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204 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
218 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
220 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Carthage (Tunisia) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Plan: Causes of Wars
First I shall indicate the causes of the Punic or
1. The cause and course of the Hannibalian war.
Hannibalian war: and shall have to describe
how the Carthaginians entered Italy; broke up
the Roman power there; made the Romans
tremble for their safety and the very soil of their country;
and contrary to all calculation acquired a good prospect of
surprising Rome itself.
I shall next try to make it clear how in the same period2. Macedonian treaty with Carthage, B. C. 216.
Philip of Macedon, after finishing his war with
the Aetolians, and subsequently settling the
affairs of Greece, entered upon a design of
forming an offensive and defensive alliance with Carthage.
Then I shall tell how Antiochus and Ptolemy Philopator3. Syrian war, B. C. 218.
first quarrelled and finally went to war with
each other for the possession of Coele-Syria.
Next how the Rhodians and Prusias went to war with the4. Byzantine war. B. C. 220.
Byzantines, and compelled them to desist from
exact
Syracuse (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Plan: Causes of Wars
First I shall indicate the causes of the Punic or
1. The cause and course of the Hannibalian war.
Hannibalian war: and shall have to describe
how the Carthaginians entered Italy; broke up
the Roman power there; made the Romans
tremble for their safety and the very soil of their country;
and contrary to all calculation acquired a good prospect of
surprising Rome itself.
I shall next try to make it clear how in the same period2. Macedonian treaty with Carthage, B. C. 216.
P int I shall pause in my narrative to introduce aFirst digression on the Roman Constitution.
disquisition upon the Roman Constitution, in
which I shall show that its peculiar character
contributed largely to their success, not only in
reducing all Italy to their authority, and in acquiring a
supremacy over the Iberians and Gauls besides, but also at
last, after their conquest of Carthage, to their conceiving the
idea of universal dominion.
Along with this I shall introduce anotherSecond on Hiero
Phoenicia (search for this): book 3, chapter 2
Caria (Turkey) (search for this): book 3, chapter 2