[3]
For there are many who do not
admit that what they really believe to be the honourable course is sufficiently advantageous, and are
misled by the prospect of advantage into approving
courses of the dishonourable nature of which there
can be no question: witness the Numantine treaty
and the surrender of the Caudine Forks.1
1 Mancinus was surrounded on retreat from Numiantia in 137 B. C., while the surrender at the Caudine Forks took place in 321 B. C. In both cases the Senate refused to ratify the humiliating treaties which had been made the price of the release of the Roman armies.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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