namque ut compertum, qui Punica signa regebat feminea exuri flamma, tacitusque quietae exin virtuti placuit dolus, ire sorori (nam castris erat in Rutulis) germanus amatae cogitur et magnis muliebria vincere corda pollicitis, si reclusas tramittere portas concedat Libycus rector, votique potitus evicto Fabius Poeno circumdata telis incustodita penetravit moenia nocte.
When he learnt that the commander of the Punic garrison was passionately in love with a woman, Fabius, a brave man but a lover of peace, adopted a stratagem. The womans brother was present in the Roman camp; and he was compelled to go to his sister and promise a rich reward, irresistible to a womans heart, if the Punic commander would open the gates and suffer an entrance to be made. The Carthaginian gave way, and Fabius gained his object: he surrounded the town with his army and entered it in the night when no guard was kept.
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