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	Scipio Africanus Major - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scipio Africanus Major was born in 236 B.C. He later became a Roman General and the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic wars.
		Scipio was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio and considered himself to have divine inspiration from a very early age.
		Scipio trained a volunteer army in Sicily and a year later received permission to go to Africa and fought successfully alongside his allies, the Numidians, against the Carthaginians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scipio_Africanus_Major (344 words)

	Scipio Africanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scipio was present at the disastrous Battle of Ticinus (where, according to one tradition, he saved his father's life); and those at the Trebia and at Cannae.
		Scipio landed at the mouth of the Ebro and was able to surprise and capture Carthago Nova, the headquarters of the Carthaginian power in Hispania.
		Africanus himself was subsequently (185) accused of having been bribed by Antiochus, but by reminding the people that it was the anniversary of his victory at Zama he caused an outburst of enthusiasm in his favor.
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	The Baldwin Project: Soldiers and Sailors by Charles Horne
		Scipio proved that his army was in the best possible condition; and the commissioners were so surprised at what they saw, that instead of recalling the consul, they bade him sail to Africa as soon as he might think it proper, and to adopt any measures that he might think useful.
		Scipio, in consequence of this, sailed in B.C. 204 as proconsul, with a large army, from Lilybæum to Africa, and landed in the neighborhood of Utica.
		Scipio, fearing the influence she might have on Massinissa (for she was a Carthaginian), claimed her as a prisoner belonging to the Romans, and Massinissa poisoned her, to save her from the humiliation of captivity.
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	AllRefer.com - Scipio (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Publius was the father of the conqueror of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus Major.
		Africanus Major's wife was the sister of Aemilius Paullus, his daughter Cornelia was the mother of the Gracchi, and his eldest son was the adoptive father of Scipio Africanus Minor.
		B.C., consul in 138, and pontifex maximus, was a son of Africanus Major's daughter; despite the family connections he led the mob of senators that murdered Tiberius Gracchus.
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	Plutarch's Life of Marcus Cato
		Scipio [Africanus Major] answered, that he had no need for so accurate a treasurer, (bearing on as he was, so to say, full sail to the war,) and that he owed the people an account of his actions, and not of the money he spent.
		Scipio [Africanus Major's] lavishing unspeakable sums, and childishly loitering away his time in wrestling matches and comedies, as if he were not to make war, but holiday; and thus succeeded in getting some of the tribunes of the people sent to call him back to Rome, in case the accusations should prove true.
		Scipio's brother Lucius, he succeeded in obtaining a sentence against him, which condemned him to the payment of a large sum of money to the state; and being insolvent, and in danger of being thrown into jail, he was, by the interposition of the tribunes of the people, with much ado dismissed.
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	Scipio Africanus Major
		Scipio Africanus Major (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus) (sip'ēō ăfrikā'n
		The young Scipio was elected (c.211) to the proconsulship in Spain.
		In 202, Hannibal crossed to Africa and tried to make peace, but Scipio's demands were so extreme that war resulted; Scipio defeated Hannibal at Zama (202), returned home in triumph, and retired from public life.
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	Scipio Africanus: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scipio, on landing at the mouth of the Ebro, was thus able to surprise and capture Carthago Nova (Carthago Nova: carthago nova was the most important carthaginian coastal trading colony in spain....
		After the failure of peace negotiations, in which Scipio displayed great moderation, he defeated Hannibal in a decisive battle near Zama (battle near Zama: the battle of zama, fought on october 19, 202 bc, was the decisive battle of the...
		Scipio was welcomed back to Rome with the cognomen (cognomen: The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)) of Africanus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/scipio_africanus (1727 words)

	Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Minor Biography / Biography of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Minor Biography
		The second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Scipio was adopted by Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Scipio Africanus Major, and married Sempronia, sister of the Gracchus brothers.
		Scipio distinguished himself in single combat with a Spanish horseman, won the mural crown, and negotiated the surrender of the city of Intercatia.
		Scipio, though liberal in culture and a great admirer of Greek literature and learning, was basically a political conservative who vigorously supported senatorial control of the constitution and Roman dominion in the provinces.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-scipio-africanus-minor (796 words)

