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Hannibal's Treatment of Roman Prisoners
At the beginning of the following spring, Gaius Flaminius marched his army through Etruria, and
B. C. 217.
pitched his camp at Arretium; while his colleague Gnaeus Servilius on the other hand went to Ariminum,
to await the advance of the enemy in that direction.
Passing the winter in the Celtic territory, Hannibal keptHannibal conciliates the Italians.
his Roman prisoners in close confinement,
supplying them very sparingly with food;
while he treated their allies with great
kindness from the first, and finally called them together and
addressed them, alleging, "that he had not come to fight
against them, but against Rome in their behalf; and that,
therefore, if they were wise, they would attach themselves to
him: because he had come to restore freedom to the Italians,
and to assist them to recover their cities and territory which
they had severally lost to Rome." With these words he
dismissed them without ransom to their own homes: wishing
by t
Hannibal Goes Through the Marsh
But after a careful inquiry as to what part of the road
Hannibal starts for Etruria. Spring of B. C. 217.
was firm or boggy, Hannibal broke up his camp
and marched out. He placed the Libyans and
Iberians and all his best soldiers in the van,
and the baggage within their lines, that there
might be plenty of provisions for their immediate needs.
Provisions for the future he entirely neglected. Because
he calculated that on reaching the enemy's territory, if he were
beaten he should not require them, and if he were victorious he
would find abundance in the open country. Behind this
vanguard he placed the Celts, and in the rear of all the
cavalry. He entrusted the command of the rear-guard to his
brother Mago, that he might see to the security of all, and
especially to guard against the cowardice and impatience of
hard labour which characterised the Celts; in order that, if the
difficulty of the route should induce them to turn back, he
might intercept th
Hasdrubal Equips a Fleet
While these things were going on in Italy, Hasdrubal,
who was in command in Iberia, having during the winter repaired the thirty ships left him by his brother,
and manned ten additional ones, got a fleet of
forty decked vessels to sea, at the beginning of the summer,
from New Carthage, under the command of Hamilcar; and at
the same time collected his land forces, and led them out of
their winter quarters. Spain, B. C. 217. The fleet coasted up the country, and
the troops marched along the shore towards the Iber. Suspecting their design, Gnaeus Scipio was for issuing from his
winter quarters and meeting them both by land and sea. But
hearing of the number of their troops, and the great scale on
which their preparations had been made, he gave up the idea
of meeting them by land; and manning thirty-five ships, and
taking on board the best men he could get from his land
forces to serve as marines, he put to sea, and arrived on the
second day near the mouth of th
Spanish Hostages Given Up To the Scipios
When the Senate heard of Gnaeus Scipio's naval success, believing it to be advantageous or rather
Publius Scipio, whose imperium is prolonged after his Consulship of the previous year,
with Spain assigned as his province, is sent to join his brother there with 20 ships: early in B.C. 217.
essential not to relax their hold on Iberia, but
to press on the war there against Carthage with
redoubled vigour, they prepared a fleet of twenty
ships, and put them under the command of
Publius Scipio; and in accordance with arrangements already made, despatched him with all
speed to join his brother Gnaeus, and carry on
the Iberian campaign in conjunction with him.
Their great anxiety was lest the Carthaginians
should get the upper hand in Iberia, and thus possessing
themselves of abundant supplies and recruits, should get a
more complete mastery of the sea, and assist the invasion of
Italy, by sending troops and money to Hannibal. Regarding
therefore the
Philip Returns To the Peloponnese
And so the first year of this Olympiad was drawing
Midsummer B. C. 217. Dorimachus Aetolian Strategus, Sept. B. C. 119.
to a close. In Aetolia, the time of the elections
having come round, Dorimachus was elected
Strategus. He was no sooner invested with his
office, than, summoning the Aetolian forces,
he made an armed foray upon the highlands of Epirus, and began wasting the country with an
even stronger passion for destruction than usual; for his
object in everything he did was not so much
to secure booty for himself, as to damage theDestroys Dodona.
Epirotes. And having come to DodonaThe position of Dodona, long a subject of doubt,
was settled by the discovery of the numerous inscriptions found about seven miles from Jannina,
and published by Constantine Caraponos in 1878, Dodon et ses Ruines. See
also Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. i. p. 228. he burnt the colonnades, destroyed the sacred offerings, and even demolished
the sacred building; so t
Aratus Elected Strategus
When the next winter came, Philip having departed
Winter of B. C. 218-217.
to Macedonia, and the Achaean Strategus
Eperatus having incurred the contempt of the
Achaean soldiers and the complete disregard
of the mercenaries, no one would obey his orders, and
no preparation was made for the defence of the country.
This was observed by Pyrrhias, who had been
sent by the Aetolians to command the Eleans. Disorder in Achaia owing to the incompetence of the Strategus Eperatus.
He had under him a force of thirteen hundred
Aetolians, and the mercenaries hired by the
Eleans, as well as a thousand Elean infantry and
two hundred Elean cavalry, amounting in all to three thousand:
and he now began committing frequent raids, not only upon
the territories of Dyme and Pharae, but upon that of Patrae
also. Finally he pitched his camp on what is called the Panachaean Mountain, which commands the town of Patrae, and
began wasting the whole district towards Rhium and Aegium.
The
Forces Available to Antiochus and Ptolemy
At the beginning of the following spring, having all
B. C. 217. Antiochus and Ptolemy recommence hostilities in the spring. Ptolemy's army: 70,000 infantry, 5000 cavalry, 73 elephants.
preparations for war completed, Antiochus and
Ptolemy determined to bring their claims to
Coele-Syria to the decision of a battle. Ptolemy
accordingly set out from Alexandria with seventy
thousand infantry, five thousand cavalry, and
seventy-three elephants. Being informed of his
approach, Antiochus drew his forces together.
These consisted of Daae, Carmani, and Cilicians,
equipped as light-armed troops to the number of about
five thousand, under the charge and command
of Byttacus the Macedonian. The army of Antiochus: 62,000 infantry, 6000 cavalry, 102 elephants.
Under Theodotus, the Aetolian, who had deserted from
Ptolemy, were ten thousand picked men from
the whole kingdom, armed in the Macedonian
fashion, most of whom had silver shields. The number of
the p
A Year's Truce Between Antiochus and Ptolemy
Meanwhile Antiochus, on arriving at the city which
bears his own name, immediately despatched an embassy to
Ptolemy, consisting of Antipater, his nephew, and Theodotus
Hemiolius, to treat of a peace, in great alarm lest the enemy
should advance upon him. Peace between Ptolemy and Antiochus for a year, B. C. 217. For his defeat had
inspired him with distrust of his own forces,
and he was afraid that Achaeus would seize
the opportunity to attack him. It did not
occur to Ptolemy to take any of these circumstances into
account: but being thoroughly satisfied with his unexpected
success, and generally at his unlooked for acquisition of Coele-Syria, he was by no means indisposed to peace; but even more
inclined to it than he ought to have been: influenced in that
direction by the habitual effeminacy and corruption of his
manner of life. Accordingly, when Antipater and his colleague
arrived, after some little bluster and vituperation of Antiochu