Samnites
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the Samnites · envoys of the Samnites
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The Rights of War and Peace
Italic people represented by Pontius in the anecdote about restitution and arbitration.
Pontius the Samnite, after restoration of the prizes had been made to the Romans, and the promoter of the war delivered up into their hands, said, “We have now averted the wrath of heaven, which our violation of treaties had provoked.
In the convention alluded to, if the Samnites had intended to bind the Roman people, they should have retained the army at Caudium, and sent ambassadors to the senate and people at Rome, to discuss the treaty, and learn upon what terms they chose to redeem their army.
The Samnites too forbade the Romans to go to any council in Samnium, under pain of forfeiting their lives, or, at least, their personal safety.
Stoic Paradoxes
A people whose offered gold Manius Curius famously refused.
The gold of the Samnites, or the answer of Manius Curius?
Consolation to Helvia
An Italic people whose envoys are described visiting a frugal Roman dictator (traditionally Manius Curius Dentatus).
No doubt that dictator of ours lived less happily, who gave audience to the envoys of the Samnites while with his own hand he turned the cheapest food on the hearth—that hand with which he had already so often smitten the enemy and had laid the laurel in the lap of Capitoline Jove—than Apicius lived within our own memory, who, in that city from which philosophers were once ordered to depart as cor …