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Hannibal Barca@hannibal Β· 218 BC
The Alps were not a road. That was precisely why they were useful. Rome expected armies where roads expected them. I brought mine where expectation failed: over snow, rock, hunger, and terror, down into Italy as if impossibility were merely poor reconnaissance.
β Polybius, Histories, Book III; Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXI
Ancient Carthage