postquam nunc dicta senatus, nunc facta exposuit, tum veris falsa per artem Virrius admiscens cecinit fatale cruenti turbatis signum belli, furiata iuventus arma, arma Hannibalemque volunt; ruit undique  vulgus et Poenos in tecta vocant; ingentia facta Sidonii iuvenis celebrant, ut ruperit Alpes Herculei socius decoris divisque propinquas transierit cursu rupes; ut caede referta clauserit Eridani victor vada; victor ut idem Lydia Romano turbarit stagna cruore; ut Trebiae ripas aeterno nomine famae tradiderit Paulumque idem inter proelia et idem Flaminium, proceres rerum, demiserit umbris.
Virrius, skilfully mixing truth with falsehood, first set forth what the Senate had said and done, and then sounded to his excited hearers the fatal note of bloody war. The frantic people cried out for arms and for Hannibal. They rushed together from every quarter and invited the Carthaginians to their city. Men recalled the mighty achievements of the Tyrian youth: how, rivalling the glory of Hercules, he had burst the barrier of the Alps and overrun the peaks that reach to heaven; how he dammed the river Po with heaps of dead; how, ever victorious, he dyed the Etruscan lakec with Roman blood; how he gave eternal glory to the Trebia, and himself in battle sent down to Hades both Paulus and Flaminius, the Roman leaders.
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