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" So I gave him," added my informant, " the use of 

 a house of mine that happened to be empt j j his wife and 

 bojs were brought ashore the same night, and they are 

 again an Industrious, if not so united a family as before." 



from that fine old picture presented us by Cicero {De Senectute) of 

 Appius Claudius, who, after being five years censor, having brought 

 water into the city of Rome, and having built the famous Appian Way, 

 had at last become blind, and retired into the bosom of his family. He 

 thus makes Cato speak of the old man — "Quatuor robustos filios, quinque 

 filias, tantam domum, tantas clientelas, Appius regebat et senex et 

 coecus. Intentum animum tamquam arcum habebat, nee languescens 

 sticcumbebat senectuti. Tenebat non modo auctoritatem sed etiam 

 imperium in suos, metuebant servi, verebantur liberi, casum omnes 

 habebant ; vigebat in illo domo patrius mos et disciplina." Love, fear, 

 and reverence were entertained towards the ancient father in that old 

 republic — what better things can have taken their place in the new ? 



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