In Rome my triumph o'er Numantia sure,

For more I do not now desire, in sooth.

Let us go straightway thither, and procure

Some means to get the youth within our hands,

Alive, for that is needful to secure.

Viriato[14] [from the tower].

What come ye here to seek? Ye Roman bands,

If ye would fain within Numantia go,

There's nought to hinder ye in all these lands!