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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 26 26 Browse Search
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 26 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 39 (search)
e the wind dropped entirely and the enemy came in sight, with the result that time enough was left to take down the riggingCf. XXI. xlix. 11. and to get the oarsmen and soldiers ready for the battle that was imminent. seldom have regular fleets ever clashed with such spirit, since they were fighting for a greater issue than themselves. the Tarentines, having regained their city from the Romans after almost a hundred years,In reality only 62 years since its capture by the Romans, 272 B.C. fought to free the citadel as well, in the hope that they would cut off the enemy's supplies also, if by a naval battle they should deprive them of their command of the sea; the Romans, in order to show by keeping their hold upon the citadel that Tarentum had been lost, not by force and courage, but by treachery and a surprise. accordingly after the signal had been given on both sides, and they had encountered each otherB.C. 210 with their beaks and did not reverse their motion w