ipse, manu celsam pinum flammaque comantem attollens, ductor Gradivum in vota ciebat: primitias pugnae et laeti libamina belli Hannibal Ausonio cremat haec de nomine victor, et tibi, Mars genitor, votorum haud surde meorum, arma electa dicat spirantum turba virorum.
Hannibal with his own hand held up a tall pine-torch with fire for foliage and called on the god to hear his prayer: Hannibal, victorious over the Italian nation, burns these first-fruits of battle and offerings of conquest; and to thee, Father Mars, whose ears were open to my prayers, this host of surviving men dedicates the choicest armour.
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