Nepos 4
Luke Roberto /
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Hac pugna pugnata Romam profectus est nullo resistente . In propinquis urbi montibus moratus est . Cum aliquot ibi dies castra habuisset et Capuam1 reverteretur , Q . Fabius Maximus1 , dictator Romanus , in agro Falerno ei se obiecit . Hic clausus locorum angustiis noctu sine ullo detrimento exercitus se expedivit ; Fabioque , callidissimo imperatori , dedit1 verba . Namque obducta nocte sarmenta in cornibus iuvencorum deligata incendit eiusque generis multitudinem magnam dispalatam immisit . Quo repentino obiecto visu tantum terrorem iniecit exercitui Romanorum , ut egredi extra vallum nemo sit ausus . Hanc post rem gestam non ita multis diebus M . Minucium Rufum , magistrum equitum pari ac dictatorem imperio , dolo productum in proelium fugavit . Tiberium Sempronium Gracchum , iterum consulem , in Lucanis absens in insidias inductum sustulit . M . Claudium Marcellum , quinquies consulem , apud Venusiam pari modo interfecit . Longum est omnia enumerare proelia . Quare hoc unum satis erit dictum , ex quo intellegi possit , quantus ille fuerit : quamdiu in Italia fuit , nemo ei in acie restitit , nemo adversus eum post Cannensem pugnam in campo castra posuit .
With
this
fight
having
been
fought
he
has
set
out
to
Rome
with
no
one
resisting
.
He
has
delayed
in
the
mountains
near
the
city
.
When
he
had
camps
there
for
some
days
and
came
back
to
Capua
,
Quintus
Fabius
Maximus
,
the
Roman
dictator
,
in
the
field
of
that
place
he
threw
himself
against
him
.
This
guy
having
been
closed
by
the
narrowness
of
the
places
and
at
night
he
set
free
himself
without
any
damages
to
his
own
army
;
Fabius
,
the
most
experienced
commander
,
he
deceived
.
And
for
with
the
night
having
drawn
in
he
lit
on
fire
the
bundle
of
sticks
having
been
tied
in
the
horn
of
the
bull
and
he
sent
forth
a
great
many
kinds
having
wandered
around
.
With
the
sudden
sight
having
been
thrown
in
he
struck
so
much
terror
to
the
Roman
army
,
that
no
one
has
dared
to
go
out
beyond
the
walls
.
After this thing having been done not for so many days , he routed M . Minucius Rufus , the master of the horse with equal power to the dictator , having been led in by a trick into battle . He , being away in Lucanis , destroyed Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , who was also a consul , having been led into traps . He killed M . Claudius Marcellus , who was consul 5 times , in an equal way at Venusia . It would be long to count all of the battles . Because of this it would be enough to say this thing , out of which it was able to be understood , how much that he was : for as long as he was in Italy , no one resisted him at the battle line , no one faced him in the field after the Battle of Cannae .
After this thing having been done not for so many days , he routed M . Minucius Rufus , the master of the horse with equal power to the dictator , having been led in by a trick into battle . He , being away in Lucanis , destroyed Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , who was also a consul , having been led into traps . He killed M . Claudius Marcellus , who was consul 5 times , in an equal way at Venusia . It would be long to count all of the battles . Because of this it would be enough to say this thing , out of which it was able to be understood , how much that he was : for as long as he was in Italy , no one resisted him at the battle line , no one faced him in the field after the Battle of Cannae .