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... dimicandi moram facturus; ceterum ubi deserta munimenta nec facile...

"ubi deserta munimenta": Polybius records Scipio's astonishment: Now the Roman Consul Publius arrived at the crossing of the river three days after the departure of the Carthaginians, and finding the enemy gone was in the highest degree astonished, 2 as he had been convinced that they would never venture to march on Italy by this route owing to the number and unruly character of the native inhabitants. III.49.1