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GIBRALTAR TO MALAGA. 89
mother: the utter deífruótion of the E o o K m -
Garthaginian empire was brought
upon that people for having attacked
and ruined the city of Saguntum in
alliance with the Romans.
By this wife conduót, from which
they never varied, the Romans fecured
their conqueíts; and the Spaniards, by
an happy experience of the mildnefs
of their government, had never a wiíh
to íhake it off, but preferved their
allegiance without garrifons and troops,
a burthen both to themfelves and their
mafters; on the contrary, they often
fent bodies of men to reinforce the
arañes of Rome, whom they looked
upon as their common parent.
Another privilege of thefe towns°£¿ h ^Sa"
was that of putting up ftatues, not m s tatue$ *
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