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Ne Samnites quidem paruas poenas consimilis erroris pependerunt, quod Herenni Ponti salutare consilium neglexerant. qui auctoritate et prudentia ceteros praestans ab exercitu et duce eius filio suo consultus quidnam fieri de legionibus Romanis apud furcas Caudinas inclusis deberet, inuiolatas dimittendas respondit. postero die eadem de re interrogatus deleri eas oportere dixit, ut aut maximo beneficio gratia hostium emereretur aut grauissima iactura uires confringerentur. sed inprouida temeritas uictorum, dum utramque partem spernit utilitatis, sub iugum missas in perniciem suam accendit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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