A History of Rome for Beginners From the Foundation of the City to the Death O
A History of Rome for Beginners From the Foundation of the City to the Death O
Evelyn S Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
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C. 210) reduced Marcellus to remain in- active for the rest of the season at Venusia, and in B. C. 208 surprised and killed him near Bantia, yet he was steadily losing his hold on the country and becoming more and more confined to the Lacinian promontory, where he was to stand at bay for four or five years. He had failed, above all, to obtain a good port for troops arriving from 106 BATTLE ON THE METAURUS. CH. Africa to reinforce him : and now his one hope was that supplies of men and money sho...uld be brought him from Spain by his brother Hasdrubal, who in B. C. 209 had crossed the Pyrenees with large supplies of gold, and had spent B. C. 208 in Gaul collecting allies and hiring mer- cenaries. The Battle of the Metaurus. Early in the summer of B. C. 207, Hasdrubal had crossed the Alps, and, having spent some time in an attack upon Placentia, arrived at Ariminum, intending to march down by the eastern coast road and effect a junction with Hannibal, who was near Venusia on the borders of Lucania and Apulia.
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