Inde furens, postquam vallo vix depulit hostem, ductor Agenoreus: quando hanc quantoque cruore hostili labem eluerim? mea terga videre contigit Ausoniae? mene, inquit, summe deorum, post Trebiam statuis tam turpi funere dignum?
When Hannibal had with difficulty repulsed the enemy from his camp, he vented his anger thus: When can I wash away this stain, and how much Roman blood will be needed to cleanse it? Has Italy been permitted to see me turn my back? O mightiest of the gods, dost thou consider me, the victor of Trebia, worthy of such disgrace and defeat?
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