But Marius had command of the Via Appia, the Tiber, and most of the neighbourhood; and the famine became sorer in Rome.

Sorer than the really trifling wound was the deep cut into his vanity.

And now the sheep began to issue forth very fast, the males went first, the females unmilked stood by, bleating and requiring the hand of their shepherd in vain to milk them, their full bags sore with being unemptied, but he much sorer with the loss of sight.