Fama per Ausoniae turbatas spargitur urbes nubiferos montes et saxa minantia caelo accepisse iugum, Poenosque per invia vectos, aemulaque Herculei iactantem facta laboris descendisse ducem.
Rumour, spreading through the dismayed cities of Ausonia, told that cloud-capped mountains and heaven-threatening peaks had been conquered, that the Carthaginians had passed over trackless wilds, and that Hannibal had descended from the Alps, boasting an exploit that rivalled the labour of Hercules.
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