Let us be but permitted to come to the enemy, whom we have been used to conquer now near thirty years.

All places will be level and plain to a Roman, fighting against the perfidious Samnite." Another would say, "Whither, or by what way can we go?
Do we expect to remove the mountains from their foundations?
While these cliffs hang over us, by what road will you reach the enemy?
Whether armed or unarmed, brave or dastardly, we are all, without distinction, captured and vanquished.

The enemy will not even show us a weapon by which we might die with honour.

He will finish the war without moving from his seat." In such discourse, thinking of neither food nor rest, the night was passed.

Nor could the Samnites, though in circumstances so joyous, instantly determine how to act: it was therefore universally agreed that Herennius Pontius, father of the general, should be consulted by letter.