Ut vero affusis puppes procedere ventis, et sensim coepere procul subsidere montes, nullaque iam Hesperia et nusquam iam Daunia tellus, haec secum infrendens: mentisne ego compos et hoc nunc indignus reditu, qui memet finibus umquam amorim Ausoniae? flagrasset subdita taedis Carthago, et potius cecidisset nomen Elissae.
But when the winds rose and the ships began to move forward, while the hills grew less and less in the distance, till Italy disappeared and the land of Daunus was no longer visible, Hannibal thought thus as he gnashed his teeth: Am I mad? Do not I deserve to return thus, as a punishment for ever leaving Italy? Better that Carthage had been burned with fire, and the name of Elissaa been blotted out for ever!
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