at Libyci ducis ut fulserunt signa per agros, desolata metu cuncta, et suadente pavore vallo se clausere simul trepidique salutis expectant ipsis metuentes moenibus hostem.
When Hannibals dreaded standards gleamed over the land, the country became a desert: driven by fear men shut themselves up behind fortifications and awaited the enemy, trembling for their lives and distrusting even their walls.
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