Identifier: storyofromefrome00macg (find matches)
Title: The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Mary
Subjects: Rome -- History
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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emas long as might be. But he was soon put to death. At the bridge that crossed the Tiber the other friendstopped. Here it would be possible, he thought, to holdthe enemy at bay for a time. Perhaps as he stood at hispost he thought of the old Roman hero, Horatius Codes,who had so nobly held the bridge against the foes ofRome. But ere long he too was slain. Then Gains, knowing that all hope was at an end, calledfor a horse. But his enemies were watching, and no onedared to answer his request. Yet taken alive he would never be I So with desperatespeed he ran on until he reached a little grove, which wasconsecrated to the Furies, and here for a few brief momentshe was hidden from his pursuers. Then in a stern voice hebade his slave, who was now alone with him, to kill himbefore he was discovered by his enemies. His slave obeyed, and, faithful to the end, slew himselfas well as his master. Here in the grove his enemies found the body of GainsGracchus, covered by that of his devoted slave.
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Here It would be possible, he thought, to hold the enemy at bay. THE DEATH OF GAIUS GRACCHUS 277 The head of the dead man was cut off, and to increaseits weight was filled with lead. This was done, it is told, byone who was once his friend. But this we cannot easilybelieve. It was, however, taken to the Consul, who gavefor it the promised reward—^its weight in gold. The body of Gains was then dragged through the streets,and thrown into the Tiber. And Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi ? She bore the loss of her two sons as she had borne allthe disasters of her life, with an undaunted spirit. Her friends marvelled to hear her speak of her sonswith no outward sign of grief, but Corneha was too proudof the service they had done for Rome to weep. Yet sheleft the city and lived in retirement, for, with all her forti-tude, she could not bear to meet those who had approved ofthe murder of her sons. In after years the Romans learned to be ashamed of theirtreatment of the Gracchi, and in re

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