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Post duorum in Hispania Scipionum totidemque Romani sanguinis exercituum miserabilem stragem Saguntini uictricibus Hannibalis armis intra moenia urbis suae conpulsi, cum vim Punicam ulterius nequirent arcere, collatis in forum quae unicuique erant carissima atque undique circumdatis accensisque ignis nutrimentis, ne a societate nostra desciscerent, publico et communi rogo semet ipsi superiecerunt. crediderim tunc ipsam Fidem humana negotia speculantem maestum gessisse uultum, perseuerantissimum sui cultum iniquae fortunae iudicio tam acerbo exitu damnatum cernentem.
Idem praestando Petelini eundem laudis honorem meruerunt. ab Hannibale, quia deficere nostra amicitia noluerant, obsessi legatos ad senatum auxilium inplorantes miserunt. quibus propter recentem Cannensem cladem succurri non potuit. ceterum permissum est uti facerent quod utilissimum incolumitati ipsorum uideretur. liberum ergo erat Karthaginiensium gratiam amplecti. illi tamen feminis omnique aetate inbelli urbe egesta, quo diutius armati famem traherent, pertinacissime in muris constiterunt, expirauitque prius eorum tota ciuitas quam ulla ex parte respectum Romanae societatis deposuit. itaque Hannibali non Peteliam, sed fidum Peteliae sepulcrum capere contigit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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