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There will be “tears-before-bedtime” for any and all of these Stanford-inspired gangsters.

The story of this great struggle cannot be told here.

Hannibal crossed the Pyrenees, the Rhone, the Alps and descended upon Italy, where for fourteen years his army lived upon the Italian contryside, attempting with little success to detach the Italian allies from their loyalty.

After initial failures Rome dared not risk open battle. Q. Fabius Maximus, called ‘the Delayer’ for his ‘Fabian’ tactics, might nibble at the invading army, but no conclusion followed. Roman nerves stood delay no longer. A general was appointed and charged to put an end to the invader.

At Cannae in 216 B.C. the Roman army was annihilated – and Rome never rose to such heights. Patiently she set to work to regain lost ground, and Hannibal was provoked to advance on the city. Three miles away he turned aside; for no ally had joined him, no army met him, no proposals of peace were sent to him. He withdrew. His brother Hasdrubal hastening into Italy from Spain was defeated and slain; and at Rome P. Cornelius Scipio urged and was allowed to undertake the invasion of Africa. At Zama in 202 B.C. victory was won; Carthage was broken.

There are many interesting features about this war. Rome might have expected it to be fought in Africa or Spain; it was fought in Italy and, it fused Italy into a whole.Rome might have expected some respite after victory: she was commited to years of severe fighting in Spain to prevent Carthaginian consolidation there; and, if Spain was divided into two ‘provinces’ in 197 B.C., much work still lay ahead.

She might have expected that after the wars in Spain Carthage would give no further trouble; but Carthage attacked Numidia. Rome decided upon extreme measures; yielding to the increasing demand of M. Porcius Cato that ‘Carthage must be destroyed’, she destroyed the city in 146 B.C., and Africa became a Roman province.

Finally, Rome might have expected the thanks of posterity and some measure of admiration for her inflexible courage and endurance through sixty-five years of war and threat of war.

But such prosaic virtues are apt to pale beside the romantic figures of Dido and Hannibal; and neither Regulus, made immortal in an ode of Homer, nor Scipio Africanus can restore the balance in English minds.

When Vergil, the poet of the augustan age, told in the Aeneid the srory of Aeneas’ journey from the still-smoking Troy to found a new Troy on the Seven Hills he made his hero halt on the shore of Africa where Carthage was being built by Dido, her queen. Aeneas stayed as her guest and lover till his duty to the Trojan gods drove him once more in search of the promised land.

Betrayed and deserted, the queen killed herself and the moving scenes in which Vergil presents the whole drama enlist modern sympathy on the side of the Carthaginian queen; Aeneas the reader of today can scarcely understand. The curse of deadly enmity between the two nations called down by Dido was extinguished only by the extinction of Carthage herself.

..the foregoing WAS a verbatim excerpt strictly textually-framed, iced, psycho-culturally Cap’n-Cooked and literally nonsensised as roman a these “narrow-at-if” authoritarian fiction (Suleiman) in neoclassical academic post Shakespearean mode English “4ROM” pp 35-6 Penguin Books “Ltd” Harmondsworth Middlesex and PB “Pty Ltd” 762 Whitehorse Rd Mitcham, Victoria (“Oi-oi Land”\ Years 10-12 Secondary please identify the text-quotes’ meanings) RH Barrow 1949 + 4 re-prints The Romans

Yours,

John Blundell

Onkaparinga Valley District Hospital 28051949 pictured below with a very politically powerful South Australian lady from the beginning of the TWENTIETH century who made a VERY special effort to ‘drum’ some sense into my person uh.