himself obtained either nothing or but little, and that unnoticed.  The responsibility for what went well he laid upon any one sooner than upon himself and placed the resulting advantages within the reach of the public for whoever desired them, but more unsatisfactory issues he never laid to the charge of any one else, nor attempted to divide the blame.  Besides, he favored all the friends of Marcius individually both by deeds and by words.  Money he spent without stint and was ready to offer his services if any one wanted anything of him.  He neither said nor did anything mean against any one, and did not fall into enmity with any one if he could help it.  Furthermore, whatever benefits he received from any persons he always exaggerated, but unpleasant treatment he either did not notice at all or minimized it and regarded it is of very slight importance:  not only did he refuse to take offensive measures in return, but he conferred kindnesses until he won the man over entirely.  This gained him a certain reputation for cleverness, because he had mastered Marcius and all the latter’s followers, but through subsequent events he caused the majority of men to be distrusted, either as being deceitful by nature or as changing their views according to their own influence and fortunes. (Valesius, p. 570.)

[Frag.  IX]

Second Book of Dio:  “As there was nothing in which they did not yield him obedience.” (Bekker, Anecd. p. 164, 19.)

[Frag.  X] 1.  Dio, Book 2.—­“Because his brother did not cooperate with him he secretly put him out of the way by poison through the agency of his wife.” (Bekker, Anecd. p. 139, 17.  Cp.  Zonaras, 7, 9.)

2. ¶Tarquinius, when he had equipped himself sufficiently to reign over them even if they were unwilling, first arrested the most powerful members of the senate and next some of the rest, and put to death many publicly, when he could bring some real charge against them, and many besides secretly, while some he banished.  Not merely because some of them loved Tullius more than him, nor because they had family, wealth, intelligence, and displayed conspicuous bravery and distinguished wisdom did he destroy them, out of jealousy and out of a suspicion likewise that their dissimilarity of character must force them to hate him, the while he defended himself against some and anticipated the attack of others; no, he slew all his bosom friends who had exerted themselves to help him get the kingship no less than the rest; for he thought that impelled by the audacity and fondness for revolution through which they had obtained dominion for him they might equally well give it to some one else.  So he made away with the best part of the senate and of the knights and did not appoint to those orders any one at all in place of the men who had been destroyed:  he understood that he was hated by the entire populace and was anxious to render the classes mentioned extremely weak through paucity of men.  Yes, he even undertook