SCIPIO, P. CORNELIUS, THE YOUNGER
- SCIPIO, P. CORNELIUS, THE YOUNGER
surnamed Africanus Minor, adopted by the preceding, the proper name being L. Paullus Æmelius; after distinguishing himself in Spain proceeded to Africa to take part in the Third Punic War; laid siege to Carthage, took it by storm, and levelled it with the ground in 146 B.C.; he was afterwards sent to Spain, where he captured Numantia after a stubborn resistance, to the extension of the sway of Rome; he was an upright and magnanimous man, but his character was not proof against assault; he died by the hand of an assassin.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.
James Wood.
1907.
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