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Page 139
... crossing the narrow straits of Messana had entered on her career , for good and evil , of universal conquest and aggression . Carthage was still mistress of the western half of the Mediterranean , and had no intention of voluntarily ...
... crossing the narrow straits of Messana had entered on her career , for good and evil , of universal conquest and aggression . Carthage was still mistress of the western half of the Mediterranean , and had no intention of voluntarily ...
Page 154
... crossed the straits and set foot in another country and another continent . It was a bold step , but it was a wise one . If Carthage was to be saved at all from the ruin which Hamilcar and all keen - sighted men saw impending over it ...
... crossed the straits and set foot in another country and another continent . It was a bold step , but it was a wise one . If Carthage was to be saved at all from the ruin which Hamilcar and all keen - sighted men saw impending over it ...
Page 165
... crossed the Tagus , and had reduced the whole of Spain to the south of the Ebro to submission . But there was one ex- ception . The town of Saguntum , a Greek colony - so the inhabitants boasted — from Zacynthus , 3 and near the site of ...
... crossed the Tagus , and had reduced the whole of Spain to the south of the Ebro to submission . But there was one ex- ception . The town of Saguntum , a Greek colony - so the inhabitants boasted — from Zacynthus , 3 and near the site of ...
Page 165
... crossed the Tagus, and had reduced the whole of Spain to the south of the Ebro to submission. But there was one exception. The town of Saguntum, a Greek colony — so the inhabitants boasted — from Zacynthus,'5 and near the site of the ...
... crossed the Tagus, and had reduced the whole of Spain to the south of the Ebro to submission. But there was one exception. The town of Saguntum, a Greek colony — so the inhabitants boasted — from Zacynthus,'5 and near the site of the ...
Page 169
... crossing of broad and rapid rivers , of lofty and of unknown mountain chains , and amid races proverbial for their fickleness and faithlessness ; a journey which would take months instead of days , and which , if it failed at all , must ...
... crossing of broad and rapid rivers , of lofty and of unknown mountain chains , and amid races proverbial for their fickleness and faithlessness ; a journey which would take months instead of days , and which , if it failed at all , must ...
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