Nuntius interea vectis non more carinis terrentem freta curarum fervoribus implet, dum procul Oebalios amet expugnare nepotes et primus rostris sulcet navalibus arva, assessos Capuae muros: claustra ipsa revelli portarum, ac totum miseris incurrere bellum.
While Hannibal startled the sea by conveying the fleet in this strange fashion, news came that filled him with a fever of anxiety. While he was far away, trying to take their town from the descendants of Oebalusb and ploughing the fields for the first time in history with the beaks of ships, he heard that Capua was besieged, even her gates broken down, and her wretched inhabitants exposed to all the horrors of war.
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