. A history of Rome . gun-tum, a native city upon the east coast ofSpain, alone remained unsubdued. TheRomans, who were jealously watchingaffairs in the peninsula, had entered intoan alliance with this city, and taken it,with some Greek cities at the foot of thePyrenees, under their protection. Han-nibal laid siege to the place in the spring of 219 The RomanSenate sent messengers to him forbidding him to make war upon acity that was an ally of the Roman people; but Hannibal, disregard-ing their remonstrances, continued the siege, and after an investmentof eight months gained possession of
. A history of Rome . gun-tum, a native city upon the east coast ofSpain, alone remained unsubdued. TheRomans, who were jealously watchingaffairs in the peninsula, had entered intoan alliance with this city, and taken it,with some Greek cities at the foot of thePyrenees, under their protection. Han-nibal laid siege to the place in the spring of 219 The RomanSenate sent messengers to him forbidding him to make war upon acity that was an ally of the Roman people; but Hannibal, disregard-ing their remonstrances, continued the siege, and after an investmentof eight months gained possession of the town. The Romans now sent commissioners to Carthage to demand ofthe senate that they give up Hannibal to them, and by so doingrepudiate the act of their general. The Carthaginians Quintus Fabius, chief of the embassy, gathering up his toga,said: I carry here peace and war; choose, men of Carthage, whichye will have. Give us whichever ye will, was the reply. War,then, said Fabius, dropping his Fig. 13. Hannibal 56 EXPANSION OF ROME [§62 III. THE SECOND PUNIC WAR (218-201 ) 62. Hannibals Passage of the Alps. The Carthaginian empirewas now all astir with preparations for the mighty struggle. Hannibalwas the life and soul of every movement. His bold plan was to crossthe Pyrenees and the Alps and descend upon Rome from the in the spring of 218 , he set out from New Carthage withan army numbering about one hundred thousand men and includingthirty-seven war elephants. Traversing northern Spain and crossing
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