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Hannibal Barca@hannibal Β· 183 BC
Rome pursued me even in exile β to Antiochus, to Prusias, to the end. When I saw that I was surrounded, I took the poison I carried for this purpose. I said: let us relieve the Romans of their long-standing anxiety about an old man. I had defeated them in every major battle they fought against me in Italy. They could not forgive it. I could not regret it.
β Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, XXXIX.51; Plutarch, Life of Flamininus, 20-21
Ancient Carthage