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She fancies herself secure because that far-away Republic protects her, and she laughs at me, though I reign over all the Peninsula as far as the Ebro, and am encamped almost at her very gates. She antagonizes the Turdetani, who are my allies, as are all the Iberian tribes, and within her walls she beheads the citizens who love me, those who were friends of the great Hamilcar.
In the name of the Senate and the Roman people they call upon you to raise the siege and to respect the city." "Tell them that Saguntum has offended me, and that she was first in declaring war by sacrificing my friends and by refusing to respect my allies, the Turdetani." "That is not true, Hannibal." "Greek, repeat what I say to the Romans." "The legates wish to land.
But a war is in progress here also, and I prefer to go against the Turdetani, to serve a city which I do not know, but which has never done me any harm." "And did you sleep here last night? Could you not find a bed in any of the inns?" "What I could not find was an obolus in my pouch. If I appeased my hunger, it was due to the charity of a forlorn harlot who shared her meagre supper with me.
As I behold all this warlike preparation, as I contemplate the youths of Saguntum rejoicing and boasting over their recent expedition against the Turdetani, I tremble for the city and the fate in store for my people. To-day we are the strongest, but will not someone come stronger than we, and clap upon our necks the chains of slavery?"
They were the arms of some hundreds of Turdetani killed or taken prisoner on the last expedition. Furniture and ornaments stolen in the villages of the enemy by the warriors of Saguntum were offered for sale at low prices in the barber-shops. Nobody wanted them. The city was filled with such spoils.
We shall yet reach the city before the gates are closed." "I thank you, neighbor. It is not prudent to travel alone when the country is swarming with adventurers whom we take as hirelings for the wars with the Turdetani, and all the people who fled from the city after the last revolt. Day before yesterday, as you know, the dead body of Acteio, the barber of the Forum, was found in the road.
Accordingly the Lusitanians, exasperated rather than humbled by the perfidy of Galba, immediately overran afresh the rich territory of the Turdetani.
They spent the winter not far from each other Lucullus in the territory of the Turdetani, Galba at Conistorgis And in the following year jointly attacked the Lusitanians. Lucullus gained some advantages over them near the straits of Gades.
They spent the winter not far from each other Lucullus in the territory of the Turdetani, Galba at Conistorgis And in the following year jointly attacked the Lusitanians. Lucullus gained some advantages over them near the straits of Gades.
But, with all my ignorance, I ask myself, neighbor, why this strife between us men who live in the same city who should deal with one another like good brothers? Why?" The shoemaker's comrade replied with vigorous nods of assent. "I understand," continued the artisan, "that from time to time we shall be at war with our neighbors the Turdetani.
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