Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §46 Africanus

  The consul's son, said to have saved his wounded father here; he would later conquer Hannibal at Zama and take the name Africanus.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §53 Publius Scipio

  The young Publius Cornelius Scipio, the future conqueror of Hannibal (Scipio Africanus), rallying the survivors.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §2 Publius Cornelius Scipio, who afterward had the surname Africanus

  The future conqueror of Hannibal; here a young man who wins the curule aedileship before the lawful age (§2).

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §28 Publius Cornelius

  The young Scipio (later Africanus), son and nephew of the fallen Scipios, who alone offers himself for the Spanish command and storms New Carthage.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §64 Scipio

  The young Publius Cornelius Scipio, commander in Spain and storming captor of New Carthage.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §7 Publius Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio (the future Africanus), the young Roman commander in Spain.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §1 Scipio's

  Publius Cornelius Scipio (later Africanus), Roman commander in Spain, elected consul at the end of this book and bent on carrying the war into Africa.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §1 Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio (later Africanus), consul of 205 BC, who prepares in Sicily and carries the war into Africa; the central figure of the book.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §1 Publius Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio (Africanus), proconsul in Africa, on whom the whole state was fixed; victor of Zama.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §4 Publius Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, under whose auspices the African war was finished.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §8 Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

  The conqueror of Hannibal, now censor.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §48 Scipio Africanus

  Conqueror of Hannibal at Zama; here he resists the move to denounce his old adversary.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §27 Scipio Africanus

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, victor of Zama, consul for the second time in 194 BC.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §50 Publius Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, who as victor had once fixed the Carthaginian boundary and now headed the commission.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §2 Publius Africanus

  Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal at Zama; here named for the stragglers of his old army.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §10 Africanus

  Scipio Africanus, backing his kinsman's candidacy in vain.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §15 Scipio

  Africanus, Hannibal's conqueror, the questioner in the famous exchange.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §27 Africanus

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, who had received the Great Mother.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §2 Publius Scipio Africanus

  The conqueror of Hannibal at Zama (202 BC); he offers to serve as legate under his brother Lucius.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §2 Scipios

  Publius Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius, the Roman commanders then in Asia after defeating Antiochus.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §19 Publius Scipio Africanus

  Chosen princeps senatus for the third time in the lustrum of 189 BC.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §51 Publius Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal at Zama, who died in voluntary retirement at Liternum.

• The History of Rome, Book 40 §43 Africanus

  Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal; his son Publius Scipio is co-opted augur in this book.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §25 Publius Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC and dictated the peace terms to Carthage.