[p. 7] Then one of the soldiers who were on trial before him asked in the usual way on what day and in what place he bade them give bail for their appearance. Then Scipio, stretching forth his hand towards the very citadel of the town which he was besieging, said: “Appear the day after to-morrow in yonder place.” And so it happened; on the third day, the day on which he had ordered them to appear, the town was captured, and on that same day he held court in the citadel of the place.
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[2arg] Of a disgraceful blunder of Caesellius Vindex, which we find in his work entitled Archaic Terms.IN those highly celebrated notes of Caesellius Vindex On Archaic Terms we find a shameful oversight, although in fact the man is seldom caught napping. This error has escaped the notice of many, in spite of their diligent search for opportunities to find fault with Caesellius, even through misrepresentation. Now, Caesellius wrote that Quintus Ennius, in the thirteenth book of his Annals, used cor in the masculine gender. I add Caesellius' own words: “Ennius used cor, like many other words, in the masculine gender; for in Annals xiii. he wrote quem cor.” He then quoted two verses of Ennius 1 :
While Hannibal, of bold breast, did me exhort
Not to make war, what heart thought he was mine?
