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  • ​fought the Romans in B.C. 20. It helped Hannibal with ships and men, and when Magone, brother of Hannibal, was wounded, he retired to Albenga to be...
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  • city of the Umbrians, received a Roman colony 241 B. C. In 217 Hannibal, after his victory at Lake Trasimenus, was repulsed from the walls of Spoleto. Here...
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  • completed in 142 B.C., when the conquest of Etruria and the defeat of Hannibal had put an end to fears of invasion; it was called the Pons Aemilius, after...
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  • where Hannibal, alarmed by a vision, resolved to retire without besieging Rome; of Castor and Pollux, built in 484 B.C. to cornmemorate the victory of Lake...
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  • only ships. During the Punic War, the town so strongly fortified that Hannibal did not venture to attack it. When Roman citizenship was offered to Naples...
    29 KB (4,859 words) - 15:15, 21 April 2013
  • Dicetas, at the taking of Heraea, and by Plutarch (Fabius Max. c. 6) of Hannibal, when he was surrounded and completely shut in by Fabius Maximus. An example...
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  • December 1895. Nine vessels of the same class were built, the last being the “Hannibal” (fig. 55, Plate XIV.), completed in April 1898. In two of the vessels...
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  • Guardaroba, among many other things, is an antique Head of the Carthaginian Hannibal, cut in a cornelian, with a beautiful bust in marble by Donatello. In the...
    168 bytes (11,221 words) - 16:10, 1 May 2023
  • knights by the Carthaginians at the battle of Cannae, from whose spoils Hannibal sent three bushels of gold rings to the city of Carthage! Gideon made an...
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  • knights by the Carthaginians at the battle of Cannae, from whose spoils Hannibal sent three bushels of gold rings to the city of Carthage! Gideon made an...
    343 KB (57,219 words) - 17:57, 23 September 2021
  • statement in Plin. h. n. viii. 57, that when Casalinum was besieged by Hannibal a mouse was sold for 200 denaria. The words יהוּדה מלך ויהושׁפט have been...
    434 bytes (110,458 words) - 09:18, 15 May 2022
  • of population btvoud a few villages and hamlets inhabited by fishermen. Hannibal and M irius found a temporary refuge in these islands, which were used...
    567 bytes (44,116 words) - 18:34, 22 February 2022
  • is the same everlasting situation that has prevailed since the times of Hannibal and Scipio, and further back yet, since the beginning of historical record--since...
    439 KB (79,397 words) - 22:55, 18 September 2022
  • drovest, driving, driven."--Matt. Harrison cor. "Beside that village, Hannibal pitched his camp."--W. Walker cor. "He fetched it from Tmolus."--Id. "He...
    395 bytes (132,300 words) - 02:03, 7 November 2022
  • broke off in the middle."--Kames, El. of Crit., i, 244. "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants drove back by the enemy."--Ib., ii, 32. "If Du Ryer had not...
    302 bytes (292,045 words) - 05:02, 4 March 2024