Scipio

Although Scipio, Caesar and Julian acted more liberally, in giving the entire prizes to each of those who had ascended the walls together.

So that it was a magnanimous answer, conformable to the law of nations, which Scipio made, when the Roman ambassadors had been ill-treated by the Carthaginians, and the Carthaginian ambassadors were brought before him, upon his being asked, in what manner they should be treated, he replied, not as the Roman ambassadors had been by the Carthaginians.

Livy mentions the circumstance of seven Carthaginian gallies riding at anchor in a part belonging to Syphax, who was then at peace with the Carthaginians and Romans, Scipio arrived at that time, with two gallies, which might have been attacked and sunk by the Carthaginians, before they could enter the port:

Would that the famous Persius were alive — and Scipio and Rutilius far more so — out of dread of whose judgment Lucilius said he wrote for the people of Tarentum, Consentia, and Sicily!

If a great matter, a great inheritance is at stake, since by money very many pleasures are produced, your Epicurus, if he wishes to follow his own end of goods, will have to do the same as Scipio, when great glory was set before him if he should draw Hannibal back into Africa.

And so a man most freeborn and grave, worthy of that intimacy of Scipio and Laelius, Panaetius, when he wrote to Quintus Tubero about the bearing of pain — what ought to have been the head of the matter, if it could be proved, namely that pain is not an evil — he nowhere set down, but what it was, and of what kind, and how much there was in it of alien, and then what the method of enduring it was;

Scipio lived in honorable exile at Liternum rather than at Baiae;

Great was Scipio, who shuts in and crushes Numantia and forces those unconquered hands to turn upon their own destruction;

let the loyalty of the men of Utica too, broken by misfortunes, give way, and let the fortune of his name desert Scipio in Africa.

yet before the age of Laelius and Scipio I find none whom I could name by name.

To me not even that Scipio the pontifex maximus, who declared this saying of the Stoics to be true — that the wise man is never a private man — seems to have been angry with Tiberius Gracchus then, when he left the languishing consul and himself, a private man, as if he were consul, bade those who wished the commonwealth to be safe follow him.

2 Camillus she sent into exile, Scipio she let go;

2 Rome owes Scipio nothing, if he nursed the Punic war that he might end it;

‘Scipio will die by night in his bedchamber, overpowered by violence,’ it would be said truly;

For ‘Scipio will die’ has such force that, although it is said of the future, yet it cannot be turned into false;

Or can this proposition not be true in any other way—‘Scipio will take Numantia’—unless from all eternity one cause, linking cause to cause, is going to bring it about?

and in our fathers' memory, Scipio, Laelius;

And Scipio's son, the thunderbolt of war,

Like to the lowliest villein in the house.

Horror of Carthage, gave his bones to earth,

so too the names of men once much sung are now in a way archaisms — Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus;

The daughters of Scipio received their dowry from the treasury, because their father had left them nothing.

Does an exile take it ill that something is lacking to him, when to Scipio there was lacking a dowry, to Regulus a hired man, to Menenius a funeral—when to all of them what was lacking was therefore the more honourably supplied because it had been lacking?

Paulus, about the days of that most renowned triumph in which he drove Perses, the name of an illustrious king, in chains before his car, gave two sons in adoption, and buried the two he had kept for himself.

Scipio will go against the Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great a task;

Socrates did not blush to play with little children, and Cato used to relax with wine a mind wearied by public cares, and Scipio would move to rhythm that triumphal, soldierly body of his—not breaking himself up in effeminate fashion, as is now the way with men who, in their very gait, flow with a softness beyond a woman's, but as those men of old were wont, in their play and at festival times, to …

So that Scipio is to be reckoned more worthy of divinity than Hercules.

Which of those gods of yours is graver and wiser than Cato, juster and more warlike than Scipio?

These things being thus established beforehand, we can also call to mind those too who, drawn alive from their mother's womb cut open, drank the air — certain men named Liber and Scipio.

But when the urn of worldly lots was changed, and God preferred the Romans, the sister city, indeed, by her own decision hastened to change, so that, when Scipio landed, she had already before greeted him from her dress, anticipating the Roman early.