История Рима от основания города

Книга XXIII, гл. 36

36. Grac­chus mi­nus cen­tum mi­li­tum iac­tu­ra castris hos­tium po­ti­tus Cu­mas se pro­pe­re re­ce­pit, ab Han­ni­ba­le me­tuens, qui su­per Ca­puam in Ti­fa­tis ha­be­bat castra. [2] Nec eum pro­vi­da fu­tu­ri fe­fel­lit opi­nio. Nam si­mul Ca­puam ea cla­des est nun­tia­ta, ra­tus Han­ni­bal ab re be­ne ges­ta in­so­len­ter lae­tum exer­ci­tum ti­ro­num, mag­na ex par­te ser­vo­rum, spo­lian­tem vic­tos prae­das­que agen­tem ad Ha­mas se in­ven­tu­rum, [3] ci­ta­tum ag­men prae­ter Ca­puam ra­pit, ob­vios­que ex fu­ga Cam­pa­no­rum da­to prae­si­dio Ca­puam du­ci, sau­cios ve­hi­cu­lis por­ta­ri iubet. [4] Ip­se Ha­mis va­cua ab hos­ti­bus castra nec quic­quam prae­ter re­cen­tis ves­ti­gia cae­dis stra­ta­que pas­sim cor­po­ra so­cio­rum in­ve­nit. [5] Auc­to­res erant qui­dam ut pro­ti­nus in­de Cu­mas du­ce­ret ur­bem­que op­pug­na­ret. [6] Id quam­quam haud mo­di­ce Han­ni­bal cu­pie­bat, ut, quia Nea­po­lim non po­tue­rat, Cu­mas sal­tem ma­ri­ti­mam ur­bem ha­be­ret, ta­men, quia prae­ter ar­ma ni­hil se­cum mi­les rap­tim ac­to ag­mi­ne ex­tu­le­rat, ret­ro in castra su­per Ti­fa­ta se re­ce­pit. [7] In­de fa­ti­ga­tus Cam­pa­no­rum pre­ci­bus se­quen­ti die cum om­ni ap­pa­ra­tu op­pug­nan­dae ur­bis Cu­mas re­dit, per­po­pu­la­to­que ag­ro Cu­ma­no mil­le pas­sus ab ur­be castra lo­cat, [8] cum Grac­chus ma­gis ve­re­cun­dia in ta­li ne­ces­si­ta­te de­se­ren­di so­cios inplo­ran­tis fi­dem suam po­pu­li­que Ro­ma­ni sub­sti­tis­set quam sa­tis fi­dens exer­ci­tui. [9] Nec al­ter con­sul Fa­bius, qui ad Ca­les castra ha­be­bat, Vol­tur­num flu­men tra­du­ce­re aude­bat exer­ci­tum, [10] oc­cu­pa­tus pri­mo aus­pi­ciis re­pe­ten­dis, dein pro­di­giis quae alia su­per alia nun­tia­ban­tur; ex­pian­ti­que ea haud fa­ci­le li­ta­ri ha­rus­pi­ces res­pon­de­bant.