sanguineo tum laeta viro atque in regna Latini turbine mox saevo venientum haud inscia cladum, intulerit Latio, spreta me, Troius, inquit, exul Dardaniam et bis numina capta penates sceptraque fundarit victor Lavinia Teucris, dum Romana tuae, Ticine, cadavera ripae non capiant, famulusque mihi per Celtica rura sanguine Pergameo Trebia et stipantibus armis corporibusque virum retro fluat, ac sua largo stagna reformidet Thrasymennus turbida tabo; dum Cannas, tumulum Hesperiae, campumque cruore Ausonio mersum sublimis Iapyga cernam teque vadi dubium countibus, Aufide, ripis per clipeos galeasque virum caesosque per artus vix iter Hadriaci rumpentem ad litora ponti.
Then, rejoicing in that man of blood, and aware of the fierce storm of disasters in store for the realm of Latinus,a she spoke thus: In defiance of me, the exile from Troyb brought Dardaniac to Latium, together with his household gods'deities that were twice taken prisonersd; and he gained a victory and founded a kingdom for the Teucrians at Lavinium. That may pass'provided that the banks of the Ticinuse cannot contain the Roman dead, and that the Trebia, obedient to me, shall flow backwards through the fields of Gaul, blocked by the blood of Romans and their weapons and the corpses of men; provided that Lake Trasimene shall be terrified by its own pools darkened with streams of gore, and that I shall see from heaven Cannae, the grave of Italy, and the Iapygian plain inundated with Roman blood, while the Aufidus, doubtful of its course as its banks close in, can hardly force a passage to the Adriatic shore through shields and helmets and severed limbs of men.
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