The Best of the World's Classics (All 10 Volumes). Henry Cabot Lodge

for my education. I took it into my head to sail up the Nile to Coptus, and thence pay a visit to the statue of Memnon,[127] and hear the curious sound that proceeds from it at sunrise. In this respect, I was more fortunate than most people, who hear nothing but an indistinct voice: Memnon actually opened his lips, and delivered me an oracle in seven hexameters; it is foreign to my present purpose, or I would quote you the very lines."

      FOOTNOTES:

      [125] From "The Liar." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler.

      [126] Ctesias who died after 398 b.c., and wrote a history of Persia in twenty-four books and a treatise on India. Parts only of both are now extant.

[127] A legendary king of Ethiopia, who was slain at Troy by Achilles—a fable, says Rawlinson, which is "one of those in which it is difficult to determine any germs of truth." His name was given by the Greeks to one of the Colossi at Thebes in Egypt, from which, when touched by the rays of the rising sun, there was said to proceed a strange sound.

      Volume II

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       CATO, THE CENSOR

       CICERO

       I THE BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE

       II ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA

       III OF BRAVE AND ELEVATED SPIRITS

       IV OF SCIPIO'S DEATH AND OF FRIENDSHIP

       JULIUS CÆSAR

       I THE BUILDING OF THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE RHINE

       II THE INVASION OF BRITAIN

       III OVERCOMING THE NERVII

       IV THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA AND THE DEATH OF POMPEY

       SALLUST

       I THE GENESIS OF CATILINE

       II THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS

       LIVY

       I HORATIUS COCLES AT THE BRIDGE

       II HANNIBAL'S CROSSING OF THE ALPS

       III HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO AT ZAMA

       SENECA

       I OF THE WISE MAN

       II OF CONSOLATION FOR THE LOSS OF FRIENDS

       III TO NERO ON CLEMENCY

       IV THE PILOT

       V OF A HAPPY LIFE

       PLINY THE ELDER

       I THE QUALITIES OF THE DOG

       II THREE GREAT ARTISTS OF GREECE

       QUINTILIAN THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN

       THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN

       TACITUS

       I FROM REPUBLICAN TO IMPERIAL ROME

       II THE FUNERAL OF GERMANICUS

       III THE DEATH OF SENECA

       IV THE BURNING OF ROME BY ORDER OF NERO

       V THE BURNING OF THE CAPITOL AT ROME

       VI THE SIEGE OF CREMONA

       VII AGRICOLA

       PLINY THE YOUNGER

       I OF THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS PROVINCE

       II TO TACITUS ON THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS

       SUETONIUS

       I THE LAST DAYS OF AUGUSTUS

       II THE GOOD DEEDS OF NERO

       III THE DEATH OF NERO

       MARCUS AURELIUS

       HIS DEBT TO OTHERS

      CATO,