rerum omnes pendent actus, et milite maesto laxata obsidio, ac pugnandi substitit ardor, inque ducem versae tanto discrimine curae.
All activity was suspended; for the sorrowing Carthaginians relaxed the vigour of the blockade, and their martial ardour paused; it was to their leader in his great danger that their thoughts were turned.
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