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In the Secon Punic War part, under the subsection 'MARCUS CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS', Hannibal is besieging a city called Casilinum and trying to starve it out, the residents of Casilinum are holding out by eating mice and roots. At this point hannibal says something that I do not understand at all:
I cannot work this out, is he saying something like:Miratus
Annibal exclamavit:
Eone usque
dum ea nascantur,
ad Casilinum
sessurus sum?
"When will I be sitting in Casilinum, not while these people still live!" (are being born? nascantur??)