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THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS
will be the fortune of that city and of the Roman empire.[1]
- ↑ It was in the battle of Ticino that danger to the life of Scipio, as Livy says, was "warded off by the interposition of his son, then just arriving at the age of puberty"—the youth being "the same to whom the glory of finishing this war belongs, and to whom the name of Africanus was given, on account of his splendid victory over Hannibal and the Carthaginians."
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