te, Regule, vidit Sidonius carcer! tuque huic sat magna triumpho visa es, Carthago, superis! quae poena sequetur digna satis tali pollutos Marte Laconas? At nova Elissaei iurato foedera patres consultant mandare duci pacisque sequestrem mittere, poscentes vinctam inter proelia pubem captivamque manum ductore rependere nostro.
Did Carthage behold Regulus a prisoner? Did Carthage seem to Heaven to deserve so great a triumph? What fitting punishment shall attend the Spartans for their foul manner of warfare? But now the senate of Carthage resolved to take an oath of Regulus and send him to Rome as mediator with new conditions of peace; they sought to exchange Regulus for their own soldiers who had been taken prisoners in the course of the war.
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