Roman general and politician (236/235–183 BC)
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He beat Hannibal. The man who humiliated Rome at Cannae, who carved through Italy for years — Scipio faced him at Zama in 202 BC and ended it. That victory saved Rome and made him untouchable, until politics broke him anyway.
Born into Roman nobility around 236 BC, Scipio went to war as a boy alongside his father and survived Cannae, the worst defeat in Roman history. In 210 BC, after his father and uncle died fighting Carthage in Hispania, he was handed command despite never having been consul — an extraordinary break with tradition. He won Iberia at Ilipa in 206 BC, breaking Hannibal's brother Mago, then pushed for an audacious invasion of Africa itself. Elected consul in 205 BC, he forced Carthage to recall Hannibal from Italy, met him at Zama, and crushed him, ending the Second Punic War. Rome adored him, but C…
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I am mindful of human weakness, and I reflect upon the might of Fortune and know that everything that we do is exposed to a thousand chances.
According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less lonely than when alone.
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