CORN. NEPOS, _Hamilcar_, i. [Linenotes: 1. +apud insulas Aegates+, the Goat Islands, off the W. Coast of Sicily, between Drepana and Lilybaeum (Marsala). 3. +statuerunt belli facere finem.+ This victory led to the close of the First Punic War. 5. +paci serviendum+ = _to devote himself to (obtaining) peace_. 9. +donicum+ (= _donec_), lit. ‘_at the time of day when ----_’ 10. +virtute vicissent+ = _they (the Romans) should have conquered by (superior) prowess_.] B. Hic dum stagnosi spectat templumque domosque Literni ductor, varia splendentia cernit Pictura belli patribus monumenta prioris 655 Exhausti: nam porticibus signata manebant, Quis inerat longus rerum et spectabilis ordo. . . . . . . . Addiderant geminas medio consurgere fluctu Aegates: lacerae circum fragmenta videres 685 Classis et effusos fluitare in gurgite Poenos. Possessor pelagi pronaque Lutatius aura Captivas puppes ad litora victor agebat. SILIUS ITALICUS, vi. 653-657, 684-688. [Linenotes: 653-654. +stagnosi Literni.+ Town and River on the coast of Campania, N. of Cumae. The River flows through a marsh = Literna palus. 654. +ductor+ = Hannibal. 654-657. Silius (who closely imitates Vergil) makes Hannibal view the sculptured memorials of the First Punic War, just as Aeneas sees carved the tale of Troy. Verg. _Aen._ i. 445-493.] +Parallel Passage.+ Polybius, i. caps. 59-63. +Terms of Peace.+ Carthage engaged to evacuate Sicily; not to make war upon Hiero of Syracuse; to give up all Roman prisoners without ransom, and to pay 2200 talents in twenty years. +Sicily the first Roman Province.+ C8 SECOND PUNIC WAR, 218-202 B.C. A. _Great Importance of the Second Punic War._ In parte operis mei licet mihi praefari bellum maxime omnium memorabile, quae unquam gesta sint, me scripturum, quod Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere. Nam neque validiores opibus ullae inter se civitates gentesque contulerunt {5} arma, neque his ipsis tantum unquam virium aut roboris fuit, et haud ignotas belli artes inter sese, sed expertas primo Punico conferebant bello, et adeo varia fortuna belli ancepsque Mars fuit, ut propius periculum fuerint, qui vicerunt. Odiis etiam prope {10} maioribus certarunt quam viribus, Romanis indignantibus quod victoribus victi ultro inferrent arma, Poenis, quod superbe avareque crederent imperitatum victis esse.