very fact made it perfectly evident to all that it was from fear of their accoutrement and from necessity, that the two rulers were making peace because of the people and Sextus because of his adherents.  The compact was framed upon the following conditions,—­that the deserters from among the slaves should be free and that all those driven out, save the assassins, should be restored.  The latter, of course, they had to exclude, but in reality several of them were destined to return.  Sextus himself, indeed, was thought to have been one of them.  It was recorded, at any rate, that all the rest save those mentioned should be allowed to return under a general amnesty and with a right to a quarter of their confiscated property; that tribuneships, praetorships and priesthoods should be given to some of them immediately; that Sextus himself should be chosen consul and be appointed augur, should obtain seventeen hundred and fifty myriads of denarii from his paternal estate, and should govern Sicily, Sardinia and Achaea for five years, not receiving deserters nor acquiring more ships nor keeping any garrisons in Italy, but bending his efforts to secure peace on the sea for the peninsula, and sending a stated amount of grain to the people of the City.  They limited him to this period of time because they wished it to appear that they also were holding merely a temporary and not an unending authority.

[-37-] After settling and drafting these compacts they deposited the documents with the priestesses,—­the vestal virgins,—­and then exchanged pledges and treated one another as friends.  Upon this a tremendous and inextinguishable shout arose from the mainland and the ships at once.  For many soldiers and many individuals who were present suddenly uttered a cry in unison because they were terribly tired of the war and vehemently desired peace.  And the mountains resounded so that great panic and alarm were spread, and many died of fright at the very reverberation, while others perished by being trampled under foot and suffocated.  Those who were in the small boats did not wait to reach the land itself but jumped out into the sea and the rest rushed out into the breakers.  Meantime they embraced one another while swimming and threw their arms around one another’s necks under water, making a diversified picture accompanied by diversified sounds.  Some knew that their relatives and associates were living and seeing them present gave way to unrestrained joy.  Others, thinking that those dear to them had died previously, saw them now unexpectedly and for a long time knew not what to do but were rendered speechless, distrusting their sight yet praying that it might be true; and they were not sure of them until they had called their names and had heard them say something.  They rejoiced as if the men had been brought to life again, but as they were forced to share their pleasure with a multitude they did not continue without tears.  Again, some who were unaware that their loved ones