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He is the only man that has ever yet triumphed for victories obtained over the Parthians; he was of obscure birth, but, by means of Antonys friendship, obtained an opportunity of showing his capacity, and doing great things; and his making such glorious use of it gave new credit to the current observation about Caesar and Antony, that they were more fortunate in what they did by their lieutenants than in their own persons.
" And, in private with some of his confidants, he told them, for the pro time, that he always thought it difficult, but now he held card impossible, card the forces he then had, to master Italy. Marcellus being the fourth time consul, his enemies suborned the Syracusans to come to Rome to accuse him, and to complain that they had suffered indignities and wrongs, contrary to the conditions granted them.
It sprang from the ruddy strand, leaped the crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precip- itous, pro upthrust of rock frowning black from the lac- quered depths. Crassus laughed at it, and hastened their march, and compelled his infantry to keep pace with his cavalry, till some few of the scouts returned and told them that their fellows were slain and they hardly escaped, that the enemy was at hand in full force, and resolved to give them battle.
But that which seemed to be his greatest glory, being one which no other Roman ever attained to, was this, that he made his third triumph over the third division of the world. Susan was her only companion and listener on this, as on more common occasions.
In the pause which succeeded, a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her affrighted ear. ?Wed 23 Sept. I shall see her in January. But the master so distrusted his clerk that he himself kept the accounts, refused to let him live in his house, held him at arms length, and never confided any secret or delicate affair to his keeping. " This answer was very much against the wishes of the women, and to all his friends it seemed somewhat harsh and haughty.
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