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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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gle was not decided in favor of Rome until 290 b.c. ; andimmediately after the Samnites became the allies of the Greek king Pyrrhus,who came to help the Greek colonies of Italy against the overshadowing powerof the barbarians of the Tiber. The war with Pyrrhus began with the battle of Pandosia (280 B.C.), inwhich the troops of elephants employed by Pyrrhus terrified and stampeded theRomans, who did not know what they were. Pyrrhus was successful again thefollowing year, but at such a cost that he uttered the oft-quoted exclamation,Another such victory and I am undone! He now left Italy for Sicily, butsoon returned and renewed the contest, only to be utterly routed at Beneventumin B.C. 274. In this last famous battle the Roman leader was the consul Curius Dentatus,of whom the story is told that once when he had defeated the Samnites, theysent an embassy seeking to bribe him with a large sum of money. The ambas-sadors found him at a meal consisting solely of boiled turnips, and Dentatus
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Rome—War with Pyrrhus 321 asked them what a man who lived as they saw he preferred to do, could needof money. He thought it more glorious, he said, to conquer those who had it,and thus prove himself their superior. Pyrrhus retired to Greece, and the Greek colonies in Italy yielded to thesovereignty of Rome. By the close of the year B.C. 272 Rome was suprememaster of the whole Italian peninsula, from the Tuscan Sea to the Adriatic,and from the southern boundary of Cisalpine Gaul to the Straits of Sicily.Thus she had laid, broad and sure, the foundation of her future grandeur, butbefore she could enter upon the next great step in her career, she must weldthe newly won nations into a single unified whole. The Roman territory properincluded the body of free inhabitants of the thirty-three tribes, north and southof the Tiber, together with a large number of persons in other parts of Italywho had received the rights of Roman citizenship. The real governing power was the Roman people ox po

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