ran to the door, and thrusting away those who stood there as a guard, took out the child, and went home in anger, followed by some of his companions. Cato at length grew so famous among them, that when Sulla designed to exhibit the sacred game of young men riding courses on horseback, which they called “Troy,” having gotten together the youth of good birth, he appointed two for their leaders. One of them they accepted for his mother’s sake, being the son of Metella, the wife of Sulla; but as for