Saguntum

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §7 Saguntum

  A wealthy city on the Spanish coast south of the Ebro, allied to Rome; its destruction was the immediate cause of the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §14 Saguntum

  The Spanish city allied to Rome whose fall began the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §18 the stormers of Saguntum

  The Spanish city whose siege and fall opened the Second Punic War; Hannibal taunts his men with its memory.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §42 the town of Saguntum, which was the cause of the war

  The Spanish city whose siege and fall opened the Second Punic War, recovered by Rome in its eighth year of Punic occupation.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §39 Saguntum

  Saguntum, the Spanish ally whose siege had begun the war, restored by Rome and sending a grateful embassy here.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §22 Saguntum

  Saguntum, the Spanish city whose siege by Hannibal precipitated the Second Punic War.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §6 Saguntines

  Saguntum, the Spanish city whose siege by Hannibal opened the Second Punic War; the cautionary example of delay.