Recreations Of The Ancients

Paulus iEmiliuB carne into the Roman camp one day, just before the battle of 3annso, with a last-summer's hat on his lead. It was crushed and dented; it ïad been slept in many times too often; once it had been hit with a half a watermelon; the boys, on one occasion, had filled it half f uil of bricks and set it out on the sidewalk for the Boman citizens to kick (April 1, B. 0. 218), and altojether it was not just the kind of a hat a Roman Consul might be expected to wear in a camp. To him his ooileague, Varro: " JSmilius, why is that hat of yours ike your wife's new bonnet?" iEmilius, who was probably thinking of the dreadful thrashing Hannibal was going to give him, sighed, and said he didn't know, unless it was "mashed" on her husband. H,; But Varro wouldn't listen to that, and JSmilus tried again: " Because there is a good deal of illtision aboutit." Texentius told him ho couldn't sfcay in unless he could put up something better han that. Etniliussuggested that the bonnet you ïad to tie on the hair, while the hat would hie on the tear itself. But his colleague said this was no sample-room, and he hoped he would remember he was a Consul at Rome. And then JEmilius said if it wasn't because they were both "wornout" he wouldn't guess any more. "It is because," replied Terentius Varro, with great severity, "it is an used tile." "Hey?" inquired his colleague, in re?t amazement. "It is an used style - a new etyle," Varro replied. JErailius respondit non (didn't say anythijg) sed maximus cumulus accesserii (but thought within himself) guum autem praestiterim iamdin (that he didn't see why he should cali) f jus non fuit recvsandum, (his hat a tile), nisi (unless) hac prceierunda non sunt (because it had so often) per hosceannos (of late years) itasejam pro cive (had a bnck in