ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
Once Hannibal entered Italy, at first he encamped at the very foot of the Alps to refresh his forces. Continue reading “The speeches of Publius Scipio & Hannibal to their troops before the battle of Ticinus”
The Rhone rises north-west of the head of the Adriatic on the northern slope of the Alps, and running in a south-westerly direction, falls into the Sardinian Sea. Continue reading “Polybius about Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps”
Publius bound for Iberia with sixty ships and Tiberius Sempronius for Africa with a hundred and sixty quinqueremes. Continue reading “Hannibal’s crossing of the Rhone”
Hannibal, who was wintering in New Carthage, in the first place dismissed the Iberians to their own cities hoping thus to make them readily disposed to help in the future; Continue reading “Hannibal’s preparations before carrying the war against the Romans into Italy”
The first treaty between Rome and Carthage dates from the consulship of Lucius Junius Brutus and Marcus Horatius, the first Consuls after the expulsion of the kings, and the founders of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. Continue reading “The diplomatic history between Rome and Carthage up to the time of Hannibal”
To return to the war between Rome and Carthage, we must regard its first cause as being the indignation of Hamilcar surnamed Barcas, the actual father of Hannibal. Continue reading “The causes of the Hannibalic War”
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