I don't think
Hannibal was all that clever; I think he was f*cking paranoid! Some of his actions as described by
Cornelius Nepos are utterly irrational and only show that he messed up his own life ultimately because he was full of conspiracy theories about the Romans.-
This random post was brought to you by the fact that the biographer's constant fanboying of his subject is starting to get on my nerves.