countrymen to consider the question not in the light of their present immunity, but with reference to the danger that then encompassed the soldiers, and to think not what ought to have been done, but what might have been the outcome.  The Numantini brought forward many statements about their previous good-will toward the Romans and considerable about the latter’s subsequent injustice, by reason of which they had been forced into the war, and the perjury of Pompeius:  and they asked for considerate treatment in return for the preservation of Mancinus and the rest.  But the Romans both dissolved the truce and decided that Mancinus should be given up to the Numantini. (Ursinus, p. 383.)

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  LXXX] (Par.) Claudius[44] through his harshness would have committed many outrageous acts, had he not been restrained by his colleague Quintus.[45] The latter, who was amiable and possessed exactly the opposite temperament, did not oppose him with anger in any matter and, indeed, occasionally yielded to him, and by gentle behavior so manipulated him that he found very few opportunities for irritation. (Valesius, p. 621.)

[Footnote 44:  These are the censors for the year B.C. 136, Ap.  Claudius Pulcher and Q. Fulvius Nobilior.]

[Footnote 45:  See note, page 335.]

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  LXXXI] (Par.) Furius[46] led out among his lieutenants both Pompeius and Metellus though they were hostile both to him and to each other; for, expecting to achieve some great success, he wished to have in them sure witnesses to his deeds and to receive the evidence of his prowess from their unwilling lips. (Valesius, ib.)

[Footnote 46:  P. Furius Philus (consul B.C. 136).]

(BOOK 24, BOISSEVAIN.)

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  LXXXIII] 1. (Par.) Tiberius Gracchus caused an upheaval of the Roman state,—­and this in spite of the fact that he belonged to one of the foremost families (his grandfather being Africanus), that he possessed a natural endowment worthy of the latter, that he had gone through a most thorough course of education, and had a high spirit.  In proportion to these great gifts of his was the allurement that they offered to follow his ambitions:  and when once he had turned aside from what was best he drifted even involuntarily into what was worst.  It began with his being refused a triumph over the Numantini:  he had hoped for this honor because he had previously had the management of the business, but so far from obtaining anything of the kind he incurred the danger of being delivered up; then he decided that deeds were estimated not on the basis of goodness or truth but according to mere chance.  And this road to fame he abandoned as not safe, but since he desired by all means to become prominent in some way and expected that he could accomplish this better through the popular than through the senatorial party, he attached himself to the former. (Valesius, p. 621.)