From the union of Italy to the subjugation of Carthage and the Greek states-continued. The RevolutionScribner, 1895 - Rome |
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Page 258 - Carthaginian 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, 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. Scipio, however, whom nature had destined for a nobler part than that of an executioner, gazed with horror on his own work ; and, instead of the joy of...
Page 175 - EGO deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam caelitum, sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus : nam si curent, bene bonis sit, male malis, quod nunc abest...
Page 21 - He who steals from a burgess," said Cato, " ends his days in chains and fetters ; but he who steals from the community ends them in gold and purple.
Page 257 - 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.
Page 176 - Constitere amnes perennes, arbores vento vacant, This last passage affords us a glimpse of the way in which the poet worked up his original poems.