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Show Tho DonLh of Iliunillial. j Hannibal was made an exile, not as commonly supported, through Roman intluenee so much as from the personal animosity of his countrymen. After the defeat at Zimma he turned his attention atten-tion to the political affairs of Carthage, and inaugurated a system of reform which he carried out so rigorously that he soon found himself 'intensely hated by a large faction of the Carthaginians. Behind him was the honesty of the country, however, and, finding he could not be swerved from his purpose, the rogues in ollice attempted to assassinate assassin-ate him. Finding that his death had been determined on Hannibal left Carthage, Car-thage, went to Tyre, aud thence to the dominions of Antiocdius, whom he soon enlisted in war with Koine. The war I proved a failure, and Antiochus was ordered to surrender Hannibal, who got news of the demand and made his escape- Roman hatred followed him to Bithynia, and, finding himself on the point of being given up. he died from poison. The story that he once had a meeting at lOplicsns with his -old enemy, ene-my, Scipio Africanus, is told on fairly good authority. |