Excerpt from Livy, Vol. 5Cnnrus Funvrus, proconsul, defeated by Hannibal, and slain the consul, Claudius Marcellus, engages him with better success - Hannibal, raising his camp, retires, Marcellus pursues, and forces him to an engagement - They fight twice in the first battle Hannibal gains the advantage, in the second, Marcellus - Tarentum betrayed to Fabius Maxi mus, the consul - Scipio engages with Hasdrubal, the son of Hamilcar, at Betula. In Spain, and defeats him - Among other prisoners, a youth of royal race and ex uisite beauty, is taken, Scipio sets him free, and sends im, enriched with magnificent esents, to his uncle Masinissa - Marcel Ins and Quintus ris inus, consuls, drawn into an ambus cade by Hannibal: arcellus is slain, Crispinus escapes Operations by Publius Sulpicius, pretor, against Phili and the Acheans - A census held the number of citizens ouad to amount to one hundred and thirty -seven thousand one hundred and eight: from which it appears how great a loss they had sustained by the number of unsuccessful battles they had of late been engaged in - Hasdrubal, who had crossed the Alps with a reinforcement for Hannibal, de feated by the consuls Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero, and slain, with him fell fifty-six thousand men.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.