(Liv.l.8.c.30.

35.) [2] This gives but an indifferent idea of the military skill of those ages.
[3] It appears, however, to have suffered a diminution of its honour on this occasion, by breaking every article of the treaty of peace extorted from Posthu'mius.

As some atonement for this breach of faith, they delivered Posthu'mius, and those who signed the treaty, into the hands of the Samnites, to do with them as they thought fit; but this generous people instantly set them at liberty.Liv.l.9.c.

8-11.
[4] U.C.447.

About this time Appius Claudius, the censor, constructed an aqueduct, seven miles long, for supplying Rome with water, and that famous road from Rome to Capua, which still remains, the admiration of all Europe.
[5] Epi'rus, a country situated between Macedonia, Achaia, and the Ionian sea.