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The first to express this thought was the oldest and wisest of the poets, in these verses: Homer, Odyss. i. 32. Alas! how wrongly mortals blame the gods! From us, they say, comes evil; they themselves By their own folly woes unfated bear. Therefore Marcus Cicero, in the book which he wrote On Fate Fr. 1, p. 582, Orelli2. after first remarking that this question is highly obscure and involved, declares that even the philosopher Chrysippus Fr. ii, 977, Arn. 2 was unable to extricate himself from its difficulties, using these words: Chrysippus, in spite of all efforts and labour, is perplexed how to explain that everything is ruled by fate, but that we nevertheless have some control over our conduct.
3
An account, taken from the works of Tubero, of a serpent of unprecedented length.
3
TUBERO in his Histories has recorded Fr. 8, Peter2. that in the first Punic war the consul Atilius Regulus, when encamped at the Bagradas river in Africa, In 256 B.C. fought a stubborn and fierce battle with a single serpent of extraordinary size, which had its lair in that region; that in a mighty struggle with the entire army the reptile was attacked for a long time with hurling engines and catapults; and that when it was finally killed, its skin, a hundred and twenty feet long, was sent to Rome.
4
A new account, written by the above-mentioned Tubero, of the capture of Regulus by the Carthaginians; and also what Tuditanus wrote about that same Regulus.
