Please Stop Hating Carthaginians

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“Our enemy is the Carthaginians. They have invaded this land with a barbaric army. Not only are they not native to Africa, but they come from the straits of the great ocean and the Pillars of Hercules; they know nothing of a civilization sustained by published laws, and can scarcely even be called human. These beast-like men are, by nature and by habit, cruel and savage. Their commander is even more of a beast. He orders bridges and dikes built from human corpses, and teaches his men to eat human flesh. Would you wish to see them fill their bellies with human meat, to see monsters too unholy even to touch become our masters, to see the laws of Africa and Carthage forced upon us as our own laws, to see Italy turned into a province of the Numidians and the Moors? Where is the man who, if he were born in Italy at all, would not utterly loathe such a fate?”

Words spoken by the Roman consul Varro to the delegation from Capua after the defeat at Cannae

p230~231, translated by Lee Jong-in, Livy’s History of Rome 3: The War with Hannibal, Hyeondaejiseong, 2020