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21. C. Iunius Bubulcus et Q. Aemilius Barbula consules exitu anni non consulibus ab se creatis, Sp. Nautio et M. Popilio, ceterum dictatori L. Aemilio legiones tradiderant;
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is cum L. Fuluio magistro equitum Saticulam oppugnare adortus rebellandi causam Samnitibus dedit.
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duplex inde terror inlatus Romanis: hinc Samnis magno exercitu coacto ad eximendos obsidione socios haud procul castris Romanorum castra posuit; hinc Saticulani magno cum tumultu patefactis repente portis in stationes hostium incurrerunt.
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inde pars utraque, spe alieni magis auxilii quam uiribus freta suis, iusto mox proelio inito Romanos urgent et quamquam anceps dimicatio erat, tamen utrimque tutam aciem dictator habuit, quia et locum haud facilem ad circumueniendum cepit et diuersa statuit signa.
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[p. 9039]infestior tamen in erumpentes incessit nec magno certamine intra moenia compulit; tum totam aciem in Samnites obuertit.
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ibi plus certaminis fuit; uictoria sicut sera ita nec dubia nec uaria fuit. fusi in castra Samnites exstinctis nocte ignibus tacito agmine abeunt et spe abiecta Saticulae tuendae Plisticam ipsi, socios Romanorum, ut parem dolorem hosti redderent, circumsidunt.
Livy. Charles Flamstead Walters. Robert Seymour Conway. Ab urbe condita. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1919. 2.
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