Prima instaurantem sensit certamina mitis Parthenope, non dives opum, non spreta vigoris; sed portus traxere ducem secura volentem aequora, quae peteret veniens Carthagine puppis.
When Hannibal renewed the strife, mild Parthenopea was the first to feel it, not because the city was wealthy or because he despised its courage; but the harbour was the attraction: he wanted safe anchorage for vessels coming from Carthage.
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