Quem secundi etiam Punici belli tempore exhibuit: cum enim a Fulvio Capua obsideretur ac duae Campanae mulieres benivolentiam erga Romanos dimittere ex animis noluissent, Vestia Oppia mater familiae et Cluvia Facula meretrix, quarum altera cotidie pro salute exercitus nostri sacrificavit, altera captis militibus Romanorum alimenta subministrare non destitit, urbe illa oppressa senatus iis et libertatem et bona restituit, et si quid amplius praemii petissent, libenter se daturum adseveravit.
Such also it showed at the time of the Second Punic War. When Fulvius was besieging Capua, two women of Campania refused to dismiss from their minds their good will toward the Romans, Vestia Oppia, a housewife, and Cluvia Facula, a prostitute. The former sacrificed every day for the safety of our army, the latter never ceased to slip food to captured Roman soldiers. When the city was crushed, the senate restored their freedom and property and gave assurance that if they sought any further reward, it would gladly be granted.
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