. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . on and justice than to the law of nations, for he had ac-companied Jugurtha, who came to Rome on the public , though clearly guilty of so foul a crime, repeatedhis endeavors to bear down the force of truth, till he perceivedthat the horror of his guilt was such as to baffle all the powerof interest or bribery, on which, though he had been com-pelled in the commencement of the prosecution of Bomilcarto give up fifty of his friends as sureties for his standing histrial, he sent him privately to Numidia
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . on and justice than to the law of nations, for he had ac-companied Jugurtha, who came to Rome on the public , though clearly guilty of so foul a crime, repeatedhis endeavors to bear down the force of truth, till he perceivedthat the horror of his guilt was such as to baffle all the powerof interest or bribery, on which, though he had been com-pelled in the commencement of the prosecution of Bomilcarto give up fifty of his friends as sureties for his standing histrial, he sent him privately to Numidia, being more concernedfor his kingdom than the safety of his friends ; for he wasfearful, should this favorite be punished, that the rest of hissubjects would be discouraged from obeying him. In a fewdays he himself followed, being ordered by the senate todepart out of Italy. When he left Rome, it is reported that,having frequently looked back to it with fixed attention, heat last broke out into these words: O venal city, and ripefor destruction when a purchaser can be I,ATIN WTERATURiR. 99 Caius Marius Seeks the Consulship. About the same time Marius happened to be at Utica, andas lie was sacrificing to the gods the augur announced to him,that great and wonderful things were presaged to him; heshould therefore pursue whatever designs he had formed, andtrust to the gods ; he might push his fortune to the utmost,regardless of difficulty and confident of success. Marius had been long seized with an ardent desire of theconsulship, and possessed every qualification for obtaining it,except that of noble descent; he had industry, probity, con-summate skill in war, and an intrepid spirit in battle ; he dis-played a model of temperance, and, completely master of hispassions, looked with indifference on wealth and pleasure, butwas covetous of renown, and possessed an insatiable thirst ofglory. He was born at Arpinum, where he passed his child-hood, and from the time that he was
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