Hernica saxa colunt, quos dives Anagnia pascit,
Quos, Amasene pater.—Aen. viii. 682-5.
[104] 'O father! O fatherland! O house of Priam, palace, closing on high-sounding hinge, I have seen thee, guarded by a barbaric host, with carved and deep-fretted roof, with ivory and gold royally adorned.'
[105] 'But they rise superior in spirit, and spurn the first sharp wounds of war.'
[106] 'When I begat them, I knew that they must die, and to that end I bred them. Besides, when I sent them to Troy to fight for Greece, I was well aware that I was sending them, not to a feast, but to a deadly war.'
[107] 'Such is my nature. Enmity and friendship equally I bear stamped on my forehead.'
[108] 'Ennio delector, ait quispiam, quod non discedit a communi ordine verborum.'—Orator, 11.
[109] Cicero, Brutus, 15; Aulus Gellius, xii. 2.
[110] 'He was called by those, his fellow-countrymen, who flourished then and enjoyed their day, the chosen flower of the people, and the marrow of persuasion.'
[111] Compare his account of the Tribune in the Istrian war: