an, cum tu Syrtim ac steriles vastabis harenas, non dira ilia lues notis iam moenibus urbis assiliet, vacuumque Iovem sine pube, sine armis invadet? quanti, ut cedas Romamque relinquas, emerit! et tanto percussi fulmine belli sicine te, ut nuper Capua est accitus ab alta Fulvius, aequoreis Libyae revocabimus oris? vince domi et trinis maerentem funera lustris Ausoniam purga bello.
While you are laying waste the barren sands of the Syrtis, will not that monster assault the walls of Rome which he knows already, and attack the seat of Jupitera when it has neither men nor weapons to defend it? What a price would he not pay, to secure your departure from the city! And shall we, when we are stricken by such a thunderbolt of war, recall you from the shore of Africa, even as Fulvius was lately summoned from the towers of Capuab? Conquer at home and cleanse Italy from war'Italy that has been mourning her dead for thrice five years!
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