Hannibal vs Rome: Terror at Trasimene
The Ancients
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Polybius's Path to the Apennines
There are different ways to get into a truria from the north but most of them involve crossing the Apennines at some point. So we think that he possibly, we don't know which one he took. We just know that Polybius says that he took the most direct of the routes and the one that was quickest but also least well guarded. Hannibal himself caught up farmy and lost the use of one of his eyes in this and this prompts lots of later Latin poets to call him a cyclops. He rode up on top of the one remaining elephant apparently to keep himself dry. And so the crossing is very difficult. There are some derogatory things said in our sources about the
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