is captarum Syracusarum et Hannibalis ante Nolana moenia a se primum fugere coacti gloria inflammatus, cum summo studio niteretur ut Poenorum exercitum aut in Italia prosterneret aut Italia pelleret, sollemnique sacrificio voluntates deorum exploraret, quae prima hostia ante foculum cecidit, eius iocur sine capite inventum est, proxima caput iocineris duplex habuit.
Fired by the glory of Syracuse captured and Hannibal for the first time routed by him before the walls of Nola, he strove his hardest either to lay low the Carthaginian army in Italy or to drive it out of Italy. As he enquired the will of the gods in a ceremonial sacrifice, the liver of the first victim to fall before the hearth was found to be headless and the second had a double-headed liver.
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