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Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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§61) HANNIBALS VOW 55 sons, whom he himself, it is said, was fond of calling the lionsbrood. As Hannibal, the eldest, was only nineteen at the time ofhis fathers death, and thus too young to assume command, Hamil-car was succeeded by his son-in-law, Hasdrubal. 61. Hannibals Vow; he Attacks Saguntum. Upon the death ofHasdrubal, which occurred 221 B.C., Hannibal, now twenty-six yearsof age, was by the unanimous voice of the army called to be its leader.When a child of nine years he had been led by his father to the altar,and there, with his hands upon the sacrifice, the little boy had sworneternal hatred to the Roman race. He was driven on to his giganticundertakings and to his hard fate notonly by the restless fires of his warlikegenius but, as he himself declared, bythe sacred obligations of a vow thatcould not be broken. In two years Hannibal extended theCarthaginian power to the Ebro. Sagun-tum, a native city upon the east coast ofSpain, alone remained unsubdued. TheRomans, who wer

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