vivamne? et fractos sparsosque cruore meorum hos referam populo fasces? atque ora per urbes iratas spectanda dabo? et, quo saevius ipse Hannibal haud poscat, fugiam et te, Roma, videbo? plura indignantem telis propioribus hostes egere, et sonipes rapuit laxatus habenas.
Can I live and carry back to Rome these rods, broken and spattered with the blood of citizens? How shall I show my hated face through the towns of Italy?b How shall I, a fugitive from battle, see Rome again? Hannibal himself could desire for me no more cruel punishment. Further protest was cut short by the approach of the enemy: their attack drove him back, and his war-horse with loosened rein carried him swiftly away.
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