saepe Saguntinis somnos exterritus umbris optabit cecidisse manu; ferroque negato, invictus quondam Stygias bellator ad undas deformata feret liventi membra veneno.
Often, startled in his sleep by the ghosts of Saguntum, he shall wish that he had fallen by his own hand; but the steel will be denied him, and the warrior once invincible in earlier years shall carry down to the waters of Styx a body disfigured and blackened by poison.
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