ABSTRACT
IN Bk II of his third decade Livy records an exploit, very similar to the ruse I have just described, devised and put into effect by Hannibal against the Romans. This is the story: 'While he was being driven by the Roman soldiery to spend winter in a position among rocks, sands, and foul marshes, it did not escape his notice that the enemy were turning his own strategy against him, so that he might not cross the mountains nor engage his foe when the latter was hemmed in by rocks.
