Liv. 21.44.1Quōcumque circumtulī oculōs, plēna omnia videō animōrum ac rōboris, veterānum peditem, generōsissimārum gentium equitēs frēnātōs īnfrēnātōsque, vōs sociōs fidēlissimōs fortissimōsque, vōs Carthāginiēnsēs cum prō patriā tum ob īram iūstissimam pugnātūrōs.Wherever I have turned my eyes, I see everything full of spirit and strength: veteran infantry, cavalry of the noblest peoples, with bridles and without, you our most loyal and bravest allies, you Carthaginians who will fight both for your country and from the most righteous anger. Liv. 21.44.3Īnferimus bellum īnfestīsque signīs dēscendimus in Ītaliam, tantō audācius fortiusque pugnātūrī quam hostis, quantō maior spēs, maior est animus īnferentis vim quam arcentis.We are the ones bringing war, coming down into Italy with hostile standards, and we shall fight so much more boldly and bravely than the enemy as the hope and the spirit of the attacker are greater than of the one who wards him off. Liv. 21.44.3Accendit praetereā et stimulat animōs dolor iniūria indignitās.Besides, resentment, injury and indignity kindle and goad our spirits. Liv. 21.44.4Ad supplicium dēpoposcērunt mē ducem prīmum, deinde vōs omnēs, quī Saguntum oppugnāssētis;They demanded me, your general, first for punishment, and then all of you who had besieged Saguntum; Liv. 21.44.4dēditōs ultimīs cruciātibus adfectūrī fuērunt.had you been surrendered, they would have inflicted the most extreme tortures on you.
Liv. 21.44.5Crūdēlissima ac superbissima gēns sua omnia suīque arbitriī facit.This most cruel and arrogant nation makes everything its own and subject to its own will. Liv. 21.44.5Cum quibus bellum, cum quibus pācem habeāmus, sē modum inpōnere aequum cēnset.It thinks it right that it should lay down with whom we are to have war, with whom peace. Liv. 21.44.5Circumscrībit inclūditque nōs terminīs montium flūminumque, quōs nōn excēdāmus, neque eōs, quōs statuit, terminōs observat.It confines and shuts us in with boundaries of mountains and rivers that we may not pass, and does not itself observe the boundaries it has set. Liv. 21.44.6"Nē trānsierīs Hibērum;"Do not cross the Ebro; Liv. 21.44.6nē quid reī tibi sit cum Saguntīnīs.have nothing to do with the Saguntines." Liv. 21.44.6" "nūsquam tē vestīgiō mōverīs!""Do not stir a single step anywhere!" Liv. 21.44.7Parum est, quod veterrimās prōvinciās meās Siciliam ac Sardiniam adēmistī?Is it not enough that you took away Sicily and Sardinia, my most ancient provinces? Liv. 21.44.7Adimis etiam Hispāniās?Are you taking the Spains too? Liv. 21.44.7Et, inde sī dēcesserō, in Āfricam trānscendēs.And if I withdraw from there, you will cross into Africa.
Liv. 21.44.7Trānscendēs autem?Will cross, do I say? Liv. 21.44.7Trānscendisse dīcō;I say they have crossed; Liv. 21.44.7duōs cōnsulēs huius annī, ūnum in Āfricam, alterum in Hispāniam mīsērunt.they have sent the two consuls of this year, one to Africa, the other to Spain. Liv. 21.44.7Nihil usquam nōbīs relictum est, nisi quod armīs vindicārīmus.Nothing is left to us anywhere except what we have claimed by arms. Liv. 21.44.8Illīs timidīs et ignāvīs esse licet, quī respectum habent, quōs sua terra suus ager per tūta ac pācāta itinera fugientēs accipient: vōbīs necesse est fortibus virīs esse et omnibus inter victōriam mortemque certā dēspērātiōne abruptīs aut vincere aut, sī fortūna dubitābit, in proeliō potius quam in fugā mortem oppetere.Those may be timid and cowardly who have something to look back to, whom their own land and their own fields will receive as they flee along safe and peaceful roads: you must be brave men, and, with every alternative between victory and death cut off by sure despair, either conquer or, if fortune wavers, meet death in battle rather than in flight. Liv. 21.44.9Sī hoc bene fīxum omnibus dēstinātumque animō est, iterum dīcam, vīcistis: nūllum contemptū mortis tēlum ad vincendum hominī ab dīs immortālibus ācrius datum est."If this is firmly fixed and resolved in all your minds, I will say it again: you have won; no weapon sharper for conquering has been given to man by the immortal gods than contempt of death.'