g the submissionof their countrymen to Curius Dentatus, found him at his Sabine farm,engaged in the discussion of a large dish of turnips. He received theenvoys with no other form than a wooden one, upon which he wasseated, and he continued his vegetarian meal, as he listened to theirovertures.… … Curius Dentatus refusing the Magnificent Gift offered by the Samnite Ambassadors. The Samnites made one more desperate effort against Rome, andLollius, a runaway hostage, who had escaped to his native mountains,found life such thoroughly up-hill work, that he resolved to change it, orpart with it.…
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