27.  What was the consequence of this measure?

28.  Against whom did the senate next turn their arms?

29.  Who was appointed to command this expedition?

30.  What was the consequence of this order?

31.  Did Sylla comply with their request?

32.  What was the issue of the contest?

[Illustration:  Marius sitting among the Ruins of Carthage.]

SECTION II.

                      It is a vain attempt
  To bind th’ ambitious and unjust by treaties.—­Thomson.

1.  Sylla, now finding himself master of the city, began by modelling the laws so as to favour his outrages; while Ma’rius, driven out of Rome and declared a public enemy at the age of seventy, was obliged to save himself, unattended and on foot, from the pursuit of those who sought his life. 2.  After having wandered for some time in this deplorable condition, he found every day his dangers increase, and his pursuers making nearer advances.  In this distress he concealed himself in the marshes of Mintur’nae, where he continued a night up to the chin in a quagmire. 3.  At break of day he left this dismal place, and made towards the seaside, in hopes of finding a ship to facilitate his escape; but being known and discovered by some of the inhabitants, he was conducted to a neighbouring town, with a halter round his neck, without clothes, and covered with mud; and in this condition was sent to prison. 4.  The governor of the place, willing to conform to the orders of the senate, soon after sent a Cim’brian slave to despatch him; but the barbarian no sooner entered the dungeon for this purpose than he stopped short, intimidated by the dreadful visage and awful voice of the fallen general, who sternly demanded if he had the presumption to kill Ca’ius Ma’rius?  The slave, unable to reply, threw down his sword, and rushing back from the prison, cried out, that he found it impossible to kill him! 5.  The governor, considering the fear of the slave as an omen in the unhappy exile’s favour, gave him his freedom; and, commending him to his fortune, provided him with a ship to convey him from Italy. 6.  He was forced by a tempest on the coast of Sicily.  A Roman quaestor, who happened to be there, resolved to seize him; and he lost sixteen of his crew, who were killed in their endeavours to cover his retreat to the ship.  He afterwards landed in Africa, near Carthage, and, overwhelmed with melancholy, sat himself down amongst the ruins of that desolate place.  He soon, however had orders from the praetor to retire. 7.  Marius, who remembered his having once served this very man in necessity, could not suppress his indignation at finding ingratitude every where:  and, preparing to obey, bid the messenger tell his master, that he had seen Ma’rius sitting among the ruins of Carthage; intimating the greatness of his fall, by the desolation that was around him. 8.  He once