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C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Hannibal Selects Winter Quarters
With this view Hannibal crossed from Samnium by
Hannibal descends into the Falernian plain.
the pass of the hill called Eribianus,Near Cales. and
encamped on the bank of the river Vulturnus,
which almost divides these plains in half.
His camp was on the side of the river towards Rome, but
he overran the whole plain with foraging parties. Though
utterly aghast at the audacity of the enemy's proceedings,
Fabius stuck all the more firmly to the policy upon which he
had determined. But his colleague Minucius, and all the
centurions and tribunes of the army, thinking that they had
caught the enemy in an excellent trap, were of opinion that
they should make all haste into the plains, and not allow the
most splendid part of the country to be devastated. Until
they reached the spot, Fabius hurried on, and feigned to share
their eager and adventurous spirit; and, when he was near the
ager Falernus, he showed himself on the mountain skirts and
kept in a line wi