Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Rome: The Punic Wars - The Second Punic War Begins - Extra History - Part 2" video.

  1. Actually in the latin spoken at that time it was pronunced "Skipio", like Caesar was pronunced "Kaesar".
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  2. That's "church latin", the pronunciation that imposed itself during the middle age. In ancient latin the "c" was only "hard", both the letters of "ae" were pronounced, and there was not difference between "V" and "U" (it was always pronounced as "U"), so, for example, "Cicero" was pronounced "Kikero", not "Chichero" or "Sisero". See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0
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  3. He was a Phoenician, so a Semite.
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  4. Yeah, but it happened around sixty years before. None of Scipio's soldiers had direct knowledge of them.
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  5. Yeah, but Scipio's men had, at best, only heard stories about them. Elephants can be easily defeated, and Romans started to do it very soon, but the countermeasures had to be perpared first than the battle.
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