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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 58 | 58 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 17 | 17 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 21-22 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Appian, Wars in Spain (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER I (search)
Appian, Wars in Spain (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER III (search)
CHAPTER III
War declared -- The Two Scipios -- Their Defeat and Death
Y.R. 536
The Romans now sent ambassadors to Carthage to B.C. 218 demand that Hannibal should be delivered up to them as a violator of the treaty unless they wished to assume the responsibility. If they would not give him up, war was to be declared forthwith. The ambassadors obeyed their instructions, and when the Carthaginians refused to give up Hannibal they declared war. It is said that it was done in the following manner. The chief of the embassy, pointing to the fold of his toga and smiling, said: "Here, Carthaginians, I bring you peace or war, you may take whichever you choose." The latter replied: "You may give us whichever you like." When the Romans offered war they all cried out: "We accept it." Then they wrote at once to Hannibal that he was free to overrun all Spain, as the treaty was at an end. Accordingly he marched against all the neighboring tribes and brought them under subjec
Appian, Hannibalic War (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER I (search)