ntered into with the Samnites, determined not to ratify it;and, though aware of the fact, that six hundred Roman knights weredetained as hostages, in chains, the Senate cared as little far their bondsas for the words of the Consuls, which had been passed for the fulfil-ment of the treaty. Spurius… … The Romans clothed by the Inhabitants of Capua. as all who had agreed to peace, should be, for the look of the thing,surrendered to the Samnites. He entered so fully into the deceptionabout to be enacted, that when the Lictor was tying the cord loosely, asif conscious of the illusory character of…
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