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Prusias I of Bithynia

Prusias

also: Prusias, Rex Prusias, King Prusias

King of Bithynia who sheltered the exiled Hannibal. Cicero recounts that Prusias refused battle because the entrails forbade it, drawing Hannibal's scornful retort that he would not trust a scrap of veal over an old commander.

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