aloft by the gale, had been frozen on the icy summits of the mountains, it' poured down such a torrent1 of snowy hail, that the soldiers, throwing every thing away, fell down upon their faces,15 rather smothered16 than covered by their clothes. And such an intensity' of cold succeeded, that, whenever any one endeavored to raise and lift himself up from this miserable prostrate mass of men and cattle, he was long unable, because, his sinews stiffening with the cold, he was hardly capable3 of bending his joints. XXII. THE GAULS AT ROME. THE Romans, seeing1 from the citadel the city full of the enemy, some new disaster continually arising on every side, were unable not only to realize it," but even to command3 their senses.4 Wherever the shouts of the foe, the lamentations of women and children, the crackling of fire, and the crash of falling roofs, called their attention," terrified at every sound,' they turned their thoughts, faces, and eyes, as if stationed by fortune to be spectators of the ruin" of their country, and left to protect no part of their property,i except their own persons: so much more to be pitied 'than others that have ever been besieged, inasmuch as9 they were at once invested and shut out from their country, beholding all their effects in the power of their enemies. Nor was the night which succeeded1o a day so miserably spent more tranquil :* day 1 Lesson 22, 2. 2 alius atque alius; so as to present the actual picture more vividly (cf. ¿). 3 constare. 4 Express by the organs of sense (ƒ). 5 avertere. 6 spectaculum (cc). 8 ante. 7 vindex (y). 9 Lesson 28, 2. d. light then followed a restless night: nor was there any moment which° was free from11 the spectacle of some ever12 new disaster. Nevertheless, burdened and overwhelmed by so many evils, they abated13 not their courage, determined, 14 although they had beheld all things levelled by conflagration and ruin, to defend, by their valor, the hill which they occupied, ill-provided and narrow as it was,15 yet the refuge16 of freedom. And at last, as the same things happened every day, they had abstracted their thoughts, as if inured to calamities,' from all sense of their misfortunes; gazing only upon the arms, and the swords in their hands, as the sole remnants of their hopes. 11 cessare (a), to give a more intense personal character than the ordinary words. 18 flectere. 12 semper. 14 quin (1). 16 relictus (cc). 15 The phrase may be omitted (cf. ll), or with quamvis. XXIII. MURDER OF MARCELLUS. 1. THE day following, as I was purposing1 to set out from Athens, his friend Posthumius came to me about four2 in the morning, and informed me Marcellus had been stabbed3 the night before by Magius Cilo, whilst they were sitting" together after supper; that he had received two wounds from a dagger,' one of which was in his breast, and the other under his ear; but that neither of them, he hoped, was mortal. He added, that Magius, after having committed this barbarous action," immediately killed himself; and that Marcellus had despatched him in order to give me this account, and likewise to desire that I would direct my physicians to attend" him. This I instantly did; 2 Lesson 17, e. 1 in animo habere. 3 ferire, pugione icere. 5 Lesson 30, 1. e (l). and followed them myself as soon' as it was light. But when I had almost reachede 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 MarcellusTM 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!V 2. However, I proceeded to his pavilion: where' 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 involved3 by this murders of their master. I was obliged to place the body of Marcellus in the same sedan that brought me, and to make10 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,a at the public expense.dd Thus have I paid to my relation 6 acerbissima morte afficere (i). ▾ dignitas. 8 Clause with quod. 9 Simply is. 11 impetrare. 10 With instrum. abl. (1). 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 (ce). 15 With simple possessive pronoun (i). STORY OF CINCINNATUS. - Arnold. 1. 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 stoppedda 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 everywhere2 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 4 2. Then Lucius rode on and saw how the camp of the enemy" lay; 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. ▲ 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 beggarm told |