In eadem provincia Q. Fabius Maximus, ferocissimae gentis animos contundere et debilitare cupiens, mansuetissimum ingenium suum, ad tempus deposita clementia, saeviore uti severitate coegit: omnium enim qui ex praesidiis Romanorum ad hostes transfugerant, captique erant, manus abscidit, ut trunca prae se bracchia gestantes metum defectionis reliquis inicerent.
In the same province Q. Fabius Maximus, desiring to crush and enfeeble the spirit of a fierce people, forced his most merciful nature into severity somewhat cruel, laying clemency aside for the time being. For he cut off the hands of all who had deserted from the Roman ranks to the enemy and been taken prisoner, so that bearing their mutilated arms before them they should strike fear of defection into the rest.
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