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Hannibal
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“I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) first seen 217 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken to Italian soldiers of Rome captured at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (24 June 217 BC) as quoted in Hannibal : One Man Against Rome (1958) by Harold Lamb, p. 119.
“Ah there is one thing about them more wonderful than their numbers … in all that vast number there is not one man called Gisgo.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) first seen 216 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken as a jest to one of his officers named Gisgo, who had remarked on the numbers of Roman forces against them before the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC), as quoted in A History of Rome (1855), by Henry George Lid…
“nullum contemptu m[ortis incitamentum] ad uincendum homini ab dis immortalibus acrius datum est.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Livy, :la:s:Ab Urbe Condita/liber XXI 44, as translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt, in The War with Hannibal (1965).
“Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.