Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 30
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

45. When peace had been secured by land and sea, Scipio embarked his army and crossed over to Lilybaeum in Sicily. [2] Then after sending a large part of the army by sea, he himself, making his way through Italy,¹ which was exulting in peace no less than in the victory, while not cities only poured out to do him honour, but crowds of rustics also were blocking the roads, reached Rome and rode into the city in the most distinguished of all triumphs.² [3] He brought into the treasury one hundred and twenty-three thousand pounds weight of silver. To [p. 539]his soldiers he distributed four hundred asses apiece³ out of the booty. The death of Syphax withdrew him rather from the eyes of spectators than from the glory of the triumphing general. [4] He had died not long before at Tibur, to which he had been transferred from Alba.⁴ Nevertheless his death attracted attention because he was given a state funeral.⁵ Polybius, an authority by no means to be despised, relates that this king was led in the triumphal procession.⁶ [5] Following Scipio as he triumphed was Quintus Terentius Culleo⁷ wearing the liberty cap; and for all the rest of his life, as was fitting, he honoured in Scipio the giver of his freedom. [6] As for the surname Africanus, whether his popularity among the soldiers, or fickle favour of the people first gave it currency I am unable to state, or whether it began with the flattery of his intimates, as did the surname Felix for Sulla and Magnus for Pompey in the time of our fathers. [7] What is certain is that he was the first general to be distinguished by the name of a nation conquered by him. Later, following his example men who were by no means his equals in their victories gained outstanding inscriptions for their masks⁸ and glorious surnames for their families.