sed vigor, hausurus Latium, si cetera Marti adiumenta forent, prava obtrectante suorum invidia, revocare animos ac stare negata cogebatur ope et senio torpescere rerum.
Hannibals fiery spirit might have destroyed Rome, if the other requirements of war had been forthcoming; but he was thwarted by the perverse jealousy of his own countrymen. Supplies were refused to him, and he was forced to tame his proud spirit and let it rust in idleness.
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