were made.

Two years later (183), Africanus died in voluntary exile at Liternum,
on the coast of Campania. He had lived little more than fifty years.
His wife, Aemilia, was the daughter of Paullus, who fell at Cannae,
and the sister of him who afterwards conquered Perseus of Macedonia.
His daughter, CORNELIA, afterwards became the mother of the famous
GRACCHI.

Next to Caesar, Scipio was Rome's greatest general. During the
campaign in the East, he met Hannibal at the court of Antiochus. In
the conversation Hannibal is reported to have said that he considered
Alexander the greatest general, Pyrrhus next, and, had he himself
conquered Scipio, he would have placed himself before either.

Scipio lived to see Rome grow from an Italian power to be practically
the mistress of the world. He was of marked intellectual culture, and
as conversant with Greek as with his mother tongue. He possessed a
charm which made him popular at a time when the culture and arts of
Greece were not so courted at Rome as in later days.

Hannibal, after the defeat of Antiochus, was demanded by the Romans,
but, escaping, took refuge in Crete, and subsequently with Prusias,
King of Bithynia. His surrender was demanded, and troops were sent to
arrest him. Seeing no way of escape, he opened the bead on his ring
and swallowed the poison which it contained (183).

Thus died one of the greatest of commanders, without attaining the aim
of his life. He had lived but fifty-four years, yet his life was so
marked that people have ever since looked with wonder upon the