nunc geminas Alpes Apenninumque minatur, nunc freta Sicaniae et Scyllaei litoris undas; nec procul est, quin iam manes umbrasque pavescat Dardanias; tanta accumulat praeconia leto vulneribusque virum ac tollit sub sidera gentem.
Now he threatens us with the twin ranges of Alps and Apennines, now with the Sicilian sea and the waves on Scyllas shore; he is not far from fearing the very shades and ghosts of the Romans: such praise does he heap upon their wounds and deaths, and exalts the nation to the sky.
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