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Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Note 18 — THE SECOND PUNIC WAR.

Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell translation

Cicero (de Oratore II, 18), in the anecdote of the rhetorician who expatiated before Hannibal on the excellencies of a general, says that Hannibal did not speak Greek well (non optime Græce).

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