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MARIUS.
can never put Marius to death.” This event is the sub-
ject of the picture before us.
Having obtained permission to go into Africa, Marius
landed near the spot where Carthage formerly stood. It
was then that he sent this memorable message to the
proconsul:—“ Go, and tell Sulpicius, that you have seen
Marius seated upon the ruins of Carthage.” Cinna, his
partizan, procured him the means of returning, with an
army, to Rome; and, by the orders of a ferocious con-
queror, the city was deluged by the blood of its inha-
bitants. Marius exercised, for the seventh time, the
consular authority, when the intemperance into which
he plunged, to overpower his remorse, led him to the
tomb in the 86th year B. C.
The picture of Marius is one of those capital produc-
tions alone sufficient to place a painter upon a level with
the greatest masters. The drawing is perfectly correct,
and the head of Marius, for which Drouais consulted the
antique medals, unites, to an elevated character, the most
energetic expression. In point of execution the work
is perfect,
can never put Marius to death.” This event is the sub-
ject of the picture before us.
Having obtained permission to go into Africa, Marius
landed near the spot where Carthage formerly stood. It
was then that he sent this memorable message to the
proconsul:—“ Go, and tell Sulpicius, that you have seen
Marius seated upon the ruins of Carthage.” Cinna, his
partizan, procured him the means of returning, with an
army, to Rome; and, by the orders of a ferocious con-
queror, the city was deluged by the blood of its inha-
bitants. Marius exercised, for the seventh time, the
consular authority, when the intemperance into which
he plunged, to overpower his remorse, led him to the
tomb in the 86th year B. C.
The picture of Marius is one of those capital produc-
tions alone sufficient to place a painter upon a level with
the greatest masters. The drawing is perfectly correct,
and the head of Marius, for which Drouais consulted the
antique medals, unites, to an elevated character, the most
energetic expression. In point of execution the work
is perfect,