aequore mersum texissent scopuli, pelagusque hausisset et undae! anne huic servabar leto? mea signa secuti, quis pugnae auspicium dedimus, caeduntur; et absens accipio gemitus vocesque ac verba vocantum Hannibalem.
Oh that I had been drowned at sea, that the rocks had been my tomb, and that the waves of ocean had swallowed me down! Was I saved for a death like this? The men who followed my standard and whom I led on to war are being slaughtered, and I am not with them; I hear their groans and their cries to Hannibal to help them.
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