	Scipio Africanus Major articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scipio Africanus Major SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR [Scipio Africanus Major] (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus), 236-183 BC, Roman general, the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic Wars.
		Scipio Africanus Minor SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR [Scipio Africanus Minor] (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus), c.185-129 BC, Roman general, destroyer of Carthage.
		Scipio SCIPIO [Scipio], ancient Roman family of the Cornelian gens.
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	Punic Wars - Crystalinks
		A major fleet was built, both of transports for the army and its equipment and warships for protection.
		Scipio returned to Rome a great hero, and, although he was technically ineligible, was elected consul in 205 BC.
		When Scipio was sent to meet with Antiochus in Ephesus, he talked to Hannibal, asking him to name the greatest general of all time.
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	Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Biography / Biography of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Biography
		Scipio was married to Aemilia, sister of Lucius Aemilius Paullus (victor of Pydna in 168 B.C.), and became the father of Cornelia, mother of the Gracchus brothers.
		As a youth of about 18, Scipio was credited with having saved his father's life at the Battle of the Ticinus (Ticino) in 218, and as military tribune in 216, he rallied the survivors after the disastrous defeat of Cannae.
		In 190 Scipio was instrumental in obtaining for his brother Lucius, consul of the year, the command against Antiochus by offering to accompany him as legate on his campaign.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-scipio-africanus-major (793 words)

	CIPIOUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like Africanus Major, he cultivated a love for Greek philosophy and Greek civilization, forming a circle of the most famous writers of his day, which included Cicero and Terence.
		Scipio is one of the chief persons in Cicero's De re publica, of which the Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio) forms the end of the sixth book.
		Scipio, the Latin form, which means "staff" or "wand" and indicates a family of the clan Cornelia, appears once, in final rhyming position, HF II.916.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/C/cipioun.htm (377 words)

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		Scipio is first mentioned saving the life of his father, the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio, who was severely wounded in a skirmish before the Battle of the Trebia (218 b.c.e.
		Thus Scipio outflanked the enemy with a smaller army, defeating the Carthaginians before they could put their best troops to use.
		Scipio was an inspiring leader who could gain and keep the loyalty of his men.
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	AFFRICAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Publius Cornelius Scipio, Africanus Major (236-184/183 B.C.), invaded Africa in 206 B.C., while he was consul, and decisively defeated Hasdrubal and Hannibal in 203.
		Scipio the Younger tells how he had visited the Numidian king, Masinissa, with whom he had discussed the elder Scipio, and how he had dreamed of his ancestor that night.
		Scipio the Younger dreams of the Affrican, BD 286-288; Affrycan appears to Scipio in a dream, PF 29-84.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/A/affrican.htm (222 words)

	Cornelia20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major had only one sons; Publius Cornelius Scipio who would inevitably infuriated Rome and be expelled from the Senate.
		Although Scipio Aemilianus publicly 'condoned' the murder, he was spared from complicity simply because he had not yet returned from Spain.
		The Scipios are a lesser clan within the larger clan of the Cornelii, thus his middle name of Cornelius.
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	AllRefer.com - Scipio Africanus Major (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Scipio Africanus Major (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus)[sip´EO afrikA´nus] Pronunciation Key, 236–183
		He was named Africanus after the country he conquered.
		His pride aggravated the hatred of his enemies, especially Cato the Elder, who accused the Scipio family of receiving bribes in the campaign against Antiochus III in which Scipio had accompanied (190) his brother.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/ScipAfMjr.html (396 words)

