ely upon this, without
communicating with any of the magistrates, Sylla proscribed eighty
persons, and notwithstanding the general indignation, after one day's
respite he posted two hundred and twenty more, and on the third,
again, as many. In an address to the people on this occasion, he told
them he had put up as many names as he could think of; those that had
escaped his memory he would publish at a future time. He issued an
edict likewise, making death the punishment of humanity, proscribing
any who should dare to receive and cherish a proscribed person,
without exception to brother, son, or parents. And to him who should
slay any one proscribed person, he ordained two talents reward, even
were it a slave who had killed his master, or a son his father. And
what was thought most unjust of all, he caused the attainder to pass
upon their sons, and son's sons, and made open sale of all their
property. Nor did the proscription prevail only at Rome, but
throughout all the cities of Italy the effusion of blood was such,
that neither sanctuary of the gods, nor hearth of hospitality, nor
ancestral home escaped. Men were butchered in the embraces of their
wives, children in the arms of their mothers. Those who perished
through public animosity, or private enmity, were nothing in
comparison of the numbers of those who suffered for their riches. Even
the murderers began to say, that "his fine house killed this man, a
garden that, a third, his hot baths." Quintus Aurelius, a quiet,
peaceable man, and one who thought all his part in the common calamity
consisted in condoling with the misfortunes of others, coming into the
forum to read the list, and finding himself among the proscribed,
cried out, "Woe is me, my Alban farm has informed against me." He had
not gone far, before he was dispatched by a ruffian, sent on that
errand.

DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO COMPARED.

(_By Plutarch._)

Omitting an exact comparison of the respective faculties in speaking
of Demosthenes and Cicero, yet this much seems fit to be said; that
Demosthenes, to make himself a master in rhetoric, applied all the
faculties he had, natural or acquired, wholly that way; that he far
surpassed in force and strength of eloquence all his cotemporaries in
political and judicial speaking, in grandeur and majesty all the
panegyrical orators, and in accuracy and science all the logicians and
rhetoricans of his day; that Cicero was highly educated, and by his
diligen