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... neighbourhood and under the influence of Massilia . Scipio , therefore , perceiving it was no longer possible to prevent Hannibal from reaching the Alps , resolved to meet him in Italy on his descent from those moun- tains , when he ...
... neighbourhood and under the influence of Massilia . Scipio , therefore , perceiving it was no longer possible to prevent Hannibal from reaching the Alps , resolved to meet him in Italy on his descent from those moun- tains , when he ...
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... neighbourhood from which it could draw its subsistence , while its position intercepted Hannibal's communications with the country of the Insubrian Gauls , to which he must have looked as his base if the country south of the Po had not ...
... neighbourhood from which it could draw its subsistence , while its position intercepted Hannibal's communications with the country of the Insubrian Gauls , to which he must have looked as his base if the country south of the Po had not ...
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... neighbourhood of Lucca . * By this measure they hoped to cover both the roads which led from Cisalpine Gaul into the heart of Italy , the one by Ariminum and Ancona , the other through Etruria . Hannibal remained undisputed master of ...
... neighbourhood of Lucca . * By this measure they hoped to cover both the roads which led from Cisalpine Gaul into the heart of Italy , the one by Ariminum and Ancona , the other through Etruria . Hannibal remained undisputed master of ...
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... neighbourhood of his old quarters in Apulia . The summer was now far advanced : Hannibal had overrun the greater part of Italy , and had invariably been successful in his operations against the enemy ; but the allegiance of the Italian ...
... neighbourhood of his old quarters in Apulia . The summer was now far advanced : Hannibal had overrun the greater part of Italy , and had invariably been successful in his operations against the enemy ; but the allegiance of the Italian ...
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... neighbourhood . Fabius was soon after summoned to Rome on business connected with his office . He left the command of the army in his ab- sence to Minucius , strongly enjoining that general to continue to observe his system strictly ...
... neighbourhood . Fabius was soon after summoned to Rome on business connected with his office . He left the command of the army in his ab- sence to Minucius , strongly enjoining that general to continue to observe his system strictly ...
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