[Linenotes: 1. +Appi Claudi.+ This was the Appius Claudius whose Censorship, 312 B.C., was famous for his great public works, the +Via Appia+, the great South road of Rome, and the +Aqua Appia+, an aqueduct which brought water to Rome a distance of eight miles; and also for his measure (corresponding to a Parliamentary Reform Bill) admitting freedmen as full citizens by enrolling them in Tribes. 2-9. +tamen is ... exstat oratio.+ When the Senate was about to yield to the persuasive eloquence of Cineas, the envoy of Pyrrhus, he had himself led into the Senate-house to make the speech which turned the scale against the invader. 4. +versibus persecutus est+ = _has followed out in the lines_. J. S. R. 7. +viai+ (= _viae_ old genit.) = i. _quo viae_, cf. _ubi terrarum_, or ii. _sese flexere viae_, a Greek genitive. 9-10. +haec ille egit+ = _he made this speech_. 14-15. +tantam ... clientelas+ = _a large household_, _a large number of dependents_; +clientelas = clientes+. 16. +intentum+ (_in + tendo_) = _on the stretch_. Cf. opposite _remissus_. 19-21. +metuebant ... disciplina+ = _his slaves feared him, his children stood in awe of him, yet all held him dear; in him ancestral spirit and principles_ (+disciplina+) _were strong_. --J. S. Reid.] +The Speech of Appius Claudius.+ For the substance of the Speech, _see_ Plutarch, _Pyrrhus_, xi. D44 THE WAR WITH THE TARENTINES AND PYRRHUS. (4) A. _The Battle of Asculum, 279 B.C._ In Apulia deinde apud Asculum melius dimicatum est Curio Fabricioque consulibus. Iam quippe terror[26] beluarum exoleverat, et Gaius Numicius quartae legionis hastatus unius proboscide abscisa mori posse beluas ostenderat. Itaque in ipsas pila congesta sunt {5} et in turres vibratae faces tota hostium agmina ardentibus ruinis operuerunt. Nec alius cladi finis fuit quam nox dirimeret, postremusque fugientium rex ipse a satellitibus umero saucius in armis suis referretur. {10} [Footnote 26: Cf. p. 100, ll. 17-20.] [[Selection D41: “inusitata ... elephantorum forma”] [Linenotes: 1. +Asculum+, a town in Apulia on the borders of Samnium, between Beneventum and Canusium. 3. +exoleverat+ = _had grown less_ (lit. _had grown out of use_). 6. +in turres vibratae faces+ = _firebrands hurled against their towers_. 8. +dirimeret+ = _separated_ (the combatants).] B. _The Battle near Beneventum, 275 B.C._ Lucaniae suprema pugna sub Arusinis, quos vocant, campis ducibus isdem quibus superius; sed tum tota victoria. Exitum, quem datura virtus fuit, casus dedit. Nam provectis in primam aciem rursus elephantis unum ex his pullum adacti in caput teli {15} gravis ictus avertit; qui cum per stragem suorum recurrens stridore quereretur, mater agnovit et quasi vindicaret exsiluit, tum omnia circa quasi hostilia gravi mole permiscuit. Ac sic eaedem ferae, quae primam victoriam abstulerunt, secundam parem {20} fecerunt, tertiam sine controversia tradiderunt.