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2And indeed many other portents disturbed him: sundry temples were struck by lightning, and in that of Jupiter, mice had gnawed the gold; it was reported also that an ox had uttered human speech, and that a boy had been born with an elephant’s head; moreover, in their expiatory rites and sacrifices, the seers received bad omens, and therefore detained him at Rome, though he was all on fire and impatient to be gone.[43] For no man ever had such a passion for any thing as he had for fighting a decisive battle with Hannibal.
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Notes
[43] Cf. Livy, xxvii. 11; 25.