When Scipio Africanus, the younger, was commissioned by the Senate to settle the kingdoms throughout the world, and see that they were put in proper hands, he only took five slaves with him; and, on one of these dying during the journey, he wrote home to his relations to buy another and send him to take the place of the dead one.[285]
[XXX (184)]
If one ought to speak of Fortune in regard to such things; for I fear she often gets credit of that sort without good reason; while the real fault lies with the men who administer public business, who sometimes act with seriousness and sometimes the reverse.
B
[XXXI (1)]
But not making at all a good guess at the king’s mind, he acted in a most inconsiderate manner.
[XXXII (2)]
Want of civilisation appears to have an extraordinary influence on mankind in this direction.
[XXXIII (3)]
But the general being unable to endure the unfairness of those who made these assertions....