BOOK VII. xLiii. 137-141 



O what a false meaning to attach to the title ! How 

 doomed to misfortune in the future ! Were not his 

 victims more fortunate at the time when dA-ing, 

 whom we pity today when Sulla is universally hated .'' 

 Come, was not the close of his hfe more cruel than 

 the calamity of all the victims of his proscriptions, 

 when his body ate itself away and bred its own tor- 

 ments ? And although he dissembled the pangs, 

 and although on the ev idence of that last dreani " 

 of his,wliich mayalmost besaid to haveaccompanied 

 his death, we beheved that he alone vanquished odium 

 by glory, nevertheless he admitted forsooth that this 

 one thing was wanting to his happiness — he had not 

 dedicated the Capitol. 



Quintus Metellus, in the panegyric that he de- Kren 

 livered at the obsequies of his father Lucius Metellus ~.f' "" 

 the pontifF, who had been Consul twice, Dictator, interrupted 

 Master of the Horse and Land-commissioner, and mUfwttme : 

 Avho was the first person who led a proccssion of '^' ^«'«"♦- 

 elephants in a triumph, having captured them in the 

 first Punic War.has left it inuTitingthat his father had 

 achievedthe ten greatest and highest objects in the 

 pursuit of which wise men pass their Hves : for he had 

 made it his aim to be a first-class warrior, a supreme 

 orator and a very brave commander, to have the 

 direction of operations of the highest importance, 

 to enjoy the greatest honour, to be supremely wise, 

 to be deemed the most eminent member of the 

 senate, to obtain great wealth in an honourable way, 

 to leave many children, and to achieve supreme dis- 

 tinction in the state ; and that these things had fallen 

 to his father's lot, and to that of no one else since 

 Rome's foundation. It would be a lengthy matter 

 to refute this, and it is superfluous to do so as it is 



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