Tum contra consul: caesis ductoribus olim magnanimis gemino leto, cum tota subisset Sidonium possessa iugum Tartessia tellus, non Fabio, non, quis eadem est sententia cordi, quoquam ad opem verso, fateor, primoribus annis excepi nubem belli solusque ruenti obieci caelo caput atque in me omnia verti.
Then Scipio answered him: In the hour when two noble generals fell together and the whole of Spain was occupied by Carthage and had come under her yoke, neither Fabius nor any one of those who share his opinions came to the rescue then. I faced that war-cloud, young as I was'I admit it'and I alone exposed my life when heaven was falling, and drew all the danger upon myself.
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