An Universal History Volume 12; The Ancient Part (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 Excerpt: ...him was P. Servi iusGeminust a man of great integrity, but of moderate abilities in war. It fell by lot to Flaminius to oppose Hannibal, and to the other to command an army in Cisalpine Gaul. In the fame comitia, P. Cornelius Scipio, whose wound was not yet cured, was appointed to go into Spain in quality of proconsul, whither he had sent his brother Cn. Scipio to carry on the war against Jsdrubal. The elections being over, and the consulship of Sempra"t'rn'to ntuS not exP'rc' e retlirned to Placentia, where he had Placentia ta'cen UP cJuarters-As for Hannibal, he did not continue idle, notwithstanding the inconveniencies of the season, but made two attempts on two different places belonging to the Romans. The first was on a village on the banks of the P& which xhtRomans had fortified, and made their magazine of corn; but Sempronius, who was very good at these sudden expeditions, hearing from Placentia the shouts of the garison, hastened with all his cavalry to their relief, and obliged Hannibal, who was Liv. 1. xxi. c. 5,7. (E) Flaminius, entering into all the intrigues of the tribunes of the people against the nobility, had been the promoter of a law contrary to the interest of the nobility, which from him was called the Flaminian lavj. It was then customary for the nobility to fit out (hips, and trade, for 7 their private advantage; but Flaminius confined the liberty of commerce to the plebeians, by getting a law passed, forbidding the senators to possess more than one vessel each, and that only fit to bring provisions from their country-houses. wounded wounded on this occasion, to retire with great loss. But the indefatigable Carthaginian, before his wound was well cured, made a new attempt upon Viclumviae, a small city of In-Victumsuhria, w..