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Dentatus is described as having been incorruptible and frugal; the story was that when the
Samnites sent ambassadors with expensive gifts in an attempt to influence him in their favor, they found him sitting by the hearth roasting
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202:. He refused the gifts, saying that he preferred ruling the possessors of gold over possessing it himself. Although the truth of this story is unclear — it may have been an invention of
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to keep plebeian candidates out of the consular elections. If his tribunate is dated to 291, his actions advanced his own candidacy, but since Appius served three times as
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4.3.5 has
Dentatus telling the Samnites to "report and remember that I can neither be defeated in battle nor be corrupted with money" (
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in 290 BC, with a colleague by the name of P. Cornelius
Rufinus (cos. 290 and 277 BC, dict. 276 BC and ancestor of
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which nevertheless forced
Pyrrhus out of Italy. As a result, he held a consecutive consulship, defeating the
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says
Dentatus drove the Gauls from their territory, clearing the way for the establishment of a
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is sometimes given erroneously as Marcus because the standard abbreviation of Manius (
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Maximus 4.3.5; Frontinus,
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sometime between 298 and 291 BC. As tribune, he foiled efforts by the
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67:(died 270 BC) was a Roman general and statesman noted for ending the
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refertote et memento me nec acie vinci nec pecunia corrumpi posse
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were elected commissioners to oversee construction of the
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and its sub-association
Dentatus are named after him.
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refusing wealth in favour of a turnip, as depicted by
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the dictator) during which time he defeated both the
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156:As consul again in 275 BC, Dentatus fought
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122:. Returning home he took on a massive
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168:in the following year and earning an
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586:Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus
410:1.8.4; Florus 1.10.2–3; Apuleius,
102:Dentatus served his first term as
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137:(or possibly the consulship) of
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139:L. Caecilius Metellus Denter
133:In 283, Dentatus filled the
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633:Gaius Fabius Licinus
338:, iv. 3, 5, vi. 3, 4
162:Battle of Beneventum
160:in the inconclusive
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118:and celebrated two
512:Political offices
192:M. Fulvius Flaccus
143:Battle of Arretium
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270:, ii. 9, 14
135:praetorship
73:Pyrrhic War
69:Samnite War
650:Categories
408:Stratagems
402:55; Livy,
183:Anio Vetus
300:, vii. 16
268:Eutropius
224:praenomen
208:paintings
172:. He was
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482:Life of
478:Plutarch
412:Apologia
404:Periocha
398:Cicero,
322:, ii. 19
320:Polybius
308:Life of
304:Plutarch
282:, xi. 78
276:, ii. 18
188:aqueduct
147:Polybius
120:triumphs
112:Samnites
97:interrex
89:interrex
605:himself
593:himself
439:16.185.
435:Pliny,
310:Pyrrhus
294:, 11-14
291:Epitome
280:Juvenal
250:Sources
200:turnips
170:ovation
158:Pyrrhus
116:Sabines
620:274 BC
581:275 BC
536:290 BC
379:Brutus
375:Cicero
362:7.68,
326:Seneca
274:Florus
256:Cicero
237:Marcus
174:censor
166:Lucani
151:colony
104:consul
50:270 BC
671:Curii
623:with
584:with
539:with
356:Pliny
343:Notes
298:Pliny
77:Pliny
617:III
452:1.6.
381:55;
332:10.8
286:Livy
264:, 16
221:His
204:Cato
114:and
47:Died
578:II
522:III
450:Aq.
315:§25
229:M'.
210:by
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