From the end of the First to the end of the Second Punic WarB. Fellowes, 1846 |
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Accordingly Æmilius Africa allies Alps Appian Apulia Ariminum arrived ascendancy attack barbarians battle of Cannæ Beneventum besieged Bruttium camp campaign Campania Capua Carthage Carthaginian Casilinum cavalry CHAP Cisalpine Gaul citizens coast comitia command consular army consuls corn crossed defeat dominion encamped enemy enemy's Epicydes Etruria Fabius Flaminius fleet force Fulvius garrison gates Gaulish Gracchus Greek Hamilcar Hannibal Hannibal's Hasdrubal Hasdrubal's horse Iberus Illyrian infantry Italy Lælius Lævinus land Latin colonies legions Leontini Lilybæum Livy Lucania Mago Marcellus ment Nero nibal Numidian obliged party Placentia plain plunder Polybius prætor quarters retreat returned revolt Rhone road Roman army Rome Samnites Samnium Scipio second Punic war seems senate sent Sicily siege slaves soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish Syphax Syracusan Syracuse Tarentum Tifata town tribes troops valley Varro victory Vulturnus walls whole winter XLII XLIII XLIV XLVI XLVII XXII XXIII XXIV XXVI XXVII καὶ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 63 - Hannibal must, in the course of nature, have been dead, and consider how the isolated Phoenician city of Carthage was fitted to receive and to consolidate the civilization of Greece, or by its laws and institutions to bind together barbarians of every race and language into an organized empire, and prepare them for becoming, when that empire was dissolved, the free members of the commonwealth of Christian Europe...
Pàgina xi - ... reform was in exact proportion to his love of the institutions which he wished to reform; his hatred of shadows in exact proportion to his love of realities.
Pàgina 74 - ... miles, and there to cross as they could, where there was no enemy to stop them. The woods which then lined the river, supplied this detachment with the means of constructing barks and rafts enough for the passage ; they took advantage of one of the many islands in this part of the Rhone, to cross where the stream was divided; and thus they all reached the left bank in safety. There they took up a strong position, probably one of those strange masses of rock which rise here and there with steep...
Pàgina 62 - Hannibal's genius may be likened to the Homeric god, who, in his hatred of the Trojans, rises from the deep to rally the fainting Greeks, and to lead them against the enemy ; so the calm courage with which Hector met his more than human adversary in his country's cause, is no unworthy image of the unyielding magnanimity displayed by the aristocracy of Rome. As Hannibal utterly eclipses Carthage, so, on the contrary, Fabius, Marcellus...
Pàgina 81 - It does not appear whether the Carthaginians ascended the left bank of the Isere, or the right bank ; or whether they continued to ascend the Rhone for & time, and leaving it only so far as to avoid the great angle which it makes at Lyons, rejoined it again just before they entered the mountain country, a little to the left of the present road from Lyons to Chamberri.
Pàgina 67 - One common shout from the soldiers assured him of their readiness to follow him. He thanked them, fixed the day on which they were to be ready to march, and then dismissed them. In this interval, and now on the very eve of commencing his appointed work, to which for eighteen years he had been solemnly devoted, and to which he had so long been looking forward with almost sickening hope, he left the head-quarters of his army to visit Gades, and there, in the temple of the supreme god of Tyre, and all...
Pàgina 136 - The Carthaginian army faced the north, so that the early sun shone on their right flank, while the wind, which blew strong from the south, but without a drop of rain, swept its clouds of dust over their backs, and carried them full into the faces of the enemy. On their left, resting on the river, were the Spanish and Gaulish horse ; next in the line, but thrown back a little, were half of the African infantry armed like the Romans ; on their right, somewhat in advance, were the Gauls and Spaniards,...
Pàgina 205 - The censors (says Arnold) found the treasury unable to supply the public service. Upon this, trust monte* ( !) belonging to widows and minors, or to widows and unmarried women, were deposited in the treasury ; and whatever sums the trustees had to draw for were paid by the quarter (!) in bills on the banking commissioners or triumviri mensarii.
Pàgina 138 - Romans relied on the river as a protection to their right flank, and their left was covered in some manner which is not mentioned, — one account would lead us to suppose that it reached nearly to the sea, — or whether the great proportion of new levies obliged the Romans to adopt the system of the phalanx, and to place their raw soldiers in the rear, as incapable of fighting in the front ranks with Hannibal's veterans, — it appears at any rate that the Roman infantry, though nearly. double...
Pàgina 67 - Then Hannibal called his soldiers together, and told them openly that he was going to lead them into Italy. " The Romans,"' he said, " have demanded that I and my principal officers should be delivered up to them as malefactors. Soldiers, will you suffer such an indignity? The Gauls are holding out their arms to us, inviting us to come to them, and to assist them in revenging their manifold injuries. And the country which we shall invade, so rich in corn and wine...