" Hearing now from his servants that his house was surrounded by soldiers, he is said to have remarked: ‘It is now time to end the anxiety of the Romans. Clearly they are no longer able to wait for the death of an old man who has caused them so much concern.’ His irony mocked his enemies to the last. When the Romans burst into the house they found their great adversary lying dead; even in his very end he had eluded them. "

― Ernle Bradford , Hannibal (Military Library)