of whose hands
the consul cut off. And he would have agreed to a complete truce, if
their weapons had not been demanded in addition: with this condition
neither he nor the rest of the throng would comply.[43] (Ursinus, p.
383.)

[Footnote 43: Adopting Reiske's conjecture [Greek: hypomeinai epsesen]
in place of the MS. [Greek: hypomeinai epoieses].]

_(BOOK 23, BOISSEVAIN.)_

[Sidenote: FRAG. LXXIX] [Sidenote: B.C. 136 (_a.u._ 618)] (Par.) The
Romans received the Numantine ambassadors on their arrival outside the
walls, to the end that their reception might not seem to imply a
ratification of the truce. However, they sent gifts of friendship
notwithstanding, not wishing to deprive them of the hope of possibly
coming to terms. Mancinus and his followers told of the necessity of
the compact made and the number of the saved, and stated that they
still held all of their former possessions in Spain. They besought
their countrymen to consider the question not in the light of their
present immunity, but with reference to the danger that then
encompassed the soldiers, and to think not what ought to have been
done, but what might have been the outcome. The Numantini brought
forward many statements about their previous good-will toward the
Romans and considerable about the latter's subsequent injustice,
by reason of which they had been forced into the war, and the
perjury of Pompeius: and they asked for considerate treatment in
return for the preservation of Mancinus and the rest. But the
Romans both dissolved the truce and decided that Mancinus should
be given up to the Numantini. (Ursinus, p. 383.)

[Sidenote: FRAG. LXXX] (Par.) Claudius[44] through his harshness would
have committed many outrageous acts, had he not been restrained by his
colleague Quintus.[45] The latter, who was amiable and possessed
exactly the opposite temperament, did not oppose him with anger in any
matter and, indeed, occasionally yielded to him, and by gentle
behavior so manipulated him that he found very few opportunities for
irritation. (Valesius, p. 621.)

[Footnote 44: These are the censors for the year B.C. 136, Ap.
Claudius Pulcher and Q. Fulvius Nobilior.]

[Footnote 45: See note, page 335.]

[Sidenote: FRAG. LXXXI] (Par.) Furius[46] led out among his lieutenants
both Pompeius and Metellus though they were hostile both to him and to
each other; for, expecting to achieve some great success, he wished to
have in them sure witnesses to h