It may be doubted whether such an army had ever been brought together under the Roman eagles.

The show began early in the morning, and was not over when the long summer day closed.

Racine left the ground, astonished, deafened, dazzled, and tired to death.

In a private letter he ventured to give utterance to an amiable wish which he probably took good care not to whisper in the courtly circle: "Would to heaven that all these poor fellows were in their cottages again with their wives and their little ones!" [303] After this superb pageant Lewis announced his intention of attacking Namur.

In five days he was under the walls of that city, at the head of more than thirty thousand men.