Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — Troubles of the Ancients. [ARTICLE]

Troubles of the Ancients.

Hannibal’s scouts had reported to him that Rome was wild with fear oh account of hisapproach. ■ — ~r“Ha!’’ grimly smiled Hannibal; “to the hypersensitive ,Roman mind Punic is Syonymous with panic, is it?” But this was wholly wasted on the cheap mercenaries whom the Carthagenians had hired to do their fighting for them.