| Show j i C J N c r r I i tM i j j i 11 IN O 5 I III I OF i 1 0 t f t wil CI f for I r th b Albert Al boi 1 ic f n m J i Rc t Ius he e K Kept p W r Q nus l A H r 4 4 t 2 Tills IK t I lh st p only Roman who ever thought thO it worth 1 wl lle to keel kP M hl hI Vt si ai foreigner fore I r His Hb Ils nt was wai t 1 f gU gUr I r U us HO He fat with vlis ha lu i i I c t the d days ys wl c lR l ulus founded the city JI r Y H il i for it w gP un 1 tt it the ill 11 ns la B hai lUri suffered red LU Its It nr In when hr PY 1 Prince of o p s h hd overrun 1101 But he ho had hl been bol beaten R years lr later Rome made nide her own ihS first foreign oret 1 h yas Her He foe fo now was vas an of 1 Cartilage Carthage Jull I n oli l he African AfrIcan coast Mediterranean Though 1 I 1 commercial skill J craft and energy 1 erI an empire h had hai up P WIth OU I o ter ali pa tl ur nr j I had won YIl I a and i ot of lIlle C st awl 1 and l Cir f Id that In GI 3 c factious were L itt l odds tJ PUPI e f for r aid Id So was Carthe e Both sent r In the tho hope of at prote pretext t t seize new i w t rrt 1 Lory 0 r r t i Yf lil i an to ls hUd had cap lined nearly every oer e Carthaginian l possession oll In hi n Sicily end and was waa ruler of br t al almost u II most lint BIc Rome t n Inland lr no tt of was wasa wa waa a maritime power ami lly b l much h ot idt t captured coast t towns town of many Rome flame R I I at u once set to work on a t V nd promptly prompt y gl strongest rong st fleet t Not satisfied the Romans decided d jo to t carry carr tho the va til Into a A largo large army was CL raised j anil huilt against ngan t curtilage ui r or r II th Consul Regulus The Tue lh soldiers had iad herud Africa was w s full Cull of oC monsters and ahti they tuey refused r to t sail sailOr for Cor Or such Euch a land lant Regulus put nut ut the mutiny forced the fleet to sail met and antl overcame u 1 Carthaginian n and l landed hla men l safely on the ui o Africa i r There here no army that could cope c po with his hiR For F nearly two he lIe and his Romans omans ravaged Carthaginian territory and at last at attached lh et i The Tie Car asked for COI terms Regulus would grant nothing short of i unconditional surrender Carthage C hesitated to f I giant guint such humiliating l concessions con and as ns a last resort Induced the Spar Spartan I tan talL to take command of ot the tho demoralized Carthaginian I armies armies The Spartan Sport ll y reduced re the seared scared rabble to discipline and f C against RegulUs Regulus though th ugh worn out and weakened by b the thet t iong campaign met the tite Carthaginians In h It a bloody bood battle 25 B D C under l 1 the very eIT walls or ir The fh Romans Homans word wor cut to pieces losing men nOIl Regulus Regul himself f was w captured For live years he remained a prisoner Meantime eho Rome o had continued co tl the war al In I Sicily and at least lea i proved pr so strong that Carthage nt n o unable to withstand her hel attacks suggested a peace treaty tret t CarthaginIan were ware sent to io t Rome Home to arrange the matter matterand and oud with them went vent Regulus Regul s He was allowed to revisit his old home Irnine un der his promise that In III th ease case tho treaty treat negotiations should fall he ho would return r turn To lo prison In this WilY way ay tho wily Carthaginians thought th to secure his lih In favor Caval of ot the thc treaty Arr d in Rome flome the u c ambassadors ors urged most eloquently tim the mutual advantages to be derived by b such a treaty treat as 1113 Carthage proposed rho into sen ate ato at was to 10 sign It when whon Regulus arose The 1110 ambassadors ors were ero well pleased that their should be backed by so powerful nn an advocate But pleasure was wa ra Regulus speaking sp personal knowledge he h had or Car thans thag condition vehemently denoun n treat as a snare begged begg r Homo TI mo to reject It and explained how weak Carthage really was w s and how foolish to Ush Home loine would wo be ho to t accept part when by b might win lri all Asa result of his words the senate refused to sign tho treaty and packed l the tho envoys tin oC tome again u No roo one one had hid tho the slightest idea Mca that Regulus would keep his ls rash promise e i of or returning to Carthage After AHel his speech ho could hope for C l nothing there I hut but Instant death His HI friends hid hi faintly the tho tl o senate senat s all nil implored li him to toI remain In Rome nome But Dutto ho sturdily turned his back their I on pleadings and insisted In ton son fulfilling his promise w Back B t lo to ho he t went WOl t with the thc envoys ys Tile The Th Carthaginians j Ih fury at n patriotism nn In designs lIe are salil alil I to be cut oft off mid luid then exposed him him to o the glare laro of oC the tropic sun suu Alter After Ait which h according Ile to the story they thc placed him In a cask full of or spikes him down ahill a bill News of his death coming to Home Hor e the thc wife Jf and n son of Regulus neg us are aro sald I to have submitted two noble nobl Carthaginian prisoners IJ to t precisely HIP th same fate lato his word lost his hla life But he lie Was In time avenged continued c tho vai 11 against her rA African A foo f and In tho thu course course bl Of f time destroyed y ity and empire and carried her hr people po pl away |
