The Duke beheld, like Scipio, with disdain,

That Carthage, which he ruined, rise once more;

And shook aloft the fasces of the main,

To fright those slaves with what they felt before.

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Together to the watery camp they haste,

Whom matrons passing to their children show;

Infants first vows for them to heaven are cast,

And future people bless them as they go.[122]

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