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Character of Hasdrubal
HASDRUBAL, the general of the Carthaginians, was a vain
The siege of Carthage, B. C. 147. Coss. P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus, C. Livius Donsus.
ostentatious person, very far from possessing
real strategic ability. There are numerous
proofs of his want of judgment. In the first
place he appeared in full armour in his interview with Gulussa, king of the Numidians, with
a purple dyed robe over his armour fastened by
a brooch, and attended by ten bodyguards armed plied that "Gulussa was
ill informed; for they still had good hopes of their outside
allies,"—for he had not yet heard about the Mauretani, and
thought that the forces in the country were still unconquered,The task of subduing the country in B. C. 147 was entrusted to the proconsul Culpurnius Piso, while Scipio was engaged in completing the investment of Carthage. Appian, Pun. 113-126.
—"nor were they in despair as to their own ultimate safety.
And above all, they trusted in the support of the
Misery In Carthage
On Gulussa communicating to him what had been said,
Scipio's scorn of the proposal, B. C. 147
Scipio remarked with a laugh: "Oh, then, it
was because you intended to make this demand
that you displayed that abominable cruelty to
our prisoners!After the capture of Megara, the suburban district of Carthage, by
Scipio, Hasdrubal withdrew into the Byrsa, got made commander-in-chief,
and bringing all Roman prisoners to the battlements, put them to death with
the most ghastly tortures. Appian, Pun. 118. And you trust in the gods, do you, after
violating even the laws of men?" The king went on to
remind Scipio that above all things it was necessary to finish
the business speedily; for, apart from unforeseen contingencies,
the consular elections were now close at hand, and it was only
right to have regard to that, lest, if the winter found them just
where they were, another Consul would come to supersede
him, and without any trouble get all the credit of his labours. He of
New Commissioners Sent to Achaia
When the commissioners with L. Aurelius Orestes
On the report of L. Aurelius Orestes of the disturbance at Corinth, B.C. 147, the Senate send a fresh commission to warn the Achaeans.
arrived in Rome from the Peloponnese, they
reported what had taken place, and declared
that they had a narrow escape of actually losing
their lives. They made the most of the occurrence and put the worst interpretation upon it; for they represented the violence which had been offered them as not
the result of a sudden outbreak, but of a deliberate intention
on the part of the Achaeans to inflict a signal insult upon them.
The Senate was therefore more angry than it had ever been,
and at once appointed Sextus Julius Caesar
and other envoys with instructions to rebuke and
upbraid the Achaeans for what had occurred,
yet in terms of moderation, but to exhort them
"not to listen to evil councillors, not to allow themselves to
be betrayed into hostility with Rome, but even yet