Dum Libys incenso dispensat milite vires hortandoque iterum atque iterum insatiabilis urget factis quemque suis et se cognoscere iactat, qua dextra veniant stridentis sibila teli, promittitque viris nulli se defore testem: iam Varro, exacta vallo legione, movebat cladum principia; ac pallenti laetus in unda laxabat sedem Venturis Portitor umbris.
Thus Hannibal disposed his eager forces. Again and again he appealed to them and could not say enough: he roused each man by reminding him of his past exploits; he boasted that he knew the arm that launched each hissing javelin; and he promised to be the eyewitness of all that each man did. Meanwhile, Varro sent his army forth from the camp and laid the foundations of disaster; and the Ferryman of the pale rivera rejoiced to make room for the expected ghosts.
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