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7. dum ea Romani parant consultantque, iam Saguntum summa vi oppugnabatur. [2] civitas ea longe opulentissima ultra Hiberum fuit, sita passus mille ferme a mari. oriundi a Zacyntho insula dicuntur, mixtique etiam ab Ardea Rutulorum quidam generis; [3] ceterum in tantas brevi creverant opes seu maritimis seu terrestribus fructibus seu [p. 20] multitudinis incremento seu disciplinae sanctitate,1 qua fidem socialem usque ad perniciem suam coluerunt. [4] Hannibal infesto exercitu ingressus fines pervastatis passim agris urbem tripertito adgreditur. [5] angulus muri erat in planiorem patentioremque quam cetera circa vallem vergens. adversus eum vineas agere instituit, per quas aries moenibus admoveri posset. [6] sed ut locus procul muro2 satis aequus agendis vineis fuit, ita haudquaquam prospere, postquam ad effectum operis ventum est, coeptis succedebat. [7] et turris ingens imminebat, et murus, ut in suspecto loco, supra ceterae modum altitudinis emunitus erat, et iuventus delecta ubi plurimum periculi ac timoris ostendebatur ibi vi maiore obsistebant. [8] ac primo missilibus submovere hostem nec quicquam satis tutum munientibus pati; deinde iam non pro moenibus modo atque turri tela micare, sed ad erumpendum etiam in stationes operaque hostium animus erat; [9] quibus tumultuariis certaminibus haud ferme plures Saguntini cadebant quam Poeni. [10] ut vero Hannibal ipse, dum murum incautius subit, adversum femur tragula graviter ictus cecidit, tanta circa fuga ac trepidatio fuit ut non multum abesset quin opera ac vineae desererentur.

1 A.U.C. 535

2 muro edd.: muros CM.

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.17
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40, commentary, 39.30
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 43.7
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Rutuli
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Saguntini
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Tragula
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Ardea
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Zacynthus
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Hannibal
    • Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, CONSTRUCTION OF CASES
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AUGUR
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), LUSTRA´TIO
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), A´RDEA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SAGUNTUM
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ZACYNTHUS
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