ita monitus M. Marcellus ne quid temere conaretur, insequenti nocte speculandi gratia cum paucis egredi ausus, a multitudine hostium in Bruttiis circumventus aeque magnum dolorem ac detrimentum patriae interitu suo attulit.
Thus admonished to avoid rash enterprise, on the following night M. Marcellus ventured out with a few companions to reconnoitre. Surrounded by a large number of enemies, in the country of the Bruttii, he perished, bringing his country grief and loss in equal measure.
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