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The Necessity of Caution in Dealing with an Enemy
TIBERIUS a Roman Pro-consul fell into an ambuscade,
Fall of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus [Cons. B. C. 215 and 213] as he was advancing
from Lucania to Capua, by the treachery of the Lucanian Flavius, B. C. 212. Livy, 25, 16.
and, after offering with his attendants a gallant
resistance to the enemy, was killed.
Now in regard to such catastrophes, whether
it is right to blame or pardon the sufferers is
by no means a safe matter on which to pronounce an opinion; because it has happened to several men, who have been perfectly correct in all their actions, to fall
into these misfortunes, equally with those
who do not scruple to transgress principles of right
confirmed by the consent of mankind. We should not however idly refrain from pronouncing an opinion: but should
blame or condone this or that general, after a review of
the necessities of the moment and the circumstances of
the case. Fall of Archidamus, B. C. 226-225. And my observatio
Antiochus the Great at Armosata
In the reign of Xerxes, prince of the city of Armosata, situated on the "Fair Plain," between
In the course of his campaigns for the recovering of the eastern provinces (B. C. 212-205).
Antiochus makes a demonstration before the city of Armosata, in Armenia, to recover the arrears of tribute owed by the late king, B. C. 212.
the Tigris and Euphrates, King Antiochus
encamped under its walls and prepared to
attack it. When he saw the king's forces,
Xerxes at first conveyed himself away; but
feeling afterwards that, if his palace were seized
by his enemies, his whole kingdom would be
overthrown, he changed his mind, and sent a
message to Antiochus declaring his wish for
a conference. The most loyal of the friends
of Antiochus were against letting the young
prince go when they once got him into their
hands, and advised Antiochus to take possession of the town,
and hand over the principality to Mithridates, his own sister's
son. The king, however, would not
Fall of Syracuse, B. C. 212
He counted the layers; for as the
The method taken by a Roman to estimate the height of the wall of Syracuse. Livy, 25, 23.
tower had been built of regular layers of
stone, it was very easy to reckon the height
of the battlements from the ground. . . .
Some days afterwards on information being given by a
deserter that the Syracusans had been engaged in a public
sacrifice to Artemis for the last three days; and
that they were using very scanty food in the
festival t
Beasts of Burden Used as a Defensive Wall
He gave orders that the infantry should take the beasts
of burden along with the baggage tied upon them from the
rear and range them in front of themselves. This produced a
defence of greater security than any palisade.This fragment is supposed, by comparison with Livy, 25, 36, to belong
to the account of the fall of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio in Spain, B. C. 212. . . .
So entirely unable are the majority of mankind to submit
to that lightest of all burdens—-silence. . . .
Anything in the future seems preferable to what exists in
the present. . .
The Hannibalian War
In the previous year (212 B. C.) Syracuse had fallen: the
two Scipios had been conquered and killed in Spain: the siegeworks had been constructed round Capua, at the very time of the
fall of Syracuse, i. e. in the autumn, Hannibal being engaged in
fruitless attempts upon the citadel of Tarentum. See Livy, 25, 22.
Entirely surrounding the position of Appius Claudius,
B. C. 211. Coss. Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus, P. Sulpicius Galba. The Romans were still engaged in the siege of Capua.
Hannibal at first skirmished, and tried all he
could to tempt him to come out and give him
battle. But as no one attended to him, his
attack became very like an attempt to storm
the camp; for his cavalry charged in their
squadrons, and with loud cries hurled their
javelins inside the entrenchments, and the
infantry attacked in their regular companies,
and tried to pull down the palisading round
the camp.Q. Fulvius and Appius Claudius, the Consuls of the previous year,
were continued in
The Spoils of Syracuse: Works of Art Taken To Rome
A city is not really adorned by what is brought from
without, but by the virtue of its own inhabitants. . . .
The Romans, then, decided to transfer these things to their
own city and to leave nothing behind. Syracuse was taken in the autumn, B. C. 212.
"The ornaments of the city, statues and pictures were taken to Rome." Livy, 25, 40,
cp. 26, 21. Whether
they were right in doing so, and consulted their
true interests or the reverse, is a matter admitting
of much discussion; but I think the balance of
argument is in favour of believing it to have been
wrong then, and wrong now. If such had been
the works by which they had exalted their
country, it is clear that there would have been
some reason in transferring thither the things by which they
had become great. But the fact was that, while leading lives
of the greatest simplicity themselves, as far as possible removed from the luxury and extravagance which these things
imply, they yet
Spain
The leaders of the Carthaginians, though they had
The two Scipios fall in B. C. 212.
conquered their enemies, could not control
themselves: and having made up their minds
Hasdrubal Gisconis
tertius Carthaginiensium dux. Livy, 24, 41, cp. 25, 37.
that they had put an end to the Roman war,
they began quarrelling with each other, finding continual
subjects of dispute through the innate covetousness and
ambition of the Phoenician character; among
whom Hasdrubal, son of Gesco, pushed his
authority to such a pitch of iniquity as to
demand a large sum of money from Andobales,
the most faithful of all their Iberian friends,
who had some time before lost his chieftainship
for the sake of the Carthaginians, and had but recently
recovered it through his loyalty to them. When Andobales,
trusting to his long fidelity to Carthage, refused this demand,
Hasdrubal got up a false charge against him and compelled
him to give up his daughters as hostages. . . .