Dumque Arpos tendunt instincti pectora Poeni, subnixus rapto plebei muneris ostro, saevit iam rostris Varro, ingentique ruinae festinans aperire locum, fata admovet urbi.
Thus encouraged, the Carthaginians made for Arpi. Meanwhile Varro, relying on the purpleb that he had seized by gift of the people, was already ranting on the Rostrum, and, by his haste to prepare the way for a mighty downfall, brought Rome near to destruction.
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