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Sertorius uero corporis robore atque animi consilio parem naturae indulgentiam expertus, proscriptione Sullana dux Lusitanorum fieri coactus, cum eos oratione flectere non posset ne cum Romanis uniuersa acie confligere uellent, uafro consilio ad suam sententiam perduxit: duos enim in conspectu eorum constituit equos, ualidissimum alterum, alterum infirmissimum, ac deinde ualidi caudam ab inbecillo sene paulatim carpi, infirmi a iuuene eximiarum uirium uniuersam conuelli iussit. obtemperatum imperio est. sed dum adulescentis dextera inrito se labore fatigat, senio confecta manus ministerium exsecuta est. tunc barbarae contioni quorsum ea res tenderet cognoscere cupienti subicit equi caudae consimilem esse nostrum exercitum, cuius partes aliquis adgrediens opprimere possit, uniuersum conatus prosternere celerius tradiderit uictoriam quam occupauerit. ita gens barbara, aspera et regi difficilis, in exitium suum ruens, quam utilitatem auribus respuerat, oculis peruidit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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