I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.


Spoken to Italian soldiers of Rome captured at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (24 June 217 BC) as quoted in Hannibal : One Man Against Rome (1958) by Harold Lamb, p. 119.

Hannibal Quotes

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.