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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · romans and samnites · hannibal and saguntum · counsel and advisers to rulers · causes of war
Usually: argument (1) · betrayal (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
He outlines common causes of war by contrasting the accidental Rome-Samnite trigger via Campanians seeking Roman aid with deliberately provoked conflicts like Hannibal’s attack on Saguntum to draw Rome into war in Spain and Italy.
States_. The occasion which led to war between the Romans and Samnites, who for long had been in league with one another, is of common occurrence in all powerful States, being either brought about by accident, or else purposely contrived by some one who would set war a-foot. As between the Romans and the Samnites, the occasion of war was accidental. For in making war upon the Sidicinians and afterwards on the Campan…