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The history of Rome, tr.., with notes, by G. Baker
The history of Rome tr with notes by G Baker Author:Titus Livius Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK ter. They therefore commanded Marcus Livius, XXVIII. pro-consul, to march an army of volunteer slaves Y.R.547. from Etruria to Ariminum, at the same time ch... more »arging B.C. 205. the praetor, Cneius Servilius, if he judged it advantageous to the state, to order the city legions to be led into the field, by such commander as he should think proper. Marcus Valerius Laevinus conducted those legions to Arretium. About this time eighty transport ships of the Carthaginians were taken on the coast of Sardinia by Cneius Octavius, who held the government of that province. Caelius relates that these were laden with corn and provisions for Hannibal ; Valerius, that they were carrying to Carthage the plunder of Etruria, and the Ligurian mountaineers, who had been made prisoners. In Bruttium, hardly any thing memorable happened during that year. A pestilence had attacked both Romans and Carthaginians with equal violence, except that the Carthaginians, besides the disorder, were distressed by famine. Hannibal spent the summer near the temple of Juno Lacinea, where he built and dedicated an altar, with an inscription in the Carthaginian and Greek characters, containing a pompous recital of his exploits. HISTORY OF ROME. BOOK XXIX. Tn Spain, Mandonius and Indibilis, reviving hostilities, are finally subdued. Scipio goes over from Syracuse to Locri -, dislodges the Carthaginian general; repulses Hannibal, and recovers that city. Peace made with Philip. The Idaean Mother brought to Rome from Phrygia ; received by Pub- lius Scipio Nasica, judged, by the senate, the best man in the state. Scipio passes over into Africa. Syphax, having married a daughter of Hasdrubal, renounces his alliance vith Scipio. Masinissa, who had been expelled his kingdom by Syphax, .joins Scipio with two hundred hors...« less