place
Saguntum
also: Sagunto, Sagunti, Saguntum
A town on the east coast of Spain allied to Rome, whose siege by Hannibal in 219 BC triggered the Second Punic War. Cicero recalls the embassy the Senate sent to Hannibal over Saguntum as the precedent for sending legates only to foreign enemies.
Reading notes
- Stoic Paradoxes §24 the people of Saguntum
The Saguntines, who in 219 BC chose death over surrender to Hannibal, even killing their own families; Cicero cites them to show that taking a parent's life is not in itself, regardless of circumstance, a crime.