tu consul abire a victore paras hoste atque avellere nobis scilicet hoc astu Poenum? si deinde sedebit impavidus nec te in Libyam tuaque arma sequetur, capta damnabis consulta improvida Roma.
Do you, a consul, intend to leave behind a victorious foe and by this device, forsooth! to tear the Carthaginian from our throats? If he remains coolly where he is, refusing to follow you and your army to Africa, you will curse your short-sighted strategy when Rome is taken.
final_alignments\Silius_Italicus_Punica_Book16.json