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119 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 82
espised, for the portents which it has afforded, even in relation to public events. By gnawing the silver shields at Lanuvium,This is referred to by Cicero, in his treatise, De Divinatione, B. i. c. 44, and B. ii. c. 27; in the latter he treats it as an idle tale.—B. mice prognosticated the Marsian war; and the death of our general, Carbo, at Clusium,See B. iii. c. 8. by gnawing the latchets with which he fastened his shoes.C. Papirius Carbo, a contemporary and friend of the Gracchi. In B. C. 119, the orator, Licinius Crassus, brought a charge against him, the nature of which is not known; but Carbo put an end to his life, by taking cantharides. There are many species of this animal in the territory of Cyrenaica; some of them with a wide, others with a projecting, forehead, and some again with bristling hair, like the hedgehog.These different species are thus characterized by Cuvier: "Les premiers sent les souris et les rats, de formes ordinaires; les seconds, les grandes musaraignes
217 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 82
hey even gnawed the iron; which they also do, by a kind of natural instinct, in the iron forges among the Chalybes. In gold mines, too, their stomachs are opened for this purpose, and some of the metal is always to be found there, which they have pilfered,We have two passages in Livy, B. xxvii. and B. xxx., where gold is said to have been gnawed by mice.—B. so great a delight do they take in stealing! We learn from our Annals, also, that at the siege of Casilinum,See B. iii. c. 9. In B. C. 217, this place was occupied by Fabius with a strong garrison, to prevent Hannibal from passing the Vulturnus; and the following year, after the battle of Cannæ, was occupied by a small body of Roman troops, who, though little more than 1000 in number, withstood the assaults of Hannibal during a protracted siege, until compelled by famine to surrender. by Hannibal, a mouse was sold for two hundred denarii,This sun would be about £ 7.—B. and that the person who sold it perished with hunger, while <