Stabat fulgentem portans in bella bipennem Cinyphius socerique miser Magonis inire optabat pugnam ante oculos spe laudis Isalcas, Sidonia tumidus sponsa vanoque superbus foedere promissae post Dardana proelia taedae.
Isalcas stood near; he came from Cinyps,b and his weapon was a shining axe; his ambition, poor wretch, was to fight and win glory under the eyes of Mago, his father-in-lawa; for he was proud of his Carthaginian bride-to-be, and flattered by the vain promise that, when war with Rome was over, they should be wedded.
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