23. Did a battle ensue?
24. What was wanting to insure the victory?
25. To whom did success incline?
26 What heroic resolution did Decius make?
27. In what way did he do this?
28. What followed?
29. What effect had this sacrifice on the hostile armies?
SECTION II.
U.C. 431.
Absurd the fumed advice to Pyrrhus given,
More praised than pander'd, specious, but unsound;
Sooner that hero's sword the world had quell'd,
Than reason, his ambition.—Young