Your minds that once did stand erect and strong, What madness swerves them from their wonted course? Appius Claudius chastising the Roman senate for contemplating an alliance with Pyrrhus by quoting Ennius. Cicero quoting Cato the Elder on old age. Section 16.
Image: Statuette of a war elephant found in Pompeii at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Jona Lendering. Pyrrhus used war elephants against the Romans at the battle of Asculus in 279 BCE.
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