Has inter clades viso Varrone sub armis increpitans Paulus: quin imus comminus, inquit, ductori Tyrio, quem vinctum colla catenis staturum ante tuos currus promisimus urbi? heu patria, heu plebes scelerata et prava favoris! haud umquam expedies tam dura sorte malorum, quem tibi non nasci fuerit per vota petendum, Varronem Hannibalemne, magis.
Amid these disasters Paulus sighted Varro on the field and thus taunted him: Why are we not fighting Hannibal hand to hand? Did we not promise Rome that he should stand with fetters round his neck before your triumphal car? Alas for our country! Alas for our people who in their wickedness bestow their favour amiss!a Now that they are suffering such calamities, they will find no answer to this question: was Varros birth or Hannibals the worse calamity? and which should they have prayed Heaven to avert?
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