quod si Laurentia vastat nunc igni regna et Phrygias res vertere tentat, o pietas, o sancta fides, o vera propago! atque utinam amissum reparet decus! inde citato celsus abit gressu, maiorque recessit imago.
But if he is now laying Italy waste with fire and striving to destroy her power, then I hail him as my true son, dutiful to me and faithful to his oath; and I pray that he may regain the glory that we lost. Then, with head held high, Hamilcar departed in haste; and his ghost seemed taller as it went away.
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