quam saepe querere, Varro, deis, quod Sidonium defugeris ensem! nam, rapido subitam portans in morte salutem procursu incepta, in sese discrimina vertit Scipio; nec Poenum, quamquam est ereptus opimae caedis honor, mutasse piget maiore sub hoste proelia et erepti Ticina ad flumina patris exigere oblato tandem certamine poenas.
How often was he to reproach the gods for saving him from the sword of the Carthaginian! For Scipio rushed forward and quickly brought life where death was imminent, and turned the danger from Varro to himself. And Hannibal, though he lost the glory of winning the choicest spoils,b was not sorry to change his antagonist for one more mighty, and to punish Scipio for rescuing his father by the river Ticinus,c now that the chance of a duel was at last offered him.
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