procubuere: iacet campis Carthaginis horror, forsan Scipiadae confecti nomina belli rapturus, si quis paulum deus adderet aevo.
Perhaps, if some god had permitted Marcellus to live a little longer, he would have taken from Scipio the glory of ending the war.
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