Thanks to your messengers who had been hard at work with the Barcine faction growing public support for the war, Hanno’s words fall on deaf ears. The senators, devoted to you, accuse Hanno of having spoken with more malignity than the ambassadors themselves. The Senate tells the ambassadors: ‘that the war had been commenced by the Saguntines, not by Hannibal; and that the Roman people acted unjustly if they preferred the Saguntines to the most ancient alliance of the Carthaginians. While the Romans waste their time in sending embassies, you allow your soldiers to rest. It is a pivotal point in the siege of Saguntum and you need to rally you men against the enemy. Thanks to your messengers who had been hard at work with the Barcine faction growing public support for the war, Hanno’s words fall on deaf ears. The senators, devoted to you, accuse Hanno of having spoken with more malignity than the ambassadors themselves. The Senate tells the ambassadors: ‘that the war had been commenced by the Saguntines, not by Hannibal; and that the Roman people acted unjustly if they preferred the Saguntines to the most ancient alliance of the Carthaginians. While the Romans waste their time in sending embassies, you allow your soldiers to rest. It is a pivotal point in the siege of Saguntum and you need to rally you men against the enemy.