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Non est extinctus pro re publica superior Scipio Africanus, sed admirabili uirtute ne res publica extingueretur prouidit: siquidem cum adflicta Cannensi clade urbs nostra nihil aliud quam praeda uictoris esse Hannibalis uideretur, ideoque reliquiae prostrati exercitus deserendae Italiae auctore Q. Metello consilium agitarent, tribunus militum admodum iuuenis stricto gladio mortem unicuique minitando iurare omnes numquam se relicturos patriam coegit pietatemque non solum ipse plenissimam exhibuit, sed etiam ex pectoribus aliorum abeuntem reuocauit.

Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.

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