ducibus spes una salutis, si socias iungant vires, ingentibus orsum auspiciis iuvenem, ceu patria gestet in armis fulmina, sublimi vallatam vertice montis et scopulis urbem, cumulatam strage virorum, non toto rapuisse die, qua Martius ille Hannibal in terra consumpto verterit anno nec pube aequandam nec opum ubertate Saguntum.
The Carthaginian generals were in a desperate plight unless they could unite their forces. They saw that the young commander had begun his career with a prodigious success, as if he wielded in battle the thunderbolts of his sirea; that within twenty-four hours he had taken a city defended by its site upon a lofty hill and its steep approach, and had heaped it with the corpses of the slain, whereas it had taken Hannibal, that great commander, fighting in the same country, a full year to overthrow Saguntum, so inferior to Carthage in population and wealth.
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