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The accuracy of this enumeration of Hannibal’s IberianThe inscription recording these facts. establishment need excite no surprise, though it is such as a commander himself would have some difficulty in displaying; nor ought I to be condemned at once of imitating the specious falsehoods of historians: for the fact is that I myself found on LaciniumA promontory in Bruttium, Capo delle Colonne. a bronze tablet, which Hannibal had caused to be inscribed with these particulars when he was in Italy; and holding it to be an entirely trustworthy authority for such facts, I did not hesitate to follow it.
