The Roman politician Appius Claudius is led into the Senate before his speech in 280
This 1899 illustration shows the Roman politician Appius Claudius being led into the Senate before his speech in 280 He served as a consul (leader) twice and in 285 was appointed dictator. According to the Roman historian Livy, a curse took his eyesight and in 280 , he gave a speech to the Romans saying that Rome would never surrender. Pyrrhus of Epirus in Greece was attempting at the time to conquer Rome. And, Pyrrhus did not get Rome.
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