What was the consequence of these acts?
27.

Did he find steady friends?
28.

Were his measures of precaution successful?
29.

What farther indignities did he experience?
SECTION II.
Say, Romans, whence so dire a fury rose, To glut with Latin blood your barbarous foes?
Could you in wars like these provoke your fate?
Wars, where no triumphs on the victors wait ?--_Rowe's Lucan_.
1.

It was now seen that the fate of Gracchus was resolved on.
Opim'ius, the consul, was not contented with the protection of the senate, the knights, and a numerous retinue of slaves and clients; he ordered a body of Candians, who were mercenaries in the Roman service, to follow and attend him.2.Thus guarded, and conscious of the superiority of his forces, he insulted Gracchus whereever he met him, doing all in his power to produce a quarrel, in which he might have a pretence for despatching his enemy in the fray.3.Gracchus avoided all recrimination, and, as if apprised of the consul's designs, would not even wear any arms for his defence.4.His friend Ful'vius Flaccus, however, a zealous tribune, was not so remiss, but resolved to oppose party against party, and for this purpose brought up several countrymen to Rome, who came under pretence of desiring employment.5.When the day for determining the controversy was arrived, the two parties, early in the morning, attended at the Capitol, where, while the consul was sacrificing, according to custom, one of the lictors taking up the entrails of the beast that was slain in order to remove them, could not forbear crying out to Flac'cus and his party, "Make way, ye factious citizens, for honest men." 6.