The Death of Sophonisbe, Queen of Numidia, 1816. Masinissa wished to claim Sophonisba, a Carthaginian noblewoman, as his wife, but when Scipio demanded that she go to Rome as a captive, Masinissa gave her poison so that she might escape the fate of a prisoner.

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