Quamquam, Quirites, non est illa legatio, sed denuntiatio belli, nisi paruerit: ita enim est decretum ut si legati ad Hannibalem mitterentur.
And yet, Men of Rome, that is not an embassy but rather a declaration of war if he does not obey: the decree reads as though envoys were being dispatched to Hannibal.
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