rumore autem de senatus mitiore sententia orto, ne debitam poenam scelerati effugerent, nocte admisso equo Teanum contendit, interfectisque qui ibi adservabantur e vestigio Cales transgressus est, perseverantiae suae opus exsecut<ur>us, et iam deligatis ad palum hostibus litteras a patribus conscriptis nequiquam salutares Campanis accepit: in sinistra enim eas manu, sicut erant traditae, reposuit ac iusso lictore lege agere tum demum aperuit, postquam illis obtemperari non poterat.
But a rumour arose about a more lenient decision by the senate. On this, lest the criminals escape due punishment, Fulvius took horse at night and galloped to Teanum. When those in custody there had been killed, he immediately passed on to Cales to accomplish the task on which his mind was set. The enemies had already been bound to the stake when he received a despatch from the Conscript Fathers sparing the Campanians'but in vain. For Fulvius put it by in his left hand as it had been delivered and ordered the lictor to do his duty, opening it only after it could no longer be complied with.
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