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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 259

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nthe same barbarous manner. Viriathus for some time baffled the enemy by cunning and address,or rather by having no address at all, for he had no fixed residence ;and there was, consequently, much difficulty in finding him. At lengthhe fought a battle, in which he was so Far successful that a peace… … Assassinatiuii of Viriathus general had hired. The instigators of this barbarous act refused to paywhen the sanguinary work was done; and the murderers, in making a CHAT. XXII.] SIEGE OF NDMANT1A. 227 demand on account of their crime, may be 6aid to have, figuratively, cuttheir own throats, for…

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