[History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD by Robert F. Pennell]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD
CHAPTER XI
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The road was afterward extended to Brundisium, through Venusia and Tarentum.
MANIUS CURIUS DENTATUS was a peasant, a contemporary of Appius, and his opponent in many ways.
He was a strong friend of the plebeians.
He obtained for the soldiers large assignments of the _Ager Publicus_.
He drained the low and swampy country near Reate by a canal.
He was the conqueror of Pyrrhus.
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