non verborum, inquit, stimulantum, Poenus, egetis, Herculeis iter a metis ad Iapygis agros vincendo emensi; nusquam est animosa Saguntos; concessere Alpes; pater ipse superbus aquarum Ausonidum Eridanus captivo defluit alveo.
You need no words of encouragement, said Hannibal; you have marched victorious all the way from the Pillars of Hercules to the Iapygian fields; brave Saguntum has been wiped out; the Alps have granted you a passage; and the Po, the proud father of Italian rivers, flows down now in a conquered channel.
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