er so open-mouthed as when hunger is at the bottom ofit. The Romans began to think the time had arrived for a decisive N 2 180 COMIC HISTORY OF ROME fCHAP. XVII. blow, and had chosen as one of the Consuls of the year an individualnamed C. T. Varro, whom Livy has described as an eloquent… … Young Varro. should be heard in something more impressive than aery of butcher,at the door-ways of the citizens. His first flights of eloquence werein the market-place, where he interlarded his ordinary exclamations of Buy, buy, with sarcastic inquiries how long the people would consentto be sold…
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