Idemque Iuppiter postea praestantissimorum ducum nostrorum sagacibus consiliis propitius aspiravit: nam cum alterum Italiae latus Hannibal laceraret, alterum invasisset Hasdrubal, ne duorum fratrum iunctae copiae intolerabili onere fessas simul nostras urguerent, hinc Claudii Neronis vegetum consilium, illinc Livii Salinatoris inclita providentia effecit: Nero enim, compresso a se in Lucanis Hannibale, praesentiam suam, quoniam ita ratio belli desiderabat, mentitus hosti, ad opem collegae ferendam per longum iter celeritate mira tetendit.
The same Jupiter later propitiously favoured the sagacious counsels of our foremost generals. Hannibal was tearing at one side of Italy, Hasdrubal had invaded the other. On one the vigorous policy of Claudius Nero, on the other the celebrated foresight of Livius Salinator prevented the junction of the forces of the two brothers, which together would have placed an intolerable load on Romes weary back. Nero had Hannibal cooped up in Lucania. Falsely pretending to the enemy that he was on the spot, he marched with extraordinary speed over the long route to bring aid to his colleague, since that was what wars logic called for.
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