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| | ROME IN AFRICA |
 | | Again and again the Carthaginians stipulated to the Greeks and Romans "Thus far and no farther!" |
 | | Bithynian town near the Sea of Marmora of which the Oracle had spoken, where, after long wanderings, and after many years, he should find release in that potent grain of poison which, even in the day of victory, he carried in his ring? |
 | | So at the last died Hannibal, son of Hamilcar, knowing that Punic Carthage was soon or late to fall for ever, and that already the neck of his nation was under the heel of Rome. |
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