How do you go to battle?

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Wasn't Hannibal the colonel just quoting Hannibal the general?

No, no, no. It was the habit of sticking an unlit cigar in his mouth just before popping off a pithy one-liner that the modern Hannibal inherited from his classical namesake. Not the one-liner itself. The closest that the senior commander ever came to expressing such a thing was, "Dudes! Did you see Lucius totally bite on that pump fake? What a tool. I so owned him!"

Of course, they didn't actually have tobacco during the Punics Wars, but one should recall that, being of Sumerian origin, "hemp" is one of the most ancient words in modern usage ...