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.

Scipio was eventually given limited approval, despite continuous opposition from Fabius who blocked levies and restricted Scipio's access to troops.

Fabius wished to ensure that sufficient forces remained to defend Roman territory if Scipio was defeated.

Their mother was a patrician named Cornelia Africana ; her father was Scipio Africanus.

Hannibal occupied much of Italy for 15 years, but a Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

Hannibal, by skillful maneuvers, was in position to head him off, for he lay on the direct road between Placentia and Arminum, by which Sempronius would have to march to reinforce Scipio.

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.

Scipio and Carthage had worked out a peace plan, which was approved by Rome.

This was again improved on by Jethro Wood, a blacksmith of Scipio, New York, who made a three-part Scots Plough that allowed a broken piece to be replaced.

Eventually, the war was taken to Africa, where Carthage was defeated at the Battle of Zama by Scipio Africanus.

In Rome, by virtue of his high culture, Polybius was admitted to the most distinguished houses, in particular to that of Aemilius Paulus, the conqueror in the Third Macedonian War, who entrusted Polybius with the education of his sons, Fabius and Scipio Aemilianus ( who had been adopted by the eldest son of Scipio Africanus ).

When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, Polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.

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.

The first Roman expedition to Iberia was unable to bring the Carthaginian troops in the hinterland of Massalia to a pitched battle, so it continued on its way to northern Iberia under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, a move which proved decisive for the outcome of the war.

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Longus ( or, less frequently, year 536 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Scipio ( or, less frequently, year 804 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Saturninus and Scipio ( or, less frequently, year 809 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Priscinus and Scipio ( or, less frequently, year 863 Ab urbe condita ).

Scipio is severely wounded, and the Romans withdraw to Placentia.

Little is known of Polybius ' later life ; he most likely accompanied Scipio to Spain, acting as his military advisor during the Numantine War.

: A Romance of Ancient China by Lanny Fields centers around Qin Shi Huang and a former Roman soldier named Marcus Lucius Scipio, whom Qin Shi Huang befriends after Marcus Scipio saves his life on multiple occasions.

Strang did not spend much of his life in Scipio, having left the town with his parents by the time he was three.

The nature of the dream, in which the elder Scipio appears to his ( adopted ) grandson, and describes the life of the good after death and the constitution of the universe from a Stoic and Neo-Platonic point of view, gave occasion for Macrobius to discourse upon the nature of the cosmos, transmitting much classical philosophy to the later Middle Ages.

Not much is known about the early life of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio.

In the Great Room, the events in the frescoes concentrate on humanistic ideals, exemplary scenes such as Virtue portrayed in a scene from the life of Scipio Africanus.

His father a Roman general died at war in Hispania ; years earlier his son Publius Cornelius Scipio ( later Africanus ) had saved his life.

Scipio was wounded and barely escaped with his life.

This last decision was not in keeping with a fast-moving reconnaissance and was to cost Scipio the battle and nearly his life.

Oppius also wrote a life of Caesar and the elder Scipio.

It was based upon the life of Roman General Scipio Africanus and its slow march is the regimental march of the Grenadier Guards.

Their parents had 12 children, but only one daughter ( who later married Scipio Africanus the Younger ) and two sons, Tiberius and Gaius, survived childhood.

Even Scipio Africanus the Younger, who had formerly enjoyed the love of the People, incurred their wrath when he said he disapproved of Tiberius ' politics, and was thereafter frequently interrupted when giving speeches, causing him to only lash out more at them.

According to the historian Plutarch ( in his Livesof the Gracchi ), only Scipio Nasica was directly involved in leading the senators to kill Tiberius.

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.

But he lost to someone, Scipio Africanus, who showed the weakness of " excessive mercy " and who could therefore only have had power in a republic.

Scipio knew that elephants could be ordered to charge forward, but they could only continue their charge in a straight line.

40 – 103 AD ) was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late 1st century AD: he was grandson of Aulus Julius Frontinus and Cornelia Africana, the only child of Publius Cornelius Scipio.

" From the evidence, the supposed union amounted only to Sempronius having " many close conferences with Scipio, ascertaining the truth about what had occurred, and discussing the present situation with him.

Scipio had successfully crossed the river and set up a camp only about 4 km from the camp of Antiochus.

He besieged the city of Intercatia, and they surrendered only when Scipio Africanus the Younger guaranteed that the treaty would not be broken.

Scipio himself escaped, only to commit suicide months later in a naval battle near Hippo Regius.

The magnificence of the ancient city, and the taste of its citizens for the encouragement of art, are attested by Cicero, who calls it in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum ; and some evidence of it remained, even in the days of that orator, in the statues preserved by the Thermitani, to whom they had been restored by Scipio, after the conquest of Carthage ; and which were valuable, not only as relics of the past, but from their high merit as works of art.

In the Iberian campaign lasting from 210 BC to about 206 BC, Laelius was a loyal second-in-command ; the only man to whom Scipio confided his plans to take Iberia.

Aemilia Lepida ( born 22 BC ) was the only daughter to Cornelia Scipio and the censor Lucius Aemilius Paullus.

Livy says only that he rescued his father, that Coelius Antipater, chronicler of the second Punic war, attributes the rescue to a Ligurian slave, but the general belief and opinion of most historians identifies the rescuer as the young Scipio.

" Seeing that his father was in danger with only two or three to defend him Scipio the younger " called upon those with him to go to the assistance of his father.

She was also apparently the last surviving grandchild of Scipio Africanus, and the only one who had no issue.

The two opponents spent the next few days observing and testing each other, with Scipio always waiting to lead out his troops only after the Carthaginians had advanced from their camp first.

But as Scipio now pressed his advantage by ordering his Iberian center into battle, the Carthaginians crumbled, and a massacre which might have rivaled the one in Cannae was only averted by a sudden downpour, which brought a hold to all actions on the field, and enabled the remaining Carthaginians to seek refuge in their camp.

Hasdrubal, meanwhile, was under the impression that the Roman attack was only a skirmish ( Scipio had hidden his main army in camp until the final attack ), failed to properly deploy his main force, thus his ill-prepared army was caught on three sides by the Romans.

" Those who had servants to bathe and anoint them were ridiculed by Scipio, who said that only mules, having no hands, needed others to rub them.

Scipio, a leading member and orator of the Republic, escaped the 1917 collapse, only to die in Camp Determination many years later.