08-08-2010, 06:11 PM
Quote:I don't think they ever became 'friends'! They did meet just before the Battle of Zama and Hannibal (on instruction) tried to make peace but Scipio wasn't having any! "Delenda Cathago est" indeed!
You are right, however, that he was hounded by the Romans until finally, as they were closing in, he took poison. He was determined that he would never figure as the 'star attraction' at someone's triumphal parade in Rome.
Thank you Mike, probably just another case of BS perpetrated as historical commentary, if I ever see it again I will post it so everyone may have a good laugh!
Thanks again for clearing that up for me!
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
