Punica, Volume II - Silius Italicus

Ancient Rome's longest epic.Silius
Italicus (T. Catius, AD 25-101), was consul in 68 and governor of the
province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter
on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of
Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at
Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica,
in seventeen books, on the second War with Carthage (218-202 BC), is
based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast
between two great nations (and their supporting gods), championed by the
two great heroes Scipio and Hannibal, his poem is written in pure Latin
and smooth verse filled throughout with echoes of Virgil above all (and
other poets); it exploits with easy grace, but little genius, all the
devices and techniques of traditional Latin epic.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Silius Italicus is in two volumes.