ure has busied itself with these historic ruins; and Cervantes has made the siege of Numantia (134 B.C.)-mo

med up in plain English prose, means that she cannot listen to his wooing, because she is so hung

was an adherent of Marius in the long struggle with Sylla, and while upholding his cause in Spain he won to his side the people of Lusitania

of the cause of Marius. But senators of his own party became jealous of the great elevation of Sertorius, and conspired to assassinate him at a feast to which he was in

of Spain. He founded a school at Osca,-now Huesca,-where he had Roman and Greek masters for the Spanish youth. And it

favorite of poets; but the story of the White Hind, which he made to se

ighted even in the tumult of battle. He saw that the people began to invest the little animal with supernatural qualities; so, final

s have found so fascinating, and which an English author ha

e Roman Republic, and his desperate fight with Pompey for the dictatorship, long drenched Spanish soil with blood, and had i

ecreed to him as if he were a god. Unconscious of the chasm which was yawning at his feet he haughtily accepted the honors and adulation of men who were at that very moment conspirin

ever known-were at hand: the birth of a Roman Empire, which was to perish in a few centuries,

r defeating Brutus and Cassius at Philippi (42 B.C.) and then after destroying his only competitor, Antony, at Actium (31 B.C.) he

us, to make sure of the permanence of this pacification, himself went to the Peninsula. He built cities in the plains, w

as "C?sar Augusta," and many others have wandered quite as far

hundred years, for her story can be briefly told. She seemed to have settled into a state of eternal peace. It was a period not of e

, as did Southern Spain after the Augustan conquest? When we read the list of great Roman authors who were born in Spain-the three Senecas, one of whom, the author and wit, opened his veins at the command of Nero (65 A.D.), and an

santry, a pervading atmosphere of the classic land which adopted them, which all that has occurred since has been powerless to efface, while the language of Spain is Latin