si bello obsistis nec te victoribus offers, quantum heu, Carthago, donat tibi sanguinis Hannon! Gestar ad haec (namque impatiens asperque coquebat iamdudum immites iras mediamque loquentis bis conatus erat turbando abrumpere vocem): concilione, inquit, Libyae Tyrioque senatu, pro superi! Ausonius miles sedet? armaque tantum haud dum sumpta viro? nam cetera non latet hostis.
From how much bloodshed does Hanno save Carthage, if she sets her face against war and does not wantonly confront the conquerors! To this speech Gestar replied. Harsh and impatient, he had long been nursing bitter wrath, and twice had he tried to raise a disturbance and silence Hanno in the middle of his speech. Ye gods! he cried: is this a Roman soldier, seated in the council of Libya and the Carthaginian senate? Arms he has not yet taken up; but in all else the foeman stands declared before us.
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