	Milton: PR Book 3 - Notes
		By the time he was 26, Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon, had already achieved near domination of the known world.
		Scipio Africanus had driven the Carthaginians out of Iberia by age 27.
		Refers to Scipio, called Scipio Africanus Major, (236-183 BCE), a Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
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	Thelema Lodge Calendar for April 2003 e.v.
		Scipio closes the entire enquiry by recounting his dream from many years before, leaving his interloquitors with the exalted notion that it is by taking part as citizens in the political process of a just government that human individuals can best fulfill within themselves the universal pattern which gives meaning to the macrocosm.
		This younger Scipio, while visiting the continent over which he had inherited a formal title as conqueror, spent an evening listening to praises of his patriarchal grand-uncle, then went to bed and had a memorable vision in his sleep.
		Scipio realized that even Rome's greatest citizens can hope at most to be famous only for a few generations over a limited part of the inhabited earth.
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	Punic Wars
		The resulting battle of Cape Ecnomus is a major victory for Rome, who lands in Africa and advance on Carthage.
		Next year the Romans sent out Publius Scipio's son and namesake, Scipio Africanus Major with the authority of a consul even though he had not held any offices.
		Hannibal said, "Myself." Scipio finally asked what would have happened if Hannibal had beaten him at the battle of Zama, and Hannibal said, "Then I would be the greatest general of all time." Rome feared Hannibal until the day he died, which was probably unwarranted.
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	The Sola Busca Tarot Deck
		Scipio might be a possibility -- there are (as usual) several to choose from.
		Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was consul in 83; his army was incorporated by Sulla as the latter took Rome by force, (although Scipio was released).
		Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio was Pontifex Maximus in 133; sent as legate to the new province of Asia in 132; praetor in 114, 93; consul in 111.
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	To His Mutinous Troops by Scipio Africanus Major. Rome (218 B.C.-84 A.D.). Vol. II. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To His Mutinous Troops by Scipio Africanus Major.
		With them the trumpet sounded, from them the word was taken; they sat upon the tribunal of Scipio, upon whom the lictor attended; for them the crowd was cleared away as they moved along, before them the fasces with the axes were carried.
		When showers of stones descend, lightnings are darted from the heavens, and animals give birth to monsters, you consider these things as prodigies.
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	GamerGod - The Second Punic War by Thorjack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was the second of three major wars fought between the former Phoenician colony of Carthage, and the Roman Republic, then still confined to the Italian Peninsula.
		The Romans tried to attack him while he was still unready, but he defeated them at the river Ticinus in a skirmish in which consul Publius Cornelius Scipio was severely wounded, and then again at the Battle of Trebia, where more than a third of Roman forces were killed.
		Scipio finally asked what would have happened if Hannibal had beaten him at the battle of Zama, and Hannibal said, "Then I would be the greatest general of all time".
	www.gamergod.com /article.php?article_id=3179 (2359 words)

	SCIPIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Publius Cornelius Scipio, The Elder, was a Roman general who fought the Carthagian armies in Spain and defeated them.
		In 202 BC Scipio defeated Hannibal at Zama.
		For his victory in North Africa Scipio was called Africanus Major.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/scipio.html (61 words)

	The Punic Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rome's outstanding leaders were Scipio Africanus and his adopted grandson, Scipio Aemilianus.
		Recalled to Carthage in 203 to check the advance of Scipio Africanus Major in Africa, he was decisively beaten at Zama (202).
		The younger Scipio (Scipio Africanus Minor) conquered it, house by house, and sold the surviving inhabitants into slavery.
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	Punic, Pyhhric, Samnites, Macedonians and Hannibal
		Scipio Africanus Major decisively defeats Hannibal in North Africa, ending the Second Punic War.
		Romans under Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Scipio Africanus Major defeat Antiochus III the Great in the decisive victory of the war.
		Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus.
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	Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi ::: GENS SEMPRONIA
		It is unlikely that one will find a woman held in higher esteem by the Roman people than Cornelia, daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, the conqueror of Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
		Sempronia, wife of Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio the Younger) the destroyer of Carthage.
		She had many friends, and hospitably received many strangers at her house; many Greeks and learned men were continually about her; nor was there any foreign prince but received gifts from her and presented her again.
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	history18aearliestcivilizations2classicalrome
		Scipio Africanus after defeating Hannibal, later offered the defeated Carthaginian general his safety as an expression of Roman magnanimity, to Roman statesman Cato the Elder’s dismay.
		With the defeat of the Carthaginians, Rome was free to pursue conquests in the East, beginning with the Philip V of Macedon.
		Scipio Africanus Minor (185—129 BC: the adopted son of the eldest son of Scipio Africanus Major) led the blockade of Carthage and the house-to-house arrests of the Carthaginian people (who were executed and sold into slavery), and the subsequent razing of the city.
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