The world: historical and actual . season fighting was necessary Some Hannibals Vow a rest, the Carthaginian army in Spain, for in Iberia, as the ancients called it, Carthage had very important possessions. Tradition has it, that at the age of nine his father took him to the temple and made him eternal enmity to Rome. did take such an oath, loyally did he observe it. Turning now to Rome, we findthat the interval of peace withCarthage was a of preparation. to main-tain the supremacy of Latium,and hold the Gauls in and Corsica were con-quered and a large part of Illyria
The world: historical and actual . season fighting was necessary Some Hannibals Vow a rest, the Carthaginian army in Spain, for in Iberia, as the ancients called it, Carthage had very important possessions. Tradition has it, that at the age of nine his father took him to the temple and made him eternal enmity to Rome. did take such an oath, loyally did he observe it. Turning now to Rome, we findthat the interval of peace withCarthage was a of preparation. to main-tain the supremacy of Latium,and hold the Gauls in and Corsica were con-quered and a large part of Illyriaoverrun. Rome asserted herselfin the affairs of Greece. Thefamous Flaminian Way, fromRome to the Gallic frontier nearAriminum, was constructed, giv-ing the consul Flaminius areputation second only to Ap-pius, who built the Appian , a plebeian, yet a noble-man, carried the Roman armsto triumph over an alliance ofGauls and Germans. The Car-thaginians had indeed gainedmuch in Spain, but the extensionof Roman power was far the great
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