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and followed them myself as soon' as it was light. But when I had almost reached Piraeus, I met a servant of Acidanus with a note to acquaint me that our friend expired a little before day-break. Thus did the noble Marcellus unworthily fall by the hand of a villanous assassin; and he whose life his very enemies had spared, in reverence to his illustrious virtues, met with an executioner at last in his own friend!"

2. However, I proceeded to his pavilion: where1 I found only two of his freedmen and a few slaves; the rest, I was told," having fled in apprehension of the consequences" in which they might be involved by this murders of their master. I was obliged to place the body of Marcellus in the same sedan that brought me, and to make1o my chair-men carry it into Athens: where I paid him all the funeral honors that city could supply; which indeed were not inconsiderable. But I could not prevail11 with the Athenians to suffer12 him to be buried within their walls; a privilege,' they assured me, which their religious ordinances would by no means admit. They granted me, however, what was the next honor," and which they had never permitted to any stranger before: they allowed" me to deposit his ashes in any of the Gymnasia I should think proper. Accordingly I fixed upon a spot belonging to the Academy, one of the noblest colleges13 in the whole world. In this place I caused a funeral pile to be erected, and afterwards persuaded the Athenians to raisedd a marble monument to his memory, at the public expense.da Thus have I paid to my relation 6 acerbissima morte afficere (i). 7 dignitas. 8 Clause with quod. 10 With instrum. abl. (7). 11 impetrare.

9 Simply is.

12 locum dare.

13 gymnasium.

and colleague,14 both during his life and after his death, every friendly office he had a right to expect15 from me. Farewell.

XXIV.

14 Express by pro with abstract noun (cc).

15 With simple possessive pronoun (¿).

STORY OF CINCINNATUS. - Arnold.

I. THEN the Masterdd of the people and the Master of the horse went together into the forum, and bade every man to shut up his booth, and stoppeddd all causes at law,dd and ordered that every1 man who was of an age to godd out to battle should be ready in the Field of Mars" before sunset, and should have" with him victuals for five days, and twelve stakes; and the older men dressed the victuals for the soldiers, whilst the soldiers went about everywhere to get their stakes; and they cut them where they would without3 any hindrance." So the army was ready in the Field of Mars at the time appointed, and they set forth from the city, and made such haste," that ere the night was half spent" they came to Algidus; and when they perceived that they were near the enemy, they made a halt.da

2. Then Lucius rode on and saw how the camp of the enemy" lay5; and he ordered his soldiers to throw down all" their baggage into one place," but to keep each man his arms and his twelve stakes. Then they set out again in their order of march as they had come from Rome, and they spread themselves round the camp of the enemy on every side. When this was done, upon a signal given they raised a great shout, and directly every man began to dig a ditch just where

1 Indef. Rel.

4 ad edictum.

2 dis- in composition.

5 With situs.

3 Lesson 23, 2. c.

6 Lesson 8, 7.

he stood, and to set in his stakes. The shout rang through the camp of the enemy, and filled them with fear; and it sounded even to the camp of the Romans who were shut up in the valley, and the consul's men said one to another, "Rescue is surely at hand, for that is the shout of the Romans." 8

7 Lesson 30.

8 Use civis, for facility in making an adjective.

XXV. PRINCELY GENEROSITY. - Feltham. DIOGENES asked1 Plato for a glass of wine, and he presently sent him" a gallon. When next Diogenes* met him, he said to him: "I asked you how many were two and two? and you have answered, twenty." There are some of so noble a disposition, that, like trees of ripe fruit, by degrees they drop away all that they have; they would even outdo the demands. of all their friends, and would give as if they were gods, that could not be exhausted; they look not so much either at the merit of others, or their own ability, as the satisfaction" of themselves from their own bounty. I find not a higher genius this way,5 than glowed' in the victorious" Alexander. He warred as if he coveted all things, and gave away as if he' cared for nothing. You would think he did not conquer for himself, but his friends; and that he took, only that he might have wherewith to give; so that one might well conclude the world itself was too little for either his ambition or his bounty. When Perillus begged that he would be pleased to give him a portion for his daughters, he immediately commanded him fifty talents. The modest beggar told

1 Lesson 22, 3. a. 2 onustus. 5 Lit. "no greater example in this kind.”

3 volo.

6 facile.

7

4 copiae. parum sufficere.

him ten would be enough. To which the princeTM replied: "Though they might be enough for him to receive, yet they were not enough for himself to bestow."

XXVI. DEFEAT OF VARUS.— Creasy.

1. FATIGUE and discouragement now began" to betray' themselves in the Roman ranks. Their line. became less steady; baggage-wagons were abandoned from the impossibility of forcing them along; and, as this happened, many soldiers left their ranks and crowded round the wagons to secure the most valuable portions" of their property; each busy about his own affairs," and purposely slow in hearing the word" of command from2 his officers. Arminius now gave the signal for a general attack." The fierce shouts of the Germans* pealed' through the gloom of the forests, and in thronging multitudes they assailed the flanks of the invaders," pouring in clouds of darts on the encumbered legionaries, as they struggled up the glens or floundered1 in the morasses.

2. Arminius, with a chosen band of personal retainers round him, cheered on his countrymen" by voice and example. He" and his men" aimed their weapons" particularly at the horses of the RomanTM cavalry The wounded animals," slipping about in the mire and their own blood, threw their riders, and plunged among the ranks of the legions, disordering all round them.

3. The bulk of the Roman army fought steadily and stubbornly, frequently repelling the masses of the assailants, but gradually losing the compactness of 1 Lesson 22, 3. b.

2 Lesson 15, a.

3 Lesson 22, 2.

their array. At last, in a series of desperate attacks the column was pierced through and through, two of the eagles captured,' and the Roman host, which on the yester morning had marched forth in such pride" and might, now broken up into confused' fragments," either fell fighting beneath the overpowering numbers of the enemy or perished in the swamps and woods in unavailing efforts at flight.

♦ partim.

XXVII. SIEGE OF SYRACUSE. - Arnold.

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MARCELLUS brought1 up his ships against the seawall of Achradina, and endeavored by a constant discharge of stones and arrows to clear the walls of their defenders, so that his men might apply their ladders, and mount to the assault. These ladders rested on two ships, lashed2 together broadside to broadside, and worked as one by their outside oars. But Archimedes had supplied the ramparts with an artillery so powerful, that it overwhelmed the Romans before they could get within the range1 which their missiles" could reach: and when they came closer, they found that all the lower part of the wall was loopholed'; and their men were struck down with fatal aim by an enemy whom they could not see, and who shot his arrows" in perfect security." If they still persevered, and attempted" to fix their ladders, on a sudden enormous stones or huge masses of lead were dropped upon them, by which their ladders were crushed to pieces, and their ships were almost sunk. At other times, machines like cranes were 1 Lesson 22, 3. b. 2 jungere. 3 Result-clause with applicare. 5 Lit. "aimed at from a hidden [place]."

4 teli conjectus.

6 pondus.

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