Hannibal

Reading notes

• The Odes §2.12 Hannibal

  Carthage's great general, another martial subject unfit for soft measures.

• The Odes §3.6 Hannibal

  'Dread Hannibal,' overcome by the manly stock of Sabine farmer-soldiers.

• The Odes §4.4 African

  The 'dire African' who rode through Italy 'like flame through pine-torches.'

• The Odes §4.4 Hannibal

  Who at last confesses the indestructible strength of the Roman stock.

• The Odes §4.8 Hannibal

  Whose 'threats hurled back' the marbles record — but song records better.

• The Epodes §16 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general who invaded Italy in the Second Punic War, the dread of the parents' generation.