dumque vada et molles aditus per devia flexo circuitu petit et stagni languentia quaerit, interdum rapta vicinis saltibus alno flumineam texit, qua travehat agmina, classem: ecce aderat Trebiaeque simul vicina tenebat, Trinacrio accitus per caerula longa Peloro, Gracchorum proles, consul.
While Hannibal marched round by devious paths, seeking a ford and an easy approach and a peaceful stretch of the river, meantime he felled with speed the trees that grew hard by, and built barges, to take his army across the stream. And now, behold! a consul, a scion of the Gracchi,c arrived and encamped near his colleague beside the Trebia. In answer to a summons he had made the long voyage from Pelorus in Sicily.
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