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... ac vis [si] ingrueret, provisis exemplis Caudinae Numantinaeque [pacis;...

provisis exemplis Caudinae Numantinaeque: abl. abs. expressing the thoughts of the soldiers about other Roman armies that had surrendered; the first was at the Caudine Forks in 322 B.C, the second at Numantia in Spain in 137 B.C.