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Had she been Fabius, Paullus, or even Sergius, men who were already groping amid the Greek schools of doubt, and were coming to regard the religion of the state more as an invaluable means of curbing the vices of the low and ignorant than as a divine light for the learned, had she been such as these, this proposal of Iddilcar would have seemed incredible only on account of its treason to his country.
"The allies skirmish with the Numidians," replied Servilius. "You mean that the Numidians skirmish with them," said Paullus. That was all, and the two soldiers turned to their task. The slingers' bullets fell no longer, or only scattering ones, dropping from above, told that these hornets had fallen back and sought refuge behind their lines; but the roar of battle rolled furiously from the front.
"It is the standards that oppose at last," commented Paullus. "The ranks are not too close yet. Let us go forward." Servilius protested, but the other waved him back. "Here is your place who command, my Servilius," said the consul; and a smile, sad rather than bitter, lit up the harsh lines of his face. "It is I, having no command, who can justly ply the sword."
Sergius followed and once, when he saw the consul cut down the boy who had stood near and talked to them that morning, he stopped still and shuddered. Paullus paused and laughed at him over his shoulder. "A flying man in the path of a general is much worse than a dead one," he said. "Besides, none of them can save his life in that direction so it is nothing."
Besides, the Falernian is too dry to drink before the meat. Afterward, if, as Glycon says, the boar hath a flavor of the south, it will be excellent, indeed." "Are as you as constant, Paullus, in your love for the boar, as these other epicures?" cried Fulvia, who, despite the depreciating tone in which she spoke, had sent her own plate for a second slice. "No! by the Gods!
In Greece itself, as the two Boeotian cities had already paid more than a sufficient penalty, the Molottians alone remained to be punished as allies of Perseus. Acting on secret orders from the senate, Paullus in one day gave up seventy townships in Epirus to plunder, and sold the inhabitants, 150,000 in number, into slavery.
In Hellas too there was such a ferment that a guerilla warfare might easily have been kindled with a little dexterity and a full exchequer; but, as Perseus had no desire to give and the Greeks did nothing gratuitously, the land remained quiet. Paullus At length the Romans resolved to send the right man to Greece.
Thus it was at this period; and—though it is quite certain, that on the preceding evening, at the convocation of the senate, no person except Cicero and Paullus, unconnected with the conspiracy, knew anything at all of the intended massacre and conflagration; though no one of the plotters had yet broken faith with his fellows; and though none of the leaders dared avow their schemes openly, even to the discontented populace, with whom they felt no sympathy, and from whom they expected no cordial or general cooperation—it is equally certain that for many days, and even months past, there had been a feverish and excited state of the public mind; an agitation and restlessness of the operative classes; an indistinct and vague alarm of the noble and wealthy orders; which had increased gradually until it was now at its height.
The weaker points of his character were vanishing rapidly, and the last few eventful days had done the work of years upon his mind; and all that work was salutary. She, too, read something in the expression of his eye, which led her to hope—what, she knew not; and she smiled faintly, as she said— "You know the writer, Paullus?" "Julia, I know her," he replied steadily.
But are you sure that he cannot prove he was not there?" "Quite sure, Chærea. For he was there." "And no witnesses who can prove to whom he spoke?" "Only one witness, and he will say nothing, unless called upon by Paullus." "And if so called upon?" "Will most reluctantly corroborate the tale of Stolo and Rufinus!"
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