mens abiit, puduitque fugae: tum visa cremari Roma viro, tunc ad portas iam stare cruentus Hannibal; Aetoli tum primum ante ora fuere sorbentes Latium campi.
Lentulus changed his purpose and felt ashamed of flight. It seemed to him that he saw Rome burning now, and blood-stained Hannibal now standing at her gates; now for the first time he saw before him the Aetolian plain, the grave of Italy.
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