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Was the office of legate a respectable one? Did Dentatus suspect treachery? What plan of revenge was adopted? What was the character of his attendants? How did they commence their base design? Was Dentatus aware of their treachery, and what resistance did he make? Did the assassins boldly engage the hero? What new method of attack did they attempt? Was this plan successful?
They were soon followed by the other army from the Sabine frontier; for to them Icilius had gone, and Numitorius; and they found willing ears among men who were already enraged by the murder of old Siccius Dentatus. So the two armies joined their banners, elected new generals, and encamped upon the Aventine hill, the quarter of the plebeians.
He found the practice gained in portrait-painting a substantial advantage, but he still felt himself incapable of composing a heroic figure for Dentatus. 'If I copied nature my work was mean, he complains; 'and if I left her it was mannered.
Many instances of the great men of antiquity being engaged in cooking were recited: the cook of Charlemagne was the leader of his armies, Patrocles, the geographer and governor of Syria under Seleucus and Antiochus, peeled onions, the heroic Ulysses roasted a sirloin of beef, the godlike Achilles washed cabbages, Cincinnatus boiled the turnips upon which he dined, the great Condé fried pancakes, Curius Dentatus, who twice enjoyed the honors of a triumph, was found cooking peas in an earthen pot.
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