inoft mortifying humiliation to human pride ! which 

 fometimes vainly imagines nothing capable of refilling 

 the powers of man. Here at leaft was an inftance of a 

 whole Roman army under the command of Regulus, 

 and univerfally victorious both by fea and land, oppo- 

 fed by a fingle fnake, which conflicted with it when 

 living, and even when dead obliged it to depart. The 

 proconful therefore thought it no diminution toTiis dig- 

 nity to fend the fpoils of fuch an enemy to Rome, and 

 to confefs at once the greatnefs of his victory and his 

 terror by this public memorial; for he caufed the fkin of 

 the fnake to be taken off, and fent to the city ; which 

 is faid to have meafured 1 20 feet : it was fufpended in 

 a temple, and remained till the time of the Numantine . 

 war." Friensh. Suppl. Li v. 



