My confidence would be increased by the very circumstance, that such important consequences depended upon the valour of one man.

But further, we must take warning by the Athenians, who inconsiderately crossed over into Sicily, leaving a war in their own country.

Why, therefore, since you have leisure to relate Grecian tales, do you not rather set before us the instance of Agathocles, king of Syracuse, who, when Sicily was for a long time wasted by a Punic war, by passing over into this same Africa, removed the war to the country from whence it came.
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"But what need is there of ancient and foreign examples to remind us what sort of thing it is boldly to carry terror against an enemy, and, removing the danger from oneself, to bring another into peril?
Can there be a stronger instance than Hannibal himself, or one more to the point?
It makes a great difference whether you devastate the territories of another, or see your own destroyed by fire and sword.
He who brings danger upon another has more spirit than he who repels it.

Add to this, that the terror excited by unknown circumstances is increased on that account.