... to the Saguntines for the injuries they had received.On the other hand, the friends of Hannibal urged in the Carthaginian senate their defense of the general. Theyreviewed the history of the ... treaty on the other. It was a solemn hour, for the peace of the world, the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, and the continued happiness or the desolation and ruin of vast regions of country, ... entered the mouth of the Rhone. The officers hadno idea that Hannibal was near. They had only heard of his having crossed the Iberus. They imagined that hewas still on the other side of the Pyrenees....