hoc trepidus monstro (neque enim sopor ille nec altae vis aderat noctis, virgaque fugante tenebras miscuerat lucem somno deus) ardua quae sit, scitatur pestis terrasque urgentia membra quo ferat et quosnam populos deposcat hiatu.
Terrified by this portent (for his sleep was not real sleep, and the power of night was waning, because the god whose rod dispels darknessc had mingled night with day) Hannibal asked what this terrible monster was, and whither it was bearing that body which weighed down the earth, and what nations were demanded by its open jaws.
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