tum spe deiectus iuvenis, ceu vertere ab ipsis terga iuberetur muris ac signa referre, tanta mole, inquit, non Roma, ut credidit ipsa, sed Varro est victus.
Then Mago, as much disappointed as if he had been ordered to turn and march back from the very walls of Rome, thus protested: Then our mighty effort has not defeated Rome, as Rome herself believed; it has only defeated Varro.
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