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19. certiora postea Oroandensium legati attulerunt, Tolostobogiorum civitatem Olympum montem1 cepisse; diversos Tectosagos alium montem, Magaba qui dicatur, petisse;
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Trocmos coniugibus ac
[p. 66]
liberis apud Tectosagos depositis armatorum agmine2 3 Tolostobogiis statuisse auxilium ferre. erant autem tunc trium populorum reguli Ortiago et Combolomarus et Gaulotus.
[3]
iis haec maxime ratio belli sumendi fuerat, quod cum montes editissimos regionis
eius tenerent, convectis omnibus quae ad usum
quamvis longi temporis sufficerent, taedio se fatigaturos hostem censebant:
[4]
nam neque ausuros per
tam ardua atque iniqua loca subire eos et, si conarentur, vel parva manu prohiberi aut deturbari posse,
nec quietos in radicibus montium gelidorum sedentes
frigus aut inopiam laturos.
[5]
ac cum ipsa altitudo
locorum eos tutaretur, fossam quoque et alia munimenta verticibus iis quos insederant circumiecere.
[6]
minima apparatus missilium telorum cura fuit,
quod saxa adfatim praebituram asperitatem ipsam
locorum credebant.
Livy. Books XXXVIII-XXXIX with an English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936: published without copyright notice.
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