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TALES OF THE ROMANS

Honesty and HonorContinued

  • Sulla's appeal, 81
  • death for, 83–84
  • disgrace, 85
  • Cæsar's soldiers, 119
  • v. material reward, 138
  • in act, if not name, 147


Industry

  • v. talk, 63, 124
  • See also "Peace and War"


Justice

  • Brutus, 16–20
  • injustice to conquered (Brennus), 29
  • Cato and public, 137
  • Cicero's rule, 150


Kindness

  • to prisoners (Fabius), 33–34
  • to distressed (Coriolanus), 40–41
  • popular sympathy, 54
  • to animals (Plutarch), 67
  • Plutarch's daughter, 68
  • to distressed, 73–74
  • cruelty is brutish, 82
  • Sertorius's fawn, 100, etc.
  • to sick (Cæsar), 119
  • See also "Age," "Generosity," "Mercy"


Kings and Rulers, Qualities and Vicissitudes of

  • Æmilius, 53–54
  • Marius, 75–76


Mercy

  • Cæsar, 127, 149


Modesty

  • Minucius, 34–35
  • humility in triumph (Æmilius), 54
  • vanity (Crassus), 95–96
  • vanity (Pompey), 109
  • vanity (Pompey's men), 111


Mother

  • power of (Volumnia), 43–47
  • respect for (Sertorius), 106


Peace and War

  • women and peace, 6–7
  • peace and industry, 14
  • temple of Concord, 30
  • women and peace, 43–47
  • war v. science, 58–60


Perseverance

  • life of Fabius, 31, etc.
  • life of Cæsar, 114, etc.


Riches and Poverty

  • Agrippa, 38–39
  • Cato, 66
  • Lucullus, 89–91
  • The Gracchi, 141, etc.


Self-Control, Self-Sacrifice, etc.

  • Romulus's anger, 4
  • temperance and strength, 8
  • silence, value of, 12
  • Roman endurance, 16, etc.
  • self-sacrifice (Camillus), 23–24
  • patience (Fabius's life), 30, etc.
  • self-sacrifice of nameless Roman, 83–84
  • Sertorius, 103–104
  • self-sacrifice (Gracchus), 141
  • v. excitability (Caius), 144
  • intemperance (Antony), 154

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