into the plain we met with nothing in the first wood, except that we saw five great wolves cross the road, full speed one after another, as if they had been in chase of some prey and had it in view: they took no notice of us, and were gone out of sight in a few moments. Upon this, our guide, who, by the way,2 was but3 a faint-hearted fellow, bid us keep in a ready posture,' for he believed there were more wolves a-coming. We kept our arms ready and our eyes about us; but we saw no more wolves till we came through that wood, which was near half a league, and entered the plain. As soon as we came into the plain we had 2 quidem.

1 Lesson 20, 2. c.

3 sane.

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occasion' enough to look about us: the first object we met with was a dead horse which the wolves had killed, and at least a dozen of them at work picking his bones.

XX. DEATH OF SOCRATES. - Plato.

1. WHEN he had thus spoken, Socrates arose and went into another room that he might wash himself, and Crito followeds him ; but he ordereds us to wait for him." We waited therefore accordingly, discoursing over and reviewing among ourselves what had been said; and sometimes speaking about his death, how great a calamity it would be to us; and sincerely thinking that we, like those who are deprived of their fathers, should pass the rest of our life in the condition of orphans. But when he had washed himself, his sons were brought to him (for he had two little ones, and one older), and the women belonging to his family" likewise came in to him; but when he had spoken to them before Crito, and had left them such injunctions as he thought proper," he ordered the boys and women to depart," and he himself returned

to us.

2. And it was now near the setting of the sun; for he had been away in the inner room for a long time. But when he came in from bathing he sat down, and did not speak much afterwards; for then the servant of the Elevendd came in, and standing near him, said, "I do not perceive that in you, Socrates, which I have taken notice of in others: I mean," that they are angry with me and curse me, when being compelled by the magistrates I announce to them that they must