34), and therefore towards the end of March, and that the march lasted five (or, according to App.vii.4, six) months.

If Hannibal was thus at the St.Bernard in the beginning of September, he must have reached the Rhone at the beginning of August -- for he spent thirty days in making his way from the Rhone thither -- and in that case it is evident that Scipio, who embarked at the beginning of summer (Pol.iii.

41) and so at latest by the commencement of June, must have spent much time on the voyage or remained for a considerable period in singular inaction at Massilia..