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‘Expends Annibalem: - quot libras in duce summo Invenies? / ~JUVENAL., Sat. X.

I / Tis done - but yesterday a King! / And arm'd with Kings to strive - / And now thou art a nameless thing: / So abject - yet alive! / Is this the man of thousand thrones, / Who strew'd our earth with hostile bones, / And can he thus survive? / Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, / Nor man nor fiend bath fallen so far.

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