Classical Antiquities: II. Roman Antiquities

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D. Appleton, 1882 - 126 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 99 - Upright in upright chariot still he stood, illstarred one ; then the left rein letting loose just as his horse was turning, unawares he strikes the furthest pillar, breaks the spokes right at his axle's centre, and slips down from out his chariot, and is dragged along, with reins dissevered. And, when thus he fell, his colts tore headlong to the ground's mid-space: and when the host beheld him fallen thus from off the chariot, they bewailed him sore, so young, so noble, so unfortunate, now hurled...
Sayfa 69 - Some imputed these things to petty avarice, but others approved of him, as if he had only the more strictly denied himself for the rectifying and amending of others. Yet certainly, in my judgment, it marks an over-rigid temper for a man to take the work out of his servants as out of brute beasts, turning them off and selling them in their old age, and thinking there ought to be no further commerce between man and man than whilst there arises some profit by it.

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