tunc, arte paterna ac stimulis gaudens, iuvenis circumdata Poenum agmina deturbat gladio campumque relaxat, donec Sidonius decederet aequore ductor; ceu, stimulante fame, rapuit cum Martius agnum averso pastore lupus fetumque trementem ore tenet presso; tum, si vestigia cursu auditis celeret balatibus obvia pastor, iam sibimet metuens, spirantem dentibus imis reiectat praedam et vacuo fugit aeger hiatu.
Then, rejoicing in the encouragement of his wise father, the young man drove off with the sword the surrounding ranks of Carthage, and cleared the plain; and Hannibal at last withdrew from the field. So, when the shepherds back is turned, the wolf that Mars loves, urged by hunger, snatches up a lamb and holds the frightened youngling fast in its jaws; but, if the shepherd hears a bleating and runs to face the wolf, then it fears for itself, and casts up the still breathing prey from between its teeth, and makes off in wrath with empty jaws.
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