Nunc age, quos clades insignis Iapyge campo verterit ad Libyam populos Sarranaque castra, expediam: stat nulla diu mortalibus usquam, Fortuna titubante, fides: adiungere dextras certavere palam rumpenti foedera Poeno, heu nimium faciles laesis diffidere rebus.
Next let me tell of the peoples who went over to the side of Libya and the camp of Hannibal after the signal victory on the plains of Apulia. Nowhere do men remain loyal for long when Fortune proves unstable. Too prone, alas, to distrust the unfortunate, the states vied with one another in open offers of friendship to faithless Carthage.
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