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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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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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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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sometime between 298 and 291 BC. As tribune, he foiled efforts by the
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78:(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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167:As consul again in 275 BC, Dentatus fought
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133:. Returning home he took on a massive
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179:in the following year and earning an
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421:1.8.4; Florus 1.10.2–3; Apuleius,
113:Dentatus served his first term as
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144:In 283, Dentatus filled the
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76:Manius Curius Dentatus
34:Manius Curius Dentatus
18:Marcus Curius Dentatus
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644:Gaius Fabius Licinus
349:, iv. 3, 5, vi. 3, 4
173:Battle of Beneventum
171:in the inconclusive
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129:and celebrated two
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203:M. Fulvius Flaccus
154:Battle of Arretium
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194:Anio Vetus
311:, vii. 16
279:Eutropius
235:praenomen
219:paintings
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409:Cicero,
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446:Pliny,
321:Pyrrhus
305:, 11-14
302:Epitome
291:Juvenal
261:Sources
211:turnips
181:ovation
169:Pyrrhus
127:Sabines
631:274 BC
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390:Brutus
386:Cicero
373:7.68,
337:Seneca
285:Florus
267:Cicero
248:Marcus
185:censor
177:Lucani
162:colony
115:consul
61:270 BC
682:Curii
634:with
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