"I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome."

"Ah there is one thing about them more wonderful than their numbers … in all that vast number there is not one man cal…"

"nullum contemptu m[ortis incitamentum] ad uincendum homini ab dis immortalibus acrius datum est."

"Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)"

"I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors y…"

"When, among other things, he asked Hannibal who he thought had been the greatest general, Hannibal replied Alexander,…"

"Hannibal excelled as a tactician. No battle in history is a finer sample of tactics than Cannae. But he was yet great…"

"As to the transcendent military genius of Hannibal there cannot be two opinions. The man who for fifteen years could …"

"Of a truth the gods do not give the same man everything: you know how to gain a victory, Hannibal, but you do not kno…"

"With the examples of the Greek defeats of the Persians or the Battle of Cannae in the Punic Wars in mind, much but no…"