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Nullus amor populis nec foedera sunto …

Litora litoribus contraria, fluctibus undas

Imprecor, arma armis: pugnent ipsique nepotesque.

Neither love nor treaty shall there be between the nations … Let your shores oppose their shores, your waves their waves, your arms their arms. This is my prayer: let them fight, they and their sons’ sons, forever.

Dido, Queen of Carthage’s curse upon the Romans.

Virgil, Aeneid IV, 624 ff.

Bellum maxime omnium memorabile quae unquam gesta sunt … Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere.

The war fought by the Carthaginians under Hannibal against the Romans was the most memorable of all wars ever waged.

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, XXI. 1