03-27-2008, 07:57 PM
I found this on the web:
In March 217(bc), Hannibal left his winter quarter at Bologna, traversed the Apennines and ravaged Etruria (modern Tuscany).
During a minor engagement, he lost an eye (although some historians claim that he suffered from opthalmia, while others claim the eye loss was due to conjunctivitus).
I have also read a couple of times that it was an eye infection that did for his eye!
Quintuis Sertorius
(aka Guido Aston)
In March 217(bc), Hannibal left his winter quarter at Bologna, traversed the Apennines and ravaged Etruria (modern Tuscany).
During a minor engagement, he lost an eye (although some historians claim that he suffered from opthalmia, while others claim the eye loss was due to conjunctivitus).
I have also read a couple of times that it was an eye infection that did for his eye!
Quintuis Sertorius
(aka Guido Aston)
Quintus
AKA Guido Aston
[size=100:2nyk19du]The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. [/size]
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
AKA Guido Aston
[size=100:2nyk19du]The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. [/size]
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
