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A60230 The second Punick vvar betwwen Hannibal, and the Romanes the whole seventeen books, Englished from the Latine of Silius Italicus : with a continuation from the triumph of Scipio, to the death of Hannibal / by Tho. Ross ...; Punica. English Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.; Ross, Thomas, d. 1675. 1661 (1661) Wing S3783; ESTC R5569 368,610 626

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