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Idemque Iuppiter postea praestantissimorum ducum nostrorum sagacibus consiliis propitius aspirauit: nam cum alterum Italiae latus Hannibal laceraret, alterum inuasisset Hasdrubal, ne duorum fratrum iunctae copiae intolerabili onere fessas simul res nostras urguerent, hinc Claudii Neronis uegetum consilium, illinc Liui Salinatoris inclyta prouidentia effecit: Nero enim conpresso a se in Lucanis Hannibale praesentiam suam, quoniam ita ratio belli desiderabat, mentitus hosti ad opem collegae ferendam per longum iter celeritate mira tetendit. Salinator in Vmbria apud Metaurum flumen proximo die dimicaturus summa cum dissimulatione Neronem castris noctu recepit: tribunos enim a tribunis, centuriones a centurionibus, equites ab equitibus, pedites a peditibus excipi iussit ac sine ulla tumultuatione solo uix unum exercitum capiente alterum inseruit. quo euenit ne Hasdrubal cum duobus se consulibus proeliaturum prius sciret quam utriusque uirtute prosterneretur. ita illa toto terrarum orbe infamis Punica calliditas Romana elusa prudentia Hannibalem Neroni, Hasdrubalem Salinatori decipiendum tradidit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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