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Excerpt from Livy, Vol. 3 of 5 Syracuse taken by Claudius Marcellus, afier a siege of three years. - ln the tumult occasioned by tafiing the city, Archin ides is killed, while intent! Occupied on some figures which he had drawn in the -publius and Cornelius Scipio, after bavin performed many amines}: services in Spam, are slain, toget or with neq the who of their armies, eight years after their arrival in that country; and the possession of that province would have been. Entirely lost, but for the valour and activity of Lucius Narcius, a Roman knight, who, collecting the scattered remains of the vanquished armies, ut terly defeats the enemy, storminfi their two camps, kil thirty-seven thousand of them, an takiag eighteen h together with an immense booty. 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.