P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, THE YOUNGER

P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, THE YOUNGER, surnamed Africanus Minor, adopted by P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, THE ELDER (234-183 B.C.), the proper name being L. Paullus AEmelius; after distinguishing himself in Spain proceeded to Africa to take part in the Third Punic War; laid siege to Carthage, took it by storm, and levelled it with the ground in 146 B.C.; he was afterwards sent to Spain, where he captured Numantia after a stubborn resistance, to the extension of the sway of Rome; he was an upright and magnanimous man, but his character was not proof against assault; he died by the hand of an assassin.