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Indeed, (that you may learn at the same time both the humanity and the justice of
Publius Africanus,) the Carthaginians had formerly taken the town of Himera, one of
the first towns in Sicily for renown and
for beauty. Scipio as he thought it a thing worthy of the Roman people, that, after
the war was over, our allies should recover their property in consequence of our
victory, took care, after Carthage had
been taken, that everything which he could manage should be restored to all the
Sicilians. As Himera had been destroyed, those citizens whom the disasters of the
war had spared had settled at Thermae, on the border of the same district, and not
far from their ancient town. They thought that they were recovering the fortune and
dignity of their fathers, when those ornaments of their ancestors were being placed
in the town of Thermae.
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