Scipio
is reported to have answered, (when some Flatterers at Supper were asking him what the
Romans
should do for a General after his Death) Take
Marius
.
Marius
was then a very Boy, and had given no Instances of his Valour; but it was visible to
Scipio
from the Manners of the Youth, that he had a Soul formed for the Attempt and Execution of great Undertakings. I must confess I have very often with much Sorrow bewailed the Misfortune of the Children of