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Victorious Carthage measures the downfall of Rome by all the heap of gold that was torn from the left hands of the slain.

— Silius Italicus

Congesto laevae quodcumque avellitur auro
metitur Latias victrix Carthago ruinas.

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Book VIII, lines 675–676 | Note: This refers to the mass of rings Hannibal plundered from the Roman knights slain in the Battle of Cannae.

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