simple and true heart pronounced before the people. As to Perseus,
though he pitied his fallen fortunes and was most anxious to help him,
all he could do was to get him removed from the common prison, called
Carcer by the Romans, to a clean and habitable lodging, where, in
confinement, according to most authors, he starved himself to death; but
some give a strange and extraordinary account of how he died, saying
that the soldiers who guarded him became angry with him, and not being
able to vex him by any other means, they prevented his going to sleep,
watching him by turns, and so carefully keeping him from rest by all
manner of devices, that at last he was worn out and died. Two of his
children died also; but the third, Alexander, they say became
accomplished in repousse work and other arts. He learned to speak and
write the Roman language well, and was employed by the magistrates as a
clerk, in which profession he was much esteemed.

XXXVIII. The most popular thing which Aemilius did in connection with
Macedonia was that he brought back so much money that the people were
not obliged to pay any taxes till the consulship of Hirtius and Pausa,
during the first war between Antony and Augustus Caesar. This was
remarkable about Aemilius, that he was peculiarly respected and loved by
the people, though of the aristocratical party; and though he never said
or did anything to make himself popular, but always in politics acted
with the party of the nobles. Scipio Africanus was afterwards reproached
with this by Appius. These were the leading men in the city, and were
candidates for the office of Censor: the one with the Senate and nobles
to support him, that being the hereditary party of the Appii; the other
being a man of mark in himself, and one who ever enjoyed the greatest
love and favour with the people. So when Appius saw Scipio coming into
the forum surrounded by men of low birth and freed men, yet men who knew
the forum, and who could collect a mob and by their influence and noise
could get any measure passed, he called out, "O Paulus Aemilius, groan
in your grave, at your son being brought into the Censorship by Aemilius
the crier and Licinius Philonicus." But Scipio kept the people in good
humour by constantly augmenting their privileges, whereas Aemilius,
though of the aristocratic party, was no less loved by the people than
those who courted their favour and caressed them. They showed this by
electing him, amongst ot