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Hannibal uero, cum apud regem Prusiam exularet auctorque ei conmittendi proelii esset, atque is non idem sibi extis portendi diceret, 'ain tu'? inquit, 'uitulinae carunculae quam imperatori ueteri mauis credere'? si uerba numeres, breuiter et abscise, si sensum aestimes, copiose et ualenter: Hispanias enim dereptas populo Romano et Galliarum ac Liguriae uires in suam redactas potestatem et nouo transitu Alpium iuga patefacta et Trasimennum lacum dira inustum memoria et Cannas, Punicae uictoriae clarissimum monumentum, et Capuam possessam et Italiam laceratam ante pedes hominis effudit uniusque hostiae iocineri longo experimento testatam gloriam suam postponi aequo animo non tulit. et sane, quod ad exploranda bellica artificia aestimandosque militaris ductus adtinebat, omnis foculos, omnis aras Bithyniae Marte ipso iudice pectus Hannibalis praegrauasset.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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