Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 359

THE SCHOOL 355 And herds of deer that bounding go O'er hills and prostrate trees below Turn into Latin Lyrics- Nymphs and shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladon's lilied banks On old Lycasus or Cyllene hoar Trip no more in twilight ranks Though Erymanth your loss deplore better soil shall give you thanks From the stony Maenalus Bring your flocks and live with us There ye shall have greater grace To serve the Lady of this place Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were Yet Syrinx well might wait on her Such rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen Turn into Greek Prose- The Carthaginians having given up hostages even before the Roman army did set forth to perform whatsoever should be enjoined them with condition that their city might not be de- stroyed and having accordingly when they were so required yielded up all their weapons and engines of war the Romans told them plainly that the city of Carthage which was the body of the citizens should be friendly dealt withal but the town must needs be demolished and removed into some other place that should be twelve miles distant from the sea "For said the Romans this trade of merchandise by which ye now live is not so fit for peaceable men such as ye promise to become here- after as is the trade of husbandry -an wholesome kind of life and enduing men with many laudable qualities vhich enable their bodies and make them very apt for conversation This villainous dealing of the Romans though sugared with glossing words plainly shows what good observation the elder Cato had made of the hasty growth of Carthage in riches