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Into part 4 on Roman culture.

Finished the Second Punic War and gone East.

This was the first and only defeat which the Romans suffered at sea during the war. Claudius was recalled and condemned to pay a heavy fine. The pious attributed his defeat to his insistence on fighting when the omens were unfavourable: hearing that the sacred chickens would not eat, it is said, he contemptuously dropped them overboard, remarking, 'Well, let them drink.'

Finished Part 1, Rome and Italy, now into Part 2 Rome and Carthage.

"I am very conscious that history means 'enquiry,' not certainty."

Scullard’s description of the wars with Carthage is easy to understand.