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9. Hannibal recto itinere per Umbriam usque ad Spoletium venit. [2] inde cum perpopulato agro urbem oppugnare adortus esset, cum magna caede suorum repulsus, coniectans ex unius coloniae minus prospere temptatae viribus, quanta moles Romanae urbis esset, in agrum Picenum avertit iter non copia solum omnis. [3] generis frugum abundantem sed refertum praeda, quam effuse avidi atque egentes rapiebant. [4] ibi per dies aliquot stativa habita, refectusque miles hibernis itineribus ac palustri via proelioque magis ad eventum secundo quam levi aut facili adfectus. [5] ubi satis quietis datum praeda ac populationibus magis quam otio aut requie gaudentibus, profectus Praetutianum Hadrianumque agrum, Marsos inde Marrucinosque et Paelignos devastat circaque Arpos et Luceriam proximam Apuliae regionem. [6] Cn. Servilius consul levibus proeliis cum Gallis factis et uno oppido ignobili expugnato postquam de collegae exercitusque caede audivit, iam moenibus patriae metuens, ne abesset in discrimine extremo, ad urbem iter intendit.

[7] Q. Fabius Maximus dictator iterum quo die magistratum [p. 71] iniit vocato senatu, ab diis orsus, cum edocuisset patres plus neglegentia caerimoniarum auspiciorumque quam temeritate atque inscitia peccatum a C. Flaminio consule esse quaeque piacula irae deum essent ipsos deos consulendos esse, [8] pervicit, ut, quod non ferme decernitur, nisi cum taetra prodigia nuntiata sunt, decemviri libros Sibyllinos adire iuberentur. [9] qui inspectis fatalibus libris rettulerunt patribus quod eius belli causa votum Marti foret, id non rite factum de integro atque amplius faciundum esse, [10] et Iovi ludos magnos et aedes Veneri Erycinae ac Menti vovendas esse, et supplicationem lectisterniumque habendum, et ver sacrum vovendum, si bellatum prospere esset resque publica in eodem, quo ante bellum fuisset, statu permansisset. [11] senatus, quoniam Fabium belli cura occupatura esset, M. Aemilium praetorem, ex collegi pontificum sententia omnia ea ut mature fiant, curare iubet.

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.23
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.28
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 37.24
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