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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 659 The first words which broke from the king when his practised eye had surveyed the Roman encampment were full of mean- ing These barbarians he said have nothing barbarous in their military arrangements He was at first victorious for his own talents were superior to those of the captains who were opposed to him and the Romans were not prepared for the onset of the elephants of the East which were then for the first time seen in Italy moving mountains with long snakes for hands But the victories of the Epirotes were fiercely disputed dearly purchased and altogether unprofit- able VII lu Stntee Translate into prose or verse ev iv