Primae Picentum, rupto ceu turbine fusa agmina et Hannibalem ruere ut videre, cohortes invadunt ultro, et poenas pro morte futura, turbato victore, petunt accensa iuventus; et, velut erepto metuendi libera caelo, manibus ipsa suis praesumpta piacula mittit.
First of all, the men of Picenum, when they saw the enemy pouring forth like a cloudburst from the sky, and Hannibal in full career, anticipate the attack; the soldiers in their ardour seek a recompense for their imminent death in harassing their conqueror; and free from fear as if life was lost already, they send down before them victims to make atonement to their own ghosts.
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