History of Rome, Volume 3B. Fellowes, 1845 - Rome |
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Accordingly Æmilius Africa allies Apennines Appian Apulia Ariminum arrived ascendency attack barbarians battle besieged Bruttium camp Campania Cannæ 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 Hannibal Hannibal's Hasdrubal Hasdrubal's horse Iberus Illyrian infantry Italy Lælius Lævinus land Latin colonies legions Leontini Lilybæum Livy Lucania Mago Marcellus Masinissa ment Nero nibal Numidian obliged party passed Placentia plain plunder Polybius prætor prisoners 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
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Page 65 - It was clearly for the good of mankind that Hannibal should be conquered ; his triumph would have stopped the progress of the world.
Page 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.
Page 64 - 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...
Page 65 - 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...
Page 384 - His mind rose above the state of things around him; his spirit was solitary and kingly; he was cramped by living among those as his equals whom he felt fitted to guide as from some higher sphere; and he retired at last...
Page 110 - Flaminius died bravely, sword in hand, having committed no graver military error than many an impetuous soldier, whose death in his country's cause has been felt to throw a veil over his rashness, and whose memory is pitied and honored.
Page 387 - ... friends, and his country. And as Scipio lived in himself and for himself like Achilles — so the virtue of Hector was worthily represented in the life of his great rival Hannibal, who, from his childhood to his latest hour, in war and in peace, through glory and through obloquy, amid victories and amid disappointments, ever remembered to what purpose his father had devoted him, and withdrew no thought, or desire, or deed, from their pledged service to his country.
Page 69 - 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...
Page 88 - ... such ground were able to move where horses would be quite helpless ; and thus at last Hannibal, with his infantry, forced his way to the summit of one of the bare cliffs overhanging the defile, and remained there during the night, whilst the cavalry and baggage slowly struggled out of the defile. Thus again baffled, the barbarians made no more general attacks on the army ; some partial annoyance was occasioned at intervals, and some baggage was carried off; but it was observed that wherever the...
Page 86 - This he effected, but the conflict of so many men on the narrow road made the disorder worse for a time ; and he unavoidably occasioned the destruction of many of his own men. At last, the barbarians being quite beaten off, the army wound its way out of the defile in safety, and rested in the wide and rich valley which extends from the lake of Bourget, with scarcely a perceptible change of level, to the Isere at Montmeillar. Hannibal, meanwhile, attacked and stormed the town, which was the barbarians...