iamque propinquabant hostes tumuloque subibant, cum secum Poenus: caelum licet omne soluta in caput hoc compage ruat, terraeque dehiscant, non ullo Cannas abolebis, Iupiter, aevo, decedesque prius regnis quam nomina gentes aut facta Hannibalis sileant.
And now the enemy came up close to the hill where he sat, and he said in his heart: Though the earth yawn asunder, though all the framework of heaven break up and fall upon my head, never shalt thou, Jupiter, wipe out the memory of Cannae, but thou shalt step down from thy throne ere the world forgets the name or achievements of Hannibal.
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