The Latins showed no inclination to get quit of the Roman rule, burdensome as it might be, by the help of a foreign dynast.

Venusia, although now wholly surrounded by enemies, adhered with unshaken steadfastness to Rome.

Pyrrhus proposed to the prisoners taken on the Siris, whose brave demeanour the chivalrous king requited by the most honourable treatment, that they should enter his army in accordance with the Greek fashion; but he learned that he was fighting not with mercenaries, but with a nation.

Not one, either Roman or Latin, took service with him.
Attempts at Peace Pyrrhus offered peace to the Romans.

He was too sagacious a soldier not to recognize the precariousness of his footing, and too skilled a statesman not to profit opportunely by the moment which placed him in the most favourable position for the conclusion of peace.