| Verginius left his beautiful young daughter Verginia in the care of her nurse, | Frontispiece |
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| A she-wolf, coming to the edge of the river to drink, heard their cries, | 6 |
| When she saw Horatius wearing on his shoulders the cloak of her betrothed, she broke into bitter sobs, | 30 |
| She carried in her arms nine books, | 46 |
| ‘O my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but thou hast lost thy son,’ | 72 |
| Seated in chairs of ivory, sat a number of strange, venerable old men, | 100 |
| The youth laid the arms he had taken from his foe at his father’s feet, | 120 |
| The armour of Pyrrhus was richer and more beautiful than that of his soldiers, | 146 |
| ‘I carry here peace and war, choose, men of Carthage, which ye will,’ | 176 |
| ‘We are beaten, O Romans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed,’ | 190 |
| A messenger was seen spurring his horse toward the city, | 213 |
| His progress was as that of a king, | 232 |
| So Carthage was given to the flames, | 258 |
| Here it would be possible, he thought, to hold the enemy at bay, | 276 |
| Jugurtha came to the tent of his father-in-law unarmed, | 292 |
| Gaius Marius sitting in exile among the ruins of Carthage, | 320 |
| Lists of those who were doomed were hung up in the Forum, | 336 |
| The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline, | 352 |
| Looking down upon the stream, he stood awhile deep in thought, | 378 |
| Here, sheltered by steep cliffs, he sat down to rest, | 412 |