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“At this point, although the battle was not at all the kind to be bitter and lasting, Fortune intervened so as to bring about remarkable losses on both sides, including the glorious deaths of the commanders themselves. ”

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“but because the attack was made in the absence of the commanders, there was no limit to the bloodshed, and the Ausonian people were wiped out as if they had been fighting a war to the death, although it was not even quite certain that they were guilty of revolt.”

--- Titus Livy. “Rome and Italy.”