#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 16/
The gentle dignity of the city [showed itself] when Varro, the consul, came back from his flight, as one would from a most ill-starred and disgraceful experience, in humility and dejection, the senate and the whole people met him at the gate with a welcome.
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Because Varro had not despaired after so great a misfortune, but was at hand to assume the reigns of government, and to employ the law and his fellow citizens in accomplishing the salvation which lay within their power.
[Section 18]