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20. Gnashing1 his teeth and groaning-so they [2??] say-and scarcely keeping back the tears he listened to the words of the emissaries. [3] After they had delivered their message he said: [4] “It is no longer obscurely but openly that I am being [5??] recalled by men who, in forbidding the sending of reinforcements and money, were long ago trying to drag me back. [6] The conqueror of Hannibal is therefore not the Roman people, so often [7??] cut to pieces and put to flight, but the Carthaginian senate by carping and envy. [8] And over this inglorious return of mine it will not be Publius Scipio who [9??] wildly exults, so much as Hanno,2”

1 B.C. 203

2 Formerly leader of the opposition party; cf.

Livy. Books XXVIII-XXX With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1949: no copyright notice.

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