Consimili animo, cum ei Hannibal sex milium Romanorum, quae capta in castris habebat, redimendorum potestatem fecisset, condicionem sprevit, memor tantam multitudinem armatorum iuvenum, si honeste mori voluisset, turpiter capi non potuisse.
With like spirit the senate spurned Hannibals offer when he gave them the opportunity to ransom six thousand Romans held prisoner in his camp, bearing in mind that so large a number of armed men of military age could not have been disgracefully taken prisoner if they had chosen to die honourably.
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