"But I am adducing foreign and too remote examples.

That same Africa, and Marcus Atilius, who was a signal example of both extremes of fortune, may form a warning to us.

Without doubt, Publius Cornelius, when you shall have a view of Africa from the sea, the reduction of your province of Spain will appear to you to have been a mere matter of sport and pastime.

For what similarity is there between them?
After sailing along the coast of Italy and Gaul to Emporiae without any enemy to oppose you, you brought your fleet to land at a city of our allies.

There landing your soldiers, you marched them through countries entirely secure from danger to Tarraco, to join the allies and friends of the Roman people.