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Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. But when I think that she might follow me to Pyrrhus's cliff " "Don't flatter yourself with this hope," pleaded Gorgias. "Serious obstacles may interpose. I am to have another talk with the Nubian later.
This deliberate act of the oyster may not stand comparison with the stone of Pyrrhus's ring, which had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it produced by the spontaneous handiwork of Nature without any help from art. The marvellous stone belonged to the fabulous past; the imprisoned chiton to the prosaic present.
When news came that Lævinus, the Roman consul, was marching to attack him with a large force, and was plundering the country of Lucania as he advanced, while Pyrrhus's allies had not yet arrived, he thought it a shameful thing to allow the enemy to proceed any farther, and marched out with his army.
Just at that time the circumstances of Italy were such, that the project which had been meditated forty years before by Pyrrhus's kinsman, his father's cousin, Alexander of Epirus, and quite recently by his father-in-law Agathocles, once more seemed feasible; and so Pyrrhus resolved to abandon his Macedonian schemes and to found for himself and for the Hellenic nation a new empire in the west.
But, though Pyrrhus's ship approached the shore, the violence of the winds and waves was so great, that for a long time it was impossible for those on board to land. At length the wind suddenly changed its direction, and began to blow very violently off the shore, so that there seemed to be great probability that the ship would be driven to sea again.
Demetrius advanced accordingly, as far as he chose, into Pyrrhus's territories, capturing and plundering every thing that came in his way. Pyrrhus himself, on the other hand, met with quite a different reception. Demetrius had not taken all his army with him, but had left a large detachment under the command of a general named Pantauchus, to defend the country during his absence.
His adventures. Agathocles's flight from Africa. Terrible consequences. The sea dyed with blood. Shocking story. Texina and her children. Extraordinary story. Mænon's contrivance for administering poison. Dangers of usurpation. Mænon's career. Pyrrhus receives two tempting invitations. Pyrrhus's perplexity. He decides to go to Sicily. He makes great preparations at Tarentum.
They compared Pyrrhus in these respects with Demetrius, their own sovereign, greatly to the disadvantage of the latter; and so strong was the feeling which was thus excited in Pyrrhus's favor, that it was thought at the time that, if Pyrrhus had advanced toward the capital with a view to the conquest of the country, the whole army would have gone over at once to his side, and that he might have made himself king of Macedon without any further difficulty or trouble.
The young elephant and its mother. Pyrrhus's flight. His desperate expedient. He arrives at length safely in Epirus. The force with which Pyrrhus returned to Tarentum was very nearly as large as that which he had taken away, but was composed of very different materials.
The two consuls draw lots. Decius sacrifices himself. Superstitious fears of the soldiers. Decius Mus. Reply of Decius Mus to Pyrrhus. The Romans afraid of the elephants. The battle. The elephants. War chariots. Doubtful victory. Winter-quarters. Nicias. Pyrrhus's physician. His treachery. A generous exchange of prisoners. No peace.
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