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CURSOR, LUCIUS PAPIRIUS

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CURSOR
CURSOR, LUCIUS PAPIRIUS

CURSOR, See also:
LUCIUS
LUCIUS PAPIRIUS , See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

general, five times See also:

consul and twice See also:

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator. In 325 he was appointed dictator to carry on the second Samnite See also:

War. His See also:

QUARREL

quarrel with Q. See also:

FABIUS

Fabius See also:

Maximus Rullianus, his magister equitum, is well known. The latter had engaged the enemy against the orders of Cursor, by whom he was condemned to See also:

DEATH

death, and only the intercession of his See also:

FATHER

father, the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate and the See also:

PEOPLE

people, saved his See also:

LIFE

life. Cursor treated his soldiers with such harshness that they allowed themselves to be defeated; but after he had regained their See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good-will by more lenient treatment and lavish promises of See also:

BOOTY (apparently influenced by " boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an adaptation from an earlier form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin)

booty, they fought with See also:

ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm and gained a See also:

COMPLETE

complete victory. After the disaster of the Caudine Forks, Cursor to some extent wiped out the disgrace by compelling Luceria (which had revolted) to surrender. He delivered the Roman hostages who were held in captivity in the See also:

TOWN

town, recovered the See also:

STANDARDS

standards lost at Caudium, and made 7000 of the enemy pass under the yoke. In 309, when the See also:

SAMNITES

Samnites again See also:

rose, Cursor was appointed dictator for the second See also:

time, and gained a decisive victory at Longula, in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of which he celebrated a magnificent See also:

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph. Cursor's strictness was proverbial; he was a See also:

man of immense bodily strength, while his bravery was beyond dispute. He was surnamed Cursor from his swiftness of See also:

FOOT

foot. See also:

LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59 B.C.—A.D: 17)

Livy viii., ix.; Aurelius See also:

Victor, De viris illustribus, 31; See also:

EUTROPIUS

Eutropius ii.

8. 9. His son of the same name, also a distinguished general, completed the subjection of Samnium (272). He set up a See also:

sun-See also:

DIAL

dial, the first of its See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind in See also:

Rome, in the See also:

temple of See also:

QUIRINUS

Quirinus. Livy X. 39-47 ; See also:

Pliny, Nat. Hist., vii. 6o.

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