moft mortifying humiliation to human pride! which 
fometimes vainly imagines nothing capable of refilling 
the powers of man. Here at leaft was an inlkmcc of a 
whole Roman army under the command of Regulus, 
and univerfaliy victorious both by fea and land, oppo- 
fed by a fingle fnakc, which conflicted with it when 
living, and even when dead obliged it to depart. The 
proconful therefore thought it no diminution to his dig¬ 
nity to fend the fpoils of fuch an enemy to Rome, and 
toconfefs at once the greatnefs of his viCtoryand his 
terror by this public memorial; for he caufed the Akin of 
the fnake to be taken off, and fent to the city ; which 
is faid to have meafured 120 feet: it was fufpended in 
a temple, and remained till the time of the Numantiue 
war.” Friensh. Suppl. L,iv. 
