But the genius which resides in the mind of man, by whatever name it may be called, is required to rein and tame a monster far more multiform and intractable, whenever it can accomplish it, which indeed is seldom.

It is necessary to hold in with a strong hand that ferocious[329] * * * XLI.

* * * [beast, denominated the mob, which thirsts after blood] to such a degree that it can scarcely be sated with the most hideous massacres of men.

* * * But to a man who is greedy, and grasping, and lustful, and fond of wallowing in voluptuousness.
The fourth kind of anxiety is that which is prone to mourning and melancholy, and which is constantly worrying itself.
[_The next paragraph, "Esse autem angores," etc., is wholly unintelligible without the context._] As an unskilful charioteer is dragged from his chariot, covered with dirt, bruised, and lacerated.
The excitements of men's minds are like a chariot, with horses harnessed to it; in the proper management of which, the chief duty of the driver consists in knowing his road: and if he keeps the road, then, however rapidly he proceeds, he will encounter no obstacles; but if he quits the proper track, then, although he may be going gently and slowly, he will either be perplexed on rugged ground, or fall over some steep place, or at least he will be carried where he has no need to go.[330] XLII.

* * * can be said.
Then Laelius said: I now see the sort of politician you require, on whom you would impose the office and task of government, which is what I wished to understand.
He must be an almost unique specimen, said Africanus, for the task which I set him comprises all others.