| Show c cM to M MM x x X I f O EROES OP r rr jK f L r I for he lie Io ret Iv by 11 Albert It o 1 i Scipio lo the Hero Who ho By Conquering C J JA A Continent 1 X X w I r Written W for fOl the Ue Deer l rN ws flOMAN G II lad ad fallen Callen s rel h sword WOid swo A In lii hand hunt sl od Ills his I bi baek b tho mY 0 f who s ho pressed jn on m to t alayo ly 01 capture c C uie fr s ou foe And o hero Itro heroIcally heroIcally lid did the boy lle n z that hat the he a sl auts gave hack back tad amI the generals general Jel mils i life was SU mi i I The Cue he Roman who was sas s by hy ji II ye was vas Publius the tho cider 1 His Ills son Wits us Cornelius Scipio destined l t b n as ai u 1 o nu The rh limo was ras n s B 11 C t earlier defeats by b Roni 1 md sent n a nHe U Jl r gI hi t a l H to n lIan nib U n of s Jo then I el a cio lo s Gaul Giul France Into lito JIl y rl u wits was hea J him off rr but Was ilie ali l s on th the liebla fJ eo life r a it d J his is lo iou lII 11 caLil ac 1 fu tiie 1 ri 1 v ere h b was S C power there I He wai wai his waso ain g atel d u I than thanIn to Hom 1 For 01 1 bi nUs to uy se hh l lIn In the tho keeping ot of this c lit ITI ide hIs lils al II and saved his from ruin I r When hell ha he h was only two young gung was yas made mad high magistrate x of rit Homo Home At twe ity ho h volunteered to to tp l ad ah afi all army ur 1 h t Spain to t complete the tIO work there t l re jn J I which w tp h h I Mil had failed alle and died lIe ilci received tle office of pr 1 H head ofa O a army began his of vengeance In III a u whirl vin camtu Ign lie ho attacked the Cai Ca defeating them again und and an again and aid at last hist capturing New Car Carthage thage their thell Spanish headquarters Bylis D IM t er toward the tile conquered he lie hewon hewon won the allegiance of oC tho Spanish tribes who had allied themselves t with Carthage alM brother occupied d what was believed bell eYed to lu bo ho O an A Impregnable position po Scipio drove him from it beating him bun in indecisive indecisive 11 decisive battle Carthage raised a new and larger Spanish army In B p C Scipio crushed that too thus swept power out of or amI alit made nearly all ull the tho th latter country a Roman dependency depe f Ho lIo Returned to lo Rome In fn triumph and was s elected decked consul But ho lie was wasby by V y no iio means saU lIel Ho lIe had carried conclusion his fathers rathers uncompleted ed work but j did not yet consider the cider elder Scipio cipio suf suC avenged He Ho asked askell the he senates permission p fo to o invade Africa car ear carrying the tim war into the tho onomy own homo home and to capture itself This plan at first sight seemed rash and tho th senate hesitated For I Or Hannibal was still in Italy years ho h had ravaged the th country and had once arched to the very ver gates sates of Rome Romo No one ri had hall over been abla aIJI to beat him him in buttle and anI 1 his name namo was a terror to every Roman floman lInt But Scipio out that by the the tho war war into Africa A anti and menacing Carthage Carth ge he hs might the Carthaginians arth into calling call g Hannibal home to defend the th capital ca and anti thus rid rIki r Italy of or his presence presence rho enato finally dually consented So in Ot B C when barely 30 00 ye are aro old oW Scipio landed an army on the coast of Africa Tho The alarmed Carth rushed r shOd to repel him But Dut ho III repeatedly beat them until s ho he ho ha had n they called Hannibal from Italy Haly to repel the invaders s Back ack tamo HI al bringing with him vet veterans veterans erans of tho thu Italian wars and raising a huge levy ley vy ot rf raw recruits The TIll ar or arl l ot no and Carthage met mot at Zama lila O l ber B 13 C Scipio won on nn in vIctory for br the first first in his hf lira hlf was wal de tic defeated feat ct They The defeat placed pla ed Carthage at Romes Romos mercy The Tho Africans sued lo forced Coreed oh on them terms so humiliating that he felt his rather father was wai at last avenged On his return to Rome Home Scipio was acclaimed as a 3 hero lero and ant the preserver ot of his 1115 country The rhe senate conferred on him the surname of the lheA African A in honor of o his Carthage campaign and loaded him with honors Yet ho was soon to taste th this ingratitude of republics Ho no rind his fits brother Lucius were sent to conquer s King ICIng of ot Syria They did so but butin butIn butIn in their absence enemies had been busy bus They dared not openly attack so 50 popular a man mail as Scipio himself so they accused Lucius of ot mis misappropriating appropriating public moneys Lucius came to trial carrying with him bin his hi account books whereby ho he could prove his innocence lint Hut Scipio snatched these books Irom his hands tore them thorn across and hurled them thorn to the tho floor of ot of the senate His enemies growing holder accused Scipio ot of o accepting bribes from The rhe case camo came up UI for trial In the Forum orum Scipio scorned to defend himself When he was WIS called upon to answer the tl o charges ho arose nrose and addressing al the tile thronged assembly matte made a speech which In the tho light of ot present notions was a monument of conceit But Dut it Jt must be remembered that modesty real or 01 assumed is a modern virtue and was unknown fn tn n ancient Rome Scipio cipio began by tolling telling t over ovel the tle great deeds he ho had done dona for his country and the debt the tho fatherland owed owe him He sald ith truth that he lie Ie had hall raised Rome from a harassed and anti merely local power to the tho practical mastery of oC the world He went on to remind his hearers that the date of the trial October 19 18 B C was tho anniversary of oC the tho battle battlo of Zama and ended by asking the citizens of Rome RomO to drop all other business and follow him to tho the temple templo there to pray that the gods might grant them children as good and great as he ho At the conclusion COIl elusion of this remarkable stalked unmolested out of the thoI place a e followed o lowd by the tho hE entire enthusiastic enthusiastic SUc audience leaving le no ono one In the Forum except his baffled d accusers The case was at once dropped but Scipio never forgave his ungrateful fellow citizens Ho He retired ed to his country try seat and there thero remained in volun volon voluntary volonta tary Ulry ta y exile until his imis death In B C He died in th same caras his groat foe foo Hannibal leaving a name second to none lIone except Caesars in all Roman oJ |
