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606 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIEXCE Unde tibi reditum certo subtemine Parcae Rupere nee mater domum caerula te revehet Illic omne malum vino cantuque levato Deformis grimoniae dulcibus alloquiis Translate into Latin Prose If the character of men be estimated according to the steadiness with which they have followed the true prin- ciple of action we cannot assign high place to Hannibah But if patriotism were indeed the greatest of virtues and resolute devotion to the interests of his country were all the duty that public man could be expected to fulfil he would then deserve the most lavish praise Nothing can be more Unjust than the ridicule with which Juvenal has treated his inotives as if he had been actuated merely by romantic desire of glory On the contrary his whole conduct displays the loftiest genius and the boldest spirit of enterprise directed to the honour and interests of his country and his sacrifice of selfish pride when after the battle of Zaraa he urged the acceptance of peace and lived to support the disgrace of Carthage affords strong contrast to the cowardly despair with which some of the best of the Romans deprived their country of their services by suicide When the civil war broke out between Pompey and Caesar Gato resisted both and said that as for himself if Csesar prevailed he would die and if Pompey he would go ihto banishment He foresaw that the conqueror would not be content with defeating his opponent but would carry the victory so far as to subvert the liberties of his country and he thought that Csesar being the more wicked and am- bitious would do the more mischief Afterwards when Cdesar made open war on his country Cato advised the senate to intrust Pompey for while with the care of the republic- and followed him with his son to Dyrrachium On the death of Pompey he collected the remains of his army and marched them to where Scipio was encamped to deliver them over to him Finding that affairs were in desperate state he refused to flee but rather than fall into Caesar's