Besides suffering, injury and indignity inflame and excite our minds: they first demanded me your leader for punishment, and then all of you who had laid siege to Saguntum; and had we been given up they would have visited us with the severest tortures.

That most cruel and haughty nation considers every thing its own, and at its own disposal; it thinks it right that it should regulate with whom we are to have war, with whom peace: it circumscribes and shuts us up by the boundaries of mountains and rivers, which we must not pass; and then does not adhere to those boundaries which it appointed.

Pass not the Iberus; have nothing to do with the Saguntines.

Saguntum is on the Iberus; you must not move a step in any direction.

Is it a small thing that you take away my most ancient provinces Sicily and Sardinia?
will you take Spain also?
and should I withdraw thence, you will cross over into Africa--will cross, did I say?
they have sent the two consuls of this year one to Africa, the other to Spain: there is nothing left to us in any quarter, except what we can assert to ourselves by arms.