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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)
Hannibal Crosses the Pyrenees
These measures satisfactorily accomplished while he was
B.C. 218. Hannibal breaks up his winter quarters and starts for Italy.
in winter quarters, and the security of Libya
and Iberia being sufficiently provided for; when
the appointed day arrived, Hannibal got his army
in motion, which consisted of ninety thousand
infantry and about twelve thousand cavalry.
After crossing the Iber, he set about subduing the tribes of
the Ilurgetes and Bargusii, as well as the Aerenosii and Andosini, as far as the Pyrenees. When he had reduced all this
country under his power, and taken certain towns by storm,
which he did with unexpected rapidity, though not without
severe fighting and serious loss; he left Hanno in chief command of all the district north of the Iber, and with absolute
authority over the Burgusii, who were the people that gave
him most uneasiness on account of their friendly feeling towards Rome. He then detached from his army ten thousand
foot and a th
Preparations for Battle
As soon as Tiberius saw the Numidian horse approaching, he immediately sent out his cavalry by itself
Battle of the Trebia, December B.C. 218.
with orders to engage the enemy, and keep them
in play, while he despatched after them six
thousand foot armed with javelins, and got the
rest of the army in motion, with the idea that their appearance
would decide the affair: for his superiority in numbers, and
his success in the cavalry skirmish of the day before, had filled
him with confidence. But it was now mid-winter and the day
was snowy and excessively cold, and men and horses were
marching out almost entirely without having tasted food; and
accordingly, though the troops were at first in high spirits, yet
when they had crossed the Trebia, swollen by the floods which
the rain of the previous night had brought down from the high
ground above the camp, wading breast deep through the
stream, they were in a wretched state from the cold and want
of food as the day w
Euripidas Intends to Attack Sicyon
Meanwhile Euripidas, with two companies of Eleans,—
B. C. 218, Jan.-Feb. Destruction of a marauding army of Eleans under Euripidas.
who combined with the pirates and mercenaries
made up an army of two thousand two hundred
men, besides a hundred horse,—started from
Psophis and began marching by way of Pheneus
and Stymphalus, knowing nothing about Philip's
arrival, with the purpose of wasting the territory
of Sicyon. The very night in which it chanced that Philip
had pitched his camp near the temple of the Dioscuri, he
passed the royal quarters, and succeeded in entering the
territory of Sicyon, about the time of the morning watch. But
some Cretans of Philip's army who had left their ranks, and
were prowling about on the track of prey, fell into the hands
of Euripidas, and being questioned by him informed him of
the arrival of the Macedonians. Without saying a word of his
discovery to any one, he at once caused his army to face
about, and marched back
Chilon's Fruitless Attempts In Sparta
While Philip was thus engaged in Triphylia, Chilon
Chilon tries to seize the crown of Sparta, B. C. 218.
the Lacedaemonian, holding that the kingship
belonged to him in virtue of birth, and annoyed at the neglect of his claims by the Ephors
in selecting Lycurgus, determined to stir up a revolution: and believing that if he took
the same course as Cleomenes had done, and gave the common people hopes of land
allotments and redivision of property, the masses would quickly
follow him, he addressed himself to carrying out this policy.
Having therefore agreed with his friends on this subject, and
got as many as two hundred people to join his conspiracy,
he entered upon the execution of his project. But perceiving
that the chief obstacles in the way of the accomplishment
of his design were Lycurgus, and those Ephors who had invested
him with the crown, he directed his first efforts against them.
The Ephors he seized while at dinner, and put them all to