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Summary of Book XVIII

ATILIUS REGULUS in Africa slew a serpent of portentous size with the loss of many of his soldiers. having fought several successful battles with the Carthaginians, and finding that owing to his good fortune in the prosecution of the war the senate was not disposed to send anyone to succeed him, he wrote to the senate and complained of this very thing, alleging, amongst other reasons for desiring a successor, that his little farm had been deserted by the labourers hired to work it. afterwards, on Fortune's seeking to exhibit in the case of Regulus an [p. 557] example of both extremes, the Carthaginians sent for Xanthippus, a general of the Lacedaemonians, who defeated Regulus in battle and made him prisoner. after that all the Roman generals gained victories on land and sea; but these were marred by the wreck of fleets. Tiberius Coruncanius was the first to be chosen pontifex maximus from the plebs. manius Valerius Maximus and Publius Sempronius Sophus, when as censors they were passing on the senate, removed sixteen from that order. they closed the lustrum and the number of citizens returned was 297,797. Regulus being sent by the Carthaginians to the senate to treat for peace, or, failing that, for an exchange of prisoners, and being bound by an oath to return to Carthage, if the Romans would not exchange, advised the senate to grant neither request, and having loyally returned, was tortured to death by the Carthaginians.1

1 The Regulus story inspired Horace to write his finest ode (carm. III. 5).

Livy. Books VIII-X With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926: no copyright notice.

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.15
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.30
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 43.3
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 43.9
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 44.28
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 44.38
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 44.9
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, book 45, commentary, 45.1
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, book 45, commentary, 45.23
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