Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.[725:4]

Life of Caius Marius.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

Life of Caius Marius.

As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.[725:5]

Life of Lysander.

Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus?

Life of Lucullus.

[[726]]

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.[726:1]