Capitolo 2
There were three great European nations in the ancient days each of what
furnished history with a hero: the Greek, the Carthaginians and
the Romans.
[Sidenote: Alexander.]
Alexander was the hero of the Greek. He was King of Macedon a country,
northerly liar of Greece as amended. He led an army of his/her farmers, and
constituted an excursion it conquers and he boasts than in Asia. He did him
master of that whole quarter of the globe, and it reigned above it to Babylon,
you cultivate him it brought him to a first grave from the excesses in that his
boundless prosperity allured him. Its fame remains on his triumphant
the success in to build above for him so enormous an empire and the admiration
what its career has excited among humanity it is always elevated from the
the consideration of his/her youth, and of the noble and generous impulses
what it strongly marked his/her character.
[Sidenote: Hannibal.]
[Sidenote: Your terrible energy.]
The Carthaginian hero was Hannibal. We classify the Carthaginians among the
European nations of the antiquity; for, in in comparison to their origin, them
civilization and all of their commercial relationships and politics, them
it belonged to the European run, although it is true that their capital was
on the African side of the Mediterranean Sea. Hannibal was the great one
Carthaginian hero. He earned his/her fame from the energy and implacableness
of his/her hate. The job of his/her life was tender an enormous empire in a state
of the continuous anxiety and terror for fifty years, so that his/her application to
the greatness and rests of glory on the determination, the perseverance, and
the success with which he carried out to his/her function to be, while him
lived, the terror of the world.
[Sidenote: Julius Cesare.]
The Roman hero was Caesar. He was born only an one hundred years first the
It was Christian. Its renown doesn't depend, as that of Alexander, on
foreign conquests, neither, as that of Hannibal, on the terrible energy of
his/her aggressions on foreign enemies, but on his prolonged and terrible