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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 10 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 15 (search)
not have it so, raisingB.C. 296 virtually the same objections he had raised in the previous year. The nobles all thronged about his seat, and besought him to lift up the consulship out of the plebeian mire and restore both to the office and to the aristocratic families their old —time dignity. obtaining silence, Fabius soothed their excited feelings with a temperate speech, in which he said that he would have done as they desired and have received the names of two patricians, if he had seen another than himself being made consul; as it was, he would not entertain his own name at an election, for to do so would violate the laws and establish a most evil precedent. so Lucius Volumnius, a plebeian, was returned, together with Appius Claudius, with whom he had also been paired in an earlier consulship.307 B.C. (ix. xlii. 2). The nobles taunted Fabius with having avoided Appius Claudius for a colleague, as a man clearly his superior in eloquence and statecraft.
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 10 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 19 (search)
his former consulship, at all events in its early months, he had been incapable of opening his mouth, but was now delivering popular orations. — how I could wish, exclaimed Volumnius, that you might rather have learnt from me to act with vigour than that I should have learnt to speak cleverly from you! in conclusion he proposed a compact which would determine, not which was the better orator —for this was not what the republic wanted —but the better general.In their former consulship (307 B.C.) Volumnius had conducted a successful campaign against the Sallentini, while Appius had been left in Rome without any military command. see ix. xlii. 4-5. Etruria and Samnium were the nations to be conquered; let Appius choose which he liked; with his own army he would campaign either in Etruria or in Samnium. then the soldiers began to cry out that both should undertake the Etruscan war together. perceivingB.C. 296 them to be of one mind in this, Volumnius said, since I er<