Notes on Italian deserters

[Michael Collins]

My notes on Italian “deserters” in Carthage after the second Punic War are supplemental to my previous papers on the battle of Zama. The presence of these demobilised troops in Carthage at the end of the Punic War is something of an untidy end which I believe needs to be addressed. ...This inconsistency between Livy`s summary of events after the Punic war and the account given of the end of the decisive battle of Zama by both Polybius and Livy needs some consideration. In this short piece, I will identify the sources that appear to be contradictory and discuss some related references that may shed some light on the way that Polybius described the battle of Zama.

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