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Nameless city in Africa taken by Scipio
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This is an interesting post indeed and I`m fascinated by Steven`s response, but how does one identify the Pictor in Livy and Polybius - is it the details of the battle losses, prisoners, captured standards, etc, or is it in the manner of identifying Pictor`s style in descriptions or expressions used?
Livy seems to give more us more details than Polybius, who I suspect preferred to rely upon Laelius` vague battle statistics for Zama fro instance: "...the Carthaginian loss amounting to twenty thousand killed and nearly the same number of prisoners." The details in Livy seem perhaps to be closer to original records kept in Rome and the after action reports received by Rome`s city Quaestor which would have been easily accessed by Pictor?
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RE: Nameless city in Africa taken by Scipio - by Michael Collins - 03-22-2019, 06:38 PM

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