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Hannibal kept the Tarentines in subjection by a garrison-all the city except the acropolis. Fabius drew him away a very long distance by a trick, and captured and sacked the city. When his secretary asked him what decision he had reached in regard to the sacred images, he said, ‘Let us leave behind for the Tarentines their angered gods.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Fabius Maximus, chap. xxii. (187 A-C); Livy, xxvii. 16.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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