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[T. Flavius]

John, there is no mention of how exactly Hannibal coped with losing his eye (or, indeed, to what extent he lost it). There are different accounts with the different authors (Polybius, Livy, Zonaras, Nepos etc); some say he lost it, that one eye went blind, or he just didn't see that well on one (left and right are both mentioned in the sources). We simply don't know. None of them mentions an eye patch. In keeping with a modern interpretation that it might have been iritis he contracted, I went with the outcome that I found visually the most interesting, and that's a glazed-over iris in one eye.

It was still recent enough for him to have worn a bandage, I suppose (and I have depicted him with one in other cases when I drew pictures from Trasimene). I decided against it for this image, because it would have put the focus squarely on the loss of his eye, when I wanted it on the waiting in the mist.

But here's a bandage for you
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