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20. profectus ab Tarracone et civitates sociorum et hiberna exercitus adiit, conlaudavitque milites quod duabus tantis deinceps cladibus icti provinciam obtinuissent, [2?] nec fructum secundarum rerum sentire hostis passi omni cis Hiberum agro eos arcuissent, sociosque cum fide tutati essent. [3] marcium secum habebat cum tanto honore ut facile appareret nihil minus vereri quam ne quis obstaret gloriae suae. [4] successit inde Neroni Silanus, et in hiberna milites novi deducti. Scipio omnibus quae adeunda agendaque erant mature aditis peractisque Tarraconem concessit. [5] nihilo minor fama apud hostis Scipionis erat quam apud civis sociosque, et divinatio quaedam futuri, quo minus ratio timoris reddi poterat oborti temere, maiorem inferens metum. [6] in hiberna diversi concesserant, Hasdrubal Gisgonis usque ad Oceanum et Gadis, Mago in mediterranea maxime supra Castulonensem saltum; Hasdrubal Hamilcaris filius proximus Hibero circa Saguntum hibernavit.

[p. 78] [7] aestatis eius extremo qua capta est Capua et1 Scipio in Hispaniam venit Punica classis ex Sicilia Tarentum accita ad arcendos commeatus praesidii Romani quod in arce Tarentina erat, [8?] clauserat quidem omnis ad arcem a mari aditus, sed adsidendo diutius artiorem annonam sociis quam hosti2 faciebat. [9] non enim tantum subvehi oppidanis per pacata litora apertosque portus praesidio navium Punicarum poterat quantum frumenti classis ipsa turba navali mixta ex omni genere hominum absumebat, [10?] ut arcis praesidium etiam sine invecto, quia pauci erant, ex ante praeparato sustentari posset, Tarentinis classique ne invectum quidem sufficeret. [11] tandem maiore gratia quam venerat classis dimissa est; annona haud multum laxaverat,3 quia remoto maritimo praesidio subvehi frumentum non poterat.

1 A.U.C. 543

2 hosti M1AJK Aldus: hostis P(3): hostibus Alschefski.

3 laxaverat P(1)JK: laxata est conj. Luchs.

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