Today's installment concludes Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal at Zama and Subjugates Carthage,our selection from History of Rome, Book XII by Livy

The language employed by the others was of a nature more calculated to excite compassion; they represented from what a height of power the

The camp was then pitched near Tunis in the same place as before, and thirty ambassadors came to Scipio from Carthage.Continuing Scipio Africanus

And now there were, in a manner, two contests going on together, the Carthaginians being compelled to fight at once with the enemy and with their own

Hannibal, in order to terrify the enemy, drew up his elephants in front, and he had eighty of them, being more than he had ever had in any

We do not refuse that all those possessions on account of which the war was begun should be yours; Sicily, Sardinia, Spain, with all the islands lying