[4] Already foreboding this very thing he had previously put his ships in readiness. [5] Accordingly, after distributing the mass of useless troops, nominally as garrisons, among the few Bruttian towns that were being held rather [6??] by fear than by loyalty, he transported the flower of [7??] his army to Africa. Many men of Italic race [8??] refusing to follow him to Africa had retired to the shrine of Juno Lacinia,2 never desecrated until that [9??] day, and had been cruelly slain actually within the temple enclosure.3 They say that rarely has any other man leaving his country [10??] to go into exile departed so sorrowfully as Hannibal on withdrawing from the enemy's land; [11] that he repeatedly looked back upon the shores of Italy and, accusing gods and men, called down a curse [p. 443]upon himself also and his own head because he [12??] had4 not led his soldiers blood-stained from the victory of Cannae to Rome.5
