heu priscis numen populis, at nomine solo in terris iam nota Fides! stat dura iuventus ereptamque fugam et claudi videt aggere muros, sed dignam Ausonia mortem putat esse Sagunto, servata cecidisse fide.
Alas for Loyalty, worshipped by former ages but now known on earth by name only! The hardy citizens stand there, seeing escape cut off and their walls enclosed by a mound; but they think it a death worthy of Italy, for Saguntum to fall with her loyalty preserved.
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