The dictator formed a completely fortified camp in the territory of Larinum, and being recalled thence to Rome on account of some sacred rites, he not only urged the master of the horse, in virtue of his authority, but with advice and almost with prayers, that he would trust rather to prudence than fortune; and imitate him as a general rather than Sempronius and Flaminius; that he would not suppose that nothing had been achieved by having worn out nearly the whole summer in baffling the enemy; that physicians too sometimes gained more by rest than by motion and action.

That it was no small thing to have ceased to be conquered by an enemy so often victorious, and to have taken breath after successive disasters.

Having thus unavailingly admonished the master of the horse, he set out for Rome.
19.

In the beginning of the summer in which these events occurred, the war commenced by land and sea in Spain also.

To the number of ships which he had received from his brother, equipped and ready for action, Hasdrubal added ten.