. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . t. TOUNO BOMAH IN THJt TfMM^. AEISS, OR BATTERINQ-BAM. CHAPTER V. FROM THE CONQUEST OF ALL ITALY DOWN TO THE OUT-BBEAK OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR. 272 TO 218. In tiie very first year of the repiilalic, 509, Romehad concluded a commercial treaty with the wealthycity of Carthage, a Phoenician colony on the north coastof Africa. The same treaty had been twice renewed,and the relation between the two rejjublics had^alwaysbeen of an amicable kind, but duiiug the conquests ofthe Romans in Southern Italy the Carthagin
. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . t. TOUNO BOMAH IN THJt TfMM^. AEISS, OR BATTERINQ-BAM. CHAPTER V. FROM THE CONQUEST OF ALL ITALY DOWN TO THE OUT-BBEAK OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR. 272 TO 218. In tiie very first year of the repiilalic, 509, Romehad concluded a commercial treaty with the wealthycity of Carthage, a Phoenician colony on the north coastof Africa. The same treaty had been twice renewed,and the relation between the two rejjublics had^alwaysbeen of an amicable kind, but duiiug 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 Carthaginians from the island, they concludeda defensive alliance with Rome which was directed againsttheir common enemy, although in the war against himthey never united their 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 foicible possession
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