incipit Aeneades: Libyci certissima proles Hammonis, quando exsuperat tua gloria cunctos indubitata duces, similique cupidine rerum pectora nostra calent, quae te via, fare, superbum ad decus et summas laudum perduxerit arces.
The Roman addressed him thus: O true-born son of Libyan Ammon, since your undisputed fame eclipses that of all other commanders, and my heart is fired with the same thirst for glory, tell me the path by which you rose to your proud eminence and the topmost pinnacle of achievement.
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