has adiungere opes avidus reputansque laborem, si vertat rex ad Poenos, dare vela per altum imperat atque animo iam tum Africa bella capessit.
Scipio, eager to annex these resources and conscious of the danger if the king were to side with Carthage, ordered ships to put to sea and, in fancy, was already making war in Africa.
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