Explanation: Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who caused Rome such distress in the Second Punic War, spent much of his later life on the run from Roman forces and emissaries hoping to get him handed over, tied with a neat ribbon, for a brutal execution. Hannibal, naturally, was not keen on enabling this. By one account of Hannibal’s death, Roman soldiers had surrounded the residence he was in, and he drank poison to avoid being taken alive.