Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 197
rty if he should be successful. Regulus went to the gates ofRome as commanded, but refusedto enter, saying: I am no longer a Roman citi-zen. I am but the barbariansslave, and the Senate may notgive audience to strangers withinthe walls. His wife and his two sons cameout to meet him, rejoicing… … his turn came. Conscript fathers, he said, beinga slave to the Carthaginians, I come, on the part of mymasters, to treat with you concerning peace. Whenasked his opinion, he advised the Romans to continuethe war, and not even to exchange prisoners ; for theCarthaginian generals, he said, who were…
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