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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · temperance and self-mastery · supply, logistics, and encampment · shipwreck and storm · pyrrhus' invasion fleet · propraetor to etruria · praetors elected · poverty and wealth · pleasure, pain, and the good life · navius and roman defense
Usually: narrative (2) · sudden reversal of fortune (2) · argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · reflection (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
“Should Fate this moment bid me to go back O'er all my length of years, my life retrack To its first hour, and pick out such descent As man might wish for e'en to pride's content, I should rest satisfied with mine.” Horace, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace · insight
“Rather troubled Pyrrhus with the thought of the happiness he was quitting, than any way altered his purpose.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · insight
Hannibal chooses between taking Tarentum and retaining Capua, then attacks the Roman forces besieging Capua with elephants and coordinated sallies, culminating in a hard-fought defense of Roman camp and retreat.
the legions. It is said that Quintus Navius was the person who advised the mixing of infantry with cavalry, and that he received honour from the general on that account. 5. While affairs were in this state at Capua, Hannibal was perplexed between two objects, the gaining possession of the citadel of Tarentum, and the retaining of Capua. His concern for Capua, however, prevailed, on which he saw that the attention of…
After praetors are elected and the dictator abdicates, Roman provinces are assigned: Varro to Etruria, Manlius to observe affairs abroad, and fleets and ambassadors to restore Sicilians and Tarentines; consuls elect provinces against Hannibal and Hasdrubal.
our country as we would that of parents, by patience and resignation." All exerting themselves to the utmost, they succeeded in uniting Marcus Livius in the consulate with Caius Claudius. 35. The third day afterwards the election of praetors was held. The praetors created were, Lucius Porcius Licinus, Caius Mamilius, Aulus Hostilius Cato, and Caius Hostilius Cato. The election completed, and the games celebrated, th…
Pyrrhus sends Cineas to Tarentum, gathers a major invasion force with elephants and cavalry, and after a violent north wind scatters much of his fleet, he survives a shipwreck by jumping overboard and reaches shore with only a remnant.
rather troubled Pyrrhus with the thought of the happiness he was quitting, than any way altered his purpose, being unable to abandon the hopes of what he so much desired. And first, he sent away Cineas to the Tarentines with three thousand men; presently after, many vessels for transport of horse, and galleys, and flat-bottomed boats of all sorts arriving from Tarentum, he shipped upon them twenty elephants, three t…
He concludes fortresses are harmful for holding one’s own country and useless for holding acquired territories, arguing that Romans generally pulled down forts, and rebutting counterexamples like Tarentum and Brescia as requiring armies or exceptional circumstances.
Moreover it was costly for the king to build, and shameful for him to lose this fortress; while for Ottaviano it was glorious to take, and advantageous to destroy it. Let us turn now to those republics which build fortresses not within their own territories, but in towns whereof they have taken possession. And if the above example of France and Genoa suffice not to show the futility of this course, that of Florence …
Horace credits his father with keeping him chaste and modest despite poverty, insists his life is happier than a nobleman’s costly display, and describes his frugal daily routine.
O, 'tis no common fortune, when one earns A friend's regard, who man from man discerns, Not by mere accident of lofty birth But by unsullied life, and inborn worth! Yet, if my nature, otherwise correct, But with some few and trifling faults is flecked, Just as a spot or mole might be to blame Upon some body else of comely frame, If none can call me miserly and mean Or tax my life with practices unclean, If I have li…