. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . ness,they showed no likelihoodof repairing their , who had beenreconciled to his country-men, succeeded in keepingthe field against them, andthey failed in all their at-tempts to carry the wallsby assault. The prospectsof the Romans grew steadily worse, and things would haveworn a still darker aspect but for the presence in the campof a young officer who held a subordinate command under theconsul Manilius. This was Scipio Aemilianus, the son ofAemilius Paulus, who had been
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . ness,they showed no likelihoodof repairing their , who had beenreconciled to his country-men, succeeded in keepingthe field against them, andthey failed in all their at-tempts to carry the wallsby assault. The prospectsof the Romans grew steadily worse, and things would haveworn a still darker aspect but for the presence in the campof a young officer who held a subordinate command under theconsul Manilius. This was Scipio Aemilianus, the son ofAemilius Paulus, who had been adopted into the familyof the great Africanus and had already gained distinctionin the Spanish and Macedonian wars. With the sternvirtues of a Cato Scipio united the culture and finer gracesof character which belonged to the best of the Greeks,and his mind had been carefully trained by the historianPolybius and the Stoic philosopher Panaetius. Such was theman who, by a strange destiny, was called upon to be Romesinstrument in an act of atrocious vengeance which violatedevery principle of public 319 REPUBLICAN ROME SciPio TAKES Command The most noteworthy event in the first year of the siegewas the death of Masinissa, who kept unimpaired to the lastall his wonderful faculties of body and mind. He had beenprofoundly impressed by the eminent qualities of Scipio, andassigned to him the responsible duty of executing the pro-visions of his will, by which the kingdom of Numidia wasdivided between his three sons. Among the Romans also,both those who were serving in the camp and those who werewatching affairs from home, the fame of Scipio rose higherand higher. On more than one occasion his courage and fore-sight had averted an imminent disaster, and one of the ablestof the Carthaginian officers, Himilco, a commander of cavalry,was induced by his influence to join the Romans. The generalopinion was expressed by Cato, now on the extreme verge ofold age, who, speaking of the Roma
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