Tom Holland

They hate him and fear him that much.

Obviously, Hannibal knows that this is going to be happening.

And so he's already made sure to scarper.

And

For the next seven years, he leads the life of a fugitive.

He's constantly finding refuge in a court here, a court there, and then being forced to go on the run again.

The Romans are endlessly pursuing him.

And finally, in 183, on a country estate in Bithynia, which is now northwestern Turkey,

He is cornered.

And Hannibal, who had known what was coming, he'd had various kind of tunnels dug out from his house.

But the Romans have cornered him.

They block off the exits from the tunnels.

And so Hannibal knows that he's got no way out.

And so he does what Sophonisba had done many years before, and he glugs down some poison.

And that is the end of him and Rome's greatest enemy at the age of 64, at last.

is dead.

Yeah, it's miserable.

And in the long run, the poet Juvenal will write a poem.

You know, he was this great guy who led elephants over the Alps.

And now he's, you know, a dead loser in a basement in Bithynia.