Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . yphax as well as on Hasdrubal. After a shortstay in Africa, Scipio returned to Spain, where he first punished several townsfor their faithlessness, and subdued some of the Spanish chiefs who ventured toclaim their former independence. During these occupations Scipio was attackedby a severe illness, from which, however, he recovered in time to quell an insur-rection of 8,000 Roman soldiers, who were discontented from not having derivedfrom their c
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . yphax as well as on Hasdrubal. After a shortstay in Africa, Scipio returned to Spain, where he first punished several townsfor their faithlessness, and subdued some of the Spanish chiefs who ventured toclaim their former independence. During these occupations Scipio was attackedby a severe illness, from which, however, he recovered in time to quell an insur-rection of 8,000 Roman soldiers, who were discontented from not having derivedfrom their conquests those advantages which they had expected, and who aresaid also to have been bribed by the Carthaginians. Mago had in the meantimewithdrawn to the Balearic Islands, and thence to Liguria. Cades, the last placewhich the Carthaginians possessed in Spain, was now taken from them, and thusthe war in Spain was at an end. Toward the close of the year 206, Scipio surrendered the command ofthe Roman forces in Spain to the proconsuls L. Lentulus and L. Manlius Acid-inus. and returned to Rome. He delivered to the serarium the immense treas-. oo (O > H CO O a:hi z UJ O I SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR 21 ures which he brought from Spain. He evidently wished for a triumph, but thesenate paid no attention to his wishes, for no one had ever triumphed at Romebefore he had held the consulship. In the year 205, Scipio was made con-sul with P. Licinius Crassus, who was at the same time pontifex maximus, andwas consequently not allowed to leave Italy. If, therefore, a war was to be car-ried on abroad, the command necessarily devolved upon Scipio. His wish wasimmediately to sail with an army to Africa, but the more cautious senators, andespecially Q. Fabius, were decidedly opposed to his plan, partly because Hanni-bal, as long as he was in Italy, appeared too formidable to be neglected, andpartly because they were influenced by jealousy. AH that Scipio could obtain was that Sicily sho
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