<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3" n="25"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3:25" n="1"><sp><speaker>ALEXANDER</speaker><p>I should be preferred <note xml:lang="eng" n="7.143.1">Or “heard before”.</note> to you, Libyan; I’m the better man.</p></sp><sp><speaker>HANNIBAL</speaker><p>No, <hi rend="italic">I</hi> should.</p></sp><sp><speaker>ALEXANDER</speaker><p>Let Minos decide, then.</p></sp><pb n="v.7.p.145"/><sp><speaker>MINOS</speaker><p>Who are you?</p></sp><sp><speaker>ALEXANDER</speaker><p>This is Hannibal of Carthage, and I am Alexander, son of Philip.</p></sp><sp><speaker>MINOS</speaker><p>Both famous indeed. But what are you disputing?</p></sp><sp><speaker>ALEXANDER</speaker><p>The first place. He says <note xml:lang="eng" n="7.145.1">Cf. however Livy 35.14, Appian XI. 10, Plutarch <hi rend="italic">Vit. Flam</hi>. 21.3 where Hannibal’s order is given as (1) Alexander, (2) Pyrrhus, (3) himself. Plutarch elsewhere (<hi rend="italic">Vit. Pyrrh</hi>. 8.2) gives his order as (1) Pyrrhus, (2) Scipio, (3) himself.</note> 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.</p></sp><sp><speaker>MINOS</speaker><p>Then let each of you speak in turn; you start, Libyan.</p></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>