STUDY Vil. ^I 



of filial tendernefs, voted a pardon to the father, 

 in confideration of the daughter, and on the fpot 

 where the prifon flood, commanded to rear a 

 Temple facred to filial piety. 



If a perfon condemned, was carrying to execu- 

 tion, the fentence was remitted, if a veftal hap- 

 pened to pafs that way. The puniQiment, due to 

 criminality, difappeared in the prefence of virtue. 

 If, in battle, one Roman faved another out of the 

 hands of the enemy, he became entitled to the ci- 

 vic crown. This crown confifted only of oak\ 

 leaves, nay, it was the only military crown which 

 had nothing golden about ir, but it conferred the 

 right of fitting, in the public theatres, on the 

 bench adjoining to thofe which were allotted to 

 Senators, who all ftood up in deference, on the en- 

 trance of him who wore it. It was, fays Pliny, 

 the mod illuftrious of all crov/ns, and communi- 

 cated higher privileges than the mural, the obfi- 

 dional, and naval crowns, becaufe there is more 

 glory in faving a fingle citizen, than in taking ci- 

 ties, or in gaining battles. It was the fame, for 

 this reafon, whether the perfon faved was the com- 

 mander in chief, or a private foldier ; but it was 

 not to be earned by delivering an allied King, who 

 might have come to the affiftance of the Romans. 

 Rome, in the diftribution of rewards, diftinguiflied 

 only the citizen. By means of fuch patriotic fen- 



E 2 timents, 



