[Linenotes: 3-4. +an consurgendi ... esset.+ Livy says ‘The Triarii were posted crouching by the standards, their left leg extended forwards, holding their shields resting on their shoulders, and their spears fixed in the ground with the points erect, so that their line bristled as if enclosed by a rampart.’ 6. +Accensos.+ The _Accensi_ (_ad + censeo_), originally supernumeraries to take the place of those who fell in battle, = _levis armatura_. +ante signa+, i.e. of the Hastati and Principes. 8. +excitaverunt+ = _surgere iusserunt_. --Weissenborn. 10. +hebetassent+ = _had blunted_. 18. +antepilanis+ = _prop._ both the Hastati and Principes who were drawn up before the Pilani or Triarii who formed the third line. 19. +principia+ = _the front line_, now the Triarii of the Latins. 22. +cuneos+ = _columns_ (lit. _wedges_), i.e. a body of soldiers drawn up in the shape of a wedge. Livy uses it of the phalanx.] +The Cause of the War.+ The war was almost a civil one. The dispute was chiefly about a right to share in the privileges of the full Roman citizenship (espec. the right to vote and to hold office). +Result of the War.+ Rome broke up the Latin Confederation by making separate treaties with the Latin towns, and by prohibiting commercial intercourse between them. D35 SECOND SAMNITE WAR, 326-304 B.C. (1) _The Dictator and his Master of the Horse._ Ea fortuna pugnae fuit, ut nihil relictum sit, quo, si adfuisset Dictator, res melius geri potuerit; non dux militi, non miles duci defuit. Eques etiam, auctore L. Cominio tribuno militum, qui aliquotiens impetu capto perrumpere non poterat hostium agmen, {5} detraxit frenos equis atque ita concitatos calcaribus permisit, ut sustinere eos nulla vis posset; per arma, per viros late stragem dedere; secutus pedes impetum equitum turbatis hostibus intulit signa. Viginti milia hostium caesa eo die traduntur. Magister equitum, {10} ut ex tanta caede, multis potitus spoliis congesta in ingentem acervum hostilia arma subdito igne concremavit, seu votum id deorum cuiquam fuit, seu credere libet Fabio auctori eo factum, ne suae gloriae fructum Dictator caperet nomenque ibi scriberet aut {15} spolia in triumpho ferret. Litterae quoque de re prospere gesta ad senatum, non ad Dictatorem missae argumentum fuere minima cum eo communicantis laudes. Ita certe Dictator id factum accepit, ut laetis aliis victoria parta prae se ferret iram tristitiamque. {20} LIVY, viii, 30.