Saguntine Alcon negotiations Headquarters operations were not slowed down. Maharbal, son of Himilcon, who commanded for Hannibal, displayed so much activity that neither the soldier nor the enemy noticed the absence of the general. He gained some advantages, brought down, with three rams, a section
Arrival of the Roman Embassy The fight had been undecided for a long time. The Saguntines felt their ardor redoubled, because they resisted against all hope; and the Carthaginians believed themselves defeated, because they had not been able to conquer, (2) when suddenly the besieged uttered a cry,
Resumption of the seat For a few days it was more of a blockade than a siege. The Carthaginians were waiting for Hannibals healing. So no fight; but the construction of the works and the fortifications continued with the same activity. Also the attacks started again with more vigor and on several p
Headquarters preparations; Hannibal is wounded While Rome was preparing and deliberating, Saguntum was already being attacked with the greatest vigor. It was the most powerful of the cities beyond the Hebre, about a mile from the sea:originally a colony of the island of Zacynthos, it had received t
The end of Saguntum (March 218) While Alorcus was speaking, the crowd had insensibly penetrated, and the people had mingled with the senate. Suddenly the principal senators leave the assembly before an answer has been given, collect in the forum all the gold, all the silver of the public buildings,
The impetuosity of the soldier thus checked gave the defectors who were in the Achradine the time and the means to escape; and the Syracusans, delivered at last from all fear, opened the gates and sent deputies to Marcellus, who asked only for life for themselves and for their children. Marcellus, a
At this moment the deputies sent to Marcellus returned to Syracuse, and assured them that their suspicions were unfounded, and that the Romans had no motive to exercise vengeance upon them. Among the three officers in command in Achradine was a Spaniard, named Moericus. In the procession of deputies
Sending a delegation to Marcellus General assent greeted this speech. However, it was thought necessary to create praetors before appointing the deputies, who were chosen from among these magistrates. The deputation having arrived near Marcellus, the leader spoke thus: It is not to the Syracusans
As soon as it was learned, in the camp of the Sicilians, that Epicydes had moved away from Syracuse, that the Carthaginians had abandoned Sicily, and had, in a way, delivered it a second time to the Romans, after having, in the preliminary, sounded the dispositions of the besieged, deputies were sen
Organization of the Resistance in Sicily The land army of the Carthaginians thus destroyed, those of the Sicilians who had been soldiers of Hippocrates retired to two small towns, but strong enough by their situation and by their intrenchments, one of which is three, the other fifteen miles from Sy
Marcellus, master of Fort Euryale, garrisoned it and no longer had to fear that a large force introduced into the citadel would surprise his soldiers from behind and attack them within an enclosure of walls, which did not allow them to develop. Then he invests Achradine by means of three favorably p
The gates and walls of Achradine were guarded mainly by defectors, who, in the event of a surrender, had no hope of forgiveness. They did not allow anyone to approach the ramparts or start a conference. So Marcellus, having failed in this attempt, turned the signs towards Euryalus. It was a fort pla
The entry of the Romans into Syracuse Already the thousand soldiers were masters of part of the ramparts. The rest of the troops were brought up, and with more ladders they scaled the wall. The signal was given them from the Hexapyle, where the first assailants had arrived in the midst of profound
Conspiracy of the Banished Syracusans (Spring 212) While the Romans pressed the siege of Capua most vigorously, that of Syracuse was ended by the constancy and courage of the general and the army, which was assisted by the treachery of some inhabitants. Indeed, at the beginning of spring, Marcellu
Other consequences of defeat Hannibal came straight across Umbria to Spoleto. As, after having completely ravaged his territory, he was, in attempting to attack the city, repulsed with great loss, imagining, from the forces of the single colony against which he had just failed, the enormous power f
Appointment of a dictator (early July 217) (1) Before there was a definite plan, another defeat is suddenly announced; four thousand horsemen and the propraetor Caius Centenius, sent to his colleague by the consul Servilius, were, in Umbria, the region towards which they had headed on the news of t
Result of the battle Such was the famous Battle of Trasimene, and one of the few memorable defeats of the Roman people. Fifteen thousand Romans were killed in the fight; ten thousand, dispersed by flight through all Etruria, reached Rome by the most diverse routes; two thousand five hundred enemy p
The disaster (1) We fought for about three hours, and everywhere with fury; Yet it was around the consul that the struggle was the liveliest and fiercest. (2) He was the one followed by the elite of the soldiers, and he himself, wherever he saw that his people were in a hurry and in trouble, he act
Battle progress The Consul, amidst the general turmoil, showing himself alone to be calm enough, at least in this frightful situation, as the ranks are upset, each turning to a different cry, puts them in order as far as the moment and time permit. place, and, wherever he can go and make himself he
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