Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E, TRACEW ELL.

Then the general slaughter began
Later the Gauls decided to leave, but
asked for thousand weight of gold
When the weighing was commenced
the barbarians played high jinks, some
of them putting their hands on the
scales, so that the more money the
Romans put in. the more the Gauls
pressed down on the other side.
When the Romans protested against
such a violation of the treaty, Brcr-
nus. leader Of the Gauls, threw MS
sword and belt on the scales
What docs this mean?" asked the
Romans.
What should it mean" replied the
naughty Brennus, but woe to the con
quered!"
In this library there was PIato's
works. and Lucretius' great poem. "Oi
the Nature Of Things" together with
the "Discourses" of Epictetus, and the
Morals" of Seneca
Great names of antiquity there were
in abundance-Lucan and Persius. Pliny
the Elder and Younger, Quintilian
Status, Martial Tacitus, Juyenal
Suetonius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninius
The great ancient plays of Aeschylus
Euripides, Aristophanes we're here in
various translations, including some o!
the greatest. Nor must Plutarch's
Morals" be forgotten. Those who care
for the abstract consideration Of the
problems of good and evil by no me ans
must overlook these essays.
Here were three volumes of Xenophon
translated by the Rev. j. S. Watson
Virgil! appeared in both prose and verse
translations, and there was gorgeou,
recent edition of the Love Stories OF
Ovid which would never get by the
Boston customs house.
Thucydides shone forth in two vol
urnes on the Peloponhesian wars. Ter
ence was here, together with two large
volumes labeled "Tacitus, the Works Of
one who was interested In the history
Of Rome during the reigns of Con-
Stantius, Julian, JoVian1S, Valentiniau
end Valens could find all about 1t in
the history written by Ammianus Mar
celllnus, translated by the famous Prof.
c. d. Yonge.
Appian had two volumes on Roman
history. The next book on the shell.
was one-voltln1e translation OF
Apuleius' works, including the famed
Golden ASS"
Catullus was here in literal prose
translation" Junius still showed the
world models of letter writing. Homer
Illad'-heavens, we had almost for
SOIlCL 1t! Iel mere IL was IN all the
translations available, both in prose and
verse, Including the neat couplets OF
Pope
Arrian's most famous work. the Dis
courses" of Epictetus, which he took
down as spoken by the great Stole, stood
next to an even more famous work OF
his, but little read any more, the
"AnabaSis of Alexandria.
Aristotle's Ethics" and Metaphysics
jostled the widest known Latin book
Caesars Commentaries on The Gallo
Wars" What A shame IL is that this
truly interesting book should be forced
on children. thus spelling their appreci-
alton of 1t for lifel
And IL volumes of Cicero! We took
down their names, because we had for
gotten that so much of him had sur
vived. Four volumes of his orations.
including that ope against Catalina: four
OF Letters" and one each on Orators. "
Nature of the Gods" Academies" and
Offices. or Moral Duties"
Diogenes Laertius stood ready to give
the reader the lives and opinions of the
ancient philosophers. Best of all. there
were seven volumes of Gibbons Decline
and Fail Of the Roman Empire" in so
Roman In tone that 1t belonged. :"
rounding out the others.