Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, THE ELDER SCIPIO <a id="note-link1" href="#note1">1</a> , section 3 <a href="#note-link1">1</a> Scipio Africanus Major, 235-183 B.C., conqueror of the Carthaginians at Zama.</p>

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While he was besieging the city of Baria, ¹ in which was visible a temple of Venus overtopping all else, he ordered that in giving sureties for appearance they should specify that place, since he purposed two days hence to hear litigants in this temple of Venus. And so he did, as he had foretold, after the city had been taken. ²

1 Baria, attested by inscriptions, is probably the right spelling (variants: Barea, Bareia, Badia, Batheia), if the same town is meant.

2 Cf. Valerius Maximus, iii. 7. 1; and Aulus Gellius, vi. 1.

Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.

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