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He tells us that a few years after this, he and his intimate friend Nick Ogaryov, standing on the Sparrow hills above Moscow, took a solemn "Hannibalic" oath to avenge these fighters for the rights of man and to dedicate their own lives to the cause for which they had died.
The Great Amateur Berlin, Isaiah 1968
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So I went up to Prof J's office and nearly wept with frustration because I couldn't find the speech in The Hannibalic War by Polybius.
new look Sara M 2006
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The devastation during the Hannibalic War of large stretches of Italian land, particularly in the south, also contributed to the growth of latifundia, as well as that of large-scale sheep farming.
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Livius Andronicus to prepare a hymn of expiation to the Aventine Juno, and, probably in the same year, to compose a hymn of thanksgiving for the success of Rome in the Hannibalic War.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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The Hannibalic war in Italy was, very probably, the most terrible war that there has ever been, not excepting the recent war in Europe.
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Such was the end of the Second Punic, or Hannibalic War, as called by the
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Livy's Hannibalic War (Books XXI-XXII); and Tacitus 'Germania; the history of classic art; and college grammar and exercises in prose composition.
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Hannibalic War, Tacitus 'Germania, and the history of classic art, on
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There were pirates on the other side of the Adriatic; and for the safety of her own eastern littoral she had been dealing with them, as with Spain, during and before the terrible Hannibalic time.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Hannibalic war, absenteeism was a chronic feature and a curse.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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