Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . one whose hands werestained with the blood of so many citizens. Moreover,he was afterwards infamous enough to take bribesfrom an enemy of the state. As for the commons, ina little time they lamented the Gracchi. They erectedstatues to their memory, and decreed that the placeswhere they had been killed should be held , some indeed offered sacrifices and paid theirdevotions to them as to the gods. Cornelia bore herself in all these misfortunes ^vith anoble greatness of soul. She said of the sacred placesthat the
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . one whose hands werestained with the blood of so many citizens. Moreover,he was afterwards infamous enough to take bribesfrom an enemy of the state. As for the commons, ina little time they lamented the Gracchi. They erectedstatues to their memory, and decreed that the placeswhere they had been killed should be held , some indeed offered sacrifices and paid theirdevotions to them as to the gods. Cornelia bore herself in all these misfortunes ^vith anoble greatness of soul. She said of the sacred placesthat they were memorials worthy of her sons. Andof Tiberius and Caius she would speak without a sigh ora tear, and recount their triumphs and their sufferingsas though she had been telling the story, not of her ownsons, but of some ancient heroes. Thus she showed howa noble mind may learn to support itself against thepangs of sorrow, and that though Fortune may oftenget the better of Virtue, yet Virtus can always be theconqueror by rising superior to the blows of THE PURSUIT OF CAM - tlU ACCH LS CAIUS MARIUS The long life of Caius Marius began about the middle of thesecond century before Christ. It falls naturally into twodivisions; an earlier one in which the soldier of humble birthraised himself to the highest position in the state and renderedhis country almost unequalled services, a later and shamefulone in which his insane greed of power brought upon Romeand her provinces the horrors of a savage and merciless civilwar. It has often been said with truth that had Marius died afterhe had overthrown the Teutones and the Cimbri, he wouldhave left behind him one of the most glorious names in Romanhistory. But he could not bear to surrender in time of peacethe foremost position which he had won by his skill in found himself outdistanced by others in the arts which winpopularity in civil life, and he then stooped to the basest actsin order to maintain his power. His
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