Scipio Aemilianus (Africanus the Younger)
“Africanus the Younger”
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Africanus · the generosity of Africanus · the younger [Africanus]
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman general who destroyed Carthage, cited alongside the elder Africanus as an example of gladness from virtuous achievement.
For what man given over to pleasures, what man inflamed by the fires of desires, in attaining those things which he had most keenly desired, do we think is flooded with so great a gladness as either the elder Africanus when Hannibal was conquered, or the younger when Carthage was overthrown?
Stoic Paradoxes
Roman general, cited both among exemplary heroes and for his generosity in yielding an inheritance to his brother.
What of Africanus the elder?
The inheritance of Lucius Paulus, or the generosity of Africanus, who yielded his own share of that inheritance to his brother Quintus Maximus?