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“E’en as the Youths who ’scaping Cannae-field— its only remnants—to Canusium fled despairing, and well-nigh disposed to yield, and hail the Carthaginian vict’ory-led, the young Cornelius to their faith appeal’d, and took his comrades’ oath upon his blade the Roman arms t’ uphold as long as life hold, or hath pow’er to ’scape the mortal strife: