Many fled to Veii instead of returning to Rome: only a few, who had escaped along the high road, entered the city by the Colline gate.

" "That is certainly the surest way of ever getting it engraved," said Gustave Colline, in a plaintive voice, adding to himself: "That was a good one, that wasreally a good one; I must get that off the next time I am asked out.

"Good evening, gentlemen," said the Jew; "how are you?" "Colline," said Rodolphe from where he lay upon the bed, sunk in the delights of maintaining a horizontal line, "practise the duties of hospitality and offer our guest a chair; a guest is sacred.

Colline drew forward a chair which had about as much elasticity as a piece of bronze and offered it to the Jew, Medicis let himself fall into the chair, and started to complain of its hardness, when he remembered that he himself had once traded it off to Colline in exchange for a profession of faith which he afterward sold to a deputy.

Colline drew forward a chair which had about as much elasticity as a piece of bronze and offered it to the Jew, Medicis let himself fall into the chair, and started to complain of its hardness, when he remembered that he himself had once traded it off to Colline in exchange for a profession of faith which he afterward sold to a deputy.

" "Do I hear any one object?" howled Colline, striking three blows of his fist upon the table.

But a gleam of reason still awake in the brain of Colline held back the artist from the brink of this precipice.

Then Publius Valerius commanded Titus Herminius, with a small force, to lie in ambush at the second milestone on the road to Gabii, and Spurius Larcius, with a party of light-armed youths, to post himself at the Colline gate while the enemy was passing by, and then to throw himself in their way to cut off their return to the river.

The shout was returned on the right and left, from the Colline gate on the one side and the Naevian on the other.

They entered the city by the Colline gate under their standards, and proceeded in a body to the Aventine through the midst of the city.

[Footnote 58: From the Colline gate.

Nola, however, still held out in Campania; and now there occurred a revolution at Rome which postponed the final subjugation of the insurgents till after the battle of the Colline Gate.

With one legion he occupied the Caelian Gate, with another under Pompeius the Colline Gate, with a third the Pons Sublicius, while a fourth was posted outside as a reserve.

He lied foully to the Samnites after the battle of the Colline Gate.

The sons of freed-men formed into four tribes; the Esquiline, Palatine, Suburran, and Colline.

Attended by two thousand horsemen, he advances close to the Colline gate to take a view of the walls and situation of the city.

During this confusion, Fulvius Flaccus entered the city with his troops through the Capuan gate, passed through the midst of the city, and through Carinae, to Esquiliae; and going out thence, pitched his camp between the Esquiline and Colline gates.

It was resolved that the consuls should encamp in the neighbourhood of the Colline and Esquiline gates; that Caius Calpurnius, the city praetor, should have the command of the Capitol and the citadel; and that a full senate should be continually assembled in the forum, in case it should be necessary to consult them amidst such sudden emergencies.

Meanwhile, Hannibal advanced his camp to the Anio, three miles from the city, and fixing his position there, he advanced with two thousand horse from the Colline gate as far as the temple of Hercules, and riding up, took as near a view as he could of the walls and site of the city.

I preferred this study infinitely to that of the Asiatic languages, for which I never felt any taste, as I dislike bombast, hyperbole and exaggeration; and though an ardent admirer of the Muses, I never could find pleasure in what Voltaire terms "le bon style oriental, ou l'on fait danser les montagnes et les collines," and I prefer the amatory effusions of Ovid to those of the great King Solomon himself.

When Sulla wished to commemorate his victory at the Colline gate, he instituted Ludi Victoriae on November I, the date of the battle, and these seem to have been kept up after most of Sulla's work had been destroyed; they are mentioned by Cicero in the passage quoted above from the Verrines, as Ludi Victoriae, but we hear comparatively little of them.

De la tenure la fixité c'est l'astre de vos rêves, Que Rory des Collines

Jewish Publication Society of America (PWH); 15Mar56; R166478. GIONO, JEAN. Colline.

On était dans le mois où la nature est douce, Les collines ayant des lis sur leur sommet.

IX JOIE HORS DU CHÂTEAU Le soir vient, le soleil descend dans son brasier; Et voilà qu'au penchant des mers, sur les collines, Partout, les milans roux, les chouettes félines, L'autour glouton, l'orfraie horrible dont l'oeil luit