This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...aptum militiae videbatur, conscripserat. Ad Senam castra alterius consulis erant, et quingentos ferme inde passus Hasdrubal aberat. Itaque quum iam appropinquaret, tectus montibus substitit Nero, ne ante noctem castra ingrederetur. Silentio ingressi, ab sui quis 55 que ordinis hominibus in tentoria abducti, cum summa omnium laetitia hospitaliter excipiuntur. Postero die consilium habitum, cui et L. Porcius Licinus praetor affuit. Castra iuncta consulum castris habebat, et ante adventum eorum.per loca alta ducendo exercitum, quum modo insideret angustos saltus, ut transitum clauderet, modo ab 60 latere aut ab tergo carperet agmen, ludificatus hostem omnibus artibus belli fuerat; is tum in consilio aderat. Multorum eo inclinabant sententiae, ut, dum fessum via ac vigiliis reficeret militem Nero, simul et ad noscendum hostem paucos sibi sumeret dies, tempus pugnae differretur. 65 Nero non suadere modo, sed summa ope orare institit, ne consilium suum, quod tutum celeritas fecisset, temerarium morando facerent; errore, qui non diuturnus futurus esset, velut torpentem Hannibalem nec castra sua sine duce relicta aggredi, nec ad sequendum se iter intendisse. Ante-70 quam se moveat, deleri exercitum Hasdrubalis posse redirique in Apuliam. Qui prolatando spatium hosti det, eum et illa castra prodere Hannibali et aperire in Galliam iter, ut per otium, ubi velit, Hasdrubali coniungatur. Extemplo signum dandum et exeundum in aciem abutendumque 75 errore hostium absentium praesentiumque, dum neque illi sciant, cum paucioribus, nec hi, cum pluribus et validioribus rem esse. Consilio dimisso signum pugnae proponitur, confestimque in aciem procedunt. Iam hostes ante castra instructi stabant. Moram pugnae 80 attulit, quod Hasdrubal, provectus ante signa...

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