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Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 11
195 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 11
Hannibal's Oath
When, after his final defeat by the Romans, Hannibal
had at last quitted his country and was staying
at the court of Antiochus, the warlike attitude
of the Aetolian league induced the Romans to send ambassadors to Antiochus, that they might be informed of the king's
intentions. B. C. 195These ambassadors found that Antiochus was inclined to the Aetolian alliance, and was eager for war with
Rome; they accordingly paid great court to
Hannibal with a view of bringing him into
suspicion with the king. And in this they entirely succeeded.
As time went on the king became ever more and more suspicious of Hannibal, until at length an opportunity occurred
for an explanation of the alienation that had been thus secretly
growing up between them. B. C. 238. Hannibal then defended himself
at great length, but without success, until at last he made the
following statement: "When my father was
about to go on his Iberian expedition I was
nine years old: and as he was offering the sac
238 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 11