[Footnote 20: _History of Rome._ By THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D. London: 1843.
Vol. 3.]
[Footnote 21: Hannibal was born in the year 247 before Christ, or 2092
before this time.]
[Footnote 22: _Virtus_ from _vir_--_exercitus_ from _exerceo_.]
[Footnote 23: Arnold, iii. 89.]
[Footnote 24: _Ibid._ iii. 486, note.]
[Footnote 25: Livy, xxi. 33.]
[Footnote 26: Polybius, iii. 52.]
[Footnote 27: _Ibid._ iii. 54.]
[Footnote 28: "The way on every side was utterly impassable, through an
accident of a peculiar kind, which is peculiar to the Alps. The snows of
the former years _having remained_ unmelted upon the mountains, were now
covered over by that which had fallen in the present autumn, and when
the soldiers feet went through the latter they fell, and slid down with
great violence."--POLYBIUS, iii. 54. This shows the place was within the
circle of perpetual snow; whereas that on the Little St Bernard is much
below it, and far beneath any avalanches.]
[Footnote 29: Polybius, iii. 54.]
[Footnote 30: Arnold, iii. 64, 65]
[Footnote 31: See Arnold's Rome, Blackwood's Magazine, July 1837.]