Rome\'s decline and the U.S.

[Draconis]

Yes, Hannibal's observations are quite interesting. I do think he and Scipio were, generally speaking, 'modest' about their military accomplishments.

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Narukami

I think great men who have accomplished so much as Hannibal and Scipio did had no need to boast, it would have been beneath them. As an aside, given the degree of threat Hannibal was to Rome, and how utterly Rome destroyed Carthage so it would never rise again, you might expect Rome to have killed Hannibal for the same reason. That they didn't seems to bespeak of immense respect Scipio in particular must have felt for Hannibal. I read somewhere that the Roman Army became what it became founded on lessons they learned from Hannibal.