hos dum sollicitat donis et inania corda ac fluxam morum gentem fovet armaque iungit, iam consul, volucri pervectus litora classe, Scipio Phocaicis sese referebat ab oris; ingentesque duces, pelagi terraeque laborem diversum emensos, propiora pericula vallo iungebant, magnaeque aderant primordia cladis.
But, while he was tempting the Gauls with bribes, working on the folly and fickleness of that people, and making an alliance with them, the consul Scipio was returning from the land of the Phocaeans,b sailing with speed along the coast. Each mighty chief had completed his hard task, one on land and the other by sea; and now a more instant danger brought their camps together; and the beginnings of a great disaster were present.
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