Numantia
place · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
On Fate
City whose capture by Scipio is the subject of the illustrative proposition on eternal truth of future statements.
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?
On the Commonwealth
Iberian city besieged by Scipio Aemilianus, recalled as a site of past conversation.
and our Rutilius indeed used sometimes to seek out something of this sort with me even beneath the very walls of Numantia.
Consolation to Polybius
Ancient Spanish city destroyed by Rome, cited as an example of a fallen city.
let him lament the ashes of Carthage and Numantia and Corinth, and of anything else that has fallen from a greater height, when even this universe, which has no place into which it can fall, must perish;
Letters to Lucilius
City besieged and destroyed by Scipio, whose defenders chose death over capture.
great too the spirit of the besieged, who knows that he is not cheated to whom death lies open, and expires in the embrace of liberty.
On Anger
City besieged slowly by Scipio, cited as the setting for an example of patience over anger.
Did he not sit before Numantia long and patiently, and bear with an even mind this grief, his own and the state's, that Numantia was being conquered more slowly than Carthage?
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Ancient Iberian city whose defenses were famously overcome.
You shall not set beside them the walls of Babylon, which Alexander entered, nor the ramparts of Carthage or Numantia, taken by a single hand, nor the Capitol or the citadel: