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ourselves the influences that prevailed of old, and which ani- 

 mated the once feeble and scattered tribes of Rome to impress 

 their history upon an ineffaceable page: — 



" Smpe aucUvi Q. Maximum, P. Scipioieni, preterea civitatis nos- 

 trae preclaros viros, solUos ita dicere, cum, mqjorum imagines intaer- 

 entur, vehementissime sihi anim,um, ad virtatem. accendi." * — Sallust, 

 Bell. Jngurth. c. iv. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN, 



Secretary. 

 Horticultural Hall, 



Wo7xester, Worcester County, 

 Massachusetts, 3 : November, A. D. 1886. 



* I have often heard that Quintus Maximus, Publius Scipio and other illus- 

 trious citizens, were accustomed to declare that when they were contem- 

 plating the features of their ancestors, they felt their minds strongly incited 

 to the performance of noble deeds. 



