A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the ...
A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the ...
Henry George Liddell
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Every one knows the horrid tortures by which it is said that life was taken from* him; how his eyelids were cut off; how he was placed in a barrel stuck full of nails, with one end knocked out ; and how he was exposed to the unmitigated glare of an African sun, to die by the slow agonies of pain, and thirst, and fever. § 16. Regulus was a man of the old Roman kind, like Curins and Fabricras, devoted to his country, eager for glory, frugal, * See a coin of Metellus Scipio figured at the end of t...his chapter. 276 ROME AND CARTHAGE. Book IV. bold, resolute or (call it) stubborn. He has been censured for ex- cessive presumptuousness in his African campaign, and for the extravagance bj which he lost all the advantages which he might have secured. But it must be allowed that he had some grounds even for overweening confidence. Ever since the two nations had met in arms, the star of Carthage had grown dim before that of Rome. Even on the sea, where her navies had long ridden triumphant, the Queen of the Mediterranean had twice been beaten by her unskilled rival.
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