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15. postero die ubi signa coeperunt canere, primi omnium parati instructique ad praetorium conveniunt. sole orto Gracchus in aciem copias educit; nec hostes moram dimicandi fecerunt. [2] decem1 septem milia peditum erant, maxima ex parte Bruttii ac Lucani, equites mille ducenti, inter quos pauci admodum Italici, ceteri Numidae fere [p. 220] omnes Maurique. [3] pugnatum est et acriter et diu;2 quattuor horis neutro inclinata est pugna. nec alia magis Romanum impediebat res quam capita hostium pretia libertatis facta; [4] nam ut quisque hostem inpigre occiderat, primum capite aegre inter turbam tumultumque abscidendo terebat tempus; deinde occupata dextra tenendo caput fortissimus quisque pugnator esse desierat, segnibus ac timidis tradita pugna erat. [5] quod ubi tribuni militum Graccho nuntiaverunt, neminem stantem iam vulnerari hostem, carnificari iacentes, et in dextris militum pro gladiis humana capita esse, signum dari propere iussit, proicerent capita invaderentque hostem: [6] claram satis et insignem virtutem esse nec dubiam libertatem futuram strenuis viris. tum redintegrata pugna est, et eques etiam in hostes emissus. [7] quibus cum inpigre Numidae occurrissent,3 nec segnior equitum quam peditum pugna esset, iterum in dubium adducta res. cum utrimque duces, Romanus Bruttium Lucanumque totiens a maioribus suis victos subactosque, Poenus mancipia Romana et ex ergastulo militem verbis obtereret, [8?] postremo pronuntiat Gracchus esse nihil quod de libertate sperarent, nisi eo die fusi fugatique hostes essent.

1 decem P(2): C2a add et.

2 A.U.C. 540

3 occurrissent xz: concurrissent P(1).

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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