The world: historical and actual . to give up allclaims to Sicily, restore her pris-oners and pay to Rome a consid-erable indemnity. The losseson both sides had been largewithout being at all may be said that both were weary and tookwith no thought of permanent peace. Twenty years elapsed between the first and thesecond Punic wars. To Carthage those were yearsof wasting civil strife. The unhappy republic wasthe prey of party conflicts, involving serious faction was in favor of strict attention to busi-ness, the other, insisting that a more military char-acter must be given
The world: historical and actual . to give up allclaims to Sicily, restore her pris-oners and pay to Rome a consid-erable indemnity. The losseson both sides had been largewithout being at all may be said that both were weary and tookwith no thought of permanent peace. Twenty years elapsed between the first and thesecond Punic wars. To Carthage those were yearsof wasting civil strife. The unhappy republic wasthe prey of party conflicts, involving serious faction was in favor of strict attention to busi-ness, the other, insisting that a more military char-acter must be given to the state, and that the war-like power which had arisen in Italymust be crushedbefore commerce could prosper on a solid founda-tion. The leaders of the two parties, Hanno andHamilcar, when the issue was raised, died duringthe cessation of hostilities, and Hannibal, son ofthe great soldier Hamilcar, came to the front asthe worthy successor of his martial father. Atthe age of twenty-six, he became the General of swearIf heright. Hannibal.
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