| James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 396 lehte
...unhappy man ... is brought before the wicked praetor. With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped and rods to be brought, etc. Even more graphic is the following, from Webster's speech on the murder of Captain Joseph White... | |
| William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 lehte
...country, is brought before the wicked praetor. With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his...spy. It was in vain that the unhappy man cried out, a I am a Roman citizen, I have served under Lucius Pretius, who is now at Panormus, and I will attest... | |
| 1874 - 252 lehte
...native country, is brought before the wicked pretor. With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his...of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy. It is in vain that the unhappy man cried out, " I am a Roman citizen. 1 have served under Lucius' Pretius,... | |
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