[Linenotes: 147-148. +Expende ... invenies+ = _if you lay_ (lit. ‘weigh’) _Hannibal in the scale, how many pounds will you find in the greatest of commanders?_ --Duff. Cf. Ov. _Met._ xii. 615: Iam cinis est: et de tam magno restat Achille Nescio quid parvam quod non bene compleat urnam. 156. +media Subura+, i.e. in the heart of Rome. The Subura was one of the busiest and most populous quarters of Rome. 157. +O qualis facies ... tabella+ = _what a sight and how fit for caricature!_ lit. ‘worthy of what a picture’ i.e. how ridiculous a picture it would have made. --Hardy. 158. +luscum+ = _one-eyed_. Hannibal lost an eye from disease, while marching through the country flooded by the Arno, 217 B.C. 160. +in exilium+, i.e. first to Antiochus of Syria, and then to Prusias of Bithynia. 166. +anulus.+ Hannibal took poison which he carried about in a ring (+anulus+) 183 B.C., aged 76. 167. +ut ... fias+ = _to suit the taste of schoolboys, and become the subject of their speeches_. --Duff.] +For the thought+, cf. Shak. Ham. V. i. 232: Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw! C10 SECOND PUNIC WAR, 218-202 B.C. _Character of Hannibal._ Nunquam ingenium idem ad res diversissimas, parendum atque imperandum, habilius fuit. Itaque haud facile discerneres, utrum imperatori an exercitui carior esset; neque Hasdrubal alium quemquam praeficere malle, ubi quid fortiter ac strenue agendum {5} esset, neque milites alio duce plus confidere aut audere. Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par; cibi potionisque {10} desiderio naturali, non voluptate modus finitus; vigiliarum somnique nec die nec nocte discriminata tempora: id, quod gerendis rebus superesset, quieti datum; ea neque molli strato neque silentio accersita; multi saepe militari sagulo opertum humi iacentem {15} inter custodias stationesque militum conspexerunt. Vestitus nihil inter aequales excellens; arma atque equi conspiciebantur. Equitum peditumque idem longe primus erat; princeps in proelium ibat, ultimus conserto proelio excedebat. Has tantas viri virtutes {20} ingentia vitia aequabant, inhumana crudelitas, perfidia plus quam Punica, nihil veri, nihil sancti, nullus deum metus, nullum ius iurandum, nulla religio. LIVY, xxi. 4.