an nunc ille novi caecus caligine regni externas arces quatit? haud Tirynthia tecta (sic propria luat hoc poena nec misceat urbis fata suis), nunc hoc, hoc inquam, tempore muros oppugnat, Carthago, tuos teque obsidet armis.
Blinded and dazzled by new-gained power, he is overthrowing cities; but are they foreign cities? It is not Saguntum that he is attacking'so may he atone for this crime in his own person and not involve his country in his punishment'now, even now, I declare, he is attacking the walls of Carthage and besieging us with his army.
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