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When Audacity is the Truest Safety
Much the same remark applies to Hannibal. For who
can refrain from regarding with respect and admiration a
general capable of doing what he did? First he attempted by
harassing the enemy with skirmishing attacks to raise the siege:
having failed in this he made direct for Rome itself: baffled
once more by a turn of fortune entirely independent of human
calculation, he kept his pursuers in play,sumpe/myai, a difficult word. See Strachan-Davidson's note. It seems
to me to be opposed to fugei=n or some such idea. Hannibal was not in
flight, but kept the enemy with him, as it were, in a kind of procession, until
the moment for striking. and waited till the
moment was ripe to see whether the besiegers of Capua
stirred: and finally, without relaxing in his determination, swept
down upon his enemies to their destruction, and all but
depopulated Rhegium. One would be inclined however to
judge the Romans to be superior to the Lacedaemonians at this
crisis. Fo
Sparta Must Be On Guard Against Attack from Rome
"With a knowledge of such transactions before his eyes
Herod. 7, 132.
who could help suspecting an attack from Rome, and feeling
abhorrence at the abandoned conduct of the Aetolians in
daring to make such a treaty? They have already wrested
Oeniadae and Nesus from the Acarnanians, Rome, and feeling
abhorrence at the abandoned conduct of the Aetolians in
daring to make such a treaty? They have already wrested
Oeniadae and Nesus from the Acarnanians, and recently
seized the city of the unfortunate Anticyreans, whom, in conjunction with the Romans,
they have sold into slavery.B.C. 211. See Livy, 26, 24-26. Their
children and women are led off by the Romans to suffer all
the miseries which those must expect who fall into the hands
of aliens; while the houses of the unhappy inhab
Embassy from Rome to Ptolemy
The Romans sent ambassadors to Ptolemy, wishing
M. Atilius and Manius Glabrio sent to Alexandria with presents
to Ptolemy Philopator and Queen Cleopatra. Livy, 27, 4, B. C. 210.
to be supplied with corn, as they were suffering
from a great scarcity of it at home; and, moreover, when all Italy had been laid waste by the
enemy's troops up to the gates of Rome, and
when all supplies from abroad were stopped by
the fact that war was raging, and armies encamped, in all parts of the world except in
Egypt. In fact the scarcity at Rome had come to such a
pitch, that a Sicilian medimnus was sold for fifteen drachmae.That is, 10s. 3 3/ng, and armies encamped, in all parts of the world except in
Egypt. In fact the scarcity at Rome had come to such a
pitch, that a Sicilian medimnus was sold for fifteen drachmae.That is, 10s. 3 3/4d. for about a bushel and a half. See on 2, 15.
But in spite of this distress the Romans did not relax in
their attention to the war.
His Election To the Aedileship
Subsequently, when his elder brother Lucius was a
Elected aedile, end of B. C. 217.
candidate for the Aedileship, which is about the most honourable office open to a "young" man at Rome: it being the
custom for two patricians to be appointed, and there being
many candidates, for some time he did not venture to stand
for the same office as his brother. But as the
day of election drew near, judging from the
demeanour of the people that his brother wouldline 20: "his brother would" should read "his brother would not".
easily obtain the office, and observing that his own popularity
with the multitude was very great, he made up his mind that the
only hope of his brother's success was that they should combine
their candidatures. He therefore resolved to act as follows:
His mother was going round to the temples and sacrificing
to the gods in behalf of his brother, and was altogether in a
state of eager expectation as to the result. She was the only
parent whose
He Determines To Attack Carthagena
The fact is that he had made minute inquiries, before
Scipio's careful inquiries as to the state of things in Spain.
leaving Rome, both about the treason of the Celtiberians, and
the separation of the two Roman armies; and
had inferred that his father's disaster was
entirely attributable to these. He had not therefore shared the popular terror
of the Carthaginians, nor allowed himself to be overcome by the general panic.
And when he subsequently heard that the allies of Rome
north of the Ebro were remaining loyal, while the Carthaginian
commanders were quarrelling with each other, and maltreating
the natives subject to them, he began to feel very cheerful
about his expedition, not from a blind confidence in Fortune,
but from deliberate calculation. Accordingly, when he arrived
in Iberia, he learnt, by questioning everybody and making
inquiries about the enemy from every one, that the forces of
the Carthaginians were divided into three. Mago, he was