atque ita se in eius sinum infudit ut cum apud Cannas culpa sua vires populi Romani exhausisset, Paullum, qui proelium committere noluerat, occidere pateretur, illum in urbem incolumem reduceret.
To such effect did Varro thrust himself into her bosom that after he had drained the strength of the Roman people at Cannae through his own fault she allowed Paullus, who had been against joining battle, to die and brought Varro back to Rome safe and sound.
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