sed, si cura tua fundata ut moenia dextra dignum te servent memorando fine vigorem, dedita nec fessi tramittant corpora Poeno, quod solum nunc fata sinunt seriesque futuri, extendam leti decus atque in saecula mittam ipsaque laudatas ad manes prosequar umbras.
But, if thou desirest the walls built by thy hand to keep a manhood worthy of thee by a noble ending, and not, worn out as they are, surrender themselves as prisoners to the Carthaginian, I will grant the only boon now allowed by fate and by the chain of coming events: I will prolong the renown of their death and send it dawn to posterity; and I myself will follow their glorious spirits to the nether world.
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