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The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six

BOOK XXIII
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His statue placed in the forum at Praeneste, clad in a coat of mail, with a gown on, and with the head covered, formed an evidence of this account; as did also three images with this legend inscribed on a brazen plate, "Manicius vowed these in behalf of the soldiers who were in the garrison at Casilinum." The same legend was inscribed under three images placed in the temple of Fortune.
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The town of Casilinum was restored to the Campanians, strengthened by a garrison of seven hundred soldiers from the army of Hannibal, lest on the departure of the Carthaginian from it, the Romans should assault it.

To the Praenestine soldiers the Roman senate voted double pay and exemption from military service for five years.

On being offered the freedom of the state, in consideration of their valor, they would not make the exchange.

The account of the fate of the Perusians is less clear, as no light is thrown upon it by any monument of their own, or any decree of the Romans.


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