25.
Then in regard to the Tarentines there
[2??]
was very heated discussion in the
[3??]
senate in the presence of Fabius,
[4??]
who himself defended the men
[5??]
whom he had captured by force, whereas others were hostile
[6??]
and many put them
[7??]
upon the same level of guilt and punishment as the Capuans.
[8]
A decree of the senate was
[9??]
adopted on motion of Manius
[10??]
Acilius, that the town should be guarded by a
[11??]
garrison and all
[12??]
the Tarentines confined within the walls;1
1 As [13] at Capua, the citizens [14??] were to be treated as political prisoners;
Livy. Books XXVI-XXVII With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1943: no copyright notice.
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