Rarely does that man consider the uncertainty of events whom fortune hath never deceived.

What I was at Trasimenus, and at Cannae, that you are this day.

Invested with command when you had scarcely yet attained the military age, though all your enterprises were of the boldest description, in no instance has fortune deserted you.

Avenging the death of your father and uncle, you have derived from the calamity of your house the high honour of distinguished valour and filial duty.
You have recovered Spain, which had been lost, after driving thence four Carthaginian armies.

When elected consul, though all others wanted courage to defend Italy, you crossed over into Africa; where having cut to pieces two armies, having at once captured and burnt two camps in the same hour; having made prisoner Syphax, a most powerful king, and seized so many towns of his dominions and so many of ours, you have dragged me from Italy, the possession of which I had firmly held for now sixteen years.