History of Rome: From the end of the first to the end of the second Punic war. New ed. 1857B. Fellowes, F. and J. Rivington, 1845 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Accordingly Æmilius Africa allies Apennines Appian Apulia Ariminum arrived ascendency attack barbarians battle Bruttium camp Campania Cannæ Capua Carthage Carthaginian Casilinum cavalry CHAP Cisalpine Gaul citizens coast comitia command consular army consuls corn crossed defeat dominion encamped enemy enemy's Epicydes Etruria Fabius Flaminius fleet force Fulvius garrison gates Gaulish Gracchus Greek Hannibal Hannibal's Hasdrubal Hasdrubal's hope horse Iberus Illyrian infantry Italy Lælius Lævinus land Latin colonies legions Leontini Lilybæum Livy Lucania Mago Marcellus Masinissa ment Nero nibal Numidian obliged party passed Placentia plain plunder Polybius prætor prisoners Punic quarters retreat returned revolt Rhone road Roman army Rome Samnites Samnium Scipio second Punic war seems senate sent Sicily siege slaves soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish Syphax Syracusan Syracuse Tarentum Tifata town tribes troops valley Varro victory Vulturnus walls whole winter XLII XLIII XLIV XLVI XLVII XXII XXIII XXIV XXVI XXVII καὶ
Brani popolari
Pagina 65 - Hannibal must, in the course of nature, have been dead, and consider how the isolated Phoenician city of Carthage was fitted to receive and to consolidate the civilization of Greece, or by its laws and institutions to bind together barbarians of every race and language into an organized empire, and prepare them for becoming, when that empire was dissolved, the free members of the commonwealth of Christian Europe...
Pagina 65 - It was clearly for the good of mankind that Hannibal should be conquered ; his triumph would have stopped the progress of the world.
Pagina xi - ... reform was in exact proportion to his love of the institutions which he wished to reform; his hatred of shadows in exact proportion to his love of realities.
Pagina 64 - Hannibal's genius may be likened to the Homeric god, who, in his hatred of the Trojans, rises from the deep to rally the fainting Greeks, and to lead them against the enemy ; so the calm courage with which Hector met his more than human adversary in his country's cause, is no unworthy image of the unyielding magnanimity displayed by the aristocracy of Rome. As Hannibal utterly eclipses Carthage, so, on the contrary, Fabius, Marcellus...
Pagina 78 - But on a sudden a mass of fire was seen on the rear" of the barbarians ; the Gauls on the bank looked behind, and began to turn away from the river ; and presently the bright arms and white linen coats of the African and Spanish soldiers appeared above the bank, breaking in upon the disorderly line of the Gauls. Hannibal himself, who was with the party crossing the river, leaped on shore amongst the first, and forming his men as fast as they landed, led them instantly to the charge. But the Gauls,...
Pagina 110 - Flaminius died bravely, sword in hand, having committed no graver military error than many an impetuous soldier, whose death in his country's cause has been felt to throw a veil over his rashness, and whose memory is pitied and honored.
Pagina 138 - The Carthaginian army faced the north, so that the early sun shone on their right flank, while the wind, which blew strong from the south, but without a drop of rain, swept its clouds of dust over their backs, and carried them full into the faces of the enemy. On their left, resting on the river, were the Spanish and Gaulish horse ; next in the line, but thrown back a little, were half of the African infantry armed like the Romans ; on their right, somewhat in advance, were the Gauls and Spaniards,...
Pagina 69 - Then Hannibal called his soldiers together, and told them openly that he was going to lead them into Italy. "The Romans," he said, "have demanded that I and my principal officers should be delivered up to them as malefactors. Soldiers, will you suffer such an indignity ? The Gauls are holding out their arms to us, inviting us to come to them, and to assist them in revenging their manifold injuries. And the country which we shall invade, so rich in corn and wine...
Pagina 387 - ... friends, and his country. And as Scipio lived in himself and for himself like Achilles — so the virtue of Hector was worthily represented in the life of his great rival Hannibal, who, from his childhood to his latest hour, in war and in peace, through glory and through obloquy, amid victories and amid disappointments, ever remembered to what purpose his father had devoted him, and withdrew no thought, or desire, or deed, from their pledged service to his country.
Pagina 86 - This he effected, but the conflict of so many men on the narrow road made the disorder worse for a time ; and he unavoidably occasioned the destruction of many of his own men. At last, the barbarians being quite beaten off, the army wound its way out of the defile in safety, and rested in the wide and rich valley which extends from the lake of Bourget, with scarcely a perceptible change of level, to the Isere at Montmeillar. Hannibal, meanwhile, attacked and stormed the town, which was the barbarians...