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Excerpt from Livy, Vol. 5 Cnnrus Funvrus, proconsul, defeated by Hannibal, and slain the consul, Claudius Marcellus, engages him with better success - Hannibal, raising his camp, retires; Marcellus pursues, and forces him to an engagement - They fight twice in the first battle Hannibal gains the advantage; in the second, Marcellus - Tarentum betrayed to Fabius Maxi mus, the consul - Scipio engages with Hasdrubal, the son of Hamilcar, at Betula. In Spain, and defeats him - Among other prisoners, a youth of royal race and ex uisite beauty, is taken; Scipio sets him free, and sends im, enriched with magnificent esents, to his uncle Masinissa - Marcel Ins and Quintus ris inus, consuls, drawn into an ambus cade by Hannibal: arcellus is slain; Crispinus escapes Operations by Publius Sulpicius, pretor, against Phili and the Acheans - A census held the number of citizens ouad to amount to one hundred and thirty -seven thousand one hundred and eight: from which it appears how great a loss they had sustained by the number of unsuccessful battles they had of late been engaged in - Hasdrubal, who had crossed the Alps with a reinforcement for Hannibal, de feated by the consuls Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero, and slain; with him fell fifty-six thousand men. 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.