certamine tanto conseruere acies, veluti circumdata vallo Roma foret; clamatque super: tot milia, gentes inter tela satae, iam capto stamus in hoste? anne pudet coepti? pudet ominis?
They joined battle with as much fierceness as if Rome were besieged. Hannibal also shouted: So many thousand men, people born in the midst of arms'why do we stand still before an enemy we have already conquered? Are we ashamed of our enterprise, or ashamed of our beginning?
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