Note 2955 — BOOK XXIII. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.
John Bostock translation
See B. xxx. c. 21. From Livy and Plutarch we learn that Hannibal employed this method of splitting the rocks when making his way across the Alps. Fée, at considerable length, disputes the credibility of this account, and thinks it only a wonderful story invented by the Romans to account for their defeat by Hannibal.