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'My Novel! rather bold and curt, eh?" MR. CAXTON. "Add what you say you intend it to depict, Varieties in English Life." MY MOTHER. "'My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life' I don't think it sounds amiss. What say you, Roland? Would it attract you in a catalogue?" My uncle hesitates, when Mr. Caxton exclaims imperiously. "The thing is settled! Don't disturb Camarina."
Learning also that the Athenians were sending an embassy to Camarina, on the strength of the alliance concluded in the time of Laches, to gain, if possible, that city, they sent another from Syracuse to oppose them.
When the Carthaginian vice-admiral, Carthalo, who with a hundred select ships blockaded the Roman fleet in the port of Lilybaeum, received the intelligence, he proceeded to the south coast of the island, cut off the two Roman squadrons from each other by interposing between them, and compelled them to take shelter in two harbours of refuge on the inhospitable shores of Gela and Camarina.
Arrived in Sicily, Phaeax succeeded at Camarina and Agrigentum, but meeting with a repulse at Gela did not go on to the rest, as he saw that he should not succeed with them, but returned through the country of the Sicels to Catana, and after visiting Bricinniae as he passed, and encouraging its inhabitants, sailed back to Athens.
SQUILLS. "If it be not too great a liberty, pray who or what is Camarina?" MR. CAXTON. "Camarina, Mr.
The sea marsh "Cameria" is not indicated in the latest maps of Italy, but it would appear that some such name in the Pontine Bogs had recalled to Sir Walter the ancient proverb relating to Camarina, that Sicilian city on the marsh "which Fate forbad to drain." Porta St. Giovanni, rebuilt by Gregory XIII. in 1574. No. Letter from Mr. Carlyle referred to in vol. ii. p. 160.
It was to be expected that you, of all people in the world, Camarinaeans, being our immediate neighbours and the next in danger, would have foreseen this, and instead of supporting us in the lukewarm way that you are now doing, would rather come to us of your own accord, and be now offering at Syracuse the aid which you would have asked for at Camarina, if to Camarina the Athenians had first come, to encourage us to resist the invader.
'My Novel! rather bold and curt, eh?" MR. CAXTON. "Add what you say you intend it to depict, Varieties in English Life." MY MOTHER. "'My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life' I don't think it sounds amiss. What say you, Roland? Would it attract you in a catalogue?" My uncle hesitates, when Mr. Caxton exclaims imperiously. "The thing is settled! Don't disturb Camarina."
Still, most of the Ten Commandments remain at the core of all the Pandects and Institutes that keep our hands off our neighbours' throats, wives, and pockets; still, every year shows that the parson's maxim "non quieta movere " is as prudent for the health of communities as when Apollo recommended his votaries not to rake up a fever by stirring the Lake Camarina; still, people, thank Heaven, decline to reside in parallelograms, and the surest token that we live under a free government is when we are governed by persons whom we have a full right to imply, by our censure and ridicule, are blockheads compared to ourselves!
Some alarm was experienced at the forest of Camarina, but we were rescued by the extraordinary valor of Calpurnius Flamma, a tribune of the soldiers, who, with a choice troop of three hundred men, seized upon an eminence occupied by the enemy, to our annoyance, and so kept them in play till the whole army escaped; thus, by eminent success, equalling the fame of Thermopylæ and Leonidas, though our hero was indeed more illustrious, inasmuch as he escaped and outlived so great an effort, notwithstanding he wrote nothing with his blood.
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