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Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Atilius Meets the Gauls
Just at that time the Consul Gaius Atilius had crossed
Atilius landing at Pisa intercepts the march of the Gauls.
from Sardinia, and having landed at Pisae was
on his way to Rome; and therefore he and
the enemy were advancing to meet each
other. When the Celts were at Telamon in
Etruria, their advanced guard fell in with that of Gaius, and
the men being made prisoners informed the Consul in answer
to questions of what had taken place; and told him that both the
armies were in the neighbourhood: that of the Celts, namely,
and that of Lucius close upon their rear. Though somewhat
disturbed at the events which he thus learnt, Gaius regarded
the situation as a hopeful one, when he considered that the
Celts were on the road between two hostile armies. He therefore ordered the Tribunes to martial the legions and to advance
at the ordinary pace, and in line as far as the breadth of the
ground permitted; while he himself having surveyed a piece
of rising ground which c
Peace the Only Unquestioned Blessing
But in the course of time, when the Arcadians advanced
The ancient privileges of Elis lost.
a claim for Lasion and the whole district of Pisa, being
forced to defend their territory and change their
habits of life, they no longer troubled themselves in the least about recovering from the
Greeks their ancient and ancestral immunity from pillage,
but were content to remain exactly as they were. This in my
opinion was a short-sighted policy. For peace is a thing we
all desire, and are willing to submit to anything to obtain: it is
the only one of our so-called blessings that no one questions. If
then there are people who, having the opportunity of obtaining
it, with justice and honour, from the Greeks, without question
and for perpetuity, neglect to do so, or regard other objects as
of superior importance to it, must we not look upon them as
undoubtedly blind to their true interests? But if it be objected
that, by adopting such a mode of life, they wo