Fabius autem Maximus, cui non dimicare vincere fuit, cum praecipuae fortitudinis Nolanum peditem dubia fide suspectum et strenuae operae Lucanum equitem amore scorti deperditum in castris haberet, ut utroque potius bono milite uteretur quam in utrumque animadverteret, alteri suspicionem suam dissimulavit, in altero disciplinam paululum a recto tenore deflexit: namque illum plene pro tribunali laudando omnique genere honoris prosequendo animum suum a Poenis ad Romanos coegit revocare, et hunc clam meretricem redimere passus paratissimum pro nobis <acriorem> excussioremque reddidit.
Fabius Maximus, for whom not to fight was to win, had in his army an infantryman from Nola, outstandingly brave but suspected of doubtful loyalty, and a Lucanian trooper, smart in the service but desperately in love with a whore. Wishing to use both as good soldiers rather than punish them, he disguised his suspicions of the one and bent discipline a little from the straight in the case of the other. By generously praising the former from his tribunal and giving him all manner of decorations he made him turn his mind away from the Carthaginians back to the Romans. The latter he allowed to buy the girl secretly out of prostitution and thus, very ready as he already was to fight for us, made him all the keener and livelier.
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