Before Christ

—Of all the Cart hag in i ans in Sicily, 397; 2000 Tyrians crucified and 8000 put to the sword for not surrendering Tyre to Alexander, 331; 2000 Capuans, friends of Hannibal, by Gracchus, 211; dreadful slaughter of the Teutones and Ambrones near Aix, by Marius, the Roman general, 200,000 being left dead on the spot, 102; the Romans throughout Asia, women and children not excepted, ma acred in one day, by order of Mithridates, king of Pontus, 88; great number of Roman senators ma acred by Cinna, Marius, and Sertorius, 87; again, under Sylla and Cat i line, his minister of vengeance, 82; at Perusia, Oct avian us Cæsar ordered 300 Roman senators and other persons of distinction to be sacrificed to the manes of Julius Cæsar, 40.