Sed nescio an Hannonis excellentissimae prudentiae consilium: Magone enim Cannensis pugnae exitum senatui Poenorum nuntiante, inque tanti successus fidem anulos aureos trium modiorum mensuram explentes fundente, qui interfectis nostris civibus detracti erant, quaesivit an aliquis sociorum post tantam cladem a Romanis defecisset, atque ut audivit neminem ad Hannibalem transisse, suasit protinus ut legati Romam, per quos de pace ageretur, mitterentur.
But perhaps Hannos advice was quite outstandingly shrewd. When Mago reported the result of the battle of Cannae to the Carthaginian senate and in proof of this great success poured out gold rings taken from the fingers of our slain countrymen to the quantity of three pecks, Hanno asked whether any of the Roman allies had defected after so great a disaster. Hearing that none had gone over to Hannibal, he urged that envoys be sent immediately to Rome to negotiate peace.
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