heu quis erat! quam non similis modo Punica telis agmina turbanti! vel cum Taulantia regna vertit, et Illyrico sunt addita vincla tyranno! pulvere canities atro arentique cruore squalebat barba, et perfracti turbine dentes muralis saxi, tum toto corpore vulnus.
How changed, alas! how unlike the Paulus whose prowess lately disordered the ranks of Carthage, or the Paulus who overthrew the kingdom of the Taulantesc and bound the king of Illyricum in chains! His grey hairs were black with dust, and his beard defiled with clotted gore; his teeth were shattered by the impact of the great stone; and his whole body was one wound.
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