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Hannibal

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Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)
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Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
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Last words according to Livy "ab urbe condita", Book XXXIX, 51

 
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