The History of Rome, Volume 2Harper &, Brothers, 1882 |
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Pagina 10
... soldiers imagined that Hamilcar , in his youth , was restored to them ; they remarked the same vigor in his looks and ani- mation in his eye , the same features and expression of countenance ; and then , in a short time , he took care ...
... soldiers imagined that Hamilcar , in his youth , was restored to them ; they remarked the same vigor in his looks and ani- mation in his eye , the same features and expression of countenance ; and then , in a short time , he took care ...
Pagina 33
... soldiers themselves , at once induced by the plenty of materials and the easiness of the work , hastily formed shapeless hulks , in which they could transport themselves and their baggage , caring about nothing else , provided they ...
... soldiers themselves , at once induced by the plenty of materials and the easiness of the work , hastily formed shapeless hulks , in which they could transport themselves and their baggage , caring about nothing else , provided they ...
Pagina 43
... soldiers , exhausted with toil and fighting ; and several beasts of burden , which had fallen down among the rocks , by following the track of the army arrived at the camp . A fall of snow , it being now the season of the setting of the ...
... soldiers , exhausted with toil and fighting ; and several beasts of burden , which had fallen down among the rocks , by following the track of the army arrived at the camp . A fall of snow , it being now the season of the setting of the ...
Pagina 47
... soldiers before he led them out to form for battle : 40. " If , soldiers , I were leading out that army to bat- tle which I had with me in Gaul , I should have thought it superfluous to address you ; for of what use would it be to ...
... soldiers before he led them out to form for battle : 40. " If , soldiers , I were leading out that army to bat- tle which I had with me in Gaul , I should have thought it superfluous to address you ; for of what use would it be to ...
Pagina 49
... soldiers , not only with that spirit with which you are wont to encounter other enemies , but with a certain indignation and resentment , as if you saw your slaves suddenly taking up arms against you . We might have killed them when ...
... soldiers , not only with that spirit with which you are wont to encounter other enemies , but with a certain indignation and resentment , as if you saw your slaves suddenly taking up arms against you . We might have killed them when ...
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Pagina 127 - ... he was invincible, formed his line, and provoked the enemy by a skirmishing attack with his Numidians. Upon this the Roman camp began again to be embroiled by a mutiny among the soldiers, and the disagreement of the consuls: since Paulus instanced to Varro the temerity of Sempronius and Flaminius; while Varro pointed to Fabius, as a specious example to timid and inactive generals. The latter called both gods and men to witness, "that no part of the blame attached to him that Hannibal had now...
Pagina 492 - ... of Umbria be heard of only two days after at Rome? Soon however it was known that a letter had arrived from L. Manlius Acidinus himself, who commanded the army at Narnia: the horsemen had certainly arrived there from the field of battle, and brought tidings of a glorious victory.
Pagina 39 - To them, marching up the first acclivities, the mountaineers appeared occupying the heights overhead ; who, if they had occupied the more concealed valleys, might, by rushing out suddenly to the attack, have occasioned great flight and havoc. Hannibal orders them to halt, and having sent forward Gauls to view the ground, when he found there was no passage that way, he pitches his camp in the widest valley he could find, among places all rugged and precipitous. Then, having learned from the same Gauls,...
Pagina 614 - NHmidians, who are by far the first horsemen in Africa. He had now as many as four thousand horsemen, when he took possession of a town named Salera, about fifteen miles from the Roman camp. When Scipio was told of this, he said, " What! cavalry lodging in houses during the summer! Let them be even more in number while they have such a leader.
Pagina 415 - ... covered with balls; on the fourth day they rested ; on the fifth they again performed evolutions under arms. This succession of exercise and rest they kept up as long as they staid at Carthage. The rowers and mariners, pushing out to sea when the weather was calm, made trial of the manageableness of their ships by mock sea-fights Such exercises, both by sea and land, without the city prepared their minds and bodies for war.
Pagina 681 - Such were the sentiments which Hannibal delivered to the Carthaginians. Scipio, having summoned an assembly, presented Masinissa, in addition to his paternal dominions, with the town of Cirta, and the other cities and territories which had passed from the kingdom of Syphax into the possession of the Romans. He ordered Cneius Octavius to conduct the fleet to Sicily and deliver it to Cneius Cornelius the consul, and directed the Carthaginian ambassadors to go to Rome, that the arrangements he had made,...
Pagina 532 - ... handled, they cannot be cured. For my own part, I believed that, after the Carthaginians were expelled from Spain, there was not a place in the whole province where, or any persons to whom, my life was obnoxious; such was the manner in which I had conducted myself, not only towards my allies, but even towards my enemies. But lo, even in my own camp, so much was I deceived in my opinion, the report of my death was not only readily believed, but anxiously waited for. Not that I wish to implicate...
Pagina 96 - Fabius perceived this tumult, but concluding that it was a snare, and being disinclined for a battle, particularly by night, kept his troops within the works. At break of day a battle took place under the summit' of the mountain, in which the Romans, who were considerably superior in numbers, would have easily overpowered the light-armed of the enemy, cut off as they were from their party, had not a cohort of Spaniards, sent back by Hannibal for that very purpose, reached the spot. That body being...
Pagina 130 - Roman line, and striking their backs and wounding their hams, occasioned vast havoc, and still greater panic and confusion. While in one part terror and flight prevailed, in another the battle was obstinately persisted in, though with little hope. Hasdrubal, who was then commanding in that quarter, withdrawing the Numidians from the...
Pagina 126 - Hannibal had pitched his camp near that village, with his back to the wind Vulturnus, which, in those plains which are parched with drought, carries with it clouds of dust. This circumstance was not only very advantageous to the camp, but would be a great protection to them when they formed their line; as they, with the wind blowing only on their backs, would combat with an enemy blinded with the thickly blown dust. When the consuls, employing sufficient diligence in exploring the road in pursuit...