Ut patuit liber superum certamine tandem laxatusque deo campus, ruit aequore ab imo Poenus, quo sensim caelestia fugerat arma, magna voce trahens equitemque virosque feraeque turrigerae molem tormentorumque labores.
When the field was free at last from the contending gods, and Mars no longer filled the plain, Hannibal rushed up from the remotest part of the battle, whither he had fled step by step before the divine weapons. With a great shout he brought with him horsemen and footmen and heavy siege-engines, and the huge beasts that carry towers on their backs.
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