Livy, xxi. 1.
16 blandientem = coaxingly entreating.—D.
17 perfecto Africo bello, i.e. between Carthage and her mutinous mercenaries, 241-237 B.C.
Parallel Passage. For Hannibal’s Oath, Livy xxxv. 19.
Importance of the War. ‘It was a struggle for existence, for supremacy or destruction. It was to decide whether the Graeco-Roman civilisation of the West or the Semitic (Carthaginian) civilisation of the East was to be established in Europe, and to determine its history for all future time.’—Ihne.
SECOND PUNIC WAR, 218-202 B.C.
‘The paths of glory lead but to the grave.’
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Expende Hannibalem: quot libras in duce summo