Excerpt from The Conquest of Italy and the Struggle With Carthage: 753 to 200
OF the Latin text in this book two-thirds is adapted from Livy, and about one-seventh from Polybius. Dionysius, Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Aurelius Victor have also been used.
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