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...r neighbouring nations they endeavoured to learn the future, especially in war, by consulting the entrails of victims. They laid great stress upon favoura ...hout consulting the auspices, no election could be held, no law passed, no war waged; for a neglect of the auspices would have been equivalent to a declar

took charge of the tribute of the Italian allies. After the First Punic war, the annexation of the island of

...o his own lifetime.<ref>The Hannibalic war was evidently dealt with in the second book of the "Histories": Gellius, 10.24.6; Macrobius, 1.4.25. The story of One of Antipater's sources for his account of the war with Hannibal was the history written in Greek by [[Silenus of Calatia]]; a

...l affairs, interaction with other nations. They had authority in areas of war, peace, diplomacy, and international agreements. ...y begun by Numa Pompilius himself, the religiously inclined and innovative second king of Rome.

...ors of Cannae<ref>Cannae - the place of a major battle of the Second Punic War which took place on 2 August 216 BC in Apulia in southeast Italy. The army

...s morning, we remember the strife of the Roman People during the 2nd Punic War with Carthage, the stories of the arrival on this day of the Magna Mater in

...recommended her conscription as a key religious component in Rome's second war against Carthage. The goddess arrived in Rome in the form of Pessinos' blac * The Trojan War in which he brought plague to the Greeks and helped Paris slay Akhilleus.

:'''In the year 204 BC, the Punic War resulted in disasterous consequences for both the Roman army, and the safet 43. During the Second Punic War, why was Hannibal resigned to fight his campaign on land, instead of on wat

...swers to new uncertainties and fears. In 204 B.C., during the Second Punic War, the Romans consulted the Sibylline Oracles, which declared that the foreig

...ing to Rodgers, there was little in the way of Roman literature before the Punic Wars against Carthage (264 – 146 BCE). It was during this time that Rome ... him his life. Pharsalia, his most famous work, dealt with the Roman civil war of the 1st century BCE. His lesser known contemporary Statius wrote the twe