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Rome and Carthage Continue to Covet Sardinia and Sicily
It appears to me not to be alien to my general
Sardinia reduced by T. Manlius Torquatus, B. C. 215. Marcellus took Leontini, B. C. 214 (autumn). Livy, 24, 30.
purpose, and the plan which I originally laid down, to
recall the attention of my readers to the magnitude of the
events, and the persistency of purpose displayed by the two
States of Rome and Carthage. For who could think
it otherwise than remarkable that these two powers,
while eng ain hopes and fears for
the future of these wars, and confronted at the
very time with battles equally formidable to either,
should yet not be content with their existing undertakings: but should raise another controversy
as to the possession of Sardinia and Sicily; and not content with
merely hoping for all these things, should grasp
at them with all the resources of their wealth
and warlike forces? Indeed the more we
examine into details the greater becomes
our astonishment. Marcus Valerius La