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Hannibal

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When Hannibal mowed down Romans     with elephants,     his skill, his artistry,     had the effect of a painter's brush.     He, scraping paint off an easel,     would thrust     empires down,     trample Graeco - Romish influence     into paint spattered dust.     He neither was aware nor knew,     the Alps and Sabine allies,     Capua and other Latin tribes     would ruin his oath,     cause Baal, the false god,     to desert Punic prayers.

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