And how do you know that Hannibal never thought of that one?

"Brothers! Hearken unto me! Be model now to lesser men, in a thousand years from now, nations as yet unborn will struggle in most noble war. Some will be come from the Pretannic north. Like Alexanders shall they fight, and remember not these Roman knights who fell here to make a lake of blood, to testify to Punic manhood."

I think he had too much wine that night.