I swear that I will be an enemy to the Roman people, and that I will never make peace with them.
Carthaginian general
I swear that I will be an enemy to the Roman people, and that I will never make peace with them.
Carthaginian general
Oath taken as a child, as recorded by Polybius and Livy
c. 237 BCE
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