(that’s directed at the Carthaginians, btw)
Thank the Gods! :-)
I can’t really blame Hannibal for feeling the way he did, considering the screwing Carthage got in the settlement of the first Punic war and Rome’s subsequent behavior in Spain; that said, I’d still reinstitute the Roman Republic (before the Gracchi screwed everything up) if I could impose my will; it’s been entirely downhill since Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.