Plutarch's lives for boys and girls - being selected lives freely retold (1900) (14592734507)

Identifier: plutarchslivesfo00westrich (find matches)
Title: Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Weston, W H Plutarch Rainey, W
Subjects: Biography -- To 500 Rome -- Biography Greece -- Biography
Publisher: New York : Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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abated, and it appearedthat the best part of the people were ready to hear himfairly, and to judge him with justice. Tullus wastherefore afraid that he would escape, the more so ashe was an eloquent man, and had, in spite of the ^vith-drawal from Rome, rendered great services to thestate. Therefore he and his fellow-plotters deter-mined to act at once. Crying out that such a traitorought not to be heard, nor suffered to play the tyrantover the Volscians, they rushed upon him in a body,and slew him upon the spot, no man present liftinga hand in his defence. Nevertheless it soon appearedthat the deed had not the general approval of theVolscians, for they gave his body an honourable burialand adorned his monument ^vith spoils and arms asbecame a mighty warrior and general. As for theRomans, they received the news of his death Avithoutany sign either of favour or of hatred. But they per-mitted the women of the city at their request to gointo mourning for him for ten months, that being the
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CORIOLANUS AND THE MATKONS OP ROME. CORIOLANUS 199 term of mourning assigned by the laws for the loss ofa father, a son, or a brother. Events soon proved how necessary the abilities ofCoriolanus were to the Volscians. First they becameinvolved in a quarrel mth their allies in which theylost many men, and afterwards they were defeated inbattle by the Romans. There Tullus and the flower oftheir army were slain, and the Volscians were obligedto submit to humiliating terms of peace which madethem subject to Rome. THE GRACCHI The two Gracchi, brothers in blood, were both inspired with thesense of the evils produced by the decrease in the number offreemen and the increase in the number of slaves in the Romanstate, and by the tendency of wealth to pass more and moreinto the hands of the few at the expense of the many. Both Tiberius and Caius set themselves to remedy theseevils, and, just as they were alike in the objects to which theydevoted their lives, so they were also alike in suffering