Roman exhortation

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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · omens and omens · fate, destiny, and necessity · carthaginian exhortation · battle preparations · battle and tactics

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The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 secondary

Livy · c. 27 BCE–17 CE (composition of the History of Rome; these books 27–36 within that span)
BOOK XXVII. > BOOK XXX. (31/44)

After the negotiations fail, both sides prepare for a decisive battle, with Hannibal emphasizing years of victories in Italy and Scipio urging that Roman security and the war’s end are now within reach.

informed them that words had been bandied to no purpose, that the question must be decided by arms, and that they must accept that fortune which the gods assigned them. 32. When they had arrived at their camps, they both issued orders that their soldiers should get their arms in readiness, and prepare their minds for the final contest; in which, if fortune should favour them, they would continue victorious, not for …