The [187]twelve [188]nations of the Tuscans, [189]rising for the [190]utter ruin [191]of the Roman name in the year of the city 442, were [192]routed in a great [193]battle by Fabius the [194]consul, in the [195]year 444, in which were [196]slain, or [197]taken of the [198]enemy, to the [199]number of 60,000.

In the year 472, the [200]Tarentines, [201]brought the [202]Romans against them [203]by plundering their [204]fleet, and [205]assailing their [206]ambassadors, who [207]came to [208]complain of the [209]injury. They, [210]together with the [211]Samnites, and [212]Salentines, were [213]defeated by L. [214]Æmilius Barbula. [215]Terrified at this [216]ill fortune, they [217]sent for [218]Pyrrhus to their [219]assistance; who, in the year of the city 474, having [220]brought over an [221]army into [222]Italy, [223]waged against the Romans [224]a war which [225]lasted six years. In the [226]first [227]encounter the Romans, [228]headed by [229]Lævinus, being [230]conquered, not so much by the [231]strength of the [232]enemy, as by the [233]strange [234]shape of the [235]elephants, [236]yielded up the [237]day: Pyrrhus [238]dismissed all the [239]prisoners [240]without [241]ransom. [242]Soon after, having [243]made some [244]fruitless [245]overtures of [246]peace by his [247]ambassador [248]Cyneas ([249]for [250]Appius Claudius [251]obstructed it), he [252]engaged the Romans [253]twice: the [254]victory [255]both times being [256]dubious. He was [257]then [258]invited by the [259]Syracusans [260]into Sicily against [261]the Carthaginians; [262]where [263]matters [264]not succeeding [265]according to his [266]desires, he [267]returned into [268]Italy in the year 479; and being [269]defeated, [270]forced out of his [271]camp, and [272]beaten from [273]Tarentum, he returned into [274]Epirus.

FOOTNOTES

[1] distrúggere

[2] idea

[3] abbandonáre

[4] traslocarsi

[5] Vej

[6] dissuáso

[7] diségno

[8] Camíllo

[9] mentre

[10] Marco Mánlio

[11] ottenere

[12] cognóme

[13] Capitolíno

[14] nóbile

[15] difésa

[16] campidóglio

[17] cercáre

[18] ambizione

[19] popoláre

[20] favóre

[21] impadronírsi

[22] suprémo

[23] potére

[24] precipitáto

[25] rocca Tarpéa

[26] diféndere

[27] grande

[28] contésa

[29] fra

[30] nobiltà

[31] popolo

[32] C. Licínio Stolone

[33] L. Séstio

[34] tribúno

[35] popolo

[36] propórre

[37] legge

[38] scegliere

[39] cónsole

[40] d’infra’l popolo

[41] riuscíre

[42] seguénte

[43] L. Séstio fu eletto cónsole

[44] dopo

[45] guerra

[46] Tibúrti

[47] Tarquiniési

[48] Falísci

[49] Gálli

[50] méttersi

[51] órdine

[52] battáglia

[53] mandáre

[54] disfída

[55] uccídere

[56] certo M. Valério

[57] tribúno

[58] soldato

[59] assisténza

[60] corvo

[61] da ció

[62] cognóme

[63] Corvíno

[64] ma

[65] guerra

[66] gravóso

[67] lunga

[68] contro

[69] Sanníti

[70] intrapréndere

[71] richiésta

[72] Campáni

[73] duráre

[74] settánta

[75] benchè

[76] spesse volte

[77] battúto

[78] Latíno

[79] préndere l’armi

[80] contro

[81] vincere

[82] cónsoli Torquáto e Decio

[83] primo

[84] decapitáre

[85] figliuólo

[86] aver combáttuto

[87] senza

[88] órdine

[89] altro

[90] consacrársi

[91] morte

[92] armáta

[93] nemíco

[94] sottomettérsi

[95] poco dopo

[96] ribelláre

[97] alla fine

[98] affátto

[99] ridótto

[100] incírca

[101] Galli

[102] fare

[103] pace

[104] mantenere

[105] trenta

[106] Cisalpíno

[107] assieme con

[108] Transalpíno

[109] Galli

[110] Toscáni

[111] dare il guasto a

[112] Románo

[113] território

[114] ritornáre

[115] casa

[116] carico

[117] spóglia

[118] contendere

[119] quattro

[120] unírsi

[121] Sanníti

[122] Toscáni

[123] assalíre

[124] armáta

[125] comandáre

[126] L. Scipióne

[127] propretóre

[128] battáglia

[129] P. Decio

[130] cónsole

[131] sacrificò se stesso

[132] diéci

[133] Galli Senoni

[134] invitáto

[135] Lucáni

[136] Bruzi