Book 30
1.20
And when choice dainties were set before him, and the great building rang with the music of strings, songs, and wind-instruments,For this combination, cf. xiv. 6, 18; Cic., Pro Rosc. Amer. 46, 134. the host himself, already heated with wine, went out, under pretence of a call of nature. Then a rude barbarian, fiercely glaring with savage eyes and brandishing a drawn sword, one of the class called scurrae, Guards; cf. xxix. 4, 4, note. was sent in to kill the young man, who had already been cut off from any possibility of escape.
1.21
At this sight the young king, who, as it happened, was leaning forward beyond his couch, drew his dagger and was rising to defend his life by every possible means, but fell disfigured, pierced through the breast like some victim at the altar, foully slain by repeated strokes.
