Occupat inde prior, promissis fisa, Voluptas: quis furor hic, non digne puer, consumere bello florem aevi? Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque? quem tandem ad finem bellando fata lacesses? tune etiam tentare paras Atlantica regna Sidoniasque domos? .
Then Pleasure spoke first, confident in what she could promise: This is madness, my son, to use up all the flower of your age in war. You deserve better things. Have you forgotten Cannae and the river Po, and the Lydian lake,b more terrible than the Stygian swamp? How long will you persist in defying fortune on the battle-field? Do you intend to attack the realm of Atlas also and the city of Carthage?
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