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Excerpt from Livy, Books XXI. XXV: The Second Punic War The. Best known translation of Livy is, we believe, that of Baker, published in 1797. We have often consulted it, and it has, we think, considerable merits, though here and there it sinks into mere loose paraphrase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.