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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

Scipio

also: Scipiadas, Scipio Africanus

Roman general (236–183 BC) who defeated Hannibal at Zama and ended the Second Punic War; "the thunderbolt of war, the terror of Carthage." Lucretius notes that he too gave his bones to the earth.

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On the Nature of Things poetry · 1 mention

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