DOI Kapitel:
Chap. III: Excursion to Beneventum - Furcæ Caudinæ - Mount Taburnus - Beneventum, its Triumphal Arch - Excursion - Nuceria - Cava - Salernum - Mount Alburnus - Pæstum, its History and Temples
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.62268#0088
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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. nt
I need not inform the reader that Beneventum
is in Samnium, and was considered as one of its
principal cities, or that the Samnites were the
most warlike people of Italy, the most attached
to independence, and the most devoted to the
cause of liberty. Their stubborn opposition to
the predominant fortune and genius of Rome
employed the talents, and called forth all the
skill and all the energies of the Fabii and the
Papirii, and with many intervening reverses
furnished the materials of four-and-twenty tri-
umphs. Their resistance prolonged beyond the
bounds of prudence and the means of success, at
length assumed the features of a war ad interne-
cionem, and terminated during the dictatorship
of Sylla in the almost total annihilation of the
Samnite race. The army perished in the field,
or in confinement at Rome; the survivors were
driven into exile, and one of the most populous
provinces of Italy was almost turned into a
desert.
Nam vaga per veterem dilapso flamma culinam
Vulcano, summuni properabat lambere tectum.
Convivas avidos caenam servosque timentes
Turn rapere, atque omnes restinguere velle videres.
There are few inns in modern Italy that cannot afford
better fare and better accommodations.
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. nt
I need not inform the reader that Beneventum
is in Samnium, and was considered as one of its
principal cities, or that the Samnites were the
most warlike people of Italy, the most attached
to independence, and the most devoted to the
cause of liberty. Their stubborn opposition to
the predominant fortune and genius of Rome
employed the talents, and called forth all the
skill and all the energies of the Fabii and the
Papirii, and with many intervening reverses
furnished the materials of four-and-twenty tri-
umphs. Their resistance prolonged beyond the
bounds of prudence and the means of success, at
length assumed the features of a war ad interne-
cionem, and terminated during the dictatorship
of Sylla in the almost total annihilation of the
Samnite race. The army perished in the field,
or in confinement at Rome; the survivors were
driven into exile, and one of the most populous
provinces of Italy was almost turned into a
desert.
Nam vaga per veterem dilapso flamma culinam
Vulcano, summuni properabat lambere tectum.
Convivas avidos caenam servosque timentes
Turn rapere, atque omnes restinguere velle videres.
There are few inns in modern Italy that cannot afford
better fare and better accommodations.