Kitap 25
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I should be preferred Or “heard before”. to you, Libyan; I’m the better man.
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No, I should.
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Let Minos decide, then.
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Who are you?
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This is Hannibal of Carthage, and I am Alexander, son of Philip.
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Both famous indeed. But what are you disputing?
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The first place. He says Cf. however Livy 35.14, Appian XI. 10, Plutarch Vit. Flam. 21.3 where Hannibal’s order is given as (1) Alexander, (2) Pyrrhus, (3) himself. Plutarch elsewhere (Vit. Pyrrh. 8.2) gives his order as (1) Pyrrhus, (2) Scipio, (3) himself. he was a better General than I was, but I say, as is known to all, that in the arts of war I was superior not only to him, but to pretty well every one who went before me.
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Then let each of you speak in turn; you start, Libyan.
