nec nunc obsessa demum et fumante Sagunto haec serus vates Hannon canit; anxia rupi pectora, ne castris innutriretur et armis exitiale caput, monui et, dum vita, monebo, ingenitum noscens virus flatusque paternos; ut, qui stelligero speculatur sidera caelo, venturam pelagi rabiem Caurique futura praedicit miseris haud vanus flamina nautis.
Not now only, when it is too late, when Saguntum is besieged and burning, do I prophesy these evils: I made a clean breast of my fears: I warned you before and, while I live, shall go on warning you, not to suffer that instrument of destruction to be bred up in camps and in war; for I marked the poison of his nature and his hereditary ambition, even as the watcher of the starry heavens foretells, not in vain, to hapless seamen the coming fury of the sea and the approaching blasts of the North-west wind.
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