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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 162

An illustration from The comic history of Rome, 1850, leaf 162 — assadors to know theterms on which the prisoners would be given up; but the ambassadors—like good money sent after bad—never came back again. TheRomans perceiving at last that they were only cutting their army intoconvenient piefces for the enemy to swallow up, despatched, at length,a force large… … 186 COMIC HISTORY. OF ROME. [CHAP. XIV. but as the Senones are frequently met with again, it must be presumedthat the assertion, ex nihUo nihil fit— nothing can come of nothing —■is unacknowledged by tbe writers of classical history. Foreign intervention seems to have been quite the order of the…

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