Liv. 22.30.1Signō datō conclāmātur inde, ut colligantur vāsa.The signal given, the cry then goes up to pack the baggage. Liv. 22.30.1Profectī et agmine incēdentēs ad dictātōris castra in admīrātiōnem et ipsum et omnēs, quī circā erant, convertērunt.Setting out and marching in column to the dictator's camp, they turned both him and all who were around him to astonishment. Liv. 22.30.2Ut cōnstitūta sunt ante tribūnal signa, prōgressus ante aliōs magister equitum, cum patrem Fabium appellāsset circumfūsōsque mīlitum eius tōtum agmen patrōnōs cōnsalūtāsset, "parentibus" inquit "meīs, dictātor, quibus tē modo nōmine, quod fandō possum, aequāvī, vītam tantum dēbeō, tibi cum meam salūtem tum omnium hōrum.When the standards had been set down before the tribunal, the master of the horse stepped forward in front of the others and, after calling Fabius father and greeting as patrons the whole column of his soldiers crowded around, said: 'To my parents, dictator, with whom I have just now made you equal in name, as far as speech allows, I owe only my life; to you I owe both my own preservation and that of all these men.
Liv. 22.30.4Itaque plēbeī scītum, quō onerātus sum magis quam honōrātus, prīmus antīque abrogōque et, quod tibi mihique exercitibusque hīs tuīs, servātō ac cōnservātōrī, sit fēlīx, sub imperium auspiciumque tuum redeō et signa haec legiōnēsque restituō.Therefore I am the first to repeal and annul the decree of the plebs by which I was burdened rather than honoured, and — may it be fortunate for you and me and for these armies of yours, the preserved and the preserver — I return under your command and auspices and restore to you these standards and legions. Liv. 22.30.5Tū, quaesō, plācātus mē magisterium equitum, hōs ōrdinēs suōs quemque tenēre iubeās."I beg you, be reconciled, and order me to keep the mastership of the horse, and these men each their own ranks.' Liv. 22.30.6Tum dextrae interiūnctae mīlitēsque contiōne dīmissā ab notīs ignōtīsque benignē atque hospitāliter invītātī, laetusque diēs ex admodum trīstī paulō ante ac prope exsecrābilī factus.Then right hands were clasped, and the soldiers, when the assembly had been dismissed, were invited kindly and hospitably by men they knew and men they did not, and a day that shortly before had been very sad and almost accursed was turned into a happy one.
Liv. 22.30.7Rōmae, ut est perlāta fāma reī gestae, Dein litterīs nōn magis ipsōrum imperātōrum quam volgō mīlitum ex utrōque exercitū adfirmāta, prō sē quisque Maximum laudibus ad caelum ferre.At Rome, when news of the event had arrived and then been confirmed by letters not only from the commanders themselves but from the ordinary soldiers of both armies, everyone for his part praised Maximus to the skies. Liv. 22.30.8Parī glōriā apud Hannibalem hostīsque Poenōs erat;His glory was equal among Hannibal and the Carthaginian enemy; Liv. 22.30.8ac tum dēmum sentīre cum Rōmānīs atque in Ītaliā bellum esse;and only then did they feel that the war was against Romans and in Italy; Liv. 22.30.9nam bienniō ante adeō et ducēs Rōmānōs et mīlitēs sprēverant, ut vix cum eādem gente bellum esse crēderent, cuius terribilem fāmam ā patribus accēpissent;for in the two previous years they had so despised both the Roman generals and the soldiers that they scarcely believed they were at war with the same people whose fearsome reputation they had received from their fathers; Liv. 22.30.10Hannibalemque ex aciē redeuntem dīxisse ferunt, tandem eam nūbem, quae sedēre in iugīs montium solita sit, cum procellā imbrem dedisse.and they say that Hannibal, returning from the battle, said that at last that cloud which used to sit on the mountain ridges had let fall its rain with a storm.