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Watson writes, Horace dignifies the threat they offered to Rome. 357 <strong>The</strong> change in<br />

attitude toward the Capuans is also apparent in Silius:<br />

Sed fas id Celtis, fas impia bella referre<br />

Boiorum fuerit populis: Capuaene furorem,<br />

quem Senonum genti, placuisse, et Dardana ab ortu<br />

moenia barbarico Nomadum sociata tyranno<br />

quisnam, mutato tantum nunc tempore, credat?<br />

153<br />

Pun. 11.28-32<br />

It might be lawful for Celts, lawful for the tribes of the Boii, to renew<br />

impious warfare; but who could believe that Capua would take the<br />

same mad decision as the tribe of Senones, and that a city of Trojan<br />

origin would ally herself with the barbarous ruler of the Numidians –<br />

who could believe this now, when times have changed so greatly?<br />

Duff, 1989, 103.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Capuans had been allied to Rome for so long and had such close ties, that Silius<br />

challenges anyone to believe that Capua would consider deserting Rome.<br />

357 Watson, 2003, 491. Also Mankin, 1995, 247.

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