His super infrendens sic secum Oenotria Tellus: tantone, heu superi! spernor contempta furore Sidoniae gentis, quae quondam sceptra timentem nati Saturnum nostris considere in oris et regnare dedi? decima haec iam vertitur aestas, ex quo proterimur; iuvenis, cui sola supersunt in superos bella, extremo de litore rapta intulit arma mihi temeratisque Alpibus ardens in nostros descendit agros.
In fierce anger at these things the Land of Italy spoke thus to herself: Ye gods, am I so utterly despised by the madness of Carthage'I, who when Saturn feared the sceptre of his son, suffered him to settle within my borders and to reign there?b The tenth year is passing since Hannibal began to tread me under foot; that youth, who has only the gods still to defy, hurried an army against me from the ends of the earth; he made light of the Alps and came down in fury upon my fields.
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