uished, andValerius was awarded no less than ten prize oxen; so that he obtainedin solid beef, rather than in empty praise, an acknowledgment of hisservices. At his triumph, 4000 Volscians were drawn up on each sideof him in chains ; but there is something in the idea of his passingthrough this… … he Romans were now about to en-counter a truly formidable foe, in theSamnites,—a warlike people, who hadbeen extending their territory, by goingto great lengths, and allowing them-selves extraordinary latitude. Comingdown upon Campania, they overlookedCapua, or rather they did not overlookit; for,…
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