A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . A YOtTNO KOMAN IN THB ABISS, OK BATTERING-BUtt. CHAPTER V. FROM THE CONQUEST OF ALL ITALY DOWN TO THE OUT-BREAK OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAB. 272 TO 218. In the very first year of the republic, 509, Homehad concluded a commercial treaty with the wealthycity of Carthage, a Phcenician colony on the north coastof Africa. The same treaty had been twice renewed,and the relation between the two republics had alwaysbeen of an amicable kind, but during the conquests ofthe Romans in Southern Ita
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . A YOtTNO KOMAN IN THB ABISS, OK BATTERING-BUtt. CHAPTER V. FROM THE CONQUEST OF ALL ITALY DOWN TO THE OUT-BREAK OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAB. 272 TO 218. In the very first year of the republic, 509, Homehad concluded a commercial treaty with the wealthycity of Carthage, a Phcenician colony on the north coastof Africa. The same treaty had been twice renewed,and the relation between the two republics had alwaysbeen of an amicable kind, but during the conquests ofthe Romans in Southern Italy the Carthaginians seem tohave become apprehensive of the growing power of Pyrrhus was in Sicily with the avowed object ofdriving the Cai-thaginians from the island, they concludeda d^ensive alliance with Rome which was directed againsttheir common enemy, although in the war against himthey never united theii* forces. When Pyrrhus withdrewfrom Sicily, the island fell into a complete state of anarchy;and a body of Campanian mercenaries, called Mamertines,ravaged the country and took forcible possession o
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