that she used for her hair, at the same time uttering many brutal jests.  Yet even this pair saved some persons from whom they got more money than they could expect to obtain by their death.  But in order that the places for their names on the tablets might not be empty, they inscribed others in their stead.  Except that Antony did release his uncle at the earnest entreaty of his mother Julia he performed no other praiseworthy act.

[-9-] For these causes the murders had great variety of detail, and the rescues that fell to the lot of some were of many kinds.  Numbers were ruined by their most intimate friends, and numbers were saved by their most inveterate foes.  Some slew themselves and others were given freedom by the very pursuers, who approached as if to murder them.  Some who betrayed masters or friends were punished and others were honored for this very reason:  of those who helped others to survive some paid the penalty and others received rewards.  Since there was not one man but three, who were acting in all cases each according to his own desire and for his private advantage, and since the same persons were not enemies or friends of the whole group, since, also, two of them might be anxious for some one to be saved whom the third wished to destroy, or for some one to perish whom the third wished to survive, many complicated situations resulted, according as they felt good-will or hatred toward any one. [-10-] I, accordingly, shall omit an accurate and detailed description of all the events,—­it would be a vast undertaking and would not add much to the history,—­but shall relate what I deem to be most worthy of remembrance.  Here is one.

A slave had hidden his master in a cave, and then, when even so through another’s information he was likely to perish, this slave changed clothes with him and wearing his master’s apparel confronted the pursuers as the man himself and was slain.  So they were turned aside, thinking they had despatched the desired man, but he when they had departed made his escape to some other place.

Or a second.  Another slave had likewise changed his entire accoutrement with his master, and entered a covered litter which he made the other help to carry.  When they were overtaken the one in the litter was killed without being even looked at, and the master, as a baggage-carrier, was saved.  Those services were rendered by those servants to their benefactors in return for some kindness previously received.

There was also a branded runaway who so far from betraying the man who had branded him very willingly preserved him.  He was detected in carrying him away and was being pursued, when he killed somebody who met him by chance and gave the latter’s clothes to his master.  Having then placed him upon a pyre he himself took his master’s clothing and ring and going to meet the pursuers pretended that he had killed the man while fleeing.  Because of his spoils and the marks of the branding he was believed and both saved the person in question and was himself honored.