In requital of this service he was assisted with provisions and supplies of every sort, particularly clothing, which the notorious cold of the Alps made it necessary to provide. This quarrel having very opportunely been referred to Hannibal for settlement, who thus became arbiter of the kingdom, he espoused the sentiments of the senate and the leading men and restored the sovereign power to the elder. The elder, Braneus by name, who had held sway before, was being driven out by a faction of juniors headed by the younger brother, whose right was less but his might greater. Two brothers were disputing the sovereignty. Near by is the country of the Allobroges, a tribe, even at that early day, inferior to no Gallic tribe in wealth 1 or reputation. There the rivers Isara and Rhone, rushing down from different Alps, unite their waters, after enclosing a considerable territory, and the Island is the name which has been given to the plains lying between them. The fourth day's march brought him to the Island.

With whom he had no mind to fight a battle until he should arrive in Italy. Setting out the following day he advanced up the Rhone towards the interior of Gaul, not that it was the more direct way to the Alps, but believing that the farther he retired from the sea, the less likely he was to fall in with the Romans, After encouraging them with this exhortation, he bade them refresh themselves and make ready for the march.

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