[43.13] This war lasted from 218 to 202 B.C.
[44.1] When Hamilcar was killed in battle in Spain in 227, his son-in-law Hasdrubal took command of the Carthaginian forces there. He in turn was succeeded by Hannibal in 219.
[44.2] dat. with foederātam. Cf. H 428, 3 (385, 4, 3): A 248, a, R.: G 359: B 192, 1. Compare the dat. used with iungō and mīsceō.
[44.3] utrum is here a relative pronoun; hence the indicative placet, with which we must supply vōbīs. In utrum vellet, however, utrum is interrogative: hence the subjunctive.
[44.4] = a subjunctive in ind. disc. representing an original imperative. See [p. xxvi], M 6.
[44.5] excutiō.
[44.6] quibus . . . animīs, iīsdem: abl. of manner. See [p. 42, n. 5].
[44.7] Sc. bellum.
[44.8] P. Cornelius Scipio, father of the famous P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Maior, and consul in 218.
[44.9] The first two battles were fought in 218, the third in 217.