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THE SECOND PUNIC WAR.
ally for fifty years; and not to engage in any war without the consent of Rome. Five hundred of the costly Phoenician war galleys were towed out of the harbor of Carthage and burned in the sight of the citizens.
Such was the end of the Second Punic, or Hannibalic War, as called by the Romans, the most desperate straggle ever maintained by rival powers for empire.
