The Second Punic War: Being Chapters of the History of Rome
The Second Punic War: Being Chapters of the History of Rome
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IIl] HIEKONYMUS. 198 events that were two or three years old were still A.n.c. 539.
news to foreigners ; common fame had reported the ^^' ^^^' general facts, but the details could only be gathered accidentally; and Hieronymus listened eagerly to Hippocrates and Epicydes, when they told him stories of their crossing the Bhone, of their passage of the Alps and Apennines, of the slaughter of the Eomans at Thrasymenus, and of their late unequalled \-ictory at Cannce, of all which they had them...selves been eye-witnesses.^ And when they saw Hierony- mus possessed with a vague longing that he too might achieve such great deeds, they asked him who had such claims as he to be king of all Sicily.
His mother was the daughter of P)Trhus ; his father was Hiero's son ; with this double title to the love and homage of all Sicilians, he should not be con- tented to divide the island either with Eome or Carthage : by his timely aid to Hannibal he might secure it wholly to himself The youth accordingly insisted that the sovereignty of all Sicily should be ceded to him as the price of his alliance with Carthage ; and the Carthaginians were well content to humour him, knowing that, if they could drive the Bomans out of the island, they had little to fear from the claims of Hieronymus.* Appius Claudius, the Soman praetor in Sicily, «j^^^^«rtii aware of what was going on, sent some of his officers ] to Syracuse to warn the king not to break off his grandfather's long friendship with Eome, but to renew the old alliance in his own name.* ffieronymus called his council together, and Hippocrates and » Polybiua, VII.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
112.
IIl] HIEKONYMUS. 198 events that were two or three years old were still A.n.c. 539.
news to foreigners ; common fame had reported the ^^' ^^^' general facts, but the details could only be gathered accidentally; and Hieronymus listened eagerly to Hippocrates and Epicydes, when they told him stories of their crossing the Bhone, of their passage of the Alps and Apennines, of the slaughter of the Eomans at Thrasymenus, and of their late unequalled \-ictory at Cannce, of all which they had them...selves been eye-witnesses.^ And when they saw Hierony- mus possessed with a vague longing that he too might achieve such great deeds, they asked him who had such claims as he to be king of all Sicily.
His mother was the daughter of P)Trhus ; his father was Hiero's son ; with this double title to the love and homage of all Sicilians, he should not be con- tented to divide the island either with Eome or Carthage : by his timely aid to Hannibal he might secure it wholly to himself The youth accordingly insisted that the sovereignty of all Sicily should be ceded to him as the price of his alliance with Carthage ; and the Carthaginians were well content to humour him, knowing that, if they could drive the Bomans out of the island, they had little to fear from the claims of Hieronymus.* Appius Claudius, the Soman praetor in Sicily, «j^^^^«rtii aware of what was going on, sent some of his officers ] to Syracuse to warn the king not to break off his grandfather's long friendship with Eome, but to renew the old alliance in his own name.* ffieronymus called his council together, and Hippocrates and » Polybiua, VII.
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