non tanto strepuere metu primordia belli; nunc geminum Hannibalem, nunc iactant bina coire hinc atque hinc castra, et pastos per prospera bella sanguine ductores Italo coniungere Martem et duplicare acies; venturum ad moenia cursu hostem praecipiti et visurum haerentia porta spicula, Elissaeis nuper contorta lacertis.
and he flew down it with forced marches. Not even the first invasion caused as much terror and confusion in Italy. Men said that here was a second Hannibal; that the two armies were joining hands, and the two generals, gorged with Italian blood and with victory, were combining their forces and doubling their strength; the enemy would come in headlong haste to Rome, and there they would see still sticking in the gate the javelins which Carthaginian arms had lately hurled.
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