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Livy, Books Xxi-Xxv, the Second Punic War, Tr. by A.j. Church and W.j. Brodribb
Livy Books XxiXxv the Second Punic War Tr by Aj Church and Wj Brodribb Author:Titus Livius General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: BOOK XXII. B. C. 217, 2l6. HOOK xxII. ' It was nearly spring when Hannibal moved out of his Hannibal moves w'ntcr quarters. He had before attempted to cross the Apennines, mt tf Ms winter but in vain, so intolerable was the cold; and his sojourn had been prolonged amidst extreme peril and apprehension. The Gauls had been attracted by the hope of spoil and rapine ; but vhcn they found that instead of their plundering their neighbours, their own country was made the battle-field, and that it was burdened by the winter quarters of the two armies, they transferred their hatred from the Romins to Hannibal. Again and again plots were hatched by the chiefs against Ji life; again and again he was saved by their treachery to each other, while they revealed their conspiracies with the same levity with which they had conspired. He would also change now his dress, now his wig, and found protection in thus confusing his assailants. However, these fears were another reason for his early movement out of winter quarters. Anxiety at About the same time, on the fifteenth of March, the consul, Cneius Servilius, entered on his office at Rome. When he submitted to the Senate his proposals for the year, their angry feeling against Caius Flaminius broke out afresh. " We have made two " consuls," they exclaimed," but we have only one. What legal " authority, what religious sanction does this man possess ? It is "from his home, from the hearth of the State and of the family; " it is after keeping the Latin Feast, and sacrificing on the Alban ' Hill, and prayingVith all due solemnity, that the new magistrate " takes this sa...« less