Africanus
historical figure · 3 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Scipio Africanus
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman noted for learning.
For it is recorded that Galba, Africanus, and Laelius were men of learning, and that Cato, who was older than they, was eager for it;
I could wish Panaetius were here — he lived with Africanus — that I might ask of him whose among his kin was that great-nephew of Africanus's brother like, who in face was like his father, but in life so like all the most abandoned men that he was easily the basest;
And so Africanus always had in his hands the Socratic Xenophon, in whom he chiefly praised this — that he said the same toils are not equally heavy to a general and to a soldier, because the honour itself made the general's toil the lighter.
On Moral Ends
Roman general (Scipio Africanus), portrayed rejoicing in the memory of his military toils on behalf of Rome
But if bodily pleasure delights even when past, I do not understand why Aristotle so greatly derides the epitaph of Sardanapalus, in which that king of Syria boasts that he has carried away with him all the pleasures of his lusts.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman figure of the Second Punic War, cited as favored by divine help
in the second, Maximus, Marcellus, Africanus;