The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . of the victory,however, were lost, because the Romans refused to abide bythe treaty. According to the Boman story, the Senate declared that only the Ro-man Assembly, not the consuls alone, had power to make such a place of their rescued army, they delivered to the Samnites the twoconsuls, naked and in chains, saying, through the herald: These menhave wronged you by promising, without authority, to make a treaty withyou. Therefore we hand them over to you. Then one of the consuls(who is said to have suggested the whole plan) pushe
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . of the victory,however, were lost, because the Romans refused to abide bythe treaty. According to the Boman story, the Senate declared that only the Ro-man Assembly, not the consuls alone, had power to make such a place of their rescued army, they delivered to the Samnites the twoconsuls, naked and in chains, saying, through the herald: These menhave wronged you by promising, without authority, to make a treaty withyou. Therefore we hand them over to you. Then one of the consuls(who is said to have suggested the whole plan) pushed against the Romanherald, and said, I am now a Samnite, and, by striking the Roman her-aid, I have given the Romans the right to make war upon the Romans pretended that these forms released them from all obliga-tion, and resumed the war. iThis humiliation consisted in obliging the captives to come forth one byone, clad only in shirts, and pass, with bowed head, between two uprightspears upon which rested a third. §381] SAMNITE WARS 337. A Coin of Pyrrhus. Then the Samnites built up a great alliance, which soon cameto contain nearly all the states of Italy, together with the Cisal-pine Gauls. But, using to the full the advantage of her centralposition (§ 333), Rome beat these foes, one by one, before theycould unite their forces; and at the close of the long conflict(290 ) she had become mistress of all the true peninsula,except the Greek cities of the south. 381. War with Pyrrhus. — Ten years later began the last greatwar for territory in Italy. The Greek cities at this momentwere harassed by neigh-boring mountaineers, andthey called in Eoman aid,as Campania had donesixty years before. ThusRoman lordship becameestablished throughoutthe south, except in Tar-entum. That great city wished to keep her independence, andsought help from Pyrrhus, the chivalrous king of Epirus. Pyrrhus was one of the most remarkable of the Greek mili-tary adventurers who arose aft
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