quis consul terga increpitans, nam turbine motae ablatus terrae inciderat: quid deinde, quid, oro, restat, io, profugis? vos en ad moenia Romae ducitis Hannibalem; vos in Tarpeia Tonantis tecta faces ferrumque datis.
The consul had been separated from them by the earthquake; but now he overtook them and reproached them from behind: What still remains, if you fly now? what, I beseech you? You are leading Hannibal against the walls of Rome; you are giving him fire and sword, to use against the Tarpeian shrine of the Thunderer.
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