He says that Afer and Julius Africanus were the best orators he had heard, and that he prefers the former to the latter, Quintilian refers to a work of his On Testimony, to one entitled Dicta, and to some of his orations, of which those on behalf of Domitilla, or Cloantilla, and Volusenus Catulus seem to have been the most celebrated.

This latter view was accepted by Africanus, who says " that great and first flood occurred in Attica, when Phoroneus was king of Argos, as Acusilaus relates.

Sextus Julius Africanus says that he saw Bardaisan, with bow and arrow, mark the outline of a boy's face with his arrows on a shield which the boy held.

Hadrian's forefathers came from Hadria, modern Atri, an ancient town of Picenum in Italy, but the family had settled in Italica in Hispania Baetica soon after its founding by Scipio Africanus.

In 203 BC, after nearly fifteen years of fighting in Italy, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Carthage to direct the defense of his native country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus.

Starting in the 19th century, various texts claim that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus plowed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after defeating it in the Third Punic War ( 146 BC ), sacking it, and forcing the survivors into slavery.

The panegyrist of 289, after comparing his actions to Scipio Africanus ' victories over Hannibal during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maximian has never heard of them.

Plutarch affirms that, after his Consulship, Cato accompanied Tiberius Sempronius Longus as legatus to Thrace, but here there seems to be a mistake, for though Scipio Africanus was of opinion that one of the Consuls should have Macedonia, we soon find Sempronius in Cisalpine Gaul, and in 193 BC, we find Cato at Rome dedicating to Victoria Virgo a small temple which he had vowed two years before.

However, it is more likely that Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, a. k. a. Scipio – the Younger, returned this bull and other stolen works of art to the original Sicilian cities, after his total destruction of Carthage circa 146 BC, which ended the Third Punic War.

Sextus Julius Africanus, writing after 221 CE, adds that Ogyges founded Eleusis.

Gordian, after protesting that he was too old for the position, eventually yielded to the popular clamour and assumed both the purple and the cognomen Africanus on March 22.

This painting by Tiepolo depicts Massiva ( the nephew of a prince of Numidia ) being released after capture by Scipio Africanus ( a Roman General ).

For example, Publius Cornelius Scipio received the agnomen Africanus after his victory over the Carthaginian general Hannibal at Zama, Africa ( Africanus here means " of Africa " in the sense that his fame derives from Africa, rather than being born in Africa ); and the same procedure occurred in the names of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus ( conqueror of Numidia ) and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus.

Leo Africanus was born in Granada in around 1494 but his family moved to Fez soon after his birth.

Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the time of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop after Mark in the tenth year of Commodus ; Eusebius of Caesarea's statement that it was in the tenth of Septimius Severus is a mistake.

The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero ’ s Somnium Scipionis in the hope of learning some “ certeyn thing .” When he falls asleep Scipio Africanus appears and guides him up through the celestial spheres to Venus ’ s temple, after some deliberation at the gate both promising a “ welle of grace ” and a stream that “ ledeth to the sorweful were / Ther as a fissh in prison is al drye ” ( Reminiscent of Dante's " Abandon all hope ye who enter here ").

The most famous grantee of Republican victory title was Publius Cornelius Scipio, who for his great victories in the Second Punic War, specifically the Battle of Zama was awarded by the Roman Senate the title " Africanus " and is thus known to history as " Scipio Africanus " ( his adopted grandson Scipio Aemilianus Africanus was awarded the same title after the Third Punic War and is known as " Scipio Africanus the Younger ").

After the city of Numantia was finally taken and destroyed by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the younger after a long and brutal siege that ended the Celtic resistance ( 154-133 BC ), Roman cultural influences increased ; this is the period of the earliest Botorrita inscribed plaque ; later plaques, significantly, are inscribed in Latin.

Every king in Sothis after Menes is irreconcilable with the versions of Africanus and Eusebius.

How completely, even at a much later period, the one city was regarded as the representative of the other, appears from the statement of Cicero, that when Scipio Africanus, after the capture of Carthage, restored to the Agrigentines and Gelenses the statues that had been carried off from their respective cities, he at the same time restored to the citizens of Thermae those that had been taken from Himera.

