Cui facto par illa fiducia, quod, postquam Africam attigit, speculatores Hannibalis in castris deprehensos et ad se perductos nec supplicio adfecit nec de consiliis ac viribus Poenorum percontatus est, sed circa omnes manipulos diligentissime ducendos curavit, interrogatosque an satis ea considerassent quae speculari iussi erant, prandio dato ipsis iumentisque eorum, incolumes dimisit.
Equal to this action was the confidence exhibited in the following. After he landed on the coast of Africa, spies of Hannibal were caught in his camp and brought before him. He neither punished them nor interrogated them as to the plans and forces of the Carthaginians but had them led meticulously around all his units. He then enquired whether they had sufficiently considered the items which they had been ordered to spy out, gave them and their pack animals a meal, and dismissed them unharmed.
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