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299 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 26
and that the consuls, who were not far from Clusium, got no report of the disaster till some Gallic horsemen came in sight, with heads hanging at their horses' breasts or fixed on their lances, and singing their customary song of triumph. others allege that they were not Gauls but Umbrians, and that the reverse experienced was not so great. some foragers, according to their account, under Lucius Manlius Torquatus,Possibly a son of the consul who was thrown from his horse and killed in 299 B.C. see chap. xi. § 1. a lieutenant, had been cut off and Scipio the propraetor sallied forth from the camp to their relief, and renewing the battle defeatedB.C. 295 the victorious Umbrians and took from them their prisoners and their booty. it is more probable that the discomfiture was incurred at the hands of a Gallic than of an Umbrian enemy, since apprehensions of a Gallic rising, which had often at other times troubled the Romans, were in that year particularly alarming. and so
268 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 27
rious enemy were charging their disordered ranks. but all was quickly changed by the arrival of the consul. for the sight of their general revived the spirits of the soldiers, and the brave men who followed him were a greater succour than their numbers indicated; and the tidings of their comrades' victory, which they soon saw for themselves, restored the battle. presently the Romans had begun to conquer all along the line, while the Samnites, giving up the struggle, were massacred or made prisoners, except those who fled to Maleventum, the city which is now called Beneventum.The city, which was a Greek colony, was called Malovei/s, which meant sheeptown (or, perhaps, appletown). The Romans corrupted the accusative case, Malove/nta, to Maleventum, which they regarded as derived from male and ,venire, and then, to avoid the omen, changed it to Beneventum when they planted a colony there, 268 B.C. tradition avers that some thirty thousand Samnites were slain or captured.
321 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 28
in that year the liberty of the Roman plebs had as it were a new beginning; for menB.C. 326 ceased to be imprisoned for debt.The plebs had gained political liberty on the expulsion of the kings and the adoption of the republican government. now they were assured of personal liberty as well. The reform is put by Valerius Maximus (vi. i. 9) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (xvi. 9) after the disaster at the Caudine Forks in 321 B.C. The change in the law was occasioned by the notable lust and cruelty of a single usurer, Lucius Papirius, to whom Gaius Publilius had given himself up for a debt owed by his father. The debtor's youth and beauty, which might well have stirred the creditor's compassion, did but inflame his heart to lust and contumely. regarding the lad's youthful prime as additional compensation for the loan, he sought at first to seduce him with lewd conversation; later, finding he turned a deaf ear to the base proposal, he began to threaten him and now and ag
216 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 33
and it was left for darkness, as though descending on a battle —field, to end the struggle. The master of the horse was commanded to appear next day; but since everyone assured him that Papirius would be more violent than ever, aroused as he was and exasperated by the opposition he had met with, he slipped out of the camp and fled to Rome. there, with the approval of his father, who had thrice been consul, and dictator to boot, he at once assembled the senate,It was not until 216 B.C. that the senate was a second time convened by a master of the horse (xxiii. xxv. 3). and had reached, in his speech to the senators, the very point where he was complaining of the violence and injury offered him by the dictator, when a sudden noise was heard outside the Curia, as the lictors cleared the way, and Papirius himself, in high dudgeon, appeared before them; for he had learned of the other's departure from the camp, and taking a troop of light horse had pursued him. Th
434 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 33
league he was given Gaius Marcius Rutulus. Fabius brought up replacements from Rome, and a new army came from Etruria to reinforce the enemy. for a great many years now there had been no contests between the patrician magistrates and the tribunes, when a dispute —arose through that family which was fated, as it seemed, to wrangle with the tribunes and with the plebs. Appius Claudius the censor, on the expiration of the eighteen months which had been fixed by the Aemilian law434 B.C. (iv. xxiv. 5). as the limit of the censorship, although his colleague Gaius Plautius had abdicated, could himself by no compulsion be prevailed upon to do likewise. it was Publius Sempronius, a tribune of the people, who commenced an action to confine the censorship to its legal limits —an action no less just than popular, and as welcome to every aristocrat as to the common people. having repeatedly read out the Aemilian law, and praised its author, Mamercus Aemilius the dictato
