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' My father Hamilcar ' I say with me being a little boy , not having been born more than nine years , in Hispania the emperor is leaving for Carthage , where he will offer to Jupiter the best and greatest of all gods . While this event is happening , he asked me if I wanted to go with him into the camps . I accepted and began to beg him to take me with him , to which he said , " I will do it , if you have given me the pact of which I ask . " At the same time he led me to the alter at which he had set up his sacrifice , and ordered me , holding onto the alter with the others having been removed , to swear that I will never be in friendship with the Romans . I preserve the oath I have been given to my father up until this age .