Africanus may have become interested in Nottingham after visiting on the way home from the funeral.

Hannah and Samuel Cropper lived apart for years until after the death of George Africanus.

It is written in the format of a Socratic dialogue in which Scipio Africanus Minor ( who had died a few decades before Cicero was born, several centuries after Socrates ' death ) takes the role of a wise old man — an obligatory part for the genre.

Petrarch, for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic on Scipio Africanus, but this work was unappreciated in his time and remains little read today.

The ascription to Africanus of an encyclopaedic work entitled Kestoi ( Κέστος " embroidered "), treating of agriculture, natural history, military science, etc., has been disputed on account of its secular and often credulous character.

The final showdown was the battle of Zama in Africa between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal, resulting in the latter's defeat and the imposition of harsh peace conditions on Carthage, which ceased to be a major power and became a Roman client-state.

First, Pompey was not even a praetor, on which grounds a triumph had been denied in 206 BC to the great Scipio Africanus, who had defeated Rome ´ s outstanding enemy, Hannibal, and brought Rome an entire province in Hispania.

When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.

Even Scipio Africanus, who refused to reply to the charge, saying only, " Romans, this is the day on which I conquered Hannibal ," and was absolved by acclamation, found it necessary to retire, self-banished, to his villa at Liternum.

Gordian I on a coin, bearing the title AFR, Africanus.

Africanus, then Princeps Senatus, was outraged, going as far as destroying the campaign's financial records while on the floor of the Senate as an act of defiance.

The Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia ( modern Turkey ), between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the famed general Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum against the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.

Bodin drew largely on Johann Boemus, and also classical authors, as well as accounts from Leo Africanus and Francisco Álvares.

The title page of the 1600 English edition of Leo Africanus ’ s book on Africa.

It is likely that Leo Africanus was welcomed to the papal court as the Pope feared that Turkish forces might invade Sicily and southern Italy, and a willing collaborator could provide useful information on North Africa.

It is unlikely that Leo Africanus visited all the places that he describes and he must therefore have relied on information obtained from other travelers.

Once it undertook to organize the defense, it went to work vigorously, raising more than $ 50, 000 and hiring Scipio Africanus Jones, a highly respected African-American attorney from Arkansas, and Colonel George W. Murphy, a Confederate veteran, former Attorney General for the State of Arkansas and unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the Progressive Party ticket.

Another fornix was built on the Capitoline Hill by Scipio Africanus in 190 BC, and Quintus Fabius Allobrogicus constructed one in the Roman Forum in 121 BC.

Following on from the Syriac chroniclers of his homeland, who were writing in his lifetime under Arab rule in much the same fashion, as well as the Alexandrians Annianus and Panodorus ( monks who wrote near the beginning of the 5th century ), George used the chronological synchronic structures of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea, arranging his events strictly in order of time, and naming them in the year which they happened.

His chief authorities were Annianus of Alexandria and Panodorus of Alexandria, through whom George acquired much of his knowledge of the history of Manetho ; George also relied heavily on Eusebius, Dexippus and Julius Africanus.

The 9th-century Christian chronologer George Syncellus cites Sextus Julius Africanus as writing in reference to the darkness mentioned in the synoptic gospels as occurring at the death of Jesus: Thallus calls this darkness an eclipse of the Sun in the third book of his Histories. Africanus then goes on to point out that an eclipse cannot occur at Passover when the moon is full and therefore diametrically opposite the Sun.

Responding to this skeptical writers state the following ; " In the ninth century a Byzantine writer named George Syncellus quoted a third-century Christian historian named Sextus Julius Africanus, who quoted an unknown writer named Thallus on the darkness at the crucifixion: ' Thallus in the third book of his history calls this darkness an eclipse of the sun, but in my opinion he is wrong.

However, their material on Berossus was recorded by Abydenus ( second or 3rd century AD ) and Sextus Julius Africanus ( early 3rd century AD ).