"Congesto laevae quodcumque avellitur auro metitur Latias victrix Carthago ruinas."
— Silius Italicus

January 1, 1970

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OratorsPoets from Rome
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Victorious Carthage measures the downfall of Rome by all the heap of gold that was torn from the left hands of the slain. — Book VIII, lines 675–676 — Note: This refers to the mass of rings Hannibal plundered from the Roman knights slain in the Battle of Cannae.