as commanded in the Field of Mars and before midnight they were in the vicinity of Algidus near the hostile camp of the Æquians. After careful inspection Cincinnatus ordered his men to throw down their baggage and to keep only their arms and stakes. Marching stealthily forward they extended their lines until the Æquians were completely surrounded. Then at a given signal a shout was raised and each soldier began to dig a ditch where he stood and to plant his stakes in the ground. The shout awakened the Æquians filling them with dismay and it reached the ears of the despairing Romans in the valley inspiring them with hope. Raising an answering battle shout they sallied forth and fought so desperately that the Æquians were prevented from interrupting the work of the outer army. All night the battle went on and when morning dawned the Æquians found that a ditch and a palisade had been made around their camp. Finding themselves between two armies and as closely walled in as the Romans in the valley had been they threw down their arms and begged for mercy. When asked on what terms he would spare their lives, Cincinnatus said give me gracchus and your other chiefs bound. As for you you can have your lives on one condition. I will set two spears upright in the ground and put a third spear across. Every man giving up his arms and cloak shall pass under this yoke and may then go free. To go under the yoke was accounted the greatest dishonor to a soldier but the Æquains were forced to submit. They delivered to the Romans their king and their chiefs left their camp with all its spoils to the foe and passed under the crossed spears their heads bowed with shame. Thus was Gracchus punished for his pride. That same evening Cincinnatus arrived in Rome with the two Roman armies. In less than a day's time he had saved a roman army and humiliated the insolent Æquians. The senate decreed that Cincinnatus should enter the city in triumph. He rode in his chariot through the gates gracchus and the Equian chiefs being led in fetters before him. All Rome gave itself up to feasting and merrymaking. Then Cincinnatus laid down his power and returned to his farm glad to have served Rome but caring nothing for the pomp and authority that he might have gained. II. APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS Apollo dearly loved the youth Hyacinthus. He accompanied him in his sports carried the nets when he went fishing led the dogs when he One day as they Thine is the hunted and neglected for him his lyre and his arrows. were playing a game of quoits Apollo heaving the discus with strength and skill sent it high and far. Hyacinthus ran forward to seize it eager to make his throw when the quoit bounded from the earth and struck him in the forehead. He fainted and fell. The god as pale as the youth raised him and tried with all his art to stanch the wound and retain the flitting life but all in vain. The hurt was past the power of medicine. As when one has broken the stem of a lily it hangs its head and turns its flowers to the earth so the head of the boy fell over on his shoulder. Thou diest Hyacinth so spake Phœbus robbed of thy youth by me. suffering mine the crime. Would that I could die for thee! that may not be thou shalt live with me in memory and song. shall celebrate thee my song shall tell thy fate and thou shalt become a flower inscribed with my regrets. While Apollo spoke a flower of hue more beautiful than the Tyrian purple sprang up resembling the lily if it were not that this is purple and that silvery white. And this was not enough for Phoebus but to confer still greater honor he marked the petals with his sorrow and inscribed ah ah upon them as we see to this day. The flower bears the memory of his fate. But since My lyre INDEX Abbreviations, 226, 227, 394; of states, phrases in, 397. Acatalectic verse, 367. of material to write (summary) 338; Argumentum ad hominum, 319. Adage, interpretation or application of, Artistic description, 38-76; of, 327. Anapest, 361, 366. main im- pression in, 39-45; placing of details as, introducing simile, 339; preceded Balanced sentence, 188-189, 192-194; Ballad, 377; stanza, 373. Barbarism, 222. Begging the question, 321. Biography, 94, 384; topics for, 383. Analogy, argument from, 325; fallacy Blank verse, 371. Anapestic dimeter, 364. Anecdote, defined, 30; uses of, 30, 31. Antecedents, 221. Antithesis, 350, 351. Antonyms, 219. Apostrophe, 345. Application, letters of, 237-241. Apposition, 396. Arguing beside the point, 230, 319. re- 412; beginning name of Deity, 411; Cause and effect relation, assumed where Cesura, 368; cause of, 368; position of, 368. separating adjective and adverbial Character, principal, 380; three important Comma blunder, 196. Character study, topics for, 382, 383. Characters, naming of, 380; principal, Clauses, 395; in apposition, punctua- Climax, 351; emphasis by use of, 207; Coherence, principle of, 14, 17-18; between paragraphs, 156-159; in paragraph, Comedy, 378. Comma, 395-403; after words, phrases, and clauses in same construction, 395; Comparison, literal, 340; use of, in para- Compass, points of, 412. Complex-compound sentence, 184-187. 230. Composition, 1-25, 137, 140, 156; an aggregate of smaller units, 169; choice Compound-complex sentence, 184. 401, 403; assertion in, 182, 183; asser- |