Modo quis beluas offerentes moenium speciem, quis Hydaspem amnem, quis cetera auditu maiora quam veriora sustineri posse credebat? Olim, hercules, fugissemus ex Asia si nos fabulae debellare potuissent.
But now, who could believe that beasts looking like walls, that the river Hydaspes, that other obstacles greater to hear of than in reality, could be surmounted? Long ago, by Heaven! we should have fled from Asia if mere tales could have vanquished us.
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