Calendar: 1882-1883 Page 611

608 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE with these presents some of which are valuable and others worthless Say that you are Egyptians and are come to con- suit the oracle but that from the length of the journey you have entirely forgotten what you were ordered to ask Offer first the worthless presents and if Apollo can tell you why you were sent give him the valuable ones and inquire if shall conquer Cyrus The priests easily perceived from the men's language that they were not Egyptians and by some means or other discovered who they really were An ambiguous answer was returned by Apollo to the following effect-that if Croesus passed the river Halys he would overthrow great empire III -Cicero i9i tltpptc II Horace &att'rt£ II Ctctro Translate with marginal notes where necessary Quid habes quod mihi opponas homo diserte ut Tironi et Mustelae jam esse videris qui cum hoc ipso tempore stent cum gladiis in conspectu senatus ego quoque te disertum putabo si ostenderis quo modo sis eos inter sicarios defen- sums -sed quid opponas tandem si negem me umquam ad te istas litteras misisse Quo me teste convincas an chiro- grapho in quo habes scientiam quaestuosam Qui possis sunt enim librarii inanu Quamquam de morte Clodii fuit quaestio-non satis prudenter ilia quidem constituta quid enim attinebat nova lege quaeri de eo qui hominem occidisset cum esset legibus quaestio constituta quassitum est tamen- quod igitur cum res agebatur nemo in me dixit id tot annis post tu es inventus qui diceres Quid est num conturbo te non enim fortasse satis quae dijunctius diur intellegis Sed tamen haec sum ma est conclusionis mea3 quoniam scelere te liberati sunt ab eodem amplissimis prsemiis dignissimos judicatos Itaque jam retexo orationem meam Scribam ad illos ut si qui forte quod te mihi objectum est quae rent sitne verum ne cui