Dux, vetus armorum scitusque accendere corda laudibus, ignifero mentes furiabat in iram hortatu decorisque urebat pectora flammis: tu mihi Flaminii portas rorantia caesi ora ducis; nosco dextram.
Hannibal, a veteran soldier, knew well how to heighten the ardour of his men by means of praise. In a fiery speech he roused their spirit to madness, and inflamed their hearts with ambition to excel.b You it was, he said to one, who brought me the dripping head of slain Flaminius; I recognize that hand.
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