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| | Polybius: Histories, selected excerpts |
 | | When Hannibal, after conquering the Romans in the battle at Cannae (216 BCE), got possession of the eight thousand who were guarding the Roman camp, he made them all prisoners of war and granted them permission to send messages to their relations that they might be ransomed and return home. |
 | | Two years afterwards (160 BCE), when his natural father, Lucius Aemilius, died, and left him and his brother Fabius joint heirs to his property, he did an act honourable to himself and worthy to be recorded. |
 | | Lucius died without children in the eyes of the law, for the two elder had been adopted into other families, and the other sons, whom he was bringing up to be the successors to himself and to continue his family, all died. |
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