blamed the unsettled measures of his country; and when the enemy had thrown into his camp the head of his brother Asdrubal, who had been conquered as he came from Spain with a reinforcement into Italy, Annibal said that the Carthaginian arms would no longer meet with their usual success. Juvenal, in speaking of Annibal, observes that the ring which caused his death made a due atonement to the Romans for the many thousand rings which had been sent to Carthage from the battle of Cannæ. Annibal, when in Spain, married a woman of Castulo. The Romans entertained such a high opinion of him as a commander, that Scipio, who conquered him, calls him the greatest general that ever lived, and gives the second rank to Pyrrhus the Epirot, and places himself the next to these in merit and abilities. It is plain that the failure of Annibal’s expedition in Italy did not arise from his neglect, but from that of his countrymen, who gave him no assistance; far from imitating their enemies of Rome, who even raised in one year 18 legions to oppose the formidable Carthaginian. Livy has painted the character of Annibal like an enemy, and it is much to be lamented that this celebrated historian has withheld the tribute due to the merits and virtues of the greatest of generals. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Lives of Distinguished Romans_.――_Livy_, bks. 21, 22, &c.――_Plutarch_, _Flamininus_, &c.――_Justin_, bk. 32, ch. 4. ――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 1, &c.――_Appian._――_Florus_, bks. 2 & 3. ――_Polybius._――_Diodorus._――_Juvenal_, satire 10, li. 159, &c. ――_Valerius Maximus._――_Horace_, bk. 4, ode 4, stanza 16.――――The son of the great Annibal, was sent by Himilco to Lilybæeum, which was besieged by the Romans, to keep the Sicilians in their duty. _Polybius_, bk. 1.――――A Carthaginian general, son of Asdrubal, commonly called of Rhodes, above 160 years before the birth of the great Annibal. _Justin_, bk. 19, ch. 2.――_Xenophon_, _Hellenica_.――――A son of Giscon and grandson of Amilcar, sent by the Carthaginians to the assistance of Ægista, a town of Sicily. He was overpowered by Hermocrates, an exiled Syracusan. _Justin_, bks. 22 & 23.――――A Carthaginian, surnamed Senior. He was conquered by the consul Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus in Sardinia, and hung on a cross by his countrymen for his ill success. =Annicĕris=, an excellent charioteer of Cyrene, who exhibited his skill in driving a chariot before Plato and the academy. When the philosopher was wantonly sold by Dionysius, Anniceris ransomed his friend, and he showed further his respect for learning by establishing a sect at Cyrene, called after his name, which supported that all good consisted in pleasure. _Cicero_, _de Officiis_, bk. 3. ――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Plato_ & _Aristotle_.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 2, ch. 27. =Annius Scapŭla=, a Roman of great dignity, put to death for conspiring against Cassius. _Hirtius_, _Alexandrine War_, ch. 55.