The time will doubtless come--that is, unless we cut her course short--that as Rome increases in wealth and in luxury she will suffer from the like evils that are destroying Carthage.

Party exigencies will rise above patriotic considerations, and Rome will fall to pieces unless she finds some man strong and vigourous enough to grasp the whole power of the state, to silence the chattering of the politicians, and to rule her with a rod of iron.

But I am wandering from my subject.

Will you undertake this mission ?" "I will," Malchus replied firmly, "if you think me worthy of it.

I have no eloquence as a speaker, and know nothing of the arts of the politician." "There will be plenty of our friends there who will be able to harangue the multitude," Hannibal replied.