Cuius exemplum superior Africanus secutus, cum onustam multis et illustribus Carthaginiensium viris navem in suam potestatem redegisset, inviolatam dimisit, quia se legatos ad eum missos dicebant, tametsi manifestum erat illos vitandi praesentis periculi gratia falsum legationis nomen amplecti ut Romani imperatoris potius decepta fides quam frustra implorata iudicaretur.
Following its example the elder Africanus dismissed unharmed many distinguished Carthaginians who were on board a ship which he had got into his power, because they said they had been sent to him as envoys; this, although it was obvious that they were embracing the false name of an embassy to avoid the danger they were in. He preferred it thought that the faith of a Roman general had been imposed upon rather than that it had been appealed to in vain.
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