to the cause,we may conjecture something from the fact, that he effected a clandes-tine removal of all his wealth, though he pretended to leave behind hima vast amount of treasure. Tradition states that, having procured anumber of earthen jars, he filled them with lead, and, strewing a littlegold,… … Hannibal requesting tlie Cretan Priests to become his Bankers. assured him, with many protestations, that he would find it all righton his return; and Hannibal, having previously packed all his realgold into the hollow insides of some statues o; brass, which he pretendedto carry with him, in his…
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