Id etiam memoriae nos veteres docent in extremis casibus icta cum dedecore foedera, postquam partes verbis iuravere conceptis, repetitione bellorum ilico dissoluta, ut temporibus priscis apud Furcas Caudinas sub iugum legionibus missis in Samnio, et per Albinum in Numidia sceleste pace excogitata, et auctore turpiter pactionis festinatae Mancino dedito Numantinis.
In fact, the ancient records teach us that treaties made in extreme necessity with shameful conditions, even when both parties had taken oath in set terms, were at once annulled by a renewal of war. For example, when in days of old our legions were sent under the yoke at the Caudine Forks in Samnium; when Albinus in Numidia devised a shameful peace; and when Mancinus, the author of a disgracefully hasty treaty, was surrendered to the people of Numantia.
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