ELEPHANT cum turribus suīs, tum prīmum Rōmae[12]
[30] vīsī. Victus rēx relīctō Tarentī[12] praesidiō
in Ēpīrum revertit. Cum[13] autem
bellum renovātūrus putārētur, Mānium
Curium iterum cōnsulem fierī placuit.[14]
Sed inopīnāta mors rēgis Rōmānōs metū
[35] līberāvit. Pyrrhus enim, dum Argōs
oppūgnat,[15] urbem iam ingressus ā iuvene
quōdam Argīvō lanceā leviter vulnerātus
est. Māter adulēscentis, anus paupercula,
cum aliīs mulieribus ē tēctō domūs proelium
[40] spectābat; quae cum vīdisset Pyrrhum in auctōrem vulneris
suī māgnō impetū ferrī,[16] perīculō fīliī suī commōta prōtinus tēgulam
corripuit et utrāque manū lībrātam[17] in caput rēgis dēiēcit.
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[36.1] proficīscor.
[36.2] vincō.
[36.3] partitive gen.: cf. [p. 30, n. 2].
[36.4] Cf. [p. 4, n. 11].
[36.5] capiō.
[36.6] i.e. from the ager, or the money derived from the sale of the hominēs.
[36.7] Cf. [p. 26, n. 8].
[36.8] See [p. 5, n. 15]; cf. also H 456 (409, II): M 582: A 220: G 378: B 208, 1.