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47. haec ubi Asello sunt nuntiata in castra, id modo moratus ut consulem percunctaretur liceretne extra ordinem in provocantem hostem pugnare, [p. 160] permissu eius arma extemplo cepit, [2] provectusque1 ante stationes equo Tauream nomine compellavit congredique ubi vellet iussit. [3] iam2 Romani ad spectaculum pugnae eius frequentes exierant,et Campani non vallum modo castrorum sed moenia etiam urbis prospectantes repleverant.3 [4] cum iam ante ferocibus dictis rem nobilitassent, infestis hastis concitarunt equos; dein libero spatio inter se ludificantes sine vulnere pugnam extrahebant.4 [5] tum Campanus Romano “equorum” inquit “hoc non equitum erit certamen, nisi e campo in cavam hanc viam demittimus equos. ibi nullo ad evagandum spatio comminus conserentur manus.” [6] dicto prope citius equum in viam Claudius deiecit.5 Taurea verbis ferocior quam re “minime sis” inquit “cantherium in fossam”; quae vox in rusticum inde proverbium prodita est. [7] Claudius, cum ea via6 longe perequitasset,7 nullo obvio hoste in campum rursus evectus, increpans ignaviam hostis, cum magno gaudio et gratulatione victor in castra redit. [8] huic pugnae equestri rem—quam vera sit,8 communis existimatio est—mirabilem certe adiciunt quidam annales: cum refugientem ad urbem Tauream Claudius sequeretur, patenti hostium porta9 invectum per alteram, stupentibus miraculo hostibus, intactum evasisse.

[p. 162]

1 A.U.C. 539

2 iam (13): hinc C4M1: in PCMF.

3 repleverant A.yz Madvig: -erunt P(1)F.

4 extrahebant P1?(1)F: extraherebant P: extrahere Gronovius.

5 deiecit A2Madvig: delegit PA?(2)F: egit A3x Aldus.

6 ea via perizonius, Madvig: exva P: ex via P2?(1)F: cava Madvig (later).

7 perequitasset, P(1)f add quia, P1? via.

8 quam vera sit Gronovius: quam vetatis P(4)F: quam etatis DA.

9 porta ingerslev: portae P(1)F.

Livy. Books XXIII-XXV With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940: no copyright notice.

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