Note 123 — Second Part. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Possibly a double entendre lurks even in the ad pugnam venere (they came to the fight). Festus, under the word, says: Osculana pugna in proverbio, quo significabatur victos vincere, (An Osculan—otherwise Asculan,—fight a proverbial saying that signified the vanquished being victorious). The Roman general Laevinus was beaten by King Pyrrhus at Asculum, soon after at the same place the King was himself beaten by Sulpicius.