cui rector Latius: tanta, en, qui regna reposcant, quis cedat toga et armiferi gens sacra Quirini! servitio si tam faciles, cur bella refertis?  Haec inter celerare gradum, coniungat ut arma, Hasdrubalem ignarum cladis praenuntius affert explorator eques.
The Roman general answered thus: These are the men who claim to rule the world, before whom the Roman gown and the sacred nation of warlike Quirinus must bow! If you are so ready to be slaves, why do you make war afresh? Meanwhile a mounted scout brought tidings that Hasdrubal,a unaware of the defeat, was coming up in haste to join the other army.
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