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Title: Plutarch's Lives : the translation called Dryden's
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Plutarch Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John D. Morris
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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the minds of the Romans, who were about to undertake a
war so near home and upon their own borders -, and re-
garded the Gauls, because they had once taken their city,
with more apprehension than any people, as is apparent
from the enactment which from that time forth provided,
that the high-priests should enjoy an exemption from all
military duty, except only in Gallic insurrections.
The great preparations, also, made by the Romans for
war (for it is not reported that the people of Rome ever
had at one time so many legions in arms, either before or
since), and their extraordinary sacrifices, were plain argu-
ments of their fear. For though they were most averse to
barbarous and cruel rites, and entertained more than any
nation the same pious and reverent sentiments of the gods
with the Greeks; yet, when this war was coming upon
them, they then, from some prophecies in the Sibyl's books,
put alive underground a pair of Greeks, one male, the other
female; and likewise two Gauls, one of each sex, in the
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Naval fight during the first Punic War.

MARCELLUS. 175

market called the beast market: continuing even to this
day to offer to these Greeks and Gauls certain ceremonial
observances in the month of November.
In the beginning of this war, in which the Romans some-
times obtained remarkable victories, sometimes were shame-
fully beaten, nothing was done toward the deternnnation
of the contest, until Flaminius and Furius, being consuls,
led large forces against the Insubrians. At the time of
their departure, the river that runs through the country
of Picenum was seen flowing with blood ; there was a re-
port, that three moons had been seen at once at Ariminum;
and, in the consular assembly, the augurs declared, that
the consuls had been unduly and inauspiciously created.
The senate, therefore, immediately sent letters to the camp,
recalling the consuls to Rome with all possible speed, and
commanding them to forbear from acting against the ene-
mies, and to abdicate the consulship on the first opportu-
nity.

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