filium eius Pauli, qui ad Cannas quam tergiversanter perniciosam rei publicae pugnam inierat, tam fortiter in ea mortem obierat.
He was a son of the Paulusa who had met death at Cannae with a fortitude only equalled by his reluctance to begin a battle so disastrous to the republic.
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