is this, that no nation has ever been contented with milder P嚷笠nts.Destruction of Alba.-Meanwhile the cavalry had been sent on in advance to conwere followed by the leg掇糯opulation to Rome; theywere marched thither to destroy the city. When they entered the gates there was not that noise and panic which are usually found in captured cities, where, after the gates have been shattered or the walls levelled by the battering-ram or the.It ti - r .1_citadel stormed, the shouts of the enemy and the rusn.ing oz the soldiers through the streets throw evervthin,a into universal confusion with fire and sword. Here. t 1,.，。，.，..-一11 on the contrary, gloomy silence and a grief beyond words so netrif ed the minds of all, that, foraettina in their terror what to leave oenna，wriat to taRe wxtn them, xncaDable of tnnkinz for tnemselves and asxiniz one anotner's aavxce, at one moment they would stand on their thresholds, at another wander aimlessly through their houses, which they were seeing then for the last time. But now they were roused by the shouts of the cavalry ordering their instan七departure, now by the crash of the houses undergoing demolition, heard in the furthest corners of the city, and the dust, rising in different places, which covered everything like a cloud. Seizing hastily what they could carry, they went out of the city, and, left behind their hearths and household gods and the homes in which they had been born and brought up. Soon an unbroken line of emigrants filled the streets, and as they recognised one another the of their common misery led to fresh outbursts of tears. 0f grief, especially from the women, began to make themselves heard, as they walked past the venerable temples and saw them occupied by troops, and felt that they were leaving their gods as prisoners in an enemy's hands. When the Albans had left their city the Romans levelled to the ground all the public and private edifices in everv direction. and a single hour gave over to dr destruction and ruin the work of those four centuries during which Alba had stood. The temples of the nods，however. were 入J， soared.in accordance with the king's proclamation.