Sertorius vero, corporis robore atque animi consilio parem Naturae indulgentiam expertus, proscriptione Sullana dux Lusitanorum fieri coactus, cum eos oratione flectere non posset ne cum Romanis universa acie confligere vellent, vafro consilio ad suam sententiam perduxit: duos enim in conspectu eorum constituit equos, validissimum alterum, <alterum> infirmissimum, ac deinde validi caudam ab imbecillo sene paulatim carpi, infirmi a iuvene eximiarum virium universam convelli iussit.
Sertorius met with Natures indulgence equally in strength of body and shrewdness of mind. Forced by the Sullan proscription to become leader of the Lusitanians, he could not turn them by words from their desire to engage the Romans with their entire force, so he brought them to his opinion by a crafty device. He put two horses in front of them, one very powerful, the other very weak. Then he ordered the tail of the powerful horse to be plucked gradually by a feeble old man and the tail of the weak horse to be torn off whole by a young man of exceptional strength.
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