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appearance Aricia had dared Arranged for interleaving ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL assembly Athenians battle Bituriges Cæsar Cambridge Larger camp Campania captives career of Titus Carthaginians Cato command consul Crassus crates he received Cronos danger darts death defeat Delphians despised the senate dungeon Editions of Terence embassy enemy Eryx escape EURIPIDES EXERCISES FOR LATIN Fabius Falinus fate fear friends Gauls gave Gylippus Hannibal Hasdrubal heard Herculaneum Herdonius of Aricia honour inflamed with revengeful interleaving if desired king king's Larger and Smaller LATIN PROSE Literally translated Lucullus marriage to Mamilius Misenum multitude OXFORD RESPONSIONS PASSAGES SET peace Pericles Pompey prisoners PROSE AT OXFORD punishment Romans Rome Savonarola Senate senate-house sent Servius SHRIMPTON Sicily SIMPKIN slaves slew Smaller Editions soldiers soon SOPHOCLES stood suffered sword Tarquinius gained TERENCE'S thousand throne translated from Wagner's troops Tusculum Veii Vercingetorix Vespasian victory violence Vitellius void of cultivation Wagner's Text Xenophon younger Pliny
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Page 18 - Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them. So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound, and he told her. Then she counselled him, that when he arose in the morning he should beat them without mercy.
Page 18 - Now, Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence : so when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners and cast them into his dungeon, for trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them.
Page 18 - Then he falls upon them, and beats them fearfully in such sort that they were not able to help themselves, or to turn them upon the floor. This done, he withdraws, and leaves them there to condole their misery, and to mourn under their distress : so all that day they spent their time in nothing but sighs and bitter lamentations.
Page 5 - ... the most successful of their countrymen, he inspired them with such enthusiastic resolution, that they followed him without murmuring. When they had penetrated a good way into the mountains, a powerful cazique appeared in a narrow pass, with a numerous body •of his subjects, to obstruct their progress. But men who had surmounted so many obstacles, despised the opposition of such feeble enemies. They attacked them with impetuosity, and, having dispersed them with much ease and great slaughter,...
Page 26 - Islands of the Blessed, and .dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil; but that he who has lived unjustly and impiously shall go to the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus.
Page 3 - Philip, who, in an attitude of deep respect, stood awaiting his commands, thus addressed him: " If the vast possessions which are now bestowed on you had come by inheritance, there would be abundant cause for gratitude. How much more, when they come as a free gift, in the lifetime of your father ! But, however large the debt, I shall consider it all repaid, if you only discharge your duty to your subjects. So rule over them that men shall commend, and not censure me for the part I am now acting.
Page 24 - Hitherto I have regarded my blindness as a misfortune, but now, Romans, I wish I had been as deaf as I am blind ; for then I should not have heard of your shameful counsels and decrees, so ruinous to the glory of Rome.
Page 1 - Lacedaemonian squadron, and forced it to give back in disarray, was furiously charged on the sudden by a desperate company of the Spartans, who all at once threw their darts at him alone; whereby receiving many wounds, he nevertheless with a singular courage maintained the fight, using against the enemies many of their darts, which he drew out of his own body, till at length by a Spartan, called Anticrates, he received so violent a stroke with a dart, that the wood of it brake, leaving the iron and...
Page 28 - Accordingly an embassy was dispatched to offer an exchange of prisoners and to propose terms on which a peace might be concluded. Regulus (according to the well-known story) accompanied this embassy, under promise to return to Carthage if the purposes of the embassy should fail...