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It is impossible to withhold our admiration for Hannibal's leadership, his courage and his his ability in the field, when we consider the duration

of his campaigns, and take note of the major and minor battles, the sieges, the defections of cities

from one side to the other, the difficulties he encountered at various times, and in short,

the whole scope of his design and its execution. For 16 years, he waged ceaseless war against the Romans in Italy,

and the whole while, like a good pilot, he kept the love and loyalty of his forces.

He had with him Africans, Iberians, Gauls, Carthaginians, Italians and Greeks,

men who had nothing naturally in common, neither in their laws, their customs, Gauls, Carthaginians, Italians and Greeks, men who had nothing naturally in common,

neither in their laws, their customs, their language, nor in any other respect.

Nonetheless, the skill of their commander was such that he could impose the authority of a single

voice and a single will, even upon men of such totally diverse origins. If only he'd subdued

other parts of the world first, and finished with the Romans, not one of his projects would

have eluded him. But as it was, since he turned his attention first to those whom he should have dealt with last, his career began and ended with them.

So that was the Greek historian Polybius. It's one of those passages that seems written precisely to torment 16-year-old schoolboys and schoolgirls in British schools

in the 1940s or something, sort of slogging their way through his torturous prose.

Polybius, like him or loathe him, he's our best source for the Punic Wars.

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