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Often appears with: rank, class, and social order · hannibal in italy · conquest, plunder, and captives · camp pillaging · booty and treasury
Usually: narrative (1) · the fall of the great (1) · curiosity (1) · praise (1)
“For as, when a man has once set a fire alight, the result is no longer dependent upon his choice, but it spreads in whatever direction chance may direct, guided for the most part by the wind and the combustible nature of the material, and frequently attacks the first author of the conflagration himself: so too, war, when once it has been kindled by a nation, sometimes devours the first those who kindled it;” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · vivid
After the victory, Romans pillage the enemy camp, kill many Celts and Carthaginians, gain substantial booty for Rome’s treasury, and ignite city-wide joy that Hannibal cannot remain in Italy.
to such a pitch of hopefulness and confidence, that every one felt sure that Hannibal, formerly the object of their chief terror, could not after that stay even in Italy.... _A speech of the legate from Rhodes[19] before an assembly of Aetolians at Heraclea in the autumn of B.C. 207 (see Livy, 28, 7), at the end of the summer campaign_. +4.+ “Facts I imagine, Aetolians, have made it clear to you that neither King P…