Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " lation of the treaty, bnt, though none should demand ' it, ought to be transported to the utmost extremities " of the world, and banished to so remote a distance, " as neither his name or fame might ever reach us, nor ' his presence disturb the tranquillity of our state.' My - advice therefore is, that you instantly dispatch one "; .embassy to Rome, to give the senate satisfactioa- ". another to command Hannibal to withdraw his army " from Saguntum, and then 'to deliver up himself to " the Romans, according to treaty ; and a third to make ," reparation to the Saguntines for the damages they " have sustained." CHAP. XI. As almost all the senators were in the interest of Hannibal, there was no occasion for disputing what was said by Harmo. After he had concluded hw speech, they reproached him with having spoken with more virulence and animosity, than the Roman embassa- dor Flaccus Valerius. Then they returned this answer to-,the Roman deputies, That it was the Saguntines if not Hannibal, who had been aggressors ia the war ",nd that the Romans would act unjustly, if they pre- "fenred the Saguntines to' their ancient allies the Car- " thaginians." While the Romans thus lost time in sending embassies, Hannibal, seeing his troops fatigued by fighting and working without any respite, gave them a few days rest, having in the mean time posted guards for She-defence of bis galleries and other works. Du- [VfMM time he revived their courage, sometimes by pratefcug their resentment against the enemy, and sometimes,by hopes of rewards. Butwienhe publicly'declare thatthe plunder should be their own, when they (utakee the town, they were all animated to such a aegP: that had the signal been given that instant, no- thing jeemed capable of resisting them. Though the Sa- gujrtipm had en...