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Scipio Africanus (237-?185 B.C.) Scipio is the greatest Roman general before Julius Caesar. Scipio led the Romans to victory over the Carthaginians at the battle fought at Naragra, on the Bagradas, near Zama, Oct. 19, 202. On the advice of Hannibal, peace was concluded in the following year.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 175. (Scipio Africanus, (Bronze) Naples.)
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