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296 A TOUR THROUGH
thing resembling it.—At his own desire it
was adorned with the figure of a sphere
inscribed in a cylinder, but had been lost
by his ungrateful countrymen, even be-
fore the time that Cicero was quxstor of
Sicily. It is pleasant to observe, with
what eagerness this great man undertakes
the search of it, and with what exultation
he describes his triumph on the discovery.
" Ego autern cum omnia collustrarem ocu-
" lis (est enim ad portas Agragianas magna
cc frcquentia scpulchrorum) animadvert^
columnellam non multum e dumis emi~
" nentem, in qua inerat sphsera: figura et
" cynndri. Atque ego statim Syracusanis
ls (erant autem principes mecum) dixi, me
ie illud ipsum arbitrari esse quod qucererem.
" Immissi cum falcibus multi purgarunt, ct
*f aperuerunt locum : quo cum patefaclus
" essct aditus ad adverlam basim accestimus;
:c apparcbat epigramma exelis posterioribus
" partibus verliculorum dimidiatis fere: Ita
{< nnbilissima Grseei^ civitas, quondam vero
" etiam
thing resembling it.—At his own desire it
was adorned with the figure of a sphere
inscribed in a cylinder, but had been lost
by his ungrateful countrymen, even be-
fore the time that Cicero was quxstor of
Sicily. It is pleasant to observe, with
what eagerness this great man undertakes
the search of it, and with what exultation
he describes his triumph on the discovery.
" Ego autern cum omnia collustrarem ocu-
" lis (est enim ad portas Agragianas magna
cc frcquentia scpulchrorum) animadvert^
columnellam non multum e dumis emi~
" nentem, in qua inerat sphsera: figura et
" cynndri. Atque ego statim Syracusanis
ls (erant autem principes mecum) dixi, me
ie illud ipsum arbitrari esse quod qucererem.
" Immissi cum falcibus multi purgarunt, ct
*f aperuerunt locum : quo cum patefaclus
" essct aditus ad adverlam basim accestimus;
:c apparcbat epigramma exelis posterioribus
" partibus verliculorum dimidiatis fere: Ita
{< nnbilissima Grseei^ civitas, quondam vero
" etiam