THE HANNIBALIAN WAR, B.C. 211
Such being the position of the Romans and Carthaginians, Fortune continually oscillating between the two, we may say with the poet
“Pain hard by joy possessed the souls of each.”[329]...
There is profound truth in the observation which I have often made, that it is impossible to grasp or get a complete view of the fairest of all subjects of contemplation, the tendency of history as a whole, from writers of partial histories....