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The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six

BOOK XXI
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The first was a commercial agreement made during the first consulate, in the year that the Tarquins were expelled from Rome; but is not mentioned by Livy.
The second is noted by him, lib.vii.27, and the third, lib.ix.

43.
The fourth was concluded during the war with Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, Polyb.

V.iii.

25: and the fifth was the memorable treaty at the close of the first war] on the terms, that the river Iberus should be the boundary of both empires; and that to the Saguntines, who lay between the territories of the two states, their liberty should be preserved.
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There was no doubt that in appointing a successor to Hasdrubal, the approbation of the commons would follow the military prerogative, by which the young Hannibal had been immediately carried to the praetorium, and hailed as general, amid the loud shouts and acquiescence of all.


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