Illud quoque maioribus et consilio prudenter et exitu feliciter provisum: cum enim urbe capta Galli Capitolium obsiderent, solamque potiendi eius spem in fame eorum repositam animadverterent, perquam callido genere consilii unico perseverantiae irritamento victores spoliaverunt: panes enim iacere compluribus e locis coeperunt.
The following measure too of our ancestors was shrewd in the conception and fortunate in the result. After capturing the city the Gauls besieged the Capitol and saw that their only hope of taking it lay in starving out the defenders. So by a very cunning kind of ruse the latter stripped the victors of their only incentive to persevere: they started to throw loaves of bread from various points.
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