The Tale Of Rome

Episode 45 – Fabius Rullianus and Papirius Cursor— “Fortified camps are to be defended by arms, rather than arms being defended by fortified camps,” Rullianus said.A flashback of an encounter between two heroes of the Samnite Wars. Papirius Cursor and Fabius Rullianus.Partial TranscriptHello, this is Abel, speaking from Beijing, China. Welcome to my podcast.The Tale of Rome, Episode 45 — Fabius Rullianus and Papirius Cursor.The Ciminian forest was one of those primitive places — created in the times before gods and humans, and its purpose was to keep Romans and Etruscans apart.There were no roads through it, and even the edges of the forest — the way they looked — they caused utter angst in Rome’s population.Nobody ever dared to get tino the Ciminian forest, up until the fourth century before Christ.What’s more, when the Roman Senate, explicitly gave orders to Consul Fabius Maximus Rullianus to NOT to enter the confines of the forest, and when he did so — chasing Etruscans, and when he emerged unscathed from