A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . armsagainst Masinissa, who served Rome as his suzerain. Thisact the Romans construed as a breach of treaty. They werestill anxious lest the old enemy should recover stern old senator, M. Porcius Cato, had for a long while contended that Carthageshould be destroyed. Warwas accordingly declared;and although the Romanswere at first unable to re-sist the patriotic frenzyof the devoted Cartha-ginians, they at lengthcaptured the city and de-stroyed it (146). The defenders fought from street to streetand house to hous
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . armsagainst Masinissa, who served Rome as his suzerain. Thisact the Romans construed as a breach of treaty. They werestill anxious lest the old enemy should recover stern old senator, M. Porcius Cato, had for a long while contended that Carthageshould be destroyed. Warwas accordingly declared;and although the Romanswere at first unable to re-sist the patriotic frenzyof the devoted Cartha-ginians, they at lengthcaptured the city and de-stroyed it (146). The defenders fought from street to streetand house to house. Only a tenth of them were left alive, andthese Avere sold into slavery. The victorious P. Scipio Aemili-anus would have spared the city, but the Senate Avas inexor-able. The territory of Carthage became the Roman provinceof Africa. Destruction of Corinth. — The atrocious crime of the destruc-tion of Carthage was more than matched by the contempo-raneous destruction of Corinth. G-reece, as of old, was tornby the conflict of factions. Macedonia had become a Roman. EojiAN Helmets DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH 145 province in 146, but an anti-Eoman party grew in strength,and helped to bring on a war with the Achaean League,whose growth and spirit were watched by the Senate withsuspicion. After a victory at Leucopetra, the consul L. Mum-mius occupied Corinth. Men were put to the sword, womenand children were sold at auction, the treasures of art werecarried off to Rome, and the city was consigned to the the native confederacies were broken up, and, after theusual fashion, the cities were as far as possible disconnectedfrom one another. At a later date Greece became a Romanprovince under the name of Achaia. Literature and Philosophy. — The intercourse of the Romanswith the Greeks opened to the former a new world of art,literature, and philosophy. Roman poets began to write of Greek models. Such were Plautus (who diedin 184), and the less original, but more ref
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