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<head lang="la">VII. Res Hispaniae</head><w lemma="%2Asu%5Cn">Σὺν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="e%29pidedeme%2Fnois">ἐπιδεδεμένοις</w> <w lemma="forti%2Fois">φορτίοις</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="kanqh%2Flia">κανθήλια</w> <w lemma="labo%2Fntas">λαβόντας</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="o%29%2Fpisqen">ὄπισθεν</w> <w lemma="proqe%2Fsqai">προθέσθαι</w> <w lemma="pro%5C">πρὸ</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3Dn">αὑτῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29ke%2Fleuse">ἐκέλευσε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="pezou%2Fs">πεζούς</w>. <w lemma="ou%28%3D">οὗ</w> <w lemma="genome%2Fnou">γενομένου</w> <w lemma="sune%2Fbh">συνέβη</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="xa%2Frakas">χάρακας</w> <w lemma="a%29sfale%2Fstaton">ἀσφαλέστατον</w> <w lemma="gene%2Fsqai">γενέσθαι</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fblhma">πρόβλημα</w>. [<foreign lang="la">Suidas v.</foreign><w lemma="%2Akanqh%2Flios">Κανθήλιος</w>. <foreign lang="la">v. Liv. XXV, 36, 7.</foreign>]
<head>Beasts of Burden Used as a Defensive Wall</head>He gave orders that the infantry should take the beasts of burden along with the baggage tied upon them from the rear and range them in front of themselves. This produced a defence of greater security than any palisade.<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note59">This fragment is supposed, by comparison with<bibl n="Liv. 25.36" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 25, 36</bibl>, to belong to the account of the fall of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Spain&groupId=983&placeId=1735">Spain</a>, B. C. 212.</note>. . .So entirely unable are the majority of mankind to submit to that lightest of all burdens—-silence. . . .Anything in the future seems preferable to what exists in the present. . . .<pb />

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<p rend="Plain Text">Fragment on Spanish affairs</p> <p rend="Plain Text">For this passage, from Suidas, cf. Livy, xxv. 36. 7. It describes measures taken by Cn. Scipio to defend his forces, trapped on an eminence. For the death of the two Scipios see Livy, xxv. 32. 1–36. 16, dating to 211 (see above, p. 8); hence it will have been related in ix, and the present extract should precede ix. 11.</p>
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<p rend="Plain Text">Fragments of uncertain position</p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ πάντας χάρακας ἀσφαλέστατον</w>:</emph> Livy, xxv. 36. 7, 'ut imaginem ualli obicerent', is less sanguine. <milestone unit="page" n="114">[114]</milestone> </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ἄγκαρα</w>:</emph> no Italian town of this name is known; hence the context seems beyond recapture. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">λοιπὸν . . . ὑπομένειν</w>:</emph> the context is unknown, for this fragment from the excerpts on virtue and vice may be from vii as easily as from the early part of viii (see above, p. 8). <milestone unit="page" n="115">[115]</milestone> </p>

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