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| | Scipio Africanus the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (Africanus the Younger), 185 - 129 BC An embossed steel shield belonging to Gustavus Brander, depicting Scipio Africanus the Younger, Roman statesman and general, receiving the keys of Carthage, at the end of the 3rd Punic War between Carthage and Rome, 149-146 BC. |
 | | Born in 185 BC, he was the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, hero of the Third Macedonian War and son of the consul (of the same name) who fell at the Battle of Cannae in 216. |
 | | Suddenly one morning (in 129 BC), at the age of 45, when he was due to make a speech on the Italian question, he was found dead in his bedroom. |
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