38 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 36
in those days the Ciminian Forest was more impassable and appalling than were lately the wooded defiles of Germany,Livy is probably thinking of the German campaigns of Caesar in 55 and 53, and of Agrippa in 38 B.C. and no one —not even a trader —had up to that time visited it. to enter it was a thing that hardly anyone but the general himself was bold enough to do: with all the rest the recollection of the Caudine Forks was still too vivid. then one of those present, the consul's brother Marcus Fabius, —some say that it was Caeso Fabius, others Gaius Claudius, a son of the same mother as the consul —offered to explore and return in a short time with definite information about everything. he had been educated at Caere in the house of family friends, and from this circumstance was learned in Etruscan writings and knew the Etruscan language well. i have authority for believing thatB.C. 310 in that age Roman boys were regularly wont to be schooled in Etruscan literature
80 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 37
all the binding force with him —and ever would have of any orders whatsoever. and so, on the following day, with the support of three tribunes of the plebs, against the opposition of seven who forbade the proceedings and a unanimous senate, Postumius triumphed, with the people thronging in attendance. of this year, too, the tradition is uncertain.Compare chap. xxvi. §§ 5-7, and chap. xxx. §§ 4-7. Postumius, if we follow Claudius,Q. Claudius Quadrigarius composed his annals about 80 B.C. , covering the period from the Gallic invasion to his own times. after capturing several cities in Samnium, was defeated in Apulia and put to flight, and, being wounded himself, was forced to take refuge with a few followers in Luceria; while Atilius campaigned in Etruria and obtained a triumph. FabiusQ. Fabius Pictor was a contemporary of Hannibal and wrote an annalistic history of Rome in Greek. writes that both consuls fought in Samnium and at Luceria; that the army was led over in<
477 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 38
s suppressing. Papirius named Gaius Junius Bubulcus master of the horse. when he began to lay before the curiate assemblyUnder the kings the curiate assembly had been the only formal assembly of the people (cf. I. xiii. 6 for the origin of the curiae), but in the time of the republic its functions had largely passed to the centuriate assembly. it was, however, still called upon to ratify the election of new magistrates by passing a lex ciuriata de imperio, and retained certain other ceremonial duties. a law confirming his authority, the proceedings were cut short by an evil omen, the first vote to be counted being that of the ward called Faucia, notorious for two calamities, the capture of the City and the Caudine Peace, which had both been incurred in years when this same curia had the right of the first return.This was determined each time by lot. Licinius Macer makes this ward unlucky also for a third disaster —that of the Cremera.477 B.C. (Book II, chap. 1.).
309 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 38
The following year brought with it aB.C. 293 consul, Lucius Papirius Cursor, remarkable both for his father's glory and for his own, and a mighty war, with a victory such as no one, save Lucius Papirius, the consul's father, had until that day obtained over the Samnites. and it happened that the enemy had made their preparations for the war with the sameThe same, that is, as in the year 309 B.C., when they had fought against the Romans, who were commanded by the elder Papirius (ix. xl. 2 ff.). earnestness and pomp and all the magnificence of splendid arms, and had likewise invoked the assistance of the gods, initiating, as it were, their soldiers, in accordance with a certain antique form of oath. but first they held a levy throughout Samnium under this new ordinance, that whosoever of military age did not report in response to the proclamation of the generals, or departed without their orders, should forfeit his life to Jupiter. which done, they appointed all t
341 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 39
ot; some were slaughtered in the midst, others were scattered abroad in flight. The foot —soldiers surrounded those who resisted and put them to the sword; the cavalry made havoc of the fugitives, amongst whom perished their general himself. this defeat, after all that had gone before, so broke the spirit of the Samnites, that in all their councils they began to murmur that it was no wonder if they met with no success in an impious war, undertaken in violation of a treaty,That of 341 B.C. see chap. ii § 4, and (for the violation) chap. xxii. § 7 and chap. xxiii. § 1. for the gods had even more right than men to be incensed with them. they would have to pay a heavy price to expiate this war and atone for it; the only question was, should they offer atonement with the blood of the guilty few or with that of the innocent multitude? some ventured at this juncture to nameB.C. 333 those who had been responsible for the war. one name in particular could be distinguished
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