 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1852 - 252 pages
...where the governor of the province sent to warn him to leave the place. All the answer he returned was, "Tell him that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage," as if he meant that greatness fallen like his own should be his protection. In the meantime the two... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1855 - 606 pages
...the man demanded what answer he should take back to the Praetor. " Tell him," said the old General, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." Soon after, he was joined by his son, who had endeavoured to gain support from Hiempsal, King of Numidia.... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1855 - 604 pages
...the man demanded what answer he should take hack to the Praetor. " Tell him," said the old General, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." Soon after, he was joined by his son, who had endeavoured to gain support from Hiempsal, King of Numidia.... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1857 - 882 pages
...the man demanded what answer he should take back to the Pra;tor. " Tell him," said the old General, "'that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." Soon after, he was joined by his son, who had endeavoured to gain support from Hiempsal, King of Numidia.... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1867 - 258 pages
...the governor of the province sent to warn him to leave the place. All the answer he returned was, " Tell him that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage," as if he meant that greatness fallen like his own should be his protection. In the meantime the two... | |
 | Caroline Hyde Butler Laing - 1875 - 498 pages
...message for the Praetor ?" demanded the officer. "Go tell Sextilius," said he with a heavy eigh, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage !" " Thus in the happiest manner," writes Plutarch, "he proposed the fate of that city and his own... | |
 | Caroline Hyde Butler Laing - 1875 - 508 pages
...no message for the Praetor?" demanded the officer. "Go tell Sextilius," said he with a heavy Bigh, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage !" " Thus in the happiest manner," writes Plutarch, " he proposed the fate of that city and his own... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1896 - 374 pages
...take back to the prsetor ?" asked the man. "Tell him," said the old general, with impressive dignity, "that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." held in captivity. He was at length enabled to escape by the aid of the king's 'daughter, and joined... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 394 pages
...had been six times consul of Rome made to the envoy the celebrated answer: "Go and tell the prsetor that -you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." He, however, obeyed the warning, and sailed away with his son to the island of Cercina. Meanwhile in... | |
 | Edward Ritter von Preissig - 1906 - 762 pages
...under penalty of death. He then made to the messenger the celebrated answer, " Go and tell the praetor that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." He left with his son and found a temporary refuge on the island of Cercina. When the news reached him... | |
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Tell him," said the old General, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." Soon after, he was joined by his son, who had endeavoured to gain support from Hiempsal, King of Numidia. The young man had been received with outward... 