Moralia; Twenty Essays e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Let me take, by way of illustration, an example from Livy; I give first of all a literal rendering of the Latin, followed by Holland's version: the passage is from the celebrated twenty first book, where the Roman historian gives us. An unforget able picture of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.