virgo erat eximia specie claroque parente, Hasdrubalis proles; thalamis quam cepit ut altis, ceu face succensus prima taedaque iugali, vertit opes gener ad Poenos, Latiaeque soluto foedere amicitiae, dotalia transtulit arma.
The maiden was beautiful; and her father Hasdrubal was famous. As soon as Syphax received her in the lofty marriage-chamber, as if the flame of the marriage-torch had set him on fire for the first time,b he made over his resources to his Punic father-in-law and broke his treaty of friendship with Rome by presenting his forces as a bridal gift to Carthage.
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