Have the Romans sent any ambassadors to Hannibal to treat of peace?
Have you, in short, ever heard that any mention has been made of peace at Rome ?" On his answering these questions also in the negative: "We have upon our hands then, said he, a war as entire as we had on the day on which Hannibal crossed over into Italy.

There are a great many of us alive now who remember how fluctuating the success was in the former Punic war.

At no time did our affairs appear in so prosperous a condition as they did before the consulship of Caius Lutatius and Aulus Posthumius.

In the consulship of Caius Lutatius and Aulus Posthumius we were completely conquered at the islands Aegates.

But if now, as well as then, (oh! may the gods avert the omen!) fortune should take any turn, do you hope to obtain that peace when we shall be vanquished which no one is willing to grant now we are victorious.