ALEXANDER I should be preferred Or “heard before”. to you, Libyan; I’m the better man. HANNIBAL No, I should. ALEXANDER Let Minos decide, then. MINOS Who are you? ALEXANDER This is Hannibal of Carthage, and I am Alexander, son of Philip. MINOS Both famous indeed. But what are you disputing? ALEXANDER The first place. He says Cf. however Livy 35.14, Appian XI. 10, Plutarch Vit. Flam . 21.3 where Hannibal’s order is given as (1) Alexander, (2) Pyrrhus, (3) himself. Plutarch elsewhere ( Vit. Pyrrh . 8.2) gives his order as (1) Pyrrhus, (2) Scipio, (3) himself. he was a better General than I was, but I say, as is known to all, that in the arts of war I was superior not only to him, but to pretty well every one who went before me. MINOS Then let each of you speak in turn; you start, Libyan.