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

January 1, 1970

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Spoken to Italian soldiers of Rome captured at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (24 June 217 BC) as quoted in Hannibal : One Man Against Rome (1958) by Harold Lamb, p. 119.