The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
Subtitle: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Aubrey De Selincourt (Editor, Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: July 30, 1965
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780140441451
First sentence: 1. Most historians have prefaced their work by stressing the importance of the period they propose to deal with; and I may well, at this point, follow their example and declare that I am now about to tell the story of the most memorable war in history: that, namely, which was fought by Carthage under the leadership of Hannibal against Rome.