flammabant vulgum geniti Carthagine fratres, Poeni matre genus; sed quos, sub crimine pulsus urbe Syracosia, Libycis eduxerat oris Trinacrius genitor, geminaque a stirpe parentum astus miscebant Tyrios levitate Sicana.
Thus the populace was set on fire by two brothers,a born at Carthage of a Carthaginian mother; but their father was a Sicilian who had been expelled from Syracuse on a criminal charge. Brought up in Africa, they showed their mixed origin, combining Carthaginian cunning with the frivolity of Sicilians.
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