frequenter ab omnibus ordinibus sit et gratiae actae 15 quod de re publica non desperasset; qui si Carthaginiensium ductor fuisset, nihil recusandum supplicii foret. the plebeian Varro was probably made the scapegoat for the blunders of the government; cf. causam belli, XXI. 21. 1. Valerius Maximus (III. 4. 4) says that the dictatorship was offered to him, and according to Frontinus (IV. 5. 6) non vitae cupiditate sed reipublicae amore se superfuisse reliquo aetatis suae tempore adprobavit: nam et barbam capillumque submisit et postea numquam recubans cibum cepit; honoribus quoque, cum ei deferrentur a populo, renuntiavit dicens felicio ribus magistratibus reipublicae opus esse.- - frequenter, in large numbers; the temporal meaning is seldom found till after Livy. 15. nihil, etc.: crucifixion was a penalty for unfortunate generalship among the Carthaginians (XXXVIII. 48).- foret: not the indicative, fuerat or erat, because the necessity itself is here conditioned; see Gr. 308. c. N. 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