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LIVY : BOOKS 5, 6, AND 7 (1881) PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Livy | 298 pages | 10 Sep 2010 | Kessinger Publishing | 9781166311643 | English | Whitefish MT, United States Livy : Books 5, 6, And 7 (1881) PDF Book Quinctius from the seniors, and those excused from service on grounds of health, to garrison the defences of the City. There were two parties in the senate: the leaders of the one were the authors of the revolt from Rome, the other consisted of loyal citizens. He ordered a strict inquiry to be made as to who were responsible for the revolt, and those who were found to be guilty were scourged and beheaded. After the plebs had obtained this relief there was no longer any delay in the enrolment. I trust that I shall not give offence when I say that, leaving out of sight the civil wars, we have never found an enemy's cavalry or infantry too much for us, when we have fought in the open field, on ground equally favourable for both sides, still less when the ground has given us an advantage. I certainly shall not fail you, see to it that Fortune does not fail me. The most illustrious victim was M. But in the narrow space - for the breach in the wall was by no means a wide one - the kind of weapon he used and his style of fighting gave the enemy an advantage. Still further alarm was created by the defection of the Latins and Hernicans. When matters had gone thus far, the nobility - not only those against whom information was being laid, but the order as a whole - protested that the charge did not lie on the patricians, to whom the path to honours always lay open, unless it was obstructed by intrigue, but on the novi homines. No sooner had they arrived before the place than the reconnoitring parties who had been watching the different routes brought in reports one after another that the Samnites were following and were now at no great distance. When they suddenly caught sight of the Romans drawn up for battle, they shouted that they should act according to the instructions of the Tarentines; they would neither go down into the field nor carry their arms outside their rampart, they would rather let advantage be taken of them and bear whatever chance might bring them than be thought to have flouted the peaceful advice of Tarentum. One day's experience had taught him not to prefer his own counsels to wiser ones, but even so, neither he nor any one in the army supposed that Camillus would calmly pass over that blunder of his by which the republic had been exposed to headlong disaster. He was, however, hotly interrupted at the outset by Phaeneas, who exclaimed: "Matters are not to be settled by words. He began by inviting the leading citizens to a conference and tried to induce them to surrender, but they told him that matters were not in their hands, the king's troops were stronger and more numerous than the townsmen. All Search Options [ view abbreviations ]. They entered upon the active duties of their office on the very day of their election, for so had the senate decreed, and after disposing of the business connected with their accession to office, they proceeded at once to introduce the subject of the capitulation of Caudium. Here he sent back Lucius Apustius, whom he had succeeded, and went on to Malea. In a frenzy of grief and rage he dragged the Master of the Horse out of his saddle and slew him. Fears were entertained by the citizens lest the Carthaginian hostages and prisoners of war should have been prime movers in the affair. The Romans, however, after spoiling the camp at the Alia, came up; this position, therefore, was also abandoned. In neither direction did the enemy meet them. In addition to the Volscians, who seemed destined by some fate to keep the Roman soldiery in perpetual training; in addition to the colonies of Circeii and Velitrae, who had long been meditating revolt; in addition to Latium, which was an object of suspicion, a new enemy suddenly appeared at Lanuvium, which had hitherto been a most loyal city. Weissenborn, books , textual notes , Decius, was detained in Rome by serious illness, and on instructions from the senate, nominated C. This was the chief city of the Pentrian Samnites, and by far the wealthiest and best supplied with arms. Claudius Marcellus, M. This was the fourth year since war had been declared against Macedonia. At Pherae the gates were closed against him, and as a siege would have caused considerable delay and he had no time to lose, he gave up the attempt and marched into Macedonia. Marcellus was administering Sicily; M. Camillus bade the Sutrines spare their laments, it was to the Etruscans that he was bringing grief and tears. The winter had already begun when he withdrew from the place and returned to his winter quarters. His claim to distinction with posterity rests mainly upon his public works, the road and the aqueduct which bear his name. So the proceedings were adjourned to another day, and the people were summoned to an Assembly in the Peteline Grove outside the Flumentan Gate, from which the Capitol was not visible. They shut themselves in Praeneste, feeling hardly safe even behind its walls. The presence of the consul produced a sudden and complete change, the courage of the men revived at the sight of their general, and the cavalry whom he had brought up rendered an assistance out of all proportion to their numbers, whilst the sound, followed soon by the sight of the success on the other wing, re-animated the combatants to redouble their exertions. Livy : Books 5, 6, And 7 (1881) Writer Mutual fear kept both the Samnites and the Fregellans quiet till daylight, with the return of light the battle began. Helvius, M. I am willing to accept any, whether it be a nation or a private individual. All the tribes on this side the Po were now reduced except the Boii in Gaul and the Ilvates in Liguria. It is a three days' journey for lightly-equipped horsemen, and in the meantime there would have been an armistice until the envoys returned bringing either peace or the certainty of their victory. The consul was intensely mortified, for he looked upon this humiliating repulse as not only helping to prolong the siege of one solitary city, but also as likely to influence the future course of the war which, in his opinion, depended to a great extent upon unimportant incidents. But I do say that without the express order of the people nothing can be ratified which can bind the people. That the houses of the nobility should be filled with prisoners, and wherever a patrician lives there should be a private dungeon? Armed and unarmed, brave and cowardly we are all alike trapped and conquered. Emboldened and embittered by these considerations, he roused the passions of the plebs, who were already incensed enough, to a higher pitch by his harangues. The other advanced into the district of Tarquinii. The vessels in the three fleets carried all kinds of siege engines and artillery, and the country around afforded an abundant supply of timber for the construction of fresh works. This place had revolted to the Samnites after putting the Roman colonists to death. The Dictator of Tusculum was the spokesman. Quinctius, in raising troops, took care to choose mainly those who had done good service in Spain or in Africa and who were men of tried courage. According to Valerius Antias, Villius, finding a frontal attack impossible as every approach was blocked by the king's troops, entered the ravine and marched along the river. The plebs fattened up their own defenders for slaughter. No agreement that he might have made with the king would be valid without the ratification of the senate, and whilst the winter necessarily put a stop to military operations, it would be possible to find what conditions of peace the senate would sanction. He told them to seek counsel from those through whose advice they had admitted the garrison in the first instance. Manlius, too, was inviting the plebeians to his house and discussing night and day revolutionary plans with their leaders in a much more aggressive and resentful spirit than formerly. Just at this time his brother Lucius happened to bring up ten triremes from his winter quarters at Corcyra, and with these Quinctius sailed from Anticyra to Sicyon. In their panic they were carried past their camp, and did not stop their headlong flight until they were within sight of Praeneste. Quinctius Cincinnatus as Dictator. With this hope held out to them they thought it a most shameful proceeding that whilst the gold got together to ransom the City from the Gauls had been raised by general taxation, this very gold when recovered from the enemy had become the plunder of a few. He said that he had been in the habit of pasturing his flock in the defile which was then occupied by the king's camp, and knew every track and turn on the mountains. Livy : Books 5, 6, And 7 (1881) Reviews The arrival of the Romans produced a change in the temper of both sides; it turned the gloomy forebodings of the Tusculans into the utmost cheerfulness, whilst the confidence which the Latins had felt in a speedy capture of the citadel, as they were already in possession of the town, sank into a faint and feeble hope of even their own safety.

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