Could not resentment be satisfied with this?
But ambition must be satiated.

That hurries them on to besiege Capua.

They either wish to destroy that most beautiful city, or to possess it themselves.

But, Romans, do you take possession of it in your kindness, rather than suffer them to hold it by injustice.

I am not addressing a people who decline just wars; but still, if you make but a show of your aid, I do not think that you will have occasion for war.
The contempt of the Samnites has just reached to us; it soars not higher.