. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. y of four thousand talents 5 at once,and two hundred talents annually for fifty years ; and not,under any circumstances, to make war upon an ally of Rome. Five hundred of the costly Phoenician war-galleys were towed out of the harbor of Carthage and burned in full sight of the citizens. Such was the end of theHannibalic War, as called bythe Romans, the most des-perate struggle ever main-tained by rival powers forempire. Scipio was accordeda grand triumph at Rome, and in honor of his achieve-ments given the surname Africanu
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. y of four thousand talents 5 at once,and two hundred talents annually for fifty years ; and not,under any circumstances, to make war upon an ally of Rome. Five hundred of the costly Phoenician war-galleys were towed out of the harbor of Carthage and burned in full sight of the citizens. Such was the end of theHannibalic War, as called bythe Romans, the most des-perate struggle ever main-tained by rival powers forempire. Scipio was accordeda grand triumph at Rome, and in honor of his achieve-ments given the surname Africanus. 121. Effects of the War on Italy. —Italy never entirelyrecovered from the calamitous effects of the HannibalicWar. During its long continuance the Roman state wasalmost drained of its young men of military age. Threehundred thousand Roman citizens are said to have beenslain in battle, and four hundred towns and hamlets actu-ally swept out of existence. As a punishment for joining 5 About $5,000,000. Our authorities differ as to the exact amountof this Publius Cornelius Scipio(Africanus). (From a bust in the Museum at Naples.) l8o ROME AS A REPUBLIC. the invaders, Rome herself had destroyed many cities be-longing to her allies and turned their territories into wasteland. Agriculture in some districts was almost peasantry had been torn from the soil and drivenwithin the walled towns. The slave class had increased,and the estates of the great landowners had constantlygrown in size, and absorbed the little holdings of theruined peasants. In thus destroying the Italian peasantry,Hannibals invasion and long occupancy of the peninsuladid very much to aggravate all those economic evils whicheven before this time were at work undermining the earliersound industrial life of the Romans, and filling Italy witha numerous and dangerous class of homeless and discon-tented men. References. — Whites Appian, vol. i., Foreign Wars, bk. vii. chaps,, for operatio
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