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He sat down gravely and, just as if the Latin phrases had possessed a soothing virtue, the couple ceased weeping and drew nearer to him to hang upon the advice from his lips, as at one time the Greeks did before the words of salvation from the oracle that was to free them from the Persian invaders. "Why do you weep? Ubinam gentium sumus?" "You've already heard of the uprising?"
He lived till he was near a hundred years old; but he had long lost his memory, as the verse of Bibaculus informs us: Orbilius ubinam est, literarum oblivio? Where is Orbilius now, that wreck of learning lost? His statue is shown in the Capitol at Beneventum.
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