[498] The Sardinians owed their civilisation to the Phœnicians; the Sicilians had received theirs from the Greeks. This difference explains the attachment of the first for Carthage, and the repulsion of the others for the Punic rule.
[499] Polybius, II. 4, 5, 10.
[500] Hahn, Albanesische Studien.
[501] Florus, II. 5.—Appian, Wars of Illyria, 7.
[502] Polybius, II. 11 et seq.
[503] Titus Livius, Epitome, XX., year of Rome 533.—Orosius, IV. xiii.
[504] Polybius, III. 16 et seq.
[505] A people situated between the Rhone and the Alps. (Polyb., II. 22, 34.)
[506] “It was not Rome alone that the Italians, terrified by the Gaulish invasion, believed they had thus to defend; they understood that it was their own safety which was in danger.” (Polybius, II. 23.)
[507] The following, according to Polybius (II. 24), was the number of the forces of Italy:—