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