Poenus ab excelso rapidos decurrere vallo ut vidit, tremuere irae, ceciditque repente cum gemitu spes haud dubiae praesumpta ruinae; quippe aciem denso circumvallaverat orbe, hausurus clausos coniectis undique telis.
When Hannibal saw the Romans rushing down from their high rampart, his ardour was shaken: he groaned, and his sanguine hopes of a crushing victory sank in a moment. For he had surrounded the army of Minucius with a serried ring of soldiers and hoped to destroy them by a shower of missiles from every side.
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