Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . d Marius of the power of speech. Hestood a long time silent, staring fixedly at the , at last, he was asked what reply he had to maketo the message of the governor, Marius answered witha deep sigh, Tell him that you have seen Caius Mariusan exile sitting amidst the ruins of Carthage ! a speechin which he fittingly compared his own fallen fortuneswith the fate of the city. Meanwhile, the King of Numidia had been in doubthow to act. He treated young Marius and his com-panions with honour certainly, but he kept
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . d Marius of the power of speech. Hestood a long time silent, staring fixedly at the , at last, he was asked what reply he had to maketo the message of the governor, Marius answered witha deep sigh, Tell him that you have seen Caius Mariusan exile sitting amidst the ruins of Carthage ! a speechin which he fittingly compared his own fallen fortuneswith the fate of the city. Meanwhile, the King of Numidia had been in doubthow to act. He treated young Marius and his com-panions with honour certainly, but he kept them abouthim, on one pretext or another, whenever they pro-posed to depart, so that it appeared that he was detain-ing them with no good object towards them. By theaid of one of the women about the court, however,they succeeded at last in escaping, and made their waydown to the coast. There young Marius embracedhis father, and together they left the mainland for anisland at no great distance from it. Their departurewas timely, for no sooner had they set sail than they. THK EXILED MARIUS AMIDST THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE. CAIUS MARIUS 271 saw a body of horsemen, sent by the king to seize them,riding down to the shore. Meanwhile, Sulla had left Rome in order to com-mand the army in the war against Mithridates. Whilehe was absent, the two consuls, Octavius and Cinna,quarrelled, and civil war broke out between got the better of the struggle and deposedCinna from his office. But the defeated consul deter-mined to continue the contest, and collected troopsin Italy in order to make war upon his rival. When Marius heard this news, he resolved to takeadvantage of the strife in order to return to Italy. Heknew that Cinna was the enemy of Sulla, and was dis-posed to make changes in the government. Mariustherefore hoped to establish his position once again byan alliance with Cinna. As soon as he had landed in Italy, Marius proclaimedfreedom for such slaves as would join him. He
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