meaning, comprising justice, abstinence, and the sacrificing of one's own advantages. [458] _Praesidia agitare_, 'to keep watch,' to maintain the posts intrusted to us for the protection of friends against the attacks of enemies. [459] _Arte colere_, 'to keep close;' _opulenter colere_, 'to treat liberally.' [460] 'To compel by bodily punishment.' [461] _Celebravere_; that is, _extulerunt_, _auxerunt_. _Celebrare_ properly signifies 'to make or render frequent;' that is, to bring into repute, and therefore to fill with men, buildings or other objects. [462] 'I have no cook worth more than a steward.' Marius here assails the luxury of others, who considered a clever cook worth more than a clever steward. Both kinds of people were slaves; the _villicus_ was the principal and overseer of all the servants engaged in agriculture on the estate (_villa_) of a Roman noble. _Coquus_ is also spelled _cocus_. See Zumpt, S 5. [463] _Quin ergo--faciant_, 'why, then, will they not do?' This form of expression contains an exhortation to do something. The subjunctive, therefore, does not depend upon _quin_, but upon the optative meaning of the sentence. See Zumpt, S 542. [464] _Ereptum eunt_, 'they endeavour to snatch away,' or 'they snatch away.' [465] _Cladi sunt_, 'they are a destruction;' the same as _calamitosae, perniciosae sunt_. [466] That is, 'you have removed (deposed) the greedy, inexperienced, and haughty commanders.' Marius alluding to his predecessors, Bestia, Albinus, and Metellus. [467] _Attrito_, 'worn away,' 'annihilated,' 'sacrificed.' [468] 'Serve the republic,' 'devote yourselves to the public good.' [469] 'Both as an adviser and sharer in the danger.' _Idem_ indicates the union of two predicates belonging to one subject. See Zumpt, S 697. [470] 'I shall treat myself and you in the same manner.' [471] _Decebat_, a peculiarity of the Latin language for _deceret_. See Zumpt, S 518. 86. Hujuscemodi oratione habita Marius, postquam plebis animos arrectos videt, propere commeatu, stipendio, armis aliisque utilibus naves onerat; cum his A. Manlium legatum proficisci jubet. Ipse interea milites scribere, non more majorum, neque ex classibus, sed uti cujusque libido erat, capite censos plerosque.[472] Id factum alii inopia bonorum, alii per ambitionem consulis memorabant, quod ab eo genere celebratus auctusque erat, et homini potentiam quaerenti egentissimus quisque opportunissimus cui neque sua curae,[473] quippe quae nulla sunt, et omnia cum pretio honesta videntur. Igitur Marius cum aliquanto[474] majore numero, quam decretum erat, in Africam profectus paucis diebus Uticam[475] advehitur. Exercitus ei traditur a P. Rutilio legato; nam Metellus conspectum Marii fugerat, ne videret ea, quae audita animus tolerare nequiverat.