8.  What were the strength and character of the Roman army, and what the result of the battle?

9.  Was he able to make further resistance?

10.  Was Hannibal delivered up?

11.  What occasioned Hannibal to put himself in the power of Antiochus?

12.  Was this kindness lasting?

13.  Whither did he next betake himself?

14.  Was he in safety at this court?

15.  How did Hannibal escape his persecution?

16.  Against whom did the Romans next direct their arms?

17.  What occasioned it?

18.  Was Perseus a skilful general?

19.  What was the result of the war?

20.  What farther happened about this time?

21.  What was the consequence?

22.  Was this misunderstanding peaceably accommodated?

23.  By what means did the Carthaginians endeavour to avert their fate?

24.  Did they obey these orders?

25.  What extraordinary efforts were made for the defence of the city?

26.  Were the Romans successful in their attempts?

27.  Describe the progress of the siege.

28.  Was the city now completely in the power of the Romans?

29.  What other conquests were made by the Romans?

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] From this time, Macedon became a Roman province.

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CHAPTER XVII.

SECTION I.

FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE TO THE END OF THE SEDITION OF THE GRACCHI.—­U.C. 621.

  Seldom is faction’s ire in haughty minds
  Extinguished but by death; it oft, like flame
  Suppressed, breaks forth again, and blazes higher.—­May.

1.  The Romans being now left without a rival, the triumphs and the spoils of Asia introduced a taste for splendid expense, and this produced avarice and inverted ambition. 2.  The two Gracchi were the first who saw this strange corruption among the great, and resolved to repress it, by renewing the Licinian law, which had enacted that no person in the state should possess above five hundred acres of land. 3.  Tibe’rius Gracchus, the elder of the two, was, both for the advantages of his person and the qualities of his mind, very different from Scipio, of whom he was the grandson.  He seemed more ambitious of power than desirous of glory; his compassion for the oppressed was equal to his animosity against the oppressors; but unhappily his passions, rather than his reason, operated even in his pursuits of virtue; and these always drove him beyond the line of duty. 4.  This was the disposition of the elder Gracchus, who found the lower orders of people ready to second all his proposals. 5.  The above law, though at first carried on with proper moderation, greatly disgusted the rich, who endeavoured to persuade the people that the proposer only aimed at disturbing the government, and throwing all things into confusion. 6.  But Gracchus, who was a man of the greatest eloquence of his time, easily wiped off these impressions from the minds of the people, already irritated by their wrongs, and at length the law was passed.