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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 18 | 18 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 23-25 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome, books 1-10 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Appian, Samnite History (ed. Horace White), Fragments (search)
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FROM PEIRESC
Y.R. 411
WHEN the Roman generals Cornelius and Corvinus, and B.C. 343 the plebian Decius, had overcome the Samnites they left a military guard in Campania to ward off the Samnite incursions. These guards, partaking of the luxury and profuseness of the Campanians, were corrupted in their habits and began to envy the riches of these people, being themselves very poor and owing alarming debts in Rome. Finally they took counsel among themselves to kill their entertainers, seize their property, and marry their wives. This infamy would perhaps have been carried out at once, had not the new general Mamercus, who was marching against the Samnites, learned the design of the Roman guard. Concealing his intentions, he disarmed some of them and dismissed them, as soldiers entitled to discharge for long service. The more villanous ones he ordered to Rome on the pretence of important business, and he sent with them a military tribune with o