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brother-emperors · 2 months

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Mago and Hannibal :) I’m still figuring out a look for Hasdrubal, but I was reading Livy and the rings scene™️ is playing on repeat in my mind, so drawing Mago came first even though that one painting of Hannibal recognizing Hasdrubal’s head does something to me emotionally

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#drawing tag #this needs it’s own tag I’m not putting Hannibal in the Roman Republic tag #uhhhh how about #furthermore Carthage must have it’s own tag #that’ll work for now. I am sleepy. I need sleep. I’ll figure out a better tag tomorrow if inspiration strikes

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brother-emperors · 5 days

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I had an idea awhile back to do comics about Mago (specifically I wanted to do the rings scene, but I needed more context on literally everything), so I was reading Livy (as one does) and honestly. tell me more about how Scipio is wounded and in pain, Livy. you’ve got my complete attention, keep going.

So alarming a sight filled the Romans with dismay, and, to add to their fear, the consul was wounded and was only saved from danger by the intervention of his son, who was just reaching manhood. This is the youth who will have the glory of finishing this war, and be surnamed Africanus, from his famous victory over Hannibal and the Phoenicians. However, the rout was chiefly amongst the darters, the first to be charged by the Numidians: the cavalry rallied, and receiving the consul into their midst, and shielding him not only with their arms but with their persons also, brought him back to camp without panic or confusion at any point in their retreat. (The credit for saving the consul's life is given by Coelius to a Ligurian slave. I should prefer, for my own part, that the story about his son were the true one, and this is the version which most authorities have handed down and tradition has established

Scipio could no longer bear the pain occasioned by the jolting of his wound in travelling, and besides he judged it best to wait for the arrival of his colleague, who was already recalled —so he had heard —from Sicily. He therefore chose what seemed to be the safest place near the river for a permanent camp, and proceeded to entrench it.

Livy History of Rome, 21. 46 & 48

also Scipio’s son is here because there’s some real inheritance of violence going on with both sides. that also captures my attention, I guess.

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#also the fucking river keeps getting mentioned like what is this. the road to carrhae. romans: stop crossing rivers immediately #drawing tag #furthermore Carthage must have it’s own tag

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