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If these mild remonstrances proved ineffective, they were to solemnly warn the Samnites in the name of the senate and people of Rome to keep their hands off the city of Capua and the territory of Campania.
31.11
TheThe Samnites Defiant —War Declared. envoys delivered their instructions in the national council of Samnium. The reply they received was couched in such defiant terms that not only did the Samnites declare their intention of pursuing the war against Capua, but their magistrates went outside the council chamber and, in tones loud
31.12
enough for the envoys to bear, ordered the prefects of cohorts to march at once into the Campanian territory and ravage it.
32.1
When the result of this mission was reported in Rome, all other matters were at once laid aside and the fetials see note 34 to Book IV. Vol. I. were sent to demand redress. This was refused and the senate decreed that a formal declaration of war should be submitted for the approval of the people as soon as possible.
32.2
The people ratified the action of the senate and ordered the two consuls to start, each with his army; Valerius for Campania, where he fixed his camp at Mount Glaurus, whilst Cornelius advanced into Samnium and encamped at Saticula. Battle of Mount Glaurus. —Valerius was the first to come into touch with the Samnite legions.
