Parte alia, insignis nudatis casside canis, Livius: huc, iuvenes, huc me spectate ruentem in pugnas; quantumque meus patefecerit ensis, tantum intrate loci: et tandem praecludite ferro iam nimium patulas Poenis grassantibus Alpes.
At another point Livius addressed his men; he had taken off his helmet, and his white hair made him conspicuous. Look hither, soldiers, he said; look at me as I rush into battle. Fill with your bodies the passage opened up by my sword, and close once for all with the steel the Alps that offer too easy a passage to Punic invaders.
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