an tanti pretium motus ruptique per enses foederis hoc iuveni iurata in bella ruenti creditis, ut statuat superatae iura Sagunto? ocius ite, viri, et nascentem extinguite flammam, ne serae redeant post aucta pericula curae.
Do you believe that Hannibal, frantic for the war he has sworn to wage, will be content with this reward of his great enterprise and his breach of treaty by force of arms'the conquest and submission of Saguntum? Hasten, ye men of Rome, to put out the flame in its beginning, or the trouble may recur too late when the danger has grown greater.
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