Sunt et illa speciosa fiduciae publicae exempla: nam cum eo bello quod adversus Pyrrhum gerebatur Carthaginienses centum ac triginta navium classem in praesidium Romanis Ostiam ultro misissent, senatui placuit legatos ad ducem eorum ire, qui dicerent populum Romanum bella suscipere solere quae suo milite gerere posset: proinde classem Carthaginem reducerent.
There are also some handsome examples of public confidence. In the war against Pyrrhus the Carthaginians of their own volition sent a fleet of a hundred and thirty ships to Ostia in support of Rome. The senate decided that envoys should go to their commander and tell him that the Roman people was accustomed to undertake wars that it could fight with its own soldiers; so let them take their fleet back to Carthage.
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