hic Cato'nam medio vibrabat et ipse tumultu': si, primas, inquit, bello cum amisimus Alpes, hic iuveni oppositus Tyrio foret, hei mihi quanta cessavit Latio dextra, et quot funera Poenis donarunt pravi suffragia tristia Campi!  Iamque inclinabant acies, cunctisque pavorem Gallorum induerat pavor, et Fortuna ruebat Sidonia; ad Rutulos Victoria verterat alas.
Then Cato, who himself also was rushing to and fro in the centre of the fight, spoke thus: Would that Livius had stood in Hannibals path, when we lost the Alps at the beginning of the war! Alas! how mighty an arm Rome left unused! how many lives have been saved to Carthage by the harsh verdict of a misguided assembly!b By now the line was giving way; the cowardice of the Gauls had made cowards of all the army. The Fortune of Carthage was collapsing, and Victory had flown over to the side of Rome.
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