horrescamne ipsos, veniant si ad proelia, divos, cum stetis, turmae, vidi contermina caelo quas iuga calcantes summas volitare per Alpes, cum videam, quorum ferro manibusque capaces arsere Argyripae campi? num segnior ibis nunc mihi, qui primus torques in moenia telum Dardana, nec nostrae facilis concedere laudi? te vero, te, te exstimulem, qui, fulmina contra et nimbos tonitrusque ac summi numinis iras cum starem, perferre sonos ac vana iubebas nubila et ante ducem Capitolia celsa petebas? quid vos, quis claro deletum est Marte Saguntum, exhorter, quos nobilitant primordia belli? ut meque et vobis dignum, defendite, quaeso, praeteritas dextra laudes.
Need I fear to meet the gods themselves in battle, when you stand firm'my men, whom I saw treading peaks that reached to heaven and speeding over the Alpine heights,'when I see before me those who, sword in hand, set fire to the far-stretching plains of Argyripab?'And you, who hurled the first missile against the Roman walls, unwilling that even I should outstrip you in the race for glory, shall I find you less active now?'And you above all, do you need encouragement, who, when I confronted the lightning and thunder, the storm and the wrath of Jupiter himself, bade me ignore the idle rattling of the clouds, and ran in front of me against the height of the Capitol?'Need I appeal to you, the men who destroyed Saguntum by your prowess and won renown from the first campaign of the war? I call on you: maintain your former fame in a manner worthy of me and of yourselves.
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