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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 tho
Gnaeus Scipio in Spain
While these events were happening in Italy, Gnaeus
Cornelius Scipio, who had been left by his
brother Publius in command of the fleet, setting
sail from the mouth of the Rhone, came to
land with his whole squadron at a place in Iberia called
Emporium. Starting from this town, he made descents
upon the coast, landing and besieging those who refused to submit to him along the seaboard as far as the
Iber; and treating with every mark of kindness those who
acceded to his demands, and taking all the precautions
he could for their safety. When he had garrisoned those
towns on the coast that submitted, he led his whole army
inland, having by this time a not inconsiderable contingent of
Iberian allies; and took possession of the towns on his line of
march, some by negotation and some by force of arms. The
Carthaginian troops which Hannibal had left in that district
under the command of Hanno, lay entrenched to resist him
under the walls of a town called Cissa.
Defeating