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18. He had the greater difficulty in reducing the enemy than those who had first gone to Spain, because the Spaniards transferred their allegiance to his predecessors through weariness of the authority of the Carthaginians, but in his case the task was, so to speak, to claim them as slaves1 after they had had a taste of liberty; [2] and everything was in such commotion that some were in arms, some were being compelled by siege to join the uprising, and, unless prompt assistance were sent them, would not be able to hold out longer. [3] But in the consul there was such vigour of mind and character that he attended to and performed all business, great and small, and he not only planned and gave orders for what was advantageous, but himself executed most of them; [4] he exercised sterner and severer discipline over no one in all the army than over himself, and in frugality and vigilance and exertion [5] he vied with the lowest of his soldiers, and except for his rank and his authority he enjoyed no distinction as compared with the rest of the army.

1 In servitutem adserere is the technical legal phrase for trying to establish in court the fact that one is owner of a slave (III. xliv. 5).

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