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Theseus posteaquam Cretam venit , ab Ariadne , Minois filia , est adamatus adeo , ut fratrem proderet et hospitem servaret ; ea enim Theseo monstravit labyrinthi exitum , quo Theseus cum introisset et Minotaurum interfecisset , Ariadnes monitu licium revolvendo foras est egressus eamque , quod fidem ei dederat , in coniugio secum habiturus avexit .


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Theseus in insula Dia tempestate retentus cogitans , si Ariadnen in patriam portasset , sibi opprobrium futurum , itaque in insula Dia dormientem reliquit ; quam Liber amans inde sibi in coniugium abduxit . Theseus autem cum navigaret , oblitus est vela atra mutare , itaque Aegeus pater eius , credens Theseum a Minotauro esse consumptum , in mare se praecipitavit , ex quo Aegeum pelagus est dictum . Ariadnes autem sororem Phaedram Theseus duxit in coniugium .

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Forte dominus Capuae exierat ad scruta scita expedienda . Nactus ego occasionem persuadeo hospitem nostrum , ut mecum ad quintum miliarium veniat . Erat autem miles , fortis tanquam Orcus . Apoculamus nos circa gallicinia ; luna lucebat tanquam meridie . Venimus inter monimenta : homo meus coepit ad stelas facere ; sedeo ego cantabundus et stelas numero . Deinde ut respexi ad comitem , ille exuit se et omnia vestimenta secundum viam posuit . Mihi anima in naso esse ; stabam tanquam mortuus . At ille circumminxit vestimenta sua , et subito lupus factus est . Nolite me iocari putare ; ut mentiar , nullius patrimonium tanti facio .

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' Pater meus ' inquit ' Hamilcar puerulo me , utpote non amplius VIIII annos nato , in Hispaniam imperator proficiscens Carthagine , Iovi optimo maximo hostias immolavit . Quae divina res dum conficiebatur , quaesivit a me , vellemne secum in castra proficisci . Id cum libenter accepissem atque ab eo petere coepissem , ne dubitaret ducere , tum ille ' Faciam ' , inquit ' si mihi fidem , quam postulo , dederis . ' Simul me ad aram adduxit , apud quam sacrificare instituerat , eamque ceteris remotis tenentem iurare iussit numquam me in amicitia cum Romanis fore . Id ego ius iurandum patri datum usque ad hanc aetatem conservavi .

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With this fight having been fought , he set out for Roman with no one resisting . He has been delayed in the mountains close to the city . When he had held camp there for so many days and was being turned back to Capua , Quintus Fabius Maximus , the Roman dictator , threw himself against him in the Falerian field . He , having been closed off by the narrowness of the terrain , extracted himself at night without any harm of his army , and he tricked Fabius , the cleverest commander . For , with night having been led in , he lit on bundles of sticks , having been tied on the horns of cattle , on fire , and sent down a great multitude having been scattered . With this sudden sight having been thrown in , he threw in such great terror to the army of the Romans with the result that no one dared to go outside of the intrenchment . After this thing having been done , in not so many days , he routed Marcus Minucius Rufus , the commander of Master of the Horse with equal power , having been led into a battle by a trick . He killed Marcus Claudius Marcellus , consul for the fifth time , at Venusia in a similar way . It would take a long time to count his battles . For this reason , this alone will be enough to have been said , from what is able to be known , about how great he was : As long as he was in Italy , no one resisted him in the battle lines , no one set up camps in the battle field against him after the Battle of Cannae .